[cma-l] mobile technology and community radio

[Office - ccr-fm]

Peter n’ all

 

We’ve just secured a grant for £1,300 to purchase what basically is a ‘comrex’ kit. The item has two microphone inputs and can broadcast from in the middle of a field using the mobile network … whichever one that may be ??           we have people ringing us regularly from mobiles and we put them to air. We also have an outside one man broadcast kit which plugs into a POTS line …………. Plus a commander kit with one end at the studio and the field kit which is mobile. We can plug five mic’s and headsets into this  !           the trouble is, we need to be near a phone line !                      there was a sim card for the device but because we bought it 8 years ago with a grant (£8,000)    it is a mark one model …….. they’re now on mark 6 and nothing is compatible. We’re still not to sure whether or not we bought a ‘’pig in a poke’’  :-(

The kit only gets used every ‘Preston Guild’

 

So far as plugging items into mixing desks – ipods etc etc             this is an absolute   NO/NO !         if a presenter is doing a specialist show, we source the music first and ensure it is ‘on the system’ per-say …….. we do not permit anyone to plug in outside equipment      /        personally Peter, I would have a re-think on this one as it is a recipe for disaster.

 

I believe people do listen to us via their mobiles and we do use twitter and facebook, although not as much as we should do. We’re desperately trying to get up to speed on this one.

 

I think I have answered your queries and observations, then again, I could have missed the point ?!   I’m getting quite good at that at the moment      doh ! :-)

 

Regards

 

Nick   

 

 

 

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of London Chinese Radio
Sent: 04 September 2011 22:43
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: [cma-l] mobile technology and community radio

 

Hi everyone,

 

Sounds a bit vague, but I would be interested in hearing what use community stations are making of mobile technology.

So the first question is "what do I mean by mobile technology", to which the answer must be "somehow using a mobile phone to interact with a radio station or it's output"

 

I once saw a presenter who used to take calls to his mobile which he had plugged into the mixing desk (that was on Sound Radio) it worked really well, and he did get quite a number of calls. 

Some of our presenters come and want to play music from their iphones, so I guess that's another use. Once, before we had a telephone hybrid, we had a presenter who did a phone in, and held the mobile up to the mic, that worked pretty well too....   

But more importantly, listeners - do you take texts, SMS, facebook messages, etc. How about people listening with their mobile phones?

Or what about using SMS services to contact large amounts of people en masse...? Anyone had experiences with that? 

Does anyone know of any way to broadcast to mobile phones and avoid huge costs to listeners on mobiles?  

 

I'm about to start a mobile technology project, and I'd like to hear any success stories, maybe we can all share what works well. I certainly will be more than happy to share any results from the project.

 

 

Best regards to all,

 

Peter Vautier

London Chinese Radio

 

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