On The Last Morning Of A18....

Today i.e.October 27th is the last day of this A18 season of International Broascasting and here is a few radio logswhich I have done this morning plus a few general radio monitoring observations of A18  .

RX Used:Grundig Yacht Boy 400

 ANT:Cu WIRE 78' Length 30' Height With COAX LEADIN  

Geographical Location of Reception Place(Abhayapuri):

Longitude:26º18´20´´North

Latitude:90º37´50´´East

All India Radio(AIR) Portblair was not heard here on 4760kHz this morning from my aircheck of 0020utc onwards.

AIR Shillong i.e. North Eastern Service Of AIR & AIR Jeypore was heard on 4970kHz & 5040kHz on its usual signing on time schedule with good signal.

AIR Gangtok on 4835kHz was not heard today as per my several airchecks from 0232utc onwards upto 0307utc.Perhaps it was off the air during the entire  morning transmission starting from 0100utc.

Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation(SLBC) Hindi...0032utc 11905kHz Music-different music-perhaps National Anthem Of Sri Lanka(not sure),singature tune of SLBC..around a few seconds past 0035utc, announcement by lady about station idd & frequency etc..in Hindi..also announcement about next program "Awabahan"-music.

Here is the the audio recorded around 0035utc of SLBC Hindi:

https://app.box.com/s/9xa9b0emf2arnldibfkx5kt5cwbw4re1

AIR National Service 0040utc 9380kHz(Via Aligarh) Weather forecast & later signing off announcement around 0041utc in Hindi by a lady followed by National Anthem Good Signal 

Radio Romania International(RRI) English 0045utc 7375kHz Signal was fair & noisy  initially..gained strength suddenly around 0047utc, Music,announcement about station idd plus next program..lady host begun the next program..interview with a lady..

Here is the link to the audio recorded around 0047utc:

https://app.box.com/s/14roh1dniuv9n97bnjrckzo3rh2ird0z

AIR-Thiruvananthapuram  0048-0053utc 5010kHz Music-song South Indian Style,announcement by male voice in Malayam ,music-song by male singer.The signal was poor & but improved slightly around 0050utc with the music.Its after a long break I heard signal of AIR-Thiruvananthapuram.

Here is a few moments of recordings of AIR-Thiruvananthapuram around 0050utc:

https://app.box.com/s/h6ll49i8cimu97y9j0z2ybtbisr043j8

AIR North Eastern Service(NES) Via Shillong 0053utc 4970kHz Devotional Song by a male voice,announcement station Idd etc by a lady host,music,again announcement of station Idd

Here is a few moments of recordings of AIR NES Shillong around 0053utc:

https://app.box.com/s/ok07ug6cl6kmm505y8wpppydgc6tt9uw

General Observation Of A18 On Some Regional Shortwave Stations Of AIR:

AIR Kurseong on 4895kHz & 7230kHz,AIR Aizawl on 5050kHz & 7295kHz   are still not on air as per my monitoring observation. 

AIR Gangtok is sometimes heard with strong hum noise completely blocking the audio on 4835kHz and followed by a day's or so off the air and again back with normal audio in this A18 season.It might be due to some technical problem on its transmitter.And also a good news that AIR-Gangtok was recently was heard with good signal on its day time frequency of 6085kHz.

More radio monitoring observations etc soon.

73s

Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)