The Spectrum Monitor, November issue now available

 

November 2025

The Spectrum Monitor is available now, with great articles to inform you of the latest in all aspects of radio.

To learn more about TSM, go to: http://www.theradiospectrummonitor.com 

This month's features include: 

ELF: How Low Can You Go

Amateur Radio Digital Voice Buying Guide

Radio in Unexpected Places

WRVA: The Voice of Virginia

100 Years of Radio: How Canada Found Its Radio Voice

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

Latin American Radio Report

Monthly columns covering radio topics include: 

Scanning America

Federal Utility

Milcom

Utility Logs

The Shortwave Listener

European Radio Scene

Bits & Bytes

Radio 101

Radio Restoration

Amateur Radio

VHF & Above

Jen's November 2 audio now available

 

Jen's Part 2 of the Hollowed - Eve And All Real Deal Rocking Over and Under-Taker of a show for Sunday, November 2, 2025, is up and ready!

Cast for Sunday, Nov 2nd. 19:00 - 23:00 UTC 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p126ab5skl1w6ky82dfop/Jen-s-Hollowed-Eve-Pt-2-My-All-Real-Deal-Rocking-over-and-under-taker-of-a-show-Sunday-Nov.-2nd.-19-23-heard-on-Unique-R-Australia.mp3?rlkey=ur1u9qbbp26tubhvejdcdgcbj&dl=0

TWR Asia, English Winter Schedule

 

English

0030-0100  12120 (Mon-Fri)   Bocaue             Philippines

1030-1046  11965 (Mon-Fri)   Kununurra          Australia

1030-1100  11965 (Sun)       Kununurra          Australia

1130-1145   9910 (Sun)       Orzu               Tajikistan

1130-1200  15460 (Mon-Fri)   Kununurra          Australia

1200-1300  12105 (Sat) (DRM) Tashkent           Uzbekistan

1415-1430  17700 (Fri)       Talata-Volonondry  Madagascar

1430-1445  17700 (Mon-Wed)   Talata-Volonondry  Madagascar

1445-1500   9975 (Sun) (DRM) Tashkent           Uzbekistan

1445-1446  17700 (Mon-Fri)   Talata-Volonondry  Madagascar

1505-1515   9975 (Sun) (DRM) Tashkent           Uzbekistan

Mediumwave

0045-0100    882 (Mon-Fri)   Puttalam        Sri Lanka

1445-1500    882 (Fri / Sat) Puttalam           Sri Lanka

1500-1545    882 (daily)     Puttalam           Sri Lanka

(The Spectrum Monitor/Bits & Bytes/Nov 2025)

https://www1.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/binews/us/nz/userlist1.txt

9975  1300-1330  TJK TWR  GUAM                Chi Dushanbe-Or 1

9975  1300-1340  TJK TWR  GUAM                Chi Dushanbe-Or .23456.

9975  1300-1345  TJK TWR  GUAM Women of Hope  Chi Dushanbe-Or   7

9975  0000-0200  USA KVOH Voice of Hope       Spa Rancho Simi 2-7

9975  0200-0700  USA KVOH Voice of Hope       Eng Rancho Simi 2-7

9975  1400-1430  GUM TWR  GUAM                Bur Merizo      1

9975  1430-1445  UZB TWR  GUAM                Sga Tashkent    1

9975  1445-1505  UZB TWR  GUAM (DRM)          Eng Tashkent    1

https://ktwrdrm.blogspot.com/2025/10/good-news.html

We received news from the Tashkent bcast center, that their DRM-capable transmitter has been repaired and tested. It should be able to air the last 15170 kHz DRM broadcast for the A25 season. Even though it is the end of the season, we still want to know how well you received it.

For B25, the DRM schedule is as follows:

Time      Day  Frequency  Power  Language   Coverage area

1200-1230 Sat  12105 kHz  50 kW  Mandarin   China

1230-1300 Sat  12105 kHz  50 kW  Japanese   Japan

1445-1505 Sat   9975 kHz  50 kW  English    India/Southeast Asia

We thank you for your patience while the transmitter was down. We hope you enjoy the broadcasts throughout the B25 broadcast season. Please let us know how they perform. 73 de TWR Asia

(via Patrick Robic-AUT & Roger Thauer-D, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Nov 2)

(WWDXC Top Nx 1634/03 Nov 2025)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 27 October - 02 November 2025

Solar activity was at low levels on 27 Oct - 01 Nov. Solar activity reached moderate levels on 02 Nov due to a single M1.0 flare that occurred at 02/0026 UTC from a region beyond the East limb and became the largest flare of the week. All the active regions that crossed the visible solar disk this week presented a simple magnetic configuration (alpha or beta) and an unremarkable overall activity. Region 4267 (N04, L=60, class/area=Cso/120 on 28 Oct) was the most flaring region during the week, with three C-class flares: a C1.6 at 28/1626 UTC, a C4.7 at 01/1655 UTC and a C8.2 at 02/1246 UTC. Three Type-II radio bursts were observed on 29-31 Oct and were likely associated with far-sided activity: 29/0012 UTC (est. speed 1,357 km/s), 30/0424 UTC (est. 691 km/s) and 31/2013 UTC (est. 542 km/s). 

Multiple CMEs were observed in coronagraph imagery during the week, but they were mostly far-sided. The CME that erupted around 30/0645 UTC from a region near N21E32 presented a potential Earth-directed component, and its modeled propagation suggested a partial impact on Earth's magnetosphere arriving on 02 Nov. However, no clear CME influences were observed on the solar wind data near-Earth during the period. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached the 1,000 pfu threashold around 31/1200 UTC and remained at high levels until the end of the period. The maximum > 2MeV electron flux of 1,260 pfu was observed on 02/1650 UTC by the GOES-19 satellite. 

Geomagnetic field activity was quiet on 27 Oct and 01 Nov, and reached active levels on 28-31 Oct and 02 Nov. Five synoptic periods of minor storming (G1) levels were observed on 30-31 Oct due to the solar wind maximum disturbances caused by the high speed stream (HSS) associated to a positive coronal hole that dominated the geospace during the period. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 03 November - 29 November 2025

Solar activity is expected to be at moderate levels on 03-17 Nov due to the delayed return of Regions 4246 and 4248, that seem to be rotating into the Earthside solar disk between 03-04 Nov. At least two other regions are expected to emerge from the East limb until 10 Nov, as observed at GONG farside images. Solar activity could remain at moderate levels through 29 Nov if these regions have significant magnetic complexity. 

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. However, if the upcoming returning Regions 4246 and 4248 continue to be magnetically complex with enhanced activity, an isolated proton event is possible between 07-12 Nov. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to remain at high levels until 13 Nov, due to the persistent perturbations at Earth's magnetosphere associated to the CH HSS. Moderate levels are expected on 14-26 Nov period, and high levels are expected to return on 27 Nov. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be mostly quiet to active during the 27-day period, with minor storming (G1) levels likely on 07-08, 15 and 26-27 Nov due to recurrence of CH HSS influences. 

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2025 Nov 03     125          15          4

2025 Nov 04     125          10          3

2025 Nov 05     130           5          2

2025 Nov 06     130           8          3

2025 Nov 07     130          20          5

2025 Nov 08     135          25          5

2025 Nov 09     135          18          4

2025 Nov 10     132          12          4

2025 Nov 11     140          10          3

2025 Nov 12     140           5          2

2025 Nov 13     145           5          2

2025 Nov 14     145           5          2

2025 Nov 15     145          20          5

2025 Nov 16     145          12          4

2025 Nov 17     135          10          3

2025 Nov 18     130           5          2

2025 Nov 19     130           5          2

2025 Nov 20     135          12          4

2025 Nov 21     135          10          3

2025 Nov 22     125           5          2

2025 Nov 23     120           5          2

2025 Nov 24     120          15          4

2025 Nov 25     120          18          4

2025 Nov 26     118          25          5

2025 Nov 27     118          20          5

2025 Nov 28     120          12          4

2025 Nov 29     120          10          3

(NOAA)

Radio SEAC, Ceylon

   

Dominion of Ceylon 

Radio SEAC, Ceylon

Thank you to Ray Robinson and Jeff White for sharing this week's nostalgic edition of Wavescan. 

Jeff: Today we have a feature which we hope will be of particular interest to Wavescan listeners in South Asia.  The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation claims to be the oldest radio station in Asia, and this year it’s celebrating its 100th anniversary.  SLBC traces its roots back to the founding of Colombo Radio in 1925, but during the Second World War, there were some very interesting developments that led eventually to the establishment of Radio Ceylon, the immediate forerunner of the SLBC.  Here’s Ray Robinson to tell us more.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff.  There is a long and storied history of broadcasting in the Indian sub-continent, not least of which was the famous Radio Ceylon which in the 1950’s and 60’s provided a very successful cross-border commercial radio service – the South Asia equivalent of LM Radio in Mozambique or Radio Luxembourg in Europe.

But today we’re looking specifically at the events associated with the South East Asia Command, or SEAC, during World War 2, which ultimately led to the establishment of Radio Ceylon.  We start back in England in August 1943, where plans were laid in London to establish SEAC, with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as the Supreme Allied Commander.  Mountbatten, a second cousin of the then King, George VI, arrived in Delhi, India by air on October 5, 1943, where he set up his headquarters in a Maharajah’s palace.

In the summer of that same year 1943, the BBC General Overseas Service had commenced a daily shortwave transmission to India under the title, "Forces Hour."  This programming was primarily intended for British and American service personnel on duty throughout British India, a huge territory which incorporated almost all of present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar.  A few months later, the BBC began shortwave broadcasting to the civilian population in India with four hours of programming daily.

However, at the same time, there were several ex-BBC personnel on duty with the British armed forces throughout India, and these experienced radio men from England were already producing forces programming which was aired locally over AIR radio stations in various cities, including Lucknow, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and Lahore.

Several of these radio personnel were drawn together in New Delhi to produce BBC-style programming for broadcast locally in India.  The first broadcast of the new "All Forces Program" went on the air from AIR Delhi, using the callsign VUD on both medium wave and shortwave, in December 1943.  This programming was heard by shortwave listeners in the United States, and the station identification stated:  Allied Radio Station, Delhi.  The frequencies in use at the time were 886 kHz medium wave with 20 kW, and 7210 kHz shortwave with 10 kW.

Early in 1944, the Forces Broadcasting Section moved into its own facility, and the total staff in this unit eventually grew to around 100 personnel.  In February 1945, the Allied Radio Station, Delhi was again noted in the United States with broadcasts from VUD2 on 6190 kHz, probably now with 100 kW.

But in April 1944, just six months after Mountbatten had arrived, he decided to transfer the whole of his SEAC headquarters from New Delhi to the Crown Colony of Ceylon (which was never part of British India), and he took with him many radio personnel, and four train loads of equipment.

In Ceylon, the new SEAC headquarters were set up in Kandy (that’s Kandy with a K), a regional city located in the center of the island which had a reputation for being the most scenic city in the country.  Kandy is nestled between mountain ranges at the edge of a large lake some 1600 feet above sea level, which gives it a more moderate climate, and it is, in fact, the second largest city after Colombo.

When Lord Louis Mountbatten arrived, he took over the Perideniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy and established his headquarters in the Royal Palace there.  At the height of the British presence, there were more than 5,000 military personnel from the UK stationed in Kandy.

As well as low power AFRS and BFBS stations on medium wave, there was also a shortwave station heard far and wide that began transmitter tests on October 11, 1944 as ‘Radio SEAC, Kandy’, or sometimes more simply just as “Here is Kandy”.  At the time, it was stated, they were planning to broadcast for four hours daily with programming intended for Forces personnel in the SEAC command areas.  Transmissions would be beamed to the Indian subcontinent and to South East Asia.

The broadcasts from ‘Radio SEAC, Kandy’ were to be supplemental to the programming that was already being produced by the SEAC broadcasting unit still active back in New Delhi, and which was already on the air on both medium wave and shortwave via AIR station VUD in Delhi.  The timing of the two sets of broadcasts, from Delhi and Kandy, would be scheduled such that listeners in the intended target areas would have one long continuous block of shortwave programming each day.

As well as locally produced programming, it was planned that SEAC Kandy would relay shortwave programming from London and Washington to audiences in South and South East Asia.  Two of the young presenters on SEAC Kandy, David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington, subsequently became very well-known in the 1950’s and 60’s to UK audiences of the BBC and Radio Luxembourg.

SEAC Studios at 191 Turret Rd., Colombo

All of SEAC Kandy’s broadcast schedule was apparently coordinated and produced in a set of borrowed studios at 191 Turret Road, opposite the Town Hall in Colombo.  Additional test broadcasts from SEAC Kandy began on October 26, 1944 on 15275 kHz, and these were monitored in Australia at a good level, no doubt due in part to the saltwater pathway.  These broadcasts continued to be heard for nearly a year until October 1945 on 25, 19 and 16 metres, but curiously there never was any shortwave transmitter in Kandy itself.

So what happened?  Well back in 1941, construction had begun on two shortwave transmitter sites at Ekala, a dozen miles north of Colombo.  These were the large and subsequently well-known SEAC transmitter station, and also an adjoining transmitter base for use by the Royal Air Force, the RAF.  At the time of the so-called Kandy broadcasts, work at the large SEAC transmitter base was far from completion.

But, the nearby RAF transmitter station was operational, with its own power generation system and living accommodation for some 40 staff.  Several small shortwave transmitters were installed there – 3½ kW Marconi SWB8’s – which were in use for high-speed telegraphy, but were not equipped with modulators for voice transmission.  But they did have some directional diamond-shaped 3-wire rhombic antenna systems.  So, in order to launch the new SEAC radio service, a 7½ kW RCA transmitter, model ET4750, was installed temporarily in the RAF transmitter building, and it was from here that the test broadcasts of ‘Radio SEAC, Kandy’ were made.

A grand opening ceremony for Radio SEAC, Kandy was planned for Sunday, April 15, 1945, with Lord Louis Mountbatten himself present for the occasion.  Special test broadcasts went out in advance on the Friday and Saturday.  However, during the Saturday evening test broadcast, the modulator on the shortwave transmitter failed.  So, a small 500 watt transmitter in the RAF Building that was used for voice communication with aircraft was hurriedly taken over for the prestigious opening ceremony.  This transmitter was a Hallicrafters BC610, designed and manufactured in the United States for military voice communications.

So from these humble beginnings, Radio SEAC took shape.  The pretense that it was operating from Kandy, was probably a deliberate war-time obfuscation, especially since the transmitter site was actually inside the high security RAF base at Ekala.

The separate SEAC transmitter site at Ekala was duly completed, and went into service on May 1st, 1946 with a 100 kW Marconi shortwave transmitter model SWB18, and three 7.5 kW American RCA model ET4750’s, one of which was transferred from the RAF transmitter station next door.  The antenna system consisted of four curtain antennas and three Krauss dipoles, all strung from six tall aerial towers.  Here’s a sign-on from Radio SEAC in 1947:

As well as the shortwave transmissions, a 10 kW medium wave transmitter was also installed for SEAC coverage of greater Colombo, and this was inaugurated in 1948.

From June 1946 until early 1949, the SEAC facility in Ceylon was administered directly by the War office in London.  Then it was handed back to the government of Ceylon which had begun the construction in 1941.  However, the changes in the administration of the station had little impact on the programming, and until the establishment of Radio Ceylon, it continued to identify on air as Radio SEAC.

Radio SEAC in Colombo, Ceylon was an excellent verifier, and their QSL card was received by a multitude of listeners throughout the world.

Back to you, Jeff

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U.K. Propagation Update

 

RSGB

RadCom Assistant Editor | October 31, 2025

Last weekend saw HF shine as stations took part in the CQ World Wide SSB Contest. Geomagnetic conditions remained settled and DX was plentiful, with contacts possible as far afield as Alaska to the west and China to the east.

Given the unsettled conditions we have had recently, it was a welcome break as radio amateurs filled their logs with far-flung DX.

As we enter November, we can still expect the fine autumnal conditions that made October so good. However, as the month progresses, we can also anticipate improvements in LF band DX. So keep an eye on the 80 and 40m bands.

The solar flux index has declined somewhat and is now standing at 118. This is still enough to get the 10m band humming, but it is a far cry from the 200-plus we saw at sunspot maximum. Nevertheless, get on the bands and work the DX while you can.

Two large coronal holes, one in the Sun’s northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere, have been the sources of a fast solar wind stream. We may expect more geomagnetic disturbances today, 2 November.

Also, active region 4246 is now coming around the Sun’s limb again and could be worth keeping an eye on. It has been emitting solar flares while behind the Sun, so look out for more activity upon its return.

For the coming week, NOAA predicts that the solar flux index could increase, perhaps starting the week at around 135 and increasing to 150 by 9 November.

The first half of the week should be quiet geomagnetically, but we may expect more unsettled geomagnetic conditions around 7-9 November, when the Kp index could increase to 5. Expect maximum usable frequencies to be depressed until the Kp index recovers.

VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO:

The current spell of unsettled weather remains the focus for the foreseeable future. Previous model runs had suggested the possibility of high pressure returning by the end of the coming week, but this is no longer the case.

The RSGB 144MHz CW Marconi Contest, which ends at 1400UTC today, 2 November, looks to be under the influence of low pressure rather than any tropo-producing highs. With the unsettled pattern continuing, the optional modes might be rain scatter for the GHz bands, but not tropo.

The chances of aurora are there and, after a very auroral-sounding 40m band on Wednesday 29 October when the Kp index hit 4, we should remain alert to changed conditions on the high HF and VHF bands. However, it probably needs something higher, like a Kp index between 5 and 7, before getting excited about radio effects.

The meteor scatter options look reasonable as we move into November but the next important shower, the Leonids, doesn’t peak until 17 November. We do, however, enter the edge of the stream later in the coming week.

A final note of caution is that this unsettled type of weather pattern can produce rapidly developing lows and bring damaging winds to some parts of the country. So, take the opportunity on the quieter days to check antennas are secure.

For EME operators, the Moon’s declination is negative and rising, going positive today, 2 November. So, Moon window lengths and peak elevation are both rising. Path losses are still falling as we approach perigee on 5 November. 144MHz sky noise is low all week, rising to medium by next weekend.

https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/propagation-news/2025/10/31/propagation-news-2-november-2025/

(Mike Terry, UK/BDXC)

Blog Logs, November 2025

 

Welcome to the November issue of Blog Logs. Thank you for your emails, logging contributions and following my latest daily tweets on X at: Shortwave Central (Gayle Van Horn W4GVH@QSLRptMT

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The Shortwave Central blog brings you the latest from the ever-changing realm of radio. Additional radio information is covered in my Bits & Bytes monthly column in The Spectrum Monitor e-zine at: https://www.thespectrummonitor.com/

Languages as indicated

// denotes station heard on a parallel frequency

*Sign-on Sign-Off*/ frequencies in kHz

Monitoring  Oct 5-28, 2025

UTC, frequencies kHz 

Mediumwave

Argentina

1150, Radio Nacional, Viedma (tentative) at 0408. Political commentary from a male announcer. SINPO 24432 (Rudolf Grimm, Brazil).

1150, LT9 La Nueva Sauce. Spanish programming from Spanish announcers’ romantic songs. SINPO 24442 (Grimm).

Benin

1476, TWR Africa via Parakou. Hausa programming to Nigeria. Christian message and music presentations from a male announcer (Grimm).

Faroe Islands

531, Kringvarp Føroya 0430-0435. Local language for Sunday morning announcer chat. (Gayle Van Horn) YT video: https://youtu.be/nOwjTOScqLM

United States

650, KENI Anchorage, AK 0159-0210. Alaska’s News-Talk Radio. Ads for the Good Feet Store, ad for pizza place, station ID, lawyer promo to full ID. National news headlines via Fox News. (Van Horn) YT video: Video link https://youtu.be/tWWHbEF6l3E

750, KFQV, Anchorage, AK 0059-0105. Station promos, ID, into state news of Alaska from Anchorage TV audio (Van Horn) YT video: https://youtu.be/Bez54KEm81Y

820, WBAP Ft Worth, Texas 2000-2005. Station IDs and promos, local info and weather. (Van Horn)  YT video: https://youtu.be/k_twR7lmr6U

1040, WHO Des Moines, IA 0153-0205. Tunnel 2 Towers promo, ads on home products from Menards to station ID as “The Voice of Iowa.”News headlines, weather, and iHeart promo. (Van Horn). YouTube video: https://youtu.be/q1pRUSacmwc

1050, KNBR San Francisco, CA. 1400-1405. Talk about Barry Bonds, followed by talk on the Blue Jays. (Van Horn) YT video: https://youtu.be/3Ry4a_tll_o

1130, KWKH Shreveport, LA 1130-0220. Sports talk on Dodger’s Freddie Freeman and the Philliess game. Station IDs and promos. (Van Horn) YT video: https://youtu.be/k4nCKMv0de8

Uruguay

1360, Radio 41, San Jose de Mayo. Spanish local advertisements. SINPO 34443 (Grimm).

Shortwave

Belarus

3940, Music Wave Radio 1943-1955. Russian music. SINPO 25422 (Manuel Mendez, Spain/BDXC)

Bolivia

3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski 0010-0018. Quechua program with comments. SINPO 15421 (Mendez)

Classic CRI QSL

China

5975, CNR 8 at 1100 in Korean. Station ID into talks or features for fair signal quality.Additional monitoring: 7270, PBS Nei Menggu at 1059 in Mongolian; 7325 CRI in Japanese into news; CNR-1 at 1300 in Mandarin; 7420 PBS Nei Menggu at 1059 n Mandarin; 13810 CRI at 1300 in German; CNR on 15760 at 1859 with jamming being used to jam Sound of Hope. Off at 1900 time pips (Tony Pavik, BC, Canada).

Clandestine

9864, Voice of Tibet at 1326. Asian music to 1328. Station sign-on in Tibetan at 1330 for good signal quality (Harold Sellers, BC, Canada)

15425, Oromia National Media-Arrata Biyoolessa Oromiyaa 1459-1530. Wednesday broadcast in Oromo for Ethiopian exile group with musical hymn sign-on  to audio at 1500. Presumed national anthem into station ID, station references into news script. Relayed from Galbeni, Romania. YouTube video at the Shortwave  Central channel. https://youtu.be/o0wKBQiFg1I  (Van Horn).

Cuba

15140, Radio Habana Cuba at 1505. English programming of poor signal quality during newscast. (Sellers).

11950, 2229-2235 with IDs, sports news, and Spanish program “Deportivas…esta es nuestra American Radio Habana Cuba.” (Grimm)

Ecuador

Classic QSL from HCJB

6050, HCJB Pichincha 0441-0500*. Spanish religious program and music to program Vida Real en Familia. SINPO 15422 (Mendez). https://hcjb.org/ 

France

15485, Radio France International via Issoudun to West Africa at 1708-1725. (Grimm). https://www.rfi.fr/en/ 

Liberia

6050, ELWA Radio, Monrovia 1933-1958. Religious comments. Also heard *0600-0612 with English programming. Station ID “ELWA Radio.” SINPO 25422 (Mendez). https://www.elwaministries.org/radio/ 

Luxembourg

6140, Radio Onda, Junglinster 1703-1811. English pop songs to Portuguese comments. Station ID in English and French. Station relayed Radio Augusts International, including station ID. SINPO 25422 (Mendez).

Malaysia

RTM QSL

11665, RTM FM, Kajang. Malayalam service to Malaysia at 1112. Announcer’s talk to the music program. SINPO 25542 (Grimm). https://www.rtm.gov.my/ 

Mali

5995, Radio Mali 1839-1906. African vocals to the 1850 English Magazine program. News and comments about Mali. African songs at 1803 into local vernaculars. SINPO 35433 (Mendez)

Mexico

6185, Radio Educacion, 0441-0655. Spanish comments, Mexican songs to ID “Cultura Mexico, Senal Internacional, la onda corta de Radio Educacion. SINPO 25422 (Mendez).

Netherlands

5955, Radio Veronica, Westdorpe 0506-0532. English pop vocals to Dutch comments. SINPO 25433 (Mendez).

North Korea

9435, Voice of Korea at 1500. English service sign-on to the national anthem. Very good signal // 11710. VOK on 9570 at 1302; 9435 at 1500 // 11710; 9515 at 1503 in English (Sellers).

Norway

5895, Radio Northern Star, Bergen 2002-2024. English pop songs for SINPO 14421. Also heard 0431-0452 with music variety.  (Mendez). https://www.stellamaris.no/am.html 

United States

7355, KNLS Alaska at 1200 with station interval signal to station ID // 9795.; English 9580 at 1401 (Sellers). 

9580, KNLS Russian service at 1119. Sermon message by male announcer (Grimm).

Vietnam

9840, Voice of Vietnam 1230. English service with musical intros to ID “this is the Voice of Vietnam.” Newscast by male/female host at 1231. Poor signal. Noted on this freq at  1332 and 1505. (Sellers).

Radio Islands

 

Radio Island, Beaufort, North Carolina

Our thanks to RayRobinson and Jeff White for this week's Wavescan special on Radio Islands.

Jeff: There are actually five different usages of the two-word title, "Radio Island". Two of these "Radio Islands" are real geographic islands, one in Canada and the other in the United States.  There were also two movie shorts with the title “Radio Island” – one produced in 1997 and the other in 2022.  And there has been a CBC radio program on the air nationwide in Canada called "Radio Island", or more correctly, "Radio Island Morning".

In this edition of Wavescan, we’re taking a look at the two ‘Radio Islands’ that are real geographic territories.  Here’s Ray Robinson to tell us more.

Ray: Thanks, Jeff.  Yes, as you said, the first of these islands is a Canadian territory, in the far north of the country.  At the southern tip of Baffin Island, there’s a small cluster of islands, the largest of which is called Resolution Island.  And just off the southern tip of Resolution Island, there’s a hilly, almost barren piece of rock, maybe half a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, called Radio Island, which is connected to another island at low tide by an isthmus.  This area is now part of the Canadian province of Nunavut.

There are two reasons why this seemingly insignificant piece of rock was even dignified with a name:

1) there’s an underground source of natural gas on the island, and

2) its location and proximity to the North West Passage makes it an ideal place to site an aid to navigation.

And indeed, it was back in 1929 that the Canadian government first established a radio station on Radio Island.  The purpose for the station was to serve as a navigational aid for both aircraft and shipping in the area, and also to transmit weather information.  The callsign of the station was VBY.

During the cold war era in the 1950s, the station on Radio Island was augmented with American forces and equipment as part of the Early Warning System.  This network of missile detection early warning radio stations and radio facilities was known by the Americans as the Dewline, and by the Canadians as the Pinetree Line.

In addition to the electronic facilities of the Early Warning System, there was also a small entertainment radio station on Radio Island for the American forces stationed there, with the unusual callsign, WORM.  This station was little more than an amplifier kit, though on occasions it was hooked up to a 500 watt transmitter, just for the fun of it.  On several occasions, flight personnel on passing passenger planes tuned in to this novel radio station, and phoned through, asking for music requests to be played on air.

On important local occasions, station WORM also relayed another AFRS entertainment station, located at Frobisher Bay, about 120 miles to the northwest on Baffin Island.  That AFRS station identified on air with the callsign K-I-M-O, or KIMO, as in SKIMO, and it too was a low power affair with just a 10 watt transmitter on 1010 kHz.

So now we turn our attention to the other Radio Island, the one in the United States.  This island is located almost exactly halfway along the Atlantic coast of North Carolina, midway between the borders with Virginia and South Carolina.  That area has quite a few claims to fame:

• A little further north on the Outer Banks is the community of Kitty Hawk, from which the Wright Brothers made their first adventurous flight in a heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft in December 1903.

• The notorious English pirate known as Blackbeard terrorized shipping that entered the area more than 300 years ago.

• And, the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke was established on an island in this area more than 400 years ago.

Well, the Radio Island in North Carolina is an artificial island about four or five acres in size that was formed during a dredging operation in the estuary of the Pamlico River further north back in the 1920’s and 30’s.  The island lies in the mouth of the Newport River, in the sound between the mainland and the Outer Banks.  The city of Beaufort is about 1 mile to the east of the island, and Moorhead City is 2 miles to the west.  These days, the island is a tourist resort, with fishing facilities, new condos, holiday homes and a marina.  It’s also used for the storage of oil in huge holding tanks, and it’s well known by wildlife lovers as a refuge for the LeConte’s Sparrow – one of the smallest sparrow species in North America.

Some years ago, a historian working in the library of the County Historical Museum in downtown Moorhead City told our editor-in-chief, Dr. Adrian Peterson, that this artificial island was named Radio Island because a radio station was installed on it back in the 1930’s.  The callsign of the station, he said, was WMBM, which was interpreted to mean, “Where Moorhead and Beaufort Meet.”

This medium wave station, WMBM, must have been quite a small operation, with just low power, and it must have been on the air for only a brief period of time. There’s no listing for it in any of the records we hold.  In fact, the only station that we could find with the callsign WMBM during that pre-war era was a small radio station operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

The radio station WMBM on Radio Island in North Carolina served the small cities and communities on both sides of the Newport River Estuary.  Dr. Peterson asked the county historian what happened to the station, and he simply replied that it has long since gone.

Back to you, Jeff.

(Ray Robinson/NWS)

Jen's Special Bewitching Halloween Program, available for downloading

 

                    Featuring: Jen in The Dead with her Devil Dog. (Hot Dog)

Jen's Hollowed - Eve Fright A ganzza For Friday, October 31, is up and ready for downloading and listening: 

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Jen's program consists of her Collection of OTR Tapes from the Golden Years of radio, plus music related to the Bumpkin Season. 

Part 2 is on Sunday, Nov 2  

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Pirate Radio Remains Alive and Well

From the shadows... a well-known pirate radio operator on a Friday night 

Although pirate radio chatter remains mostly grassroots and hobby-based, the FCC’s enforcement efforts are far from idle. In its fifth annual report to Congress for fiscal year 2024, the Commission raised the maximum fine for illegal broadcasts to $2,453,218, with per-violation penalties of $122,661.

Despite these stepped-up crackdowns and rising complaints about unlicensed operations, pirate radio continues to thrive. The Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement (PIRATE) Act, enacted in 2024, was designed to discourage activity by targeting both operators and property owners. With direction-finding equipment and undercover surveillance, enforcement has become more aggressive, yet the pirates persist.

With Halloween falling on Friday, October 31, expect an uptick in activity over the holiday weekend. Recent monitoring has noted stations on the air between 2200 and 0400 UTC, with activity logged on 6850, 6855, 6879, 6915, 6925, 6935, 6938, 6945, 6950, and 6955 kHz.

(October 2025, Bits & Bytes/The Spectrum Monitor)

A sampling of recent pirate stations observed: 

Classic QSL card

Freq/UTC

North American 

6850 Liquid Radio 0025

6885 Foxy AM 0010-0025

6905 Brain Brothers Shortwave 0035-0045

6915 WFDR 2200-2228

6920 Sternradio, 2255

6920 (USB) Thunder Chicken 1340-0050

6924 DB Cooper Radio 0040

6924 Radio Free Mars 2040-2105

6925 (USB) Wasteland Radio 0205-0800

6925 (USB) Crazy Turkey Radio 0045-0100

6925 (USB) WDOG 0025-0030

6925 (USB) Wave Radio 2350-0015

6925 (USB) Yeah Man Radio 0120

6925 (USB) Outhouse Radio 2335

6925 Pescadores Radio 1435-1440

6925 B-Side Radio 0215

6930 (USB) Ukrainian Freedom Radio 0130-0045

6930 Solid Rock Radio 2020-2035

6933 Sternradio, 0220

6935 Vintage Radio, 0055

6938 Radio Time Machine 2350-2355

6950  Radio Free Euphonia, 0130

6950  V-Sky, 23120

6960  Ballsmacker Radio, 0045

6985  Band-Aid Radio, 0200

6995  Art Bell Radio, 031

Special 2025 Texas Halloween program from Texas Radio Shortwave

          

                                                2025 Texas Halloween Music 

       

Special Halloween QSL from Texas Radio Shortwave

October 31, 2000 - 3975/6160 to Europe ShortwaveRadio

              2300 -  9670 to North America  Channel 292  

This schedule is subject to change based on propagation conditions, listener requests for specific Texas artists or music genres, and factors beyond our control.

Texas Radio Shortwave is an independent producer of musical and topical shows, usually about Texas.

Programs for Europe (Eur) and beyond on ShortwaveRadio in Winsen, Germany, are transmitted with 1 kilowatt into crossed dipole antennas.

Programs for Europe (Eur) and beyond on Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany, are transmitted with 10 kilowatts into a vertical antenna.

Programs for North America (NAm) and beyond on Channel 292 are transmitted with 10 kilowatts into a 10.5 dB gain beam antenna.

Texas Radio Shortwave uses a version of The Yellow Rose of Texas as its Interval Signal/Signature Song.

Texas Radio Shortwave verifies correct, detailed reception reports by electronic QSL. This includes reports from listeners using remote receivers (SDRs). Texas Radio

Listen to Texas Radio Shortwave from Anywhere in the World

Texas Radio Shortwave broadcasts via ShortwaveRadio and Channel 292 in Germany. We know reception can sometimes be tricky outside Europe—but don’t worry, there’s an easy solution.

Use a free remote European receiver.

If your own radio can’t quite pick us up, tune in through one of these online software-defined radio 

(SDR) receivers:

 Weston-super-Mare, UK – Our favorite! The owner welcomes TRSW

listeners.

http://sdr.loginto.me:8073/

 University of Twente, Netherlands – A reliable and popular choice.

http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

For U.S. listeners:

You can often hear our late-night (UTC) Channel 292 broadcast on 9670 kHz using a receiver in rural Maryland, USA, hosted by N5RTC.

http://sdr.hfunderground.com:8076/

 Reception reports welcome!

Whether you listen on your own radio or through a remote SDR, we’re happy to verify your reports. Email texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com.

Shortwave's email is texasradioshortwave@protonmail.com.

Many TRSW programs are archived at www.mixcloud.com/texasradiosw.

Texas Radio Shortwave's Facebook page is www.facebook.com/texasradiosw.

Texas Radio Shortwave's Listeners' Group Facebook page is www.facebook.com/groups/580199276066655/.

(TRSW) 

 

Media Broadcast Winter Schedules

 

B25 - Media Broadcast

FRANCE/GERMANY/UZBEKISTAN  MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH (formerly T-SYSTEMS - DTK)

Effective: 26. Oct. 2025, 2025 - 29 March 2026  

All times UTC

 FREQ START/STOP CIRAF  AZI ANT DAY     FROM   TO    LOC POW BRC LAN/                                                               

15460 1730-1800 48            142 218 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Orm

15460 1800-1830 48            142 218 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Tir

15460 1830-1900 48            142 218 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Amh

11700 1900-1930 46SE,47W      182 216 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Hau

11700 1930-2000 46SE          186 216 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Ibo

11700 2000-2030 46SE          182 216 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Yor

11700 2030-2100 46SE          182 216 1234567 261025-280326NAU 250 AWR Pcm

15390 1215-1300 47E,48W       133 206 4       261025-311225ISS 250 DWL Ara

17570 1215-1300 47E,48W       133 207 4       261025-311225ISS 250 DWL Ara

15275 1830-1915 47E,48W       150 218 4       261025-311225NAU 250 DWL Ara

11830 1830-1915 47E,48W       150 216 4       261025-311225NAU 250 DWL Ara

 6165 0430-0450 27,28          85 146 1234567 261025-280326NAU 125 NHK Rus

 9440 0600-0615 46N47NW38W37S 180 146 1234567 261025-280326NAU 125 BVB Mul

 5935 1915-1930 39,40         130 216 1       261025-280326NAU 250 BVB Mul

 9450 0500-0515 39,40         120 216 6       261025-280326NAU 250 BVB Mul

15310 1600-1730 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 1       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1600-1630 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 2       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1600-1630 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 3       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1700-1730 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 3       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1630-1800 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 7       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1700-1730 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 4       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1700-1730 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 5       261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15310 1600-1630 38S,39S,47,48 150 218 56      261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

15285 1200-1245 43S,44S        90 911 7       261025-280326TAC 100 BVB Mul

15210 1230-1245 54            121 418 1       261025-280326TAC 100 BVB Mul

 7295 1800-1830 39,40         105 216 123     261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

17650 1430-1500 41            102 218 7       261025-280326NAU 250 BVB Mul

17550 1430-1500 47,48         153 218 1234567 261025-280326NAU 100 BVB Mul

 6150 1830-1900 37N           230 216 1       261025-280326NAU 125 BVB Mul

 6055 1130-1200 27,28         222 146 17      261025-280326NAU 125 EMG Mul

 9500 1530-1630 29S           100 146 7       261025-280326NAU 125 HCJ Mul

13650 1300-1400 43E4445SW50N   62 218 35      261025-280326NAU 100*M4J Mul

13730 1800-1900 48N,48SW      158 218 35      261025-280326NAU 100*M4J Mul

 7225 1830-1930 29S30NW30S39N

          -     39SE4041NW    113 216 35      261025-280326NAU 100*M4J Mul

 9810 2000-2100 37S38SW4647W  213 146 35      261025-280326NAU 100*M4J Mul

 6095 1200-1300 27E,28        233 156 1       091125-091125NAU 100 SMD Deu

 6095 1300-1400 27E,28        233 156 1       231125-231125NAU 100 SMD Deu

 6095 1200-1300 27E,28        233 156 1       141225-141225NAU 100 SMD Deu

 6095 0900-1000 27E,28NW      233 156 1       261025-280326NAU 100 SKW Mul

                                                               1st Su p.M.

 6045 1100-1400 27E,28        233 156 1234567 261025-280326NAU 100 RSZ Mul

                                                               (on-demand)

 5990 1000-1600 27E,28        233 146 1234567 261025-280326NAU 125 SFZ Mul

                                                               (on-demand)

 6095 1000-1400 27E,28        233 156 1234567 261025-280326NAU 100 SMD Deu

                                                               (on-demand)

 6095 1300-1400 27E,28NW      233 156 1234567 261025-280326NAU 100 SKW Mul

                                                               (on-demand)

 6045 1000-1400 27E,28        233 156 1234567 261025-280326NAU 100 TSR Mul

                                                               (on-demand)

* = DRM digital mode signal.  Day 1 = Sunday ... Day 7 = Saturday

List of Broadcasters that are using MEDIA BROADCAST (MBR) broadcasting

facilities:

AWR  Adventist World Radio

BVB  High Adventure Gospel - Bible Voice Broadcasting

DWL  Deutsche Welle, Bonn - Berlin

EMG  Evangelische Missionsgemeinden in Deutschland

HCJ  Reach Beyond (former HCJ)

M4J  Music 4 Joy

NHK  NHK World (JAPAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION) Tokyo, Japan

RSZ  Radio 60

SFZ  Studio 52

SKW  Foerderverein "Sender Koenigs Wusterhausen" e.V.

SMD  SM Radio Dessau

TSR  Telstar Radio

Michael Puetz

MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH

Order Management & Backoffice

Erna-Scheffler-Strasse 1

51103 Cologne, Germany, EU

Please send your inquiries and reception reports to:

QSL-Shortwave@media-broadcast.com

(MBR Cologne, via wwdxc pres. Mike Bethge-D, Oct 26)

VORW Radio International announces new relay

 

Beginning Thursday, on October 30, 2025, and continuing every Thursday, my radio program will now be heard across East Asia thanks to a 300 kW Transmitter in Paochung, Taiwan.

The broadcast is beamed to Japan and the Korean Peninsula, but it should be audible across all of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and perhaps into the Americas as well!

The program is one hour in length and the aim of this radio show is to provide good music and news commentary to listeners worldwide. Oftentimes, listener music requests are taken and played – and all are invited to participate.

The  broadcast schedule for this new airing:

Thursdays 0900 UTC  on 9705 kHz  via Paochung 300 kW to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Pacific

Reception reports will be verified with an E-QSL. Additional feedback is most welcome at vorwinfo@.gmail.com 

(John Jurasek/VORW Radio International.)

 

A reminder from my X post this morning. This week's edition of Wavescan announced that the Voice of Hope Africa in Zambia has closed its services, with little hope of returning.

Sunday's audio available for GB's Car Boot Bargain Show 2025 plus Jen's Everything Musical Show!

 

The live stream for Sunday, October 26, 2025, includes programs for GB's Car Boot Bargain Show 2025 plus Jen's Everything Musical Show! is available for your downloading and listening at:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z3t844wnyzq1e2b22cpr9/GB-s-Car-Boot-Bargain-Show-Plus-Jen-s-Everything-Musical-Show-For-Sunday-October-26th-18-22-heard-on-Unique-R-Australia.mp3?rlkey=72nwqrn5ocad6bu15opnavywb&dl=0

For your contact pleasure

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Jen & GB

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

 Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts

:Issued: 2025 Oct 27 0243 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

# Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/subscription-services

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#                Weekly Highlights and Forecasts

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Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 20 - 26 October 2025

Solar activity was at moderate levels on 20 Oct with a single M-class flare observed. Region 4248 (N07, L=262, class/area=Eki/380 on 17 Oct) produced an M1.1 flare, the largest of the period, at 20/0527 UTC. Region 4262 (S12, L=132, class/area=Cai/150 on 22 Oct) produced a pair of long duration C-class flares. The first was a C4.7 that peaked at 22/0152 UTC, with the second being a C2.7 flare at 22/0909 UTC. Additionally, there were two far sided CMEs, likely originating from old Region 4246 (N24, L=290, class/area=Ekc/840 on 16 Oct). These events were observed in LASCO coronagraph imagery on 21/2024 UTC. Additionally, Type II (est. 2474 km/s) and Type IV radio sweeps were observed at 21/2011 UTC, likely associated with the far-sided events as well. There was also a weak CME observed in LASCO imagery on 23/1545 UTC, likely associated with a C2.1 flare at 23/1506 UTC from Region 4256 (S15, L=155, class/area=140/Dao on 18

Oct. This CME is expected to arrive at Earth on 27 Oct. Activity was at low levels from 21-26 Oct. 

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. However, the 10 MeV proton flux levels were slightly elevated on 22-23 Oct following the far-sided CME eruptions. Conditions were at background levels on 20-21 Oct and 24-26 Oct.   The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at

normal to moderate levels from 20-26 Oct. 

Geomagnetic field activity was at mostly quiet to unsettled levels from 20-26 Oct, with the exception of an isolated active period on 25 Oct, likely associated with residual CH HSS influence. 

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 27 October - 22 November 2025

Solar activity is expected to be at moderate levels on 31 Oct - 15 Nov due to the return of Region 4246. Low levels are expected to prevail on 20 Oct - 30 Oct and 14 Nov - 22 Nov as multiple regions depart the visible disk.   No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit from 27 Oct -

22 Nov. However, depending on the complexity of returning Region 4246, an isolated proton event is possible. 

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels from 31 Oct - 15 Nov due to responses from recurrent CH HSS influences. Moderate levels are expected on 27 - 30 Oct and 16 Nov - 22 Nov. 

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on 01 Nov - 06 Nov, 10 Nov - 14 Nov, and 16 Nov - 22 Nov. Active conditions are expected on 27 Oct and 31 Oct, 07 Nov - 09 Nov, and 15 Nov, with G1/G2 conditions likely on 28 Oct - 30 Oct due to recurrent positive polarity CH HSS influence, mixed with possible weak influence from the CME that left the Sun on 23 October

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt

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#      27-day Space Weather Outlook Table

#                Issued 2025-10-27

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#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest

#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index

2025 Oct 27     120           5          2

2025 Oct 28     120          18          4

2025 Oct 29     120          18          4

2025 Oct 30     125          15          3

2025 Oct 31     130          12          3

2025 Nov 01     130           8          3

2025 Nov 02     130           5          2

2025 Nov 03     135           5          2

2025 Nov 04     140           5          2

2025 Nov 05     140           5          2

2025 Nov 06     140           8          3

2025 Nov 07     140          12          4

2025 Nov 08     145          20          5

2025 Nov 09     150          18          5

2025 Nov 10     155           8          3

2025 Nov 11     160           8          3

2025 Nov 12     165           5          2

2025 Nov 13     170           5          2

2025 Nov 14     175           5          2

2025 Nov 15     175          12          4

2025 Nov 16     165           8          3

2025 Nov 17     150           5          2

2025 Nov 18     150           5          2

2025 Nov 19     150           5          2

2025 Nov 20     150           8          3

2025 Nov 21     140           8          3

2025 Nov 22     140           5          2

(NOAA)

Akashvani Winter B25 Schedule

 

India, Akashvani - B25 Winter Schedule

Effective 26 October 2025 - 29 March 2026

All times UTC/Transmitter Sites

Amritsar (20 kW) AM

Bengaluru (250 kW)

Chinsurah (1000) AM

New Delhi (100 kW)

Arabic

0530-0630   15280me  (Bengaluru)

1730-1930   11900me (Bengaluru)

Baluci 

0300-0430   11805as (to Pakistan)  (New Delhi) 

1230-1330   9870as  (to Pakistan) (New Delhi)

Bangla

0030-0830   594 (to Bangladesh)  (Chinsurah)

1000-1515  594 ( Bangladesh)  (Chinsurah)

1545-1830  594 ( Bangladesh)  (Chinsurah)

Burmese

0315-0415   15410as (to Myanmar) (Bengaluru)

Chinese

1030-1200   15410as (to China) (Bengaluru)

2345-0115   15280as (to China) (Bengaluru)

Dari

0430-0600   9795as (to Afghanistan) (New Delhi)

1330-1500   9870as (to Afghanistan) (New Delhi)

English

0245-0300   15410as (to Nepal) (Bengaluru)

0830-0845   594 (to Bangladesh)  (Chinsurah)

1530-1545   594 (to Bangladesh)  (Chinsurah)

Farsi

0400-0500   15280me (to Iran) (Bengaluru)

1600-1730   11900me   (to Iran) (Bengaluru)

French

1930-2030   11900eu (to Western Europe) (Bengaluru)

Hindi

0245-0300   15410as (to Nepal) (Bengaluru)

0845-0900   595 (to Bangladesh) (Chinsurah)

1515-1530   594 (to Bangladesh) (Chinsurah)

Indonesia

0130-0230   15260oc (to Indonesia) (Bengaluru)

Nepali

0145-0230   15410as (to Nepal) (Bengaluru)

0900-1030   11865as  15410as (to Nepal) (Bengaluru)

Pashtu

0430-0600   15185as (to Afghanistan) (Bengaluru)

1230-1400   11810as (to Afghanistan) (Bengaluru)

Punjabi

1230-1330   1071 (to Pakistan) (Amritsar)

2330-0100   1071 (to Pakistan) (Amritsar)

Saraiki

1130-1200   1071 (to Pakistan) (Amritsar)

Sindhi

0100-0130   9860as (to Pakistan) (Bengaluru)

Swahili

1215-1315   15410af (to East Africa) 

Tibetan

0100-0230  11710as (to Tibet) (New Delhi)

1045-1215   11865as (to Tibet) (New Delhi)

Target Areas:

af Africa

as   Asia as indicated)

me  Middle East

oc  Oceania

((Akashvani/transcribed by Teak Publishing)