[cr-india] Who is sabotaging AIR?

[Arti Jaiman]

Who is messing with the transmission quality of AIR FM Gold on 106.4 MHZ? You can barely hear it now.

In a convoluted way, CR stations like ours that broadcast on 107.8 (usually reviled as a lously frequency) benefit from being neighbours of All India Radio's FM Gold broadcast on 106.4 MHz. We use FM Gold as a landmark of sorts, when directing the community to our frequency, saying "It's the one after FM Gold", or "Just after the channel on which you listen to the cricket commentary".

In the last week or two, I have been noticing that AIR FM Gold's transmission in Delhi has nosedived. The transmission is so scratchy that our 50W transmitter sounds like a 6000W transmitter in comparision. Even AIR Chandigarh is clearer in Gurgaon than AIR Delhi. 

The volume is down, the sound is scratchy, and there are definite transmission blackouts that are completely inexplicabale. This has started just after the controversy involving AIR trying to migrate from 106.4 to 101 apparently because a private player wanted 106.4.

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Arti

Arti Jaiman

Station Director : Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Samudayik Radio Station 107.8 MHz FM
email: arti at trfindia.org
website: www.trfindia.org 

Gurgaon Ki Awaaz is the first and only civil-society-led community radio station in the National Capital Region of Delhi. We broadcast 24X7, in Hindi and Haryanvi, with a team of community reporters, generating community content, and community participation. 
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