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.