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Special broadcasts by AIR for Republic Day 2019 Jan 25-26


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 this time 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

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Posted by: Alokesh Gupta (Jan 22, dx_india yg via DXLD)