President Ram Nath Kovind |
President Shree Ram Nath Kovind addressed the nation on the eve of 74th Independence Day of India on Friday, 14th August 2020 between 7:00 pm to 7:45 pm IST (1330 to 1415 UTC) and it was broadcasted on the national network of All India Radio (AIR). The speech was in Hindi followed by English. Here is my observations on the AIR Stations carrying this annual special event. I have used my Degen DE-1103 digital radio and my antenna was an Inverted V one. Here are the stations I heard:
Shortwave
4810 kHz- AIR Bhopal
4835 kHz- AIR Gangtok
5010 kHz- AIR Trivandram
5040 kHz- AIR Jeypore
9865 kHz- AIR Bengalore
Mediumwave
540 kHz- AIR Ranchi
567 kHz- AIR Dibrugarh
576 kHz- Alappuzha
621 kHz- AIR Patna
657 kHz- AIR Kolkata
675 kHz- AIR Itanagar
711 kHz- AIR Siliguri
729 kHz- AIR Guwahati
747 kHz- AIR Lucknow
828 kHz- AIR Silchar
837 kHz- AIR Vijaywada
864 kHz- AIR Shillong
882 kHz- AIR Imphal
918 kHz- AIR Surathgarh
927 kHz- AIR Visakhapatnam
945 kHz- AIR Sambalpur
954 kHz- AIR Najibabad
972 kHz- AIR Cuttack
981 kHz- AIR Raipur
1062 kHz- AIR Pasighat
1233 kHz- AIR Tura
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)