giovedì 24 gennaio 2019

Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2019

India is celebrating its 70th Republic Day on 26 Jan 2019 (Saturday). All India Radio will broadcast special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations as follows:

*25th January 2019 (Friday) : Eve of Republic Day*

1330 UTC (1900 IST) onwards Hon’ble President's address to the nation in Hindi &  English. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR on MW, SW, FM. Shortly after this broadcast, the local stations will broadcast its translations in local languages.

SW frequencies:

kHz     kW       Station

4760    7          Leh
4760    8          Port Blair
4800    50        Hyderabad
4810    50        Bhopal
4835    10        Gangtok
4895    50        Kurseong
4910    50        Jaipur
4920    50        Chennai
4950    30        Srinagar
4970    50        Shillong  (Off Air)
5010    50        Thiruvananthapuram
5040    50        Jeypore
5050    10        Aizawl (Off Air)
6030    250      Delhi
9380    250      Aligarh
9865    500      Bengaluru

MW Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm

FM Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm


*26 January 2019 (Saturday) : Republic Day*

Live running commentary of Republic Day parade & cultural pageant from 0345
UTC (0915 IST) onwards :

Hindi : 7520 (Delhi 250 kW)  (Cancelling External Service in Urdu normally
broadcast at this time on these frequency), 9950 (Delhi 100 kW), 13695
(Bengaluru 500 kW)

English : 6030 (Delhi 250 kW); 15185 (Bengaluru 500 kW)

Also MW/FM frequencies as per above mentioned links.

The following regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies) to their day time frequencies between 0335-0350 UTC (ie much earlier than usual) as follows :

 6000 Leh (Off Air)
 6085 Gangtok
 7315 Shillong (Off Air)
 7325 Jaipur

 The following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at thistime and will also relay the running commentary.

 5040 Jeypore
 6110 Srinagar
 7270  Chennai
 7290 Thiruvanthapuram
 7380 Chennai
 7390 Port Blair
 7420 Hyderabad
 7430 Bhopal
 9865 Bengaluru

Please send your reception reports on line at:
http://pbinfo.air.org.in/feedback/

or by email to: spectrum-manager@prasarbharati.gov.in

Live streaming of the above programs is available in:
http://allindiaradio.gov.in/Default.aspx

Those who would like to watch the programs on Doordarshan TV  can check in:

DD National Channel:
http://www.ddindia.gov.in/Pages/Home.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/user/DoordarshanNational

DD News Channel:http://webcast.gov.in/live/

Happy Republic Day to all DX_India members!

73, Alokesh Gupta & Jose Jacob