Technorama: Our Stories

Question: If you put a pantyhose filter in front of a microphone, does it work to protect the microphone from passing on a virus? Answer: almost certainly not. In fact, it creates a sense of security that doesn't exist. John Maizels reports with a bit of studio hygiene science ...

Are you looking for some tips? Here's a list of things you can do to reduce the risks at your station and hopefully stay live. ...

In the past week we've been repeatedly asked: can you get sick from a pop shield? Do pop shields harbour COVID-19? Can you spray pop shields with disinfectant? Should you spray anything? Protecting people from harm is incredibly important, but so is protecting the gear. Fortunately you can do both, and in this article we explain what's going on with a virus, what's safe to use on equipment, and what you can do to stay healthy ...

TR20 will be hosted at a brand new conference centre. We'll be at the Oaks complex in Toowoomba, with plenty of room and great facilities. The hotel rooms (onsite) are huge and very cost-effective. And we're announcing our Special Guest of Honour ...

Periodically we've been known to send EDMs (electronic direct mail) to tell our members and others what's happening. If you ...

This month we welcome a new Technoraman to the Board team. Hannah joins us effective immediately, and has promised to bring order to much of our chaos ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

16 April 2019: Despite no dates on the website, Rydges really did mean 72 hours.  The sale is over. We're ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (like coffee or softdrink), 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 ...

There are some questions that we're asked a lot.  Do I need a digital console to work with digital radio?  ...

Technorama has joined forces with CMTO to bring non-technologists a new and exciting workshop option: learn to solder and make/fix leads. Best part: no charge, and you get to take home a mike lead that you make in the workshop ...

Our Technorama Tuesdays webinars on the last Tuesday of each month are a great way to stay up on Tech. Each month we present something special, balancing between incredibly technical stuff and some very down to earth basics. If you missed one, don't despair: you can get to the replay here ...

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 ...

Take three stations with no phone systems, five students, 120 handsets and a mass of wire. What do you get? The Technorama Training Team Telephony Tutorial ...

In case you missed it, here's the news that was sent to registered non-members this week ...