How can I listen to LC player in garden?

[Sionnach]

I'd like to listen to the RL commentary (via player) when I'm the garden - up to 200yds and a solid wall way from my computer. I can stretch one of the cables to one of the computer speakers about 5 yards, hang it out of the window and turn up the volume but it's not very neighbourly! Has anyone got any suggestions?

 

[Macky]

I'd like to listen to the RL commentary (via player) when I'm the garden - up to 200yds and a solid wall way from my computer. I can stretch one of the cables to one of the computer speakers about 5 yards, hang it out of the window and turn up the volume but it's not very neighbourly! Has anyone got any suggestions?

Get yourself a little fm transmitter.
They're only about a tenner, it just connects to the audio out from your PC and then you can bring a radio out into the garden and tune in.

 

[Macky]

bring a radio out into the garden

Is it out or is it into?

 

[Sionnach]

Is it out or is it into?

err...depends where you are I suppose, in or out, or both, in a kind of omnipresent way...inwhich case there wouldn't be a problem cos I'd be at the Walkers as well as here. Also, if I wasn't subject to time or place, I would already know the result. Makes you think really; or at least stop thinking...

Perhaps I'll just get one of those transmitters (thanks for the tip Macky)

 

[Jeff]

Get yourself a little fm transmitter.

The ones that are legal won't be able to broadcast anywhere near the required distance.

 

[Macky]

The ones that are legal won't be able to broadcast anywhere near the required distance.

Not one on its own, no, but you could have a series of them connected to transistor radios, forming a transceiver relay system to get the required coverage.

 

[Jeff]

I'd like to listen to the RL commentary (via player) when I'm the garden - up to 200yds and a solid wall way from my computer. I can stretch one of the cables to one of the computer speakers about 5 yards, hang it out of the window and turn up the volume but it's not very neighbourly! Has anyone got any suggestions?

Have you tried using a mobile phone?
I can access Foxes Player on my mobile using the Skyfire browser.


A modern wireless router should be able to do what you want (802.11n has an outdoor range of around 250 Metres), if you have a laptop to use with it.

 

[Sionnach]

Have you tried using a mobile phone?
I can access Foxes Player on my mobile using the Skyfire browser.


A modern wireless router should be able to do what you want (802.11n has an outdoor range of around 250 Metres), if you have a laptop to use with it.

We've got a wireless router and laptop but don't really want to take it outside (especially as it's my wife's!) and we don't have mobile reception in our part of the island. I thought about an internet radio but they're expensive and don't know if you could sign in to LC player on them. Perhaps I just need to get a waterproof speaker and very long cable...

 

[Darth Vodka]

two plastic cups and a fair bit of string

 

[RHYDAL]

Have you tried plugging a laptop into the lawnmower? Failing that a 3g stick?

 

[Sionnach]

Have you tried plugging a laptop into the lawnmower? Failing that a 3g stick?

Yes but it starts making sense so I know I'm not listening to RL