In article 9,
Conan Ford wrote:
I'm located in Calgary, Alberta at about 51 N and 114 W. I've noticed that
I can often copy Radio Australia and Radio New Zealand International all
throughout the night, even up to 15 mhz sometimes. Shouldn't broadcasts
above about the 49 m band be very hard to hear at night? Sometimes I can
get broadcasts that seem intended for a domestic audience in Australia or
New Zealand. I'm wondering why I can hear these at all. I'm using a
Sangean ATS-803a with a 20 foot horizontal wire fed through a balun and 75
ohm coax.

A lot of both station's programming comes from their domestic networks,
Both called Radio National, just to be confusing. RNZI also carries
a fair amount of BBC stuff.

I've noticed that Radio NZI and Radio Australia don't seem to be scaling
back broadcasts like their European counterparts are. I'm wondering why
this is. My best guess is the sparse population and large area of
Australia makes these broadcasts more useful, as for New Zealand, I'm
guessing the Pacific islands?

I was using the Ilgradio schedule with Scan320DB, but the B04's still
aren't out and the A04's are showing their age. Is there another source
for a quality schedule, or a better database program to use?

Try right at their web sites, http://www.abc.net.au/ra (or
the new one, http://www.radioaustralia.net.au ?) and http://www.rnzi.com

I'm not sure anything will be accurate. I tape stuff that comes on
early in the morning, and they, just this week, changed 9590 from Radio
Australia's English program to their Tok Pisin schedule. So, yesterday
morning, instead of "The Science Show" that comes in at 1 AM local time
(PST), I got an hour of New Guinea pidgin news and music. They used to
run the same program on 9580 and 9590, now I have to look close before
I got to sleep and make sure it's tuned in to the right one.

Currently, for Radio Aus in Western North America, try 15515, 15240,
15160, and 15415 until 7:00 UTC, then 13630 until 9:00 UTC, then 9580 or
9590 , 6020 come on at 12:00 UTC, 5995 (replaces 6020) and 7240 (replaces
9580) at 14:00 UTC, and then 11800 and 9710, which, this time of year,
can keep going until late in the morning. Then in mid afternoon, there's
21740 and 17795 starting the cycle all over again.

For RNZI, check on Google Groups for a posting "RNZI New Frequency from
14 NOV" posted by Mike Terry, in this newsgroup.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident