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26 Mar at 1830 – Lining up your ducks: Project Management for beginners

If your next OB is tying you in knots; if your studio rebuilt is running late (or never starting), and if everything your station does costs more than expected, just maybe we have the answer to your prayers ...
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Age/gender diversity: Represent! Bursary – apply by 29 March

If you're young and/or identify as female or gender-diverse here's funding that might bring you to TR19, and applications have been extended until Friday March 29. We feel the need to change the demographic of people who are involved with tech, and the buck (or doe) starts here!! Find out how to apply ...
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Announcing: 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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Extended to 31 March!! Nominate now for Technorama Awards

Technorama 2019 Award nominations are open, but not for ever: submissions close Sunday 24 March. Technologists need encouragement and appreciation, and a peer hug is one of the sweetest rewards for a job well done. So how does it work? Just too easy ...
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TR19: Register now to get Earlybird rate!

TR19 has been announced for 3-5 May 2019 in Sydney. All the things you've come to love about Technorama are back, plus we're planning some innovations. What's on the cards? ...
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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 announced as TR19 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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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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Education: Bootcamp webinar replay

Our first Bootcamp Webinar was SRO even on the net! If you're a non-technologist, this is just the session to help you understand how your station works from mic to antenna. And it's available for replay ...
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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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New Constitution and Rules adopted

A Special General Meeting on the afternoon of 19 May voted in important updates to the Technorama rules. If you haven't caught up, then read what happened, and why the 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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