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/
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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