[IRCA] Fwd: [mwc] INDIA

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

With the good conditions, thought this might be of interest to those who 
are tired of Vietnam and China receptions, and want to go for something 
more exotic, forwarded from Medium Wave Circle List:



>L SURBL: 0.00,URL RHS: 0.00,VR: 30 0
>From: "Steve Whitt" <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Mwc" <mwc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>Dear Friends, It is now confirmed that the 1000 kW transmitter operating
>from Rajkot on  1071 kHz for External Services of  AIR has closed down in
>June 2004. It started transmissions sometime around (August) 1970 and used
>to beam towards Pakistan and Afghanistan.
>They used to issue nice QSL cards. To view the one I got please click:
>http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/qsls/rajkot_1071.jpg
>73 Jose Jacob, VU2JOS, National Institute of Amateur Radio,  dx_india via
>DXLD
>Was still in WRTH 2005; So is India also abandoning use of 1071 kHz by any
>other transmitter? That`s a big hole some other country could fill. There
>is a 100 kW in Kazakhstan and a 10 kW in Thailand.
>Glenn Hauser, OK,  DX Listening Digest 5-169 (26/9-2005)
>[http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/qsls/rajkot_1071.jpg]





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Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, B.C.
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