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Monday, December 16, 2013
Update - Int'l Shortwave Broadcast Guide: December 16, 2013
This is a schedule update for the 2013-2014 Winter - International Shortwave Broadcast Guide.
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All time references are UTC and frequencies are in kHz (kiloHertz) // indicates a parallel frequency.
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Clandestine
Oromo Voice (new station schedule from 16 December)
Oromo
1500-1530 Sat 15515af Former 1600-1630 (Mon/Wed/Sat) broadcast on 17850 has been cancelled.
Somali
1500-1530 f 15515af
Radio Assenna
Tigrinya
1700-1800 thas 11720af (ex 15245)
Radio Inyabutatu
Kinyarawanda
1700-1800 Sat 15310af (ex 17870)
Voice of the Forum of Eritreans
Tigrinya
1700-1800 11720af 15245af (interference on 11725 from China Radio Intl in Arabic from Cerrik, Albania)
Ecuador
HCJB/LV de los Andes
Kichwa (new service and frequency)
0030-0100 6050va (ca/sa)
0100-0300 Sat/Sun 6050va (ca/sa)
0830-1100 6050(va) ca/sa
1100-1130 Sat/Sun 6050va (ca/sa)
Spanish
0300-0400 6050va (ca/sa)
0400-0500 6050va (ca/sa)
Germany
Deutsche Welle
Dari
1330-1400 15700as (ex 9440)
Hausa
1300-1400 17860af (ex 12070)
Pashto
1400-1430 15700as (ex 9440)
Portuguese
1930-1957 11800af (additional frequency)
Urdu
1430-1457 15700as (ex 15275)
1430-1500 9440as inactive
Greece
Voice of Greece
Station broadcast on an irregular basis, and many frequencies are not active for the winter schedule period.
Greek
0000-0300 7475na 9420na 15650sa
0300-0600 7475na 9420na 11645eu
0600-0700 7475af 9420eu 11645eu
1900-2300 7450eu 9420eu 15650eu
2300-0000 7475na 9420na 15650sa
India
All India Radio/External Svc
Arabic
1730-1945 9620me inactive
Baluchi (new service and frequencies)
1500-1600 6165as 7340as (ex Urdu 1430-1600) 9620as
Chinese
1145-1315 11840as inactive 15795as inactive
Dari
0300-0345 9835as inactive
1315-1415 9910 inactive
1315-1415 11740 (ex 11670)
English
1000-1100 15030 inactive
1330-1500 9690as
1745-1945 9445af inactive
2245-0045 9705as (additional frequency)
Farsi
1615-1730 9620as inactive
French
1945-2030 9620af inactive
Hindi
0315-0415 11840 inactive
1615-1730 9445me inactive 9950af inactive
Nepali
0130-0230 9810as inactive
Pashto
0215-0300 9835as inactive
1415-1530 11740as (ex 11670)
Russian
1615-1715 DRM 15140eu inactive
Swahili
1515-1615 9950 inactive
Telugu
1215-1245 15770 inactive
Urdu
1430-1600 6045as (ex 7340as)
New Zealand
Radio New Zealand International
English
1059-1258 13840pa (ex 15720)
Rwanda
FEBA Radio
Tigrinya
1730-1800 9540af (ex 1729-1757 on 9630af)
Solomon Islands
SIBC
English/Pidgin
2000-2300 9545do (additional frequency)
United Kingdom
BBC
English
0800-1100 17640af (additional frequency)
0800-1700 15400af (additional frequency)
0800-1600 17830af (additional frequency)
1100-1130 17640af (additional frequency)
1100-1400 21470af (additional frequency)
1130-1400 21470af (additional frequency)
2000-2100 15420af (additional frequency)
2100-2200 11810af 12095af daily (ex mtwhf)
2200-0000 12095af (additional frequency)
Hindi
0230-0300 9560as (frequency deleted 13 Dec)
Somali
1400-1500 21470af frequency inactive
United States
KVOH/VO Hope effective from 16 December
English
0300-0500 sm 9975ca
Spanish
1400-2000 mtwhf 17775ca
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t (Tuesday)
w (Wednesday)
h (Thursday)
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a/Sat (Saturday)
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as (Asia)
ca (Central America)
eu (Europe)
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sa (South America)
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