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
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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