What a surprise! While I was participating in the SWL 2024 contest this summer I received Myanma Radio on 5985 kHz in excellent quality (SIO454).
I tried to QSL this station in the 80ies: reception of the station was never easy. The reply percentage to QSL requests were low… I was never successful. As I also didn’t manage to receive a QSL from Rangoon (Yangon) Aeradio the country of Myanmar stayed on high on my “to do” list.
I learned that recently DX-ers had success with sending a report to nptradio.eng(at)mail.com . So I gave it a try. Six weeks later I received a friendly email and a nice e QSL! My 197th radio country QSLed!
The program I received was a program in Myanmar language, clearly recognizable as they played the national anthem “Kaba Ma Kyei”, followed by a prayer ended by that bell sound so characteristic for Buddhism. After that the programme continued with local traditional music. They do have programs in English as well as you can see in the above schedule. I might try this coming winter as transmission times do not seem to favor reception in Europe during summer months.
