All India Radio will broadcast following special programs in connection with the Republic Day celebrations on 26th January, 2015
25 January 2015 (Sunday) : Eve of Republic Day
1330 UTC (1900 IST) onwards President's address to the nation in Hindi & English. This will be broadcast by all stations of AIR on MW, SW, FM. Shortly after this broadcast, the local stations will broadcast its translations in local languages.
SW frequencies:
kHz kW Station
4760 7 Leh
4760 8.5 Port Blair
4800 50 Hyderabad
4810 50 Bhopal
4820 50 Kolkata
4835 10 Gangtok
4850 50 KOHIMA
4860 50 Shimla
4880 50 Lucknow
4895 50 Kurseong
4910 50 Jaipur
4920 50 Chennai
4950 50 Srinagar ?
4970 50 Shillong
4990 50 Itanagar
5010 50 Thiruvananthapuram
5040 50 Jeypore
5050 10 Aizawl
6030 250 Delhi
9380 250 Aligarh
9425 250 Delhi
9870 500 Bengaluru
MW Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/mw/freq.htm
FM Frequencies : http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/fm/airfreq.htm
26 January 2015 (Monday) : Republic Day:
Running Commentary of Republic Day parade from 0350 UTC (0920 IST) onwards
:
Hindi : 6155 ( Aligarh 250 kW); 9595 ( Delhi ), 11620 (Bengaluru 500 kW) (Cancelling External Service in Urdu normally broadcast at this time on these frequencies)
English : 6030 ( Delhi 250 kW); 15050 (Bengaluru 500 kW)
Also MW/FM frequencies as per above mentioned links.
The following regional stations will change from their Morning frequencies on 60 Meters (4 & 5 MHz frequencies) to their day time frequencies between 0335-0350 UTC (ie much earlier than usual) as follows :
6000 Leh
6040 Jeypore ? (Off air lately)
6065 KOHIMA
6085 Gangtok
6150 Itanagar
7230 Kurseong
7295 Aizawl
7315 Shillong
7325 Jaipur
7440 Lucknow
The following stations are already scheduled to be on air daily at this time and will also relay the running commentary.
6020 Shimla
6110 Srinagar ? (off air lately)
7210 Kolkata
7290 Thiruvanthapuram
7380 Chennai
7390 Port Blair
7420 Hyderabad
7430 Bhopal
Please send your reception reports to : spectrum-manager@air.org
More details about India ’s Republic Day is in:
Happy Republic Day to all DX India members!
73,
Jose Jacob & Alokesh Gupta
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