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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Request for information about shortwave
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Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 17:54:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 21 17:54:43 1984
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> A friend recently gave me an old shortwave radio.  I haven't been able
> to receive much except Radio Moscow.  What I'd like to do is be able to
> listen to Israel Radio.  Can anyone suggest any books I could read about
> shortwave?  Does anyone know the frequencies and times of Israel Radio
> and or the BBC World Service?  
> 
From the December issue of Miller Publishing's The Shortwave Guide, which
I happen to have with me here at the office, you lucky person!:

Kol Israel:	0000-0030 GMT	7412, 9440, 9815
		0100-0130 GMT	the same
		0200-0230 GMT	the same
		0500-0515 GMT	9009, 9440, 9815 kHz
		2000-2030 GMT	7412, 9440, 9815 kHz
		2230-2300 GMT	7410, 9440, 9815 kHz (I wonder if 7410 is a
							misprint?)
(These are the scheduled English-language transmissions.)
(GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, which is 6 hours ahead of Central Standard.
So 0000 GMT is 1800 or 6 PM CST, 0500 GMT is 2300 or 11 PM CST, etc.)

A note in the October Review of International Broadcasting mentions the
possibility that the 0000 and 0100 broadcasts might also be on 11655 and
15585 kHz, and the 0200 also on 11655 kHz, and the 2230 one might also
be on 12025 kHz and 15585 kHz. (The later RIB has a by-country schedule,
but I don't have it with me, drat!)

As for the BBC, there are many different relay stations and lots of 
frequencies. For general purposes, in the US evening, 6175 kHz is the best.
9510 kHz is also good for later in the evening/night. 21660, 15070, and
15260 are good in the mornings, at different times, as various relays
come on and off.

As for sources of info. The best is (in my opinion):

Review of International Broadcasting
Glenn Hauser
PO Box 490756
Ft. Lauderdale, FL  33349

(Sample issue $1.50 US, subscription $18 US)

Next is:

The Shortwave Guide
Miller Publishing
424 West Jefferson St.
Media, PA  19063

(Sample issue 95 cents, subscription $9.95)

[Tell 'em both Will Martin sent you... It won't do you any good, but it'll
inflate my ego...]

The former is a small-format magazine; the latter is a tabloid paper.

Regards,
Will Martin

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