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
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ASSAM, INDIA.
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Thank you all for listening.

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