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How did I get here in radio land?

Back in 1989 – 1993 I was able to save up and take off with my bicycle and spend a few years traveling around the world, through China, India, South East Asia and Europe. I was able to subsidize my traveling and live the “Yukon dream” by spending 6 months on the road buying up trinkets and handicrafts and then spending 6 months gypsying around the north at music festivals selling my stuff at flea markets. I started to dabble in taking stuff back overseas for trade and tried salmon, maple syrup and cosmetics with mixed results.

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New indigenous radio station receives federal funding

tsilhqotin indigenous community radio

Crystal Rain Harry (left) and Bella Alphonse train with Rob Hopkins from Tagish, Yukon for the new Tsilhqot’in Community Radio station, launched on Friday, Dec. 15. On Monday the federal government announced $180,500 in funding for the radio project.

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This Week in Radio Tech | OpenBroadcaster with Rob Hopkins

This Week in Radio Tech Episode 338

Lots of fun chatting about our company history and innovative open source broadcast automation systems.

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Trevor Baylis: Wind-up radio inventor dies aged 80

Trevor really inspired me to get into radio and provide services for the rest of the world. Would have really liked to meet him.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england

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OpenBroadcaster supports Axia Livewire RTP protocol

Jan 23, 2018 – OpenBroadcaster releases open source software to provide Livewire\RTP support with Axia Audio over IP (AoIP) consoles. This exciting added functionality presents the opportunity to easily field, deploy and integrate standalone OBPlayer into the AoIP broadcast chain with CAP EAS emergency alerts. This innovation builds on the suite of web-enabled general software and automation appliances with online media libraries, community play lists, multi-station scheduling and streaming.

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