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.....

New time for DW Bengali morning Service

Effective 14th April(Bengali New Year's Day) DW is retiming their morning Bengali Service at 0200-0230 hrs (instead of 0100-0130) and can be heard on SW 11970 kHz(Trincomalee) and via FM relay from Radio Bangladesh on 97.6 Dhaka, 105.0 Sylhet and 105.4 Chittagong. The evening service on FM relay can be heard at 1400-1430 hrs while the SW service continues at 1530-1600 hrs as at present.