KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 9th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-15

Date of Broadcast: 28th Saturday 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

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Namaskar and hello everyone where ever you are!! I am Prithwiraj, your host for another edition of Indian DX Report here on KBS Listener' Lounge. I would like to thank all my fellow DXers around the world who sent me feedbacks and reception reports on previous edition of IDXR and hope that you will keep supporting my small initiative from India in coming months too. So let's begin:-  

Durga Puja- the five day long worship of Goddess Durga- is the most important and sacred festival for Hindus residing specially in Eastern part of India and this is the most happening festival for Bengalies around the world. Countdown of this great Indian festival of Durga Puja starts from the day of Mahalaya, that is, seven days before the start of five day long religious festival. Since the early 1930s, Mahalaya has come to associate itself with an early morning radio program called “Mahisasura Mardini” on  All India Radio. This program is a beautiful audio montage of recitation from the scriptural verses of “Chandi Kavya” by Late Birendra Krishna Bhadra, Bengali devotional songs, classical music and a dash of acoustic melodrama. This year All India Radio will be doing this special transmission for "Mahalaya" on 4th October, 2013 (Friday) early morning Indian time, that is, according to UTC time from 2225 UTC (3rd October,Thursday) to 0015 hour UTC (4th October, Friday). For DXers this is a great opportunity to catch AIR regional stations on Shortwave as well as Medium Wave. The following AIR stations usually broadcast this special transmission on Shortwave. 4760 kHz - Port Blair, 4810 kHz – Bhopal, 4820 kHz- Kolkata, 4835 kHz – Gangtok, 4880 kHz – Lucknow, 4895 kHz – Kurseong, 4940 kHz – Guwahati, 4965 kHz – Shimla, 9425 kHz - Delhi (Khampur) and 9470 kHz- Aligarh. Apart from these Shortwave stations many AIR regional stations also broadcast this special Mahalay transmission on Mediumwave.  If you hear any AIR regional station with this special transmission then please send your reception reports to:- 

spectrum-manager@air.org.in

OR

Director ( Spectrum Management & Synergy)
All India Radio,
Room No. 204
Akashvani Bhawan,
Parliament Street
New Delhi 110001, India

After remaining silent for some weeks, AIR Itanagar transmitting from beautiful Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, bordering China and Tibet, is back again on shortwave 4990 kHz. AIR Itanagar now can be heard from 0020 to 0400 and 1000 to 1600 hour UTC on 4990 kHz. Another AIR station from North East India, AIR Shillong, which has been reported to be distract from its official frequency 4970 kHz and transmitted on 4971 kHz for some days, is now back again on the correct frequency. AIR Shillong can be heard on 4970 kHz between 0025 to 0400 UTC and 1056 to 1630 UTC. But unfortunately AIR Kohima which was heard back during mid August on 4850 kHz is again missing on this frequency and AIR Guwahati on 4940 kHz is still off air. 

After their successful shortwave transmissions via Trincomalee relay station, PCJ Radio Internation has now announced to test on DRM. According to a press release PCJ will conduct a two hour DRM test transmission on 13th October between 1030 to 1230 UTC on 15645 kHz beaming towards South and South East Asia and the broadcast will comprise News, magazine program "Switzerland in Sound", PCJ's pupular DX show "Media Network Plus" and a documentary "War Time Deception"  Jonathan Marks. If you hear this DRM signal from PCJ then you can send your reports to <pcjqsl@pcjmedia.com>

And here is a quick reception summery of some stations I received in last couple of weeks here in my location at Jorhat in the north eastern part of India. 

Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation transmitting from Trincomalee in Hindi received on 11905 kHz between 0130 to 0300 UTC. 

Radio Pakistan from Islamabad in Urdu received on 15725 kHz with not much satisfactory reception though around 0925 UTC. 

Radio Romania International in English can be heard in Indian subcontinent on 17830 kHz between 0300 to 0400 UTC. 

Vatican Radio in English was heard on 15470 kHz between 0140 to 0200 UTC followed by Hindi transmission till 0257 UTC on 15460 kHz. Vatican Radio in Hindi was also heard well from 1440 UTC to 1420 UTC on 15110 kHz. 

Voice of Russia in English was heard loud and clear on 21800 kHz and 21820 around 0930 UTC. Hindi transmission of Voice of Russia was heard on 7505 kHz between 1300 to 1400 hour UTC. 

Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) in Hindi was heard on 13750 kHz between 0200 to 0300 UTC. 

TRT- Voice of Turkey English language transmission can be heard well in heard in Indian subcontinent between 1630 to 1727 UTC on 15520 kHz. 

Radio Taiwan International in English can be heard on 15485 kHz between 1600 to 1700 hour UTC.  

Voice of Vietnam broadcasting from Hanoi is well received on 9730 kHz between 1600 to 1628 UTC. 

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. 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.