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Paddock radio is an independent solar powered radio station broadcasting live all around New Zealand

06/01/2025

Last Day for submissions! Click here:

https://www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitteeSubmission/54SCJUST_SCF_227E6D0B-E632-42EB-CFFE-08DCFEB826C6/CreateSubmission

06/12/2024

So so proud 💖 new music from one of our very good friends and long time UP FM legend Aydose

A phat breaks track featuring lush vocals and liquid style feel. Morphing beats and basslines with big leads, it is a dancefloor banger with energy thats made for a big soundsystem!!

23/06/2024

Our friend AYDOSE on their first ever release! You can catch him live every Sunday on our sister station UP FM

I have the craziest news. Actually, blowing my own mind. I am officially on Spotify as an artist. For someone who has loved Spotify as an app for finding amazing music from all over the world and creating intricate playlists, it’s just awesome that I get to share in this world now. I’ve got one release to start with, but many more to come. Go check it out and give me a follow, add Ruffneck to a playlist and listen in!!! Search up Ruffneck by Aydose ❤️❤️

04/01/2024

You got this! 💪🏻

11/11/2023

The Elton John Experience with Josh Clarke

06/11/2023

Beautiful gig with Marmalade over the weekend ❤️ thanks so much for having me

06/11/2023

Krispy & The Pooch live at Ahipao Waiheke over the weekend

03/11/2023

Of to a gig! Supporting a couple artists on our playlist and on a beautiful Waiheke Friday evening

03/11/2023

To our loyal listeners. Thanks for all your amazing support over the years.

Today we start a new journey into Patreon.

We have come a long long way from being an illegal project in a janky truck, with a duct tape sign and zero internet presence, from humble website coding on the side of the road to being invited into the Shouting Fire International Radio Network family, and booking and supporting our independent artists and watching them bloom into international touring acts in their own right.

Together, our listeners, artists, supporters and friends have managed to bring Paddock Radio to the capabilities we have today, and that empowers and inspires us as a project and a team to reach beyond our immediate means in order to facilitate the growth and evolution of our platform, and enable us to bring our artists to a wider audience on a scale we've never attempted before.

In the coming months we will be launching a series of Patron only rewards tiers that will allow us the resources to support the project and ensure the future of independent content creation. Donations to the project directly affect the running and wellbeing of our station and artists and allow us to keep our servers running and our network active. Higher tier patrons allow us to offer unique opportunities to supporters and artists like touring events, live stream exclusives, art shows and one to one experiences.

I can't wait to share this with you, thanks very much for your help.

Josh TripleFFF - Paddock Radio Founder

03/11/2023

Supporting original creators worldwide

15/10/2023

Rodger Fox Big Band new release out 😁

The Rodger Fox Big Band featuring King Kapisi with Erna Ferry ON TOURTwo Aotearoa Icons. One night of jazz and hip-hop.Fusing the modern big band sound with ...

27/06/2023

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Airbourne, well, Grassbourne Piracy

My name is Josh Fluro. I’m a radio technician, sound engineer. Paddock Radio started at Kiwiburn 2017, after I decided that running Rockstar Dreams was too much work for a fourth year, and I wanted something I could automate to run itself :)

The theme was “The Robots Are Coming”, so I thought it would be funny to automate a radio transmitter to spit out prerecorded propoganda news stories and blast confusing music out into the ether. Registering as an art project four days before I arrived, Paddock Radio was actually just a barely functioning transmitter plugged into an ipod under my sink.

An enormous amount of interest was generated immediately, and for a moment I actually forgot I was an art camp. With zero promo done, and just a piece of plywood to announce what we were doing, I settled back to enjoy a cold beer and blast whatever music I felt like (in this case, the entire Black Sabbath back catalogue for the whole day, all 7 hours of it)

I was confused why so many people were staring into my camper truck, until someone from the depot came over and begged me to put more signage up, they were getting swamped with requests for the location of “the pirate radio station”. When red earth radio from Australia’s Burning Seed came to interview me, I realised it was the real deal. Then they asked me for a page link.

“page?” I replied, “It’s tied to the fence”.

Paddock radio is fiercely independant, fiercely non conformist and proudly pirate. The entire studio is powered by three deep cycle batteries, charged by a single 200W solar panel. Our total load is 25 watts, including studio mixers, transmitter, and automation computer. We play whatever we want, whenever we want.

Now we’ve upgraded a little, but the power consumption is still a major bottleneck. Understand that the entire project is self funded on a spaghetti budget, and most of our equipment is either self built or mashed together out of things I found in the dumpster. The two tired batteries under the sink provide enough power to run until about 3am, and then everything dies in a flurry of bleeping, flashing and dangerous power fluctuations.

The first year was a test, and from that we learned:

Our range was too small and poor quality

Our AC gear was drawing WAY too much power and draining the batteries, creating a terrible hum feedback loop in our mic mixer.

We weren’t interactive enough

Our music sucked

To resolve this, we added a brand new quarter wave antenna which boosted our range from a negligible 1km to a seriously illegal 30+ (maybe even 50+) kms. I removed all the AC gear and replaced the crappy mixer with a crappier USB powered one. I’m still working on getting a brickwall compressor/limiter in our signal chain to make the sound better. We got a couple of small transmitters with the hopes of running outside broadcasts from other theme camps, but after all the successful testing throughout the year, they just refused to play nice on the paddock :( it happens. Our music still sucks, so we made it sh*ttier by adding foreign language audiobook chapters and 3 hour string theory lectures to our playlist at random. You’re welcome.

So what next? Well, I’m out of money as I’ve been travelling around the country since the last burn, living in the studio truck and rolling up on unsuspecting parties and beaches and turning the truck into a rolling debaucherous mess. We need to replace some critical gear due to damage, so I’m running a givealittle page to try and raise funds for the next one :)

If you can spare a dollar, even just one, it would help out a whole lot. If we get a huge response, next year Paddock Radio will turn up in a Ferrari. https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/paddock-radio-needs-new-gear

Thanks for your support :) Josh TripleFFF

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