In article .com,
American Insurgent wrote:
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.

They also have transmitter schedules by region. Below the box where you
enter the city (in the middle of http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/),
there is a link "Short Wave Changes". Take that link and you get to a
page with a list of links to the regional schedules. Click on a link and
you get a text listing of transmissions, sorted by time, for that region.
In addition, there's a link on each of the text schedule pages ("Frequency
Chart with transmitter details...) that gives you a graphical version
of the schedule with a bar chart showing the tranmission times by hour
and the location of the transmitters.

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

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.

What about getting the PDF updates
at wrth.com, free download of changes
since you haven't bought the book
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