On May 29, 2:09 am, K Isham wrote:
American Insurgent wrote:
I'm just getting back into news hunting on shortwave after a couple
years away. For a while after the Beeb canned their Americas services
I was using the Africa streams. Now that I'm back, I'd like to pick up
The World Today, which I understand is on at 0300 and 0500 UTC in
Africa. I went to the BBCWS website but their frequency guide is very
difficult to use, you have to enter a specific city and then you get a
program guide with programming listed by local time, then the freqs
after the pgm descriptions. I entered the first city in West Africa
that came to mind, namely Lagos, Nigeria, and got freqs of 6005 and
7160. 6005 is heavily dominated by Cuba on 6000 here in California,
and 7160 is in the middle of the infamous 41m band-the one that is
hams in North America but international broadcast everywhere else. On
May 28 (May 29 in the target area) 7160 was dogged by local hams, and
when it wasn't the BBC was weak at best. Anybody have freqs for any
other African streams, such as Central? I can't use Asian streams
since they're dominated by daylight in the local evenings.

American:
I hear the East Asia service very well on 9740KHZ at night as well as
6195 KHZ in the morning hours. Occasionally they carry the World today
on those frequencies.
QTH Tucson, AZ

Ken


9740 and an African freq of 9750 are mostly dead, and if they're not
there's a Spanish speaking station on 9745 that is very strong and
which wipes them out. I clicked around on the WS site and found freqs
of 6030 and 6190 as well as 9750 for 0300. 6190 is the BBC but in a
language that is German or Germanic, such as Dutch or a Scandinavian
tongue. Since this is a freq for Africa the language might be
Afrikaans, a Dutch derived tongue spoken by whites in South Africa.
6030 is no good. It is almost 0400 as I post. I have about five or six
freqs for The World Today at 0500 that I will try. As I said, the
Singapore and Thailand relays are no good here in the evenings local,
since they are in daylight paths and it is around noon at the tx
sites. I doubt that they get out much in the middle of the day, along
with the sunspot minimum causing upper bands to be useless. According
to the BBC website, 6195 only has World Briefing, which is sort of a
news digest rather than an in depth newscast. It's sort of like CNN
Headline News instead of full CNN.