2008 LPR Nationals

[ltatarka]

Terrific coverage Sharyn. I spent too much time watching and not enough practicing shooting. See you at the WAC.

Lee

[Micah]

Sharyn, thank you for allowing me to vicariously participate in this years Nats! I really do appreciate all of the effort that you put into this setup.

[blownhemi]

Well... I must say... this was a much bigger deal than I could have ever imagined... THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!

All the cool things about this...

Thank you everyone for watching!

Thank you everyone for your support!

Thank you to our international friends! It blew me away that you guys could be involved too. HOW COOL! I totally forgot to post this on the IPSC forum.

Thank you everyone for your feedback via this forum and via chat to help make it better!

Thank you everyone for partipating in the interactions between the range and web!

Thank you everyone who provided impromptu commentary!

Thank you John Scoutten for providing commentary and up to the minutes scores!

Thank you Schuemann Barrels, Millennium Custom and Photomotion for providing power!

and Thank you to Mike Voigt for arranging front row seats for me to broadcast the awards.

Thank you Smitty for helping and being supportive of me, especially since you were busy shooting your own match.

Also, I wanted to make a special mention... I really appreciate everyone... but I wanted to give special recognition to Julie (Goloski) Golob for her participation. Things really changed on the range side of things when shooters found out you were watching and interacting. I don't know the last time you didn't shoot Production Nationals, but you were really missed. It was great to see the smiles on competitors faces when they found out you were "there" this year. Super cool and thanks so much!

I'm sure there are many I've forgotten... but again, without your participation, this wouldn't have worked. THANKS EVERYONE!!!

I'm sorry I won't be providing coverage of O/L10... the technical difficulties on the last stage of the Limited SS pretty much sealed the deal on that. Sorry everyone. I'll try and broadcast the awards ceremony though and give updates when possible.

After Open Nationals, I'm going to start another topic about the technical questions in hopes to get some feedback and/or resolve issues and explain my challenges. Hopefully we can improve on this for next time!

After all the talk... I simply wanted to show that the technology is available, even at consumer level.

Good luck with your Nationals shooting Sharyn and I'd love to here more abut the technical side. Australia being such a big country with so few people means that we're pretty spread out when it comes to major matches. I'd love to stream some of these matches to the net so we can show it to people in other states or even overseas.

the video was good considering it was just a laptop webcam and the audio was simply outstanding. I've been doing some trials with Ustream and while I can get the video look very good (I have some very good camera's) the audio sucks (it sounds like I'm channeling darth vader). It would be awesome to get the technology out there so we can share our sport on a larger scale.

Are you still going to stream the world shoot? I hope so, i'll also be more in touch with my timeline as far as staying up late is concerned.

[HoMiE]

A couple of years ago for a proof of concept, we took these wide-angle security cameras that could broadcast over wi-fi, rigged up some r/c battery packs (then ran on 9V) and could walk around and video outdoor live events. We used flash video for the delivery distribution network and it was pretty easy to do. You can recharge the battery packs pretty quickly and they lasted for quite some time. The only catch is you needed some place pretty close with a/c power for the wi-fi network, but I am sure that could be easily done with a little generator and maybey a wi-fi booster for outdoors.