BBC requests listeners' observations on jamming in Asia

Chris Greenway (via WOR list) reports that his colleagues in the BBC's transmission department are seeking observations of the jamming of some BBC WS English transmissions from listeners in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Hong Kong, South-East Asia and Central Asia. They would particularly like to receive reception reports about the following frequencies:

5970 kHz at 0000-0100 UTC

12095 kHz at 0100-0200 UTC

12065 kHz at 1200-1300 UTC

15310 kHz at 1200-1300 UTC

9410 kHz at 1300-1400 UTC

12065 kHz at 1300-1400 UTC (different site to 1200-1300 transmission on same freq, so reports on both hours requested)

If you can help, please send your reports to worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk, making sure you give your location. You can keep the reports simple, just giving date, time, frequency and what you heard.

IARUMS to concentrate on cleaning-up 40 metres

The South African Radio League's councillor for the IARU Monitoring System (IARUMS), Fred Scheepers, ZS1FCS, invites radio amateurs and shortwave listeners to join a campaign to remove non-amateur stations from the 40 metre amateur band.
It requires many persons to monitor the band from 7 000 - 7 200 kHz for intruders and record their details such as the station ID, the frequency and time. Many intruder broadcast stations will broadcast their ID on the hour and half hour.
If you cannot understand the language make an mp3 recording or a wave file and add it to your report. Fred has set a special email address that is easy to remember. It is ntruder@sarl.org.za

(The South African Radio League)

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/august2010/cleaning_up_40m.htm

List of illegal BC txn's on 7100-7200 kHz
http://www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/7100r1.pdf

Nepal :Radio Frequency Monitoring Stopped

Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) has not been able to monitor bandwidths occupied by FM radio stations and telecommunication operators as its mobile monitoring vans have been grounded for the last 30 days.

Read the full story here :

http://anildhakal.com.np/a/articles/radio-frequency-monitoring-stopped-933

Observations during Solar Eclipse

Monitoring Observations at Hyderabad of 49 & 41 Meters during partial Solar Eclipse

Partial solar eclipse was there at my location in Hyderabad today 15 January 2009 at 0600-0945 UTC (10.30 am to 3.15 pm IST). During the time of solar eclipse, it was like cloudy weather here and I monitored the broadcast bands. Enhanced reception was noted on 49 and 41 Meter bands and stations not heard usually at the time were also heard.

Here are some monitoring observations of 49 Meters :

Freq(kHz) -- Station -- SIO

5770 Myanmar 151
5915 Myanmar 252
5935 Unid 151
5965 Unid 151
5970 Unid 151
5990 Unid 151
6020 AIR Shimla 252
6035 Bhutan 151
6040 AIR Jeypore 555 (off air till 0823)
6100 AIR Delhi DRM
6110 Chinese 444
6130 Chinese 151
6175 Unid 151
6190 AIR Delhi Hum 251
6200 Chinese 151

Important observations of today on 7 MHz are as follows:

7230.4 242 Voice of Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Movement (with lot of hum) Pakistan sign off at 0841 after Allahoo Akbar (from tune in at 0753). It is scheduled at 0745-0850 as per WRTH 2010 but not heard lately.

7230 AIR Kurseong is not heard for many days now. After they left Chinese station was heard on 7230.

7250 0800 Koran recital, Dhaka? after AIR Gorakhpur left air at 0800.

Live commentary of Total Solar Eclipse was noted on 7290 Thiruvanthapuram in Malayalam & 7380 Chennai in Tamil.

AIR Port Blair was also not heard on 7390.

AIR Guwahati was noted testing with Hindi Film Tunes on 7420 from 0930 when my local station AIR Hyderabad left the same frequency.

Other air Channels were noted as usual on the usual 7 MHz frequencies but with a little better reception as was Malaysia on 7295.

(Jose Jacob, Hyderabad via dx_india yg)

Latest ITU Monitoring Data Files

Here are the latest ITU Monitoring Data Files :

For the period 1st July 09 to 18th Aug 09

http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/files/pdffiles/323.pdf

For the period 1st Apr 09 to 30th June 09

http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/files/pdffiles/322.pdf

For the period 1st Jan 09 to 31st Mar 09

http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/files/pdffiles/321.pdf