AIR Chennai & AIR Shimla have been vibrant radio stations and have witnessed numerous moments of glory in these years. Akashwani Doordarshan Parivar is proud of hundreds of administrative, engineering, programme and news persons who have worked tirelessly to bring the stations to this stage and those who are still working at the stations and contributing their pie.
It’s time to congratulate all of them who have been directly or indirectly associated with the stations. We invite all our friends to post their comments to appreciate their efforts.
We also request the employees/ex employees of the stations to share their Memoirs, experiences and thoughts by adding them in the comment or mailing them to avsmanch@gmail.com .
We expect current employees of these stations to send us the details of program and engineering heads of the station since inception, so that we can put the information on blog and give friends an opportunity to salute them.
From G Natarajan
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10. We were able to reduce staff requirement per shift ( in what was called then as Group I and Group II studios ) by one person, ( EA or SEA) cutting the age old practice, by proper grouping and distribution in switching consoles and allotment of studios for Transmission thus freeing them for other maintenance and OB works .
11. Apart from an individual’s capacity to perform, the potential to impart his / her knowledge to others, when encouraged, helps others. It also increases his own self confidence. I am happy to say that I could spot a few such staff in AIR Chennai (and later too) and I am happy to note that they are now a big asset to the organization, given the right break at the right time.
12. The TRACT supplied to AIR Chennai was having a teething technical snag with frequent tripping of PA with no indication at all. AIR Bombay or ITI Bangalore, the suppliers, could not help us much. After exhaustive study the problem was confirmed to be in the feed, after testing with a microwave dummy load obtained from the Chingleput earth station. The TRACT was used for the National Coverage of the Thiagaraja Aradhana Festival from Thirivaiyaru in January 1992 with the spare feed airlifted from Bombay just in time
13. I stoutly opposed and did not listen to the recommendation made to me by Zonal office for withdrawal of a memo issued by me to the office bearer of an Association (for the simple fact of his holding that office). I had issued the memo with no other option, after all my efforts to avoid it by repeated consultations and directions to him failed. This only made others to undertake and complete that important OB recording he was unwilling to do more on his own imaginations.
14. There were a few such incidents where I kept the interest of staff, equipment and service foremost than my own interest and I am proud of it to live and recollect to this day!
15. This is a humble piece extremely limited and hence NOT that interesting,!
16. I hope many Great people from Programme, admin, news , artistes and Engineering side will give a more interesting recollection of their memories and contributions of AIR Chennai at national and international level
G Natarajan nallinattu@yahoo.com
Retd. Chief Engineer (R&D) Research Department
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