Monday, February 16, 2009

Radio Japan to use Ujbek relay for A09 onwards for Indian languages

It has been decided by Radio Japan NHK World that they are going to air their transmissions in Bengali, Hindi & Urdu languages via transmitter in Uzbekistan from March 29, 2009 i.e. from this coming summer season (A09).The details of frequencies of broadcast will be decided soon & will be announced accordingly. The decision of change of transmitters from Wertachtal,Germany to Uzbekistan has been taken due to long spell of poor receptions in the target areas of broadcast i.e. in South Asia. Its on a few occasions that you can get loud & clear reception of Radio Japan in Bengali, Hindi & Urdu languages on 15215 kHz via Wertachtal, Germany. Sometimes there is no signal at all for several days & sometimes the signal fades away after a while. Many listeners are also demanding atleast two frequencies for the transmission in South Asian Langauges. According to radio experts, low sunspot numbers rather nil & resulting poor propagation conditions to blame for poor reception of many radio stations here & there.

(Gautam Kumar Sharma, Abhayapuri,Assam)

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