In article ,
Neil Bell wrote:
Anyone have frequencies that one might hear the BBC world service in
California (SF Bay area) ???

For your local non-commercial broadcasters, go the the World Service web
site http://www.bbcworldservice.com or http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice
and halfway down their home page there's a place to put your city into
a form entry and a button that takes you to a page for the program schedules.
This, for US locations, will list the local stations that carry some
BBC, and XM and Sirius satellite. You can switch between the various
schedules. (Sirius runs a news only schedule, XM runs the same as
shortwave for Americas).

Likewise, there are also pages for the shortwave frequencies for several
regions in the world. These come in two forms, one type is a text list,
and another is a graphic bar chart for what frequency is used over 24
hours. You get to the graphic version from a link off the text list page.
There's about a dozen target regions, so it's a pain to get all of them.

The America's schedules (Caribbean, South America) are also on shortwave
for a couple of hours.

5975 kHz at 7-9 PM PDT. With 8-9 PM coming from a transmitter in
Delano, California. The 7 PM transmission is targeted at South
America, the 8 PM at the Caribbean. 9825 kHz is also used for the 7 PM
transmission.

Then there are transmissions targeted at other regions.

Transmission to various African regions may be picked up 8-11 PM PDT or
thereabouts on 7120, 7160, 6195, and 11765 kHz.

Most useful here are transmission from South East Asia aimed at coastal
East Asia. (To get the program schedule, I tell the web page I live
in Manila).

9740 kHz from 2 AM to 9 AM PDT,
6195 kHz from 2 AM to 10 AM PDT ?
(often "sharing" with China's Mongolian service)
7160 kHz from 9 AM to 11 AM PDT.
15280 kHz about 4 PM to 8 PM
15360 kHz 10 PM to somewhere in the dead of night.
17760 kHz late evening and early morning

7160 and 6195 are better in the winter, and 15280 and 15360 are summer
frequencies coming to the end of their usability for the year pretty soon
here, and they're often not that great to start with.

As a last resort, after 10 PM, try 550 kHZ.
Oregon Public Broadcasting out of Corvallis.

Mark Zenier
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