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Sorry my questions caused you so much anger. I was asking if anyone could
tell me about what is going on at the VOA and if anyone could report on any
signals they might still be able to receive for VOA. They seemed like
reasonable questions for this forum.

I regularly get strong VOA signals intended for Africa at lunch time
here on the west coast. I've never taken the time to try to figure out
where they're coming from. These broadcasts are mostly African futbol
scores and discussions, along with the occasional human interest story
and American pop song. The only time I listen is if BBC or R.
Netherlands aren't coming in that day.

-- Jay

On Sat, 08 May 2004 09:23 am -0600 UTC, Jay posted:
%MM

I drifted away from sw listening for a few months and upon my return seem
to have discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA
frequencies. I used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and Central
America feeds like locals, and during the day I got other feeds, generally
pretty well. Now I can't find them at all.

What are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
transmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?

Jay

From April/2004 Monitoring Times:
John Figliozzi writes on p 44 (summary in my words):

He called it "death by 1000 cuts".
VOA's already reduced to 19 hrs/day will soon be cut to 14. Smith-Mundt Act
(I'm not familiar with this) which means the changes are done out of public
view. The board of governors (mixture of commercial broadcasters and
political appointees) prefer spending $ on obscure commercial-sounding
propaganda outlets instead (Radio Free Asia, R. Farda, R. Sawa etc [I don't
know what the etc might be]). Other languages are also being cut. He
wondered if the funding cuts for VOA is b/c their charter maeans gov't
can't interfere and funding other outlets is subject to no such
constraints. He suggests writing to gov't representatives.

---
I'm guessing these cuts have occurred and continue. I don't generally
pursue VOA but have noticed I don't come across it as much when going after
other stations.
--
-UA

HF Broadcasting is on life-support. Prognosis is poor.

On Sat, 08 May 2004 15:23:52 GMT, "Jay" wrote:

I drifted away from sw listening for a few months and upon my return seem to
have discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA frequencies.
I used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and Central America feeds
like locals, and during the day I got other feeds, generally pretty well.
Now I can't find them at all.

What are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
transmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?

Jay

JAY,

From: Albert P. Belle Isle )
Subject: 214 English-Language HF Broadcasts
That are Audible in North East USA (09-APR-04)
Posted On: Google.Rec.Radio.Shortwave
Date: 2004-04-10 03:37:52 PST
MESSAGE-LINK= http://tinyurl.com/28yfj

SUMMER 2004 (09-APR-04) 214
English-Language Broadcasts
usually audible at 42N39, 71W09
w/65ft V-1 TFD, 45ft T2FD,
28ft trap vertical or 65ft V-1 doublet
into Ten-Tec RX340 (or RX320)
LINK= http://www.cerberussystems.com/~belleisl/SWL2004A.TXT
©Copyright 2004, all rights reserved
Albert P. BELLE ISLE Cerberus Systems, Inc.


From: Stewart Mackenzie )
Subject: Shortwave Radio Logs from Southern California
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 2004-04-28 12:50:02 PST
MESSAGE-LINK= http://tinyurl.com/2s3eu
For Logs from the opposite end of the Country.


PLUS - Here are a few YAHOO! EGroups that have some Shortwave Info.

* Shortwave-Radio and WorldBand Radio on the HF Bands
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shortwave-radio/

* The Basics of Shortwave
A place to learn/share ideas about Shortwave Radio
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thebasicsofshortwave/

* American Shortwave Listeners' Club
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC/

* ComAirScan - A forum for the exchange of frequencies,
logging information, equipment.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComAirScan/

* Group interested in Shortwave Radio DX'ing and DX'ing contests.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shortwavedxing/

* AM-SW-DXing · A casual Shortwave and AM Broadcast DXing Forum,
technical, theories, experiments, frequencies, propagation.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AM-SW-DXing/

* ShortWaveRadio - A Group to freely discuss topics on
Shortwave Radio, SWL, DXing
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShortWaveRadio/

* ShortWave Listening
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shortwavelistening/

BONUS - For Shortwave Listener "SWL" Antenna Information
Check-Out the Shortwave-SWL-Antenna eGroup on YAHOO !
BONUS= http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/
[ The 'focus' is Shortwave Listeners (SWL) Antennas and AM/FM Antennas
]

EXTRA - Multi-Links to Shortwave Listening Information
and AM/MW DXing Information
EXTRA= http://tinyurl.com/yuspp
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Shortwave-SWL-Antenna/links/Shortwave_Listening__001073143667/


hope this helps ~ RHF
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= = = "Jay" wrote in message
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I drifted away from sw listening for a few months and upon my return seem to
have discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA frequencies.
I used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and Central America feeds
like locals, and during the day I got other feeds, generally pretty well.
Now I can't find them at all.

What are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
transmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?

Jay

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Monitoring Times lists then at 5995kHz and 6130kHz. I can't rmemebr which
one it was, but I did catch them Friday night here in southern Maine. Fading
in and out badly, but they're still heeeeeeeeeeeere.
pPete Davis
pJay wrote:
blockquote TYPE=CITEI drifted away from sw listening for a few months
and upon my return seem to
brhave discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA frequencies.
brI used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and Central America
feeds
brlike locals, and during the day I got other feeds, generally pretty
well.
brNow I can't find them at all.
pWhat are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
brtransmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?
pJay/blockquote
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In article ,
Pete & Renee Davis wrote:

!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html
Monitoring Times lists then at 5995kHz and 6130kHz. I can't rmemebr
which one it was, but I did catch them Friday night here in southern
Maine. Fading in and out badly, but they're still heeeeeeeeeeeere.
pPete Davis pJay wrote: blockquote TYPE=CITEI drifted away from
sw listening for a few months and upon my return seem to brhave
discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA
frequencies. brI used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and
Central America feeds brlike locals, and during the day I got other
feeds, generally pretty well. brNow I can't find them at all.
pWhat are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
brtransmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?
pJay/blockquote /html

Can't you figure out how to posts to Usenet in plain text?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

JAY,

Here are two more Links to Explo

Glenn Hauser's World of Radio http://www.worldofradio.com/
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt

World Radio Network http://new.wrn.org/index.html
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/station...p?StationID=50
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/schedul...p?ScheduleID=2

hth ~ RHF
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= = = "Jay" wrote in message
= = = ...
I drifted away from sw listening for a few months and upon my return seem to
have discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA frequencies.
I used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and Central America feeds
like locals, and during the day I got other feeds, generally pretty well.
Now I can't find them at all.

What are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
transmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?

Jay
..

Jay wrote:

I drifted away from sw listening for a few months and upon my return seem to
have discovered that I can no longer receive any of my old VOA frequencies.
I used to be able to listen to their Caribbean and Central America feeds
like locals, and during the day I got other feeds, generally pretty well.
Now I can't find them at all.

What are the details of what has happened at VOA and are there any
transmissions still receivable in the Northeast USA?

Jay

Here's the complete VOA language/frequency schedule (below). Try the
English frequencies for the various target areas (countries). Some of
them should be audible in the US. It would be helpful if you learn more
about shortwave propagation so you'll know what frequencies are likely
to be heard in your area at certain times of the day/night.

http://www.voa.gov/allsked.cfm


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