Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Blog Logs - India


INDIA 4900 AIR-Guwahati, Assam, *0000-0042, Dec 18, noted back on thisfqy with Assamese talk by a male host and he ment. Assam and India, clearstn ID also noted for the first time. I noted AIR-Guwahati on 4900 for thefirst time on Nov 18 while participating in the DSWCI 60 mb tropical bandmonitoring competition.

Jari Savolainen-FIN and Mike Barraclough-UK of WDXC also rptd Guwahati on4900. As I reported earlier on the basis of regular monitoring observations by Mr. Gautam Kumar Sharma and myself, AIR-Guwahati noted on unannounced fqy 4900 rather than its allotted fqy of 4940. E-mail toSpectrum Mgmt Division at New Delhi and to the stn on this matter provided no reply so far. So I assume this is not a typical error as observedoccasionally on AIR networks, instead a possible unannounced test txmsn ona new fqy. I have no evidence or supportive info other than monitoring observations. (Rajeesh-IND, dswci DXW Dec 31)

Also hrd on 4900 0005-0015 Dec 13 with local mx, and at 1610-1640 Dec 16,Indian mx, // 4810, 4920 & 5010, SINPO 24322.(Mike Barraclough-UK & Mendez-ESP, dswci DXW Dec 31)
4820 AIR-Jammu, full-data color "Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque" card in 17 days for both postal rpt with CD and e-mail with audio clip. V/S Y. K. Sharma,Director (Spectrum Management & Synergy). (John Herkimer-NY-USA, DXplorer Dec 31)

9470, AIR-Aligarh, full-data QSL for Jan 2003 rpt for when they first cameon 9470 relaying their FM b/c as a test of the xmtr. Full-data card forvarious e-mail and written rpts, the last of which was an e-mail to their website. V/S Y. K. Sharma, Director, SMS. As happened the last time I rcvd QSLs from AIR, I rcvd both their current Home Services and External Services skeds under separate cover (but no personal ltr this time). QSL showed up two weeks later. The Home sked now has all the new 60 mb fqys listed and took effect Oct 29. Not a new Indian state (Lucknow, alreadyverified, is also in Uttar Pradesh), but my 23rd overall site verifiedfrom NY. (John Sgrulletta-NY-USA, DXplorer Dec 31)
(Source: WWDXC -Top News (BC-DX # 789)