Hi,

Happy holiday to all.

Anyone have any idea when ILG will (probably) post the B04 schedule for sw
listeners ?
Tried, but they're not responsive with e-mails.

I guess B04 schedules are in use now by stations; right ?

Bob

Robert11 wrote:

Hi,

Happy holiday to all.

Anyone have any idea when ILG will (probably) post the B04 schedule for sw
listeners ?
Tried, but they're not responsive with e-mails.

I guess B04 schedules are in use now by stations; right ?

Yes, the B04 season started at the end of October. I have no idea when the ILG
will be out.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



Bob

Don't worry about when ILG will be updated. There are many other databases
and lists out there that provide equivalent information:

Prime Time Shortwave - http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/
EiBi - http://www.eibi.de.vu/
FCC HF Seasonal Operating Schedules -
http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/seasons.html
HFCC - http://www.hfcc.org/

Most of these frequency lists are available in database formats. The EiBi
schedules are fairly hard to parse, but all the others are straightforward.

I highly recommend the Prime Time Shortwave database. The author, Daniel
Sampson, does a great job and keeps putting out updates every week or two.

Bob


"Robert11" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Happy holiday to all.

Anyone have any idea when ILG will (probably) post the B04 schedule for sw
listeners ?
Tried, but they're not responsive with e-mails.

I guess B04 schedules are in use now by stations; right ?

Bob

But, the best programs for searching the database file work with ILG


Last year it was out by early December....I'm thinking it will be very late
this year.

Hi,

Happy holidays.

The reason I'm after ILG's is that it meshes very nicely
with Mark Fine's (no longer supported) Radio Listeners Database (RLDB).

Have no idea how to format these others and have RLDB read them.

Any ideas on how to ?

Regards,
Bob
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"Robert Sillett" wrote in message
m...
Don't worry about when ILG will be updated. There are many other
databases and lists out there that provide equivalent information:

Prime Time Shortwave - http://www.primetimeshortwave.com/
EiBi - http://www.eibi.de.vu/
FCC HF Seasonal Operating Schedules -
http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/seasons.html
HFCC - http://www.hfcc.org/

Most of these frequency lists are available in database formats. The EiBi
schedules are fairly hard to parse, but all the others are
straightforward.

I highly recommend the Prime Time Shortwave database. The author, Daniel
Sampson, does a great job and keeps putting out updates every week or two.

Bob


"Robert11" wrote in message
...
Hi,

Happy holiday to all.

Anyone have any idea when ILG will (probably) post the B04 schedule for
sw listeners ?
Tried, but they're not responsive with e-mails.

I guess B04 schedules are in use now by stations; right ?

Bob

Robert11 wrote:

Hi,

Happy holidays.

The reason I'm after ILG's is that it meshes very nicely
with Mark Fine's (no longer supported) Radio Listeners Database (RLDB).

Have no idea how to format these others and have RLDB read them.

Any ideas on how to ?

Wing it, just like we always did.

You do not need a computer to listen to, or log, radio stations.

I didn't even have a computer, yet I logged and yes, even QSL'd over 200
shortwave countries.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

dxAce: that's an excellent point. I too have thousands of logs that I
identified without a computer.



All you really need to do is spend 5 or 10 minutes listening to the station
to identify it. And if you have a copy of Passport to World Band Radio or
the WRTH, you can ID the station much more quickly.



Bob



"dxAce" wrote in message
...

Wing it, just like we always did.

You do not need a computer to listen to, or log, radio stations.

I didn't even have a computer, yet I logged and yes, even QSL'd over 200
shortwave countries.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Robert Sillett wrote:

dxAce: that's an excellent point. I too have thousands of logs that I
identified without a computer.

All you really need to do is spend 5 or 10 minutes listening to the station
to identify it. And if you have a copy of Passport to World Band Radio or
the WRTH, you can ID the station much more quickly.

I just received a message stating that the new ILG B04 database is now up, for
all who are interested.

http://www.ilgradio.com/ilgradio.htm

dxAce
Michigan
USA

J999w wrote:

Now that's a nice Christmas present !

I guess I can't ask for the VU4 now.

I do know that the VU4 was worked by a fellow north of Cincinnati yesterday
morning in the 1300 hour, long path on 20 meters.

I've heard the VU4 here on several occasions, though I'm not going to work them.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Robert Sillett" wrote in
m:

You can use Microsoft Acccess, MySQL, or any other database program to
parse and reformat the various databases into whatever format your
software requires. You'll most likely need to learn SQL, but
converting database formats is a straightforward procedure. As I
mentioned earlier, the EiBi schedules are pretty difficult to parse,
but all the others are either real databases in DBF format or are TXT
files with fixed formats.

That's what I did. I wrote my own program to handle all these
databases. http://www.shortwavelog.com My program works with all the
databases that I previously mentioned.

I've attached a screenshot of my program showing data from HFCC,
ILGRadio, FCC HF, EiBi, and Prime Time Shortwave. If you don't like
the world map that shows all current transmissions, you can disable
it. Screenshot2 shows the same grid without the world map.


A most excellent program! Thank for you providing this.