BBC Antartic Mid Winter Broadcasts for 2016 today

BBC Antartic Mid Winter Broadcasts for 2016

On 21st June 2016 (Tuesday)

2130-2200 UTC on 5985 kHz WOF 300 kW / 184 deg to Antarctica English
2130-2200 UTC on 6035 kHz DHA 250 kW / 203 deg to Antarctica English
2130-2200 UTC on 7360 kHz ASC 250 kW / 207 deg to Antarctica English
2130-2200 UTC on 9720 kHz WOF 300 kW / 182 deg to Antarctica English

Radio Spaceshuttle 14-15th February !

GERMANY: Radio Spaceshuttle International,  Rohrbach on 6070 kHz Saturday 14th February 2015 14-15 UTC.

Programm beinhaltet kurze Hörer Briefkasten, Beste deutsch-schweizerischen-Kuh, Disco, Pop und Rock-Musik aus den 80er und 90er Jahren, Finnland-Musik-Edelsteine in den Jahren, usw.

SWEDEN: Radio Spaceshuttle International, Sale on 6035 kHz and 9865kHz Sunday 15th February 2015 08-10 UTC

Bästa pop, disco, dans, trance och rock musik från 70, 80, och 90-talet. Svensk och finsk musik extra.

Wishing that conditions will be fine and good reception all over Europe is possible!

All correct reports sent (with 2 EUROS/ 3 International reply Coupon) to our address: Radio Spaceshuttle International, P.O.Box 2702, NL-ZG 6049 HERTEN, The Netherlands will be verified with our printed QSL! (+ some promotional material!)

COMPETITION: After six month period(January-June) special big surprises 1,2 and 3 (valuable Spaceshuttle stuff) will be sent to three listeners sent THE MAXIMUM NUMBERs of correct reports [-max one report/transmission counted]. If more than three equal reporters [same amount of reports] then Madame Fortune will have her fingers in came ;)

(Dick Spacewalker)

Bhutan back on 6035 kHz breaking the silence !

On November 20th, heard Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) in english on 6035 kHz from 0847 UTC onwards with good reception with slight noise and  hum. Was surprised when I heard BBS in english on 6035 kHz after a long break and thought that BBS might have discontinued shortwave transmission and there is no possiblity of resumption of its shortwave analog transmission in future. Anyway, let me monitor in coming days whether it is a regular comeback or something else. The English Transmission was noted on air well beyond 1000 UTC (1028 UTC infact my last checked time). In the transmission there was discussion on "Salt Business", announcements etc, english songs aired, listeners calls with music requests, dedications and music mostly english songs aired as per my monitoring .

Please check my blog for more detail report plus links to audio files ....
www.gkcalling.blogspot.com

Today i.e. on November 21st, also heard BBS-Nepali Service with songs in Nepali at 0603 UTC on 6035 kHz, english programs with listeners calling show, music requests etc during afternoon 0830 UTC upto 0950 UTC upto my latest monitoring period.

(Gautam Kumar Sharma, Abhayapuri, Assam)

Live coverage of Royal Wedding by Bhutan Broadcasting Service

Listen to live coverage of Royal Wedding by BBS on 6035 kHz tomorrow, 13th Oct 2011 0200 UTC onwards.They are still using old SW txer at 30 kW.

Also BBS TV & radio live at www.bbs.com.bt

Related Links :

Bhutan's King to tie the knot tomorrow
http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/bhutans-king-to-tie-the-knot-tomorrow/854524.html

Royal Wedding Fever Hits Bhutan
http://abcnews.go.com/International/royal-wedding-king-bhutan-makes-plans-marry/story?id=14707772

(Alokesh Gupta)

Earthquake on 21st Sept & BBS 6035 off air

It was a moderately strong earthquake that struck around 0855 UTC on 21st Sept, 2009. I was listening to BBCWS's Sports Roundup on 15310 kHz, its epicentre was in Mongor District of Bhutan. It was like sinewave type..low strength..at first..them suddenly a big surge ..then..low intensity...for a while..perhaps..for nearly a minute for the entire earthquake..& the quaking was there after a while...There were several earthquakes of different intensity that were felt in the region within a month with epicentre ranging from Anadaman Nicorbar Island range from August 11th ..& .then in Burma-Manipur Border.plus other regions as epicentre ..etc were felt here in North-east specially in Assam. I felt the night earthquake at August 11th plus the one at around 0855UTC on 09/21. In Guwahati, the one at 0855UTC on 09/21 created panic..& cracks plus slight leaning of some flats etc appeared..as flashed after a while in various TV News Channels ..immediately checked BBS Bhutan on 6035 kHz & 90.00 MHz...& regular Nepali Programme was going on...Later time to time I was checking all the National News Channels of DD plus other news channels like NDTV, Zee News, India TV..Bengali ones E-TV Bengali News..Akash News...& surprised to note it was felt in all North Bengal Areas...Siliguri, Malda..as far as away in Kolkata plus also Dhaka,Bangladesh ...Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang ...in the opposite side ...also in Lhasa..in Tibet.

Update - 23rd Sept 09

BBS is still off the air as per my latest check on 6035 kHz on 23rd Sept at 0859 UTC, however, its FM Relay on 90.00 MHz is loud & clear .... there may be problem again with BBS shortwave transmitter.

73,

Gautam Sharma

Abhayapuri, Assam, India