Press Release:
Teak
Publishing Company
P.O.
Box 297
Brasstown
NC 28902
For Immediate Release 4
December 2018
Global
Radio Guide (Winter 2018-2019) Now Available at Amazon
Older ham radio operators and radio listeners might remember
a time when shortwave radio stations broadcast a nearly constant drumbeat of
political propaganda during the Cold War years. Shortwave radio stations such
as Radio Moscow, the Voice of America, and the BBC, to name a few, played an
important ideological role during that confrontation between the East and West.
Once again, Global Radio broadcasters have moved to the
front lines as the world’s major superpowers enter a new Cold War. As tensions
heat up in the world’s hotspots such as eastern Europe, the Ukraine and Baltic
States, the Middle East, and East Asia, you can follow international events on
the radio, but you need an accurate and comprehensive radio guide to hear it.
Teak Publishing is pleased to announce the release of that
important radio reference – the Global Radio Guide (GRG), 11th
edition (Winter 2018-2019) ‘electronic’ book, by Amazon bestselling author
Gayle Van Horn W4GVH. The book was formerly known as the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide.
If you want to get in on the action, then this Amazon
'electronic' book is your ticket to travel the Global Radio bands. The heart of
this publication is a 24-hour station/frequency guide with Winter 2018-2019
schedules for selected medium wave and all known longwave/shortwave radio
stations.
This unique resource is the only radio publication that has
by-hour schedules that includes all language services, frequencies and world
target areas for over 500 broadcast stations. It has a listing of DX radio
programs and Internet websites addresses for many of the stations listed in the
book. There are also listings for standard time and frequency stations, and
even a few intriguing spy numbers station listings.
New in the 11th edition of the GRG is a feature, The Battle
of the Airwaves in Cuba by Gayle (W4GVH) and Larry (N5FPW) Van Horn. This
comprehensive feature covers the historic as well as an ongoing war over the
airwaves between the U.S. and Cuba. Included are listings of AM/FM/Shortwave
broadcast stations in Cuba, US stations beaming to Cuba and an extensive listing
of Cuban Internet broadcast audio feeds.
Other authors with feature articles in this edition include The Spectrum Monitor’s Fred Waterer, from St. Catharines,
Ontario, Canada, with a feature on winter radio programming and shortwave
broadcast authority Hans Johnson with an update on DRM broadcasting worldwide.
There is a fascinating feature by former VOA audience
research analyst and producer of the Shortwave Radiogram, Dr. Kim Andrew
Elliott, PhD. KD9XB, on how to monitor shortwave radiogram broadcasts. Veteran
journalist (editor and writer for Popular
Communications, WorldRadio Online, and
CQ Amateur Radio magazines)
Richard Fisher KI6SN, has penned a fascinating feature on hearing the World of
Shortwave and Mediumwave Broadcast stations using Amazon Echo Dot devices.
Spectrum Monitor
e-zine columnist and feature writer Larry Van Horn has a feature on Who’s Who in the Shortwave Radio Spectrum
that will assist the reader in monitoring Global Radio activity outside the
broadcast radio spectrum. This article also includes an updated Teak Publishing
HF 1000+ non-broadcast frequency list.
The 11th edition of the Global
Radio Guide e-Book (electronic book only, no print edition available) is
available worldwide from Amazon and their various international websites at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L3RYTPG.
The price for this latest edition is US$8.49.
Since this book is being released internationally, Amazon customers in the
United Kingdom, Germany, France Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil,
Mexico and Australia can order this e-Book from Amazon websites directly
servicing these countries. Customers in all other countries can use the regular
Amazon.com website to purchase this e-Book.
You can read any Kindle e-Book with
Amazon’s ‘free’ reading apps on literally any electronic media platform. You do
not have to own a Kindle reader from Amazon to read this e-book. There are Kindle
apps available for iOS, Android, Mac and PC platforms. You can find additional
details on these apps by checking out this link to the Amazon website at www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771.
Additional information on this and other
Teak Publishing radio hobby books can be found on the company sponsored
Internet blogs – The Shortwave Central
(http://mtshortwave.blogspot.com/),
The
Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), and The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/). You can learn more about the author by
going to her author page on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/GayleVan-Horn/e/B0084MVQCM/.
Global Radio listeners are routinely entertained with unique
perspectives to events, music, culture, history, and news from other countries
that you won’t see or hear on your local or national broadcast channels. Global
Radio broadcasts are not restricted by country borders or oceans and can travel
thousands of miles, reaching millions of listeners worldwide, now in over 300
different languages and dialects. You do not need to own a shortwave radio to
monitor many of these global radio broadcasts.
Listeners can easily hear shortwave broadcast stations from
China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, New Zealand,
North/South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States,
Vietnam, and many other counties. If you have a shortwave radio receiver or
Internet connection, and this unique radio resource, you will know when and
where to listen to your favorite radio broadcast station.
The new Global Radio Guide e-book will have
wide appeal to amateur radio operators, shortwave radio hobbyists, news
agencies, news buffs, educators, foreign language students, expatriates, or
anyone else interested in listening to a global view of world news and major
events as they happen.