BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

South East Asia
Urdu 0045-0215 11580 15490 44,45,49,50,51,54,55,59
Bangla 0900-1000 15620 41, 11570 26
Nepali 1000-1030 15620 41, 11570 26
South Asia
Hindi 1045-1145 9345 41, 11570 26
Gujrati 1145-1215 9345 41, 11570 26
Sinhali 1230-1300 15650 41, 11880 25
Tamil 1300-1330 15650 41, 11880 25
Irani 1700-1800 6235 40, 7485 40
Iran, Gulf & Middle East
Urdu 0500-0700 17835 37-39, 15100 38,39,46,47
Urdu 1330-1530 7530 37-39, 11575 38,39,46,47
English 1600-1615 7530 11585 37-39, 11565 38,39,46,47
Urdu 0830-1104 15100 17,18SE,27-29 [English 1100 UT]
West Europe
Urdu 0830-1104 17720 17,18SE,27-29 [English 1100 UT]
Urdu 1700-1900 7530 11585 17,18SE,27-29
Afganistan & CIAS [sic]
Dari 1445-1545 6235 40
Pushto 1345-1445 6235 40
(PBC Frequency Management, Rawalpindi, via Noel Green-UK, tidied up
by gh for dxld March 17)
DST in 2010: Pakistan All locations Thursday, April 15 to Monday, Nov 1st.
So look for most or all the above times including English to shift one UT
hour earlier, like last summer, putting PAK, WEST of India on UT +6 hrs,
AHEAD of it in time.
(Timeanddate.com via gh Glenn Hauser, dxld)
Hi, March 14, 2010. Radio Pakistan Nepali service was monitored in Lahore
today at 1000 UT at 9375 kHz. Signal was strong. SINPO was 55444. The
transmitter buzz was at a minimal level. Programme content was: religious
song in Urdu followed by Pakistani film songs in Urdu, News in Nepali at
1015 UT resumption of film songs at 1020 UT. Whenever I monitor Nepali
service, I have noted that songs/music in Nepali language are not
broadcast from this service. Since this transmission is music based, I
wonder why Radio Pakistan cannot arrange some Nepali songs despite the
fact that there is an agreement of cooperation between Radio Nepal and
Radio Pakistan.
(Aslam Javaid-PAK, dxld March 15)
Thanks for your report, Aslam, It seems that 9375 kHz via API-3 is doing
extremely well currently. Unfortunately there is no propagation to me on 9
MHz at 1015 UT and so I can't try it myself. But the same transmitter
should operate on 11525 kHz for Sinhali and Tamil at 1230-1330 so I'll see
what I get on there.
I would guess that the programme producers should be able to buy Nepali
music CD's somewhere in Islamabad if they went out to look! But perhaps
the policy is to only broadcast Pakistani music? I used to hear occasional
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