Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2010

Special broadcasts by AIR on 25 & 26 Jan 2010

All India Radio will broadcast the following special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations on 26th January.

25 January 2010: 1330 UTC: President Mrs. Pratibha Devisingh Patil's address to the nation. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR. Delhi frequencies are 5015 6030 6085 9575 & 9835. Regional stations on SW are using 60 MB frequencies at that time. Look out especially Kohima 4850 (1000 to 1630 UTC).

26 January 2010: Running Commentary of Republic Day parade from 0350 UTC

Hindi: 6155(Bengaluru 500 kW); 11620(Aligarh 250 kW); 15135(Delhi 50 kW). English: 5990(Delhi 250 kW); 9810 (Delhi 50 kW); 11830 (Delhi 50 kW);15050 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

The following Regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies ) to their day time frequencies between-0335-0350 UTC as follows:

5965 Jammu? 5985 Ranchi ? 6000 Leh 6040 Jeypore 6065 Kohima? 6085 Gangtok 6150 Itanagar? 6190 Delhi 7230 Kurseong 7240 Mumbai 7280 Guwahati 7295 Aizawl 7315 Shillong 7325 Jaipur 7440 Lucknow

(? = Normally off air)

So some unusual reception of AIR stations shall be observed.

The other following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentry.

6020 Shimla 6110 Srinagar 7210 Kolkata 7290 Thiruvanthapuram 7335 Imphal 7380 Chennai 7390 Port Blair 7420 Hyderabad 7430 Bhopal

Reception Reports to spectrum-manager@air.org.in

(Jose Jacob, VU2JOS , National Institute of Amateur Radio , Hyderabad ) Telefax: 91-40-2331 0287 Cell:94416 96043

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