Category Archives: Schedules and Frequencies

Wavescan focuses on Africa in 2013

For those of you looking for an informative show on international broadcasting, shortwave radio and DXing, checkout Wavescan by AWR. This year, I understand a lot of focus will be placed on radio and broadcasting to/in Africa. Wavescan’s full schedule … Continue reading

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Alex updates his handy shortwave frequency charts

SWLing Post reader, Alex, has just informed me that he’s updated his shortwave frequency charts again. You can download the free charts on his website: Shortwavetimes.com Again, thanks Alex for the time and dedication you put into these fine charts!

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The Mighty KBC testing on 6150 kHz January 10 & 11

The Mighty KBC will be doing special broadcasts to test modulation on 6,150 kHz. They will broadcast old shows of The Giant Jukebox. Here is the schedule with dates/times in UTC: Thursday, 10 January 2013 from 10.00 – 12.00 UTC on … Continue reading

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WBCQ: variety and open source on New Year’s Eve

(Source: Stephen Kellat) As long as our “i”‘s are dotted and our “t”‘s are crossed, there will be a New Year’s Eve special on WBCQ on 5.110 MHz from the production team at Erie Looking Productions in concert with the … Continue reading

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Voice of Croatia leaving shortwave in 2013

Over the holidays, the Voice of Croatia announced that they will be leaving the shortwave spectrum as of the 1st of January 2013. They sent the following message to their listeners: Dear listeners: From January 1, 2013 this program will … Continue reading

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Scandinavian Weekend Radio Christmas specials & frequencies

(Source: Scandinavian Weekend Radio via Alokesh Gupta) Scandinavian Weekend Radio is broadcasting a series of Christmas Specials on 5980, 6170, 11690, 11720 kHz the 24th & 25th of Dec 2012. The full broadcast schedule can be found here: http://www.swradio.net/schedule.htm

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The Mighty KBC’s holiday broadcasts include DRM

In this series of special holiday broadcasts, The Mighty KBC is targeting different regions of the world.  See how many you can hear: The following broadcast times and frequencies are valid for December 22, 23, 25 and 26 Targeting Europe … Continue reading

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2013 WRTH now available

WRTH has announced that their 2013 edition is now available online. Every year, I look forward to searching a new WRTH’s pages for the first time. What is the WRTH (World Radio and TV Handbook)? Click here to read my reviews … Continue reading

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The Mighty KBC’s December special broadcast frequencies

In a previous post we mentioned that the Mighty KBC, who has been very active on the shortwave bands, announced a line of special broadcasts in December. They’ve just published the frequencies for the broadcasts: The extra frequencies and transmitters for … Continue reading

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VOA adds shortwave frequencies for US election coverage

(Source: VOA via Kim Andrew Elliott) Special election programming on the Voice of America 0200-0600 UTC, November 7: Africa 0200-0300 UTC  909, 1530, 4930, 6080, 9885, 15580 0300-0600 UTC  Existing broadcasts Middle East 0200-0400 UTC   9480, 12005, 15255 0400-0600 UTC   … Continue reading

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