Listener's Guide - 1999 - The Listeners Guide

9830KHz: Croatian Radio. News heard at 0800.10000.0KHzCalibration Beacon. Many countries compete to provide a Reference Standard, so muchso that 10000 is merely the middle of a standard's sub-band. The one you find could beup to 5KHz away from what you take to be 10000 leaving you to question the accuracyof your radio. Chances are that if it was made in the last decade of synthesizer design,then all will be well. Standards can confuse as well as assist...10051KHz: New York Radio.10100KHz: WRAC Amateur Band lower limit. From here to 29700KHz, upper sidebandtakes over for Ham radio.10150KHz: WRAC Amateur Band upper limit.11176KHz: USAF Operations Net.11234KHz: RAF Control.11600KHzThe WRAC 92 lower limit of the 25m Broadcast Band. One of the bands tipped to be themost crowded as the major powers, both political and radiated, fight for frequencies.11620KHz: All India Radio.11990KHz: Radio Prague.12095KHz: BBC World Service from Skelton and Woofferton.12290KHz: Marine Distress.12392KHz: Marine Worldwide Calling and Distress.The 13Mhz Long Distance Marine and Air Traffic Control Band.The major world-wide mobile communications band;13146KHz: Portishead Radio. Traffic and Weather on the hour.13270KHz: New York/Gander Radio.13570KHzThe WRAC 92 lower limit of the 22m Broadcast Band. Reflecting in the upper regions ofthe F Layer, this band will get you as far as we can go. Soon to be extended as thisworld-wide band proves its worth as conditions improve, the broadcasters have yet torealise it is only included on the more expensive radios like the AR7030. This means thepoorer nations who have the greatest need for uncorrupted news will never hear;13620KHz: Radio Kuwait13635KHz: Swiss Radio International13640KHz: Zagreb Radio. Croatian Radio News heard at 1300.13710KHz: VOA Africa from Botswana Relay.13730KHz: Radio Austria.13830KHz: Zagreb Radio. Croatian Radio News at 2100-2110.14000KHz 20m Amateur Band lower limit.15100KHz: The WRAC 92 lower limit of the 19m Broadcast Band.15205KHz: VOA, Tangier, Morocco.15225KHz: VOA, Ascension Island Relay.15325KHz: Radio Canada International.15395KHz: UAE Radio, Dubai. Worth it for the weather reports...15400KHz: BBC World Service from Ascension.15450KHz: Radio Austria.15575KHzBBC World Service. This sender in Cyprus is suggested by Bush House as good for the UKduring the day. Good around mid-day, subject to deep fades.15800KHzThe WRAC 92 upper limit of the 19m Broadcast Band. Something to bear in mind if youhave yet to buy your radio. Some budget sets tend to "leave out" the out-of-bandsections of these higher broadcast bands, the same frequencies now being developed bynewer voices to short-wave. There is nothing more frustrating to find the new channelannounced by your favourite station is 75KHz above the cut-off frequency of your shinynew wireless. Check yours is general coverage....16420KHz: Marine Distress.17480KHz: The WRAC 92 lower limit of the 16m Broadcast Band.17640KHz: BBC World Service from Ascension.17875KHz: Radio Canada.18068KHz: WRAC Amateur Band lower limit.