B23 Reception First Update

Here is a few brief initial  B23 general reception updates from the very first day of B23 season i.e.October 29th to the first week of November.

Receiver:Grundig Yacht Boy 400

External Antenna:Long Wire( multistranded Copper wire 79ft long 33ft height approx. )RG6 coaxial cable end feed type

Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri(Assam)(India) 

(For all cases)

All time mentioned  in  Coordinated Universal Time(utc) 

A Recent Morning At Our Garden

Radio Romania International (RRI) English:

0630-0658utc 21470kHz To Australia Not audible here at my location at all

*0100-0158utc 7325kHz to North America East Coast Very very noisy,jamming like noise,nothng audible as such

*This transmission for several winter seasons,I used to receive with good signal but from last winter,severe noise etc came on this frequency,now very difficult to copy rather impossible to copy.

Now In place during day hours no chance to listen to RRI English on analog mood on shortwave.

Radio Thailand World Service English:

So far, from October 30th, I monitored the station with good signal as follows

0000-0029utc 13750kHz

0200-0229utc 13750kHz

0500-0529utc 17640kHz

The reception has been good overall on frequencies.

Radio Philipinas WorldWide English

From October 30th, the station has been heard during 0200-0330utc on 17820kHz,15640kHz & 9475kHz.The reception overall is excellent on 17820kHz,on 15640kHz good signal but sometimes noisy, and on 9475kHz ,the signal sometimes audible with weak signal and sometimes nothing audible i.e.not reliable here.

Station KNLS Alkaska English Via MWV(Madagascar World Voice),Madagascar:

From October 29th too,KNLS English on 13760kHz on both 0200-0256utc & 0300-0356utc and the reception is good overall.

BBC World Service English:

Here is my so far monitored schedule of BBC for South Asia in the morning.

0000-0100utc 5980kHz(via OMAN) 5875kHz (Uzbekistan)

0100-0200utc 5875kHz (Uzbekistan)  7430kHz(via OMAN) 

In the evening so far..

1200-1300utc 15295kHz(via OMAN) 

1200-1400utc  11850kHz (via OMAN) 

1300-1400utc  9410kHz(Uzbekistan) very noisy etc slightly difficult to copy

On other frequencies,good overall reception so far.

And need more monitoring on these frequencies or other frequencies of BBC World Service targetted to different areas.

Voice Of Turkey(VOT) Urdu:

On November 1st, I heard first time VOT Urdu from 1257utc onwards  on 15390kHz with signing on annoucements with station idd with station music repeated several times,plus opening announcements,news etc etc  with good signal strength and but audio sometimes slightly difficult to understand.

 

More observations/monitoring reports etc from time to time.

73

Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)

(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)