[ubuntu-studio-devel] Off-topic: Elementary OS

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

That is so true! For years I used Audacity in UbuntuStudio to make radio pieces
about exactly that sort of thing. Someone mentioned the "loudness wars," well
you would not believe how much compression is needed for a low powered station
(especially AM) when there is no analog compressor/limiter in the line to the 
transmitter! The maximum level is controlled easily enough by the master volume
but without boatloads of compression you can lose half your broadcast range.

Radio amateurs take this to the extreme, they used flat-out clipping followed by 
aggressive filtration to limit frequency range as far back as the early 1960's. This 
gives understandable but not natural sounding speech, and can be equivalent to 
almost ten times more transmitter power. That combined with huge antennas
allows a 100W transmitter on SW to talk halfway around the world when a 50,000
watt broadcast setup can have dead spots 5 miles from the antenna.

On 9/7/2015 at 6:06 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>Off-topic, but a topic of uproar and hypocrisy.
>
>On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 09:47:55 +0200, Jimmy Sjölund wrote:
>>I was planning to do that this weekend (but ended up creating
>>web site and wiki for a refugee initiative instead).
>
>That's good and more important then another Linux website.
>
>A banker, a yellow press reader and a refugee have to portion 20
>cookies. The banker captures 19 cookies and says to the yellow 
>press
>reader that he should take care, the refugee might want to steel 
>the
>remaining cookie.
>
>I need to vent, it's off-topic, but I don't care, I'll include a
>software request ;). I'm writing applications for jobs to help 
>refugees.
>Those jobs aren't full jobs, they are badly paid, impermanent,
>insecure, since there's no social protection. Such work be held in 
>low
>esteem and a lot of people, including me, aren't allowed to upgrade
>one's education. Since I'm an atheist it's even hard to get such a 
>job,
>requirement usually is to believe in God. Church tax in Germany is 
>not
>used for social work, for this work church gets additional money,
>church tax is just to increase wealth of the church that isn't 
>shared
>with people in need. Weapons dealers and bankers from our European
>countries OTOH be held in high esteem, are rolling in money, have
>nothing to worry, since they are living in social security, 
>although
>they are responsible for the circumstances. If the weapon dealer 
>and
>bankers do bad jobs, they get money from the folk to rescue them. 
>Those
>who beliefe in a god should consider what kind of idiot this god 
>must
>be. European politician btw. can do what they want, they get money 
>and
>social security for their whole life, if they "worked" as 
>politician
>for a short time. The "work" often is just to sign some attendance
>register from time to time.
>
>However, is there some PDF software to issue a PDF application? 
>IOW to
>add a photo to the personal data sheet etc., without the need to 
>read
>user manuals for hours? PDFs are requirements for applications and 
>most
>of the times a mobile phone number is another requirement, landline
>(that's what I've got) often isn't accepted. Too funny, since many
>Germans dislike poor people who own mobile phones. It's a status
>symbol, a very strange status symbole, since it's easy to get it. 
>For
>many Germans it's really a problem if refugees own mobile phones. 
>That's
>strange since this is one of the few things everybody, even the 
>poorest
>human easily can own in Germany. I don't have one because I dislike
>mobile phones, they aren't expensive, but they are an evil sign of 
>the
>times.
>
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