KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 3rd Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-9

Date of Broadcast: 30th March 2013, Saturday

Station: KBS World Radio

Program: Worldwide Friendship- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Namaskar and greetings from India and welcome to the another edition of Indian DX Report on Worldwide Friendship. I am your host Prithwiraj. First I would like to congratulate all staff and listeners of KBS World Radio on its 60th Anniversary. I am honoured to be a part of this prestigious station today with my monthly DX report and hope to continue with support from you, my fellow Dxers around the world. 

So friends, lets begin this edition of DX report with some latest news from All India Radio. 

All India Radio is slowly but surely trying to march and upgrade itself with the new age technologies to reach the world audience. Apart from upgrading many of its relays with DRM transmitters and proving General Overseas Service's English transmissions on World Radio Network or WRN platform, now to carve a niche for itself on the social media, couple of weeks back AIR has launched live streaming of its Urdu service and FM Gold services, an exclusive YouTube channel of AIR and an Android based mobile phone application of for its news service. This will definitely help grow the listenership of AIR both at home and abroad. If you are interested in these new social media availability of AIR you can log into http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Profile/ListenLive and choose your desired services to get more closer to India and you can also download AIR android app from a specified link available there. And in my recent web search I have found that live streaming of popular AIR Vividh Bharati and AIR Telegu, Urdu and FM Rainbow services from Hydrabad are also available online through a private website http://www.voicevibes.net/, which I found very interesting. Meanwhile in national budget for the current fiscal year the government of India also announced many reform action plan of AIR including upgradation of many MW and SW transmitters, setting up new DRM transmitters and FM radio expansion to cover 294 cities with around 839 new FM stations. Meanwhile  with repeated requests and plea from private FM radio operators, the government of India has agreed and is set to announce free news by 2014. Currently private FM stations in India are not allowed to broadcast free news in their broadcast except those attained from AIR. So, hopefully All India Radio is marching towards a era of radio broadcasting. 

BANGLADESH: On 16th March Bangladesh Betar erratically aired Home Service and external service both on same frequency 7250 kHz and made a huge QRM on each other, this is very rare and funny that a station carried two different services from two transmitters from the same area on a single frequency. Sources said that this was happened due to some technical problem with their transmitter which is rectified now. But they were unable to transmit home services on 60 meter band frequency of 4750 kHz and so opted for registered 41 meter band frequency 7250 kHz despite collision with external service. But two days later this problem was also resolved. Now again Bangladesh Betar home service is available on 4750 kHz at schedule transmission times. 

JAPAN: NHK World Radio Japan Bengali and Hindi services has announced their new frequency for Summer 2013. From 31st March Radio Japan Bengali will be on 11685 kHz between 1300 to 1345 UTC and Hindi Service's evening transmission will be on 15745 kHz during its usual transmission time of 1430 to 1515 UTC. But its morning transmission time & frequency will be changed from March 31st. It will be on air from 0100 to 0130 UTC on 11590kHz.

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 report 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>

Until then good bye and Happy DX in this Summer. 

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