TommyDee

8 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

I think its time to turn it off and walk away, the platform, the content, the technology, the shear arrogance of a Brit (only) radio station in Thailand.  is from another century, the world has moved on. Can you even buy a radio nowadays?

Its like a tragic 1980s radio station transmitting (exclusively) to a small part of the expat community ie: brits. No Thai content, no Thai music, not even content for other expats. A format from 1980, drive time, todays quiz, I am surprised they dont do prank calls or guess the sound.

I dont think they even know who is listening or how many. Advertisements for where to buy a tin of baked beans or where to take the western family for dinner. The whole retransmitting the BBC world service is something that ended with short wave radio. Hits from the 80s, are they kidding.

 

AND, Its pronounced pat tay ya,  NOT Pat eye ya, they should be taken off the air just for getting that wrong

 

 

 

 

the second dial on your radio is to choose what you like, maybe move on. we are licenced as an english language station and thats what we are and the music varies from 70 to today based on our audience of not 20's  not rap not hip hop and not miserable people.  in fact we extract the mirth from such types

its pronounced Pat ta yaaa, not as you write, in thai, but then cologne is koeln, Moscow is moskva and paris has a silent s.    such is life.  .

I trust you will move on and find something to enjoy in life, I truly pity those who live to be miserable.  we work damn hard to provide a bit of a laugh, decent news and music.  for our audience, but really and truly, we arent for you.  we are an expat radio station, and for those who understand life here and want o be a part of it, not for those dead from the neck up.  I can send you a list of miserable PC correct frequencies,  by pm and  trust that you will live out your life only to wish you had been a happier person.  thanks

and many many thanks fror the other, positive replies here, we are trying, probably very trying ????    but tis the way it goes.

oh and we survived todays storms, which is a mega plus as it shows me the safety nets are working

Hi, as you may know, I run the station and cant apologise enough.  i am typing on a phone so bear with me

the problems have been numerous, and to make it worse all unrelated.

1.. our main digital network blew a vital unit.  that took us off until i got it repaired which was a mega task

2.. a w10 update <deleted> up so much that i couldnt do it on my own as i hate w10.  most of our system is linux but the actual playout network has to be 10 for the software to work.  thats now been finally recified

3.. the transmitter in a differnet room blew.  its government sealed so i cant open it, had to wait for the techs to come.. thats done

4. in BKK the streaming company crashed, and they are huge so while on the fm we were not o the net.  we are moving companies but meanwhile can be heard  

https://tunein.com/radio/Fabulous-Pattaya-103-fm-s167318/

i purposely set tunein a=with a separate strem url in case this happened

and yes, we run on a show string but no song played for a week, hahaha.  in fact the playlist worked, just losts of <deleted>

so there ya go, the life of a rock star.. soldering, begging and riggin things

we havent had issues for over a year so i guess it was our turn but to be frank i worked thru th night many nights as tech support comes from the US for the network and the Uk for the music system.  so we arent slacking.  many times i though we had cracked it, only to se another unit fail.  so i can only assume something really whacked the building.  we have voltage protection throughout but if something hits via the antenna there isnt much we can do.  

locally we have issues with soething or one who is transmittin or causing  interference in some areas, we have someone coming to try and locate it.  it will be some thai station with a transmitter malfucnition so it is not keeping its broadcast within its own frequency but bleeding, but its also obvious they have an illegally large transmitter.  ( size is limited by nation wide regs).  if thats the case i cant simply blast louder as to do that would need a bigger tranny and thats ilegal.  so we have to locate them

in all we lost about 2.5 days total transmission, and had maybe another 2 days of terrbile sound quality n the fm, which doest affect the net.  the bkk crash of the streaming company is way beyond my control and i cant simply move as we need to get the suppliers to release the urls used else you wouldnt find us.

as to the midget, she sends her love, sall as it is, and will be hit on the head as usual from 10-12 weekdays.  she is more than capabke of standig up for herself and the day we go PC correct will be the day someone kindly buys us out.. cos that.. aint moi

thanks

tommy

On 6/4/2020 at 4:31 PM, possum1931 said:

In a country which is full of corruption everywhere, how can anyone contributing be sure that every Baht of their donations actually reach the hungry?

that took longer than I expected...but there is always one ????

the reason we use the funding page, which accepts CC and paypal is that it is the stasrt of transparency.  from there it goes into our paypal account and is then transferred on demand to a bank account here.

a spreadhseet is run by one of our team that matches to invoices

currently we have spent more than we have taken in

trust that answers your question, but to clarify, I have been in business here for 11 yrs.  this was started with an initial goal of 100K for rice.  it has taken over most of our lives now.  everything is open to audit, if you would like to pay for that you are welcome

regards

Tommy

Fab 103fm

10 minutes ago, Danthai said:

No mention of combination method. Money in bank aand monthly transfer, Guess we have to wait for changes.

that was a question that a Thai Visa member sent us, I posed it later sorry, its in there toward the last 25%

and the mix of the two is to be acceptable

posting this as may be of interest.  we interviews the US Consular General, and current Deputy Ambassador this week.  This is a recording that includes discussion Thai visas for americans, but also anyone else in many cases.  

11 minutes ago, Jeffrey346 said:

If you're saying it's in accurate, what exactly was reported by your radio station?

REPLY FROM FABULOUS 103FM.

this is an in accurate report which takes words from sentences to change the meaning and omits other words which qualify the statements made on our radio and TV.  Piss poor reporting by Thai visa I am afraid.  Dan  I expected better of your team.

Regards

Tommy