Friday, June 29, 2012
AIR Shillong / AIR Guwahati will complete 64 years on 01.07.2012.
AIR
Shillong / AIR Guwahati 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.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
NEW MEMBERS
ANAND SARUP TYAGI
City of
Residence New Delhi-110048
Association
with AIR or DD Former Employee
Designation
(Optional) Retd. Superientending
Engineer .
Phone 09868673944
Email
(Optional) anandstyagi@gmail.com
Date of Birth
(Optional) 10/1/1937
How can u help Can inform others to join, Can form local AIR/ DD clubs /
Listner Forums
Suggestions/Message
/ Memoir /Story
My posting at Mall Road Transmitters in 1964-1965 along
with S/Sri O.P.Kusu,Ashthana Sahib, D.N.Rastogi,A.B.Mathur & R.D.Mishra,
Ayodhya parshad, etc.is unforgatable.
I wish to contact my old colleagues on email through your
help.
A.S.Tyagi,
S-433,Greater Kailash-1, New Delhi.-110048.
Tel. 011-29232116, 09868673944, anandstyagi@gmail.com
SANJAY KUMAR GOEL
City of
Residence Delhi
Association
with AIR or DD Existing Employee
Designation
(Optional) Assistant Engineer
Phone 09654736606
Email
(Optional) sgoel1861@yahoo.co.in
Date of Birth
(Optional) 19/3/1961
How can u help
Can inform others to join, Can write for
betterment of AIR / DD
Monday, June 25, 2012
Wish happy retirement life to our elder colleagues
Following are some of our
friends who will be superannuating from AIR & DD on 30.06.2012, after
giving in their valuable contributions to the organization.
- Shri AK Bhatnagar, Engineer in Chief, Doordarshan
- Shri Anil Kumar, Dy. Director General(E), AIR
- Shri A. Sangu, Dy. Director General(E), AIR
- Smt. Swarnalata Sehagal, Dy. Director (E)
- Shri PK Jha, Dy. Director (E)
- Sh. A. Surendran, Dy. Director (P)
- Ms. M. kalaravi, Dy. Director (P)
- Shri Anil Kumar Srivastav, DD (P)
- Shri CK Warthey, AD(P)
- Ms. Kamini Mathur, DD(P)
- Shri AK Mohanty, DD(P)
- Shri AK Dubey, AD(P)
- Shri Hrudaya Raju, ADE
- Shri Natvarbhai B Patel, ADE
- Ms. Kalpana De, ADE
These officers have given
30-35 years of their prime life to the organization and their contributions
have helped AIR and Doordarshan stand as proud public broadcasters of the
country. We thank these officers for their services to the organization and wish
them a happy retired life.
This list is incomplete and
may have discrepancies as it is due to the effort of a single person. Information about other retiring officers (
of all grades and disciplines) may be added on the blog. Please mail details of
retiring friends from your station to avsmanch@gmail.com
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AIR Leh completes 41 years on 25.06.2012.
AIR
Leh has been a vibrant radio station and has 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 station to this stage and those who are still working
at the station and contributing their pie.
It’s
time to congratulate all of them who have been directly or indirectly
associated with the station. We invite all our friends to post their comments
to appreciate their efforts.
We
also request the employees/ex employees of the station 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.
Contact
details of AIR Leh -
Engineering Head 01982 252063
Program Head 01982 252062
Control Room 01982 252054
Duty Room 01982
252064
Congratulations AIR kurukshetra - o k sharma
Congratulationsto all the members of AIR kurukshetra on the 22nd
annuarsery of the station . keep the sprit of BAHUJAN HITAY AND BAHUJAN
SUKHAY up.
o k sharmaomajmer@gmail.com
Friday, June 22, 2012
AIR Kurukshetra will be 21 years on 24.06.2012.
AIR
Kurukshetra has been a vibrant radio station and has 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 station to this stage and those who are still
working at the station and contributing their pie.
It’s
time to congratulate all of them who have been directly or indirectly
associated with the station. We invite all our friends to post their comments
to appreciate their efforts.
We
also request the employees/ex employees of the station 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.
Contact
details of AIR Kurukshetra -
Engineering Head 01744 220561
Program Head 01744 221336
Control
Room 01744 221321
Email airkkr@rediffmail.com
.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Sad Demise of Smt. N. Nakhro, SD, AIR Kohima
Smt. N. Nakharo, Dy. Director (P) AIR Kohima has expired on 20.06.2012.
Smt. Nakharo was 59 year and was not well for past few years. She was a very nice officer belonging to IB(P)S and was promoted as SD in 2004. Smt. Nakharo left behind her two sons and one daughter.
We pray God to grant her eternal rest and may perpetual light shine upon her. May God console the family of Smt. Nakharo at this moment of sorrow.
Condolences can be sent on avsmanch@gmail.com
Monday, June 18, 2012
Post from Sh. G Natarajan Retd. Chief Engineer (R&D) Research Department
I am happy to note that AIR Chennai is completing 74 years of
service on 16-06-2012. I congratulate the present staff of AIR Chennai!
I was fortunate to serve in
AIR Chennai as Superintending Engineer, albeit for a short time, but feel proud
to have been associated during those most eventful days from July 1994 to
August 1995. Though replacement, up gradation and induction of new equipments
are all part of any old station, this period has been noteworthy in many ways
for the impetus and support given to all these changes, some of which I am
happy to recollect. Most of the staff of AIR Chennai including programme staff gave
me good support and I am thankful to all.
We had more than 50 % of the Engineering
Shift staff as young women and contrary
to my initial fear , they were all very punctual, performed all type of duties
and never posed any problem to the administration with any frequent requests for leave or change of duty. A
majority of them were made to enjoy their work and contribute willingly.
1. My first priority was to shift the Madras B and Madras C MW services
from Guindy Transmitters to already installed transmitters in Avadi about two
years back but which were not commissioned for various reasons. After writing a
series of letters to Engineer in Chief outlining the urgent need and the
several advantages it had to offer, we succeeded with in two months.
2. The replacement of station Transformers, replacement of gears and
increase in contract demand was carried out by station staff in a record time
as there were several up gradations to follow.
3. The old manual PABX exchange
which was in place with severely restricted service was replaced with a 200 Electronic
line exchange.
4. The shifting of FM Tr from DDK Chennai TR hall to our own exclusive
building in DDK premises along with installation of an additional FM TR and
replacement of FM antenna took place during this time. This involved lot of planning and
coordination with all the agencies.
5. The Multi track Recording Studio was in advanced stage of installation
and was commissioned in Chennai.
6. Digital Audio Tape recording
was introduced and program staff were trained and encouraged to use them.
7. The digital dubbing facility was well coordinated with Zonal office
for early completion.
8. Computer usage was promoted and all the staff was encouraged to
learn as we had a number of 386 and recently supplied 486 computers. Reports
were prepared through computers. (Word star at that time). Duty charts prepared
in Studios were sent on line (we had modems purchased at Rs 10, 000 each !) to
Transmitter and printed there.
9. AIR Chennai was the first to introduce RDS paging in the country.
AIR Chennai staff were fully geared to take this great development of that
time. We found out a snag in the RDS paging encoder software and gave a
modified scheme for reconfiguring the ports and that fully solved the
difficulty faced by and complaints received from the service providers in
Chennai and other places during the trial period itself. Later 24 hours non
stop transmission was introduced along with paging when civil works around the
TR was still going on! I stoutly made a case for tapping LT supply
for the FM Trs ( as there were long frequent supply failure in the new LT connection for FM Trs ) from HT
connection of DDK Chennai ( which was not consuming even contract demand from
its two independent feeders billed
separately ) and later as Director (TV
maintenance ) I pursued the case, with no success . [But I am happy that now days
there is absolute give and take between AIR and DD in sharing of all resources for
which I stood for [and had even finalized a few matters with tacit / no approval from AIR / DD Dtes!]
10.
While there were severe
shortage of Melton CTRS in the station and there was an agreed need to supply
us 15 more recorders over a year back, there was little done to help us. I was
aware of the fact that some thirty CTRs were kept in Zonal office godown for a
decade against future projects but which had no prospect of being commissioned
soon. It was a near battle for me to ultimately get approval for the release of
ten Meltron CTRs from the godown for use by Chennai on loan!
11.
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 .
12.
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.
13.
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
14.
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.
15.
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!
16.
This is a humble piece
extremely limited and hence NOT that interesting,!
17.
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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