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(200-0218) Listening Guide Faxback Doc. # 39603
Listening Hints
Interesting, educational, incredible variety! Imagine hearing the news -
in English or a foreign language - from London, Moscow, Tokyo, Jerusalem,
and other major cities. Today, you might hear music and a soccer match
from South America. Tonight, a religious broadcast from Cairo or Boston.
Tomorrow, you could be among the first to learn about major events.
Shortwave lets you keep up with news where relatives are traveling or
working. Shortwave is a welcome link to home for anyone serving overseas.
Shortwave is helpful for language students, too. Listening to shortwave
is unlike listening to local broadcasts. Reception conditions vary and
you don't always get every station every day - just one more reason why
shortwave is an interesting hobby, an exciting challenge, and fun!
FREQUENCY CONVERSION
The tuning location of a station can be expressed in frequency (kHz or MHz)
or in wavelength (meters). The following information can help you make
the necessary conversions.
1 MHz (million) = 1,000 kHz (thousand)
To convert MHz to kHz, multiply by 1,000. For example:
9.62 MHz x 1000 = 9620 kHz
To convert from kHz to MHz, divide by 1,000. For example:
2780 kHz / 1000 = 2.780 MHz
To convert MHz to meters, divide 300 by the number of megahertz.
For example: 300 / 7.1 MHz = 42.25 meters
BAND ALLOCATION
Certain portions of the radio frequency spectrum are set aside for specific
purposes.
Note: Bands are often referred to by wavelength. For example, the 19
meter band refers to the range of frequencies whose waves are
about 19 meters long.
International Radio Stations
International commercial broadcasts are found in the following bands.
These programs (often in English) usually contain news, commentaries,
music, and special features reflecting the culture of the broadcasting
country. You might find it easiest to hear these broadcasts between 6:00
pm and midnight.
The following list shows some of the most popular bands.
Band (in meters) Frequency Range (in MHz)
49 meters 5.90 - 6.20 MHz
41 meters 7.05 - 7.40 MHz
31 meters 9.50 - 9.90 MHz
25 meters 11.65 - 12.05 MHz
21 meters 13.55 - 13.85 MHz
19 meters 15.10 - 15.60 MHz
16 meters 17.50 - 17.90 MHz
13 meters 21.45 - 21.85 MHz
Note: Ham operators and international stations share 7.05 MHz to 7.40 MHz.
Interference is heavy in this range.
Shortwave stations listed here can be heard throughout North America;
however, reception varies based on the season, time of day, and a number
of other conditions. All stations operate in English unless otherwise
specified.
These stations operate on fixed frequencies with regular schedules. Ham,
military, marine, and aeronautical stations broadcast on varied frequencies
with irregular schedules.
This list is for reference only. Stations can change frequencies. For a
yearly listing, consult "The World Radio Television Hand Book." For
monthly updates, consult "Monitoring Times" and "Popular Communications"
magazines available at most local newsstands and by subscription.
kHz Station Location Remarks
5,950 Guyana Broadcasting Georgetown, Guyana
Service
5,954 Radio Casino Puerto Limon, Costa Rica
5,960 Radio Canada Montreal, Canada
International
5,980 Radio RSA Johannesburg, South Africa
6,005 CFCX Montreal, Canada
6,025 Radio Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Broadcasts in
Chinese
6,045 Radio Australia Lyndhurst, Australia
6,055 Nihon Shortwave
Broadcasting Co. Tokyo, Japan Broadcasts in
Japanese
6,060 Radio Nacional Buenos Aires, Argentina Broadcasts in
Spanish
6,075 Radio Sutatenza Bogota, Colombia Broadcasts in
Spanish
6,090 Radio Luxembourg Ville Louvigny, Luxembourg
6,095 Polskie Radio Warsaw, Poland
6,105 Radio New Zealand Wellington, New Zealand
7,140 TransWorld Radio Monte Carlo, Monaco
7,170 Radio Noumea Noumea, New Caledonia Broadcasts in
French
7,300 Radio Tirana Tirana, Albania
9,475 Radio Cairo Cairo, Egypt
9,515 Voice of Greece Athens, Greece
9,525 Radio Korea Seoul, South Korea
9,530 Spanish Foreign Radio Madrid, Spain
Radio
9,535 Swiss Radio Berne, Switzerland
International
9,540 Radio Prague Prague, Czechoslovakia
9,570 Radio Bucharest Bucharest, Rumania
9,575 Italian Radio and Rome, Italy
Television Service
9,610 Radio-TV Algiers, Algeria Broadcasts in
Arabic
9,620 Radio Berlin Berlin, East Germany
International
9,645 Radio Norway Oslo, Norway
9,720 Radio Iran Tehran, Iran Broadcasts in
Farsi
9,745 HCJB Quito, Ecuador
9,770 Austrian Radio Vienna, Austria
9,800 Radio Kiev Kiev, USSR
9,835 Radio Budapest Budapest, Hungary
10,040 Voice of Vietnam Hanoi, Vietnam
11,655 Israel Radio Jerusalem, Israel
11,690 Radio Kuwait Kuwait, Kuwait
11,705 Radio Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
11,720 Radio Moscow Moscow, USSR
11,735 Radio Sofia Sofia, Bulgaria
11,745 Voice of Free China Taipei, China
11,815 Radio Japan Tokyo, Japan
11,825 Radio Tahiti Papeete, Tahiti Broadcasts in
Tahitian
11,835 4VEH Cap Haitien, Haiti
11,845 Radio Canada Montreal, Canada
International
11,850 Deutsche Welle Cologne, West Germany
11,890 Voice of Chile Santiago, Chile
11,900 Radio RSA Johannesburg, South Africa
11,910 BBC London, England
11,930 Radio Havana Cuba Havana, Cuba
11,935 Radio Portugal Lisbon, Portugal
11,945 Radio Peking Peking, China
11,955 Voice of Turkey Ankara, Turkey
11,980 Radio Moscow Moscow, USSR
15,038 Saudi Arabian Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Broadcasts in
Broadcasting Arabic
Service
15,084 Voice of Iran Tehran, Iran Broadcasts in
Farsi
15,135 Radio Moscow Moscow, USSR
15,165 HCJB Quito, Ecuador
15,190 ORU Brussels, Belgium
15,205 All India Radio New Delhi, India
15,260 BBC London, England
15,265 Finnish Radio Helsinki, Finland
15,275 Radio Sweden Stockholm, Sweden
15,305 Swiss Radio Berne, Switzerland
International
15,310 Radio Japan Tokyo, Japan
15,320 Radio Australia Melbourne, Australia
15,400 BBC London, England
15,430 Radio Mexico Mexico City, Mexico Broadcasts in
Spanish
15,465 Radio Pakistan Islamad, Pakistan Broadcasts in
Urdu
17,720 Radio France Paris, France
International
17,825 Vatican Radio Vatican City
17,860 Austrian Radio Vienna, Austria
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF CITIES
To quickly find a city that begins with a certain letter, first choose one
of the following. See "Preparation," Faxback Doc. # 39602 for more
information.
A Abidjan N Nairobi
B Baghdad O Oklahoma City
C Cairo P Panama City
D Dacca Q Quito
E Edmonton R Rangoon
F Frankfurt S Salt Lake City
G Gaborone T Tahiti
H Halifax U Ulan Bator
I Indianapolis V Valletta
J Jacksonville W Warsaw
K Kabul X Xining
L La Paz Y Yakutsk
M Madrid Z Zurick
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF WORLD CITIES
No City Country Hours From UTC
1 Abidjan Ivory Coast UTC
2 Abu Dhabi U.A. Emirates +4
3 Acapulco Mexico -6
4 Accra Ghana UTC
5 Addis Ababa Ethiopia +3
6 Adelaide Australia +9.5
7 Aden Yemen +3
8 Agana Guam +10
9 Algiers Algeria +1
10 Ambon Indonesia +9
11 Amman Jordan +2
12 Amsterdam Netherlands +1
13 Anadyr USSR +13
14 Anchorage USA -9
15 Andorra Andorra +1
16 Ankara Turkey +2
17 Antwerp Belgium +1
18 Asuncion Paraguay -4
19 Athens Greece +2
20 Atlanta USA -5
21 Auckland New Zealand +12
22 Baghdad Iraq +3
23 Baku USSR +4
24 Baltimore USA -5
25 Bamako Mali UTC
26 Bangkok Thailand +7
27 Bangui Central Africa +1
28 Barcelona Spain +1
29 Beijing China +8
30 Beirut Lebanon +2
31 Belgrade Yugoslavia +1
32 Berlin Germany +1
33 Bern Switzerland +1
34 Birmingham USA -6
35 Birmingham United Kingdom UTC
36 Bogota Colombia -5
37 Bombay India +5.5
38 Bonn Germany +1
39 Boston USA -5
40 Brasilia Brazil -3
41 Brazzaville Congo +1
42 Bremen Germany +1
50 Cairo Egypt +2
51 Calgary Canada -7
52 Canary Isl. Spain UTC
53 Canberra Australia +10
54 Caracas Venezuela -4
55 Casablanca Morocco UTC
56 Cayenne French Guiana -3
57 Chicago USA -6
58 Cincinnati USA -5
59 Cleveland USA -5
60 Cologne Germany +1
61 Colombo Sri Lanka +5.5
62 Columbus USA -5
63 Conakry Guinea UTC
64 Copenhagen Denmark +1
65 Dacca Bangladesh +6
66 Dakar Senegal UTC
67 Dallas USA -6
68 Damascus Syria +2
69 Dar Es Salaam Tanzania +3
70 Darwin Australia +9.5
71 Denver USA -7
72 Detroit USA -5
73 Djibouti Djibouti +3
74 Doha Oatar +3
75 Dresden Germany +1
76 Dubai U.A. Emirates +4
77 Dublin Ireland UTC
78 Dusseldorf Germany +1
79 Edmonton Canada -7
80 Frankfurt Germany +1
81 Freetown Sierra Leone UTC
82 Gaborone Botswana +2
83 Geneva Switzerland +1
84 Georgetown Guyana -3
85 Gibraltar Gibraltar +1
86 Glasgow United Kingdom UTC
87 Graz Austria +1
88 Guatemala City Guatemala -6
89 Halifax Canada -4
90 Hamburg Germany +1
91 Hamilton Bermuda -4
92 Hannover Germany +1
93 Hanoi Vietnam +7
94 Harare Zimbabwe +2
95 Havana Cuba -5
96 Helsinki Finland +2
97 Hermosillo Mexico -7
98 Hong Kong Hong Kong +8
99 Honolulu USA -10
100 Houston USA -6
101 Indianapolis USA -5
102 Irkutsk USSR +8
103 Istanbul Turkey +2
104 Jacksonville USA -5
105 Jakarta Indonesia +7
106 Jeddah Saudi Arabia +3
107 Johannesburg South Africa +2
108 Kabul Afghanistan +4.5
109 Kampala Uganda +3
110 Kansas City USA -6
111 Karachi Pakistan +5
112 Katmandu Nepal +5.5
113 Khabarovsk USSR +10
114 Khartoum Sudan +2
115 Kigali Rwanda +2
116 Kingston Jamaica -5
117 Kinshasa Zaire +1
118 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia +8
119 Kuwait City Kuwait +3
120 La Paz Bolivia -4
121 Lagos Nigeria +1
122 Las Vegas USA -8
123 Leipzig Germany +1
124 Libreville Gabon +1
125 Lilongwe Malawi +2
126 Lima Peru -5
127 Linz Austria +1
128 Lisbon Portugal UTC
129 Lome Togo UTC
130 London United Kingdom UTC
131 Los Angeles USA -8
132 Louisville USA -5
133 Luanda Angola +1
134 Lusaka Zambia +2
135 Luxembourg Luxembourg +1
136 Lyon France +1
137 Madrid Spain +1
138 Magadan USSR +11
139 Manado Indonesia +8
140 Managua Nicaragua -6
141 Manama Bahrain +3
142 Manaus Brazil -4
143 Manila Philippines +8
144 Maputo Mozambique +2
145 Marseille France +1
146 Maseru Lesotho +2
147 Melbourne Australia +10
148 Memphis USA -6
149 Mexico City Mexico -6
150 Miami USA -5
151 Milan Italy +1
152 Milwaukee USA -6
153 Minneapolis USA -6
154 Mogadishu Somalia +3
155 Monrovia Liberia UTC
156 Monte Carlo Monaco +1
157 Montevideo Uruguay -3
158 Montreal Canada -5
159 Moroni Comoros +3
160 Moscow USSR +3
161 Munich Germany +1
162 Muscat Oman +4
163 Mairobi Kenya +3
164 Nandi Fiji +12
165 Naples Italy +1
166 Nashville USA -6
167 Nassau Bahamas -5
168 New Delhi India +5.5
169 New Orleans USA -6
179 Oklahoma City USA -6
180 Omaha USA -6
181 Osaka Japan +9
182 Oslo Norway +1
183 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso UTC
184 Panama City Panama -5
185 Paramaribo Suriname -3
186 Paris France +1
187 Perth Australia +8
188 Petropavlovsk USSR +12
189 Philadelphia USA -5
190 Phnom Penh Cambodia +7
191 Phoenix USA -7
192 Pittsburgh USA -5
193 Port Au Prince Haiti -5
194 Port Louis Mauritius +4
195 Port Moresby Papua N. Guinea +10
196 Port of Spain Trin. & Tob. -4
197 Portland USA -8
198 Porto-Novo Benn +1
199 Prague Czechoslovakia +1
200 Pyongyang Korea +9
201 Quito Ecuador -5
202 Rangoon Myanmar +6.5
203 Reykjavik Iceland UTC
204 Rio Branco Brazil -5
205 Rio de Janeiro Brazil -3
206 Riyadh Saudi Arabia +3
207 Rome Italy +1
208 Rotterdam Netherlands +1
209 Salt Lake City USA -7
210 San Antonio USA -6
211 San Diego USA -8
212 San Francisco USA -8
213 San Jose Costa Rica -6
214 San Juan Puerto Rico -4
215 San Salvador El Salvador -6
216 Sana Yemen +3
217 Santiago Chile -4
218 Santo Domingo Dominican Rep -4
219 Sao Paulo Brazil -3
220 Seattle USA -8
221 Seoul Korea +9
222 Singapore Singapore +8
223 Sofia Bulgaria +2
224 Stockholm Sweden +1
225 Stuttgart Germany +1
226 St. John's Canada -3.5
227 St. Louis USA -6
228 St. Petersburg USSR +3
229 Sverdlovsk USSR +5
230 Sydney Australia +10
231 Tahiti Fr. Polynesia -10
232 Taipei Taiwan R.O.C. +8
233 Tampa USA -5
234 Tananarive Madagascar +3
235 Tashkent USSR +6
236 Tegucigalpa Honduras -6
237 Tehran Iran +3.5
238 Tel Aviv Israel +2
248 Ulan Bator Mongolia +8
249 Urumqi China +6
250 Valletta Malta +1
251 Vancouver Canada -8
252 Vienna Austria +1
253 Vientiane Laos +7
254 Warsaw Poland +1
255 Washington USA -5
256 Winnipeg Canada -6
257 Xining China +7
258 Yakutsk USSR +9
259 Yaounde Cameroon +1
260 Zurich Switzerland +1
(km-05/19/1997)
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