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0000-0100 twhfa USA, Voice of America 5995am 6130ca 7405am 9455af
CONVERT YOUR TIME TO UTC
Broadcast time on and time off are expressed
in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) – the time at
the 0 meridian near Greenwich, England. To translate
your local time into UTC, first convert your local time
to 24-hour format, then add (during Daylight Savings
Time) 4, 5, 6 or 7 hours for Eastern, Central, Mountain
or Pacific Times, respectively. Eastern, Central, and
Pacific Times are already converted to UTC for you
at the top of each hour.
Note that all dates, as well as times, are in
UTC; for example, a show which might air at 0030
UTC Sunday will be heard on Saturday evening in
America (in other words, 8:30 pm Eastern, 7:30 pm
Central, etc.).
Not all countries observe Daylight Saving Time,
not all countries shift at the same time, and not all
program scheduling is shifted. So if you do not hear
your desired station or program, try searching the
hour ahead or behind its listed start time.
FIND THE STATION YOU WANT TO HEAR
Look at the page which corresponds to the time
you will be listening. English broadcasts are listed by
UTC time on , then alphabetically by country ,
followed by the station name . (If the station name
is the same as the country, we don’t repeat it, e.g.,
“Vanuatu, Radio” [Vanuatu].)
If a broadcast is not daily, the days of broadcast
will appear in the column following the time of broadcast,
using the following codes:
Codes
s/Sun
m/Mon
t
w
h
f
a/Sat
occ:
DRM:
irreg
vl
USB:
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
occasional
Digital Radio Mondiale
Irregular broadcasts
Various languages
Upper Sideband
CHOOSE PROMISING FREQUENCIES
Choose the most promising frequencies for the
time, location and conditions.
The frequencies follow to the right of the
station listing; all frequencies are listed in kilohertz
(kHz). Not all listed stations will be heard from your
location and virtually none of them will be heard
all the time on all frequencies.
Shortwave broadcast stations change some of
their frequencies at least twice a year, in April and
October, to adapt to seasonal conditions. But they
can also change in response to short-term conditions,
interference, equipment problems, etc. Our
frequency manager coordinates published station
schedules with confirmations and reports from
her monitoring team and MT readers to make
the Shortwave Guide up-to-date as of one week
before print deadline.
To help you find the most promising signal
for your location, immediately following each
frequency we’ve included information on the
target area of the broadcast. Signals beamed
toward your area will generally be easier to hear
than those beamed elsewhere, even though the
latter will often still be audible.
Target Areas
af: Africa
al: alternate frequency
(occasional use only)
am: The Americas
as: Asia
ca: Central America
do: domestic broadcast
eu: Europe
me: Middle East
na: North America
pa: Pacific
sa: South America
va: various
MT MONITORING TEAM
Gayle Van Horn
Frequency Manager
gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com
Larry Van Horn, MT Asst. Editor
larryvanhorn@monitoringtimes.com
Additional Contributors to This
Month’s Shortwave Guide:
Thank You to ...
ADDX Munich; ADXC; BCL
News; Cumbre DX; DSWCI/DX
Window; DX Asia; DX India; Hard-
Core DX; DX Re Mix News 730-
734; BCDX/WWDX/Top News.
Adrian Peterson/AWR; Alokesh
Gupta, New Delhi, India; Andreas
Volk, Germany; Bill Damick/TWR;
Brenda Constantino/WYFR; Ivo
Ivanov, Bulgaria; Nigel Holmes/R
Australia; Rachel Baughn/MT; Sean
Gilbert UK/WRTH 2012; Wolfgang
Bueschel, Stuttgart, Germany.
SHORTWAVE BROADCAST BANDS
kHz
Meters
2300-2495 120 meters (Note 1)
3200-3400 90 meters (Note 1)
3900-3950 75 meters (Regional band, used for
broadcasting in Asia only)
3950-4000 75 meters (Regional band, used for
broadcasting in Asia and Europe)
4750-4995 60 meters (Note 1)
5005-5060 60 meters (Note 1)
5730-5900 49 meter NIB (Note 2)
5900-5950 49 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
5950-6200 49 meters
6200-6295 49 meter NIB (Note 2)
6890-6990 41 meter NIB (Note 2)
7100-7300 41 meters (Regional band, not allocated
for broadcasting in the western
hemisphere) (Note 4)
7300-7350 41 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
7350-7600 41 meter NIB (Note 2)
9250-9400 31 meter NIB (Note 2)
9400-9500 31 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
9500-9900 31 meters
11500-11600 25 meter NIB (Note 2)
11600-11650 25 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
11650-12050 25 meters
12050-12100 25 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
12100-12600 25 meter NIB (Note 2)
13570-13600 22 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
13600-13800 22 meters
13800-13870 22 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
15030-15100 19 meter NIB (Note 2)
15100-15600 19 meters
15600-15800 19 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
17480-17550 17 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
17550-17900 17 meters
18900-19020 15 meter WARC-92 band (Note 3)
21450-21850 13 meters
25670-26100 11 meters
Notes
Note 1
Note 2
Note 3
Note 4
Tropical bands, 120/90/60 meters are for
broadcast use only in designated tropical
areas of the world.
Broadcasters can use this frequency range on
a (NIB) non-interference basis only.
WARC-92 bands are allocated officially for
use by HF broadcasting stations in 2007
WRC-03 update. After March 29, 2009, the
spectrum from 7100-7200 kHz will no longer
be available for broadcast purposes and will
be turned over to amateur radio operations
worldwide
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SHORTWAVE GUIDE
August 2012 MONITORING TIMES 35