Thanks for bringing us up-to-date. I think it's important that
rumours etc are put to be quickly. I think there is one chap who
uses this group as a soap box for his racist slurs. Most of us here
have no issue with you or others.

My only concern and I will get on my soap box here is that LPFM in
my my mind was designed for locals, whatever nationality, in each
town/city to broadcast. Using Sky to transmit nationwide is
great....but then rebroadcasting without local content in my opinion
breaks the rules.....that is my only gripe. I have no issue with any
nationality using LPFM....like the foreshores its there for for all
New Zealanders and no one ownes it.

Brent




--- In LPFM_Radio@..., "Shyam Karan"
<karan_nz2003@y...> wrote:
> 1. ApnaFM has not received any funding from the Government and nor
> does it seek any from any agencies.
> 2. ApnaFM is broadcasting on 107.1Mhz in Auckland and does not
have
> 40 or so transmitters installed.
> 3. ApnaFM listeners do have a problem with over a dozen
transmitters,
> probably twice as many as ApnaFM transmitters, pumping out
silence,
> noise and short music loops on 107.1Mhz across Auckland. If a
LPFMer
> is being affected by ApnaFM's broadcasts on 107.1FM than he/she
would
> definitely know about these transmitters. Nobody seems to be
> complaining about the useless noise being pumped out by these
> transmitters... I think the LPFMers should wake up to the fact
that
> maybe no one is listening to the guardband except a few who scan
the
> bands occasionally... and surprise! surprise! a distinctively
> different, live and complete with station id, phone no, address
etc
> is heard... bingo... Indians have captured the airwaves... of
course
> it maybe a frightening experience after all these years of the
> mainstream radio across the FM dial(including the duplicates on
the
> LPFM bands). Even the MED jumps because it is different to the
> country music/easy listening/dance or whatever it is that
> differentiates one mainstream radio from the other.
> By the way ... if you do not believe that parallel transmitters
> are 'jamming' our broadcasts than try re-transmitting ApnaFM at
any
> location... our listeners who decided to re-transmit on 88.1FM in
> South Auckland found that out soon enough ... no body but our
> listeners seem to be affected by these other transmitters that
have
> popped up around Otahuhu and Papatoetoe unless maybe its these
> repeating music and noise loops that are the refreshing and
diverse
> local broadcasts that the MED is promoting.
>
> Shyam Karan