ODXA Shortwave DX Challenge 2014

The Ontario DX Association has announced their prestigious Shortwave DX Challenge 2014 edition and here are the contest details. 

2014 Shortwave DX Challenge Rules:- 

1. DURATION: 0000 UTC January 1st to 2359 UTC January 31st

2. ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS: All SWLs and DXers except the judge.

3. ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES: Report countries (where the transmitter is located) as they appear on the NASWA Country List which is available at this link: http://www.naswa.net/images/NASWA_country_list.pdf

4. ELIGIBLE STATIONS: All licensed shortwave BROADCAST stations operating between 2 and 30 MHz plus shortwave Time Signal stations and utility stations relaying a broadcast station such as AFRTS, Radio Continental in Argentina, and studio transmitter links that only carry programming.

5. INELIGIBLE STATIONS: All other utility stations including VOLMET, pirate stations, and Ham radio QSOs.

6. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND DEADLINES: All loggings must be in the following format: Frequency, Country (where the transmitter is located), Station, Time, 5 minutes of Program Details, Signal Quality, and Date of Reception and shall be contained in either a document (Word or Open Office) or a Spreadsheet (Exel or Open Office). Each week's loggings shall be submitted to shortwaveloggings@gmail.com by midnight UTC of the Monday beginning the following week (eg. January 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th). The final set of loggings shall be submitted not later than midnight UTC on Monday February 3, 2014.

7. JUDGING AND USE OF SUBMISSIONS: The editor of Your Reports Express, the weekly loggings column of the Ontario DX Association, will act as the judge and his ruling on all loggings is FINAL. He is not eligible to participate in the Shortwave DX Challenge. Any and all submissions may be used as loggings, at the discretion of the editor, for the January editions of Your Reports Express.

8. CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION: All participants will receive an attractive certificate in PDF format sent to their e-mail address.

9. CONTEST PRIZES

With the closing of the ODXA's mail order service, several hobby-related books have been made available. The top three finishers will get their choice of a book and another book will be drawn for all other entrants. For those who send in their loggings on a weekly basis, an extra ballot (one per extra submission) will be awarded them for the purpose of this draw.

Good luck to all participants.

INDIAN DX REPORT- This Weekend on KBS & AWR Wavescan

Dear Radio Friends,

It is a pleasure to inform you that "Indian DX Report"- the only DX capsule from India on SW will be broadcast this Saturday, 28th September 2013 on KBS Listeners' Lounge and on Sunday, 29th September 2013 via AWR Wavescan. I invite you to listen this small DX presentation of mine if you get chance to do so and if you like this then please send me your valuable feedbacks and reception reports. All correct reception reports will be verified by specially designed colourful paper QSLs and eQSLs. 

Here is the current A-13 transmission schedule of KBS English:- 

Europe:

Language Time (UTC) Frequencies (kHz)
English 1 16:00 ~ 17:00 9515
18:00 ~ 19:00 7275
22:00 ~ 23:00 11810
English 2 11:00 ~ 11:30 [Saturday] 9760 (DRM)
22:00 ~ 22:30 WRN
08:30 ~ 09:00 WRN

North America: English 1 13:00 ~ 14:00 15575

South America: English 1 02:00 ~ 03:00 9580

Southeast Asia:

English 1 08:00 ~ 09:00 9570
13:00 ~ 14:00 9570
16:00 ~ 17:00 9640
English 3 02:00 ~ 03:00 9690
14:00 ~ 15:00 9640

China: English 3 12:30 ~ 13:30 6095

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Wavescan Scheduling: A13 Transmission Period March 31, 2013 - October 26, 2013

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Day UTC Call kHz kW Station Location Country
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Sun 1030 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1530 AWR 15335 250 Media Broadcast Nauen Germany
1600 KSDA 15360 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
1600 KSDA 15670 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2230 KSDA 15320 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2330 KSDA 17650 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
Mon 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Wed MN00 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
2000 WINB 13570 50 World International Red Lion Pennsylvania USA
Thu 0300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Fri 0315 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Sat 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1530 WWCR2 12160 100 Worldwide Christian Nashville Tennessee USA
2230 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
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Internet Stream: AWR.org WRMI.net WWCR.com WINB.com
Script Archive: Ontheshortwaves.com, Radioheritage.net, Portale.italradio.org, Offshoreradio.de
Printed Articles: Various radio magazines
Google Search: Wavescan
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Looking forward to hear from you. 

Best Regards & 73's,

Prithwiraj Purkayastha

Editor & Presenter, INDIAN DX REPORT 

Pub Bongalpukhuri

By Lane. 4, Jorhat

Assam 785001

India

Email: indiandxreport@gmail.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/indiandxreport

Website: http://indiandxreport.blogspot.in/

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 7th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-13 

Date of Broadcast: 27th July 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Namaskar friends and welcome to July edition of Indian DX Report. I am your host Prithwiraj and my hearty greetings to all KBS listeners who are observing the Holy Ramazan in this month all over the world. So lets begin with some DX News. 

All India Radio completed 86 years of service to the people of India. A symposium - Radio in Digital Age - was held in New Delhi on 22nd July on completion of 86 years of Radio Broadcasting in India. Noted Agricultural Scientist Dr M S Swaminathan have extolled All India Radio for its services to India for more than 8 decades. Established in 1930, All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks in the world. Its headquarters is at the Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi. 

AIR Radio Kashmir from Srinagar, India is broadcasting an one hour special program on occation of Holy Ramzan between 2130 to 2230 UTC on 4950 & 1116 kHz. These special broadcast of about 1 hour duration will continue till the Ramzan festival. 

After 65 years of broadcasting, one of the most heard and popular SW station from Israel "Kol Israel" has suspended its only remaining shortwave broadcasts in Farsi to Iran at the beginning of July which means that this station will not be heard on shortwave any more. The long time shortwave listeners may remember that Kol Israel used to broadcast overseas programs in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Persian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, as well as a home service program in Hebrew and external service in other Jewish languages. They also had a DX-Program in English, hosted by Ben Dalfen, aired on Sundays. 

All though Voice of Greece, better known as ERT,  went off the air in June, but still some DXers reporting that GREECE ERT transmitting in English, instead in Greek between 1300-1315 on 9420 kHz. If you have still not QSLed this station you try your luck on that time and frequency which is targeted towards West Europe. 

If you would like to stay connected with the latest DX news from Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives then you can bookmark http://dxasia.in/ in your laptop or PC internet browser. This is a beautiful online DX resource from South Asia maintained and contributed by ace Dxers like Victor Goonetilleke of Sri Lanka and Alok Dasgupta of India. In this website along with DX news you can also get the updated transmission schedules of government run shortwave, medium wave and FM stations of these countries.  

And here are some important monitoring observations done by me in this month.

PCJ Radio continues it's weekend shortwave broadcast on Sundays via SLBC Trincomalee and well received on 11835 kHz between 1330 to 1430 UTC. This special weekly transmission consist of news magazine "Focus Asia Pacific" for first 15 minutes and Happy Station show till remaining 45 minutes. 

TRT- Voice of Turkey in English was heard on 15220 kHz between 1630-1700 hour UTC with SINPO 45444

Voice of Vietnam in English was heard on 9730 kHz between 1600-1628 UTC and the SINPO was 45444

Radio Riyadh in Bengali was received on 15120 kHz at around 1415 UTC with SINPO 45444

TWR-India was received with its Hindi transmission between 1420 UTC on 12160 kHz and the SINPO code was 45434

Radio Australia in English was heard on 9540 kHz around 1615 UTC with SINPO 43343

 

And with this I would like to conclude this edition of DX report from India and I hope that this will be useful and interesting to you. For this edition I would like to thank all members of Asian DX League and DX India Yahoo Group. If you have any suggestion or comments on this presentation or if you would like to obtain a special IDXR QSL by sending a reception report, then please write to:

INDIAN DX REPORT
C/O- PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA
PUB BONGALPUKHURI
BY LANE.4
JORHAT-785001
ASSAM (INDIA)

or you can drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com> For a paper QSL return postage will be highly appreciated. 

So, friends until next time take care and enjoy DXing.  

You can listen to this edition of KBS-IDXR Here:-

https://app.box.com/s/197v9l4c2idlkq312bi9

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 6th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-12 

Date of Broadcast: 29th June 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Greetings friends and welcome to June edition of Indian DX Report. I am your host Prithwiraj. As always I would like to start this month's DX tips with few updates from All India Radio. 

All India Radio Chinchurah is testing for last few days on 1134 kHz in AM Mode and in DRM mode on 1142 kHz  from 1130 to 2330 UTC  using three 400 kW transmitters. They are relaying mostly FM Gold Kolkata programs for these test transmissions. Reception reports are requested by this station and must be addressed to: 

Installation Officer, 

Super Power Transmitter

All India Radio

Station Road

Chinsurah 712102

West Bengal, India

Or you can email your reports to  <ddesptmogra at gmail dot com>

Recently my fellow DXer Gautam Kumar Sharma of Abhayapuri, Assam sent me his monitoring observation for few AIR stations of Eastern India. I am please to include this in this edition of IDXR. Gautam informed that AIR Kashmir was heard by me on 4870 kHz around 1402 UTC on June 16t with few a Hindi flim Songs. The audio was slightly rough. He also heard ABC Alice Springs on 4835 kHz on the same day around 1400 UTC while looking for AIR Gangtok which is off the air for some time now. As per his monitoring on AIR regional radio stations from North East Region, AIR-Imphal, AIR-Guwahati & AIR-Kohima are off the air on their respective shortwave frequencies. But AIR-Aizawl's signal in the morning has been improved slightly on 5050 kHz & can be heard without any QRM. AIR-Itanagar can be heard regularly on 4990 kHz. 

According to some newspaper reports, the famous Lord Jagannatha Temple of Puri will host a FM radio station soon. The temple administration has decided to start this FM station to disseminate information on Lord Jagannath. The proposed project would be commissioned at a cost of around Rupees 4 crore and Programmes to be aired through the proposed radio station include devotional songs, daily rituals and discourses relating to the Lord, etc. Lord Jagannath Temple of Puri in the Odhisa state of India is popular Hindu pilgrimage and famous for its annual Ratha Yatra festival. 

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation has dropped its All Asia English Service which goes back to the early days of commercial broadcasting in 1950s and is having a single Hindi service from 0115-0330 UTC on 11905 kHz now. In this service sponsored English Gospel programmes are also inserted. Meanwhile the SLBC service to the Middle East targeting Sri Lankan workers is transmitted from 1630-1830 UTC on 11750 kHz on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday only.  The service to South India in Malayalam and Tamil between 1115-1215 UTC has been moved to 9720 from 21st  June.

While many major international broadcasters ceasing or reducing their broadcasts targeting Asia, Taiwan based PCJ Radio International is emerging as a new start in the shortwave medium. After its successful test transmissions targeting listeners in Asia, PCJ has also tested SW transmissions towards Europe and North America via transmitter at Nauen clearly indicating its future plan to take hold of Shortwave bands. Meanwhile PCJ's international "Sunday only" broadcasts via Trincomalee has been extended till August 2013 and from 30th June onwards their one hour Sunday transmissions can be heard from 1330 to 1430 UTC on 11835 kHz. 

And at last just want to remind you that The big 2013 Adventist World Radio Annual DX Contest will under-way from July 1st and will run till the end of July. As Adventist World Radio enters into its 42nd year of international radio broadcasting, they have announced their annual “Wavescan” DX contest under the title, “Focus on Africa”. In short, you are invited to check your collection of QSLs from shortwave stations in Africa, and to log AWR programming on shortwave to Africa during the month of July 2013. For complete details on this contest please visit our Facebook pagewww.facebook.com/indiandxreport  

And with this I would like to conclude this edition of  DX report from India. For this edition I would like to thank all members of Asian DX League and DX India Yahoo Group. If you have any suggestion or comments on this presentation or if you would like to obtain a special IDXR QSL by sending a reception report, then please write to:

INDIAN DX REPORT

C/O- PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA

PUB BONGALPUKHURI

BY LANE.4

JORHAT-785001

ASSAM (INDIA)

or you can drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com> For a paper QSL return postage will be highly appreciated. 

So, friends until next time its goodbye from Assam.  

You can listen to this edition of KBS-IDXR Here:-

https://app.box.com/s/w3mqs4vhn40wpsd89ovr

Wavescan Tribute to SLBC Ekala Relay Station

Photo Curtsy: Mr. Victor Goonetilleke 

AWR Weekly DX program Wavescan gave its tribute to historic SLBC Ekala Relay station which was closed down recently. A special edition of the AWR DX program, "Wavescan" that honors the closure of the Ekala Shortwave Station in Sri Lanka. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination made its first broadcast from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation back in 1951, on the very first day of what was the new SLBC Commercial Service on shortwave. Over the years, these initial radio broadcasts blossomed into Adventist World in Asia, AWR-Asia, and the programming of Adventist World Radio is still on the air shortwave from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, though these days from the ex-Deutsche Welle Relay Station located near Trincomalee on the east coast of the island of Sri Lanka. 


Without a specific announcement, SLBC closed their historic Ekala station on the last day of May and they transferred their international programming to the station at Trincomalee. To honor the long and illustrious history of the Ekala Shortwave Station, the AWR DX program "Wavescan" has aired a special edition under the old title, "Radio Monitors International" and this was broadcast on 9th June 2013 and during the following days that week. These days, "Wavescan" is researched and written in Indianapolis by the AWR DX Editor, Dr. Adrian Peterson, and it is produced in the studios of shortwave station WRMI by Jeff White, who is noted also for his key roles with NASB, the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters in the United States. The AWR international DX program "Wavescan" is on the air from stations in the AWR network, and also from WRMI, WWCR & WINB in the United States, and from Spaceline in Bulgaria.


The old Ekala Radio Station is of such significance in the long history of international radio broadcasting that the well known International Radio Monitor in Colombo Sri Lanka, Victor Goonetilleke, is campaigning widely to have the site recognized as an International Heritage Site.

Indian DX Report- which is now a part of Wavescan is presenting the following SW realtime recording of this special edition of Wavescan under its historic title "Radio Monitors International". 

Please visit the link below to listen the recording:- 

https://www.box.com/s/jxqweddatqj7ijq2xc0a

73s. 

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 5th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-11

Date of Broadcast: 25th May 2013
Station: KBS World Radio
Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Greetings friends and welcome to this month's DX tips from Indian DX Report on KBS Listeners' Lounge. I am your host Prithwiraj and hope you all are keeping fine. So lets begin with few DX news from Asia. 

Radio Taiwan International has recently announced in their website that it's transmissions towards the Philippines in English between 0100  to 0200 UTC on 11875 kHz and between 1100 to 1200 UTC on 9465 kHz will close from July 1st!! However, their Medium Wave transmission from 1100 to 1200  hour UTC on 1359 KHz will remains unchanged.

According to a news published recently, China Radio International’s Tamil service is all set to launch its FM station in India as part of its 50th anniversary this year. CRI Tamil, which broadcasts on shortwave targeting Tamil Nadu in India, is in talks with some FM stations in Chennai. The Tamil service of CRI was started in August 1963 and besides Tamil, CRI broadcasts in three other Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali and Urdu. If this proposal of CRI realised the this will establish CRI's footing in the FM area of India. 

Taiwan based PCJ Radio has recently started a series of Shortwave test transmissions via SLBC relay station in Trincomalee beamed to East and South East Asia with a powerful 125 kW transmitter.  On 19th May, Sunday they successfully conducted this test transmission between 1300 to 1400 hour UTC on 11750 kHz and three more test transmissions are scheduled on this same frequency and time on 26th May, 2nd June and 9th June, Sundays. Printed and eQSLs are offered by this station for correct reception reports for these test transmissions.   

All India Radio Port Blair station transmitting with a 10 KW transmitter from Beautiful Indian Islands of Andaman and Nicobar is reported missing on 4760 kHz due to a breakdown in transmitter. The station engineers are trying best to restore the faults and hopefully AIR Port Blair will be soon on air again. Here is the current transmission schedule of AIR Port Blair:-  2355 to 0300 hour UTC and 1030 to 1700 or 1730 UTC on 4760 kHz; AIR Port Blair is also available on  7390 kHz between 0315 to 0400 UTC (Saturdays till 0415 UTC and on Sundays till  0500 UTC) and  0700 to 0931 UTC (on Sundays till 1000 UTC).    

And well, I would like to conclude this edition of Indian DX Report with some good news for our listeners in Bangladesh. News is that Bangladesh Betar is seems to strengthen its FM transmission power within the country as they has installed some new BE FM 10S 10 kW FM transmitters at following cities & currently test transmissions being carried on - Dhaka on 102.0 MHz, 104.0 MHz, 106.0 MHz, Sylhet 88.8 MHz, Rangpur 88.8 MHz, Comilla 103.6 MHz, Coxesbazar 100.8 MHz, Khulna 88.8 MHz, Noapara, Jessore 100.8 MHz, Rajshahi 88.8 MHz, Chittagong 88.8 MHz and in Barisal on 105.0 MHz. 

For this edition I would like to thank all members of Asian DX League and DX India Yahoo Group. If you have any suggestion or comments on this report or if you would like to obtain a special IDXR QSL by sending a reception report, then please write to:

INDIAN DX REPORT

C/O- PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA

PUB BONGALPUKHURI

BY LANE.4

JORHAT-785001

ASSAM (INDIA)

or you can drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com>

So, friends until next time its goodbye from India. 

You can listen to this edition of KBS-IDXR Here:-

https://www.box.com/s/05ry696y4php4tcj2h3p

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 4th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-10

Date of Broadcast: 27th April 2013, Saturday

Station: KBS World Radio

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Greetings friends and welcome to a new edition of Indian DX Report on KBS Listeners' Lounge. I am your host Prithwiraj. As always I would like to start this month's DX tips with few updates from All India Radio.

As we all know that from 31st March, Sunday, the summer A13 transmission schedule of all international Shortwave broadcasters began. But AIR External Service & Home Service on SW has not made any changes in their A-13 schedules compared to B-12 schedules! That means AIR external service and home services may still tuned on the same frequencies and schedules as it was available during last winter. For complete A13 schedule of AIR you can log into www.allindiaradio.gov.in or for a DXer friendly schedule please have a look into http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm , a wonderful DX resource page maintained by Mr. Jose Jacob, the Assistant Director of  National Institute of Amateur Radio at Hyderabad.  

Recently many regional stations of All India Radio are aiming to rope in DRM transmitters to improve its transmission and content quality. After successfully testing the signals as part of a live in-car demo, the DRM signals will now be tested in AIR Bengaluru to monitor the quality of broadcast. From 22nd April AIR Bengaluru is testing DRM signals for around a week  using a 500 kW transmitter for their Vividh Bharati Service on 9870 kHz. The schedule for broadcast will be in three segments; from 0025 to 0435 UTC, from 0900 to 1200 UTC and  from 1245 to 1740  UTC. The station is interested in reception report mainly from Indian listeners at various timings. Reports can be sent to -

Suptg. Engineer, AIR, Super Power Transmitter, Bengaluru, Karnataka  Or  it may be emailed to:sptairynk@rediffmail.com 

Mr. Atanu Das, a producer at RVA Bengali Service at "Chitravani" Kolkata informed me that Radio Veritas Asia is interested in reception reports for their different language services from listeners and they promise to verify with QSL cards and Stickers. Reception reports for all day's transmission in a week will be highly appreciated. Latest frequency schedule of RVA can be found at RVA website www.rveritas-asia.org and reports can be mailed to <arleneadonarber@gmail.com>. 

And Here are some A13 Summer Schedule of English language transmissions of few popular international stations targeting Asian regions.

Radio Taiwan International can be heard in South Asia between 1600 to 1700 hour UTC on 9440 and 15485 kHz and in South East Asia RTI is transmitting from 0300 to 0400 UTC on 15320 kHz and from 1100 to 1200 hour UTC on 7445 kHz.

Radio Romania International is transmitting targeting India between 0300 to 0400 UTC on 15340 and 17830 kHz and in Japan they can be heard between 2200 to 2300 hour UTC on 9790 and 11940 kHz.

Voice of Vietnam can be well heard in Asia between 1100-1130 UTC on 7285 kHz, 1230 to 1300 UTC on 9840 and 12020 kHz, 1600 to 1630 UTC on 7220, 9550, 9730 and 7280 kHz and between 1900 to 1930 UTC on 7280 and 9730 kHz.

Vatican Radio in English can be heard in Asia between 0140 to 0200 UTC on 9580, 11730 and 15470 kHz and in the evening hours between 1530 to 1550 UTC on 11850 and 15110 kHz fromSunday to Friday and on Saturday the Holy Mass can be heard between 1530 to 1600 hour UTC on 11850, 17815 kHz and in DRM mode on 17500 kHz.

Radio Cairo in English can be heard on 17870 kHz between 1215 and 1330 UTC in South East Asia.

And last but not the least our beloved KBS World Radio English language transmission can be heard in Asia between 0200 to 0300 UTC on 9690 kHz, between 0800 to 0900 UTC on 9570 kHz, between 1300 to 1400 UTC on 9570 kHz, Between 1400 to 1500 UTC on 9640 kHz and between 1600 to 1700 UTC on 9640 kHz. KBS is also heard with good reception on 9515 kHz between 1600 to 1700 UTC and on 7275 kHz between 1800 to 1900 hour UTC.

And with this I would like to conclude this edition of  DX report from India. For this edition I would like to thank all members of Asian DX League and DX India Yahoo Group. If you have any suggestion or comments on this report or if you would like to obtain a special IDXR QSL by sending a reception report, then please write to:

INDIAN DX REPORT

C/O- PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA

PUB BONGALPUKHURI

BY LANE.4

JORHAT-785001

ASSAM (INDIA)

or you can drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com>

So, friends until next time its goodbye from Assam. 

You can listen to this edition of KBS-IDXR Here:-

https://www.box.com/s/3y52r0xxklup2333svo1

Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 7th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-9

Date of Broadcast: 31th March 2013, Sunday

Station: Adventist World Radio

Program: Wavescan 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Namaskar and greetings from India and welcome to the first edition of Indian DX Report in year 2013. I am your host Prithwiraj. First I would like to share a great news with you all. From January 2013 "Indian DX Report" is being aired by KBS World Radio on every last Saturday of the month in their popular mailbag program "Worldwide Friendship". I invite you all to listen to this KBS version of Indian DX Report every month and send me your valuable feedbacks and reception reports. And of-course I shall verify all your reports with our special QSLs as we are doing with the reports on Wavescan version of IDXR. 

So friends, lets begin this edition of DX report with some latest news from All India Radio. 

All India Radio is slowly but surely trying to march and upgrade itself with the new age technologies to reach the world audience. Apart from upgrading many of its relays with DRM transmitters, now AIR has been moving towards web based broadcasts too. First a couple of months back AIR General Overseas Service has started transmitting the English language programs via World Radio Network or WRN. Now all English language transmissions of GOS can be heard online at www.wrn.org/listeners. And to carve a niche for itself on the social media, couple of weeks back AIR has launched live streaming of its Urdu service and  FM Gold services, an exclusive YouTube channel of AIR and an Android based mobile phone application of for its news service. This will definitely help grow the listenership of AIR both at home and abroad. If you are interested in these new media availability of AIR you can log into http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Profile/ListenLive and choose your desired services to get more closer to India and you can also download AIR android app from a specified link available there. Mean while in national budget for the current fiscal year the government of India also announced many reform action plan of AIR including upgradation of many MW and SW transmitters, setting up new DRM transmitters and  FM radio expansion to cover 294 cities with around 839 new FM stations. Meanwhile  with repeated requests and plea from private FM radio operators, the government of India has agreed and is set to announce free news by 2014. Currently private FM stations in India are not allowed to broadcast free news in their broadcast except those attained from AIR. So, hopefully All India Radio is marching towards a era of radio broadcasting. 

BANGLADESH: On 16th March Bangladesh Betar erratically aired Home Service and external service both on same frequency 7250 kHz and made a huge QRM on each other, this is very rare and funny that a station carried two different services from two transmitters from the same area on a single frequency. Sources said that this was happened due to some technical problem with their transmitter which is rectified now. But they were unable to transmit home services on 60 meter band frequency of 4750 kHz and so opted for registered 41 meter band frequency 7250 kHz despite collision with external service. But two days later this problem was also resolved. Here is a recording of that interesting collision of Bangladesh Betar < Voice Clip>

JAPAN: NHK World Radio Japan Bengali and Hindi services has announced their new frequency for Summer 2013. From 31st March Radio Japan Bengali will be on 11685 kHz between 1300 to 1345 UTC and Hindi Service's evening transmission will be on 15745 kHz during its usual transmission time of 1430 to 1515 UTC. But its morning transmission time & frequency will be changed from March 31st. It will be on air from 0100 to 0130 UTC on 11590 kHz.

And with this I would like to conclude this edition of  DX report from India. For this edition I would like to thank all members of Asian DX League and DX India Yahoo Group. If you have any suggestion or comments on this report or if you would like to obtain a special IDXR QSL by sending a reception report, then please write to:

INDIAN DX REPORT

C/O- PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA

PUB BONGALPUKHURI

BY LANE.4

JORHAT-785001

ASSAM (INDIA)

or you can drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com>

Until then good bye and Happy DX in this Summer. 

You can listen to this edition of Wavescan-IDXR Here:-

https://www.box.com/s/2abvebl5mczwozqx76jo

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 3rd Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-9

Date of Broadcast: 30th March 2013, Saturday

Station: KBS World Radio

Program: Worldwide Friendship- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Namaskar and greetings from India and welcome to the another edition of Indian DX Report on Worldwide Friendship. I am your host Prithwiraj. First I would like to congratulate all staff and listeners of KBS World Radio on its 60th Anniversary. I am honoured to be a part of this prestigious station today with my monthly DX report and hope to continue with support from you, my fellow Dxers around the world. 

So friends, lets begin this edition of DX report with some latest news from All India Radio. 

All India Radio is slowly but surely trying to march and upgrade itself with the new age technologies to reach the world audience. Apart from upgrading many of its relays with DRM transmitters and proving General Overseas Service's English transmissions on World Radio Network or WRN platform, now to carve a niche for itself on the social media, couple of weeks back AIR has launched live streaming of its Urdu service and FM Gold services, an exclusive YouTube channel of AIR and an Android based mobile phone application of for its news service. This will definitely help grow the listenership of AIR both at home and abroad. If you are interested in these new social media availability of AIR you can log into http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Profile/ListenLive and choose your desired services to get more closer to India and you can also download AIR android app from a specified link available there. And in my recent web search I have found that live streaming of popular AIR Vividh Bharati and AIR Telegu, Urdu and FM Rainbow services from Hydrabad are also available online through a private website http://www.voicevibes.net/, which I found very interesting. Meanwhile in national budget for the current fiscal year the government of India also announced many reform action plan of AIR including upgradation of many MW and SW transmitters, setting up new DRM transmitters and FM radio expansion to cover 294 cities with around 839 new FM stations. Meanwhile  with repeated requests and plea from private FM radio operators, the government of India has agreed and is set to announce free news by 2014. Currently private FM stations in India are not allowed to broadcast free news in their broadcast except those attained from AIR. So, hopefully All India Radio is marching towards a era of radio broadcasting. 

BANGLADESH: On 16th March Bangladesh Betar erratically aired Home Service and external service both on same frequency 7250 kHz and made a huge QRM on each other, this is very rare and funny that a station carried two different services from two transmitters from the same area on a single frequency. Sources said that this was happened due to some technical problem with their transmitter which is rectified now. But they were unable to transmit home services on 60 meter band frequency of 4750 kHz and so opted for registered 41 meter band frequency 7250 kHz despite collision with external service. But two days later this problem was also resolved. Now again Bangladesh Betar home service is available on 4750 kHz at schedule transmission times. 

JAPAN: NHK World Radio Japan Bengali and Hindi services has announced their new frequency for Summer 2013. From 31st March Radio Japan Bengali will be on 11685 kHz between 1300 to 1345 UTC and Hindi Service's evening transmission will be on 15745 kHz during its usual transmission time of 1430 to 1515 UTC. But its morning transmission time & frequency will be changed from March 31st. It will be on air from 0100 to 0130 UTC on 11590kHz.

And with this I would like to conclude this edition of  DX report from India. For this edition I would like to thank all members of Asian DX League and DX India Yahoo Group. If you have any suggestion or comments on this report or if you would like to obtain a special IDXR QSL by sending a reception report, then please write to:

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Until then good bye and Happy DX in this Summer. 

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KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 2nd Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-8

Date of Broadcast: 23rd February 2013, Saturday

Station: KBS World Radio 

Program: Worldwide Friendship- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Hello KBS friends. Greetings on Seollal- the Korean New Year and Lunar New Year celebrated couple of weeks back all over the world, particularly in some Asian countries. So lets begin the February edition of Listening Tips from Indian DX Report. 

Hope you all are familiar with the historic Ekala relay station of Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation which was started as SEAC radio and also housed VOA and NHK relay stations. Sad news is that this Ekala station is to close down on the 31st of March and shift existing services to the ex Deutsche Welle  and now SLBC station in Trincomalee, if electricity from the National Grid is connected to Trincomalee. Trincomalee now runs on Diesel generators which are very expensive to run unless the station is at full capacity. Thus the move to get power from the local grid. So, if you want a QSL from SLBC Ekala you will have to do so before the 1st of April. Here is the present schedule of SLBC Broadcasts via Ekala relay station. Hindi and Vernaculars to India on 7190 kHz and 11905 kHz between 0012-0330 UTC, on 6005 and 11905 kHz between 0930-1215 UTC. English to Asia can be heard between 0125-0300 UTC and on Sundays till 0500 UTC on  6005, 9770 and 15745 kHz. 

Couple of Years back, Radio Deutsche Welle has almost ended all its South Asian language transmissions including English, Hindi and Bengali. But in Bangladesh they are available in FM networks through Bangladesh Betar till today and they have now decided to end this FM transmission too, which means that DW will be available in South Asia only in Urdu, Dari and Poshto languages on Shortwave. From 10th March DW Bengali will become silent on Bangladeshi FM networks ending a great era of Bengali language broadcast from the heart of Europe. From16th April onwards DW Bengali TV programs will only be available via Bangladeshi TV channel "Ekushe TV" with a weekly magazine program. DW in Dari and Poshto transmissions can be on 9440 and 15640 kHz between 1330 to 1400 UTC and 1400 to 1430 UTC respectively. DW Urdu can now be heard between 1430 to 1500 hour UTC on 15360 and 15640 kHz. DW English transmissions beamed to Africa is also well heard in South Asia in the midnight hours. 

Mongolia is always a great DX search for many DXers worldwide and for a long time now their English transmissions heard but with fair to poor reception quality. So to improve their reception from March Voice Of Mongolia is set to change its transmission timings. As announced in their program from March their English transmission to South Asia can now be heard from 0900 UTC on 12085 kHz and English to Europe can be heard from 1500 UTC on 12015 kHz. Hope this timing changes will help them to be better heard world over. 

And with this I would like to wind-up this edition of Listening Tips from India. I would like to thank my fellow listener Victor Goonetilleke from Sri Lanka and Partha Sarathi Goswami and Swopan Chakraborty from India for their support and suggestions. If you have any comments or suggestions on this, then please drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com> or you can also stay connected with us via our Facebook page. So friends until next time 73's and good bye.  

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KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 1st Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-7

Date of Broadcast: 26th January 2013, Saturday

Station: KBS World Radio 

Program: Worldwide Friendship- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Hello KBS friends! Greetings from India and welcome to this very first edition of Weekly Listening Tips from Indian DX Report and I am your host Prithwiraj Purkayastha.  

In his first returning edition of "Weekly DX Tips" our friend Kevin O'Donovan discussed about listening international radio stations via World Radio Network or WRN and adding to that I would like to inform you that All India Radio's General Overseas Service English programs now can also be heard via WRN. The External Services Division of All India Radio (AIR) broadcasts to 100 countries in 27 languages, 16 of them foreign and 11 Indian. All India Radio through its external broadcasts keeps overseas listeners in touch with the ethos of India and things that are Indian, reflecting the ideas and achievements of India as an open society. To listen AIR GOS programs on WRN you can log on to www.wrn.org/listeners and click the link STATIONS where you'll find ALL INDIA RADIO listed at the top. An archive of past few day's broadcast is available there and please don't forget to tune into "Faithfully Your's"- the popular mailbag program of AIR GOS aired every Monday. 

Due to the interference brought about by Romania and China to the reception area, Radio Veritas Asia which is transmitting from Philippines implementing few changes in their Bengali, Hindi and Tamil transmission effective from Sunday, January 27, 2013. The Bengali transmissions between 1400 to 1427 hour UTC  and Hindi transmission between 1330 to 1400 UTC now can be heard on 11915 kHz and the Tamil language transmission between 0030 to 0057 UTC will be available on 11855 kHz.

Voice of Indonesia transmitting from Jakarta was not heard for quite a long period over the last few months. But now they have claimed that they renovated the transmitter and using a new tube.  Now they can be heard  in English with much clear signal between 1900 to 2000 hour UTC on 9525 kHz, but still their transmission between 1300 to 1400 hour UTC is missing. Live web streaming and complete broadcasting schedule of Voice of Indonesia are also available on www.en.voi.co.id

PCJ Radio which is playing as a major FM media in Taiwan is going to have its own shortwave transmitter soon. At present PCJ's programs are heard on over 20 stations worldwide in more than 20 countries on FM, Satellite, Cable and shortwave as well through partner stations. On February 16, 2013 PCJ will conduct its first test on shortwave. It will begin at 1600 hour UTC until 1800 hour UTC. The test will be done using the two 1kw transmitters directed to South East China, Fujian Province and Guangxi Province. Frequencies for this test are yet to be announced. 

And with this we came to the end of this edition of Listening Tips from India. If you have any comments or suggestion on this, then please drop me an email at <indiandxreport@gmail.com> or you can also stay connected with us via our facebook page. So friends until next time good bye and 73's. 

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Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 6th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-6

Date of Broadcast: 30th December 2012

Written and Edited by: Prithwiraj Purkayastha

Presented by: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Program: Wavescan 

Station: Adventist World Radio & WRMI

Namaskar World! At the beginning of this edition of Indian DX Report I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013.

First some news from India’s national broadcaster All India Radio.

1. Recently, AIR Aizawl station from North Eastern state Mizoram was heard again on shortwave 5050 kHz between 0230 and 0330 UTC after a long gap. But their evening transmission between 1130 and 1630 UTC on this same frequency was severely disturbed by Chinese interference and AIR Aizawl not even heard during evening hours. If you receive this station in your locality then you can report it to: All India Radio, AIZAWL, POST BOX- 13, Radio Tila, AIZAWL 796001, Mizoram (INDIA).

2. All India Radio Silchar is a small Medium Wave station of 20 kilowatt, situated in the the Barak Velley at Southern part of Assam. This station sources recently informed that they have been heard by some foreign listeners, including an ace MW DXer from Finland, on the frequency of 828 kHz. You can also try this station on 828 kHz on the medium waves during day, afternoon and evening hours as per Indian Standard Time and fortunately if you have luck to tune this station reception reports can be send to <akashvanisilchar@gmail.com>.

3. India’s public radio and television broadcaster Prasar Bharati has issued orders for six Nautel NX Series 300 kW medium wave transmitters configured for DRM30 transmission. The purchase is part of All India Radio’s plans to upgrade facilities throughout India to DRM30 digital broadcasting. The DRM digitisation implementation will allow AIR to also use alternative platforms such as podcasting, SMS, webcasting and mobile service. AIR also intends to offer a 24-hour news channel along with other programming. Additional services such as Interactive Text Transmission and disaster warning alerts are also planned.

Prasar Bharati is also considering broadcasting Radio programmes of AM channel though mobile phones in India in addition to its existing FM channel's programmes. Chief Executive Officer of the Prasar Bharati Jawhar Sircar recently informed this in Kolkata. This initiative will increase the listeners of AIR and will also help to popularise its programmes.

4. Bangladesh Betar's domestic transmission on 4750 kHz is down for last several weeks. It is due to an Israel make SMPS filament failure. Now the same is being developed indigenously and engineers are trying best to resume the transmission shortly. Meanwhile Bangladesh Betar external service is also carrying an irregular schedule due to some problem in transmitter. Present broadcast schedule of Bangladesh Betar external service in English is 1230 to 1300 UTC on 7250 kHz beamed to South East Asia and from 1745 to 1900 hour UTC on  7250 kHz to Western Europe.

5. A new Tamil station seems to be testing from 0030-0130 on 7525 kHz. Signals are fair to poor. May be it is a regular broadcast aimed at Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu in India. More details will be given in next edition of Indian DX Report. 

6. Thazin Radio, broadcasting from Myanmar, has extended schedule these days. They can be heard from 0930 to 1430 UTC in vernaculars and 1430 to 1500 UTC with English on 7110 kHz.

7. Radio Hargesha from Somaliland these says coming with good reception from 1500 till 1900 UTC on 7120 kHz. They also have news in English at 1322 UTC daily. Some Dxers from different parts of the world including India have reported about successfully QSLing this station.

8. RTM Malaysia- Wai FM and Sarawak FM transmitting from Kajang in Eastern Malaysia are being successfully QSLed by some Dxers from South and South East Asia. You can try Wai FM on 11685 kHz ans Sarawak FM on 9835 kHz between 0100-0300 UTC.

9. Northern Winter months are always good for long disant low frequency propagation in South Asia. Some of the seasonal stations are Radio Havana Cuba on 6000 kHz with English at 0100 UTC. However, sometimes Ankara Turkey which is on the same frequency spoils reception. Apart from Cuba, recently I heard SHIOKAZI- The Sea Breeze from Japan on 5910 kHz between 1330-1345 UTC in Japanese, Radio Sultanate of Oman in English on 15140 kHz between 1400-1430 UTC, Radio Hargesha from Somaliland on 7120 kHz between 1500 hour UTC, Holy Tibet in English on 4905 kHz at 1630 UTC, Kyrghyz Radio in Kyrghyz on 4010 kHz at 1530 UTC, Radio Nacional de Amazonia from Brazil on 11780 kHz at 2045 UTC.

And with this we came to the end of this edition of Indian DX Report. For this edition I would like thank our friend Victor Goonetilleke of Sri Lanka and Swopan Chakraborty, Jose Jacob, Partha Sarathi Goswami from India and news sources DX-India.  
Two beautifully designed QSLs are ready to be distributed among our listeners who send us a correct reception report for this edition of IDXR. For sending a printed paper QSL by post we request our listeners in India to send 1 IRC or Mint Indian stamps worth Rs. 25/- (for each QSL) as return postage and all listeners in abroad are requested to send 2 IRCs or 2 US Dollers along with the reception report for a paper QSL by post. Reception reports without IRCs or Mint Stamps sent via postal mail or email will be awarded eQSLs. Please send your comments and reception reports to:
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C/o. Prithwiraj Purkayastha
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