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HOW TO USE THE SHORTWAVE GUIDE
0000-0100 twhfa USA, Voice of America 5995am 6130ca 7405am 9455af
Convert your time to UTC.
Broadcast time on and time off
are expressed in Coordinated Universal
Time (UTC) – the time at the 0 meridian
near Greenwich, England. To translate
your local time into UTC, first convert
your local time to 24-hour format, then
add (during Standard Time) 5, 6, 7 or
8 hours for Eastern, Central, Mountain
or Pacific Times, respectively. Eastern,
Central, and Pacific Times are already
converted to UTC for you at the top of
each hour.
Note that all dates, as well as times,
are in UTC; for example, a show which
might air at 0030 UTC Sunday will be
heard on Saturday evening in America
(in other words, 7:30 pm Eastern, 6:30
pm Central, etc.).
Find the station you want to hear.
Look at the page which corresponds
to the time you will be listening. On the
top half of the page English broadcasts
are listed by UTC time on , then alphabetically
by country , followed by the
station name . (If the station name is
the same as the country, we don’t repeat
it, e.g., “Vanuatu, Radio” [Vanuatu].)
If a broadcast is not daily, the days of
broadcast will appear in the column
following the time of broadcast, using
the following codes:
Day Codes
s/S Sunday
m/M Monday
t/T Tuesday
w/W Wednesday
h/H Thursday
f/F Friday
a/A Saturday
D Daily
mon/MON monthly
occ: occasional
DRM: Digital Radio Mondiale
In the same column , irregular broadcasts
are indicated “tent” and programming
which includes languages
besides English are coded “vl” (various
languages).
Choose the most promising frequencies for
the time, location and conditions.
The frequencies follow to the right of
the station listing; all frequencies are listed in
kilohertz (kHz). Not all listed stations will be
heard from your location and virtually none of
them will be heard all the time on all frequencies.
Shortwave broadcast stations change
some of their frequencies at least twice a year,
in April and October, to adapt to seasonal
conditions. But they can also change in response
to short-term conditions, interference,
equipment problems, etc. Our frequency
manager coordinates published station schedules
with confirmations and reports from her
monitoring team and MT readers to make the
Shortwave Guide up-to-date as of one week
before print deadline.
To help you find the most promising signal
for your location, immediately following each
frequency we’ve included information on
the target area of the broadcast. Signals
beamed toward your area will generally be
easier to hear than those beamed elsewhere,
even though the latter will often still be audible.
Target Areas
af: Africa
al: alternate frequency
(occasional use only)
am: The Americas
as: Asia
au: Australia
ca: Central America
do: domestic broadcast
eu: Europe
irr: irregular (Costa Rica RFPI)
me: Middle East
MT MONITORING TEAM
Gayle Van Horn
Frequency Manager
gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com
Daniel Sampson
danielsampson@monitoringtimes.com
Shortwave Broadcast Bands
kHz
Meters
2300-2495 120 meters (Note 1)
3200-3400 90 meters (Note 1)
3900-3950 75 meters (Regional band,
used for broadcasting in
Asia only)
3950-4000 75 meters (Regional band,
used for broadcasting in
Asia and Europe)
4750-4995 60 meters (Note 1)
5005-5060 60 meters (Note 1)
5730-5900 49 meter NIB (Note 2)
5900-5950 49 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
5950-6200 49 meters
6200-6295 49 meter NIB (Note 2)
6890-6990 41 meter NIB (Note 2)
7100-7300 41 meters (Regional band,
not allocated for broadcasting
in the western hemisphere)
(Note 4)
7300-7350 41 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
7350-7600 41 meter NIB (Note 2)
9250-9400 31 meter NIB (Note 2)
9400-9500 31 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
9500-9900 31 meters
11500-11600 25 meter NIB (Note 2)
11600-11650 25 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
11650-12050 25 meters
12050-12100 25 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
12100-12600 25 meter NIB (Note 2)
13570-13600 22 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
13600-13800 22 meters
13800-13870 22 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
15030-15100 19 meter NIB (Note 2)
15100-15600 19 meters
15600-15800 19 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
17480-17550 17 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
17550-17900 17 meters
18900-19020 15 meter WARC-92 band
(Note 3)
21450-21850 13 meters
25670-26100 11 meters
Notes
Note 1 Tropical bands, 120/90/60 meters are
for broadcast use only in designated
tropical areas of the world.
Note 2 Broadcasters can use this frequency
range on a (NIB) non-interference
basis only.
Note 3 WARC-92 bands are allocated officially
for use by HF broadcasting stations
in 2007. They are only authorized
on a non-interference basis until that
date.
Note 4 WRC-03 update. After March 29,
2009, the spectrum from 7100-7200
kHz will no longer be available for
broadcast purposes and will be turned
over to amateur radio operations
worldwide
January 2005 MONITORING TIMES 39