Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Chapter 921 Cooperation with Uncle Nie

Chen Changan was stunned for a moment. Pagers were really far away from him. Then he asked in confusion.

"Mr. Huang, I remember I didn't ask you to research this, right? I always thought you were developing VCDs."

Mr. Huang smiled embarrassedly and said.

“I encountered some difficulties with the VCD, so I went to the factory library to look up information.

As a result, I accidentally discovered the principle of the pager, and I found that this thing is actually quite useful.

Especially in our factory, once several deputy factory directors go to the workshop, it is not easy to find them.

Especially during the night shift, the on-duty leader goes to the factory, and then when something happens in the workshop, the on-duty leader cannot be found at all, which causes a lot of delays.

But it’s different with a pager. You can hang the little gadget on your belt and call directly when something happens, and the call will be returned on the spot.”

Mr. Huang thought that Chen Changan did not particularly understand the function of the pager, so he kept explaining the function of the pager to Chen Changan.

How could Chen Changan not know about pagers? In his previous life, when he was in school, Chen Changan bought several Chinese pagers in order to keep up with the fashion.

It was not until the Nokia mobile phone appeared that Chen Changan gave up the pager.

"If I remember correctly, a pager is a radio receiving device, right?

If you want to bring pagers to market, you probably still have to build signal towers, right?

Even if you want to cover the entire city, have you ever thought about how many signal towers you need and how much money you need to invest in the early stages?

Finally, if we spread these costs over each pager, is this price something that ordinary people can afford?"

Mr. Huang was stunned for a moment and said.

"Can this pager still be marketed? You are worthy of being the factory director. I never thought about it in this way.

My original plan was to build signal towers in our factory and residential areas.

Then the service desk affairs will be handed over to the service company. In this way, leaders at all levels in our factory can be allocated a pager, which makes it convenient to communicate.

But it would be even better if the signal tower could cover the entire city."

Chen Changan thought about it and decided that covering the entire city was not impossible, as there was still a lot of money spent on the automobile factory.

Then Chen Changan asked.

"Have you built a signal tower here? How much did it cost? What is the coverage area?"

Engineer Huang knew exactly what Chen Changan meant by his question and answered it immediately.

“Although the signal tower has not been built yet, the technology to close it is not difficult.

A single signal tower can cover an area of ​​about 10 to 30 kilometers if it uses maximum power.

The reason why the coverage area varies so much is because there is a huge difference between signal towers in mountainous areas and in plains.

Not only that, in places with densely populated high-rise buildings in the city, the signal will also be severely attenuated.

Today, the entire Sijiu City covers an area of ​​.54 square kilometers.

Based on the signal coverage radius of 40 kilometers, we can draw a conclusion.

Without considering terrain or building obstructions, four signal towers are probably enough.

However, considering that the urban area has a large number of buildings and complex terrain, especially in mountainous areas and areas with densely populated high-rise buildings, the signal attenuates.

We can only calculate based on a coverage radius of 15 kilometers. If we want to cover the entire city, we will need 24 signal towers to ensure a stable signal. "

Listening to Mr. Huang's calculations, Chen Changan also began to calculate continuously in his mind.

“As for the cost, the unit cost of a signal tower is probably less than 10,000 yuan, to be exact it should be around 8,000 yuan.

Of course, this is only the cost of the signal tower itself. In addition, the antenna, lightning protection, and power supply must be added, and the cost will probably be tens of thousands of yuan.

When considering building a signal tower, you also need to consider the costs of land leasing, construction and installation.

Especially concrete, which requires quite a bit of labor, and as for the labor, our factory workers can build it themselves.”

When Chen Changan heard that a signal tower only cost 8,000 yuan, he almost decided to build it.

As a result, when all these miscellaneous things are added up, a signal tower is not cheap.

As for the land lease fee, Chen Changan had no intention of paying it.

This pager can be used not only by automobile factories, but many units actually need it.

Chen Changan said after hesitating for a moment.

"This is going to require a lot of investment, I will go to other units tomorrow to see if I can get them to share the cost with us.

Since there are no technical problems with pagers, let's focus more on VCDs.

This will be our automaker’s flagship product in the next few years.”

Mr. Huang nodded and left Chen Changan's office.

The research on VCD was about to be completed, but the pager was a problem that Engineer Huang had solved conveniently, so he hurried over to inform Chen Changan.

As for whether to continue production, these are all things that Chen Changan, the factory director, needs to consider.

After Mr. Huang left, Chen Changan immediately began to write about the pager.

Including the function of pagers, market prospects, initial investment required, and how they operate.

Finally, he drew a picture of a pager that he remembered from his previous life, and then left the factory.

Chen Changan planned to find Uncle Nie early tomorrow morning and ask Uncle Nie to help him fix the pager.

In this way, Chen Changan doesn’t need to worry about the issue of land leasing at all.

The next morning, after Chen Changan handed the documents he had prepared to Uncle Nie, he sat aside and waited.

Uncle Nie said after carefully reading the documents about pagers.

"You plan to build a signal tower in Sijiu City? Cover the entire city?"

“Yes, if we only want to cover our car factory, building one or two signal towers will be enough.

However, in this way, the pager can only be used within our car factory, which is somewhat useless.

What I mean is, if you don’t want to do it, don’t do it. If you want to do it, cover the entire city.”

"Then why did you ask me to come here today? With the strength of your car factory, you should be able to afford this amount of money, right?"

"I think it's not just the leaders of our automobile factory who need this pager. You need one too.

Do you think we can also invest some in the early stages of construction? "

Uncle Nie said immediately.

“Your automobile factory is very wealthy, but the ministry is not as wealthy as your automobile factory. I cannot afford to invest in such a large project.

As for whether a pager is necessary, in my opinion, of course it is necessary.

But you have invested so much, and these pagers are not cheap, and the department does not have that much money to purchase them.

If we really buy pagers, it will be difficult to decide who to give them to and who not to give them to. "