Community Media/FAQs/Community radio technical

Question from Roz in Jamaica to Farrel King:

Thanks. I'm not generally technologically able, but I think I understand a bit of what you explained. I'll share our current live broadcast set-up and perhaps you could tell me if there's a better (sound quality and cost effectiveness) way to do this.

We take a mixing board, telephone hyrid and, speakers and two mobile phones to the location and connect by simply running the mobile through the board and hybrid and we use a cordless mic. We monitor through a transistor radio if we're in a location that can pick up the station or if not we use a wireless laptop for the live stream. Is there a better way? Our colleagues at JET FM do not yet have a live broadcast system. How can this work for us?

Often these hardware based solutions are similar to voice logging systems that operate in call centres.