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About Wangki
Wangki Yupurnanupurru is a constitutional corporation. Our purpose is to provide Community Radio broadcasting to the aboriginal communities in the Fitzroy Valley and surrounding areas. Fitzroy Crossing is located inland approximately 250 km east of Derby and 400km north east of Broome, We are approx 280 km west of Halls Creek. The Fitzroy river provides a beautiful vista along with opportunity of fishing and relaxation.
The file attached is of our CATSI Act Rules Catsi model Rules ODT(2).odt
This radio station is supported by the Australian Government through the Indigenous Broadcasting
Program of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.” an initiative of the Australian Federal Government to assist Indigenous Communities.
Broadcasting for all Aboriginal Communities in the Fitzroy valley
Wangki radio is in Fitzroy Crossing, we hold a community broadcasting licence. We do community radio 24 hours a day on 936 am. We travel out to the communities for interviews and we broadcast announcements from communities and towns,we also read out the weather & road report and we play lots of great music.We also link in with the PAKAM -Pilbara and Kimberley Area Media Network, and NIRS the National Indigenous Radio Service who host our programmes and we host their programmes.
Wangki Radio Programmes
Wangki is proud to announce an initiative with the Disability Services Commission of Western Australia representing Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Associated Communities. The weekly radio show known as Ngarlimpagurra an Indigenous Walmajarri word meaning "for all of us" aims to enhance the lives of people with disabilities their carers families and friends, by sharing information raising awareness and providing oportunities to tell,their story.
Training
The regional stations located in the North of Western Australia are meeting Thursday 14th of October to discuss training needs. Further meetings are planned for Central, Desert, and Southern Stations
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) 2010 @ WANGKI RADIO STATION on Thursday 14th of October,2010
BBQ LUNCH: 12.30PM
AGM : 1.30PM
ALL MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Wangki Radio advocates and uses Free Software. We have used Linux variants and Open Office for over 3 years and we are presently enjoying Linux Mint, Mandriva, Ubuntu and GNU/Trisquel. We playout and store all of our sound files for broadcasting using Rhythmbox and we use Ogg Vorbis.We consider it sounds better than other formats and takes up less storage space
We enjoy the freedom to copy distribute use and modify the software we use- as we require. For further information for your organisation including downloads of GNU/Linux operating systems please see http://www.fsf.org who offer resources and provide the free software definition.
Radio Broadcast Logging
Install a copy of Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com , partition your drive if you require to keep your existing operating system.
A requirement of radio stations is to keep a log of their broadcasts for 42 days. After a lot of searching we have started to solve this requirement by using KHdRecord some wonderful software written by Peter Jodda. Peters software is licensed under the GNU/GPL. We use a debian file installation that needs a few dependencies solving, but is overall, quite easy to install. We also tried Rivendell and Rotter but neither were very user friendly.
KHdRecord is installed with the following files, using GDebi
libstdc++5_3.3.6-18_i386.deb
libartsc0_1.5.9-2_i386.deb
At this point you need to open a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
then the entire 9 files will install when you run the following
libartsc0-dev_1.5.9-2_i386.deb
finally install KhDRecord itself
khdrecord_0.8.0-1_i386.deb
KHdRecord has a feature of sensing the decibel content to either turn on recording, or it will wait for a signal. We simply use a relay that connects to the coil being energized from the mixing desk to activate the On Air light, this way we capture everything that comes across the Microphone, Peters software then goes out of sleep mode and when the audio stops neatly creates an Ogg file of the Mic recording. KhDRecord can be told to date each file, making it easy to trace back to be heard at a later time if the need arises.
We are using a Power Mac with Linux Mint 9 KDE 32 Bit, as our machine. Mint also works well on a Power Mac using 64 bit
Rather than fill 42 days 1008 hrs of hard disk space, as most radio stations do, this system presently captures the most important part of a logging requirement - namely what is said to air.
There are two other steps to ideally solve namely to report the name of every track being played by Rhythmbox and there is a plugin for this purpose, so we need to do a bit more work to get it functioning. Lastly a lovely feature in Rotter is that after 42 days the first file deletes, we need to run a script to achieve which we think is achievable given that the files are all in one directory.
Wangki Yupurnanupurru is a constitutional corporation. Our purpose is to provide Community Radio broadcasting to the aboriginal communities in the Fitzroy Valley and surrounding areas. Fitzroy Crossing is located inland approximately 250 km east of Derby and 400km north east of Broome, We are approx 280 km west of Halls Creek. The Fitzroy river provides a beautiful vista along with opportunity of fishing and relaxation.
The file attached is of our CATSI Act Rules Catsi model Rules ODT(2).odt
This radio station is supported by the Australian Government through the Indigenous Broadcasting
Program of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.” an initiative of the Australian Federal Government to assist Indigenous Communities.
Broadcasting for all Aboriginal Communities in the Fitzroy valley
Wangki radio is in Fitzroy Crossing, we hold a community broadcasting licence. We do community radio 24 hours a day on 936 am. We travel out to the communities for interviews and we broadcast announcements from communities and towns,we also read out the weather & road report and we play lots of great music.We also link in with the PAKAM -Pilbara and Kimberley Area Media Network, and NIRS the National Indigenous Radio Service who host our programmes and we host their programmes.
Wangki Radio Programmes
Wangki is proud to announce an initiative with the Disability Services Commission of Western Australia representing Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek and Associated Communities. The weekly radio show known as Ngarlimpagurra an Indigenous Walmajarri word meaning "for all of us" aims to enhance the lives of people with disabilities their carers families and friends, by sharing information raising awareness and providing oportunities to tell,their story.
Training
The regional stations located in the North of Western Australia are meeting Thursday 14th of October to discuss training needs. Further meetings are planned for Central, Desert, and Southern Stations
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) 2010 @ WANGKI RADIO STATION on Thursday 14th of October,2010
BBQ LUNCH: 12.30PM
AGM : 1.30PM
ALL MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Wangki Radio advocates and uses Free Software. We have used Linux variants and Open Office for over 3 years and we are presently enjoying Linux Mint, Mandriva, Ubuntu and GNU/Trisquel. We playout and store all of our sound files for broadcasting using Rhythmbox and we use Ogg Vorbis.We consider it sounds better than other formats and takes up less storage space
We enjoy the freedom to copy distribute use and modify the software we use- as we require. For further information for your organisation including downloads of GNU/Linux operating systems please see http://www.fsf.org who offer resources and provide the free software definition.
Radio Broadcast Logging
Install a copy of Linux Mint http://www.linuxmint.com , partition your drive if you require to keep your existing operating system.
A requirement of radio stations is to keep a log of their broadcasts for 42 days. After a lot of searching we have started to solve this requirement by using KHdRecord some wonderful software written by Peter Jodda. Peters software is licensed under the GNU/GPL. We use a debian file installation that needs a few dependencies solving, but is overall, quite easy to install. We also tried Rivendell and Rotter but neither were very user friendly.
KHdRecord is installed with the following files, using GDebi
libstdc++5_3.3.6-18_i386.deb
libartsc0_1.5.9-2_i386.deb
At this point you need to open a terminal and run the following command: sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
then the entire 9 files will install when you run the following
libartsc0-dev_1.5.9-2_i386.deb
finally install KhDRecord itself
khdrecord_0.8.0-1_i386.deb
KHdRecord has a feature of sensing the decibel content to either turn on recording, or it will wait for a signal. We simply use a relay that connects to the coil being energized from the mixing desk to activate the On Air light, this way we capture everything that comes across the Microphone, Peters software then goes out of sleep mode and when the audio stops neatly creates an Ogg file of the Mic recording. KhDRecord can be told to date each file, making it easy to trace back to be heard at a later time if the need arises.
We are using a Power Mac with Linux Mint 9 KDE 32 Bit, as our machine. Mint also works well on a Power Mac using 64 bit
Rather than fill 42 days 1008 hrs of hard disk space, as most radio stations do, this system presently captures the most important part of a logging requirement - namely what is said to air.
There are two other steps to ideally solve namely to report the name of every track being played by Rhythmbox and there is a plugin for this purpose, so we need to do a bit more work to get it functioning. Lastly a lovely feature in Rotter is that after 42 days the first file deletes, we need to run a script to achieve which we think is achievable given that the files are all in one directory.
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