An old radio station which once caught the imagination of the whole of Central Kerala for decades is sorely in need of an upgrade.
The Alappuzha Medium Wave (MW) Radio station, which is a transmission station for the Thiruvananthapuram relay station is on the verge of closure with almost obsolete equipment. One of its two vital transmitters has conked out.
The radio station initially had two 100 kv powerful transmitters which successfully delivered the Thiruvananthapuram radio station programmes to listeners in the districts of Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Idukki. The Alappuzha radio station was established on July 17, 1971, initially operating on 580kHz and later changed to 576 kHz in 1978.
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onmanorama.com Kerala IND via Ydun Ritz )2024-02-17)