Smallest FM radio station live from any location

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The shiny antenna stands 20 metres from a table inside an enclosed room. There is mast or dish directed skywards, just an open briefcase on which the main kit is placed.

As a technician fiddles with a dial, switches and knobs at the control panel, a soundman closely monitors the development.

A third man paces up the room with a hand held palm-sized transistor radio, coaxing it to life.

It takes about thirty minutes of waiting before red, green and amber lights flicker on at the control panel. The miniature radio comes alive with heart-warming melodies.

Headphones

Peter Onguti slowly wears headphones, then calmly announces: “This is Onguti radio, broadcasting from Mombasa road.”

There is excitement as Onguti effortlessly feeds one of the jacks from the Ipod (a musical device) into the transmitter and a miniature transistor radio, smaller than the mobile phone, comes alive.

Onguti, a Kenyan-born Canadian, has just broken new ground. His company, Conexe Systems Inc, registered in Manitoba, Canada, has found a solution which could revolutionalise operations of radio and TV sub-sectors.

“We have developed the smallest radio station in the world. It is packed in a suitcase which weighs 18 kilogrammes” he enthuses.

The germ of the radio station research was born two years ago when Onguti returned home after more than ten years in Canada.

Similar-sized radio stations have been developed elsewhere, especially for the military and other field organisations, but the technology by Onguti is simplified to be more compact and cost effective.

Onguti who had left Kenya as an accountant but pursued a degree course in sociology later capped it up with a diploma in Information Technology.

It was his understanding of IT which drew his interest in radio technology. Read full article…

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