Saturday, April 10, 2021

Assamese In A21 Just One Entry

Here is the schedule of the only one International Radio Station(Gospel ) broadcasting  in Assamese Language
for this summer season of broadcast i.e. A21 season(as schedules posted on High  Frequency Co-ordination Conference website i.e.hfcc.org
with effect from 28th March to 30th October, 2021.

(The skd is posted as..station name 
transmitter site power 
time frequency days of broadcast format)

Adventist World Radio(AWR)
Via Tashkent(TAC) Uzbekistan (100kW)
1330-1400utc on 15550kHz (Sunday & Wednesday)

AWR Assamese was heard on March 28th(sunday) i.e.on the very first day of A21 season with excellent overall reception with strong signal on 15550kHz (via Tashkent-Uzbekistan,100kW) during my monitoring period from 1330 to 1357utc.

The link to the audio file recored around 1330utc:
https://app.box.com/s/pb2esewcydi9ornq41ek0ruw92n7y6oz

The link to the audio file recorded aound 1356utc:
https://app.box.com/s/8ytwzkmxuf715b7em13m89ib2v354b4b

AWR Assamese  began its broadcast in Assamese perhaps in October,1998.

About Trans World Radio Assamese Going Off The Air:
The other Gospel Station which used to broadcast in Assamese for several decades, Trans World Radio(TWR) has cancelled its Assamese language in mid January this year  on shortwave   as reported in a blog by a radio monitor along with several other language transmissions.
This is the link where I got the information.
https://www.bclnews.it/2021/01/15/cancelled-transmissions-of-ktwr-trans-world-radio-asia-trans-world-radio-india/

TWR used to broadcast its Assamese language transmission from its transmitter site in Agana,Guam.And on this A21 season, I have not been able to trace its broadcast on shortwave.
.For several years including last winter season ,TWR-Assamese could be heard on monday to friday during 1215 to 1245utc on shortwave(9910kHz during B20 season).I am not sure about the reason of this discontinuation.
I do not know from when exactly TWR began its Assamese transmission.I found mention of TWR Assamese transmission along with then Radio Moscow's Assamese transmission  in an article by Mukut C Sarma in Bigyan Jeuti, bimonthly Magazine(in Assamese) of Assam Science Society of 1985.This means TWR is the first Gospel radio station to broadcast in Assamese and it might have been on air atleast a few years earlier from 1985.
Here is the snap of the footnote with skd of international broadcasting station in Assamese during that time printed with the article of Mukut C Sarma in  Bigyan Jeuti on the hobby of DXING which was scanned by me.The article is in my collection. 


More inputs/monitoring updates etc soon.

73
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)



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