Radio Impulse

by Rikaza Hassan

Radio Impulse is all set to hit the airwaves on 96.1 FM on the 26th and 27th of August. Organised by the students at the SLT Training Centre, Welisara studying for their Edexcel BTEC HND, it is a project in application of the knowledge they have thus far gained.

"Our primary objective is to purchase a centralised sound system for the Training Centre which will be quite helpful to us as students, but this is also a project where we have the opportunity to apply what we have learnt and further educate ourselves on the practical aspects of this field."

The enterprise, according to them will increase their technical experience in the field as well as give a boost tot heir individual confidence.

Yet another purpose of the programme is to promote the BTEC HND qualification. "The training centre is the only place that conducts this examination in the country and is equivalent to the second year of your Bachelors Degree in Engineering at Northumbria University."

The station will be on air for at least eighteen hours, from 6.00 a.m. to 12 midnight and will host programmes in the three languages of English, Sinhala and Tamil. "We are planning to have a request show and mainly play popular music apart from other genres. We also have a late night English programme of love songs plus an entire segment devoted to baila music."

The difference between Radio Impulse and other temporary radio stations is that they also plan to educate their listeners on the various aspects of technology. "We currently have planned segments explaining the latest technologies, such as the massively popular CDMA facility, in a means that the public can easily grasp."

They will also host programmes offering career advise, interviews with people who have reached the very tops of the industry, and also offer listeners the opportunity to call in with their individual questions. "We are targetting an audience ranging from the ages of eighteen to thirty five."

So be sure to tune in to 96.1 FM and get with the technological times as you listen to Marshall Mathers spew forth venom at his once again ex-wife.