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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The latest B-2009 SW schedules of All India Radio is available at:

Complete SW in kHz order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm

External Services in Language order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/es/language.htm

External Services in Time order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/es/time.htm

Complete SW Stations order
http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/loc.htm