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DJ wrote:
Anybody else getting the BBC on a regular basis? Especially in the midwest?
I am interested in news and general interest type programming.

You could try some of the frequencies that we don't get here very well.
12095 kHz perhaps, or some of the african or european targeted ones.
(But the Beeb also chopped their European shortwave schedule). For both
Europe and the Americas, the big broadcasters have decided that the
shortwave audience isn't worth covering in the same areas that they are
providing satellite TV and audio transmissions.

Start with the BBC web site and you can find the transmitter schedules
for each region. They're in two forms, a text web page, and a graphic
bar chart showing the transmitter times for each frequency, and a location
of the transmitter.

Mark, is west coast SWL difficult anyway? That's what I've heard.

Not difficult, but not convenient. At Noon here, it's 2-6 AM for the
other side of the Pacific, so they just don't bother transmiting. Stuff
starts to come on in the late afternoon when it's breakfast time there.
And the evening news comes on at 4 AM here. (I do a lot of my radio
listening on a tape recorder). As you're two or three hours ahead,
you may find it more convenient, if the signals get there.

Mark Zenier Washington State resident