{"id":34625,"date":"2018-10-25T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=34625"},"modified":"2018-10-25T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:49:41","slug":"vatican-radio-notes-shortwave-frequency-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/vatican-radio-notes-shortwave-frequency-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Radio notes shortwave frequency changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18456\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VaticanRadioFront-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18456\" class=\"wp-image-18456 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VaticanRadioFront-001-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VaticanRadioFront-001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VaticanRadioFront-001-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VaticanRadioFront-001-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/VaticanRadioFront-001-419x300.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vintage Vatican Radio QSL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/africa\/news\/2018-10\/english-africa-radio-programme-shortwave-frequency-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vatican Radio<\/a> via Mike Hansgen)<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__subTitle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Shortwave Frequency Changes for the English Africa Service starting on 28 October 2018 to March\/April 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Daylight saving time in Rome<\/strong><br \/>\nWe wish to inform listeners that with the end of Daylight Saving Time in Rome on Sunday 28th October, there will be changes in the time and broadcast frequencies of the English Africa Service.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will be going on air one hour earlier at 16.30 UTC (GMT) on the following shortwave frequencies: 11625 kHz (25mb) and 13830 kHz (21mb)<\/p>\n<p>It will be repeated at 20.00 hours UTC on 6010 kHz (49mb) and the 7365 kHz (40 mb).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listeners in Rome<\/strong><br \/>\nFor listeners in Rome and the Vatican who have a digital radio receiver, the \u2018English Africa Programme\u2019 can be heard on Vatican News\u2019 World Channel on digital radio DAB+ at 17.30 Rome time and the repeat broadcast at 21.00 hours Rome time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to and download our daily Podcast from anywhere in the world<\/strong><br \/>\nTo listen to the Podcast of our programme throughout the day, just log on to our websitewww.vaticannews.va, click on English and then from right hand side of the page; click on \u201clisten to our podcasts\u201d and choose \u2018English for Africa\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catholic Radio Stations in Africa retransmit our daily programme<\/strong><br \/>\nOn the continent, the main outlet for our daily English Africa programmes will continue to be through the re-transmission of our daily broadcasts by several Catholic radio stations.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these radio stations are owned by various African Catholic dioceses, parishes, religious congregations and some by the Radio Maria network.<\/p>\n<p>We thank you all for this important collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>For further information kindly contact the English Africa Service through email: <a href=\"mailto:engafrica@spc.va\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engafrica@spc.va<\/a> or by phone: (+39) 06 69883892.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Vatican Radio via Mike Hansgen) Shortwave Frequency Changes for the English Africa Service starting on 28 October 2018 to March\/April 2019 Daylight saving time in Rome We wish to inform listeners that with the end of Daylight Saving Time in Rome on Sunday 28th October, there will be changes in the time and broadcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,651,43],"tags":[3422,1186],"class_list":["post-34625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-vatican-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-90t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24801,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/vatican-radios-english-shortwave-service-to-asia-ends\/","url_meta":{"origin":34625,"position":0},"title":"Vatican Radio\u2019s English shortwave service to Asia ends","author":"Thomas","date":"March 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Vatican Radio\u00a0via London Shortwave) Vatican Radio\u2019s English SW broadcast to Asia come to an end Vatican Radio\u2019s English shortwave broadcast for Asia has come to an end, with its last transmission going out Friday evening, after nearly 60 years of service.\u00a0 However this does not mean it has disappeared\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dial-analog.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dial-analog.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dial-analog.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dial-analog.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3766,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/vatican-radio-from-short-waves-to-new-communications-strategies\/","url_meta":{"origin":34625,"position":1},"title":"Vatican Radio: &#8220;from Short Waves to new communications strategies&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"June 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to SWLing Post reader, Mike, for the tip: (Source: Vatican Radio) Announcing Vatican Radio\u2019s intention to reduce its Short and Medium Wave transmissions to most of Europe and the Americas, starting July 1st, the Director General, Fr Federico Lombardi, today spoke of what he called, \u201cA new chapter in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/radio_vaticana-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":52215,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/vatican-radio-insreases-shortwave-news-broadcasts-to-ukraine-russia\/","url_meta":{"origin":34625,"position":2},"title":"Vatican Radio insreases shortwave news broadcasts to Ukraine &#038; 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