Lounge on the Farm: Outside Broadcast for CSR (Part I)
July 6th, 2009 | by fish |Since April I’ve been volunteering some of my free time to work with the Tech team at Canterbury Student Radio CSR FM (broadcasting on 97.4 FM in the Canterbury area, as well as streaming on the Internets). It’s great fun, and gives me lots of freedom to work on interesting projects.
So far, I’ve been involved in building Linux servers, helping maintain Windows Servers, writing perl scripts, doing analog circuit design, building an Asterisk PBX, customising Cisco 7960G IP Phones, as well as lots of other odds and ends.
CSR is going to be broadcasting from the music festival in Canterbury called Lounge on the Farm. This is quite a technical challenge, as you might imagine. Broadcasting from a farm in the middle of nowhere is quite tricky. I’ve been helping out with the preparation for the Outside Broadcast, which will be going live on air this coming weekend (11th -13th July 2009).
We built 4 Windows XP computers to use on Lounge on the Farm to do an outside broadcast for CSR
One for encoding, one for playout (using JAZZLER , apparently) and two with Audacity for audio editing.
300g disks are in the playout and edit machines. And shared with peer to peer file sharing. All set up so all machines can see all drives.
Job is what one might call a good ‘un.
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