A Visit to All India Radio Dibrugarh- A Great Experience

By:- Prithwiraj Purkayastha, SWL & DXer, Jorhat (Assam)

On 17th of August 2017 I planned to visit Dibrugarh the next day, not for visiting All India Radio though, but to meet a famous cardiologist of that medical hub of Upper Assam. We (me and my cousin brother) started early in the morning for Dibrugarh and on the way I got the telephonic appointment from the doctor. Interestingly the appointment was fixed for 5 pm in the evening and by that time (9 am) we were almost reached Dibrugarh! So 9 am to 5 pm, almost 8 hours without any work at hand!! OMG, I can not seat idle!! So instantly rang the cell phone of my Facebook friend and a very dedicated employee at the All India Radio Dibrugarh, Mr. Raja Chattopadhyaya Da and asked him whether I can visit and spend some good time at the radio station. His response with the words like "why not", of course" were enough for me to start expecting a nice radio day at AIR Dibrugarh station. But due to some confusion we got off from bus at AIR Dibrugarh transmitter site at Lepetkota, around 10 kms ahead of Dibrugarh city. From my childhood I have assumed this transmitter site as the main station but only after entering the station building I got to understand that this is the transmitter site only and the main program production station is situated at Malakhubasa (Convoy Road) near Dibrugarh-Tinsukia Road (NH-37)!!! But God do everything for our betterment!! Though as a student of Journalism I have keen interest to learn about radio program production and presentation, but  as a DXer I have deep interest in transmission facility that stations use for airing their programs to the target audience. So I utilized this mistaken visit to transmitter site and met Mr. Atul Dutta who is the Engineering Assistant of the transmitter site and very dedicated worker, as I assumed from my one hour stay at the site. After giving my introduction he happily and willingly took me to the newly installed 300 kW DRM transmitter room and explained us the transmission techniques. This Nautel DRM MW transmitter is installed in Dibrugarh under AIR's massive plan to convert it's transmission network from old age traditional system to new digital technology, known as DRM. The Engineer also informed me that the MW transmission of this station is not fully powered and when they will switch this  DRM transmitter with full capacity listeners will get FM like reception of this MW transmission of Akashvani Dibrugarh. After that we also saw the dismantled old BBC 300 kW MW transmitter used for years.

Here I also noticed a piece of DRM receiver AV-DR+1401 manufactured by Indian company Avion and currently available online through Amazon India. All these are new experiences for me and I really appreciate Mr. Dutta and everyone at Engineering section of the station for maintaining the station with top quality management facilitating wonderful contents of AIR Dibrugarh to reach the world.  

Due to heavy rain shower out side, we spent some useful time at the transmitter site and then proceeded to the main station at Convoy Road where the program production center and studios of AIR Dibrugarh situated. I informed my long time Facebook friend Parasha Konwar about my Visit to the station. Mrs. Konwar is a senior and a very energetic radio producer. We reached the main station on expected time and first met Raja Chattopadhyaya there, who, after greeting us with full heart and a cup of tea at the AIR canteen, took us to the chamber of Mr. Utpal Bhattacharya, the Deputy Director, Engineering and Head of Office. I spoke to Mr. Bhattacharya in the morning too over telephone and during our meeting he showed his great interest in receiving Listeners' feedback on the quality of signals they receive in their locality. He also informed me that the station often receive reception reports from Listeners and DXers from foreign nations and these encourage them to try their best to produce and transmit quality contents. I also described him about my DX activities and informed him about my DX segment on AWR Wavescan under title "Indian DX Report".

After a nice short discussion Raja Da took me to the main studios of the station where I experienced the live broadcast of Dibrugarh station's popular "Phone-in Huror Hathori". My FB friend Parasha Konwar was in the control room and two famous voices of Akashvani Dibrugarh Rupjyoti Dowerah and Tribeni Das Gogoi were on live telephonic conversation with the a lady listener who was describing nicely the real picture of devastating flood in her place and ended up with a song request titled "Mahabahu Brahmaputra" sung by Dr. Bhupen Hazarika. That was a nice experience for me watching three famous AIR personalities of Assam recording live in the studios. But I was surprised when Mrs. Konwar, the Transmission Executive, called her program assistant and instructed her to took an interview of me for another famous program of the station "Antara". Ms. Sangita Madhabi Dutta prepared quickly for this after a short chat with me and we conversed for around 45 mins recording my 2nd consecutive interview with All India Radio on my radio hobby- DXing. I was greatly honored by the gesture of all these AIR personalities and appreciate their cultural sense of humor. 

After that Mrs. Konwar introduced myself with the Program Head of the station and famous literary and cultural personality of Assam Mr. Lohit Deka, whom I am trying to contact, meet for a long time. I had a nice and constructive discussion with Mr. Deka and I also demonstrated my self made QSL cards to him which I usually issue to my Listeners of "Indian DX Report". I am also surprised when Deka sir mentioned about my recent postings on Social Media about AIR frequency monitoring as well as appreciate my AIR Dibrugarh station monitoring from time to time with a special mention of log at Parapat, Indonesia.  He also gifted me one precious souvenir published by Akashvani Dibrugarh on the occasion of North East Folk Festival - 2012 and 43rd Foundation Day of the station, a collectable item I was looking for a long time. 

With this I winded up my sudden but a successful visit to Akashvani Dibrugarh, listening which we grew up and spent and spending many knowkedgeworthy time of our life. After meeting everyone at Akashvani Dibrugarh I can easily understand why this station is counted among the best resource of art, literature and cultural exchange centre of India. In conclusion I can only say that AIR Dibrugarh is the next big thing in the Indian radio broadcasting system and I hope to return to this station again and again, who knows may be with some creative contents!!

India's 71st Independence Day- From a DXer's Point of View

➽President's Speech on the Eve of I-Day 

 

Photo Curtsy- Google.com

On this evening, i.e. 14th August 2017 the Hon'ble President Shri Ram Nath Kovind address the nation on the eve of 70th Independence Day of India and this was broadcast 'live' by all national and regional stations of All India Radio - Akashvani . This annual event is closely monitored by many DXers around the world as many irregular AIR stations switch on their transmitters to air this special event. I have been monitoring this event for past several years and this time also did not do any exception. Today I have tried to catch AIR stations specially from North East India and able to hear the following stations. 

The live transmission began at 7:00 PM IST (1330 UTC). On SW I heard AIR Shillong station on 4970 kHz with strong signal and clear audio, same as this station received here on my Jorhat QTH usually. AIR Gangtok was live on 4835 kHz with nice reception of SINPO 35343. Apart from this I found AIR Bhopal on 4810 kHz with good signal (SINPO 44444), AIR Trivandrum on 5010 kHz (SINPO 35333), AIR Jeypore on 5040 kHz (SINPO 35333). I was expecting to listen AIR Kohima Akashvani and AIR Aizwal as both the stations found switch on during such special occasions, but this time they may have decided to stay silent or may be the strong Chinese signals resist their signals to reach me! The most surprising signal of the evening for me was the AIR Srinagar which pleasured my ear at around 1355 UTC with weak signals though (SINPO 25222). But I was happy enough to receive them after a long time and hope that our brothers at Kashmir heard the President with extreme patriotism in their heart. The national channel of AIR broadcasting from Bangalore was very string on 9865 kHz. 

On the MW too I was looking for the stations from my own North East India to check their current activity status on the air waves and I started with All India Radio Dibrugarh which was crystal clear with its 300 kW transmission on 567 kHz. My favourite AIR Tawang was heard with nice and audible reception quality on 1521 kHz, AIR Tuensang was weak but heard on 1602 kHz, Pasighat was doing good on 1062 kHz along with AIR Guwahati - B on 1035 kHz. Guwahati A was weak though on 729 kHz as well as AIR Kokrajhar on 1512 kHz, AIR Tura on 1233, AIR Tezpur on 1125 kHz and AIR Shillong on 864 kHz. But the loud and strong reception of Akashwani Kohima on 639 kHz, Allindiaradio Itanagar on 675 kHz and All India Radio, Imphal on 882 kHz were listening pleasures for me. The signals from Akashvani Silchar and All India Radio News Agartala were not found on my receiver. Apart from these this evening's successfully heard stations were AIR Kolkata A on 657 kHz (good), AIR Siliguri on 711 kHz (poor), AIR Shimla on 774 kHz (poor), AIR Pune A on 792 kHz (Good) and ALL India Radio Cuttack A on 972 kHz (good). 

Overall this was a nice DX experience with my little toy Tecsun PL-660 and I hope that All India Radio will continue reaching millions of Indian hearts in India and worldwide in coming many many years.

 ➽➽DXing on 71st Independence Day 2017

 PM's Address to the Nation from Red Fort on occasion on 71st Independence Day celebration was broadcast live by All India Radio and it's regional stations on all broadcasting platforms i.e. on shortwave, medium wave and FM. As I have been doing in past years, this time also I did the band scan in the morning past 7:05 IST (0135 UTC) and found signals of only few stations could touch my receiver Anjan DTS-10 accompanied with 30 mt. long wire external antenna. Last night I used only my Tecsun PL-660 with its telescopic stick antenna and heard many distance AIR stations carrying live broadcast of President's speech. This again prove that DXing, specially on SW and MW bands are best after sunset. So here are the list of AIR stations I could heard this morning.

On shortwave band I heard AIR Shillong on 4970 kHz with SINPO rating 35433 for reception. Live transmission also heard on AIR frequencies 15040 kHz (SINPO 55444), 9380 kHz (weak) and on 11620 kHz (SINPO 44333). 

On medium wave I could hear only All India Radio Dibrugarh, Kohima Akashvani and Allindiaradio Itanagar on frequencies 567, 639 and 675 kHz respectively. 

On FM band my home station AIR Jorhat was booming as usual on 103.4 MHz. Apart from this AIR Kohima was clear on 103.00 MHz and AIR Mukokchung on 100.9 MHz. Another station I heard loudly on 102.5 kHz, but I could not identify the station as AIR Tezpur on 102.4 MHz and AIR Nagaon comes on 102.7 MHz. But I am not sure about this 102.5 MHz that I logged this morning. 

At last I would like to wish all my fellow countryman a Happy Independence Day 2017.

 

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

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)

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.  

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.