Summer frequency updates from IBB stations

Effective from 31 May, 2012

All times UTC / NF new frequency

Voice of America
0330-0400 NF 11750 SMG 250 kW / 130 deg to EaAf, ex 11745 in Somali
1100-1130 NF 13775 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg to CeAf, ex 13770 in French Sat
1500-1530 NF 9580 PHT 250 kW / 315 deg to CeAs, ex 9945 in Uzbek
1730-1800 NF 11855 LAM 100 kW / 108 deg to CeAs, ex 6060 in Azeri

Radio Farda
0230-0300 NF 15690 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 7585 in Persian
0300-0500 NF 15690 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to WeAs, ex 5885 in Persian
0500-0600 NF 17840 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg to WeAs, ex 5885 in Persian
0600-1000 NF 17840 IRA 250 kW / 316 deg to WeAs, ex 5885 in Persian
1100-1300 NF 12005 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 13860 in Persian
1300-1400 NF 12005 LAM 100 kW / 104 deg to WeAs, ex 13860 in Persian
1400-1500 NF 12005 BIB 100 kW / 085 deg to WeAs, ex 13860 in Persian
1500-1600 NF 12005 IRA 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs, ex 7585 in Persian

Radio Liberty
1300-1400 NF 13690 KWT 250 kW / 035 deg to CeAs, ex 12005 in Kazakh
1400-1500 NF 13690 LAM 100 kW / 080 deg to CeAs, ex 12005 in Uzbek

Radio Free Asia
1500-1630 NF 15430 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs, ex 12005 in Mandarin
1630-1700 NF 15430 SAI 100 kW / 325 deg to EaAs, ex 11610 in Mandarin
(DX Re Mix 731 via Alokesh Gupta)

Voice of America winter schedule update

Schedule should be effective to 25 March when the summer schedules begin.

Voice of America

All times UTC

Afaan Oromoo
1730-1800 on 9320 9485 9860 11905 13625 Mon-Fri

Albanian
0600-0630 on 5945
1700-1730 on 7235
1930-2000 on 7235

Amharic
1530-1600 on 1431 Mon-Fri
1800-1900 on 9320 9485 9860 11905 13625

Arabic to North Africa "Radio Sawa"
0400-1645 on 990 1170 1548
1645-0400 on 990 1170 1431 1548

Arabic to Sudan "Afia Darfur"
0300-0330 on 5885 7275 9845
1800-1830 on 9805 11615 11975
1900-1930 on 9780 9815 11975

Azeri
1830-1900 on 6040 7315 9440

Bangla
1600-1700 on 1575 7405 9915

Burmese
0000-0030 on 1575 7430 9325 12120
0130-0300 on 12120 15115 17780
1130-1230 on 11965 15555 17850
1430-1500 on 1575 9325 11965 12120
1500-1530 on 9325 11965 12120
1500-1530 on 1575 Sat/Sun
1530-1600 on 1575 9355 11560
1600-1630 on 9355 11560
2300-0000 on 7430 9325 12120

Cantonese
1300-1500 on 1170 7390 9705

Chinese
0000-0100 on 7495 9545 11925 15125 15385 17645
0900-1000 on 9845 11720 11855 12120 13650 13765 15670 21590
1000-1100 on 9530 9845 11720 12120 13650 13765 15670 21590
1100-1200 on 9530 9825 11720 12045 13650 15670
1200-1300 on 6045 9530 9825 11635 12045 15110
1300-1400 on 6045 7295 7525 9530 9825 11635 12045
1400-1500 on 6105 7295 7525 9390 9785 9825
2200-2300 on 6045 7440 9545 9755 9875 11925

Dari "Radio Ashna"
0130-0230 on 1296 7560 9335
1530-1630 on 1296 9770 9975 12140
1730-1830 on 1296 5780 7560 9440
1930-2030 on 1296 5780 7560

English to Europe, Middle East, and North Africa
0100-0130 on 1593
0130-0200 on 1593 Tue-Sat
1500-1600 on 11840 13570
2000-2100 on 7470 9480 Mon-Fri

English to Africa
0300-0400 on 909 1530 4930 6080 9885 15580
0400-0430 on 909 1530 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580
0430-0500 on 909 4930 4960 6080 9885 15580
0500-0600 on 909 4930 6080 9885 15580
0600-0700 on 909 1530 6080 9885 15580
1400-1500 on 4930 6080 15580 17650 17715
1500-1600 on 4930 6080 15580 17715 17895
1600-1700 on 909 1530 4930 6080 15580 17895
1700-1800 on 6080 13635 15580 17895
1800-1830 on 6080 13635 15580
1800-1830 on 909 4930 Sat/Sun
1830-1900 on 909 4930 6080 13635 15580
1900-2000 on 909 4930 4940 6080 15580
2000-2030 on 909 1530 4930 4940 6080 15580
2030-2100 on 909 1530 4930 6080 15580
2030-2100 on 4940 Sat/Sun
2100-2200 on 1530 6080 15580

English to Sudan " South Sudan in Focus"
1630-1700 on 9790 11905 13635 Mon-Fri

English to Zimbabwe "Studio 7"
1730-1800 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Mon-Thu
1810-1820 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Fri
1720-1740 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Fri-Sun
1840-1850 on 909 12080 15775 Fri

English to Afghanistan
2030-0030 on 1296 7560

English to Far East Asia, South Asia and Oceania
0030-0100 on 1575 6170 9325 9490 9715 11695 11730 15185 15205 15290
0100-0200 on 7325 9435 11705
1100-1200 on 1575 Sat/Sun
1200-1300 on 1170 7575 9640 11700 11750 12150
1300-1400 on 7575 9640 9760 11700 12150 Sat/Sun
1400-1500 on 7575 9760 12150 Mon-Fri
1500-1600 on 7575 9930 12150
2200-2300 on 5840 7365 7425 7570 11860 Sun-Thu
2230-2400 on 1575 Fri/Sat
2300-2400 on 5840 5895 7365 7460 7480 7570 9490 11840 11860

English-Special
0000-0030 on 1593
0030-0100 on 1575 1593 6170 9325 9490 9715 11695 11730 12005 15185
15205 15290
0130-0200 on 1593 5960 7465 Tue-Sat
1500-1600 on 6140 7465 7520 9760 9945
1600-1700 on 9395 13600 15470
1600-1700 on 1170 Mon-Fri
1900-2000 on 7480 9590
2230-2300 on 5810 7545 9570

French to Africa
0530-0600 on 1530 4960 6020 9480 12060 Mon-Fri
0600-0630 on 4960 6020 9480 12060 Mon-Fri
1100-1130 on 11915 13735 15620 17850 Sat
1830-1900 on 1530 15225 15620
1900-2000 on 1530 12080 15225
2000-2030 on 9780 9815 12080 15225 15620
2030-2100 on 9775 9815 12080 15225 Sat/Sun
2100-2130 on 9435 9680 9780 9815 Mon-Fri

Georgian
1600-1700 on 7390 11840
1700-1800 on 9760 11840

Hausa
0500-0530 on 1530 4960 6020 6035
0700-0730 on 4960 12070 13780 17680
1500-1530 on 9780 11860 17650
2030-2100 on 4940 6035 9690 11860 11885 Mon-Fri

Khmer
1330-1430 on 1575 9325 11965
2200-2230 on 1575 6060 7260 9435

Kinyarwanda/Kirundi
0330-0430 on 7340 9400 9540
1600-1630 on 11750 13740 15730 Sat

Korean
1200-1500 on 1188 5890 7235 9555
1900-2100 on 648 5835 6060 7420

Kurdish
0500-0600 on 7390 9690 9760
1400-1500 on 1593 11840 11880 13580
1700-1800 on 7480 9655 11820
2000-2100 on 1593

Laotian
1230-1300 on 1575 9810 11965

Ndebele to Zimbabwe "Studio 7"
1800-1830 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Mon-Thu
1820-1830 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Fri
1850-1900 on 909 12080 15775 Fri
1740-1800 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Fri-Sun

Pashto "Radio Ashna"
0030-0130 on 1296 5925 7560
1430-1530 on 1296 9335 12140 13835
1630-1730 on 1296 9770 9975 12140
1830-1930 on 1296 5780 7560

Pashto "Deewa Radio"
0100-0400 on 621 9370 9380 11895
1300-1500 on 621 7455 7495 9370 9565
1500-1900 on 621 5835 7455 7495 9370

Persian
0230-0330 on 7265 9440 9495

Portuguese to Africa
1000-1030 on 11915 17850 Sat/Sun
1630-1700 on 9880 15670 17655 Fri
1700-1800 on 1530 9880 15670 17655
1800-1830 on 1530 9880 15670 17655 Mon-Fri

Shona to Zimbabwe "Studio 7"
1700-1730 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Mon-Thu
1800-1810 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Fri
1830-1840 on 909 12080 15775 Fri
1700-1720 on 909 4930 12080 15775 Fri-Sun

Somali
0330-0400 on 11780 13745 15620
1300-1400 on 13580 15620
1600-1630 on 1431 13580 15620 Sat/Sun
1630-1800 on 13580 15620

Spanish
0030-0200 on 5890 9885 12000 Tue-Sat
1300-1400 on 9885 13750 15590

Spanish "Radio Marti"
0000-0300 on 1080 6030 7365 9825
0300-0400 on 1080 6030 7365 7405
0400-0500 on 1080 6030 7365 7405 Tue-Sun
0500-0700 on 1080
0700-1000 on 1080 5980 6030 Tue-Sun
1000-1100 on 1080 5980 6030
1100-1200 on 1080 5745 5980 6030
1200-1300 on 1080 5745 5980 7405
1300-1400 on 1080 5745 7405 11930
1400-2000 on 1080 11930 13820 15330
2000-2200 on 1080 9565 11930 13820
2200-2400 on 1080 6030 7405 9565

Swahili
1630-1730 on 13740 15265 15730

Tibetan
0000-0100 on 5980 7255 9645
0300-0600 on 15560 17860 21570
1400-1500 on 7255 7280 9315 9670
1600-1700 on 7530 7560 11920

Tigrigna
1900-1930 on 9320 9485 9860 11905 13625 Mon-Fri

Urdu "Radio Aap ki Dunyaa"
0100-0200 on 972 1539 9520 12020
1400-1500 on 972 1539 7480 11675
1500-0100 on 972 1539

Uzbek
1500-1530 on 801 5930 6105 9575 11640

Vietnamese
1300-1330 on 1575
1500-1600 on 1170
(Ivo Ivanov)
(DX Re Mix # 720 via Alokesh Gupta, India)

BBG station's frequency updates

All times UTC / NF new frequency

0100-0200 NF 7515 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Mon/Thu
0100-0200 NF 7500 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Wed/Sun
0100-0200 NF 7530 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Tue/Fri
0100-0200 NF 7545 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 7470 RFA Tibetan Sat
0100-0200 NF 17850 TIN 250 kW / 313 deg, ex 17825 RFA Uighur Tue
0200-0300 NF 15520 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 15220 RFA Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
0200-0300 on 15220 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex Daily RFA Tibetan Thu
0200-0300 NF 15540 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 15220 RFA Tibetan Sun/Tue/Sat
0300-0600 NF 21555 TIN 250 kW / 304 deg, ex 21540 RFA Chinese Sat
0300-0320 NF 7425 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg, ex 11925 RFE Avari
0320-0340 NF 7425 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg, ex 11925 RFE Chechen
0340-0400 NF 7425 BIB 100 kW / 088 deg, ex 11925 RFE Circassian
0330-0400 NF 13745 IRA 250 kW / 263 deg, ex 9845 VOA Somali
0600-0700 NF 17675 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 17715 RFA Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
0600-0700 on 17715 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex Daily RFA Tibetan Thu
0600-0700 NF 17685 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 17715 RFA Tibetan Sun/Tue/Sat
1100-1200 NF 11510 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 11590 RFA Tibetan Mon/Wed/Fri
1100-1200 on 11590 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex Daily RFA Tibetan Thu
1100-1200 NF 11545 TIN 250 kW / 295 deg, ex 11590 RFA Tibetan Sun/Tue/Sat
1230-1400 NF 13595 TIN 250 kW / 280 deg, ex 7245 RFA Burmese
1400-1500 NF 11880 BIB 100 kW / 105 deg, ex 15265 VOA Kurdish
1500-1530 NF 11640 KWT 250 kW / 046 deg, ex 13785 VOA Uzbek
1500-1600 NF 12085 KWT 250 kW / 070 deg, ex 11625 RFA Tibetan
1600-1630 NF 13740 SAO 100 kW / 100 deg, ex 12010 VOA Kinyarwanda Sat
1630-1700 NF 17655 GB 250 kW / 094 deg, ex 17650 VOA Portuguese Fri
1700-1800 NF 17655 GB 250 kW / 094 deg, ex 17650 VOA Portuguese
1800-1830 NF 17655 GB 250 kW / 094 deg, ex 17650 VOA Portuguese Mon-Fri
1830-1900 NF 9435 WER 250 kW / 090 deg, ex 9440 VOA Azeri, re-ex 9440
2030-2100 NF 11670*WER 250 kW / 180 deg, ex 7315 VOA Hausa Mon-Fri, re-ex 9780
2330-0030 NF 9920 IRA 250 kW / 073 deg, ex 5885 RFA Vietnamese
* strong co-ch AIR in Hindi/English

RFA/ Radio Free Asia
RFE/ Radio Free Europe
VOA/ Voice of America
(DX Mix News 715 via Alokesh Gupta, India)

Canada on Shortwave: VOA and RCI relays

Back during the 1930s, when shortwave broadcasting was becoming quite popular in many countries throughout the world, it was a common practice for one station in one country to relay the programming from another distant station in another country. Thus for example, the programming from shortwave KDKA in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was heard at times on relay via shortwave stations located in England, and Holland, and Germany and Australia.
Conversely, the programming from shortwave VK2ME in Australia was heard at times via shortwave stations in the United States, and Canada, and England. Quite frequently, programming from radio stations in the United States was also heard on relay via radio stations in Canada.
In February 1941, the CBC in Canada inaugurated a low power shortwave station located at Vercheres, along the St Lawrence estuary on the northern edge of suburban Montreal in Province Quebec. This station contained three shortwave transmitters, two at 7½ kW and one at 200 watts. The purpose for this station was to provide radio coverage for French speaking people in country areas who were unable to receive the programming from existing mediumwave transmitters.
A report in an Australian radio magazine published in July 1941, just a few months after the station was inaugurated, states that the 7½ kW transmitter under the callsign CBFY was noted on 11705 kHz with a program of dance music from NBC in New York. Four years later, in October 1945, a report in an American radio magazine states that callsign CBFX on 9630 kHz at the same location was also noted with a regular daily relay of NBC programming from New York.
If all of the details were known, it is probable that Vercheres shortwave in Canada was taking a regular relay from NBC New York throughout all those years. This NBC programming, beginning on February 1, 1942, and extending well beyond the already mentioned 1945, was on the air in the United States under the control of the Voice of America. Thus, it would appear that CBC Vercheres in Canada operated as a part time relay station on behalf of the Voice of America for several years.
Back around the same era, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal took out a relay from an American shortwave station for coverage into islandic and continental Europe. This was before the large Sackville shortwave station was established for Radio Canada International.
Documents in the office of Radio Australia in Melbourne state that the CBC in Canada took out a relay via the American shortwave station, WRUL near Boston in Massachusetts, beginning in March 1941. These shortwave broadcasts were on the air for the benefit of Canadian service personnel on duty in Europe, with messages from family members at home in Canada.

In August of that same year, a new program in the French language was produced in the CBC studios in Montreal Canada and broadcast over the same 50 kW shortwave station WRUL at Boston in the United States. This programming was in the French language under the title “Canada Speaks to France” and it was was beamed towards continental France.
The new RCI shortwave station at Sackville was officially taken into regular service on February 25, 1945. Three months later, in May, this station was heard in New Zealand with a relay of the Voice of America programming in the German language. The broadcast began with the identification announcement in French, “Ici Radio Canada”, and then followed the German program from the VOA studios in New York City.
At the time, two programs in the German language were on the air daily from RCI Sackville,
corresponding to the two time periods in Germany, breakfast & lunch time. There were just two personnel making up the German Service at Radio Canada International during this early era. It is not known at this stage as to whether the RCI relay of VOA in German was an occasional event, perhaps a fill in when other programming was not available, or whether this was a regular daily relay during this era.
This VOA relay via RCI Sackville was monitored on approximately 11700 kHz. Subsequent monitoring reports show that callsign CKXA on 11705 kHz was often heard in Australia & New Zealand with German programming. Several international radio monitors received QSL cards verifying the reception of CKXA on 11705 kHz, and it is probable that these cards verified the VOA relay via RCI Sackville.
On a more recent occasion, Radio Canada International at Sackville carried another relay on behalf of the Voice of America. On Sunday November 26 in the year 2000, a planned maintenance of the power systems at the BBC Atlantic Relay Station on Ascension Island took place. During that time period the Voice of America was normally on the air for a half hour via two transmitters at 250 kW each.
As a fill in measure, VOA took out a relay via RCI Sackville, for just a half hour, on the same two channels, 15390 kHz & 17875 kHz, for programming in Spanish to Latin America. The half hour ended with the RCI Identification Signal, made up of the first four notes of their National Anthem, O Canada.
It is understood that the two transmitters in Sackville were also operating at full power, at 250 kW each. The signal was strong as heard in the target areas, and also as heard in many areas in the United States, as well as in Australia & New Zealand.
By special arrangement by Dan Ferguson at the VOA headquarters in Washington DC, all correct reports of the one time VOA transmissions via RCI Sackville were verified with the correct transmitter location, shown as Sackville in Canada, and not Ascension Island on that particular date.
Thus in this feature on “Shortwave in Canada”, we see that:-
* Canada took out a shortwave relay to Europe via WRUL in Boston in the middle of last century.
* The regional shortwave station at Vercheres in Canada acted as a part time relay for VOA programming during the era of World War 2.
* VOA was noted with a relay for their German programming via Sackville in Canada back in 1945.
* VOA took out a special one day relay for their programming in Spanish to Latin America in 2000.
* Recent relay from Radio Marti via RCI Sackville
(NWS 127 via Adrian Pterson)

Musharraf to VOA: Karzai Statement "Preposterous"

Washington, D.C. — October 24, 2011 —

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has told a popular Voice of America TV program he just can’t understand what was behind a controversial statement made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday.

Mr. Musharraf, who appeared on Monday’s edition of The Platform, a co-production of VOA and the Pakistani cable network, Express 24/7, was questioned about President Karzai’s recent statement that “Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," if ever there is a war between Pakistan and the United States.

Mr. Musharraf described the statement as “preposterous,” saying, “I just don’t understand...I think this must be crazy, I don’t agree with this statement at all.”

Mr. Musharraf, who appeared on the program with former U.S. Senator Bob Graham, took a series of questions from a live studio audience in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

Asked what it would take to bring peace to Afghanistan, Mr. Musharraf called for a more inclusive government in Kabul, one that includes more ethnic Pashtuns in key leadership positions. “I’m afraid we have to have a balanced Pashtun-dominated government in Afghanistan, whatever it takes, because Pashtuns have always ruled Afghanistan, we cannot ignore their presence.”

Senator Graham and President Musharraf also discussed the U.S. Pakistan relationship, and both said the two countries had many common interests. Mr. Graham said the two would have to work at improving “day-to-day” relations.

Mr. Musharraf said ties between Washington and Islamabad were perhaps at their “lowest ebb,” and both he and Senator Graham said the U.S. use of drones to strike at terrorist targets had added to the strains.

The joint VOA / Express 24/7 program, which is broadcast on cable in Pakistan Monday and Tuesday evenings, offers viewers a chance to submit their own questions to U.S. and Pakistani newsmakers, who also take questions from program hosts as well as the studio audience in Lahore.

For highlights and links to the show, visit The Platform’s Facebook page or visit the VOA Urdu language webpage at www.voanews.com. For more information about this release, email Kyle King in Washington at kking@voanew.com .

The Voice of America is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of about 123 million people. Programs are produced in 44 languages and are intended exclusively for audiences outside of the United States.
(VOA)