headphones - or cans as we call them!

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Broadcasting to the Patients and Staff of Halton General Hospital - Playing The Best Music Variety from the 50's to Today
our previous web counter terminated, so our new one starts from zero	Our Studio The first photos below show the studio in March 2007. Make sure you click the refresh button on your browser to make sure you have the updated version of this page. We've updated the flooring behind the mixer to lessen the chance of static shocks built up from the nylon carpet tiles - thanks to new volunteer Roger Sloan for obtaining the new tiles for us. We've also fitted curly leads to the headphones to avoid the risk of tripping over the long straight leads. Click on each photo for a larger image, then click the back button on your browser to return to this page This is the new powerful PC installed in March 2007 which will run the playout software "Myriad" for the music we have on computer. We bought it with the help of a donation of £2,000 from the Halton Hospital League of Friends Here's a March 2007 view of both PCs - on the left running PCDJ (a free download from the internet) and on the right, running Myriad. When you enlarge this picture, you can see from the empty box on the right that it's so powerful it's suitable for high quality gaming use! We just want it for high quality music! This is another view in March 2007 of the two studio screens. The screensaver on the left is a photo of the red "mic live" light above the studio door in the corridor, to alert anyone coming in that we're broadcasting live. The black keyboard controls the Myriad PC This is how the studio looked in 2006 with the 2 flat screen TFT monitors installed: Click on the photos for larger images, then click the back button on your browser to return to this page The Sony computer on the left was bought in 2003 through a grant from the Community Chest. Its TFT screen gives out hardly any heat, unlike the old SVGA monitor, and was bought with a donation from INEOS Fluor. This makes the studio a much more comfortable place in those hot summers - when they happen! Even so, the heat still got to our 14 month old computer in July 2006 and caused its demise.... Below is how the Radio Halton studio looked in 1999 (Click the photo to see a larger image) The rest of the studio equipment was purchased in 1999, including the broadcast mixer bought with help from The National Lottery Charities Board who awarded us with a grant of £3877.15. Thanks to various donations we were also able to purchase 2 replacement CD players and 2 minidisc players the same year All these things help us to continue to provide the Patients and Staff of Halton General Hospital with a high quality service. However, we are mindful that nothing lasts forever, and we continue to fundraise in order to be able to replace any equipment which fails, so that we can be sure of always providing our service

Broadcasting to the Patients and Staff of Halton General Hospital - Playing The Best Music Variety from the 50's to Today

our previous web counter terminated, so our new one starts from zero

Our Studio

The first photos below show the studio in March 2007. Make sure you click the refresh button on your browser to make sure you have the updated version of this page. We've updated the flooring behind the mixer to lessen the chance of static shocks built up from the nylon carpet tiles - thanks to new volunteer Roger Sloan for obtaining the new tiles for us. We've also fitted curly leads to the headphones to avoid the risk of tripping over the long straight leads.

Click on each photo for a larger image, then click the back button on your browser to return to this page

This is the new powerful PC installed in March 2007 which will run the playout software "Myriad" for the music we have on computer. We bought it with the help of a donation of £2,000 from the Halton Hospital League of Friends

Here's a March 2007 view of both PCs - on the left running PCDJ (a free download from the internet) and on the right, running Myriad. When you enlarge this picture, you can see from the empty box on the right that it's so powerful it's suitable for high quality gaming use! We just want it for high quality music!

This is another view in March 2007 of the two studio screens. The screensaver on the left is a photo of the red "mic live" light above the studio door in the corridor, to alert anyone coming in that we're broadcasting live. The black keyboard controls the Myriad PC

This is how the studio looked in 2006 with the 2 flat screen TFT monitors installed:

Click on the photos for larger images, then click the back button on your browser to return to this page

The Sony computer on the left was bought in 2003 through a grant from the Community Chest. Its TFT screen gives out hardly any heat, unlike the old SVGA monitor, and was bought with a donation from INEOS Fluor. This makes the studio a much more comfortable place in those hot summers - when they happen! Even so, the heat still got to our 14 month old computer in July 2006 and caused its demise....

Below is how the Radio Halton studio looked in 1999

(Click the photo to see a larger image)

The rest of the studio equipment was purchased in 1999, including the broadcast mixer bought with help from The National Lottery Charities Board who awarded us with a grant of £3877.15. Thanks to various donations we were also able to purchase 2 replacement CD players and 2 minidisc players the same year

All these things help us to continue to provide the Patients and Staff of Halton General Hospital with a high quality service. However, we are mindful that nothing lasts forever, and we continue to fundraise in order to be able to replace any equipment which fails, so that we can be sure of always providing our service