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.  

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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.  

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