New Horizon Amateur Radio Monitoring Cum News Bulletin

Here is a few amateur radio monitoring informations which I like to share with you all.

RIG: Yaesu FT891 Antenna:Long Wire End Fed

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 .

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Report No.1

Date:04/07/25

WX:partly cloudy, sunshine sometimes,..hot & humid

7145kHz lsb

0745-0800ist 

9N1CA (near Kathmandu?) S9-S7, S21RW (Khulna) S7-S9 with QSB 

0836-0845ist

VU3NVL(Near Kolkata) S3-S5, VU3LGT S5-S7 

All perfect readibily 5

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Report No.2

Date:09/07/25

7145kHz lsb

0813-0816ist 

VU2TKC S5-S7, S21RW S5 QSB 

Both  heard with perfect readibiltity 

14200kHz usb

0816ist>0817

VU2TKC S4 , S21RW NOT HEARD,

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Report No.3

Date:10/07/25

7145kHz lsb

0748ist>VU2DLU S7-S9, S21RW (Khulna) S9

Both perfect copy

0750ist>VU2UWO S3, VU2DLU S7-S9, S21RW S7,

0752ist>S21RW S7-S9, VU2DLU S5-S6, 

Noise Level S1,

0756ist>VU2DLU CALLING S7, S21RW CALLING, 9N1CA CALLING S7, NO COPY OF 9N1CA BY OTHERS ..

(Monitor's Note:S21RW disclosed he would be out of station for atleast three weeks & dismantling all his antennas. A step in the right direction )

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More Monitoring reports etc soon.

DE VU3WTI(Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)

New Horizon BCDX Bulletin Special Release

Here is a few radio broardcasting related news plus reception  updates which I like to share with of you.
For All The Monitoring 

RIG Used:Yaesu FT 891 Ext Antenna: End Fed Long Wire

Place Of Reception:Abhayapuri (Assam)(India)

BBCWS To South Asia on 9750kHz ex 9670kHz:

As per information posted in facebook group, BBC World Sevice in English has changed its one of the frequencies during 0000-0200utc to South Asia from 9670kHz to 9750kHz.

On February 16th morning I did check the reception here in my place at Abhayapuri from 0025-0106utc and it was S9 over 20dB.I guess it is still being relayed from Tashkent,Uzbekistan. And also the transmission is gong on parallel 12095kHz (via Oman Relay) with also good reception overall.

Here is a few links to the audio files recorded on 16th instant.

on 9750kHz..

0029utc:

 https://app.box.com/s/4wfdmr9kxpi5yv2tyjreejqu73au9iqj

0100utc:

https://app.box.com/s/4jgxddl92yva2p5hxivmyifhot1z3rz5

On 12095kHz around 0106utc

https://app.box.com/s/3ba04ef6f0bdq3vjbddpjs4z4nqmg37k

No Signal Of Wavescan Via Reach Beyond Australia On July 13th:

It was a very surprising to me when I found no trace of Wavescan, The Global DX Program produced at WRMI Florida,USA on 11870kHz from transmitter site of Reach Beyond Australia  from 1400utc onwards on sunday ,July 13th.I discontinued monitoring later.Later, our BCDX specialist from Hyderabad also reported faint signal there of the transmission.Lets hope for better propagation condition this sunday i.e.today ..July 20th.

As a reminder, Wavescan is now on air on sundays only from Reach Beyond Australia's transmitter site Kununurra(KNX)(100kW)

 Primarily To India ,1400-1430utc 11870kHz

 Primarily To Japan, 2230-2300utc 17650kHz 

I used to hear on 11870kHz with good reception.But on 17650kHz to Japan during 2230-2300utc, nothing was audible here at my place as per my monitoring for a few sundays.

Akashvani Guwahati With Vividh Bharati Programs In Assamese:

After a long gap, from July Ist , Akashvani Guwahati's Vividh Bharati channel on 100.8MHz is again airing Vividh Bharati Programs in Assamese on two time slots.I forget to note down the time slots.Will let you know later.

Akashvani Shillong on 864kHz:

Here is a latest recording of Akashvani Shillong on 864kHz which I recorded around 0218utc on July 19th and here is the audio file link:

https://app.box.com/s/2zpi02ds6qveehj4cuh5rfx3mohxnwzj

More observations//monitoring reports etc etc soon.

73

Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)

(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India)

12345 Howrah Guwahati Saraighat Express With Electric Loco

 On the Morning of June 27th ..around 0632ist on a bright sunday morning I spotted  at my home town, for the first time in my railfan log , an electric loco  WAP7 37272 HWH powering 12345 Howrah Guwahati Saraighat Express(Via Goalpara Town) ...

With Best Wishes

Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)

From Abhayapuri Monitoring My 7s In The Morning On The Ist Of The Instant

Date:July 1,2025

RIG:Yaesu FT891 Antenna:Long Wire End Fed

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 .

WX:Sunshine, partly. Cloudy ..

7145kHz lsb

0758ist>9N1CA (near Kathmandu?) on CQ call S7 perfect copy 

Noise level S2-S3 

7070kHz lsb

0800ist> VU3DUK (Guwahati)ON CQ CALL S5 perfect copy..

NOISE LEVEL S1-S2 

7090kHz lsb

0812ist>VU3NYV (Shillong) calling strong signal S6 heard twice- once on test mode ..1 2 3..calling ., noise level S1, Heard another station calling very weak ..even weaker than CARELESS WHISPER..HI HI..might be OM  VU3DUK ..CALLING .because I copied one word DELTA....

7145kHz lsb

0815ist>VU3ICT (Kolkata)POOR Signal  BUT just COPIED , 9N1CA S3 QSB, VU3LGT(Asansol) S7-S9..perfect copy

Noise level S1 

0818ist>VU3LGT S7-S9, 9N1CA S5-S3,both perfectly copied

0820ist>VU3LGT S5 QSB, VU3ICT S5 QSB, 9N1CA S5 QSB, all three perfectly copied  (0822ist>)

0827ist>9N1CA S6 QSB slight, VU3LGT S4 , VU3ICT S7(0829ist>), all perfectly copied

0830ist All QSY to 14195kHz usb at the suggestion of 9N1CA..

14195kHz usb 

0830ist>nothing copied..perhaps they also did not copy each other.

More such monitoring reports/amateur radio related news/informations etc from time to time

DE VU3WTI(Gautam Kumar Sharma)(GK)

Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)