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Old 5th Jan 2021, 1:54 pm   #1
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I have recently taken a renewed interest in shortwave and thought of starting a thread on English-language broadcasts on shortwave. Here is one currently on the air at 1250 GMT:
Radio Romania International on 15460 kHz, coming in quite strong.
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The other day I had a tune across the 22m band and found a strong station broadcasting in an unknown language: there seemed to be a party going on with shouting and singing so I looked on shortwave.am where you can select for English etc or 'any language' and found there were scheduled broadcasts in a Chinese dialect from CRI at that time. I was impressed to find that the Chinese can be so jolly in public and continued to listen until it dawned that they were shouting and singing "Praise the Lord, Halleluiah!" over and over: it was an unlisted American evangelical broadcaster!
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China Radio International on 9525 kHz. Heard at 1515 GMT. Good signal.
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The Overcomer Ministry on 9400 kHz at 1540 GMT. Good signal from transmitter in Bulgaria.

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The Overcomer Ministry on 9400 kHz at 1540 GMT. Good signal from transmitter in Bulgaria.
My evangelist programme probably came via Bulgaria now you mention it
Currently a bizarre rant about everyone using guillotines, thousands of them. Shortwave.am shows it as Brother Stair.
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Radio Belartus is on for much of the evening on 3985 with a good signal. Interesting that a cash-strapped economy can run a 250kW transmitter just for cultural self-promotion
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The Overcomer Ministry on 9400 kHz at 1540 GMT. Good signal from transmitter in Bulgaria.
My evangelist programme probably came via Bulgaria now you mention it
Currently a bizarre rant about everyone using guillotines, thousands of them. Shortwave.am shows it as Brother Stair.
Brother Stair is quite a "Character" (to be polite) ( See here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Stair ) Buys air time on several S.W. stations, including some in Europe.
Wasn't on my Christmas card list ! Tony.
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There's RNZ Pacific (previously RNZ International) but I suspect it isn't going to get to the UK! English languages services on short wave, AM and DRM.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/listen
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China Radio International on 9525 kHz. Heard at 1515 GMT. Good signal.
This is broadcast from the kashi-saibagh transmitter in several languages at different times of the day i believe located in xinjiang.
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VoA still have shortwave broadcasts aimed at Africa https://www.voanews.com/voa-broadcas...ency-schedules

and NHK (Japan) has English broadcasts on shortwave too. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ja/i...y_schedule.pdf

Alas there are relatively few SW broadcasters still active - most of those remaining seem to be either religious or political.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...o_broadcasters
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There's RNZ Pacific (previously RNZ International) but I suspect it isn't going to get to the UK! English languages services on short wave, AM and DRM.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/listen
Some thirty-odd years ago I remember listening to and receiving a QSL card from RNZI. Loved the bellbird signature tune !
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Some thirty-odd years ago I remember listening to and receiving a QSL card from RNZI. Loved the bellbird signature tune !

I've never logged that one!

I mistook the Radio Australia Kookaburra song for a monkey at first, I have just discovered it even had a name, Jacko, the Kookaburra!

RSA and RAI used avian interval signals too. I don't know their names!
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Some thirty-odd years ago I remember listening to and receiving a QSL card from RNZI. Loved the bellbird signature tune !

I've never logged that one!

I mistook the Radio Australia Kookaburra song for a monkey at first, I have just discovered it even had a name, Jacko, the Kookaburra!

RSA and RAI used avian interval signals too. I don't know their names!
Radio RSA had a lovely interval signal too. The birdsong belonged to the bokmakierie.
I vaguely remember listening to one of their radio DX/ technical programs.
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Hi.
Another religious broadcaster pops up on 9330 Khz, WBCQ, it has English broadcasts at various times.
Romania's ident tune reminds me of the old Comecon days, it sounds quite depressing.

In early 2019 there was an unidentified station I received on the 120 meter band that kept repeating a few bars of a tune for hours. I only ever heard it one evening and then never again. Oddly the those bars were firmly fixed in my head until one day last year Judy was watching something on you tube which used it as a background track. Since then I found out what it was and downloaded it. Out of interest it was I'm Enlightened by Maddy Haddad, why the first 15 odd seconds were repeated for hours I'll never know but I like the tune.
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WBCQ carries Worlds Last Chance which is also on 9820 from 1700 - 1900 in English from Woofferton
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Voice of America can be heard direct from its Greenville transmitter on 11720 kHz. Was listening to it for the last quarter of an hour or so. Pop music followed by a news editorial and then sign off at 2200 GMT. Fair to good reception.

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WBCQ on 9330 kHz with a fair signal heard at 1745 GMT using a Sangean ATS 909X. Telescopic antenna sufficient for reception.
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This morning 9510kHz had a good signal 08:00 - 09:00, programme in the style of Swinging Radio London or Laser Hot Hits, probably Radio Merlin International but I couldn't wait for an identification. Presumably licensed air-time from IRRS Saftica, Bulgaria

Transmissions like this and genuine pirates are regularly logged in the French forum https://dxrad.groups.io/g/main
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Saw this in the paper today - an interesting redux of AFN, whose signals were ubiquitous on MW and SW for more than 50 years.

I used to listen to live boxing-matches and baseball-games on AFN in the 60s and 70s.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/ra...munism-europe/

[yes there's a paywall but any ad/script-blocker will easily get round it]

If you're interested in re-living the pirate-radio thrills of the Medium Wave 1960s, it can be worth listening between 6100 anf 6400KHz on a Sunday morning, where you'll likely hear a number of English-speaking pop-pirates, with distinctly-variable modulation-quality!
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As far as I know it is still illegal to deliberately listen to "unauthorised" broadcasts in the UK. The only things allowed are legitimate broadcast and amatuer radio (that includes all amateur emissions, TV etc.). I still haven't worked out if I am allowed to listen/decode my neighbours weather station (433MHz) or even my own!

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