Red DEMU SGUJ As 75723 New Bongaigaon Guwahati Via Goalpara Passenger
Courtesy:Rupam Sarma
Courtesy:Rupam Sarma
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Wavescan Via Reach Beyond Australia Reminder
Wavescan The Global DX Program schedule A25 Via Reach Beyond Australia
As per the clarification given by Jeff White, Wavescan presenter, in the latest edition of program on April 27th, the Wavescan program to Japan via Reach Beyond Australia will be on sunday in terms of UTC standard and in Japan, it will be on monday as per local time.
So, the schedule will be on sundays only
effective March 30-October 25,2025
Primarily To India 1400-1430utc 11870kHz
Primarily To Japan 2230-2300utc 17650kHz
via Kununurra(KNX)(100kW),Australia
So far on 11870kHz , the reception has been good with slight QSB(fading) here in my location at Abhayapuri.
Please listen to my recordings of the transmissions..
All on 11870kHz..
On April 13th...sunday...
around 1424utc.the recorded audio link
around 1427utc the link..
For April 27th sunday...
around 1419utc...the recorded audio link..
And around 1427utc the audio link...
And all monitorings have been done on Grundig YB 400 with long wire as external antenna. .
More observations//monitoring reports etc soon.
73
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)
GKCALLING BCDXING SPECIAL Whenever Wherever We Take Chances
Peene Baloko Peene Ka Bahana Chahiye...
The popular song from Hindi Film Haath Ki Safai by Kishore Kumar( in the film, Randhir Kapoor gave his lips to the song) and it comes to mind,whenever whereever we get a chance.. we radio enthusiasts/radio hobbyists visit radio facilities be it transmitter sites, radio stations,listen to radio plus monitor radio stations while on vacation, on car radio & visit amateur radio stations and meet amateurs so called eyeball QSOs..etc etc..
The popular song from Hindi Film Haath Ki Safai by Kishore Kumar( in the film, Randhir Kapoor gave his lips to the song) and it comes to mind,whenever whereever we get a chance.. we radio enthusiasts/radio hobbyists visit radio facilities be it transmitter sites, radio stations,listen to radio plus monitor radio stations while on vacation, on car radio & visit amateur radio stations and meet amateurs so called eyeball QSOs..etc etc..
Radio Passionate Guy Needs No Excuse To Listen To Radio ..Even If He Is On Tour/Vacation...etc etc..Also like the Chess players.as depicted in Shatranj Ke Khilari film directed by Late Satyajit Ray, which was based on Munsi Premchand's short story of the same name.
This special report 's idea began ..on the morning of April 2nd (this 2025).My long time BCDX friend ,VU3RVY, Old Man(OM) Swopan Chakrovorty, shared an interesting information via a social media platform to me.While on official tour in Barh,Bihar, while travelling on a Car ,in the car radio ,he listened to a few FM radio stations including FM radio station of Nepal and Bangladesh.
OM Swopan used to carry a portable radio etc with him while on tour.And he used to monitor different radio stations and his inputs on radio scenes were part of DX Programs of different radio stations, radio magazines & various online groups then.I still remember one such report on his visit to then All India Radio (now Akashvani) Shillong on January 14th of 2002....That was featured on then Voice Of Amercia(VOA)'s Media/DX Program for radio enthuiasts Communication World presented by Dr.Kim Andrew Ellott on February 2nd edition of the show in 2002 (02-02-02..indeed interesting!).His voice was voiced by a Voice of America(VOA) Hindi Presenter.
Please listen to this audio clip to know yourself his experience..
But nowadays, due to his job's demand,frequent tours plus other factors, Swopan is not active as such on radio monitoring, as I understand.I am missing his voice on radio,regular inputs on radio scene and also his recorded audio files.Its his inspiration that I have begun recordings of radio audios, interviews & important programs etc etc by using various techniques.Its another chapter and will discuss in detail later.I will also post radio audios from my huge recorded radio audio collection.
Now from Barh,Shillong To Kerala....
My long time senior radio friend , VU2JOS OM Jose Jacob based in Hyderabad,recently sent me a few video recordings of Radio Miami International English Service on 15770kHz around 0029utc for April 18th & 19th, which were monitored in his home in Kerala,12 km north of Kochi International Airport.He is on vacation, I understand.
And in Kerala WRMI English transmission is well heard in the morning. And a few years back, he sent me recordings of WRMI English on perhaps on 7780kHz from his home in Kerala in the early morning hour.The reception was excellent.I lost trace of the file.But during this visit , he monitored and recorded WRMI English from Okeechobee(100kW),Florida with his RIG Yaesu 757 GX II and antenna inverted V 40ft above the ground.I converted this video recordings to audio files with assiatance of my brother.
Here is his first recording link of WRMI on 15770kHz around April 18th(2025) around 0029utc:
and the second recording link of the same station around same time on April 19th..
And OM VU2JOS has set up his portable amateur station there at his home in Kerala to operate in VHF,UHF & on HF with all antennas possibles including End Fed Half Wave.
Here is a few pictures of his antennas installed there in his home in Kerala.
Courtesy:OM VU2JOS
Broadcasting Logs Of OM VU3NYV of Shillong While On Tour to Sikkim,North Bengal:
VU3NYV, OM SUDHANYA HAJONG from Shillong(a keen radio listener from his school days in Arunachal & also developed a keen interest in Amateur Radio later), was on a visit to Sikkim recently and , he took his small portable Tecsun PL310ET (with Telescopic Antenna) with him.And he shared a few vedio clips of his recordings of Akashvani Regional Stations he heard during his stay in the region.I have converted them to the audio files with the help of my brother.
On April 18th..at Ranipool,(Near Gangtok)Sikkim
Akashvani Gangtok 1404kHz 0325utc
fair signal strength,noisy, audio sometimes difficult to copy perfectly
News in Nepali by a male voice,sports related news-football, news related Nepali Commedy actor,writer & singer Madan Shereshytha
The audio file link:
On April 19th..
Akashvani Gangtok 103MHz 0210utc
Good Signal Strength in FM,loud and clear,
Program in Nepali hosted by lady and male presenter
The audio file link:
On April 20th...while on return journery at Malbazar(also known as Mal) ,North Bengal
Akashvani Siliguri 711kHz 0045utc
Good Signal strength,slight noise
Devotional Song in Bengali by a lady
Here is the link to the audio file:
Earlier, while Ranipool, he tried to listen to Akashvani Siliguri on 711kHz around 0236utc on April 19th perhaps but there was heavy noise and nothing was audible.
And also on April 17th, around 1330utc(while at Ranipool) , he heard Akashvani Dibrugarh on 565kHz(correct frequency 567kHz) with fair signal strength with noisy reception.As per the vedio clip,Bihu related song was on air.
Just for reminder as per a newspaper report which appeared over a decade back in a Guwahati based newspaper related to then All India Radio(AIR)/Akashvani Dibrugrah now at present only Akashvani Dibrugarh, it was used to be one of the most powerful medium wave station of then AIR network.And station engineering staff said that in 1970s-early 1980s, it used to receive reception reports from radio hobbyists including amateur radio operators as far as away from Scandinavian countries, Holland etc.I might have the clipping of the news item somewhere in my files.I will find out and post later.
Thanks to VU3RVY OM Swopan, VU2JOS OM Jose Jacob & OM VU3NVY again for sharing information plus the clips and also my brother Rupam for his technical assistance.
More observations//monitoring reports and much much more from the world of radio down the memory lines etc etc soon.
73
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)
On A Wet Sunday Morning At Abhayapuri 7145kHs lsb
RIG: Yaesu FT891 Antenna:Long wire
Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri,NL56hi
Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)
All time mentioned in Indian Standard Time(ist) and where possible in Coordinated Universal Time(utc) also & all reports scale as per RST scale parameters(with human touch on some cases)
> indicating onwards ,amateur station's location mentioned as per info available in first bracket after callsign as far as possible followed by Signal Report in RST scale .Besides all the stations mentioned,there might be a few stations,I forgot to mention & also a few stations I could not copy at all,all these logs were a rough diary of what I heard.There might be some errors here and there.
Date:April 27,2025(SUNDAY)
WX:Cloudy,cool breeze blowing,overnight rain & thunder
7145kHz lsb
Noise Level :S2-S3
0754ist> VU2GOR(Kolkata) VU3LGT(Asansol) both copied comfortably
0758ist>VU3LGT 57, VU2GOR 57 slight QSB(fading)
07808ist> VU2DLU QSO with VU3LGT
VU2DLU poor below noise level VU3LGT 57
both QSY to 14200kHz usb
nothing audible as such on 14200kHz usb @0813ist only beeping tone sometimes in spells
again on 7145kHz ist
0830ist> VU3NYV(Shillong) 59 maximum 20W on his Xiegu G90S transreceiver with Horizonal dipole 40mb ,VU3LGT 55 with QSB, )
0834ist>.VU2OWB(Khashpur,West Bengal), VU3OII(North 24 Paragana?,West Bengal)
0837ist>VU3NYV 57with QSB slight, VU2OWB 55,VU3LGT 55 with QSB
0840ist.VU3DUK(Guwahati) only I could copy parts of his transmissions & weak signal with QSB ,VU3NYV 57 with QSB
From The Scotland Of The East The HF Antennas of VU3NYV
Courtesy:VU3NYV,Shillong
More reports/observations plus more amateur radio related news etc soon.
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DE VU3WTI (Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK)
Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)
Monday, April 21, 2025
My Amateur Radio Reception Logs On World Amateur Radio Day
Date:April 18,2025
RIG: Yaesu FT891 Antenna:Long Wire
Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri,NL56hi
Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)
Special Notes,symbols etc used for this report:
All time mentioned in Indian Standard Time(ist) and where possible in Coordinated Universal Time(utc) also & all reports scale as per RST scale parameters(with human touch on some cases)
> indicating onwards ,amateur station's location mentioned as per info available in first bracket after callsign as far as possible followed by Signal Report in RST scale .
7050kHz lsb
(The Hambel Belgaum Net Warm Up Session)
Noise Level:S2-S3
0607ist onwards upto 0652ist appoximately
VU2RZA (Chennai)S9 to S5 with perfect copy & QSB time to time,many stations heard ,they were weak to very weak, a few not audible at all,here,VU2UWO(Near IIT Campus,Kharagpur,West Bengal) trying to break several times one such call of VU2UWO heard around 0625ist
Some of the stations well heard other than VU2RZA..0631ist VU2KFR 58(Kolkata),
0644is>t VU2TIW(Bokaro Steel City) 59
0646ist >VU2TIW 59 VU2RZA 56
7145kHz lsb
A team of Bengal Amateur Radio Society(BARS),Kolkata is camping at Mandarmani,Near Bay Of Bengal perhaps celebrating World Amateur Radio Day on field I heard a few familar voices from there with strong signal from there on 7145kHz lsb.
0800ist onwards upto 0823ist
0800ist onwards upto 0823ist
VU2ZOC(PO-portable operation) on CQ calls S5-S7 for sometime,
0803ist onwards
VU3LGT(Asansol) S4 to S7,VU2ZOC S5-S7 ,VU2SKD(PO) S7,VU2GOR
VU3SXP (Kolkata) heard once perhaps weak but doubling effect , I understood VU3SXP not copied by others at Mandarmani
0811ist > VU2FRD (Bhubuneswar)53
0819ist > VU2ZOC S5-S7,VU3LGT S5,VU2GOR 56
monitor upto 0823ist
VU2ZOC,VU2SKD & VU2GOR ex VU3SJR were all operating from Mandarmani alertnatively.Heard about strong noise upto S9 over 20dB there at Mandarmani on the morning.VU2GOR stated that noise was not at such level in the last night perhaps due to some machine working in the vicinity.
World Amateur Radio Day On 18th April of Every Year:
It is celebrated on this day to mark the formation of the International Amateur Radio Union(IARU) in Paris in1925.This year also marks the IARU's centenary year. IARU has announced the theme of centenary year as "Entering the Next Century of Amateur Radio Communications & Innovation”.
It is celebrated on this day to mark the formation of the International Amateur Radio Union(IARU) in Paris in1925.This year also marks the IARU's centenary year. IARU has announced the theme of centenary year as "Entering the Next Century of Amateur Radio Communications & Innovation”.
More about IARU ,please visit
iaru.org
More reports/observations plus more amateur radio related news etc soon.
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73
DE VU3WTI (Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK)
Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)
My Recent Monitoring on My Mornings 7s As I could Note Down....
RIG: Yaesu FT891 Antenna:Inverted V dipole
Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri,NL56hi
Monitored Mode:J3E Class of emission(Amateur Stations)
Special Notes,symbols etc used for this report:
All time mentioned in Indian Standard Time(ist) and where possible in Coordinated Universal Time(utc) also & all reports scale as per RST scale parameters(with human touch on some cases)
> indicating onwards ,amateur station's location mentioned as per info available in first bracket after callsign as far as possible followed by Signal Report in RST scale .
Date:April 14,2025
7050kHz lsb
(The Hambel Belgaum Net Warm Up Session)
Noise Level S2-S3
WX:Parly Cloudy,
0611ist approx onwards VU2RZA(Chennai) S5-S7
VU3IXK? not copied as such below noise level, VU2PNU(Belgaum) difficult copy below noise level
0616ist onwards Noise Level down to S1 minimum,weaker stations audible to some extent still not perfect copy
0620ist> VU2JF(Rajkot) 55,no copy of VU2TE & VU3MES,VU2RZA 56,no copy of VU2RTF(Coimbature),
0625ist>VU2TIW(Bokaro Steel City) breaking call,VU2RZA 53-55,
0626ist>VU2JF 55 QSB,VU2TIW 56,no copy of VU3TBU(0628ist approx.),VU2OO(Gune) just heard 43,VU2RZA 55 QSB,no copy of VU2?EHR,VU2TUM(NCR) 22,,VU2RTF no copy(0631ist)
Date:April 15,2025 (Prothom Bohag)
14195kHz 0752ist
CQ call of VU3DUK from Rajghar Road, Guwahati no copy
7145kHz lsb
0756ist>VU3SXP(Kolkata) 43 33, VU2DLU(Kolkata) 53-43 both of them noted with QSB and weak signal strength but later around 0758ist QSA (signal strength going down further)
0800ist>VU3SXP on CQ call 54 QSB, VU2UWO(Near IIT Campus,Kharagpur) 54 with slight QSB
7070kHz lsb
0816ist> last part of VU3NYV(Shillong) CQ call good signal strength
7145kHz lsb
0835-0854ist
Heard VU2OWB(Kashpur,West Bengal),VU3LGT(Asansol) & VU3SXP,
VU2OWB & VU3LGT relatively weaker than usual but copied and VU3SXP was the weakest
Date:April 16,2025
7050kHz lsb
(The Hambel Belgaum Net Warm Up Session)
0610ist>VU2JF 55,VU2RTF very weak
0613ist>VU2DOS 53-55 QSB,call to VU2RZA no response,VU3MES 43-53, VU2RTF 55,
Noise level S2 @0616ist,
0619ist> VU2RZA 55-57, VU3IXK NO COPY,VU2PNU poor copy below noise level
0628ist>noise level decreased to S1,
0631ist>VU2RZA 59, VU3LGT breaking call heard,VU?EHR no copy
0633ist>VU3LGT breaking call heard again-VU2RZA might not have copied him,VU2RZA 59 with QSB,VU3WCI very weak,
0636ist>VU3LGT 59,VU2RZA 59,VU2RTF very weak
from 0638ist again slightly nosier ..S2
More reports/observations plus more amateur radio related news etc soon.
73
DE VU3WTI (Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK)
Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)
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