dxers guide: January 2015

* Musical Theme - 00:00

“Birthday Serenade” - Willi Glahe

* Opening Announcement - 00:18

Welcome to “Wavescan”, international DX program from Adventist World Radio

Researched and written in Indianapolis, produced in studios of shortwave WRMI

Program outline

1. Radio Broadcasting in the Land of the Three Rivers: Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

2. Australian DX Report

3. SQOTW25 Special QSL of the Week: Nostalgic Memories First Radio Broadcast

* Radio Broadcasting in the Land of the Three Rivers - 01:02

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Throughout the Indian sub-continent, there are several major river systems, running from the higher land areas, down through the populated plains and into the nearby adjacent ocean. On the western side of the sub-continent, a system of five rivers runs from the edge of the high Himalayas down into the verdant Punjab lands where they combine into the great Indus River and onwards into the Arabian Sea at Karachi.

On the eastern side of the sub-continent, a system of three rivers runs from the high Himalayas down into the verdant lands and onwards where they combine into the massive delta areas at “The Mouths of the Ganga” and onward into the Bay of Bengal. These eastern rivers are known by several different names in various local and international languages, though the better known names would be:

* Ganges & Padma originating in Uttarakhand

* Brahmaputra-Jamuna originating in the Angsi Glacier in Tibet

* Meghna originating in the hilly areas of East India

The confluence of these three rivers in the “Mouths of the Ganges” forms the largest delta area on planet Earth, with a myriad of small and larger islands stretching 1500 miles across from Kolkata to Chittagong. During the past nearly half century, new islands and extensions to adjacent landscapes with a total area of more than 40 square miles have been formed by silt flowing down from the high mountain ranges.

Ancient history informs us that the earliest settlers came into the territory now known as Bangladesh some 4,000 years ago; these were the early Dravidians and proto-Burmese peoples. The ancient Greeks and Romans were familiar with the people, whom they called Gangaridai, that is the people of the land of the Ganges.

Islam came to Bangladesh while part of India in the 1100s AD; and when European explorers entered the territories for trade some 400 years later, it is suggested that the Bengal territory was the wealthiest part of the Indian sub-continent. In that era, the Portuguese, French and Dutch showed an interest in the area, and the English gained control in 1757.

Bangladesh has known its share of mega-disasters, and in 1943, it is reported that three million people died in what is called the Great Bengal Famine. Then in 1970, some authorities estimate that one million people died overnight during a horrendous cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. If that figure is correct, it would have to be the worst flooding upon planet Earth since the time of the Flood in the days of Noah. Then in 1988 disastrous flooding in the delta areas resulted in 30 million refugees.

Bangladesh, East Bengal, was separated from India and became the Eastern Wing of Pakistan at the time of Partition, midnight between August 14 & 15, 1947. And then again, Bangladesh declared independence, and then ultimately achieved its independence from Pakistan on December 16, 1971.

These days, Bangladesh is just a small country territorially, stretching less than 500 miles from north to south and less than 300 miles wide, yet the population density is one of the most concentrated upon planet Earth with more than 150 million people. The land areas of the country are almost entirely surrounded by India with a short border with Burma; and their capital city is Dacca-Dhaka, with 12 million inhabitants.

The border between Bangladesh and India contains the strangest anomaly of enclaves and exclaves in any part of the world. It is estimated that there are 300 of these little territories that are separated from the nearby mother territory, covering a combined total of 50,000 acres and containing 150,000 people. In some places, the enclave is separated from the mother territory by less than a mile, and it contains a separate territory within its own borders.

* Program Announcement - 05:19

Allen Graham

* Bangladesh Feature Resumed - 06:11

The first prominent wireless experimenter in old British India was a Bengali scientist, Dr. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. He was born in Munshiganj near Dhaka (East Bengal) in 1858, though he performed his wireless experiments in neighboring Calcutta in West Bengal (India).

It was towards the end of the year 1894 that Bose began his experimentation with wireless; and in November 1895, he gave a public demonstration in the Calcutta Town Hall with Bengal’s Lieutenant Governor Sir William Mackenzie in attendance. In this public demonstration, Bose transmitted wireless signals at a wavelength of just ½ inch over a distance of 75 ft through several solid walls. He also used a wireless signal to ring a bell at a distance, and to fire a gun remotely.

On two separate occasions, Bose gave public lectures in London England in which he presented details of his wireless experiments in Calcutta India. His 1897 lecture was before the Royal Institution, and two years later his lecture was before the Royal Society. In his 1899 presentation, Bose gave details of the coherer receiver that he had developed, and it is understood that the young Italian experimenter Marconi incorporated the Bose coherer in his own subsequent public demonstrations in England.

There is no known historic record in the earlier days of any wireless or radio experimentation in the territory that became Bangladesh, neither were there any early wireless communication stations in this area. Perhaps there were a few expatriate and local amateur radio station operators on the air in places like Dacca and Chittagong before World War 2, but no known records have been discovered.

There was just one lone radio broadcasting station on the air in the Bangladesh territory while it was part of India under the British Raj. In those days, All India Radio was beginning to establish its nationwide empire of mediumwave and shortwave radio stations throughout India, and one such facility was installed in Dacca.

This new station that was installed in Old Dacca in 1939 was inaugurated with due ceremony on December 16 with 5 kW on 1167 kHz under the callsign VUY. The studio for AIR VUY were installed in a rented house at 62 Nazimuddin, Road Dacca 11, though this was soon afterwards transferred to Shahbag, which lies in the capital city area between Old Dacca & New Dacca. The transmitter was installed in nearby suburban Kallayanpur. The original location on Mazimuddin Road is now the locale for the Sheikh Burhanuddin College.

At the time of Partition in 1947, the lone radio broadcasting station VUY with its 5 kW on 1167 kHz was the only station in all of East Pakistan.

DX Reporter Salahuddin Dolar of Rajshahi alerted us to the fact that Bangladesh Betar celebrated its important 75^th Diamond Jubilee anniversary with four days of congratulatory events beginning a few weeks ago on December 15.

* Australian DX Report - 10:21

Bob Padula

* SQOTW25 Special QSL of the Week: Nostalgic Memories First Radio Broadcast - 23:10

Mr Muneer K. P. in Sharjar United Arab Emirates tells us that he received a QSL card from Deutsche Welle early last year, verifying his reception of their relay broadcast from the nearby Dhabaya transmitter station in Abu Dhabi. This relay transmission on 15640 kHz is important to him, because the first shortwave broadcast he ever heard was from Deutsche Welle in 1982 while he was visiting in the home of a friend. At the time, he was living in his home state, Kerala, in South India, and he wrote to Deutsche Well at their office in New Delhi, requesting a schedule. Listening to the broadcast from Germany, and receiving a copy of the magazine “Tune In “ sparked an interest in the monitoring of the international shortwave bands.

* Music of the World - 24:01

UAE: Traditional folk music, local instrumental and group vocal

* Closing Announcement - 24:15

Thanks for listening to “Wavescan”, international DX program from Adventist World Radio

Researched and written in Indianapolis

Next week:-

1. NASB Anniversary

2. Publication review

3. Japan DX Report

4. Special QSL of the Week SQOTW26:

Low power tropical band station in Canada heard in Australia

Several QSL cards available. Send your AWR & KSDA reception reports for Wavescan to the AWR address in Indianapolis; and also to the station your radio is tuned to: WRMI or WWCR or KVOH, or to the AWR relay stations that carry Wavescan. Remember too, you can send a reception report to each of the DX reporters when their segment is on the air here in Wavescan: Japan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Australia & India. They will verify with their own colorful QSL card. Return postage and an address label are always appreciated.

Wavescan address:-

Box 29235

Indianapolis

Indiana 46229 USA

Wavescan @ AWR.org

Jeff White, shortwave WRMI

* Music Outrun - 26:04

* Program Ends - 28:55

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1. The Story of Wireless & Radio in India

Progressive Topics in Alphabetic Order

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No. Cluster Topic Year to Year NWS

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1. Early Early Wireless Experiments 1849 - 1895 254

2. AWR Early Adventist Broadcasts 1925 - 1937 76

3. Voice of Prophecy on the Air Goa, AWR Pre-History 1950 - 1954 159

4. Anniversaries 70^th AIR Anniversary External Services 1939 - 2009 34

5. 75^th AIR Anniversary: 1^st SW Network 1936 - 1939 234

6. Locations Allahabad 1913 - 2010 86

7. Calcutta - 1: Early Wireless Stations 1902 - 2014 264

8. Calcutta - 2: Early Experimental Radio Stations 1923 - 1940 266

9. Calcutta - 3: During the Past ½ Century & More 1939 - 2014 273

10. Calcutta - 4: WGY SW, AFRS, VOA 1928 - 1946 281

11. Calcutta - 5: QSLs 1935 - 2000 298

12. Dacca: Land of the Three Rivers VUY 1939 - 1947 309

13. Daman & Diu 1960 - 2012 159

14. Delhi Radio SEAC 1942 - 1944 168

15. Delhi Chronohertz ATA India 1959 - 2004 49

16. Delhi: Visit to AIR HQ 2010 285

17. Goa - 1: Portuguese Years 1938 - 1961 158

18. Goa - 2: Indian Years 1961 - 2012 159

19. Hyderabad - 1: The Early Years 1919 - 1950 77

20. Hyderabad - 2: Years of Development 1939 - 2009 78 86

21. Khampur: Visit to SW Station 1959 - 2010 288

22. Lucknow AIR 1913 - 2010 86

23. Lucknow 75^thElephant Radio 1938 - 2013 215

24. Mysore Akashwani VU7MC 1935 - 2010 94

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2. The Story of Radio Broadcasting in Pakistan

Progressive Summary

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No Topic Callsigns Year to Year NWS

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1. Early Wireless Stations VWK-VVK VWP-VVP VWQ-VVQ VWL-VVL 1913 - 1933 17

2. On the Air in Karachi APK APK@ APK3 APK4 APK5, Club 1913 - 2010 80 86

3. On the Air in Lahore WLR VWL VVL YMCA VUL APL APL2 1913 - 2011 128

4. On the Air in Peshawar VWP VVP VUP APP 1919 - 2014 266

5. Original MW Stations YMCA VUL APL VUP 1928 - 1947 56

6. On the Air in Rawalpindi VVX AKR APR APR2 APR3 1933 - 2010 98

7. Freedom at Midnight NWFP ACK VUL APL VUP APP AKR APR3 1946 - 1949 257

8. Early Shortwave Stations APK2 APR3 APL2 APP2 Murree 1947 - 1960 73

9. Clandestine Trarkhel AKR APR3 1948 - 1949 257

10. Land of 3 Rivers VUY 1939 - 1947 309

Projected SW Stations

American Radio Stations

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3. Radio Broadcasting in the Land of the Three Rivers:

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Progressive Topics

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No. Topic Call Years NWS

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1. Land of 3 Rivers: The Early Years VUY 1939 - 1947 309

2. American Radio Stations

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4. Radio Broadcasting in the Land of the Three Rivers:

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

The Early Radio Story

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Bangladesh Backgrounds: Geography

Bordered by India, Burma

East Pakistan & West Pakistan, separated by 1400 kM

World’s largest delta, 3 rivers

Ganges-Padma, Brahmaputra-Jumna, Meghna

Almost completely surrounded by India, Burma on bottom SE area

464 miles by 288 miles

Royal Bengal Tiger

98% Bengali

160 million population

Jute production, textiles

4096 kM border India & Bangladesh 2,500 miles

150,000 people in 300 enclaves & exclaves, 50,000 acres

Bangladesh Backgrounds: History

2000 BC Area settled by Dravidian & and early Burmese peoples

Known to Greeks & Romans as Gangaridai, the land of the Ganges River

Ruled from India

1100s AD Islam introduced into Bengal

1500s Bengal was wealthiest area of Indian sub-continent

1517 Portuguese traders began visiting Bengal, French, Dutch & English also

1757 British gained control of Bengal

1900s Early Attempts to split Bengal into 2 provinces, East & West

1943 Great Bengal Famine 3 million died

1947 Aug 14/15 Freedom at Midnight, Partition of British India

Moslem area named at first East Bengal, then East Pakistan

1970 Massive overnight cyclone, 1 million died

1970s New silt lands formed, 27,000 acres 42 square miles

1971 Mar 26 Declaration of independence from Pakistan

1971 Dec 16 Liberation of Bangladesh

1998 Sep Flooding, monsoon rains & Himalaya melt, 30 million refugees

Wireless Experimentation: Jagadish Chandra Bose

1858 Jagadish Chandra Bose born Munshiganj (Dacca - Dhaka)

1894 Experimentation at Calcutta

1897 Lectures & demonstrations in London

All India Radio Dacca

1939 Dec 16 VUY 5 kW 1167 kHz News Items

Regional relay station producing some of own programming

Inaugurated as Dhawani Bistar Kendra Dacca

Radio Broadcasting Station Dhaka

Located in old Dacca

Studios rented house 62 Nazimuddin Road, Dhaka 11

Now Sheikh Burhanuddin College

Relocated to suburban Shahbag, between Old Dacca & New Dhaka

Transmitter at Kallayanpur 5 kW

Transmitter now in museum Dhaka, Bangladesh Betar

Some from VUC came to VUY as guest artists

1941 VUY 1167 kHz 5 kW Dacca India NZRCOTW 1941

1946 VUY 1167 kHz 5 kW Dacca India NZRCOTW 1946

1947 Mediumwave stations in India not shown WRHB 1947

1948 Mediumwave stations in Pakistan not shown WRHB 1948

2014 Dec 15 Commencement of 4 day celebrations, 75^th anniversary Bangladesh Betar

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, diamond jubilee

Called for continued modernization of station, her gov would support

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5. SQOTW29: Special QSL of the Week

Progressive Topics

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No Call Location Land IRM kHz (k)W Year Date Significance QSL NWS ——————————————————————————————————————————————————

001 7LA Launceston Tasmania AMP 1100 .1 1961 Nov 6 Emergency transmitter C 282

002 RA Kabul Afghanistan AMP 96.1 .01 1971 Jul 4 Experimental FM C 284

003 VOA Poro Philippines AMP 15000 LP 1984 Feb 19 Malfunctioning exciter L 286

004 TTY Perth Australia AMP 1130 .2 1966 Jun 24 6NM transmitter to 6ED DIYC 287

005 ICPA Kabul Afghanistan AMP 102.8 ½ 1972 Aug 27 Hotel Intercontinental DIYC 289

006 KSFO Frisco California AMP 560 5 1989 Oct 18 Temporary after earthquake C 290

007 RM Havana Cuba AMP 9600 100 1982 Feb 3 Relay Radio Tashkent C 291 008 NILB Central Pacific PH 10800 LP 1968 Dec 23 Apollo Recovery, 1,000 SW L 292

009 AWR Ekala Sri Lanka CG 11800 100 1981 Feb 21 Test broadcasts Africa & ME C 293

010 PJC Willemstad Curacao PH 8694 1 1969 Jan 9 Morse loop C 294

011 AFRTS Adana Turkey AMP 1590 .01 1980 Mar 24 Plane, WL in ft DIYC 295

012 AWR Sines Portugal TD 9670 250 1977 Aug 26 Self-designed AWR card C 296

013 VoM Honhor Mongolia CL 12085 250 2012 Sep 14 Lived in Ulaan Baatar L&C 297

014 CRI Beijing China UQ 21660 2005 Sep 19 Firedrake jammer C 298

015 RM Russia AMP 11875 1984 May 2 Russian jammer, BBC ARS? C 299

016 NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea VL 4890 35 2006 Mar 18 Reduced power C 300

017 RM Murmansk Russia JB 5930 5 1979 Jan 13 Long wait DIYC & L 301 018 RM P’zavodsk Russia JB 5065 5 1979 Jan 21 Long wait DIYC & L 302

019 VLU2 Christmas Is Indian O. AMP 1420 .5 1977 Aug 23 Tried many locations DIYC & L 303 020 XMX Christmas Is Indian O. AMP 341 .1 1977 Aug 28 Airplane reception DIYC 304 021 AIR Pt Blair Andamans JJ 1440 1 1992 Nov 12 Emergency transmission L 305 022 ABC Shepparton Australia TA 6080 100 2011 Feb 4 Emergency transmission C 306 023 ORTB Benin CO SW 1985 Sep 20 Hard to hear, difficult to QSL C 307 024

025 AIR Bangalore India MKP 9690 500 2014 Feb 28 Memory of 1^st radio broadcast C 309 026 CHU Ottawa Canada BW 3330 3 2010 Sep 16 Low power TSW C&L 310

027 SW 11 Sites Asia TA 2 SW 2014 Jun 5 IRDR Trial Broadcasts C 311

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029 NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea JJ 3925 10 1976 Oct 25 1^streport from India C 313 030

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6. SQOTW29: Special QSL of the Week

Alphabetic Listing

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Title Call City Country IRM City Country NWS ——————————————————————————————————————————————————

Airplane Monitoring AFRS Adana Turkey AMP Airplane Turkey 295

XMX Christmas Is Indian Ocean AMP Airplane Indian Ocean 304

Apollo Recovery NILB USS Arlington Pacific PH Woodland H USA-CA 292

Demonstration Transmitter TTY Perth W Australia AMP Perth Australia 287

Difficult to hear ORTB Benin CO Norrkoping Sweden 307 Earthquake Emergency KSFO San Francisco USA AMP Eugene USA-OR 290

Emergency Transmitter 7LA Launceston Tasmania AMP Launceston Tasmania 282

AIR Port Blair Andaman Is JJ Hyderabad India 305

ABC Shepparton Australia TA Depok Indonesia 306 Experimental FM RA Kabul Afghanistan AMP Kabul Afghanistan 284

Firedrake Jammer CRI Beijing China UQ-S Norrkoping Sweden 298

First Report: India NBC Port Moresby New Guinea JJ India 313 Listener Designed QSL Card AWR Sines Portugal TD Rosrath Germany 296

Long Wait RM Murmansk Russia JB Lexington USA-MA 301

RM Petrozavodsk Russia JB Lexington USA-MA 302

Low Power CHU Ottawa Canada BW Karoonda S Australia 310

Malfunctioning Exciter VOA Poro Philippines AMP Lahore Pakistan 286

Many Locations VLU2 Christmas Is Indian Ocean AMP Carnarvon Australia 303

Memories: Letter from Home VOM Honhor Mongolia CL Bloomington USA-IN 297

1^st Radio Broadcast AIR Bangalore India MKP Kerala India 309

Morse Code Loop PJC Willemstad Curacao PH Woodland H USA-CA 294

Reduced Power NBC Pt Moresby New Guinea VL Naples USA-FL 300 Russian Jammer RM Russia AMP Poona India 299

Tashkent Relay RM Havana Cuba AMP Berrien S USA-MI 291 Test Broadcast AWR Ekala Sri Lanka CG Nice France 293

IRDR 11 sites Asia TA Depok Indonesia 311

Translation Transmitter ICPA Kabul Afghanistan AMP Kabul Afghanistan 289

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