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 

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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.  

ODXA Shortwave DX Challenge 2014

The Ontario DX Association has announced their prestigious Shortwave DX Challenge 2014 edition and here are the contest details. 

2014 Shortwave DX Challenge Rules:- 

1. DURATION: 0000 UTC January 1st to 2359 UTC January 31st

2. ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS: All SWLs and DXers except the judge.

3. ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES: Report countries (where the transmitter is located) as they appear on the NASWA Country List which is available at this link: http://www.naswa.net/images/NASWA_country_list.pdf

4. ELIGIBLE STATIONS: All licensed shortwave BROADCAST stations operating between 2 and 30 MHz plus shortwave Time Signal stations and utility stations relaying a broadcast station such as AFRTS, Radio Continental in Argentina, and studio transmitter links that only carry programming.

5. INELIGIBLE STATIONS: All other utility stations including VOLMET, pirate stations, and Ham radio QSOs.

6. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND DEADLINES: All loggings must be in the following format: Frequency, Country (where the transmitter is located), Station, Time, 5 minutes of Program Details, Signal Quality, and Date of Reception and shall be contained in either a document (Word or Open Office) or a Spreadsheet (Exel or Open Office). Each week's loggings shall be submitted to shortwaveloggings@gmail.com by midnight UTC of the Monday beginning the following week (eg. January 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th). The final set of loggings shall be submitted not later than midnight UTC on Monday February 3, 2014.

7. JUDGING AND USE OF SUBMISSIONS: The editor of Your Reports Express, the weekly loggings column of the Ontario DX Association, will act as the judge and his ruling on all loggings is FINAL. He is not eligible to participate in the Shortwave DX Challenge. Any and all submissions may be used as loggings, at the discretion of the editor, for the January editions of Your Reports Express.

8. CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION: All participants will receive an attractive certificate in PDF format sent to their e-mail address.

9. CONTEST PRIZES

With the closing of the ODXA's mail order service, several hobby-related books have been made available. The top three finishers will get their choice of a book and another book will be drawn for all other entrants. For those who send in their loggings on a weekly basis, an extra ballot (one per extra submission) will be awarded them for the purpose of this draw.

Good luck to all participants.

INDIAN DX REPORT- This Weekend on KBS & AWR Wavescan

Dear Radio Friends,

It is a pleasure to inform you that "Indian DX Report"- the only DX capsule from India on SW will be broadcast this Saturday, 28th September 2013 on KBS Listeners' Lounge and on Sunday, 29th September 2013 via AWR Wavescan. I invite you to listen this small DX presentation of mine if you get chance to do so and if you like this then please send me your valuable feedbacks and reception reports. All correct reception reports will be verified by specially designed colourful paper QSLs and eQSLs. 

Here is the current A-13 transmission schedule of KBS English:- 

Europe:

Language Time (UTC) Frequencies (kHz)
English 1 16:00 ~ 17:00 9515
18:00 ~ 19:00 7275
22:00 ~ 23:00 11810
English 2 11:00 ~ 11:30 [Saturday] 9760 (DRM)
22:00 ~ 22:30 WRN
08:30 ~ 09:00 WRN

North America: English 1 13:00 ~ 14:00 15575

South America: English 1 02:00 ~ 03:00 9580

Southeast Asia:

English 1 08:00 ~ 09:00 9570
13:00 ~ 14:00 9570
16:00 ~ 17:00 9640
English 3 02:00 ~ 03:00 9690
14:00 ~ 15:00 9640

China: English 3 12:30 ~ 13:30 6095

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Wavescan Scheduling: A13 Transmission Period March 31, 2013 - October 26, 2013

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Day UTC Call kHz kW Station Location Country
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Sun 1030 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1530 AWR 15335 250 Media Broadcast Nauen Germany
1600 KSDA 15360 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
1600 KSDA 15670 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2230 KSDA 15320 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
2330 KSDA 17650 100 Adventist World Radio Agat Guam
Mon 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Wed MN00 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
2000 WINB 13570 50 World International Red Lion Pennsylvania USA
Thu 0300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Fri 0315 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
Sat 1100 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1300 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
1530 WWCR2 12160 100 Worldwide Christian Nashville Tennessee USA
2230 WRMI 9955 50 Radio Miami Int Miami Florida USA
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Internet Stream: AWR.org WRMI.net WWCR.com WINB.com
Script Archive: Ontheshortwaves.com, Radioheritage.net, Portale.italradio.org, Offshoreradio.de
Printed Articles: Various radio magazines
Google Search: Wavescan
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Looking forward to hear from you. 

Best Regards & 73's,

Prithwiraj Purkayastha

Editor & Presenter, INDIAN DX REPORT 

Pub Bongalpukhuri

By Lane. 4, Jorhat

Assam 785001

India

Email: indiandxreport@gmail.com

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Website: http://indiandxreport.blogspot.in/

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.  

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

https://app.box.com/s/w3mqs4vhn40wpsd89ovr

Wavescan Tribute to SLBC Ekala Relay Station

Photo Curtsy: Mr. Victor Goonetilleke 

AWR Weekly DX program Wavescan gave its tribute to historic SLBC Ekala Relay station which was closed down recently. A special edition of the AWR DX program, "Wavescan" that honors the closure of the Ekala Shortwave Station in Sri Lanka. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination made its first broadcast from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation back in 1951, on the very first day of what was the new SLBC Commercial Service on shortwave. Over the years, these initial radio broadcasts blossomed into Adventist World in Asia, AWR-Asia, and the programming of Adventist World Radio is still on the air shortwave from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, though these days from the ex-Deutsche Welle Relay Station located near Trincomalee on the east coast of the island of Sri Lanka. 


Without a specific announcement, SLBC closed their historic Ekala station on the last day of May and they transferred their international programming to the station at Trincomalee. To honor the long and illustrious history of the Ekala Shortwave Station, the AWR DX program "Wavescan" has aired a special edition under the old title, "Radio Monitors International" and this was broadcast on 9th June 2013 and during the following days that week. These days, "Wavescan" is researched and written in Indianapolis by the AWR DX Editor, Dr. Adrian Peterson, and it is produced in the studios of shortwave station WRMI by Jeff White, who is noted also for his key roles with NASB, the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters in the United States. The AWR international DX program "Wavescan" is on the air from stations in the AWR network, and also from WRMI, WWCR & WINB in the United States, and from Spaceline in Bulgaria.


The old Ekala Radio Station is of such significance in the long history of international radio broadcasting that the well known International Radio Monitor in Colombo Sri Lanka, Victor Goonetilleke, is campaigning widely to have the site recognized as an International Heritage Site.

Indian DX Report- which is now a part of Wavescan is presenting the following SW realtime recording of this special edition of Wavescan under its historic title "Radio Monitors International". 

Please visit the link below to listen the recording:- 

https://www.box.com/s/jxqweddatqj7ijq2xc0a

73s. 

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:-

https://www.box.com/s/05ry696y4php4tcj2h3p