FM radio setup in $1

Today on the BBC:

'World's cheapest radio'

Raghav Mahato, a poor radio mechanic, set up his DIY radio station in the village of Mansoorpur in Vaishali district in 2003.

The station proved a big hit with locals - licence or no licence.

"Women listen to my station more than men," Raghav told the BBC. "Though Bollywood and local Bhojpuri songs are the staple diet, I air devotional songs at dawn and dusk for women and old people."

The transmission equipment - which at a cost of just over $1 made the station possibly the cheapest in the world - was fitted on to an antenna attached to a bamboo pole on a neighbouring three-storey hospital.

Read the whole story. [Link]

But alas this popular radio has fallen prey to local authorities and some outdated laws!

The original story on BBC from last Feb. [Link]

Image and story coutesy- BBC.com