Falmouth University researcher Jerry Padfield has made a discovery that has the potential to revolutionise current approaches towards home-radio broadcast.

Jerry has been working with Falmouth and Penryn’s community radio station Source FM on a community project since lockdown that has been exploring new methods of broadcasting from home, allowing people to broadcast radio from their bedrooms and kitchens.

After extensive research following two years of studying at PhD level, former Source FM director Jerry has now developed a new way to combine existing audio technologies that will make broadcasting from home easier and more accessible.

The previous approach to outside and remote broadcasts has been quite complicated and required several people to set up the connection at the studio and the remote location, but with this new software, people can just log in to a webpage on their computer and broadcast straight to the studio quickly and easily.

Jerry said: “When I was working at the Source I saw how good it is for people’s well-being to have a radio show all of their own and be able to talk to and feel a part of their own home town.

"I also noticed how some people found it harder to participate because of the need to come into the studio – that could be because of things like childcare, the cost of public transport or social anxiety.”

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Jerry's new software, 'Remote Radio' makes it really easy to send audio and video between computers without the need for any 'fancy' software.

The first person to take advantage of this cutting-edge software will be Falmouth working mum Rachel Pearce, in her new Source FM show 'The House of Rachology'.

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Rachel Pearce

Rachel said: “I’m honoured to be the first person to use the new software and the chance to be able to do it from home is amazing, especially in these difficult times – I can be a mum one minute and a DJ the next.”

Jerry added: “This is a developing technology so I’m hoping there won’t be any technical hitches for the first show. But it’s very exciting and after these initial trials I intend to release the software to other radio stations and journalists in the UK.

"Source FM is very lucky to have a number of these projects which are really pushing the boundaries of what community radio in the UK can be doing.”

Tune in to Source FM on Halloween (Saturday October 31) at 10am to catch Rachel's show, the very first broadcast using the technology. You can listen on 96.1 FM in the Falmouth/Penryn area or online at: thesourcefm.co.uk/listen.