Indian DX Report

Broadcast Station:- Adventist World Radio, WRMI, WWCR
Program:- Wavescan
Date of Broadcast:- 30.07.2017 (Sunday)
 
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Hello and Namaskar to all radio enthusiasts around the world! This is Prithwiraj Purkayastha reporting for Wavescan from India. Friends, during last week of May this year, I got a chance to visit Indonesia on invitation from Radio Republic Indonesia’s foreign language service, popularly known as Voice of Indonesia. As a winner of their annual Quiz contest under title “Wonderful Indonesia” I had the opportunity to spent few memorable DX moments with 10 other DXers from India, China, Australia and Japan in the North Sumatara region of Indonesia. And during this trip I did not waste the opportunity to scan through the receiver and experience the band situation there in Sumarta Region. On 28^th May, while staying in a Hotel at the port town Parapat, Dxer Michael Cunningham from Australia, DXer Pradip Kundu from Tripura in India and myself  tried to understand the band condition with Tecsun PL-660 supported with a 10 meter long wire antenna and surprisingly heard many distance stations on both MW and SW bands. Here is a quick report of the stations we heard there in Sumatara Region of Indonesia.

We heard,

RRI Palankariya on 3325 kHz at around 1440 UTC with SINPO rating 35333

All India Radio Port Blair station was heard with Hindi movie songs on 4760 kHz around 1455 UTC with SINPO 34333.

All India Radio Chennai was logged with news in English at 1512 UTC on 4920 kHz. SINPO was 45344

At 1630 UTC we heard AIR Trivandrum on 5010 kHz with program on Indian classical music and SINPO was 34343.

KBS World Radio in English was heard both on 9515 and 9640 kHz at 1615 UTC with very strong and clear reception. Likewise Radio Taiwan International was also good on 9405 kHz at 1630 UTC.

On the Medium Wave we had the opportunity to listen AIR Dibrugarh station which is using a strong transmitter of 300 Kw, on 567 kHz at 1545 UTC.

RRI Medan was heard with audible reception on 801 kHz at 1537 UTC.

RRI Pekanbaru was heard with nice folk music on 927 kHz at 1541 UTC.

RRI Banda Ache was on 1251 kHz at 1557 UTC with Islamic religious chants and talks.

Apart from these we heard many unidentified Korean, Thai and other stations during our short DX scan in Sumatra.

During our this trip we also had the opportunity to visit the Transmitter site of RRI situated in Chimangies near Jakarta. There we have been informed by the Station Engineering staffs that the shortwave transmitter used for RRI foreign service on 9525 kHz is in bad condition resulting in poor reception on many occasions. But the enthusiast RRI staffs are hopeful to continue Shortwave service for a longer period and of course they are working on introduction of DRM in very near future.

Staying in Indonesia, here is a good news from Jakarta. RRI Voice of Indonesia has inaugurated their Dutch language broadcast on 1^st July and this service is now available on the SW frequency 9525 kHz between 1500 to 1530 UTC.

And now here is a quick report on some important DX loggings made in my QTH located in Jorhat, Assam.

Radio Kuwait Urdu language service was heard with good signal on 15540 kHz from 1600 hour UTC. My friend Avijit Mandal from West Bengal also reported that Radio Kuwait Bengali service was heard on the same frequency between 1530 to 1600 UTC.

Deutsche Welle in English was heard on 9670 kHz between 1600 to 1630 UTC with SINPO 35333.

Myanma Radio in English was heard on 5985 kHz at 1540 UTC with SINPO 35433.

Vatican Radio in English was heard at 1545 UTC on 9800 kHz with SINPO 55444.

AIR Kolkata was heard on 5040 kHz at 1540 UTC. SINPO 35333.

Adventist World Radio in Punjabi was logged with SINPO 45333 on 15605 kHz at 1500 UTC.

FEBC in Chinese was received nicely on 9345 kHz between 1500 to 1525 UTC.

Voice of Mongolia in English was heard with SINPO 33333 on 12015 kHz at 1530 UTC.

Voice of Turkey in English is audible on 15520 kHz between 1630 to 1727 UTC with SINPO 25222.

And friends, with this I would like to conclude this edition of Indian DX Report and I hope it’ll be useful to you.  Please send your write-ups for our proposed DX book, your loggings and DX information for inclusion in IDXR  or reception reports and feedback for this edition of IDXR to:-  

INDIAN DX REPORT

C/O. PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA

PUB BONGALPUKHURI, BY LANE- 4

JORHAT-785001

ASSAM (INDIA)

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So, until next time friends its good bye and 73s from Assam.