Saturday, March 28, 2026

A26 Updates From Abhayapuri

This  Summer season of International Broadcasting (A26) is fast approaching. It will be effective from March 29th (last sunday of March) to October 24th (last saturday of October) of 2026. And the first schedule for A26 I got of Wavescan Program, the international DX Program now produced in WRMI studio and now becomes on air on sundays to India & Japan via Reach Beyond Australia transmitter site. The schedule was posted as part of their Wavescan Program of March 8th on WRMI Facebook book page during the first week of March.I heard the schedule announced on the program on March 8th of the program on air.

Wavescan The Global DX Program schedule A26
Via Reach Beyond Australia
Effective March 29-October 24,2026
On Sunday
Primarily To India ,1330-1400utc 15400kHz
Primarily To Japan, 2230-2300utc 17650kHz (Monday On Local Time)
Via Kununurra(KNX)(100kW),Australia 
 
Here is a few latest recordings(B25 season ) of Wavescan Programs via Reach Beyond Australia on 15440kHz
On March 8th ..around 1356utc ..schedule of Wavescan  for A26 via RBA effective March 29th  was announced..
The audio  link:

on March 26th ..around 1330utc ..with new frequency announcement from March 29th from RBA just before Wavescan..
the audio link:
and around 1357utc..the audio link:
For all two  monitorings, I used my Grundig Yacht Boy 400 radio along with an inverted V dipole. 

Meanwhile High Frequency Co-ordination Conference (HFCC), the informal active group of International broadcasters on international shortwave frequencies co-ordination , has already released the tentative A26 transmission schedules on their website.
The link goes link this:
As per HFCC's database , the schedule of only international broadcaster (though Gospel broadcast) Adventist World Radio(AWR) which broadcast biweekly Assamese Programs, goes like as follows:-
AWR Assamese
Effective March 29-October 24,2026
On Sunday & Wednessday
1330-1400utc 15550kHz 
via KSDA,Agat,Guam 100kW

Some more A26 schedules updates for our region .
Effective March 29 to October 24,2026

Radio Philipinas World Service English
0200-0330utc  15640kHz, 17750kHz, 21720kHz 
via Tinang (250kW)

Radio Japan NHK World
English 1400-1430utc 11800kHz
Bengali 1500-1520utc 11655kHz
Hindi     1530-1550utc  11655kHz
Urdu      1600-1620utc  9440kHz
All transmissions are via Yamata (300kW)

Voice Of Turkey 
Urdu 1200-1300utc 17580kHz 
English 1630-1730utc 11660kHz
 KBS World Radio English
1400-1700utc 9785kHz 

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

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