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[Brian Flynn]

Radio Robins will be providing live coverage on Radio Alty of today's first home pre-season fixture against Stockport County.

The broadcast is from 2.30-5.00pm & the commentary team is Brian Flynn, Alex Sarwar & John Edwards.

You can listen to Radio Robins on Radio Alty in any of the following 3 ways:-

Listen live on Radio Alty https://www.radioalty.co.uk/listen.html

Download and install the Radio Alty app on Android devices from The Google Play Store.

Download and install the Radio Alty app on Apple devices from The App Store.

Listen to Radio Robins on Radio Alty from 2.30-5.00pm today.

[Bath Alty]

Where is the second half?

[PaulClementsLaments]

Just wondering that myself. I'd like the Mixlr service to also be available as I miss the chat option it provides during games so listeners can discuss the game in progress

[JD]

Just wondering that myself. I'd like the Mixlr service to also be available as I miss the chat option it provides during games so listeners can discuss the game in progress

Can still get the chat option up alongside the Radio Alty commentary...except today, as we have lost commentary due to lack of wifi connection

[hsmith1]

no second half commentary its now 1624 and all we have is music

[Bath Alty]

Also highlights the need for the live updates on the website. I don’t use social media so currently no way of knowing what’s happening

[altyusa]

Yeah, frustrating.  Hopefully just an early glitch.  Would be very frustrating if it was during the new NL season.   Would be nice to have a chat option as well!

[JD]

Maybe Flynny lost his dongle!

[Stuartalty]

I switched on later than expected and missed the team for the first half. Please bring back the live updates; at least then, I would have been able to look back and update myself. Instead, I spent ten minutes in a mist trying to work out who was on the pitch, finally switched off and got on with other things. For some time, I have been an old cynic. Could someone tell me when the phrase " making progress" is used, it means to go backwards?
If the new site is not up to speed, why upload it?

[CRT Butty]

I don't know the final score!

[Bath Alty]

2-0

[Brian Flynn]

Apologies for the loss of transmission, yesterday, for the first half of the second half.

Normally, we use my mobile WiFi device to connect to the internet, however during the last few games, I have found it quicker to connect using my iPhone hotspot, connected from my laptop USB port to my iPhone via a lightning connector & this worked perfectly from 2.30-4.00pm.

Just before the start of the second half, I needed to use my phone & disconnected the lightning conector as Alex Sarwar was doing second half commentary, after I had done the first half. I believe that this was the schoolboy error that caused the loss of the internet connection & can only offer my apologies for this.

I realised that we weren't broadcasting & tried to rectify the situation, failing miserably.I then called Peter Scotson, who has very kindly offered to provide technical support for broadcasting on Radio Alty. It took about a further 10 minutes to resolve the situation.

I fully appreciate that this was very frustrating for listeners, however we are using completely different equipment to the previous Mixlr service & I am still outside my comfort zone with it.

We are using the pre-season fixtures as a learning phase for Radio Robins on Radio Alty, with an objective for us to be properly up & running for our first National League game of the season on August 6th.

Yesterday's issues were caused by my individual error, but providing a live outside broadcast will always throw up a few challenges, even for the professionals (BBC Radio Five & BBC Radio Manchester). There will always be some issues, hopefully we can minimise these from August 6th onwards.

Despite yesrtrdays issues, I am very confident that broadcasting on Radio Alty will offer a better listening experience than Mixlr, but if it doesn't, we still have that option to fall back on.