:) Sorry Sajan. Actually, I must clarify that everyone from the receptionist to the officers on the 6th floor at Sanchar Bhavan have been extremely helpful whenever I have gone over (often enough), to the extent of offering me tea and biscuits, and sundry bits of advice. And, of course, giving us our frequency letter.
Once we've ironed out the early wrinkles of running a CR station, we want to explore setting up extremely local content production units, which can be transferred via the Internet or similar technology to the studio, and then beamed up. Our challenge is that our "community" is spread out over quite a large area, divided by uncrossable expressways, broken roads, railway lines, etc. If we somehow use the airwaves to bypass these roadblocks, it will transform the content of our station. If anyone has any ideas, please do post them. Also, does anyone on this list know of any Hindi language film made on Community Radio, which can be shown to members of the community? Arti sajan venniyoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Arti Jaiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose the "single" invoice is meant to smoothen the clearance process, so that the babus do not have to get their heads around such complications. I hope you realize there are a fair number of babus (me included) on this list? I wish you wouldn't say such unkind things about us -- our feelings are easily hurt. As far as I know, there is no official concept of a backup or stand-by transmitter. If you have two transmitters, you'd probably have to apply for separate licenses for each of them. Vickram writes: Does this mean that if the station uses multiple transmitters, which is a whole new and different creative opportunity, allowing for multiple points of production presence in the station area, it should only mention them as one? Well, FM stations aren't allowed to use multiple transmitters (which doesn't explain how CMS in Lucknow broadcasts from two separate locations, but that's another story...), so this issue doesn't arise. Since you mention 'multiple points of production', that's probably what Arti could do in Gurgaon: set up multiple production units in various schools, but transmit from one location. The chances of getting licenses for 8 to 10 5watt transmitters for a single CR station are, at present, somewhat less than remote. You'd need a major policy change for that. Sajan On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Arti Jaiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently saw pictures of a CR station with two transmitters, one of which is a backup transmitter in case the main one malfunctions. (This was, I think, a UN funded station). I suppose the "single" invoice is meant to smoothen the clearance process, so that the babus do not have to get their heads around such complications. At the recent CR conference at the Manthan Awards in Delhi, Arun Mehta suggested that we explore the possibility of asking the Sanchar Bhavan mandarins to allow us 8 to 10 5-W transmitters instead of one 50W trasmitter in order to cover the large number of schools spread out in our area in Gurgaon. While it is an interesting proposition, I dread to think what would happen to our application, if we were to throw in this googly. Any ideas on this? Arti Vickram Crishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please clarify: Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com ----- Original Message ---- From: sajan venniyoor 1. Proforma invoice of the transmitter. (Please submit an invoice for a single transmitter). Does this mean that if the station uses multiple transmitters, which is a whole new and different creative opportunity, allowing for multiple points of production presence in the station area, it should only mention them as one? 2. Copy of Letter of Intent 3. Copy of SACFA clearance 4. Copy of GOPA 5. Copy of Decision Letter (Frequency Allocation) It beats me why any government organisation needs to get the public to generate so much unnecessary paper. Today, there are far less than a hundred stations approved, and even if the rate of implementation moved upwards rapidly, they can hardly be likely to have forgotten or misplaced the records of permissions given to them. In fact, all they need do is keep a database of implementations and the various permissions sought and granted for each. They are bound to have indexed the applications right from the outset, and that reference number should be satisfactory and sufficient for any future transactions. 6. Demand Draft in favour of ' P.A.O ( HQ ), DoT , New Delhi' drawn on State Bank of India for the sum mentioned in the Decision Letter (Frequency Allocation letter) as Spectrum Usage Fee. This is usually Rs.19,700/-, but please confirm the exact figure from the Frequency Allocation letter. And this amount of money is being used to pay for...? T his enormous bureaucratic process where the benefits remain completely unclear to anyone, which doubtless includes the draftees of this make-work policy? Good luck, and let me know if you need any help here in Delhi. Undoubtedly necessary. 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