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)

Rainsoft Calender 2015- Featured the "Forest Man of India"

Received my copy of 7th edition of RainSoft Calendar for year 2015, also known as Utpal-Dhanjeet calendar. This year the theme of this calender is Jadav Payeng, a conservationist and the "Forest Man of India" who hails from Kokilamukh area of Jorhat. Payeng is today honoured and recognized around the world for his extraordinary environment conservation effort as he single handily turned a flood hit sandbar on the banks of river Brahmaputra into a deep forest by planting trees. 

Today this 550 acres forest, full of flora and fauna, is known as Molai Kathoni (Molai's Woods), named after Jadav's nick name. The Utpal-Dhanjeet calender is a series of wonderful thematic calendar published in join venture by Utpal Datta and Dhanjeet Das. 

Earlier this calender featured eminent personalities of Assam like Homen Borgohain, Biren Dutta, Dipali Borthakur, Nilpawan Baruah, Birubala Rabha and heritage of Assam like Satriya Dance and Dima Hasao District. 

AIR Guwahati's 67th Foundation Day on 1st July 2014.

All India Radio Guwahati station will turn 67 on 1st July 2014 and to mark this occassion a special memento to be released at a grand function to be held at Rabindra Bhavan, Guwahati on the same day. If any DXer friend wishes to collect this memento, you please may write to airghy@gmail.com for details. 

(Information Curtsy:- Mr. Utpal Dutta, AIR Guwahati)