Akash FM Leeds

Akash FM are doing an RSL in Leeds, on 87.7 FM.

RDS = AKASH FM

Programmes heard are mostly in an Asian language (Hindi?).

No website can be found, but the station is thought to be connected with the satellite station Akash Radio.

According to Wikipedia, Akash means "Ether" in Sanskrit - so it is an appropriate name for a radio station!


On other matters, Sheffield Live 93.2 have started full programmes. Very obviously a community-based station, programme style (around 5pm at least) reminded me of the black FM pirates in Sheffield back in the late 90s :-)

Tropo tonight

The weather forecast says that the warm and dry weather we are currently experiencing will soon give way to unsettled rain and windy weather. Ah well, what do I expect, this weekend is a bank holiday :-(

But it's an ill wind that blows no good. As the high pressure slowly moves away, tropospheric ducting has brought in foreign stations on the FM band. I only managed to ID one, though.

Radio Speranza 87.6 from Italy was heard around 19:40 tonight, with a clear enough signal for the RDS to be displayed. The RDS scrolled between "RADIO" and "SPERANZA".

I haven't found a website for Radio Speranza, but the Italian Pagine Radio station database listing for Radio Speranza implies they are linked to Radio inBlu

Radio Barnsley and Akash Radio

Radio Barnsley currently on-air, on 87.7.
RDS = BARNSLEY
Visit their website

Heard here in clowne, and as far north as junction 39 of the M1 motorway. Further north, another station on 87.7 starts to become dominant on the frequency, namely ...

Akash Radio
an Asian station, on-air during Diwali.
Mostly religious programmes in the Hindi language heard.

In my humble opinion, it was a mistake putting two RSL's on the same frequency so close together geographically. Surely one could have been licenced on 87.6 (preferred) or 87.8 (not quite so good, as it may impinge upon Vixen FM 87.9), to increase the coverage area of both slightly.