New freq from Vatican Radio

Vatican Radio introduces new frequencies for their morning b'cast to South Asia : w.e.f 20-11-11

0025-0040 UTC Urdu (Monday and Thursday) 5890 kHz TAC 7410 kHz SMG

0040-0200 UTC Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, English 7410 kHz TAC 5890 kHz SMG

RVA Changes from 13th Nov

In order to improve reception in the target areas Radio Veritas Asia is going to change the following as from 13th November 2011 :
Sinhala - 11850 to 11855 0000-0027 UTC
Hindi - 11850 to 15280 0030-0057 UTC
Bengali - 11710 to 15265 0030-0057 UTC

SLBC NEW SKED

SRI LANKA : From Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka : New schedule of Sri Lanka B'casting Corporation :
FREQ TIME UTC LANG TX PWR TARG DAYS STN
873 0130-0230 Tamil put 400 SAS Sunday FEBA
1125 1330-1430 Tamil put 35 SAs daily FEBA
6005 0120-0300 English eka 10 SAs mtwtfs.
6005 0300-0500 English eka 10 SAs ......s
6005 0930-1000 Telugu eka 10 SAs daily
6005 1000-1100 Malayalam eka 10 SAs daily
6005 1100-1215 Tamil eka 10 SAs daily
7190 0020-0230 Hindi eka 10 SAs daily
7190 0930-1000 Telugu eka 10 SAs daily
7190 1000-1100 Malayalam eka 10 SAs daily
7190 1100-1215 Tamil eka 10 SAs daily
9770 0120-0300 English eka 10 SAs mtwtfs.
9770 0300-0500 English eka 10 SAs ......s
11750 1530-1630 English/Hindi trm 250 SAs daily
11750 1630-1830 Sinhala/Tamil trm 250 ME daily
11905 0020-0230 Hindi eka 35 SAs daily
11905 0930-1000 Telugu eka 35 As daily
11905 1000-1100 Malayalam eka 35 As daily
11905 1100-1215 Tamil eka 35 As daily
15745 0120-0300 English eka 35 SAs mtwtfs.
15745 0300-0500 English eka 35 SAs ......s

FEBC Saipan to close by year end

From Andy Sennitt :
Far East Broadcasting Co, a non-profit, non-denominational missionary organization that broadcasts to many parts of Asia, will decommission its shortwave station on Saipan by the end of the year, after 27 years of broadcasting on the island. Bob Springer, FEBC General Manager, attributed the decision to government deregulation and advances in communications technology that he said have significantly reduced the demand for shortwave broadcasting.

Read the story from the Saipan Tribune here

Why Axe Trincomalee?

Written by Victor Goonetilleke
From my experience of Short Wave broadcasting for more than 40 years I have always found that it is better to get a signal from one or two hops away than dealing with a ground wave, especially when a station not far away and close to skip disances. Sines in Portugal is a very good example. This DW relay station was meant to reach the East European countries, which are at about. 2 hop distance. Also RFE’s stations to E.Europe from Portugal and Spain. Please read the full article here.

Exit DW,Enter CRI

CRI is on AIR on FM 102 MHz daily in Chinese and English. But also having daily languages courses Chinese > Sinhala and Chinese > Tamil. CCTV Chinese International Television Channel is competing with CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera and is 24h on AIR in Sri Lanka in UHF-Band.Read more.....

BBC Bengali at 1630 on 6155

Due to poor reception and propagation BBC Bengali has replaced 11995 kHz with new 6155 kHz from Singapore relay at 1630-1700 UTC. Other channels at 1630 hrs continues on 7465 and 9540 kHz.

BBC Hindi on 9395

Due to interference on 9685 kHz(AIR on 9690 kHz at 1330-1500) BBC Hindi is now using 9395 kHz (from Thailand)1400-1500 UTC since 23rd May and continues 9685 kHz from Oman. It was a dual transmission from Thailand and Oman on 9685 kHz , now it has been b'casting on 2 different frequencies - 9395(THA) and 9685(OMA).

BBC Bengali on 7565 at 1330

Due to co-channel interference from 2 different stations, BBC Bengali Service is now using 7565 kHz (via Thailand) replacing 7470 kHz at 1330-1400 UTC. Parallel channels at this time are 5855 kHz (via Thailand) and 11795 kHz(via Singapore).

R.Veritas New Freqs from 15 May

In order to improve reception the following changes are effective 15th May 2011 for Radio Veritas Asia :

Sinhala 0000-0027 9720 kHz -> 9670 kHz
Bengali 0030-0057 11945 kHz -> 11710 kHz
Urdu 1430-1457 15435 kHz -> 15260 kHz via Vatican R.
Chin 1430-1500 9620 kHz -> 9535 kHz

Also Filipino to ME 1500-1553 kHz on 15280 kHz(replacing 15350 kHz via Vatican R.

Vatican Radio - New Freq 11730

From 1st May 2011 Vatican Radio is using 11730 kHz (via Tashkent) replacing 9580 kHz at 0040-0200 hrs (Mon,Thu from 0025) parallel to 7335 kHz(via SMG) in Hindi,Tamil,Malayalam and English.

No additional BBC Hindi service on SW for now

According to Andy Sennitt in Media Network BBC World Service has no immediate plans to resume the three Hindi shortwave transmissions that have been added to the HFCC transmission schedule with an indicated start date of 1 May 2011. These are so-called ‘wooden’ entries which may be used in the future if additional funding can be found, but at the moment the 1400-1500 UTC transmission is the only one on the air.

11790-New VOA Bengali freq

In order to improve reception of VOA Bangla at 1600-1700 UTC a new freq 11790 kHz is to be introduced on 28th April 2011 replacing 9320 kHz. The other parallel channels a this time 7475 kHz and the MW 1575 will continue.

BBC Hindi back on SW

From 18th April 2011 BBC Hindi can again be heard on SW for all its 4 daily transmissions as per the following schedule :
0100-0130 1413 6065 9425 11995 13745 15510 kHz
0230-0300 11995 15660 17510 17655 kHz
1400-1500 1413 7565 9685 11795 15470 kHz - current service available
1700-1730 1413 5910 7460 9605 11740 kHz
(Ivo Ivanov/DX-Mix of R. Bulgaria via Mauno Ritola,Finland)
PS : Not heard on the start day - 18th April 2011.

New A11 Summer schedule

Due to some technical difficulties it was not possible to update the site in time. We do hope to update the A11 schedule as early as possible.

In this new A11 schedule period there are many stations who have dropped their services or reduced their transmission to South Asia. Some stations uses local FM stations to relay their broadcast.