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30 April at 1830: Links – the Changing Face

Our next TR Tuesday Webinar is about LINKS: how you get from the studio to the transmitter, or how you get from the OB to the studio. Learn about new developments, and how to tame the traditional ...
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Full day class: Tricks of Project Management for Technologists

What's the difference between a project that runs late, blows out costs and burns people - and a project that runs on time, in-budget and makes your volunteer team shine? Simple: good Project Management, and you can learn how at a special full-day Education event on 3 May ...
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TR19: Register NOW!

Find out about our programming, and why it's important to attend TR19. All the things youve come to love about Technorama are back, plus we have some innovations. Click here and see what's in store ...
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TR19: The Program

Here's what's on the agenda for TR19. Some familiar, some unfamiliar and some experimental. It's a great balance, with the focus on sending you back as the person who is more valuable to your station as a result of the experience ...
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TR19 congratulates this year’s Represent! Bursary awardees

The Represent! Bursary is a Technorama initiative to provide a major gender and age diversity boost to our sector's technologist community. Meet this year's Bursary awardees, all of whom are heading to Campbelltown for TR19 ...
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Technorama Awards

It's awards time and we have some winners, whose accomplishments will be announced at the Gala Dinner. ...
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TR19 Travel: Getting there is half the fun

How do you get to TR19? Easy. And quick ...
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TR19 Housing, Hotels

Picking a hotel is easy. This year two hotels know that we're coming - Rydges and Maclin - and there are many other options. We explain how to get the best deal ...
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TR19 Delegate FAQ

Welcome to Technorama 2019. Here's what you need to know ...
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Richard Fleming is our TR19 Special Guest of Honour

Each year Technorama has a Guest of Honour who has earned a special place in the industry. This year we welcome a past Award winner who is focused on great design, customer support, and mentoring the next generation ...
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800MHz band: not dead yet!!

True or false: FM links are going away? All the spectrum has been sold? Licences aren't being issued or renewed? Bzzzt. All FALSE!! Technorama consulted the Oracle and obtained some very good answers ...
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Care and feeding of faders

The first thing you need to know: if you care, don't feed the faders. Food is not good for them at all. But whether you've just bathed a fader in an unspeakable substance, or you have a desk that needs a refresher, here's some cleaning technique that works, and will leave your faders silent and as-smooth-as ...
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Become a Member of Technorama and save!!

You might be surprised to discover that it's more expensive to NOT be a member than it is to join. How so? Click the blue button ...
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Studio Blitz a serious winner

Take a group of people, a studio block that needs some love and attention, and a weekend. What could happen? It's the Technorama Studio Blitz, a training exercise where people learn from doing the real biz ...
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Get answers: the Technorama Q&A FB Group

Do you have a community radio-related question? Whether it's hardcore tech, policy, landscape, related to gear, or a cry for help: our community delivers GREAT answers. Here's where to ask ...
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Did you come here from our Twitter feed?

If you did, you might have received a tweet with little more than some truncated text and a link to our main web page. Chances are if you followed that link, there was no article. We also wondered why that would happen. An explanation (and the information you possibly wanted) follows. It's worth reading ...
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Find a Technorama Webinar replay!

Our Technorama Tech Topic Tuesdays webinars are taking off - held on the last Tuesday of each month. If you missed one, don't despair: you can get to the replay here ...
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Jobs: your career in Community Radio

We've created a JOBS page to help promote employment in the Sector, and to connect technologists with opportunities. Jobs will be added as they come to our notice, and will be pointered on the home page ...
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Winning Strategies for CBF Grant Applications: your role as the Tech

Great help from the CBF - the presentation that Georgie Boucher delivered at TR18 is online for you to view ...
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Education: CMTO FB Live replay

CMTO asked if we would do a FB Live broadcast to flesh out some aspects of the January Webinar, and take questions. It worked, it was very interactive, and here's the result ...
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Say hi to your Board

The AGM has been held, it's a new year, and we have our first full Committee operating under the updated rules ...
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The updated Constitution and Rules

In 2018 we updated our rules, in support of better succession planning and smarter governance. If you haven't caught up, or if you're interested in how constitutions work (and who isn't??!) then read what happened, and why the default rules needed changing ...
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Gear for sale: Small recording studio items

The Queensland Narrating Service is offering some audio equipment which is surplus to their needs, but might be just what your station needs.   Compact mixers, audio interfaces, microphones, bundles of cables and more ...
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ACMA: 850 MHz Restack

Many stations will be affected by the plans to clear the 849-852MHz segment currently used by Studio-Transmitter Links (STLs) or Sound Outside Broadcast Links (SOBLs).   The ACMA recently ran a ...
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Gratitude!!!

It would not have been possible for an unincorporated group of enthusiasts to run effective events without organisational help. Technorama gratefully acknowledges support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia, and the Community Media Training Organisation.  We are deeply indebted to the hosts of past Technorama events:  the South Australian Community Broadcasters Association Inc,  the Community Broadcasting Association of Victoria, and Artsound in Canberra. Without the backing of these people, we would not be where we are today.

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