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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