d wrote:

What is, and has been, needed is fresh blood in the hobby. How many
THOUSAND more hams would there be right NOW if the dumbasses (you know
who you are) that have fought dropping the pathetically obsolete
requirement for Morse hadn't been so short-sighted?



/bitching done for now
//misses the BBC broadcasts to North America
///afraid that all HF as we know it will soon be a thing of the past


Times change

Roadie wrote:


On Jan 29, 12:35 pm, wrote:

That reflects what most of us know - there is less and less to hear on
the HF bands and there are fewer and fewer people tuning in. The
shortage of messages even remotely related to shortwave on
rec.radio.shortwave is yet another indicator of how shortwave radio
has changed.


As a novice who recently began DX-ing on a Realistic DX-160 and a Radio
Shack DX-398/Sangean ATS-909, I'm sorry to hear that shortwave
broadcasts may not be what they were when I was scanning signals with a
Hallicrafter -38 years ago. Still, it's pretty exciting to dial into a
band with a concentration of stations from around the world.

Regarding the missing BBC broadcasts, I think I'm getting one or two BBC
broadcasts, though I'm not sure where they are broadcasting. Can
anyone tell me when, and at what frequency, I should try to get BBC?
It's interesting that I can get five or six stations quite clearly from
their internet web site, including recordings of recent broadcasts. Also
listened (on my computer) to their live broadcast of the Cambridge
King's College Christmas music.

Jim

In article ,
JimC wrote:

Regarding the missing BBC broadcasts, I think I'm getting one or two BBC
broadcasts, though I'm not sure where they are broadcasting. Can
anyone tell me when, and at what frequency, I should try to get BBC?
It's interesting that I can get five or six stations quite clearly from
their internet web site, including recordings of recent broadcasts. Also
listened (on my computer) to their live broadcast of the Cambridge
King's College Christmas music.

Go the their web site's home page for the World Service
http://www.bcc.co.uk/worldservice (or something like that).

About half way down the page is the box where you enter in your
city and get the daily or weekly schedule. Next to that is a
link labeled something like "Shortwave Update". This will take
you to a page that will give you the transmissions schedules for
their diffrent regional broadcast tracks.

Here on the West Coast of North America, I get transmissions targeted
to East Asia and SouthEast Asia in the early morning, and morning
(until about 9 AM Seattle time) and then again from (4 PM (0:00 UTC) to
after sundown. (9740, 6195, 5975, 3915 kHz morning, 15285 afternoons).
Then transmissions aimed at North Africa in late morning (12095).
And then West/Central Africa in early afternoon (15400). And there's
an hour in the afternoon with a Caribbean target that I can't remember
off the top of my head.

The different tracks have different schedules, but you can go the
the home page and use the above mentioned box to get a program schedule
for any city in the world.

This time of year, with the sun illuminating to the south, it's pretty
crummy listening in the northern hemisphere, but propagation gets a
lot better during most of the year.

Mark Zenier
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Mark Zenier wrote:

In article ,
JimC wrote:

Regarding the missing BBC broadcasts, I think I'm getting one or two BBC
broadcasts, though I'm not sure where they are broadcasting. Can
anyone tell me when, and at what frequency, I should try to get BBC?
It's interesting that I can get five or six stations quite clearly from
their internet web site, including recordings of recent broadcasts. Also
listened (on my computer) to their live broadcast of the Cambridge
King's College Christmas music.

Go the their web site's home page for the World Service
http://www.bcc.co.uk/worldservice (or something like that).

About half way down the page is the box where you enter in your
city and get the daily or weekly schedule. Next to that is a
link labeled something like "Shortwave Update". This will take
you to a page that will give you the transmissions schedules for
their diffrent regional broadcast tracks.

Here on the West Coast of North America, I get transmissions targeted
to East Asia and SouthEast Asia in the early morning, and morning
(until about 9 AM Seattle time) and then again from (4 PM (0:00 UTC) to
after sundown. (9740, 6195, 5975, 3915 kHz morning, 15285 afternoons).
Then transmissions aimed at North Africa in late morning (12095).
And then West/Central Africa in early afternoon (15400). And there's
an hour in the afternoon with a Caribbean target that I can't remember
off the top of my head.

The different tracks have different schedules, but you can go the
the home page and use the above mentioned box to get a program schedule
for any city in the world.

This time of year, with the sun illuminating to the south, it's pretty
crummy listening in the northern hemisphere, but propagation gets a
lot better during most of the year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sc...es/index.shtml

dxAce
Michigan
USA