BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

... At first we were introduced to the Spectrum Management Division where
a young handsome gentleman who is the Deputy Director of Engineering
welcomed us. Alokesh introduced Anker Petersen and me to Mr.B.K.Oberoi,
the most cheerful person having a real helpful mind for Dxers
(Incidentally he also issued several direct QSLs from Regional AIR
Stations when he was Station Engineer). ... There we had very interesting
as well as exciting talk on the shortwave medium, its challenges and
future.
Anker Petersen gave his tropical band monitor survey of Regional AIR
stations and showed the threat by Chinese SW stations which blocks or even
jams AIR transmissions of regional transmitters in the North East India.
They told us that nothing can be done at HFCC Conference and related
forums. Also China put another transmission over the entertainment channel
Vividh Bharati (9870 kHz) SW broadcast.
The verification policy of AIR also discussed with Mr. Ansari and Mr.
Oberoi. The common complaints for not having a steady verification or
neglected reception reports are introduced over there. They have lot of
pending reports held with them for verification. As currently the
verifications are done through a particular official channel. When a
reception report is received by the SMS Division they sent the report with
the note of the Director SMS to concerned language departments or regional
stations for verification of programme contents. After verification the
concerned section after verification of the programme content shall send
back the report with a note whether it is eligible for verification with
QSL Card.
Regarding verification policy they said that they plan not to QSL Medium
Wave and FM broadcasts in future. Mr. Ansari also stated that a quick way
to dispose the reception reports by directly verifying by the SMS division
is also under consideration. The DDE (SMS) Mr. Oberoi told that reception
reports for AIR General Overseas Service mostly came from Finland, Germany
and U.K from the European target area. It is from the U.S most reports are
received, even though they are not targeting to North America.
Incidentally All India Radio rarely receives reports from listeners from
European countries other than those mentioned above.
We talked about DRM transmission experiment by AIR. Alokesh Gupta monitors
regularly for AIR on DRM transmissions. They told that AIR will convert
some transmitters (nearly 10%) to DRM capable in the near future. Also DRM
capable MW transmitters and in DRM plus on FM is also planned for next
phase. All India Radio is very keen to know the results of their 1745-2230
DRM transmissions to Europe on 9950 kHz in English & Hindi.
... In the New Broadcasting House, we met the Superintending Engineer in
charge of the Studio Complex Mr. P.K.Jain. In front of him there was an
Audio Monitoring system through which the programmes from 12 studios can
be simultaneously monitored. He asked about our hobby, the scope of DRM
and explained about the studio facilities in the building.
We also visited the External Services Division where the Deputy Director
Ms.Nayyar Sadrudin received us. She enquired about the broadcasts we
listened to and when Anker handed her a recent reception report from of a
recent General Overseas Service, she called the announcers he mentioned in
the report! Mr. Kaushik Roy the frequent hosts of mailbag programme
“Faithfully Yours” and Mr.Sanjiv Baruah came to the room. We had very
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