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Old August 7th 03, 03:50 AM
tommyknocker
 
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yazoo63 wrote:

If your e-mail addy is good, i can e-mail it to you. It's just in Wordpad
format, since i just put in a
new hard drive on my computer and havent installed Microsoft Word yet. I
should be okay for you in
that format, though. If not, i can install MS Word and save it in another
format.


I'm not crazy enough to give out my real name or email on usenet. Just
tell me where the site is and I'll get it myself.


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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yazoo63 wrote:

Download the AO3 schedule, and then print it out to hardcopy. I've

found
that list to be extremely accurate regarding times and freqs.


Where do I get it?


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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Jerry Bianchi wrote:

starman wrote in message
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yazoo63 wrote:

I stopped buying that book years ago. Some of the freqs/times

are
out of
date before the thing even comes off
the presses.

"Brian" wrote in message
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Is it just me, or is Passport really off on their times?

Since many shortwave broadcasters change their schedules up to

four
times a year, a book which is published annually can not be

expected
to
have accurate program schedules for the entire year. That's the

role
of
monthly shortwave magazines and the Internet.

It's more than that. Radio Exterior Espana changed both their

summer
and winter broadcast frequencies and at the same time cut back

English
broadcasts from three to one hour per day. However, three years

later
Passport is still posting the same times and frequencies. Ditto,

many
of the BBC broadcasts that were cancelled over a year ago are still
published.

I can undeerstand if they miss a few small stations that are not
readily listenable in our area of the world, but we are talking

about
major broadcasts here. Dissapointed, you bet, I won't buy another
Passport unless I can review it to verify they really have made at
least an attempt to be up to date.

Shame on Passport

Passport used to be really good too. I only use it because the
alternatives are lacking. I can't seem to get any of the monthly
shortwave magazines where I live-the teenage staff at (insert

bookstore
here) just looks at me funny when I ask for say Monitoring Times and

say
they've never heard of it. If I persist they'll call up the manager

who
says he's never heard of it. As for the internet, I only have a dial

up
connection and my computer interferes with my radio (in the same room)
so I just can't look up freqs while twirling the dials. A guy named
Albert Belle Isle used to post lists of SW freqs in English but I bet

he
fled the group long ago (does anybody know if he has a website?).