Tuesday, February 21, 2023

A Few Radio Log Entries From My Radio Account Book (Chitragupta's Radio Account Book..HI HI)

Date:February 19,2023
For all monitoring observations and logs 
Receiver:Grundig Yacht Boy 400
External Antenna:Long Wire multistranded Copper wire 79ft long 35ft height approx. RG6 coaxial cable feedline etc
Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri(Assam)(India) 
All time mentioned  in  Coordinated Universal Time(utc) 

Radio Thailand World Service  English 
0015-0029utc 13750kHz 
Good signal strength,overall reception was excellent,SINPO 45545
Global News-Taiwan related news,Myanmar related news
0020utc promos,0022utc Business news story
0500-0529utc 17640kHz
Good signal strength,no interference,no noise,no intereference,slight fading sometimes,SINPO 45545
Opening annoucement etc,Radio Thailand miday news hours-national news,international news,Business stories reports etc,promos aired in between the segements with station idd promos
Radio Japan NHK World Bengali
1506-1530utc 11610kHz Yamata(300kW)
Good signal strength,slight fading,overall reception good
News,sunday mailbag program-Katha O Sur

Adventist World Radio(AWR) English Wavescan International DX Program
1530-1559utc 15530kHz KSDA,Agat-Guam(100kW)
Good signal strength,slight fading,slight noise as such,overall good reception,SINPO 45445
opening music,Program Highlights,100 years of BBC special report,HFCC A23 meetingin Tunisia-three opening remark speeches,a few radio news items-beginning with Turkey's earthqauke & other news items,closing usual contact infos plus program highlights of next editions,flok music of Tunisia,Greg Scott's announcement about end of transmission from KSDA

Radio Japan NHK World Urdu
1601-1619utc 11620kHz Yamata(300kW)
Good reception overall
Sunday Mailbag Program-Dewankhana
Heard about QSL Cards being now sent from Radio Japan again,it was stopped for sometime due Covid 19 epidemic worldwide

A few general entries..i.e.general observations on a few radio stations

Radio Romania International(RRI) English 
0630-0656utc 17780kHz 21470kHz Towards Australia 
17780kHz a strong signal of a different Station is audible here in place of regular RRI-English (latest check on February 19th),No trace of any signal of RRI English.
21470kHz very weak signal of RRI-English,very  noisy reception,difficult to copy the audio contents(latest check on February 19th)
0100-0156utc 7325kHz To North America East Coast
Nothing audible here as such now,only noise most of the time
The transmission was well heard for several seasons in the winter here too,but this B22 season,it has been a disappointing.

Voice Of Mongolia(VOM) English
 0900-0930utc 12085kHz 
Same old problem...severe to moderate interference usually from a broadcasting station on 12080kHz ,completely blocking the signal of VOM English on 12085kHz.It is on rare occasion you can hear the signal clean.So, the problem remains the same.

Station KNLS Alaska English via Madagascar World Voice(MWV)
0200-0256utc 13760kHz 
This transmission is now not audible here for a a few days here.Though 0300-0356utc transmission in English on the same frequency i.e.13760kHz is audible.

Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation(SLBC) External Service Hindi 
(Aap Ka Purana Sathi Radio Ceylone)
No transmission heard  still durng 0030-0100utc on 11905kHz of SLBC Hindi.But as usual the 2nd part of the transmission is audible here with good overall reception during 0200-0230utc.

More monitoring observations/reports etc soon.
73
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)
(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)

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