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🔥Wildfire Season Are You Ready for Emergency Communication? 🔥

March 26, 2024
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Wildfire Season Radio Station in a Box When cell phone towers go down due to fiber cuts or power outages, how do you ensure your community stays informed and safe? Traditional communication methods may falter, but with our mobile Radio Station in a Box, you have a reliable lifeline. Are you part of an indigenous […]

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✨ Open Source Broadcast Automation

December 21, 2023
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Holiday Visitors Techsoup Canada Grants and Free Services Are you a non profit needing; web hosting, grants, subsidized rates for commercial hardware and software. CJUC Radio (Whitehorse) recently utilized this easy to access service for a 3,500.00 USD grant for the Azure web hosting offer. There is an entire catalogue of services, products and hardware […]

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📻 Indigenous Community Media Fund

December 21, 2022
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Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere -40 Celsius here in Tagish Yukon. For our neighbours to the south, -40C is the same as -40F 2023 Call for Proposals for the Indigenous Community Media FundThe Indigenous Community Media Fund at Cultural Survival provides opportunities for Indigenous community radio stations and media outlets to strengthen their broadcast infrastructure […]

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💡 Why do I love innovation and community radio?

November 23, 2022
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25 years of CFET Radio. Everyday is innovation day at CFET and CJUC Community Radio. We have a really good pool of experienced professionals working in the field that enjoy meeting new friends from abroad that are passionate about building open source community broadcasting tools. ► เป็นอย่างไรบ้าง ► 你好吗 ► হ্যালো ► Namaste ► Kumasta! […]

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OBServer Release v5.3.1

November 18, 2022
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Latest version receiving new features. This version breaks compatibility with modules due to code/API refactoring. For production environments, consider latest v5.2 release until modules are updated. Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) Features API v2 using more modern RESTful implementation (alpha) begin building automated testing via CodeCeption (alpha) OB CLI tool (alpha) with “check install” […]

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🛠 Build a better broadcast application with open source tools

November 11, 2022
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OBServer Restful API Code Update We’ve been picking away at code refactoring and API stabilization over the last 6 months. * selected the PSR-12 standard and have updated code to be compliant * started defining and implementing our API v2 more in line with typical REST principles * started transitioning dependencies to be composer-managed PHP […]

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Hindi language accessibility translations

April 11, 2022
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All the menus and help screens for Observer are now translated into UTF8 Hindi language for the community radio sector in India for everyone to enjoy.  We are lucky to have Mohit Godiya on our team, not only providing technical support and coding, but also speaking\writing 7 different languages assisting global users.

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📻 Rob is Analog 📻 ALFF Audience Favorite Award

March 8, 2022
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Available Light Film Festival 2022 Audience Choice Winners The winner of the ALFF Audience Choice Award for Best Canadian Documentary, Rob Is Analog, was also the audience favorite overall. Yukon filmmaker, Jessica Hall’s funny and charming documentary about “Radio Rob” Hopkins: a ramshackle communications pirate who pioneered community radio in Southern Yukon and fights for […]

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💡Supply chain delays? Open source solutions

December 21, 2021
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 Winter Solstice – Northern Hemisphere Supply chain issues? DIY Recycle 6 – 8 week lead time sound familiar? Expensive shipping? Stuck on your broadcast project waiting for parts? Re-purpose your existing hardware using Open Source code that runs on surplus equipment. Raspberry PI computers are widely available and inexpensive https://openbroadcaster.com/education/diy-broadcast-projects Repurposed Hardware Our latest IMG […]

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📻 UNESCO Remote Radio Week

November 16, 2021
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5th Asia Pacific Community Network Xchange We are on a panel discussion with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) regarding Community Radio and it’s relationship with Community Networks, especially those stations with communications challenges. Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 0500-0715 UTC AGENDA Album Art A large American university recently sponsored development of a feature […]

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TWiRT 568 – Common Alerting Protocol

October 29, 2021
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Common Alerting Protocol Doesn’t sound exciting, but what it’s doing for people in many countries is sometimes life-saving. We might think of CAP as a new-ish way to receive emergency messages, such as Child Abduction Emergency notification. Or we may consider CAP as just another input source to our broadcast EAS systems. There’s a lot […]

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Out In The Open – Spring 2021

April 2, 2021
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Radio Station in a Box Complete RIAB (Radio Station in a Box) assembled in a hard shell mobile case. 100% solid state, no moving parts 1. Open covers of mobile case 2. Hook up antenna, AC power and internet 3. Begin broadcasting POLLY AI Voices Update for ML210 legacy customers We have created a new […]

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Emergency Disaster Assistance – Resilience Through Innovation

November 18, 2020
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Pyrate 3.0 November 18, 2020 Tagish, Yukon, Canada As part of Canadian Innovation Week, OpenBroadcaster Inc is releasing Pyrate 3.0 free and open-source software (FOSS). An open source emergency response radio and TV broadcast toolkit for stations to remotely access their studios and distribute CAP emergency alert messages during COVID19. About Raspberry Pi Pyrate Broadcast […]

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📽️ Pop Up Drive-In Cinema

September 24, 2020
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Decade + OpenBroadcaster = Pop Up Drive-In Cinema 📽️   https://openbroadcaster.com/case-studies/pop-up-drive-in-cinema On the evenings of September 11 + 12, we participated in a really interesting public installation, at the Whitehorse Library. A series of films were shared with an audience in their cars, tuning into a temporary LPFM radio signal for the audio. During the […]

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📻 Live Remote Radio Summer Solstice

June 18, 2020
Open SourceRadio

Live Remote Radio Summer Solstice From the land of the Midnight Sun Remote Radio Broadcasting Updated user guides with remote radio broadcasting and Live assist handbooks are available on our support site. Each module now has its own support page. https://support.openbroadcaster.com Live Streaming Use the Live Assist touch screen interface: * Stream to all stations […]

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🎉 Hindsight is 20/20…Foresight is 2020 🎉

January 21, 2020
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Happy New Year! Welcome to The New Decade! I’m presently located in and working out of Nan Thailand until April, 2020. Sawadee Cup! During the next 4 months, I’ll be travelling to neighbouring countries and hoping to meet some of you face to face. Complimentary Raspberry PI To celebrate this new decade, we are offering […]

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Digital Sovereignty – Do you know where your data is?

October 31, 2019
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Future Home of CJUC Radio https://www.cjucfm.com CJUC community radio site overlooking downtown Whitehorse Yukon from Haeckel Hill Open Source North 60 Our Second Annual OSN60 event was well attended with guests from all across Canada coming to Whitehorse. There was a diverse mix of languages including regional indigenous dialects and far away Estonian Language What […]

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🕘 Stop Wasting Time. You Have Even Better Things To Do With It 🕔

October 4, 2018
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Grass Roots Radio Conference Portland, Oregon – Oct 5 -7 Bill Polonsky, our training manager from the frozen city of Whitehorse Yukon and Adam Brody, marketing and business development will be delivering a joint presentation and hands on demonstration. Raspberry Pi Pyrate Radio — Open Source EAS Friday October 5 at 9:30 AM. Join us […]

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TWIRT 388 Open Source Radio

May 17, 2018
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Lots of fun chatting about our company history and innovative open source broadcast automation systems. http://thisweekinradiotech.com/twirt-home/2018/3/23/twirt-388-open-broadcaster-with-rob-hopkins

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🍓 Open Source EAS Raspberry Pi 🍓

May 3, 2018
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Open Source EAS with the Pyrate Raspberry Pi was mentioned in a letter to the FCC. Read the letter REC Network sent to FCC mentioning our work with open source EAS to Boost LPFM Participation in EAS. Coincidently we are also mentioned in a recent CRTC hearing. https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/rec-to-fcc-changes-needed-to-boost-lpfm-participation-in-eas https://openbroadcaster.com/pyrate-radio-firmware Headless Video Loopback Emulators *** SOLVED […]

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🍓 Raspberry Pyrate Radio 🍓

February 27, 2018
Open SourceRadio

DIY Maker Space Raspberry Pi Super easy, budget friendly, open source broadcast solutions for your Maker space project. Create an amazing, low-tech online digital jukebox broadcast automation system using a cloud based media library. Learn how to create community radio content and start an online radio station from home with open source software running on […]

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OpenBroadcaster Supports Axia Livewire RTP Protocol

January 23, 2018
Open SourceRadio

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 […]

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How did I get here in radio land?

January 23, 2018
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Rob Hopkins – Tagish, Yukon 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 […]

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Open Source North 2018 – Whitehorse Yukon

January 21, 2018
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Open Source North Event – Whitehorse Yukon Mar 23, 2018 A couple of like minded fans of open source and broadcasting are putting on an event in northern Canada’s Yukon Territory. We will have a meeting space to spend the day networking and learning more about how open source works with broadcast. This opportunity is […]

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OpenBroadcaster Version 5

June 27, 2017
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CLFG 1.2 Support Thanks everyone for your support to date. We wish to advise about updates for Alert Player to conform to the new CLFG 1.2 alerting specifications. Available to all customers and the DIY community, no charge. Customers that purchased Alert Player online have a rescue image ISO in User Account or register at […]

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🔊 Audio over IP with OpenBroadcaster 🔊

October 19, 2016
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LIVE Assist Webinar Join us Thursday, October 20 at 10:00 AM PST for a 30 minute demo on the Live Assist feature of our player including: * LIVE Assist Mode * Accepting incoming streams from remote locations * Hot Button Player and LA Play Lists This Webinar will be archived and available after. http://support.openbroadcaster.pro/basics.html#live-assist Global […]

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2 Yukon Companies Assist in Deployment of Radio Network in Nunavut

August 31, 2016
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For Immediate Release Aug 31, 2016 OpenBroadcaster Inc and Computerisms Corporation are pleased to have played a part in a project spearheaded by SSI Micro and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association (KIA) to introduce its latest public service, the Kitikmeot Radio Network (KRN). The pilot project was launched July 9th and was timed to coincide with […]

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News from OpenBroadcaster – Community Media Convergence

November 18, 2015
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Community Media Conference OpenBroadcaster is busy preparing to attend Commedia at Carlton University Ontario Nov 22 – 24 Stop by and say hello to Jake Parsons the original lead developer for OpenBroadcaster and my nephew Christopher Nash at Commediaconverge.ca They will have a table participating at the technology fair and presenting about our work with […]

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OB Summer of Code

August 12, 2015
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Summer at OpenBroadcaster How is everyone making out this summer? Not too buggy or smoky? We have some exciting news to announce about our new ecommerce site to create on demand streaming mount points and services. There is also work being done to include some educational video. Stay Tuned for launch details early this fall. […]

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GAATES Emergency CAP Alert LED Signage Project

April 29, 2015
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CFET CJHJ GAATES Signage Pelmorex Testing March 10, 2015 The pilot project test started out with a couple of bumps. My team worked through these problems enabling both radio stations in Tagish and Haines Junction to each receive and broadcast the emergency messages within the 2 hour testing window. The LCD screen in Tagish Recreation […]

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Emergency Radio and TV Testing

March 11, 2015
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Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction […]

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Emergency Radio and TV Testing

March 9, 2015
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Invitation for Emergency Radio and TV testing Tagish and Haines Junction Yukon On March 10, 2015 between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm Pacific daylight savings time Yukon Emergency Measures Organization will be conducting two live to air broadcast intrusive tests of the Yukon Emergency Public Alerting System in Tagish and Haines Junction, Yukon in conjunction […]

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