This may be Picnic for tourists but is a Routine exercise for our Engineers - 35 km by road, till base camp and then 1.5 km upwards on slippery steps and hill footpath. And when there is a land slide, on the forest road, like the one which occurred on 02.08.2017, the vehicle can not even reach the base camp.....
Thus AIR and DD engineers at Pune are not merely technologists but they are Walkers, they are Trekkers, they are Porters, and of course they are silent contributors to the National Public Service Broadcaster.
And Imagine what happens, when a faulty equipment is to be brought down to workshop for repairs. Here is one such example - Don't mistake it as a Uttaranchal Victim on Stretcher, this is a Power Amplifier, heavy and wieldy, being carried down on shoulders, by the very engineers, who were working since morning. Please Imagine how thousands of liter of Diesel goes up? And how the diesel engine weighing 1000 kg and the big transmitter…?How we can't be proud of them. Broadcast engineers at many other stations too are working under such challenging situations. Such details with photograph can be mailed to pbparivar@gmail.com for possible publication on PB Parivar Blog.