Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year 2010

Happy New Year 2010 to all of you from all of us here at DXAsia and DXAsia-Uadx blog team.

VOA retains evening Bengali timings

VOA retains the current timings of Bengali Service at 1600-1700 hrs as from 1st January 2010 and will continue to b'cast on 1575(MW) and on 6000 & 7405 kHz. They've dropped the new timings as Bangladesh switched back to normal time.

New timings for BBC Bengali Service

W.e.f 1st January 2010 BBC Bengali Service is going back to Standard Time of Bangladesh(UTC + 6.00 hrs) and the revised schedule is :
0030-0100 hrs 6065 9510 11750 kHz
0130-0200 hrs 9510 11995 kHz
1330-1400 hrs 5835 7550 11850 kHz
1630-1700 hrs 6155 7205 9650 kHz
According to BBC Bengali Service Bangladesh will follow DST between 31 March to 31 October from 2010.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

New freq for VOA Bengali

Due to cochannel inteference VOA Bengali Service is to use 7405 kHz (from Thailand) replacing 7435 kHz w.e.f 28th December 2009 at 1600-1700 hrs. Other channels at this time are 1575 kHz (MW) and 6000 kHz (via Sri Lanka).