aka: How Cambridge 105 Radio’s technical team has responded to the challenge of our studios being closed by the coronavirus pandemic The current coronavirus crisis brings a particular challenge for broadcasters. It’s at times like these that both the information, and the company, that we can provide become all the more important. This has been…

Once in a while, two Cambridge primary schools, Queen Emma and Queen Edith join together for a day of extra-curricular, but curriculum-linked, activities for their students on a Saturday. Today, the theme was ‘Spoken Word’ and so Cambridge 105 Radio were invited along to give the pupils an experience of being on the radio. So,…

As some of you may know, I’ve been involved in Cambridge 105’s ‘Pirate Cambridge 105’ special event – a 12-hour live broadcast from a riverboat moored on the River Cam, intended to celebrate and reminisce about the golden era of Pirate Radio. In keeping with the theme, we limited ourselves to only using equipment from…

As many of you will be aware, one of my many volunteer roles is as an Outside Broadcast Engineer at Cambridge 105, Cambridge’s Community FM radio station. There are essentially two types of Outside Broadcast music events that we run: those where we do the live music mix, and those where we just take an…