Military coup in Myanmar, MRTV off air

Local Myanmar military TV Myawaddy has announced the military has taken over control of the country. That the VP, Myint Swe, a former military general is now the temporary president & he has given authority to the military chief. This will reportedly be for a 1 year period.

Burma's state-run MRTV television said in a Facebook post that it was unable to broadcast due to technical issues.

MW opening with Laos

Good MW Opening at 1500 UTC on 5th Jan 2011

Laos , Vientaine, 567 kHz
AIR Nagpur 585 kHz
AIR Raipur 981 kHz
AIR Najibabad 954 Khz
Nepal Surkhet 576 kHz
Nepal Pokhra 684 kHz
Myanmar 594 kHz
Myanmar 576 kHz
Myanmar 729 kHz
Myanmar (Alt) 711 kHz

Curiously the higher reaches of MW band are less active, signals heard through my 60 m East West long wire and also through roof top reference wire antenna.

(Supratik Sanatani, Kolkata)

Myanma Radio on new 729 kHz

Hello Friends,

I am just back from providing Cyclone Aila Emergency Ham communication by National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR) in West Bengal. I was stationed at Kalitala on an island in India -Bangladesh border.

http://www.thehindu.com/2009/06/08/stories/2009060860150500.htm

While there, I monitored the broadcast bands as usual. Of interest was Myanmar on unlisted MW 729 kHz noted sign on at 2300 UTC parallel to 594. The other MW frequency 576 was also heard then. This new 729 khz was heard in the evenings also (parallel to 5985 at 1330). Unlisted Bangladesh stations were also heard on 1116 & 1215 Khz (Images /harmonics?!). 7250 is also noted with Home Service at around 0700 UTC. Some weak audio was also at last heard of Nepal on 5005 kHz. Cyclone Aila also silenced AIR Kolkata for some days. By the way the officially unlisted low powered AIR Kolkata B transmission was noted only in the city limits on 97 MHz parallel to 1008 kHz. Alok Das Gupta informs that it’s a studio to transmitter link.

Jose Jacob, National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, India

Myanma Radio moves to 7200

After watching 3 days (29-31March) Myanma Radio moved to 7200 khz 0030-0230 UTC this morning replacing 7185 kHz under the new 7 MHz channel area. They were in 7185 kHz during the past 3 days and only this morning (1st April) they started using 7200 kHz.

SLBC Colombo is still using 7190 kHz and yet to move on to the new area.

(Alok Dasgupta,Kolkata)