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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Monitoring One Nation Through Radio Waves

Here is my observations on the AIR Stations carrying President Shri Ram Math Kovind's address to the nation on the eve of 71st Republic Day of India. While several Medium Wave stations were received with the transmission of President's message first in Hindi followed by in English, but this time only a few shortwave stations heard here in Jorhat (Assam) with this special annual transmission of All India Radio. I have used my Anjan DTS-10 digital radio and my antenna was an Inverted V one.


Here are the stations I heard between 1330 to 1400 UTC (1900 to 1930 IST). 

Shortwave

4810 kHz- AIR Bhopal
4835 kHz- AIR Gangtok 
4910 kHz- AIR Jaipur
4920 kHz- AIR Chennai (Strong inteefeinter from CNR)
5040 kHz- AIR Jeypore
9865 kHz- AIR Bengalore. 

Medium Wave

549 kHz- AIR Ranchi 
567 kHz- AIR Dibrugarh 
621 kHz- AIR Patna 
657 kHz- AIR Kolkata 
675 kHz- AIR Itanagar 
711 kHz- AIR Siliguri 
729 kHz- AIR Guwahati 
747 kHz- AIR Lucknow
756 kHz- AIR Jagdalpur 
765 kHz- AIR Dharwad 
801 kHz- AIR Jabalpur 
810 kHz- AIR Rajkot 
837 kHz- AIR Vijaywada 
846 kHz- AIR Ahmedabad
864 kHz- AIR Shillong 
882 kHz- AIR Imphal 
918 kHz- AIR Surathgarh 
927 kHz- AIR Visakhapatnam
936 kHz- AIR Tiruchirapalli
945 kHz- AIR Sambalpur 
954 kHz- AIR Najibabad 
963 kHz- AIR Jalgaon 
972 kHz- AIR Cuttack 
981 kHz- AIR Raipur 
1017 kHz- AIR Chennai 
1062 kHz- AIR Pasighat 
1143 kHz- Ratnagiri (very weak) 
1179 kHz- AIR Rewa
1233 kHz- AIR Tura 
1305 kHz- AIR Parbhini (very weak) 
1332 kHz- AIR Tezu 
1386 kHz- AIR Gwalior 
1458 kHz- AIR Bhagalpur 
1467 kHz- AIR Jeypore 
1521 kHz- AIR Tawang 

73s, 

Prithwiraj Purkayastha (VU3TQD) 
QTH- Jorhat, Assam, India 
Reception Location:- Jorhat, Assam, India ( 26.7451° N, 94.2133° E)