[grc] Cell phone hybrid?

Mon Nov 7 14:51:45 PST 2022

Some consoles are pairing with the phone over Bluetooth, which I imagine
would circumvent the security limitation, as should a hybrid using TRRS (of
which I haven't found an inexpensive one I like).

JK Audio's "Bluekeeper" seems to be an outboard bluetooth hybrid, and I've
generally had good luck with their products.

The big mystery is whether the phone sidetone is absent or can be turned
off, in which case TRRS adapters "should" work

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Paul (he/him) (pablito) Bame
Engineering Director, Philadelphia, Prometheus Radio Project
<http://prometheusradio.org/>
215.727.9620 x2 / 970.988.3849

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 4:15 PM Spencer Graves via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
wrote:

> I use Zoom.  I have a paid account, which allows me to record interviews
> up to any length to my local hard drive with good sound quality.  The
> Zoom website says that a free account supports meetings of up to 40
> minutes.  I don't see where it says anything about recording, but I
> believe you could probably do that.  You could try it and contact me
> with questions.  Spencer Graves
>
>
> On 11/7/22 2:17 PM, Christopher Maxwell via grc wrote:
> > Dear radio kitchen table of experts in getting it done with what's on
> hand!
> >
> >
> > WHAT do y'all use to record *both sides* of a *cell phone* conversation
> for
> > a radio interview??
> >
> >
> > The "updated" operating systems now block cell phones from recording the
> > incoming voices in applications now...
> >
> >
> > Are we going to have to figure out how to put Linux on our cell phones to
> > get functionalities back?
> >
> >
> > In the meantime... what workarounds are y'all finding?
> >
> >
> > I did find THIS ... but its *primitive*.
> >
> >
> >
> https://spycentre.com/products/bluetooth-phone-call-recorder-with-4gb-internal-memory?variant=15024819907&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=CjwKCAiA9qKbBhAzEiwAS4yeDRlUnVgCk543ibKwLfak45tOJmD4YdcH9V82xwfpk_4hMj8XPFqKIhoC4J4QAvD_BwE
> >
> >
> > WE USED to make a little mini-hybrid by taking the 3.5mm audio jack and
> > sending their voice to one channel and mine to another, but now cell
> phones
> > have NO AUDIO JACK for hands free anymore!
> >
> >
> > Sincerely,  Christopher "Max" Maxwell
> >
> >
> >
> > PS: I kind of disappeared bc of Cancer,  now its metastasized to the
> > backbone and hips and so I've abandoned trying to cure it and I'm working
> > on one last big project on my way out and want to produce some interviews
> > for radio, podcasts etc. Ocean Acidification destroying the phytoplankton
> > that make 70%of the oxygen we breathe !
> >
> >
> > And solutions... such as building solar synthetic fuels project that
> > extracts CO² from the air with solar power thereby stopping that 6th mass
> > extinction by closing the carbon loop for transportation- so we can stop
> > getting carbon out of the ground!
> >
> >
> > First the two article excerpts of the science on Ocean Acidification
> >
> > Then the solution:
> >
> >
> > =====
> >
> >
> > 40% loss of oxygen production in just the last mere
> > 50 (fifty!) years is going to make EVERYTHING we've taken for GRANTED a
> > scarce commodity in a STEEP curve into Mass Extinction!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The monsters realise they must disenfranchise absolutely as many people
> as
> > possible bc the jig is up for the current world order!
> > Nature is going to take us into a new world order whether we like it or
> not
> > unless we change course DRAMATICALLY!
> >
> > The key to saving society ... is THROWING OUT THE RULES THAT GOT US HERE!
> >
> > Know whats worse than nuclear winter over Ukraine?
> >
> > Winning. Winning is worse if it returns us to a status quo that BOILS us
> > off the planet.
> >
> > We're in way more danger than just rising sea levels - we may kill the
> > ocean that contains phytoplankton that make up 70% of the oxygen we
> breathe!
> >
> > Carbonic acid coming out of the air by washing excess carbon dioxide is
> > acidifying the ocean and dissolving the shells of the phytoplankton that
> > are made out of calcium!
> >
> > The phytoplankton that makes 70% of the oxygen we breathe are being
> > *dissolved* by Ocean Acidification!
> >
> > Ocean acidification  results from Carbonic acid coming out of the air by
> > rain washing increased carbon dioxide is acidifying the ocean and
> > dissolving the shells of the phytoplankton that are made out of calcium!
> >
> > "In the past decade ocean oxygen levels have taken a dive—an alarming
> trend
> > that is linked to climate change, says Andreas Oschlies, an oceanographer
> > at the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, whose team
> > tracks ocean oxygen levels worldwide. “We were surprised by the intensity
> > of the changes we saw, how rapidly oxygen is going down in the ocean and
> > how large the effects on marine ecosystems are,” he says.
> >
> > It is no surprise to scientists that warming oceans are losing oxygen,
> but
> > the scale of the dip calls for urgent attention, Oschlies says. Oxygen
> > levels in some tropical regions have dropped by a startling 40 percent in
> > the last 50 years, some recent studies reveal. Levels have dropped more
> > subtly elsewhere, with an average loss of 2 percent globally.
> >
> >
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ocean-is-running-out-of-breath-scientists-warn/#:~:text=The%20Ocean%20Is%20Running%20Out%20of%20Breath%2C%20Scientists%20Warn,-Widespread%20and%20sometimes&text=Escaping%20predators%2C%20digestion%20and%20other,those%20of%20humans%E2%80%94require%20oxygen.&text=Oxygen%20levels%20in%20some%20tropical,years%2C%20some%20recent%20studies%20reveal
> > .
> >
> > The solutions are Beyond any Cult of Personality be that Bernie Sanders
> or
> > Trump and must be structural such as ranked-choice voting as an example
> > that is already passed in the conservative and Rural States of Maine and
> > Alaska!
> >
> > Fairvote.org
> >
> > If that fails then it is time for a Constitutional Convention as the
> > current one is obviously no longer up to the task.
> >
> > ---------______--------
> >
> >
> > This time Humanity is the meteor/volcano:
> >
> > We are repeating the Permian Mass Extinction pattern of destroying the
> > phytoplankton that make 70%of the oxygen we breathe through ocean
> > acidification.
> >
> > "The largest extinction in Earth's history marked the end of the Permian
> > period, some 252 million years ago. Long before dinosaurs, our planet was
> > populated with plants and animals that were mostly obliterated after a
> > series of massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.
> >
> > Fossils in ancient seafloor rocks display a thriving and diverse marine
> > ecosystem, then a swath of corpses. Some 96 percent of marine species
> were
> > wiped out during the "Great Dying," followed by millions of years when
> life
> > had to multiply and diversify once more.
> >
> > What has been debated until now is exactly what made the oceans
> > inhospitable to life – the high acidity of the water, metal and sulfide
> > poisoning, a complete lack of oxygen, or simply higher temperatures.
> >
> > New research from the University of Washington and Stanford University
> > combines models of ocean conditions and animal metabolism with published
> > lab data and paleoceanographic records to show that the Permian mass
> > extinction in the oceans was caused by global warming that left animals
> > unable to breathe. As temperatures rose and the metabolism of marine
> > animals sped up, the warmer waters could not hold enough oxygen for them
> to
> > survive. The study is published in the Dec. 7 issue of Science.
> >
> >
> https://earth.stanford.edu/news/what-caused-earths-biggest-mass-extinction#gs.4rg5l0
> >
> > ------____----- and the solution:
> >
> > "This pilot plant runs on concentrating solar thermal energy. One hundred
> > and sixty-nine sun-tracking reflector panels, each presenting three
> square
> > meters (~32 sq ft) of surface area, redirect sunlight into a 16-cm
> (6.3-in)
> > hole in the solar reactor at the top of the 15-m-tall (49-ft) central
> > tower. This reactor receives an average of about 2,500 suns' worth of
> > energy – about 50 kW of solar thermal power.
> >
> > This heat is used to drive a two-step thermochemical redox cycle. Water
> and
> > pure carbon dioxide are fed in to a ceria-based redox reaction, which
> > converts them simultaneously into hydrogen and carbon monoxide, or
> syngas.
> > Because this is all being done in a single chamber, it's possible to
> tweak
> > the rates of water and CO2 to live-manage the exact composition of the
> > syngas.
> >
> > This syngas is fed to a Gas-to-Liquid (GtL) unit at the bottom of the
> > tower, which produced a liquid phase containing 16% kerosene and 40%
> > diesel, as well as a wax phase with 7% kerosene and 40% diesel – proving
> > that the ceria-based ceramic solar reactor definitely produced syngas
> pure
> > enough for conversion into synthetic fuels.
> >
> > “We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain
> > from water and CO2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system,”
> > said ETH Professor Aldo Steinfeld, the corresponding author of the
> research
> > paper. “This solar tower fuel plant was operated with a setup relevant to
> > industrial implementation, setting a technological milestone towards the
> > production of sustainable aviation fuels."
> >
> >
> https://newatlas.com/energy/solar-jet-fuel-tower/#:~:text=2022%20New%20Atlas-,All%2Din%2Done%20solar%20tower%20produces%20jet%20fuel,from%20CO2%2C%20water%20and%20sunlight&text=Taking%20carbon%20dioxide%2C%20water%20and,a%20promising%20clean%20fuel%20project
> > .
> >
> >
> > And has some sharp criticism below...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > =========================
> >
> > Full SOLAR-JET article (open access!) reviewing the first scaled up 50kw
> > upgrade attempt in Spain:
> >
> > https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(22)00286-0
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