Tropical Bands Monitor January 2024 is still available

 

DXers around the globe have relied on the Danish Shortwave Club International to keep us attuned to what's being heard in the Tropical Bands. on shortwave 

If you are like-minded, check out the January 2024, four-page listings, logged by DX-ers worldwide.

Get your free PDF list at: http://www.dswci.org/

Shortwave News available on DVD

Digital Reprint of all Editions ever published from 1957-2015.

The "Danish Short Wave Club International" (DSWCI) was founded in November 1956 and is one of the most traditional and by far the most international club for radio enthusiasts worldwide. Since January 1957 the club publishes the regular magazine "Shortwave News" which for decades now is a
unique source of information due to a most international network of correspondents and monitors worldwide.

From 1957 to 2000 "Shortwave News" was published on a monthly basis, and after that every sixth week. In 1957 and 1958 the magazine was published in Danish and from 1957 to 1969 two different editions were distributed: "Shortwave News" in English and "Kortbolge Nyt" in Danish. Since January 1970 the magazine is exclusively in English language.

The DSWCI decided on its last Annual General Meeting in 2015 to close the club at the end of 2016.

But it was agreed that everything ever published from the DSWCI should also be available for future generations of radio enthusiasts: A unique blend of accurate news, reports and background information which was only possible with the great support of countless people during the past almost
six decades.

During the last years we got access to every edition of "Shortwave News" and "Kortbolge Nyt" ever published. The magazines were scanned, digitized and processed with an OCR software. The work is finished and therefore we now can offer a DVD with almost 60 years of radio-history and club-history
of the DSWCI.

DSWCI and ADDX in Germany offer this DVD to anyone interested: Price: 49 Euro! (incl. shipment worldwide via Airmail)

Orders should be made by sending the money in cash via registered mail to:

ADDX
Scharsbergweg 14
D-41189 Moenchengladbach
Germany

Alternative: Orders via E-Mail to IBAN: DE25 3007 0024 0868 6800 00
BIC: DEUT DE DB DUE.
Payment via Paypal is possible on request. Please write to
for details.

The DVD will be shipped after the money has been received on our bank account. (Michael Schmitz)

As long as the DSWCI website exists, you may also download from "Shortwave News SWN on DVD" 17 sample editions of SWN from 1957 to 2002 free of charge. (Rolf Wernli)
(WWDXC/Top Nx 1231)

Domestic Broadcasting Survey # 17 now available

(photo by Anker Petersen)

Press Release

THE  DANISH SHORTWAVE  CLUB  INTERNATIONAL (DSWCI)
www.dswci.org 

New Survey Available

The Domestic Broadcasting Survey 17  (DBS-17), April 2015
edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen. ISSN 1399-8218

The 58 years old DSWCI which counts experienced DX-ers in 34 countries all over the world as members, has just issued the 17th  Edition of its annual Domestic Broadcasting Survey. This survey is divided into three parts:

Part 1: The 43rd  edition of the Tropical Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE broadcasting stations on 2300 - 5700 kHz, including clandestines.

Part 2: Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience.

Part 3: Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard during the past five years, but may reappear.

This new Survey is based upon monitoring by our members, many official sources and DX-bulletins. A15 schedules are included when available. In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the world have checked throughout the period April 2014 – March 2015, if each of the 530 station frequencies is on the air.  ACTIVE stations are marked with an A (”Regular”), B (”Irregular”) or C (”Sporadic”) in the list.   D means ”Likely inactive”.

A unique feature is the right column called ”Last log”. It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2015   when the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted and are moved to Part 3. No other frequency list has this feature!

Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans.

Three sample extracts from the DBS-17 are shown on the next page. Reviews can be found on www.dswci.org 

All buyers of DBS-17 will get a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as "Tropical Bands Monitor" on our website. The similar, historical data from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 are available to anybody at  www.dswci.org/tbm .

The 20 pages A-4 size DBS-17 is available by e-mail as pdf-format (about 350 kB). A limited number is also available printed on paper.

It is sold by the treasurer:

DSWCI,
c/o Bent Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK 3500 Vaerloese, DENMARK

E-Mail edition: DKK 30,00 or USD 6.00 or EUR 4,00 or GBP 3,50 or SEK 40,00 or IRC 2.

Printed edition: DKK 60,00 or USD 12.00 or EUR 8,00 or GBP 7,00 or SEK 75,00 or IRC 4.

Payment by cash notes are accepted whereas checks and postal money orders are not accepted.
DSWCI’s Bank is Danske Bank, 2-12 Holmens Kanal, DK-1092 Copenhagen K.
BIC/SWIFT : DABADKKK.      IBAN: DK 44 3000 4001 528459.
Danish buyers please use: Reg. 3001- konto 4001528459.

If you have EURO as national currency, you are advised to pay to our representative in Germany, Andreas Schmid.

Andreas Schmid, Lerchenweg 4, D-97717 Euerdorf, Germany. E-mail: schmidandy@aol.com
Account 2912472076 at Targobank BLZ: 30020900.  BIC: CMCIDEDD.  IBAN: DE24300209002912472076 .

If you want to pay via PAYPAL, you have to contact Andreas Schmid, before you send your payment.
Payment via PayPal only in US$ currency and only for persons, living outside the European Union (EU).

Best 73's,  
Anker Petersen and Bent Nielsen

Domestic Broadcast Survey 16 now available

Calypso steelband in Philipsburg, Sint Maarten. Photo by Anker Petersen

 PRESS  RELEASE FROM

THE  DANISH SHORTWAVE  CLUB  INTERNATIONAL (DSWCI)

www.dswci.org

NEW  SURVEY  AVAILABLE at reduced price:

The DOMESTIC BROADCASTING SURVEY 16  (DBS-16), April 2014

edited by DSWCI Chairman, Anker Petersen.

ISSN 1399-8218

The 57 years old DSWCI which counts experienced DX-ers in 32 countries all over the world as members, has just issued the 16^th  Edition of its annual Domestic Broadcasting Survey. This survey is divided into three parts:

Part 1: The 42^nd  edition of the Tropical Bands Survey covering all ACTIVE broadcasting stations on 2300 - 5700 kHz, including clandestine stations. 

Part 2: Domestic stations on international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz broadcasting to a domestic audience.

Part 3: Deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz which have not been reported heard during the past five years, but may reappear.

This new Survey is based upon monitoring by our members, many official sources and DX-bulletins. A14 schedules are included when available. But about 70 domestic shortwave stations frequencies have left the bands, so this DBS-16 is thinner. Therefore the DSWCI has decided to reduce the prices. In order to make the DBS reliable, our own monitors around the world have checked throughout the period April 2013 – March 2014, if each of the 570 station frequencies is on the air.  ACTIVE stations are marked with an A (”Regular”), B (”Irregular”) or C (”Sporadic”) in the list.   D means ”Likely inactive”.

A unique feature is the right column called ”Last log”. It shows the last month and year before DBS deadline on March 31, 2014   when the particular station was reported logged by a DX-er somewhere in the world. This is another way of indicating the current audibility of the station. To avoid inactive stations in this DBS, most frequencies which have not been heard during the past year, have been deleted and are moved to Part 3. No other frequency list has this feature!

Other useful features for easy identification (ID) are the parallel frequencies and reference to Station ID slogans.

Three sample extracts from the DBS-16 are shown on the next page. Reviews can be found on www.dswci.org

               

All buyers of DBS-16 will get a username and password to the monthly updates on the tropical bands published as "Tropical Bands Monitor" on our website. The similar, historical data from 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 are available to anybody at  www.dswci.org/tbm .

The 20 pages A-4 size DBS-16 is available by e-mail as pdf-format (about 350 kB). A limited number is also available printed on paper.

It is sold by the treasurer:

DSWCI,

c/o Bent Nielsen, Egekrogen 14, DK 3500 Vaerloese, DENMARK

E-Mail edition:     DKK 30,00 or USD 6.00 or EUR 4,00 or GBP 3,50 or SEK 40,00 or IRC 2.

Printed edition: DKK 60,00 or USD 12.00 or EUR 8,00 or GBP 7,00 or SEK 75,00 or IRC 4.

Payment by cash notes are accepted whereas checks and postal money orders are not accepted.

DSWCI’s Bank is Danske Bank, 2-12 Holmens Kanal, DK-1092 Copenhagen K.

BIC/SWIFT : DABADKKK.      IBAN: DK 44 3000 4001 528459.

Danish buyers please use: Reg. 3001- konto 4001528459.

If you have EURO as national currency, you are advised to pay to our representative in Germany, Andreas Schmid.

Andreas Schmid, Lerchenweg 4, D-97717 Euerdorf, Germany. E-mail: schmidandy@aol.com

Account 2912472076 at Targobank BLZ: 30020900.  BIC: CMCIDEDD.  IBAN: DE24300209002912472076 .

If you want to pay via PAYPAL, you have to contact Andreas Schmid, before you send your payment.

Payment via PayPal only in US$ currency and only for persons, living outside the European Union (EU).

Best 73's,   

Anker Petersen and Bent Nielsen

 (a sample page of the Domestic Broadcast Survey 16, may be viewed at:   www.dswci.org                                                                             

Domestic Broadcasting Survey 14 released

The 55 year old Danish Shortwave Club International, which contains radio DXers in 33 countries as members, has just released the 14th annual edition of Domestic Broadcasting Survey.

The survey is divided into three parts, which include all active broadcast stations on 2300-5700 kHz, including clandestines. Part 2 are stations in international shortwave bands above 5700 kHz, and Part 3 includes deleted frequencies between 2 and 30 MHz, that have not been heard during the past five years.

For additional information on the club and DBS, please refer to www.dswci.org/

I will be reviewing DBS-14, in an upcoming summer edition of Monitoring Times.
Gayle Van Horn, Frequency Manager