{"id":1451,"date":"2006-10-13T20:51:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T14:51:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-10-13T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T14:52:00","slug":"homebrew-fm-radio-station-in-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/homebrew-fm-radio-station-in-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew FM Radio Station in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, 2006 the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4735642.stm\">BBC.com<\/a> had a good article on an DIY low-powered FM radio station operated out of a electronics repair shop. I&#8217;d be surprised if this was the only one in India (or Asia) like this. The owner-builder claims not to know that broadcasting required a license. The station, he says, just sort of grew from his junk and his interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On a balmy morning in India&#8217;s northern state of Bihar, young Raghav Mahato gets ready to fire up his home-grown FM radio station. It may well be the only village FM radio station on the Asian sub-continent. It is certainly illegal. The transmission equipment, costing just over $1, may be the cheapest in the world. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/raghavstation203.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Raghavstation203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The transmission kit is fitted on to an antenna attached to a bamboo pole on a neighbouring three-storey hospital. A long wire connects the contraption to a creaky, old homemade stereo cassette player in Raghav&#8217;s radio shack. Three other rusty, locally made battery-powered tape recorders are connected to it with colourful wires and a cordless microphone. The radio station is a repair shop and studio rolled into on. The shack has some 200 tapes of local Bhojpuri, Bollywood and devotional songs which Raghav plays for his listeners. Raghav&#8217;s station is truly a labour of love &#8211; he does not earn anything from it. His electronic repair shop work brings him some two thousand rupees ($45) a month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/raghavworking203.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Raghavworking203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Raghav makes his living from repairing electronic goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, 2006 the BBC.com had a good article on an DIY low-powered FM radio station operated out of a electronics repair shop. I&#8217;d be surprised if this was the only one in India (or Asia) like this. The owner-builder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/homebrew-fm-radio-station-in-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[90,97],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}