TR15 Technorama program grid
Day | Time | Topic | Lead | Synopsis |
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Friday 22 May | ||||
Fri | 1800-2000 | Fine Music 102.5 | Social night and station tour. Meet old friends, make new ones, and admire the station! The address is 72-76 Chandos Street, St Leonards, about five minutes level walk from St Leonards Station. 9439-4777 if you get completely lost on the night. |
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Fri | 2000-late | Dinner own arrangements | On your own time. Your choice, your wallet, your friends (new or old)! | |
Saturday 23 May | ||||
Sat | 0815 | Registration open | Meet at the Dougherty Community Centre and get badged | |
Sat | 0900 | Welcome, housekeeping, introductions | Meet the Team | Tim Borgas, SACBA John Maizels, Mangler of Ceremonies |
Sat | 0915 | Intro to guest of honour | Van Richards-Smith | Meet our Special Guest |
Sat | 0930 | Quicktips: techno topics and vox pops | Meet each other, in a techno cross between speed-dating and hypothetical | |
Sat | 1000 | Quicktips: sources of cheap technology | ||
Sat | 1015 | Morning tea | ||
Sat | 1045 | Community Radio: where we are and where we're going | Jon Bisset, CBAA | A look at the community radio sector's collective vision for the future, presented by CBAA's CEO. Hear how community radio will be recognised as a key pillar in Australian broadcasting, as well as updates on new and ongoing CBAA initiatives and policy activities affecting the sector's technology community. |
Sat | 1115 | EmPowerMent - off the grid | Power is important. And expensive. Let's talk about solar, UPS, generators and transmission subsidies… | |
Sat | 1145 | A word from your sponsor: engaging with CBF | Jon King, John Maizels | A station reference model, grant application dos-and-don'ts, and scheduling-playout software: the study that's about to start |
Sat | 1230 | Lunch | ||
Sat | 1330 | Greenfields studio: what you learn when build from scratch | Van Richards-Smith Max Benyon | When the word comes to build, what's important? Do the words "walls", "aircon" and "desk-height" come to mind? Exposed: great ideas, and common pitfalls. |
Sat | 1445 | Quicktips: Attracting newbies | There are never enough volunteers to do the work, and even fewer trained people to take up the challenges. What are we doing to ensure there's a next generation? | |
Sat | 1500 | Afternoon tea | ||
Sat | 1515 | Radio Website Services: life with online content made easy | Chris Johnson, AMRAP | RWS is a modular suite of web widgets that can be deployed into your station's website to efficiently manage program and station content. The CBAA is also developing RWS Premium: a fully hosted website creator and content management system loaded with the full suite of RWS. |
Sat | 1545 | How do you know if you're OK: lining up your station | Cast of thousands | |
Sat | 1615 | What's new in tech | Tim Borgas | You've heard about it - or maybe not - now see it. Tim brings out pieces of fascination and discovery. |
Sat | 1645 | Technorama Tools | Where are we going with Technorama and the TR Website | |
Sat | 1700 | Tech room time | Some time to check out the toys, talk shop, get info | |
Sat | 1700 | Wander round Chatswood: Experience Vivid! | Visit the Vivid Sydney site at the Chatswood Mall | |
Sat | 1830-2200 | Gala dinner and quiz night | Eat (on us), drink (BYO) and be merry (you pick how) at the Annual Technorama Gala Dinner | |
Sat | Late | Chatswood, on your own time. Drinks, go home, or not. Strange things happen after hours, so be careful because you're beyond our control. | ||
Sunday 24 May | ||||
Sun | 0830 | Reregistration open | Back at the Dougherty Community Centre (with badge) | |
Sun | 0900 | Housekeeping: What did we learn yesterday? | Get your brain back into gear as day 2 of TR15 kicks off | |
Sun | 0915 | Quicktips: how's your phone? | ||
Sun | 0930 | Tim's travels: the learnings from the road trip | Tim Borgas | Earlier this year Tim Borgas did a study tour of stations in the nether blocks of SA. What can we learn? |
Sun | 0945 | Monitoring and controlling your transmitter | Ray Zhai Roger Melton | Nothing could be worse than going to the transmitter site to find out that the fault has cleared. Especially if the site is three hours away. What can you do that's smarter? |
Sun | 1015 | Morning tea | ||
Sun | 1030 | Forming TR Inc | ||
Sun | 1045 | The OB and the signal path | Jim Parish | Getting your signal back to the ranch - what now? With the demise of analogue linking, what alternatives work, and what are the considerations? |
Sun | 1115 | Approaching Station IT | Stephen Wilkinson | IT: it's either the calm glue that binds operations together, or a hornets nest that causes grief and constrains creativity. Business IT and radio IT are not the same…. |
Sun | 1145 | The Network Analyser | Mike Tobin | Used to be expensive, and now is cheap. It's a clever device, and a valuable tool |
Sun | 1215 | Quicktips: is a laptop the station of the future? | ||
Sun | 1230 | Final Plenary | ||
Sun | 1300 | TR15 Wrap | (and stayers lunch) | |
Sun | 1330 | All over for 2015!! | ||
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