Claudius Obrecht DRM transmission towards Asia:
Date : 4th Nov 2022 (Fri)
Time : 1900 to 2000 UTC
Frequency : 11710 kHz
Reception reports to : c.obrecht at swissonline dot ch
Saturday, November 05, 2022
Tuesday, November 01, 2022
Claudius Obrecht DRM test to Asia today (1st Nov)
Claudius Obrecht new shortwave DRM test towards Asia today (1st Nov, 2022) :
Reception reports to : c.obrecht at swissonline dot ch
1900 to 1930 UTC on 11710 kHz
Reception reports to : c.obrecht at swissonline dot ch
RADIO THAILAND B22
RADIO THAILAND B22
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 30, 2022 AT 0800 UTC
TIME (UTC) LANGUAGE FREQUENCY (KHz)
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0000‑0030 ENGLISH 13750
0030‑0100 THAI 13750
0200-0230 ENGLISH 13750
0500‑0530 ENGLISH 17640
1000-1030 THAI 17630
1200‑1230 ENGLISH 9940
1230‑1245 VIETNAMESE 9940
1245‑1300 MANDARIN 9940
1300‑1315 JAPANESE 9940
1315‑1330 MALAYSIAN 9940
1330‑1415 THAI 9940
1800‑1830 THAI 7475
1830‑1930 ENGLISH 7475
1930-1945 THAI 7475
Reception reports to : rthworldservice@gmail.com
(Alokesh Gupta)
EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 30, 2022 AT 0800 UTC
TIME (UTC) LANGUAGE FREQUENCY (KHz)
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0000‑0030 ENGLISH 13750
0030‑0100 THAI 13750
0200-0230 ENGLISH 13750
0500‑0530 ENGLISH 17640
1000-1030 THAI 17630
1200‑1230 ENGLISH 9940
1230‑1245 VIETNAMESE 9940
1245‑1300 MANDARIN 9940
1300‑1315 JAPANESE 9940
1315‑1330 MALAYSIAN 9940
1330‑1415 THAI 9940
1800‑1830 THAI 7475
1830‑1930 ENGLISH 7475
1930-1945 THAI 7475
Reception reports to : rthworldservice@gmail.com
(Alokesh Gupta)
IRRS B22
IRRS B22
Effective 30 October 2022 until 25 March 2023.
kHz UTC ITU Zones Power Target Area Language Days
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7290 1800-1900 18-20,27-30,37-39 150 kW Europe, MidEast,N Africa English (1)(2) Daily
9510 0900-1000 18-20,27-30,37-40 150 kW Europe, MidEast,N Africa English (1)(2) Sat
9510 1030-1300 18-20,27-30,37-40 150 kW Europe, MidEast,N Africa English (1)(2) Sun
15400 1600-1630 38-41,47,48 300 kW East Africa Oromo (1) Mon-Wed,Fri,Sat
(1) Includes programs from European Gospel Radio
(2) Includes program from IPAR
Reception reports to: reports@nexus.org
(Alokesh Gupta)
Thursday, October 27, 2022
National Frequency Allocation Plan - 2022
National Frequency Allocation Plan - 2022 is now available for download at below mentioned link :
(Thanks Deepak, VU2CDP)
Thursday, September 29, 2022
SLBC slams BBC Tamil Osai programme
SLBC slams BBC Tamil Osai programme
posted by Editor at 4:57 AM
Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation Hudson Samarasinghe says the BBC Tamil Osai radio programme made two biased stories during their past programmes. He said these programmes were aired on end of last month and these stories reported in a not so beneficial manner in the Tamil Osai programme.
Sending a letter to the Head of the BBC Mr.Neil Curry in London , Mr.Samarasinghe quoted following two incidents which were aired by the Tamil Osai programme in separate programmes.
Read the full story here :
Thursday, September 22, 2022
All India Radio's special transmission for "Mahalaya 2022"
All India Radio's special transmission for "Mahalaya 2022"
Date : 25th September, 2022 (Sunday)
Time : 0350 - 0545 IST, 2220 UTC (24th Sept 2022) to 0015 UTC* (25th Sept, 2022)
* some stations have late sign in & may continue past 0100 UTC
All India Radio, Delhi will broadcast the special dawn programme "Mahishasur Mardini" on the ocassion of Mahalaya in following languages :
- Hindi/Sanskrit version - on its Indraprastha & FM Gold channels. This will be relayed by all FM Gold channels and selected SW & MW stations.
- Bengali/Sanskrit version - at same time on AIR Delhi FM Rainbow network and selected SW & MW stations.
All India Radio, Kolkata will also originate the special Mahalaya programme in Bengali/Sanskrit at same time which will be relayed by selected SW & MW stations .
This programme may also be relayed over concerned DRM channels,YouTube channel AIR Live News 24X7 & DTH.
Live-streaming on : https://www.youtube.com/user/akashvani
"Mahishasuramardini" is a special two hour transmission consisting of Sanskrit & Bengali recitation & music orated by Late Shri.Birendra Krishna Bhadra. All India Radio has been broadcasting this program since early 1930's. The sheer nostalgia is what makes the dawn of Mahalaya special as one of the most looked forward to Radio broadcasts. Countdown of Indian festival of Durga Puja starts from the day of Mahalaya.
Frequencies observed during past years :
MW
531 - Jodhpur
549 - Ranchi
603 - Ajmer
621 - Patna A
648 - Indore A
657 - Kolkata A
675 - Chattarpur
684 - Port Blair
711 - Siliguri
729 - Guwahati A
747 - Lucknow A
756 - Jagdalpur
774 - Shimla
792 - Pune (Also try 783 DRM)
801 - Jabalpur
810 - Rajkot A
819 - New Delhi A
828 - Silchar
846 - Ahmedabad A
891 - Rampur
909 - Gorakhpur
918 - Suratgarh
954 - Nazibabad
981 - Raipur
990 - Jammu
1008 - Kolkata B (Pure DRM)
1026 - Allahabad A
1044 - Mumbai A (Pure DRM)
1125 - Tezpur
1179 - Rewa
1242 - Varanasi
1260 - Ambikapur
1296 - Darbhanga
1314 - Bhuj
1386 - Gwalior
1395 - Bikaner
1404 - Gangtok
1458 - Bhagalpur
1530 - Agra
1593 - Bhopal A
Please email your observations & receptions reports to : spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in
Or,
Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy)
All India Radio,
Room No. 204
Akashvani Bhawan,
Parliament Street
New Delhi 110001, India
Related :
Eight Decades Later, the Original Mahalaya Still Unites
Come Mahalaya, Birendra Krishna Bhadra's recitation still default choice for All India Radio
(Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi)
Wednesday, September 07, 2022
New DRM receiver by Starwaves
At the DRM pre IBC event on 6th Sept'22, Starwaves unveiled a new retro looking DRM receiver 'DRM W2401', which will be available for pre-order on vaious platforms by Oct'22, delivery starts from Feb'23 onwards.
It will be available in two versions, school edition with multimedia server and wifi will cost 99 euros.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Radio Free Asia announces 26th Anniversary QSL
Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces its latest QSL card commemorating 26 years of impactful work in some of the world's most restricted media environments, such as China, North Korea, Vietnam, and Burma. Since its founding, RFA has filled a crucial gap for the tens of millions of people living in these and other places in Asia and the world, who would otherwise have little or no access to accurate, timely domestic news and information in their languages. This is RFA's 80th QSL design and will be used to confirm all valid RFA reception reports from September – December 2022.
RFA's 26th ANNIVERSARY QSL
Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetan (including Uke, Amdo, and Kham dialects), and Uyghur. RFA strives for accuracy, balance, and fairness in our editorial content. As a 'surrogate' broadcaster, RFA provides news and commentary specific to each of our target countries, acting as the free press these countries lack. RFA broadcasts only in local languages and dialects, and most of our broadcasts comprise news of specific local interest. More information about RFA, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is always available at www.rfa.org.
RFA encourages listeners to submit reception reports. Reception reports are valuable to RFA as they help us evaluate the signal strength and quality of our transmissions. RFA confirms all accurate reception reports by mailing a QSL card to the listener. RFA welcomes all reception report submissions not only from DX'ers, but also from our general listening audience.
Reception reports are accepted by email at qsl@rfa.org and by mail to:
Reception Reports
Radio Free Asia
2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300
Washington DC 20036
United States of America
Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) August 2022 Update
Bruce Portzer's Pacific-Asian Log (PAL) Guide has been updated to the August 2022 edition and is available for download from Radio Heritage Foundation website, here's the download link :
Next Radio Andorra Broadcast September 3rd
The next program from the Archives of Radio Andorra will be on this saturday, september 3rd. It's a 2-hour nostalgia program from summer 1979 which was hosted by the french singer and actress Mirelle Hartuch : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mireille_Hartuch
The music selection is very eclectic and won't be found on any radio station nowadays.
The show will be aired as usual via Moosbrunn :
Towards Europe : 17-19 UTC on 6180 kHz with a LogPer Antenna on 270°
Towards NAm : 22-24 UTC on 13730 kHz via a HRS4/4/1
There are also programs in preparation for October to December, first saturday per month each, hosted by Sheila (who had a big hit with "Spacer" together with B. Devotion), Serge Gainsbourg and Hervé Vilard.
(Christian Milling via WOR)
Sunday, August 28, 2022
New MW station from UAE
A new MW station 'Radio Keralam' from Ras Al Khaimah, UAE in Malayalam language is testing on 1476 kHz since 17th August 2022. They are using former Radio Asia 200 kW MW transmitter. Regular transmission expected to be start by 8th Sept, 2022, Onam day.
Friday, August 05, 2022
Radio Andorra in August and September 2022
The next 2 programs "from the archives of Radio Andorra" are ready to be broadcasted. In August und September on the first saturday per month it's time to roll again some 43 year old cassettes.
The program on August, 6th the French chansonnier Ricet Barrier will do the programming for one hour. It is a program from the "Carte Blanche"-series which was recorded in summer 1979, where stars at that time were invited to select their music on a sunday afternoon program. Barrier was born in August 1932, died in 2011, so it would be his 90th birthday this year. Unfortunately the second hour of his program got lost, only the first cassette survived. Times and frequencies:
August, 6th 2022
1700-1800 UTC 6180 kHz LPH 270° towards Europe
2200-2300 UTC 13730 kHz HRS 295° towards North America
On September, 3rd the French singer and actor Mirelle Hartuch is in charge. She was born in September 1906 and was at the time the program was recorded already 73 years old. So we will hear music from the 1930s and 1940s as well as contemporary songs from the 70s. This program survived completly and will be broadcasted:
September, 3rd 2022
1700-1900 UTC 6180 kHz LPH 270° towards Europe
2200-2400 UTC 13730 kHz HRS 295° towards Northamerica
All transmission, as usual are broadcasted via Moosbrunn, Austria rated at 100kW carrier power.
As you can see on the attached photo from 2008, the storage condition of the tapes was not ideal. The transmitter building of Radio Andorra in Encamp was left empty after 1981, the roof got leaky, water went into the building. In 2009 the inheritance disputes between Spain and Andorra could be settled and the remaining apparatus and some tapes could be safed.
Since last year I'm trying to restore some of the old cassettes and bring them back to HiFi quality for the enjoyment of radiofans. The whole thing is a matter of the heart, no commercial activity. The national archive suppots this ideally, but the whole financial part is done privately by myself. If anyone likes to contribute, here is my GoFundMe-campaign: https://gofund.me/cc66ad4a
All raised funds go straight to the reconstruction of the programs (buying neccessary records, softwarelicenses for the DSP Tools, maintenence of the cassette players) as well as the transmission feed on shortwave.
All transmission being already broadcasted are also avaiable online:
(Christian Milling via WOR List)
DRM Digital Radio – at the Forefront of FM Broadcasting
The participants were reminded that the global, open, and all-band DRM standard, offers full broadcaster independence allowing broadcasters the freedom to broadcast any content without any fees.There is also no revenue cut, as all technical details are openly standardised. And no technology license is needed to implement products and solutions of DRM.
DRM is most efficient in terms of spectrum usage as one DRM block requires about 100 kHz (half the bandwidth of analogue FM) for 4 services (up to 3 audio and 1 multimedia). DRM FM allows for simulcasting DRM FM and FM analogue from the same transmitter without the need of replacing an existing FM transmitter. Each block can represent one single broadcaster who has full control of the spectrum and content. The participants explored together the three ways of possible DRM FM introduction in India: broadcast of up to 18 audio services in DRM digital from a single FM transmitter, broadcast up to 12 audio services in DRM digital along with a service in analogue and broadcast of up to 15 audio services in DRM digital in the white space between the two analogue FM transmitters.
Broadcast of multimedia content along with the digital audio services was demonstrated, including DRM's Journaline advanced text application with support for all Indian scripts through Unicode. DRM standalone receivers as well as car radios already available in the Indian market for the reception in the DRM in the MW band, have been proven to be software-upgradable (without any hardware changes) to receive DRM in FM band, too. DRM's efficient digital transmission results in huge savings in transmission power and thus distribution costs. Only about one-tenth power of DRM transmitter is sufficient in digital to deliver same coverage as existing analogue transmissions.
India is the world's largest digital radio deployment by All India Radio (AIR) with 39 transmitters (35 MW and 4 SW). AIR is also providing some exclusive radio broadcast content (24-hour News), multilingual Journaline information and has tested DRM for Emergency Warning Functionality (EWF) signals. DRM digital signals in India today can reach over 900 million people when all the installed transmitters work in full digital operation. Over 5 million cars on the Indian roads or 30% of new cars (from Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, Mahindra, Toyota, MG Hector and Mercedes Benz) have already DRM radio reception facility – at no extra cost to buyers. The Starwaves DRM SoftRadio app is now available in various Android app stores to upgrade existing phones for DRM reception, and that Gospell, Starwaves, Inntot and many other DRM desktop receiver manufacturers are coming up with various standalone DRM receivers.
During the New Delhi event participants enjoyed a live transmission on many standalone receivers, a car radio, Android mobile phones and tablets.
FM environment but also how it defines and advances the future of FM broadcasting by creating whole new revenue sources besides audio-ads while enabling targeted broadcasting with an overall audience increase, as well as cutting distribution costs significantly.
Involving commercial broadcasters in practical demonstrations of sharing same infrastructure and introducing DRM at reduced spectrum and energy use, while giving receiver manufacturers a chance to develop new solutions, will be the next step in digitising the FM broadcast and firmly establishing it as a core medium of India in the 21st century.
About DRM
Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) is the universal, openly standardised digital radio system for all broadcasting frequencies and coverage needs.
DRM on short, medium and long wave up to 30 MHz provides for the efficient coverage in large areas with at least FM quality, while significantly reducing power consumption. DRM in the FM & VHF bands above 30 MHz enables flexible local and regional broadcaster-controlled services, with up to 3 stereo audio programmes plus multimedia compon
ents in half the bandwidth of a single analogue FM signal.
ents in half the bandwidth of a single analogue FM signal.
Advanced radio functionality thanks to DRM comprises: More services based on the highly efficient audio codec MPEG xHE-AAC and free-to-air Journaline multi-lingual text information, detailed service signalling, service linking (including to analogue AM/FM services) and DRM EWF – Emergency Warning Functionality. Enhanced DRM features include native Unicode support, station logos via SPI, Slideshow images and traffic and travel information.
(Press Release)
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