What is not mentioned in this article is that back in those days it is believed that the anti Goan Naguexa Carmali worked at the Emissora. How have the coats turned! BC
"Our team had gone to cover the function and it was post-dinner where the heads of state were just chilling out at their resort and many of them were in the best of moods. Here was the president of Zambia singing to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To lay your hands on such a piece of history is fantastic," Noronha says. "We used to play the tapes on the Nagra tape recorder and the Philips reel-to-reel tape recorders, which used to come all the way from Holland and Germany," says Athos Fernandes who worked with the Emissora de Goa as well as All India Radio. He completed his 35-year-long career retiring as the station director of the Ahmedabad station. Once All India Radio took over and as indigenous technology improved, quaint machines called Meltrons replaced the Nagra and Philips systems. "We slowly phased the meltrons out, or rather they phased themselves out. They kind of broke down. Some went into coma, some were very stubborn and refused to budge," Noronha shares, nostalgically. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Back- in-the-day-when-love-was-in-the-AIR/articleshow/49434919.cms
