Date of Broadcast: 30th September 2012
Written and Edited by: Prithwiraj Purkayastha
Presented by: Prithwiraj Purkayastha
Program: Wavescan
Station: Adventist World Radio & WRMI
Namaskar radio friends around the world. I am your host Prithwiraj with the 5th edition of Indian DX Report. Thank you very much for your overwhelming response with reception reports, letters and email after that last edition of IDXR. Hope to get similar responses from you again and again which is always a great inspiration for Indian DX Report. So lets start with some news from India.
=> Durga Puja is the most important and sacred festival for Hindus residing specially in Eastern part of India and this is the most hapenning festival for Bengalies around the world. Countdown of this great Indian festival of Durga Puja starts from the day of Mahalaya, that is seven days before the start of five day long religious festival. All India Radio will be doing a special transmission for "Mahalaya" on 15th October, 2012 (Monday) from 2225 to 0015 hour UTC. This will be a special two hour tranmission of “Mahisasura Mardini”consisting of Sanskrit recitation & music orated by Late Shri.Birendra Krishna Bhadra. All India Radio has been broadcasting this program since early 1930s. This is a great opportunity to catch AIR regional stations on Shortwave as well as Medium Wave. The following AIR stations usually broadcast this special transmission on Shortwave apart from many on Medium wave: 4760 kHz - Port Blair, 4810 kHz – Bhopal, 4820 kHz– Kolkata, 4835 kHz – Gangtok, 4880 kHz – Lucknow, 4895 kHz – Kurseong, 4940 kHz – Guwahati, 4965 kHz – Shimla, 9425 kHz - Delhi (Khampur) and 9470 kHz- Aligarh.
=>India’s first 1000 Kilo Watt DRM Super Power Transmitter of All India Radio has been dedicated to the Nation at Liyare village in Jamnagar district in Gujarat on 10th September. This Super Power Transmittre with DRM technology is capable of broadcasting in DRM, AM and simulcast modes which is the first of its kind in the country. The entire project was completed at the total cost of 42 crore rupees. This Relay Station used by Urdu, Sindhi and Baluchi programs of AIR External Services beamed to nearby Pakistan,Afghanistan, Iran and some other Gulf countries in North West direction. The frequency is 1071 kHz for AM mode and 1080 kHz for DRM mode.
The External Service sked on MW 1071 kHz is 0015-0100 UTC in Urdu, 0100-0200 UTC in Sindhi, 0200-0430 UTC in Urdu, 0830-1130 UTC in Urdu, 1230-1500 UTC in Sindhi, 1500-1600 UTC in Baluchi, 1600-1930 UTC in Urdu. If you hear any of these transmission then you can send your reception reports to:
Super Power Transmitter, All India Radio
Radio Colony
Jamnagar Road,
Rajkot 360006
Gujarat, India
=>All India Radio, Lucknow station recently celebrated its 75th Anniversary. This prestigious station is one of the oldest stations started during 1938 alongwith Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and Tiruchi. AIR Lucknow can be heard on 4880 kHz on Shortwave and on 747 kHz and 1278 kHz on Medium Wave.
PAKISTAN:
In a recent news published in some Pakistani media it has been said that Radio Pakistan management has decided to shut down 5 shortwave (SW) transmitters installed at HTP Rawat with immediate effect. These transmitters installed over a vast area of about 370 acres of land to transmit Radio Pakistan signals to the outside world including South East Asia, Gulf, Middle East, Europe and some other parts. Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) — management is doing so to shift external services on internet and subsequently on satellite. More updates are awaited on this.
SRI LANKA:
The current Sked of SLBC in Indian Vernaculars is 0113-0330 UTC on 11905 kHz (200kW), 7190 kHz (10kW) and from 0830 to 1215 UTC on 6005 kHz (10kW) and 11905 kHz. In weekends this transmission can go up to 0500 UTC depending on sponsored programs. The All Asia Service in English is from 0125 to 0300 UTC on 15745 kHz of 35 kW power which was previously used by Voice of America and on 9770 & 6005 kHz of 10kW power which are slightly off frequency. On Saturday and Sunday this transmission can go upto 0500 UTC depending on sponsored programmes, usually Gospel programs. The Sinhala service of SLBC to the Middle East 11750 kHz can be heard from 1630 to 1834 UTC. SLBC has also introduced a short English News broadcast in their main Hindi Program of 0115 to 0330 UTC on 11905 kHz and 7190 kHz.
Now here are some recent station logging details:
Recently Radio Hargeisha from Somalia is heard here in Indian Subcontinent testing with new 100kW tramnsmitter on 7120 kHz from around 1400-1830 UTC and also started Morning tests from 0300 till about 0500.
Radio Kuwait in Urdu is recently being heard with excellent reception condition on 15540 kHz between 1700-1800 UTC.
Voice of Broad Masses from African nation Eritrea was heard in Tigrinya language on 6th September from 1600 UTC on 7205 kHz with SINPO 33333.
KNLS in Russian was heard on 6th September from 1615 UTC on 9655 kHz with SINPO 33333.
Radio Santec in English was heard on 16th September via IRRS Shortwave, Milano, Italy on 15190 kHz between 1500 to 1530 UTC with SINPO 43333.
CBC North Quebec Radio was heard in English on 16th September with English news and reports on 9625 kHz between 2200 to 2230 UTC. SINPO was 32332.
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting in English was heard on 12th September on 13780 kHz between 1530 to 1630 UTC with SINPO 55444
KTWR- Agat, Guam in English was received with fair signal on 12th September on 15200 kHz between 1500-1530 UTC. SINPO 55444
FEBC transmitting from Manila, Philippines was heard in Combodian language on 9th of this month on 7410 kHz between 1230 to 1245 UTC. SINPO was 33333.
And with this we came to the end of this edition of Indian DX Report. For this edition I would like thank our friend Jose Jacob, Partha Sarathi Goswami and Swopan Chakraborty of India, Victor Goonetilleke of Sri Lanka and Abid Hussain Sajid of Pakistan and news sources of DX-India Yahoo Group.
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