The new summer season of international broadcasting (A22) began on March 27th(2022) from 0000utc.
Here is a brief reception summary of a few international radio stations heard on their new frequencies.
For all monitoring Observations
RX:Grundig Yacht Boy 400
ANT: 75 Feet Length 33 ft Feet Height
Long Wire Multi Stranded Cu .75sq mm Wire(Approx)
with coax lead in
Location of Reception Place(Abhayapuri)(Assam)(India):NL56hi(Grid Location)
All time mentioned in Coordinated Universal Time(utc)
British Broadcasting Corporation World Service (BBC WS)English
0105utc 7325kHz A'Seela,Oman(250kW)
News,newsroom program
Excellent reception
The audio recorded:
Radio New Zealand Pacific
1115utc onwards 9700kHz Rangittaiki,New Zealand(500kW?)
Music & talk etc in English
Fair signal strength, noisy,fading(QSB),overall reception fair
The audio recorded around 1117utc:
BBC WS English
1122utc 11945kHz Kranji,Singapore(250kW)
Excellent Reception
Feature Program on air
The audio recorded:
Radio Japan NHK World Bengali,Hindi & Urdu Via Yamata
Radio Japan English(Newsline program on air) transmission was on air from 1500-1530utc on 11655kHz via Yamata Japan (300kW) in place Of scheduled Bengali transmission on the very first day of A22 season.The signal was strong and excellent overall reception.And it might be due to some technical error, a rare in case of Radio Japan transmitter site.Let me keep a close watch in coming days starting monday.
Here is the recording of Radio Japan in English in place of Bengali on 11655kHz from 1459utc for a few minutes at the beginning:
Radio Japan Hindi was on air on 11655kHz as per schedule annoucement from 1530utc.But the duration of the transmission for
the weekend is for 21 minutes and for monday to friday will be 20 minutes only.The reception was excellent.Cheri ke desh say the sunday mailbag program was on air as per usual schedule.
Here is the link to recorded audio file on 1530utc at the beginning:
and here is the link to the audio file just before end of the transmission from 1549utc:
Radio Japan Urdu transmission was heard as per schedule on 9440kHz via Yamata from 1600utc onwards with excellent reception overall during my brief monitoring.As annouced earlier in sunday mailbag program on March 12th of Urdu Service, the duration of the transmission for for monday to friday will be 20 minutes only & the weekend is for 21 minutes.
Adventist World Radio (AWR)
AWR English Wavescan (sundays) the Global DX Program
Only monitored schedule for Wavescan so far on the very first sunday .also on very first day of new summer season i.e.A22
1530-1559utc on 15670kHz Nauen,Germany(?) ,250kW(?)
Good reception with slight fading & noise
The audio link recorded around 1545utc:
I am awaiting more information about the schedule of Wavescan on sundays via AWR.This time no schedule of Wavescan was announced as per my monitoring in advance.
Radio Taiwan International English on 9405kHz during 1600-1700utc
I heard just last three minutes of the transmission with extremely strong signal.But the frequency of transmission of this transmission was aired wrongly as 6100kHz.It is the frequency they will shift later.
Voice Of Turkey(VOT) English
1700-1717utc 11660kHz Emirler,Turkey(500kW)
Signal good,slightly noisy & some noise seemed to be transmitter noise not sure was there,slight fading was there,
Back to back Turkish songs,corona precaution advisories by male voice(1707utc),did you know that(?a feature) by lady presenter,back to back Turkish songs (1712utc),station promo(1716utc),Turkish songs on air etc.
The audio file link recorded around 1703utc:
https://app.box.com/s/m6zufv56pn2mh7asiiii8enosbpjlcvm
Voice Of Turkey English used to be a good verifier of reception reports with printed QSL Cards.I used to send reception reports from time to time in 2000s and used to receive QSL Cards and other materials.I have used past tense above sentence as for many years discontinued sending reception reports to Voice Of Turkey and do not know about QSL response of Voice Of Turkey.
In Class seven Assamese text book, I read an article of Kamal Pasha and his life,his contribution to Turkey.That was in mid 1980s.After nearly two decades ,I received QSL Cards featuring Ataturk Kamal Pasha from his Turkey's external radio broadcasting station,Voice Of Turkey.Here is scanned version of such card (both sides front & back)
Bangladesh Betar External Service Bengali
1717utc 4750kHz
Extremely strong signal
Sports commentary on cricket achievement by Bangladesh
The audio link recorded 1717utc:
More reports,observations etc.
Gautam Kumar Sharma(GK)(VU3WTI)
Abhayapuri(Assam)(India)
