রবিবার, ৩০ জুন, ২০১৩

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:- 


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 MaySunday 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:-

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 MarchSunday, 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:-

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:-

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:

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 KBS-IDXR Here:-

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.  

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

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. 

You can listen to this 1st edition of KBS-IDXR Here:- 

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:
THE "INDIAN DX REPORT"
C/o. Prithwiraj Purkayastha
PUB BONGALPUKHURI
JORHAT 785001
ASSAM, INDIA.
Or email your reports to <indiandxreport@gmail.com>
Thank you all for listening.


Please listen the recorded file of Indian DX Report here: 

Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 5th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-5
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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