Category Archives: Schedules and Frequencies

Alan Roe’s A-24 season guide to music on shortwave (version 4.0) & program grids for BBC WS, VOA and CGTN English services

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who shares his A-24 (version 4.0) season guide to music on shortwave. Alan provides this amazing resource as a free PDF download:

Click here to download Music on Shortwave A-24 v4.0 (PDF)

As always, thank you for sharing your excellent guide, Alan!

This dedicated page will always have the latest version of Alan’s guide available for download.

Programme Grids

Alan notes:

I also attach copies of my shortwave programme grids for the English services of BBC WS, VOA and CGTN in case these are of interest. Click links to download:

Alan Roe’s BBC World Service Programmes for the A24 Season

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alan Roe, who writes:

The BBC World Service “six-month” schedules now seem to have been deleted permanently from the BBCWS website. I have therefore produced my own “at-a-glance” schedule listing the BBC WS English programmes on shortwave, which I have now updated to version 1.3.

Click here to download BBC World Service Programmes: A24 Season (PDF).

Best wishes
Alan Roe, Teddington, UK

This is a wonderful quick reference sheet, Alan. Thank you so much for stepping up and making it available to the community!

Texas Radio Shortwave adds additional broadcast

Many thanks to Texas Radio Shortwave for the following update:

We added an additional broadcast of our monthly program over Channel 292 in Rohrbach, Germany. We’re working to cover Western NAm with a broadcast on 9670 kHz at 0300 UTC. Listeners in the South Pacific have also reported a listenable signal.

We want folks worldwide to hear us and welcome reception reports from listeners using remote receivers (SDRs).

73.

trsw

Texas Radio Shortwave
Back to our roots on Channel 292

www.facebook.com/texasradiosw
www.channel292.de

August 2024 Schedules: From the Isle of Music and Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Tilford, who shares the following schedule:

Our transmissions at 2300 UTC have been changed from 3955 to 9670 using Channel 292’s booster beam aimed at the Caribbean, which should also allow for good listening in some other parts of the Americas.

The 1700 UTC transmissions may occasionally bounce into parts of SE Asia and Oceania depending upon propagation conditions.

From the Isle of Music, August 10, 2024
We will feature music from the Música Bailable Actual (Current Dance Music) category of Cubadisco 2024

Uncle Bill’s Melting Pot, August 17, 2024
Our special guest Daryana Antipova, a member of the Transglobal World Music Chart who curates Russian and Balkan world music charts, will give us a taste of world music bands in Russia and by Russian world music bands working in other countries.

Times and frequencies for both programmes:
1700-1800 UTC 9670 kHz with beam E-F towards South Asia but listenable in Eastern Europe and parts of Eurasia
1900-2000 UTC 3955 & 6070 kHz (omnidirectional for Europe and beyond)
2300-2400 UTC 9670 kHz with beam P towards the Caribbean (but listenable in other parts of the Americas)

Special QSL Card: RTI Direct from Tamsui July/August 2024

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gérard Koopal, who writes:

Dear Thomas,

See below for a schedule from RTI stating their direct transmissions/programs from Tamsui Taiwan in German starting this Friday [July 12].

Reports can be sent to: deutsch@rti.org.tw or by post: Radio Taiwan International, German Service, P.O. Box 123-199, Taipei 11199, Taiwan.

They also state that there will also be programs in French from August 9 until September 1 on Saturday and Sunday on the same times and frequencies directly from Tamsui.

All reports will receive a special QSL card.

The following announcement from RTI was translated to English via Google Translate:

RTI Direct from Tamsui July/August 2024

Dear listeners,

Radio Taiwan International will once again be broadcasting German-language programs on several days this year directly from the Tamsui transmitter in Taiwan.

Broadcast dates and frequencies:
The broadcast times are given in UTC (CEST=UTC+2)

1700-1730 UTC 11995 kHz

1730-1800 UTC 9545 kHz

July 12th (Friday)

July 13th (Saturday)

July 14th (Sunday)

July 19th (Friday)

July 20th (Saturday)

July 21st (Sunday)

July 26th (Friday)

July 27th (Saturday)

July 28th (Sunday)

August 2nd (Friday)

August 3rd (Saturday)
04.08. (Sunday)

Please send reception reports by email to: deutsch@rti.org.tw
or via the online form: https://de.rti.org.tw/index/content/id/8
or by post to: Radio Taiwan International, German Service, P.O. Box 123-199, Taipei 11199, Taiwan

We will again confirm reception reports with a special QSL card!

further information:
https://de.rti.org.tw/radio/programView/id/2001

We would also like to point out that in August and September (August 9th to September 1st, 2024) RTI will also broadcast French-language programs directly from the Tamsui transmitter on Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the same frequencies at the same times.

Kind regards
Your RTI editorial team
deutsch@rti.org.tw
https://de.rti.org.tw/

RTI Tamsui transmitter tests for future broadcasts

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who shares the following article (translated into English, from the Radio Club du Perche:

RTI – Taiwan on direct broadcast from Tamsui transmitter center

As in recent years, the German and French services of RTI – Radio Taiwan International – will broadcast their programs to Europe and North-West Africa from the Tamsui transmitter center.

To determine which two frequencies will be used for the retransmissions, tests will be carried out on three frequencies in 10-minute increments, as follows:

Saturday July 6, 2024 by the German service:

    • 11,995 kHz (17:00-17:10 UTC) – 9,545 kHz (17:30-17:40 UTC) – 7,250 kHz (17:45-17:55 UTC)
      report your reception observations to the German service: deutsch@rti.org.tw

Sunday, July 7, 2024 by the French service:

    • 11995 kHz (Angle 325 degrees)?17:00-17:10 UTC – 9545 kHz (Angle 315 degrees)?17:30-17:40 UTC – 7250 kHz (Angle 315 degrees)?17:45-17:55 UTC
      Report your reception observations to the French service: fren@rti.org.tw

Official broadcast dates:

German service: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from July 12 to August 4, 2024
French service: every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from August 9 to September 1, 2024

A special QSL card is being printed for all listening reports received as part of this “Summer 2024 direct broadcast” (test phase and official broadcast). RTI thanks you for your support.

Paul JAMET

See:

https://de.rti.org.tw/radio/programMessageView/programId/2001/id/108778

https://fr.rti.org.tw/radio/programMessageView/id/107165