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)

Our Email ID is  <indiandxreport@gmail.com>

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

Adventist World Radio: Annual DX Contest 2014

“Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs”  -  AWR “Focus on Asia” Annual DX Contest

As Adventist World Radio enters into its 43rd year of international radio broadcasting, we take pleasure in announcing our annual “Wavescan” DX contest, which comes to you under the title, “Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs”. In short, you are invited to check your collection of QSL cards and letters for rare, unusual and unique QSLs from shortwave, mediumwave and communication stations throughout the world. You are also invited to log AWR programming to Asia on shortwave, mediumwave or FM during the month of September 2014.

Here are the details of our 2014 “Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs” - AWR “Focus on Asia” Annual DX Contest:-



A. Rare, Unique and Unusual QSL Cards and Letters

* You are invited to make a list of what you consider to be your rare, unique or unusual QSL cards or letters in your QSL collection. Perhaps no one else in the world has a QSL verifying some transmissions that you have verified.

* Your list of QSLs can show any number of different rare, unique or unusual QSLs up to a total of 5 QSLs.

* Your QSLs may verify a wrong transmission channel or an emergency broadcast due to flood, fire, earthquake, turmoil etc, or a transmission from an emergency transmitter, or test broadcasts or first broadcast or last broadcast, unusual propagation, etc.

* These QSLs can be from any shortwave broadcasting station or shortwave communication station or mediumwave station located in any country anywhere in the world. Amateur QSLs nor CB QSLs are not valid for this contest.



B. Details of Rare, Unique and Unusual QSL Cards and Letters

* Please state very briefly, no more than one paragraph for each, why you consider each item in your list of QSLs is rare, unique or unusual.

* You are invited to provide a photocopy of each of the QSLs that are on your list in Part A. Preferably, these photocopies should be in color, though black & white copies may be acceptable.


C. AWR Reception Reports

* You are invited to prepare three reception reports for the broadcast on shortwave mediumwave or FM of any AWR Asian programming. These broadcasts from Adventist World Radio may be from shortwave, mediumwave or FM stations located anywhere in Asia or on nearby Asian islands; or AWR programming beamed into Asia on shortwave from other countries.



D. Adventist Photograph

* You are invited to visit a unit of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in your country and take a photograph of it, preferably in color, though B&W can be acceptable, and submit one picture with your contest entry.

* The Adventist unit may be, for example a:-

SW MW FM communication or amateur radio station, radio studio, TV station, TV studio

Church building, church congregation, public meeting, or church event

Administrative office or building

University, high school, academy, elementary school, language school, kindergarten or day care

Hospital, medical clinic, dental clinic, orphanage, nursing home, retirement center, etc

Food factory, printing company, publishing house, etc

Book shop, health food shop, restaurant, etc

ADRA mobile emergency relief van, boat, airplane, office or project



E. Three Radio Cards

* Where possible, you are invited to include three radio cards for the Indianapolis Heritage Collection with your contest entry. These cards may be old or new, and they may be QSL cards, reception report cards, or picture cards of radio stations, etc. Not valid for this contest are amateur cards nor CB cards.



Other Contest Details

* Well, there you have it, the details for our Wavescan 2014 “Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs” - AWR “Focus on Asia” Annual DX Contest.

* This contest will run through the month of September 2014, and all contest entries should be postmarked at your local post office anywhere in the world on any date up to the end of the month of September and they should be received at the AWR post office address in Indianapolis no later than the end of the month of October 2014.

* Partial and incomplete entries are considered valid.

* Post your entry with all items to Adventist World Radio in Indianapolis, remembering that neatness and preparation, will all feature in the judging procedure. Due consideration will also be given to the area of the world in which the contestant lives.

* Where possible, please enclose return postage in the form of currency notes in any international currency, or mint postagestamps. Please note that IRC coupons are too expensive for you to buy, and they are no longer valid in the United States.

* Please enclose your postal address label also.

* The awards for the 2014 AWR “Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs” - AWR “Focus on Asia” Annual DX Contest will be similar to all previous contests. There will be a special award for the world winner, one of the Jerome Berg radio history books; and World Radio TV Handbook 2015 for each continental winner. In addition, there will be other special awards as well as AWR souvenirs and radio curios for many participants.

* You can remember that all AWR reception reports will be verified with a speciallyendorsed AWR QSL card. Please remember that it will take a period of many months,well into the new year 2015, to process all of the contest entries and reception reports, but each will in due course be processed.

* The only address for the “Rare, Unusual, Unique QSLs” - AWR “Focus on Asia” Annual DX Contest is:-

QSL DX Contest

Adventist World Radio

Box 29235

Indianapolis

Indiana 46229 USA

Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 9th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-18

Date of Broadcast: 29th December 2013, Sunday
Program: Wavescan
Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN:: INDIAN DX REPORT- PART-18

Namaskar and Greetings friends!!  I am Prithwiraj, reporting for the last time in retiring 2013 for Wavescan with my DX capsule Indian DX Report. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year 2014 and hope that you'll continue listening to Wavescan and Indian DX Report and keep pouring your love to us by sending your comments, reception reports, just as you are doing always and we too, loving this so much. This is your love and support towards Indian DX Report which helped us to complete overall two years on air in October this year and  to mark this 2nd anniversary of Indian DX Report on air, we are glad to announce issuance of WORLD's SMALLEST QSL EVER for correct reception report for this edition and for first Quarter 2014, that is, January to march 2014 editions of IDXR aired via KBS World Radio and AWR-WRMI Wavescan. For details please stay tuned until end of this report. 

So Lets Begin and here are some important DX News:- 

1. Harold Camping, Founder of Family Radio, expired on December 15th, 2013. Camping, was a retired civil engineer and he founded Family Stations Ministry in 1958, which eventually broadcast in 30 languages on a network of more than 140 radio stations and online. His ministry  most recently spent millions warning the world that the end of days would come on 21 May 2011 which never happened in reality though. But for radio lovers Harold did his best with Family Radio network and we pray that his soul may rest in Peace.  

2. WRTH 2014 released:-The publisher of World Radio TV Hand Book has released the 2014 edition and it is now available in leading online book store like Amazon.com and can be directly ordered at www.wrth.com. This 672 page DX guide will be available soon in India through online shops like Flipkart, Bookadda, etc. The handbook is packed with all the usual features that DXers and shortwave listeners have come to love over many years and apart from these this time you'll get to read a nice article from DXer and author Jerry Berg called The History of Shortwave Broadcasting in a Nutshell, a short article on the Voice of Vietnam and another nice three page article titled Digital Future which deals on the digital side of modern broadcasting and last but not the least a very interesting and informative article by our dear friend and legendary DXer from Sri Lanka, Victor Goonetilleke,  a well-researched piece entitled Broadcasting in Sri Lanka. 

3. The Ontario DX Association of Canada has announced its Annual Shortwave DX Challenge for 2014. The contest will run though out the month of January 2014 and participants are need to log as many country station as they can. The station location country list of NASWA need to be followed strictly and logging details must be submitted latest by  Monday February 3, 2014. Loggings can also be submitted on weekly basis too and the only email ID for all log submission is < shortwaveloggings@gmail.com>. For more details on the rules of this DX contest and prizes offered please visit our website www.indiandxreport.blogspot.in. 

4.      Eton/Grundig G3 receiver, once a very popular portable receiver among radio enthusiast has been discontinued according to some reliable sources. Meanwhile, Tecsun is adding to their extensive line of shortwave portables and after grand success of PL-660 it has recently released PL-880 with some advanced features and this receiver is now available for sale on amazon, ebay, etc. 

5. World Harvest Radio T8WH is issuing QSL verification cards. The World Harvest Radio broadcasting mainly gospel program from Palau island, is recently noted issuing QSL verification cards for postal as well as online reception reports. Listeners in South Asia can try World Harvest Radio in day time on 9930 kHz for strong reception. 

And friends, 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 correct reception report for this edition and March 2014 edition of Indian DX Report on Wavescan we'll be issuing 8 different design paper QSLs which will be world's smallest QSLs in Size till today. One QSL will be awarded for one single reception report and international listeners are requested to send one new issue IRC or 1 USD or mint Indian stamp worth Rs. 50/- as return postage along with a self addressed envelop. Indian listeners seeking a special QSL requested to send one self addressed envelop affixed with postage stamp worth Rupees 5/- along with their reception reports. All communication must be addressed to:-  

INDIAN DX REPORT
C/O- PRITHWIRAJ PURKAYASTHA
PUB BONGALPUKHURI
BY LANE.4
JORHAT-785001
ASSAM (INDIA)

or you can send your comments and feedback to <indiandxreport@gmail.com>. 

So, this this note its 73s from Assam.  

Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 8th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-15

Date of Broadcast: 29th September, 2013, SUNDAY

Program: AWR Wavescan 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN:: INDIAN DX REPORT- PART-15

Namaskar and hello everyone where ever you are!! I am Prithwiraj, your host for another edition of Indian DX Report here on Wavescan. 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 DX initiative from India in coming months too. So let's begin:-  


This is a recording from famous Indian radio program “Mahisasura Mardini” by which the countdown of 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.  Durga Puja- 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. Since the early 1930s, Mahalaya has come to associate itself with this 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 also 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 on 3rd October,Thursday to 0015 hour UTC of 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 International 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.  

Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 7th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-9

Date of Broadcast: 31th March 2013, Sunday

Station: Adventist World Radio

Program: Wavescan 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Namaskar and greetings from India and welcome to the first edition of Indian DX Report in year 2013. I am your host Prithwiraj. First I would like to share a great news with you all. From January 2013 "Indian DX Report" is being aired by KBS World Radio on every last Saturday of the month in their popular mailbag program "Worldwide Friendship". I invite you all to listen to this KBS version of Indian DX Report every month and send me your valuable feedbacks and reception reports. And of-course I shall verify all your reports with our special QSLs as we are doing with the reports on Wavescan version of IDXR. 

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, now AIR has been moving towards web based broadcasts too. First a couple of months back AIR General Overseas Service has started transmitting the English language programs via World Radio Network or WRN. Now all English language transmissions of GOS can be heard online at www.wrn.org/listeners. And 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 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. Mean while 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. Here is a recording of that interesting collision of Bangladesh Betar < Voice Clip>

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 11590 kHz.

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. 

You can listen to this edition of Wavescan-IDXR Here:-

https://www.box.com/s/2abvebl5mczwozqx76jo

Wavescan-Indian DX Report: 6th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-6

Date of Broadcast: 30th December 2012

Written and Edited by: Prithwiraj Purkayastha

Presented by: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Program: Wavescan 

Station: Adventist World Radio & WRMI

Namaskar World! At the beginning of this edition of Indian DX Report I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2013.

First some news from India’s national broadcaster All India Radio.

1. Recently, AIR Aizawl station from North Eastern state Mizoram was heard again on shortwave 5050 kHz between 0230 and 0330 UTC after a long gap. But their evening transmission between 1130 and 1630 UTC on this same frequency was severely disturbed by Chinese interference and AIR Aizawl not even heard during evening hours. If you receive this station in your locality then you can report it to: All India Radio, AIZAWL, POST BOX- 13, Radio Tila, AIZAWL 796001, Mizoram (INDIA).

2. All India Radio Silchar is a small Medium Wave station of 20 kilowatt, situated in the the Barak Velley at Southern part of Assam. This station sources recently informed that they have been heard by some foreign listeners, including an ace MW DXer from Finland, on the frequency of 828 kHz. You can also try this station on 828 kHz on the medium waves during day, afternoon and evening hours as per Indian Standard Time and fortunately if you have luck to tune this station reception reports can be send to <akashvanisilchar@gmail.com>.

3. India’s public radio and television broadcaster Prasar Bharati has issued orders for six Nautel NX Series 300 kW medium wave transmitters configured for DRM30 transmission. The purchase is part of All India Radio’s plans to upgrade facilities throughout India to DRM30 digital broadcasting. The DRM digitisation implementation will allow AIR to also use alternative platforms such as podcasting, SMS, webcasting and mobile service. AIR also intends to offer a 24-hour news channel along with other programming. Additional services such as Interactive Text Transmission and disaster warning alerts are also planned.

Prasar Bharati is also considering broadcasting Radio programmes of AM channel though mobile phones in India in addition to its existing FM channel's programmes. Chief Executive Officer of the Prasar Bharati Jawhar Sircar recently informed this in Kolkata. This initiative will increase the listeners of AIR and will also help to popularise its programmes.

4. Bangladesh Betar's domestic transmission on 4750 kHz is down for last several weeks. It is due to an Israel make SMPS filament failure. Now the same is being developed indigenously and engineers are trying best to resume the transmission shortly. Meanwhile Bangladesh Betar external service is also carrying an irregular schedule due to some problem in transmitter. Present broadcast schedule of Bangladesh Betar external service in English is 1230 to 1300 UTC on 7250 kHz beamed to South East Asia and from 1745 to 1900 hour UTC on  7250 kHz to Western Europe.

5. A new Tamil station seems to be testing from 0030-0130 on 7525 kHz. Signals are fair to poor. May be it is a regular broadcast aimed at Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu in India. More details will be given in next edition of Indian DX Report. 

6. Thazin Radio, broadcasting from Myanmar, has extended schedule these days. They can be heard from 0930 to 1430 UTC in vernaculars and 1430 to 1500 UTC with English on 7110 kHz.

7. Radio Hargesha from Somaliland these says coming with good reception from 1500 till 1900 UTC on 7120 kHz. They also have news in English at 1322 UTC daily. Some Dxers from different parts of the world including India have reported about successfully QSLing this station.

8. RTM Malaysia- Wai FM and Sarawak FM transmitting from Kajang in Eastern Malaysia are being successfully QSLed by some Dxers from South and South East Asia. You can try Wai FM on 11685 kHz ans Sarawak FM on 9835 kHz between 0100-0300 UTC.

9. Northern Winter months are always good for long disant low frequency propagation in South Asia. Some of the seasonal stations are Radio Havana Cuba on 6000 kHz with English at 0100 UTC. However, sometimes Ankara Turkey which is on the same frequency spoils reception. Apart from Cuba, recently I heard SHIOKAZI- The Sea Breeze from Japan on 5910 kHz between 1330-1345 UTC in Japanese, Radio Sultanate of Oman in English on 15140 kHz between 1400-1430 UTC, Radio Hargesha from Somaliland on 7120 kHz between 1500 hour UTC, Holy Tibet in English on 4905 kHz at 1630 UTC, Kyrghyz Radio in Kyrghyz on 4010 kHz at 1530 UTC, Radio Nacional de Amazonia from Brazil on 11780 kHz at 2045 UTC.

And with this we came to the end of this edition of Indian DX Report. For this edition I would like thank our friend Victor Goonetilleke of Sri Lanka and Swopan Chakraborty, Jose Jacob, Partha Sarathi Goswami from India and news sources DX-India.  
Two beautifully designed QSLs are ready to be distributed among our listeners who send us a correct reception report for this edition of IDXR. For sending a printed paper QSL by post we request our listeners in India to send 1 IRC or Mint Indian stamps worth Rs. 25/- (for each QSL) as return postage and all listeners in abroad are requested to send 2 IRCs or 2 US Dollers along with the reception report for a paper QSL by post. Reception reports without IRCs or Mint Stamps sent via postal mail or email will be awarded eQSLs. Please send your comments and reception reports to:
THE "INDIAN DX REPORT"
C/o. Prithwiraj Purkayastha
PUB BONGALPUKHURI
JORHAT 785001
ASSAM, INDIA.
Or email your reports to <indiandxreport@gmail.com>
Thank you all for listening.

Please listen the recorded file of Indian DX Report here: 

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