I'm just getting back into news hunting on shortwave after a couple
years away. For a while after the Beeb canned their Americas services
I was using the Africa streams. Now that I'm back, I'd like to pick up
The World Today, which I understand is on at 0300 and 0500 UTC in
Africa. I went to the BBCWS website but their frequency guide is very
difficult to use, you have to enter a specific city and then you get a
program guide with programming listed by local time, then the freqs
after the pgm descriptions. I entered the first city in West Africa
that came to mind, namely Lagos, Nigeria, and got freqs of 6005 and
7160. 6005 is heavily dominated by Cuba on 6000 here in California,
and 7160 is in the middle of the infamous 41m band-the one that is
hams in North America but international broadcast everywhere else. On
May 28 (May 29 in the target area) 7160 was dogged by local hams, and
when it wasn't the BBC was weak at best. Anybody have freqs for any
other African streams, such as Central? I can't use Asian streams
since they're dominated by daylight in the local evenings.

American Insurgent wrote:
I'm just getting back into news hunting on shortwave after a couple
years away. For a while after the Beeb canned their Americas services
I was using the Africa streams. Now that I'm back, I'd like to pick up
The World Today, which I understand is on at 0300 and 0500 UTC in
Africa. I went to the BBCWS website but their frequency guide is very
difficult to use, you have to enter a specific city and then you get a
program guide with programming listed by local time, then the freqs
after the pgm descriptions. I entered the first city in West Africa
that came to mind, namely Lagos, Nigeria, and got freqs of 6005 and
7160. 6005 is heavily dominated by Cuba on 6000 here in California,
and 7160 is in the middle of the infamous 41m band-the one that is
hams in North America but international broadcast everywhere else. On
May 28 (May 29 in the target area) 7160 was dogged by local hams, and
when it wasn't the BBC was weak at best. Anybody have freqs for any
other African streams, such as Central? I can't use Asian streams
since they're dominated by daylight in the local evenings.

American:
I hear the East Asia service very well on 9740KHZ at night as well as
6195 KHZ in the morning hours. Occasionally they carry the World today
on those frequencies.
QTH Tucson, AZ

Ken

In article .com,
American Insurgent wrote:
I went to the BBCWS website but their frequency guide is very
difficult to use, you have to enter a specific city and then you get a
program guide with programming listed by local time, then the freqs
after the pgm descriptions.

They also have transmitter schedules by region. Below the box where you
enter the city (in the middle of http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/),
there is a link "Short Wave Changes". Take that link and you get to a
page with a list of links to the regional schedules. Click on a link and
you get a text listing of transmissions, sorted by time, for that region.
In addition, there's a link on each of the text schedule pages ("Frequency
Chart with transmitter details...) that gives you a graphical version
of the schedule with a bar chart showing the tranmission times by hour
and the location of the transmitters.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

On May 29, 2:09 am, K Isham wrote:
American Insurgent wrote:
I'm just getting back into news hunting on shortwave after a couple
years away. For a while after the Beeb canned their Americas services
I was using the Africa streams. Now that I'm back, I'd like to pick up
The World Today, which I understand is on at 0300 and 0500 UTC in
Africa. I went to the BBCWS website but their frequency guide is very
difficult to use, you have to enter a specific city and then you get a
program guide with programming listed by local time, then the freqs
after the pgm descriptions. I entered the first city in West Africa
that came to mind, namely Lagos, Nigeria, and got freqs of 6005 and
7160. 6005 is heavily dominated by Cuba on 6000 here in California,
and 7160 is in the middle of the infamous 41m band-the one that is
hams in North America but international broadcast everywhere else. On
May 28 (May 29 in the target area) 7160 was dogged by local hams, and
when it wasn't the BBC was weak at best. Anybody have freqs for any
other African streams, such as Central? I can't use Asian streams
since they're dominated by daylight in the local evenings.

American:
I hear the East Asia service very well on 9740KHZ at night as well as
6195 KHZ in the morning hours. Occasionally they carry the World today
on those frequencies.
QTH Tucson, AZ

Ken


9740 and an African freq of 9750 are mostly dead, and if they're not
there's a Spanish speaking station on 9745 that is very strong and
which wipes them out. I clicked around on the WS site and found freqs
of 6030 and 6190 as well as 9750 for 0300. 6190 is the BBC but in a
language that is German or Germanic, such as Dutch or a Scandinavian
tongue. Since this is a freq for Africa the language might be
Afrikaans, a Dutch derived tongue spoken by whites in South Africa.
6030 is no good. It is almost 0400 as I post. I have about five or six
freqs for The World Today at 0500 that I will try. As I said, the
Singapore and Thailand relays are no good here in the evenings local,
since they are in daylight paths and it is around noon at the tx
sites. I doubt that they get out much in the middle of the day, along
with the sunspot minimum causing upper bands to be useless. According
to the BBC website, 6195 only has World Briefing, which is sort of a
news digest rather than an in depth newscast. It's sort of like CNN
Headline News instead of full CNN.

American Insurgent wrote:

I'm just getting back into news hunting on shortwave after a
couple years away. For a while after the Beeb canned their
Americas services I was using the Africa streams. Now that I'm
back, I'd like to pick up The World Today, which I understand is
on at 0300 and 0500 UTC in Africa. I went to the BBCWS website
but their frequency guide is very difficult to use, you have to
enter a specific city and then you get a program guide with
programming listed by local time, then the freqs after the pgm
descriptions. I entered the first city in West Africa that came
to mind, namely Lagos, Nigeria, and got freqs of 6005 and 7160.
6005 is heavily dominated by Cuba on 6000 here in California,
and 7160 is in the middle of the infamous 41m band-the one that
is hams in North America but international broadcast everywhere
else. On May 28 (May 29 in the target area) 7160 was dogged by
local hams, and when it wasn't the BBC was weak at best. Anybody
have freqs for any other African streams, such as Central? I
can't use Asian streams since they're dominated by daylight in
the local evenings.

What about getting the PDF updates
at wrth.com, free download of changes
since you haven't bought the book
--
-\_,-~-\___...__._._._._._._._._._._._.
For real Dxing,
see]http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~vz6g-iwt/index.html

American Insurgent wrote at 29.05.07 about " BBCWS Africa freqs?"


6190 is the BBC but in a
language that is German or Germanic, such as Dutch or a Scandinavian
tongue.
The BBC closed its german service 1999.

On 6190 kHz is 24 hours the german "Deutschlandfunk" It is a domestic program
with more information than music,


If you want to see all shortwave frequencies of the BBC, you can use the web
site of the german radio club ADDX on www.addx.de.


On http://www.addx.de/cgi-bin/hfp.cgi?language=E is the english listening
guide.


With greetings from Germany

Yours,
Andreas Nitschke

In article . com,
American Insurgent wrote:
6030 is no good. It is almost 0400 as I post. I have about five or six
freqs for The World Today at 0500 that I will try. As I said, the
Singapore and Thailand relays are no good here in the evenings local,
since they are in daylight paths and it is around noon at the tx
sites. I doubt that they get out much in the middle of the day, along
with the sunspot minimum causing upper bands to be useless. According
to the BBC website, 6195 only has World Briefing, which is sort of a
news digest rather than an in depth newscast. It's sort of like CNN
Headline News instead of full CNN.

I'm getting 15335 and 15360 kHz here in Seattle at 2:00 UTC (7 PM PDT) ,
which is a half hour of The World Today. On a good day, try 15360,
17760, and 21660 at 5:00 UTC. They have come in on those frequencies then
in better years, (like last year).

Best bet for your news fix may be News Hour at 12:00 (5 AM PDT) on 9740 and
6195 kHz. I think they use the same staff for The World Today and
News Hour.

Insomnia radio update: 15360 was coming in ok here at Midnight (7 UTC),
another half hour of the World Today.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

On May 29, 2:09 am, K Isham wrote:
American Insurgent wrote:
I'm just getting back into news hunting on shortwave after a couple
years away. For a while after the Beeb canned their Americas services
I was using the Africa streams. Now that I'm back, I'd like to pick up
The World Today, which I understand is on at 0300 and 0500 UTC in
Africa. I went to the BBCWS website but their frequency guide is very
difficult to use, you have to enter a specific city and then you get a
program guide with programming listed by local time, then the freqs
after the pgm descriptions. I entered the first city in West Africa
that came to mind, namely Lagos, Nigeria, and got freqs of 6005 and
7160. 6005 is heavily dominated by Cuba on 6000 here in California,
and 7160 is in the middle of the infamous 41m band-the one that is
hams in North America but international broadcast everywhere else. On
May 28 (May 29 in the target area) 7160 was dogged by local hams, and
when it wasn't the BBC was weak at best. Anybody have freqs for any
other African streams, such as Central? I can't use Asian streams
since they're dominated by daylight in the local evenings.

American:
I hear the East Asia service very well on 9740KHZ at night as well as
6195 KHZ in the morning hours. Occasionally they carry the World today
on those frequencies.
QTH Tucson, AZ

Ken


9740 and an African freq of 9750 are mostly dead, and if they're not
there's a Spanish speaking station on 9745 that is very strong and
which wipes them out. I clicked around on the WS site and found freqs
of 6030 and 6190 as well as 9750 for 0300. 6190 is the BBC but in a
language that is German or Germanic, such as Dutch or a Scandinavian
tongue. Since this is a freq for Africa the language might be
Afrikaans, a Dutch derived tongue spoken by whites in South Africa.
6030 is no good. It is almost 0400 as I post. I have about five or six
freqs for The World Today at 0500 that I will try. As I said, the
Singapore and Thailand relays are no good here in the evenings local,
since they are in daylight paths and it is around noon at the tx
sites. I doubt that they get out much in the middle of the day, along
with the sunspot minimum causing upper bands to be useless. According
to the BBC website, 6195 only has World Briefing, which is sort of a
news digest rather than an in depth newscast. It's sort of like CNN
Headline News instead of full CNN.

On May 31, 10:43 am, Andreas Nitschke wrote:
American Insurgent wrote at 29.05.07 about " BBCWS Africa freqs?"

6190 is the BBC but in a
language that is German or Germanic, such as Dutch or a Scandinavian
tongue.

The BBC closed its german service 1999.

On 6190 kHz is 24 hours the german "Deutschlandfunk" It is a domestic program
with more information than music,

If you want to see all shortwave frequencies of the BBC, you can use the web
site of the german radio club ADDX onwww.addx.de.

On http://www.addx.de/cgi-bin/hfp.cgi?language=Eis the english listening
guide.

With greetings from Germany

Yours,
Andreas Nitschke


Oh. It's so strong here in the Western US that I thought for a second
it was Deutsche Welle's pointless 24hr all German service to North
America, back from the dead. Then I thought it was the BBC, since
they're on then, but apparently these Germans are wiping out
everything on that freq. I would guess that "Deutschlandfunk" would be
a private station not connected to DW or the German government?

American Insurgent wrote at 02.06.07 about " BBCWS Africa freqs?"

on my answer:
On 6190 kHz is 24 hours the german "Deutschlandfunk" It is a
domestic program with more information than music,


Oh. It's so strong here in the Western US that I thought for a second
it was Deutsche Welle's pointless 24hr all German service to North
America, back from the dead. Then I thought it was the BBC, since
they're on then, but apparently these Germans are wiping out
everything on that freq. I would guess that "Deutschlandfunk" would
be a private station not connected to DW or the German government?

I dont know, what you hear on 6190 kHz.

Anyway, "Deutschlandfunk" is on program of the public broadcaster
"Deutschlandradio".

According to
http://www.dradio.de/dlf/frequenzen/liste/#kw
6190 kHz is at present used with 17 kW


You can compare the signal with the Livestreaming

http://www.dradio.de/streaming/


There is an english Wikipedia articel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandfunk


With greetings from Germany
Yours,
Andreas