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telephone was about 12 kms away. Cell phone was also not working there.
There were some VHF communication systems of the forest department in the
area.
(...) At other times I used to check the broadcast bands keenly,
especially the lower HF bands, MW & FM.
Here are some observations of interest observed this time.
(Note: Timing of Indian stations are mostly in IST unless mentioned in
UTC. All others in UTC)
It was observed that the low power 1 kW AIR MW stations in the area
started their broadcasts only in the evenings. Several of them were heard
starting their programs with Vanthe Matharam sign on routine as follows:
5.00 pm 1602 kHz AIR Pauri
5.15 pm 1602 kHz AIR Pithorgarh (Relay of Almora)
5.30 pm 1584 khz AIR Kalpa?
5.39 pm 1602 kHz AIR Uttarkashi
5.40 pm 1485 kHz AIR Gopeshwar?
At 4.55 pm 1602 kHz an unidentified AIR station was heard with Vanthe
Matharam sign on. Being very close to Jammu & Kashmir State, the stations
from there were monitored clearly.
684 kHz Radio Kashmir, Srinagar Yuv Vani program noted in evenings/night.
No id of the new station AIR Kargil observed.
1089 kHz AIR Naushera noted with relay of Radio Kashmir Jammu only in the
mornings. They used to start abruptly in the middle of the programs at
various times and rarely started the relay on time at 5.55 am.
1350 kHz AIR Kupwara, Kashmir noted sign off at 10 pm, co-channel
interference from AIR Jalandhar B (Vividh Bharathi)
Radio Kashmir Srinagar was heard on 1116 4950 & 6110. In the late evenings
severe co-channel interference was noted from a Chinese station.They were
also noted with the special programs for Ramadan from 4.15 to 5.15 am on
1116 & 4950.
Radio Kashmir Leh was noted very well on 1053, 4760 & 6000 (full sked with
changes observed given else where)
Radio Kashmir, Jammu was noted back on SW (4830 5965) on 29 Sept 2006
after being off air for some time. Their MW freq of 990 kHz was also very
clear in darkness hours.
Radio Sadayee Kashmir txions from Delhi was heard well on 6100 at 0230-
0330 & 1430-1530 and on 9890 at 0730-0830 UTC.
The strongest local station was AIR Shimla on 3223 and 6020. They were
noted with several strong spurious signals also on 3161 3190 3255 and 5986
6052 6080 etc.
The Uttaranchal program of AIR Delhi was noted well on 6030 at 0200-0310 &
1215-1430 UTC.
The 500 kW Vivdih Bharathi txions from Bangalore was normally noted at
excellent level on 10330 during day/night. However the 9425 Khz National
Channel also from Bangalore used to fade out late in the night till early
morning.
On FM all the 9 FM stations from Delhi about 200 kms away was monitored
there at fair level.