IDXR Host Voted 3rd Rank in KBS Annual Listener Survey 2013!

Its a good news to all IDXR listeners of KBS World Radio & Wavescan. IDXR host Prithwiraj has been voted the 3rd rank among all KBS English Section hosts in station's year end listener's survey "Top Host-2013". This has been announced in KBS Year End special program "Adieu 2013" aired on 31st December on English language transmission of KBS. We heartily thanks all listeners who voted for Prithwiraj and grateful to all of you for your continuous love and support towards Indian DX Report. 

You can listen Prithwiraj's Interview with Lauren and Karen and the entire year end special program by clicking the link below:- 

KBS "ADIEU 2013"

(This is a real time SW recording, we regret for the audio quality)

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 12th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-18

Date of Broadcast: 28th December 2013, Saturday
Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips.
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 KBS World Radio with my monthly 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 KBS and Indian DX Report and 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 and one year on KBS World Radio. So 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. The PCJ Radio International year end special live Happy Station show can be heard tomorrow, that is on 29th December, with host Keith Peron between 1330 to 1430 UTC. Our South east and East Asian friends can tune PCJ on 9335 kHz, listeners from Europe can tune this station on 5995 kHz and friends in North America can catch PCJ on 11880 kHz. 

5. 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. 

6. 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 next three edition of Indian DX Report 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 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.  

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 11th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-17

Date of Broadcast: 30th November 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN:: INDIAN DX REPORT- PART-17

Namaskar and hello friends!! I am Prithwiraj, your host for this November edition of Indian DX Report here on KBS Listener' Lounge and today I would like share with you some of my very recent important radio station loggings received here in my QTH located in Jorhat on the banks of mighty Brahmaputra river in North East India. 

First some updates on regional stations of All India Radio. I heard AIR Shimla station on 15th of this month on 4860 kHz around 0125 UTC with fair signal and AIR Kurseong from North Bengal was heard on 4895 kHz around the same time with News in Sanskrit and Hindi. AIR Imphal in Manipuri was heard on 16th November on 4775 kHz around 0100 UTC, AIR Gangtok I heard around 0130 UTC on 4835 kHz, AIR Shillong is also active on 4970 kHz and AIR Itanagar is loud and clear on 4990 kHz around Indian morning hours. 

Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation or SLBC was received around 0130 UTC on 11905 kHz with Hindi film songs and commonwealth summit coverage on 15th of this month. On the same day I heard SHIOKAZE- the Sea Breeze in English from Japan with fine reception on 5975 kHz from 1630 UTC. Around this same time I monitored KBS in English was also coming fine on 9515 kHz. 

Vatican Radio in Hindi was received clear on 16th November from 0040 UTC on 9560 kHz. On this same day I heard Radyo Philipinas with many updates on disastrous Haiyan typhoon in English from 0200 UTC on 17700 kHz. Myanmar Radio in English on 9730 kHz from 0700 UTC, Voice of Mongolia in English on 12085 kHz from 0900 UTC, Radio New Zealand International in English on 15720 kHz from 1059 UTC were also heard well on 16th November at my QTH. Radio Nikkei in Japanese was received with fair signal on this day on 9595 kHz around 1400 hour UTC, KNLS broadcasting from Alaska was coming fair too on 9655 kHz in English around 1510 UTC. 

Voice of Korea broadcasting in English from Pyongyang, North Korea was received on 9870 kHz from 1630 UTC, Radio Deutsche Welle in English was heard around 1900 UTC on 11800 kHz, Radio Exterior de Espana in Spanish was heard loud on 9590 kHz around 1915 UTC, Zanzibar Broadcasting Corporation from Tanzania was heard on 11735 kHz around 1930 UTC, Radio 

Belarus in English was active on 11730 kHz at 2030 hour UTC, Radio Nacional da Amazonia from Brazil in Portuguese was also heard with fair signal around 1920 UTC on 11780 kHz. 

And at last here some new frequency updates:- 

PCJ Radio International broadcasting from Taiwan on Sundays has changed their frequency to 9335 kHz due to interference disturbances on previous frequency and NHK World Radio Japan Bengali service can be heard from 1st December on 13615 kHz to avoid disturbance on current 12035 kHz. 

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. Next month in our year end episode we shall announce something very special for all our listeners and world DX community. So please don't forget to tune into December edition of Indian DX Report on KBS and AWR Wavescan.  If you have any suggestion or comments on this edition of IDXR 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. Until next time its good bye and 73s from Assam.

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 10th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-16

Date of Broadcast: 26th October 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN:: INDIAN DX REPORT- PART-16

Namaskar and hello friends!! I am Prithwiraj, your host for another edition of Indian DX Report here on KBS Listener' Lounge and today I would like to start with some information on forthcoming Rallye DX-2013, an interesting global DX contest organised by DX Club of Reunion Island or Club DX de La Réunion.

The DX Club of Reunion Island, which was formed in 1981, was organizing this DX contest locally since 1992 but first global version of Rallye DX was organised in 2012 and the 2013  version of the "Rallye-DX" will start from Friday 15th November 2013 at 0000 hour UTC and will run till Sunday 17th November 2013 at 2400 hour UTC. For these 72 hours, Dxers from around the world are invited to listen listen as much shortwave radio stations as they can and realizing maximum reception reports possible. DXer with maximum number of accurate reception reports and stations heard, will be awarded the winner's prize.  

For this contest all reception reports must have the following details:- 

1. Listening period must be of minimum 15 minutes and should include maximum details of the program listened. 

2. Please specify the name of the radio station, language, date, Time in UTC, the frequencies used and the reception code in SINPO.
3. One reception report is authorized by one radio station per day, you can mention all frequencies heard.

4. You can also listen this same station on following days on other frequencies and time and can report.

5. Reception reports for Time Signal radio station, military radio station, weather radio station are not authorized. 

6. The number of reception reports is not limited.

It will be a special moment for all shortwave enthusiasts around the world. To register for this DX contest and to obtain a registration from please contact:- 

Mr. Bernard Grondin at < rallye-dx@mail-reunion.com >

Or you can register via Facebook on www.facebook.com/groups/rallyedx.2012

FROM today the B13 Winter shortwave broadcast schedule is in effect and here are some quick frequency updates of few stations I have received till now:- 

Popular DX program of Adventist World Radio Wavescan, in which Indian DX Report also features, can be heard on Sundays between 1530 to 1600 UTC on 11750 kHz, 1600 to 1630 UTC on 15660 kHz and 15215 kHz, between 2230 to 2300 UTC on 15320 kHz and finally between 2330 to 2400 UTC on 17700 kHz.  

Radio Romania International in English can be heard in Indian subcontinent between 0400 to 0500 UTC on 11710 kHz and 13730 kHz and in Japan between 2300 to 2400 hour UTC on 7395 kHz and 9620 kHz. 

Radio Deutsche Welle in Urdu can be heard between 1430 to 1500 hour UTC on 9440, 15275, 15640 and 17800 kHz in Indian Subcontinent and although DW has cancelled all its English language transmission for this region, but still DW lovers in this part of the world can tune into DW English targeting African continent between 1900 to 1930 UTC on 11800, 12070, 15275 kHz, between 1930 to 2000 hour UTC on 11800 and 15275 kHz, between 2000 to 2100 UTC and 2100 to 2200 UTC on 9800, 11800 and 12070 kHz. 

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 in this winter. 

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 

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 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.  

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 8th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-14

Date of Broadcast: 31st August 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN:: INDIAN DX REPORT- PART-14

Namaskar and hello friends! Welcome to August edition of Indian DX Report on KBS Listener's Launge. I am your host Prithwiraj from Assam. So lets begin with some DX News and first a sad news for Shortwave radio enthusiasts. 

According to a Russian news magazine, Voice of Russia will stop its shortwave broadcasts from 1st January 2014 and they are doing this again due to budget cuts, following the same path already adopted by many other international broadcasters specially from Europe. Voice of Russia, established in 1929, currently uses RTRBN transmitters to broadcast to foreign countries using short and medium waves. After the shortwave service goes off the air, only three low-power medium wave transmitters will be used to broadcast to other countries and they will mostly use FM band transmitters based abroad, the magazine said. At the beginning of this year, Voice of Russia cut the total volume of shortwave broadcasts to 26 hours a day from more than 50 hours in 2012. For South Asia, apart from English Voice of Russia currently broadcasting in Hindi between 1300 to 1400 UTC on 7505, 9445 and 11530 kHz and between 1500 to 1600 UTC on 7505 and 9445 kHz. VOR Urdu language broadcast can be heard between 1400 to 1500 UTC on 7505 and 9445 kHz. 

After remaining silent in August, PCJ Radio International will again start broadcast its Sunday only one hour shortwave programs from 1st September from 1330 to 1430 UTC on 11835 kHz with Focus Asia Pacific with Andy Sennitt  and the Happy Station Show with Keith Perron.     

On 15th August every year India and South Korea celebrate their independence day with lots of joy and emotions.  In India as a tradition, every year the honourable president of India address the nation on the eve of Independence day, that is, on 14th August evening and on Independence day, that is, on 15th August the Prime Minister of nation hoists the national flag at New Delhi's Red Fort and address the nation from there. India's national broadcaster All India Radio and all its regional stations broadcast both these events "live" on shortwave, medium wave and FM bands and  for DXers who love to tune regional shortwave stations of All India Radio this is a nice opportunity to try and log AIR stations, may be some rare and irregular ones also. This year I have monitored both these special independence day coverages and found that All India Radio Kohima station operating from North Eastern state of Nagaland was heard after several month's  silence on 4850 kHz and MW 639 kHz around 1330 UTC and 0130 UTC with nice and loud reception. Another North eastern station Aizawl from Mizoram province was also heard with decent reception on 5050 kHz around the same time. AIR Shillong from Meghalaya province was found good enough on 4971 kHz instead of their official frequency 4970 kHz on 15th August morning covering main function from Red Fort. AIR Itanagar from Arunachal Pradesh province bordering China was off air on SW 4990 kHz, but I heard them on MW 675 kHz with Independence Day coverage. AIR Guwahati from my home state Assam, was heard on 7420 kHz on 15th August morning but nothing was on 4940 kHz which has been reported off air for some time now. AIR Imphal is still off air on both  7335 kHz and 4775 kHz. AIR Gangtok from Sikkim was heard on 4835 kHz but the reception was not that satisfactory here in my QTH. Here is a quick reception summary of other AIR stations I have monitored on 15th August between 0130-0245 UTC.

11985 kHz- Delhi- SINPO 45444 
15050 kHz- Delhi- SINPO 55555
9595 kHz- Delhi- SINPO 55444
11620 kHz- B'luru- SINPO 35333
7380 kHz- Chennai- SINPO 35333
7420 kHz- Hyderabad- Not Heard
7210 kHz- Kolkata- SINPO 35222
4880 kHz- Lucknow- SINPO 25222
4895 kHz- Kurseong- SINPO 35333 

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.  

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 7th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-13 

Date of Broadcast: 27th July 2013, Saturday

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Namaskar friends and welcome to July edition of Indian DX Report. I am your host Prithwiraj and my hearty greetings to all KBS listeners who are observing the Holy Ramazan in this month all over the world. So lets begin with some DX News. 

All India Radio completed 86 years of service to the people of India. A symposium - Radio in Digital Age - was held in New Delhi on 22nd July on completion of 86 years of Radio Broadcasting in India. Noted Agricultural Scientist Dr M S Swaminathan have extolled All India Radio for its services to India for more than 8 decades. Established in 1930, All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks in the world. Its headquarters is at the Akashvani Bhavan in New Delhi. 

AIR Radio Kashmir from Srinagar, India is broadcasting an one hour special program on occation of Holy Ramzan between 2130 to 2230 UTC on 4950 & 1116 kHz. These special broadcast of about 1 hour duration will continue till the Ramzan festival. 

After 65 years of broadcasting, one of the most heard and popular SW station from Israel "Kol Israel" has suspended its only remaining shortwave broadcasts in Farsi to Iran at the beginning of July which means that this station will not be heard on shortwave any more. The long time shortwave listeners may remember that Kol Israel used to broadcast overseas programs in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Persian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, as well as a home service program in Hebrew and external service in other Jewish languages. They also had a DX-Program in English, hosted by Ben Dalfen, aired on Sundays. 

All though Voice of Greece, better known as ERT,  went off the air in June, but still some DXers reporting that GREECE ERT transmitting in English, instead in Greek between 1300-1315 on 9420 kHz. If you have still not QSLed this station you try your luck on that time and frequency which is targeted towards West Europe. 

If you would like to stay connected with the latest DX news from Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives then you can bookmark http://dxasia.in/ in your laptop or PC internet browser. This is a beautiful online DX resource from South Asia maintained and contributed by ace Dxers like Victor Goonetilleke of Sri Lanka and Alok Dasgupta of India. In this website along with DX news you can also get the updated transmission schedules of government run shortwave, medium wave and FM stations of these countries.  

And here are some important monitoring observations done by me in this month.

PCJ Radio continues it's weekend shortwave broadcast on Sundays via SLBC Trincomalee and well received on 11835 kHz between 1330 to 1430 UTC. This special weekly transmission consist of news magazine "Focus Asia Pacific" for first 15 minutes and Happy Station show till remaining 45 minutes. 

TRT- Voice of Turkey in English was heard on 15220 kHz between 1630-1700 hour UTC with SINPO 45444

Voice of Vietnam in English was heard on 9730 kHz between 1600-1628 UTC and the SINPO was 45444

Radio Riyadh in Bengali was received on 15120 kHz at around 1415 UTC with SINPO 45444

TWR-India was received with its Hindi transmission between 1420 UTC on 12160 kHz and the SINPO code was 45434

Radio Australia in English was heard on 9540 kHz around 1615 UTC with SINPO 43343

 

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. 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 take care and enjoy DXing.  

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

https://app.box.com/s/197v9l4c2idlkq312bi9

KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 6th Edition

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/indiandxreport  

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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KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 5th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-11

Date of Broadcast: 25th May 2013
Station: KBS World Radio
Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Greetings friends and welcome to this month's DX tips from Indian DX Report on KBS Listeners' Lounge. I am your host Prithwiraj and hope you all are keeping fine. So lets begin with few DX news from Asia. 

Radio Taiwan International has recently announced in their website that it's transmissions towards the Philippines in English between 0100  to 0200 UTC on 11875 kHz and between 1100 to 1200 UTC on 9465 kHz will close from July 1st!! However, their Medium Wave transmission from 1100 to 1200  hour UTC on 1359 KHz will remains unchanged.

According to a news published recently, China Radio International’s Tamil service is all set to launch its FM station in India as part of its 50th anniversary this year. CRI Tamil, which broadcasts on shortwave targeting Tamil Nadu in India, is in talks with some FM stations in Chennai. The Tamil service of CRI was started in August 1963 and besides Tamil, CRI broadcasts in three other Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali and Urdu. If this proposal of CRI realised the this will establish CRI's footing in the FM area of India. 

Taiwan based PCJ Radio has recently started a series of Shortwave test transmissions via SLBC relay station in Trincomalee beamed to East and South East Asia with a powerful 125 kW transmitter.  On 19th May, Sunday they successfully conducted this test transmission between 1300 to 1400 hour UTC on 11750 kHz and three more test transmissions are scheduled on this same frequency and time on 26th May, 2nd June and 9th June, Sundays. Printed and eQSLs are offered by this station for correct reception reports for these test transmissions.   

All India Radio Port Blair station transmitting with a 10 KW transmitter from Beautiful Indian Islands of Andaman and Nicobar is reported missing on 4760 kHz due to a breakdown in transmitter. The station engineers are trying best to restore the faults and hopefully AIR Port Blair will be soon on air again. Here is the current transmission schedule of AIR Port Blair:-  2355 to 0300 hour UTC and 1030 to 1700 or 1730 UTC on 4760 kHz; AIR Port Blair is also available on  7390 kHz between 0315 to 0400 UTC (Saturdays till 0415 UTC and on Sundays till  0500 UTC) and  0700 to 0931 UTC (on Sundays till 1000 UTC).    

And well, I would like to conclude this edition of Indian DX Report with some good news for our listeners in Bangladesh. News is that Bangladesh Betar is seems to strengthen its FM transmission power within the country as they has installed some new BE FM 10S 10 kW FM transmitters at following cities & currently test transmissions being carried on - Dhaka on 102.0 MHz, 104.0 MHz, 106.0 MHz, Sylhet 88.8 MHz, Rangpur 88.8 MHz, Comilla 103.6 MHz, Coxesbazar 100.8 MHz, Khulna 88.8 MHz, Noapara, Jessore 100.8 MHz, Rajshahi 88.8 MHz, Chittagong 88.8 MHz and in Barisal on 105.0 MHz. 

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>

So, friends until next time its goodbye from India. 

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

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KBS World Radio- Indian DX Report: 4th Edition

INDIAN DX REPORT: Part-10

Date of Broadcast: 27th April 2013, Saturday

Station: KBS World Radio

Program: KBS Listeners' Lounge- Weekly Listening Tips. 

Presenter: Prithwiraj Purkayastha 

Greetings friends and welcome to a new edition of Indian DX Report on KBS Listeners' Lounge. I am your host Prithwiraj. As always I would like to start this month's DX tips with few updates from All India Radio.

As we all know that from 31st March, Sunday, the summer A13 transmission schedule of all international Shortwave broadcasters began. But AIR External Service & Home Service on SW has not made any changes in their A-13 schedules compared to B-12 schedules! That means AIR external service and home services may still tuned on the same frequencies and schedules as it was available during last winter. For complete A13 schedule of AIR you can log into www.allindiaradio.gov.in or for a DXer friendly schedule please have a look into http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm , a wonderful DX resource page maintained by Mr. Jose Jacob, the Assistant Director of  National Institute of Amateur Radio at Hyderabad.  

Recently many regional stations of All India Radio are aiming to rope in DRM transmitters to improve its transmission and content quality. After successfully testing the signals as part of a live in-car demo, the DRM signals will now be tested in AIR Bengaluru to monitor the quality of broadcast. From 22nd April AIR Bengaluru is testing DRM signals for around a week  using a 500 kW transmitter for their Vividh Bharati Service on 9870 kHz. The schedule for broadcast will be in three segments; from 0025 to 0435 UTC, from 0900 to 1200 UTC and  from 1245 to 1740  UTC. The station is interested in reception report mainly from Indian listeners at various timings. Reports can be sent to -

Suptg. Engineer, AIR, Super Power Transmitter, Bengaluru, Karnataka  Or  it may be emailed to:sptairynk@rediffmail.com 

Mr. Atanu Das, a producer at RVA Bengali Service at "Chitravani" Kolkata informed me that Radio Veritas Asia is interested in reception reports for their different language services from listeners and they promise to verify with QSL cards and Stickers. Reception reports for all day's transmission in a week will be highly appreciated. Latest frequency schedule of RVA can be found at RVA website www.rveritas-asia.org and reports can be mailed to <arleneadonarber@gmail.com>. 

And Here are some A13 Summer Schedule of English language transmissions of few popular international stations targeting Asian regions.

Radio Taiwan International can be heard in South Asia between 1600 to 1700 hour UTC on 9440 and 15485 kHz and in South East Asia RTI is transmitting from 0300 to 0400 UTC on 15320 kHz and from 1100 to 1200 hour UTC on 7445 kHz.

Radio Romania International is transmitting targeting India between 0300 to 0400 UTC on 15340 and 17830 kHz and in Japan they can be heard between 2200 to 2300 hour UTC on 9790 and 11940 kHz.

Voice of Vietnam can be well heard in Asia between 1100-1130 UTC on 7285 kHz, 1230 to 1300 UTC on 9840 and 12020 kHz, 1600 to 1630 UTC on 7220, 9550, 9730 and 7280 kHz and between 1900 to 1930 UTC on 7280 and 9730 kHz.

Vatican Radio in English can be heard in Asia between 0140 to 0200 UTC on 9580, 11730 and 15470 kHz and in the evening hours between 1530 to 1550 UTC on 11850 and 15110 kHz fromSunday to Friday and on Saturday the Holy Mass can be heard between 1530 to 1600 hour UTC on 11850, 17815 kHz and in DRM mode on 17500 kHz.

Radio Cairo in English can be heard on 17870 kHz between 1215 and 1330 UTC in South East Asia.

And last but not the least our beloved KBS World Radio English language transmission can be heard in Asia between 0200 to 0300 UTC on 9690 kHz, between 0800 to 0900 UTC on 9570 kHz, between 1300 to 1400 UTC on 9570 kHz, Between 1400 to 1500 UTC on 9640 kHz and between 1600 to 1700 UTC on 9640 kHz. KBS is also heard with good reception on 9515 kHz between 1600 to 1700 UTC and on 7275 kHz between 1800 to 1900 hour UTC.

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>

So, friends until next time its goodbye from Assam. 

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

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