The Dy. Director General of AIR North East has inaugurated the DRM MW 200 kw transmitter on 711 kHz at 1055 UTC today (26th Oct). In his speech b'cast till 1115 UTC today he told the power of anglogue transmitter on 711 kHz is 194kw while the DRM on 720 kHz is 6 kw. Reception here since then is very good on 711 kHz.
Their website announced : www.airsiliguri.in
In B16 AIR Vividh Bharati will use 9865 kHz instead of 9870 kHz in all transmissions from Bengaluru (to avoid cochannel interference at 1300-1600UTC).
-Alok Dasgupta,
Kolkata
