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Thursday, December 01, 2022
Sunday, January 26, 2020
Global Radio Guide (Winter 2019-2020) Now Available
Press Release:
Teak Publishing Company
P.O. Box 297
Brasstown NC 28902
For Immediate Release 5 Dec 2019
Global Radio Guide (Winter 2019-2020) Now Available at Amazon
Once again, Global Radio broadcasters have moved to the information war front lines as the world’s major superpowers have entered a new Cold War. As tensions heat up in the world’s hotspots such as eastern Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, you can follow international events on radio, but you need an accurate and comprehensive radio guide to hear the action.
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 all the latest Winter 2019-2020 schedules for selected AM band, longwave, and shortwave radio stations.
This unique resource is the only radio publication that lists by-hour schedules that include all language services, frequencies, and world target areas for over 500 stations. There are listings of DX radio programs and Internet websites addresses for many of the stations in the book. There are also entries for time and frequency stations and even a few other intriguing shortwave radio stations.
New in this 13th edition of the GRG is an introductory article: The Software Defined Radio - Bringing the World to Your Doorstep. It includes our first-ever SDR buyers guide. Gayle and Larry Van Horn have also joined forces again penning an in-depth equipment review on the new Airspy HF+Discovery SDR.
Other authors in this edition include Richard Fisher with a feature on WBCQ - The Most Powerful Shortwave Voice in North America, and The Spectrum Monitor’s Fred Waterer, with a feature on winter/holiday radio programming. The 2019-2020 winter propagation forecast is presented by international radio propagation expert, Tomas Hood NW7US. In addition to his propagation forecast, Tomas will also preview his thoughts on the new solar cycle 25.
There are also articles on Traveling the World via Shortwave Radio Broadcasts, Monitoring the Shortwave Action Bands, our exclusive Hot 1000+ shortwave frequency list, and new radio product announcements.
The 133h edition of the Global Radio Guide eBook (electronic book only, no print edition available) is available worldwide from Amazon and their various international websites at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082DNSN4P.
The price for this latest edition is US$8.99. 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 eBook 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 on the Teak Publishing Company blog – 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.
Listeners can hear shortwave broadcast stations from China, Cuba, 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.
This publication will have wide appeal to amateur radio operators, shortwave radio hobbyists, news agencies, news buffs, educators, foreign language students, expatriates, or anyone interested in listening to a global view of world news and major events as they happen.
Teak Publishing’s Global Radio Guide brings the world to YOU !
Sunday, March 11, 2018
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide, Winter 2017-2018, available at Amazon
Winter 2017-2018 International Shortwave Broadcast Guide Now Available at Amazon
Many
long time shortwave radio listeners remember the bevy of shortwave radio stations
that broadcasted a constant drumbeat of political propaganda from around the
world during the old Cold War years. Shortwave radio frequencies, played a very
important role in promoting the then ideological confrontation between the East
and the West.
Once again shortwave radio has moved to the forefront of a new Cold War, as tensions heat up around the various world hotspots. To follow the action on shortwave radio, you need an accurate and comprehensive broadcast guide.
Teak
Publishing is pleased to announce the release of that important radio reference
– Winter 2017-2018 International Shortwave Broadcast Guide (ISWBG) electronic
book by Amazon bestselling author Gayle Van Horn, W4GVH. This all important
semi-annual information resource is your electronic guide to the world of
shortwave radio listening.
The release of this book is very timely for international radio monitors given the recent outbreak of tensions in the world hotspots of Eastern Europe, Middle East, East Asia and specifically, the Korean Peninsula.
Shortwave
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. Shortwave radio broadcast is
not restricted by country borders or oceans, and can propagate thousands of
miles, reaching millions of listeners worldwide, in over 300 different
languages and dialects. These worldwide transmissions are monitored on internationally
assigned radio frequencies between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz.
There
are even broadcasts from the dark side, transmitted from broadcasters known as
clandestine or clanny stations. Clandestine broadcasters are wrapped in mystery
and intrigue, and they usually exist to bring about some sort of political
change to the country they are targeting. Programming may largely be
half-truths or sometimes even outright lies, but it is essentially propaganda
for their cause.
Listeners
who live in the United States 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 an inexpensive shortwave radio
receiver, and you know when and where to listen!
If
you want to get in on the action, then this Amazon electronic book is your
ticket the travel the world via radio. The ISWBG is our exclusive 24-hour
station/frequency guide to “all” of the known longwave, selected medium wave and
shortwave radio stations currently broadcasting at time of publication. This
unique radio hobby resource is the “only”
radio hobby publication that has by-hour station schedules that include all
language services, frequencies and world target areas.
New
in this ninth edition of the ISWBG is a feature, “Monitoring the Secret State
of North Korea” by ISWBG author Gayle Van Horn. This timely article will guide
you through the various broadcasts medium from rogue regime in Pyongyang. Other
authors in this edition include The Spectrum Monitor’s Fred Waterer, and Hans
Johnson. There are also two equipment reviews (Gospell GR-216 and T1VDIO
receivers), a review of the NRC AM Radio Log and a review of the DXTreme Monitor
11 software program by the Teak Publishing team.
There
is also an expanded special feature on Who’s Who in the shortwave radio
spectrum by former Monitoring Times
editor and Spectrum Monitor e-zine columnist/feature writer Larry Van Horn
N5FPW. This story covers services and frequencies outside the regular broadcast
and amateur radio bands, and includes our new, exclusive Hot HF 1000+
non-broadcast frequency list.
Also
included in this edition is increased frequency and station coverage of
longwave broadcasters, selected medium wave broadcast frequencies used by
international broadcasters, all known international standard time and frequency
stations transmitting worldwide, and some selected spy numbers broadcasts.
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide 9th edition
of this semiannual Teak Publishing publication is available worldwide
from Amazon and their various international websites at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077SF99SS/.
The price for this latest edition is still US$7.99.
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 electronic book (e-Book) from Amazon websites
directly servicing these countries. All other countries can use the regular
Amazon.com website.
Don’t own a Kindle reader from Amazon? Not a
problem. You do not need to own a Kindle to read Amazon e-book publications.
You can read any Kindle book with Amazon’s free reading apps on literally any
electronic media platform.
A Kindle app is available for most major
smartphones, tablets and computers. There is a Kindle app available for the
iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch; Android Phone; Android Tablet; PC; Windows 8; Mac
Kindle Cloud Reader; Windows Phone; Samsung; BlackBerry 10; BlackBerry; and
WebOS. This means with a free Kindle reading apps, you can buy a Kindle book
once, and read it on any device with the Kindle app installed*. You can also
read that same Kindle book on a Kindle device if you own one.
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.
For additional information on this and other
Teak Publishing radio hobby books, monitor the company sponsored Internet blogs
– The Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/) and The Shortwave Central (http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/) for availability of additional
e-books that are currently in production. You can learn more about the author
by going to her author page on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Gayle-Van-Horn/e/B0084MVQCM/.
The
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide will have wide appeal to amateur radio
operators, shortwave radio hobbyists, educators, foreign language students,
news agencies, news buffs, or anyone interested in listening to a global view
of world news and major events as they happen.
Whether
you are an amateur radio operator or shortwave radio enthusiasts, and want to
get in on the action outside of the ham bands, then this new electronic book
from Teak Publishing is a must in your radio reference library.
Here are some of the public comments from radio hobbyists who purchased previous editions of the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide Amazon e-book.
Old-School Shortwave
Folks Need to Buy This by James Tedford
There is still a lot to hear on the over-the-air
analog shortwave radio bands. This book, updated semiannually will help you
hear it. Good comprehensive frequency listings. A must-have for those of us who
refuse to totally succumb to digital media.An excellent guide for shortwave listeners of all levels everywhere by Bill Tilford
This is the best $7.99 you will ever spend on shortwave. This is excellently done and has some of everything - an excellent hour by hour "who is on", discussions of radios, propagation, antennas and some newsworthy items related to the B16 season. The author, Gayle Van Horn, also does the excellent Shortwave Central blog, and the book also has contributions from Fred Waterer, who writers about shortwave for The Spectrum Monitor. I am not a regular Kindle user and was originally concerned about the e-book format, but the Kindle app turned out to be easy to download and use (and the app, unlike the book, is free).
Broadcasters listed by
UTC By
E. Kapetanakis
Guide
offers a lot of useful information for the novice as well as the seasoned
shortwave radio listener. Listing of broadcasters and their respective
frequencies has been broken down by the Universal Coordinated Time slot that
they broadcast. Very useful to check and see who you are listening to at any
time of day in your particular geographical location.
Five Stars by DLR and Heatwave
A great source and informative read and great
book, well written.VERY Useful Guide! By Dave in Ohio
Being rather new to the SW DXing, I needed a guide. Most of them were pretty pricey so I decided to give this one a try. When it arrived, I didn't have a lot of time to review it, just glanced at it and was a little upset. I had expected something with page after page of countries with their frequency listings, much like other guides I'd heard about. This one seemed to have a lot of articles about SWL and only in the back did I find frequency listings. But the next day I had about an hour to sit and review the book on my Kindle and I discovered how clever Ms. Van Horn had been in her formatting. I realized that the last thing I needed was just a list of frequencies. The gem of the book is the section that divides the day into UTC hours and what frequency in which country is likely to be on the air at that time. After all, what good does it do me to know that Radio Slobovia broadcasts on 1305 if I have no idea of when to listen for them? (The book also contains a long listing by frequency for identifying those broadcasts that you stumble upon.) I've looked around the articles towards the beginning of the book and the ones I've read are well written and interesting. I strongly recommend that the new readers of Ms. Van Horn's guide use the table of contents to skip around and become familiar with the format. Very useful book at a good price. Ms. Van Horn has herself a new fan )
Essential reference for SWLs By Hundedrek
Gayle knows international SW like few others. She used to write a monthly column and directory in the late, lamented Monitoring Times mag. A big reason why I I subbed to it for years. This guide continues the tradition. The Kindle version is more convenient to use. Now that so many international broadcasters are streaming their programming, Gayle's guide is even more valuable.
Gayle does us a great
service by publishing this Shortwave Radio Guide
By
Tampa
A needed re hash of
previous books. Gayle does us a great service by publishing this Shortwave
Guide. Many on ships have stopped using short wave as they do not have radio
distribution systems for the crews as Satellite takes over. Many ships have
wired hanging out of portholes as a result and all kinds of antennas stuck
around the ships creating hazards so they can listen to their home countries.
CBC has shut down Radio Canada to save money OMG #Stupid. Clandestine Radio is
on the Rise and this book lists and explains. That in itself is interesting.
Should be of interest to any #SWL or #HamRadio people.
Shortwave
LIVES!!!!!!
By Walter C. Thurman
The
Van Horns are shining stars in the Shortwave Radio and MilComms World.... this
read is helpful for us DIE HARD shortwave listener's and Ham Radio folks alike.
THANK FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO!!!!! N0RDC
Great Useful (and
highly affordable) Data For SWLs By Randy S.
Gayle's monthly Monitoring Times roundup
of shortwave broadcast schedules was always tremendously useful. With the
demise of the magazine itself it's nice to see that her massive database (and
the years of work on it) aren't going to waste. And at the price (less than the
cost of a monthly issue of the magazine) it makes for a fine bargain and is
well worth it for shortwave-broadcast listeners with e-reader capability. The
twice- yearly updates will keep the project relevant and useful.
Solid for HF listening! By Mr geocacher
Very useful for
identifying what you hear on HF. Lot's of good tidbits for listening hints too.
Shortwave Broadcast
Guide
by Kindle Customer
Since Monitoring
Times is no longer in publication, this guide is required for the
dedicated shortwave listener. There is information provided that I have found
no where else. It will be a welcome addition to any listener's equipment. Gayle
Van Horn has been publishing this research for many years and the followers are
numerous, from beginners to professionals. The author's work is accurate,
concise and thorough. If you have a shortwave radio, you need this publication
as much as a set of earphones. There is none better.
Very Good Source for
Shortwave Stations Broadcast Schedules by Kenneth Windyka
I've got to admit up
front that I don't have a strong interest in this part of the hobby. HOWEVER,
Gayle Van Horn makes it easy to determine what one can hear on the short wave
bands during a particular time period (in GMT time sorted format). I also like
the internet reference available, so that one can listen to programs via the
internet even if its' not possible via the shortwave radio.
NJ Shortwave listener hears International Frequencies with
new guide help
by Stanley E Rozewski
This
e-book is complete and accurate in presenting a low cost SW frequency guide and
important must read topics for the new or experienced user. I liked the easy
reading format, and understandable frequency guide. I will order the second
edition next year. This is my go-to-first reference by Mary C Larson
When I turn on the shortwave receiver and want to find out what's on and where to look, Van Horn's handy frequency guide is a smart place to begin. The format is not unlike the one Monitoring Times (R.I.P.) used each month. Presumably, updated ISBGs will be published twice per year, but you can check for the updates on her blog, (mt-shortwave.blogspot.com).
Good value by DrP
This is an excellent
well-written book that is very affordable when compared to encyclopedic guides,
e.g., the WRTH. Much the same information is included. The first part is
a nice introduction to SW listening pitched to the beginner. Included is an
informative section on purchasing a radio spanning low-end <$100 models up
through the most advanced transceivers. The bulk of the book contains a list of
world-wide SW broadcasters, organized by frequency band. This makes it ideal
for browsing one band at a time, but much less so if you want to search for
broadcasts from a particular country.
I like this one by Charles
I have only had a brief
chance to scan through this book. From what I have seen of it I will enjoy
getting in to it.
Excellent Shortwave
Introduction and Program Guide by Don K3PRN
Excellent, very reasonable
guide to shortwave radio. As a longtime shortwave listener, the listing of all
shortwave stations by UTC time is very useful to me. I had previously a
shortwave website that listed only English broadcasts rather than an all
station listing with the language that will be broadcast. I would highly
recommend this e book for all new shortwave listeners and those that interested
in a very portable listing of all stations by UTC. I only hope that this will
be updated twice a year for many more years.
Good Product by Radio Freq
Since
Monitoring Times stopped publishing shortwave radio schedules, there has been a
dearth of resources for radio-heads. This guide nicely fulfills gap. It is very
comprehensive. It is nice someone is dedicated to SWL by Robert K. Mallory
Very concise and well organized. Not much to choose from these days, it is nice someone is dedicated to Shortwave Radio Listening.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide Winter 2016-2017 Now Available
Teak Publishing Company
P.O. Box 297
Brasstown NC 28902
For Immediate Release 8
December 2016
New Winter 2016-2017
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide Now Available
Teak
Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the Winter 2016-2017
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide (ISWBG) electronic book by Amazon
bestselling author Gayle Van Horn, W4GVH. This all important semi-annual
information resource is your electronic guide to the world of shortwave radio
listening.
Shortwave
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. Shortwave radio broadcast
aren’t restricted by country borders or oceans, and can propagate thousands of
miles, reaching millions of listeners worldwide, in over 300 different
languages and dialects. These worldwide transmissions are monitored on
internationally assigned radio frequencies between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz.
There
are even broadcasts from the dark side, transmitted from broadcasters known as
clandestine or clanny stations. Clandestine broadcasters are wrapped in mystery
and intrigue, and they usually exist to bring about some sort of political
change to the country they are targeting. Programming may largely be
half-truths or sometimes even outright lies, but it is essentially propaganda
for their cause.
Listeners
who live in the United States can easily hear shortwave broadcast stations from
Australia, Canada, 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 an inexpensive
shortwave radio receiver, and you know when and where to listen!
If
you want to get in on the action, then this Amazon electronic book is your
ticket the travel the world via radio. The ISWBG is our exclusive 24-hour station/frequency
guide to “all” of the known longwave, selected mediumwave and shortwave radio
stations currently broadcasting at time of publication. This unique radio hobby
resource is the “only” radio hobby
publication that has by-hour station schedules that include all language
services, frequencies and world target areas.
New
in this seventh edition of the ISWBG is an Introduction to News and
Entertainment Programming on Shortwave Radio by Spectrum Monitor columnist Fred Waterer; a feature on Online Radio:
The crossroads of old and new technology by former Monitoring Times columnist Loyd Van Horn W4LVH; and comprehensive
radio listeners Crash Course on Shortwave Radio Propagation by Tomas Hood
NW7US, contributing editor to CQ
magazine and Spectrum Monitor
columnist.
There
is also an expanded special feature on Who’s Who in the shortwave radio
spectrum by former Monitoring Times
editor and feature writer Larry Van Horn N5FPW. This story covers services and
frequencies outside the regular broadcast and amateur radio bands, and includes
our new, exclusive Hot HF 1000+ non-broadcast frequency list. The final feature
article in this edition is Getting Started in Shortwave Radio, a primer, by Spectrum Monitor managing editor Ken
Reitz KS4ZR.
Also
new in this edition is increased frequency and station coverage of longwave
broadcasters, selected medium wave broadcast frequencies used by international
broadcasters, and all known international standard time and frequency stations
transmitting worldwide.
The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide
(Winter 2016-2017 edition) is now available for purchase worldwide from
Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2RRXV2. The price for this
latest edition is US$7.99. 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 electronic book
(e-Book) from Amazon websites directly servicing these countries. All other
countries can use the regular Amazon.com website.
This
new e-publication edition is a much expanded version of the English shortwave
broadcast guide that was formerly published in the pages of the former Monitoring Times magazine for well over
20 years. This one of a kind e-book is published twice a year to correspond
with shortwave station’s seasonal time and frequency changes.
Don’t own a Kindle reader from Amazon? Not a
problem. You do not need to own a Kindle to read Amazon e-book publications.
You can read any Kindle book with Amazon’s free reading apps on literally any
electronic media platform.
The Kindle app is available for most major
smartphones, tablets and computers. There is a Kindle app available for the
iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch; Android Phone; Android Tablet; PC; Windows 8; Mac
Kindle Cloud Reader; Windows Phone; Samsung; BlackBerry 10; BlackBerry; amd
WebOS. This means with a free Kindle reading apps, you can buy a Kindle book
once, and read it on any device with the Kindle app installed*. You can also
read that same Kindle book on a Kindle device if you own one.
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.
For additional information on this and other
Teak Publishing radio hobby books, monitor the company sponsored Internet blogs
– The Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/) and The Shortwave Central (http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/) for availability of
additional e-books that are currently in production. You can learn more about
the author by going to her author page on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Gayle-Van-Horn/e/B0084MVQCM/.
The
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide will have wide appeal to shortwave
radio hobbyists, amateur radio operators, educators, foreign language students,
news agencies, news buffs, or anyone interested in listening to a global view
of news and major events as they happen.
Whether
you are an amateur radio operator or shortwave radio enthusiasts, and want to
get in on the action outside of the ham bands, then this new electronic book
from Teak Publishing is a must in your radio reference library.
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Here are some of the public comments from
radio hobbyists who purchased previous editions of the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide Amazon e-book.
VERY Useful Guide! By Dave in Ohio
Being rather new to
the SW DXing, I needed a guide. Most of them were pretty pricey so I decided to
give this one a try. When it arrived, I didn't have a lot of time to review it,
just glanced at it and was a little upset. I had expected something with page
after page of countries with their frequency listings, much like other guides
I'd heard about. This one seemed to have a lot of articles about SWL and only
in the back did I find frequency listings. But the next day I had about an hour
to sit and review the book on my Kindle and I discovered how clever Ms. Van
Horn had been in her formatting. I realized that the last thing I needed was
just a list of frequencies. The gem of the book is the section that divides the
day into UTC hours and what frequency in which country is likely to be on the
air at that time. After all, what good does it do me to know that Radio
Slobovia broadcasts on 1305 if I have no idea of when to listen for them? (The
book also contains a long listing by frequency for identifying those broadcasts
that you stumble upon.) I've looked around the articles towards the beginning
of the book and the ones I've read are well written and interesting. I strongly
recommend that the new readers of Ms. Van Horn's guide use the table of
contents to skip around and become familiar with the format. Very useful book
at a good price. Ms. Van Horn has herself a new fan )
Essential reference
for SWLs
By
Hundedrek
Gayle knows
international SW like few others. She used to write a monthly column and
directory in the late, lamented Monitoring Times mag. A big reason why I I
subbed to it for years. This guide continues the tradition. The Kindle version
is more convenient to use. Now that so many international broadcasters are
streaming their programming, Gayle's guide is even more valuable.
Gayle does us a great
service by publishing this Shortwave Radio Guide
By
Tampa
A needed re hash of
previous books. Gayle does us a great service by publishing this Shortwave
Guide. Many on ships have stopped using short wave as they do not have radio
distribution systems for the crews as Satellite takes over. Many ships have
wired hanging out of portholes as a result and all kinds of antennas stuck
around the ships creating hazards so they can listen to their home countries.
CBC has shut down Radio Canada to save money OMG #Stupid. Clandestine Radio is
on the Rise and this book lists and explains. That in itself is interesting. Should
be of interest to any #SWL or #HamRadio people.
Shortwave
LIVES!!!!!!
By Walter C. Thurman
The
Van Horns are shining stars in the Shortwave Radio and MilComms World.... this
read is helpful for us DIE HARD shortwave listener's and Ham Radio folks alike.
THANK FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO!!!!! N0RDC
Great Useful (and
highly affordable) Data For SWLs By Randy S.
Gayle's monthly Monitoring
Times roundup of shortwave broadcast schedules was always tremendously
useful. With the demise of the magazine itself it's nice to see that her
massive database (and the years of work on it) aren't going to waste. And at
the price (less than the cost of a monthly issue of the magazine) it makes for
a fine bargain and is well worth it for shortwave-broadcast listeners with
e-reader capability. The twice- yearly updates will keep the project relevant
and useful.
Solid for HF
listening! By
Mr geocacher
Very useful for
identifying what you hear on HF. Lot's of good tidbits for listening hints too.
Shortwave Broadcast
Guide by
Kindle Customer
Since Monitoring
Times is no longer in publication, this guide is required for the
dedicated shortwave listener. There is information provided that I have found
no where else. It will be a welcome addition to any listener's equipment. Gayle
Van Horn has been publishing this research for many years and the followers are
numerous, from beginners to professionals. The author's work is accurate,
concise and thorough. If you have a shortwave radio, you need this publication
as much as a set of earphones. There is none better.
Very Good Source for
Shortwave Stations Broadcast Schedules by Kenneth Windyka
I've got to admit up
front that I don't have a strong interest in this part of the hobby. HOWEVER,
Gayle Van Horn makes it easy to determine what one can hear on the short wave
bands during a particular time period (in GMT time sorted format). I also like
the internet reference available, so that one can listen to programs via the
internet even if its' not possible via the shortwave radio.
NJ Shortwave listener
hears International Frequencies with new guide help by Stanley E
Rozewski, Jr.
This
e-book is complete and accurate in presenting a low cost SW frequency guide and
important must read topics for the new or experienced user. I liked the easy
reading format, and understandable frequency guide. I will order the second
edition next year.
This is my
go-to-first reference
by Mary C Larson
When I turn on the
shortwave receiver and want to find out what's on and where to look, Van Horn's
handy frequency guide is a smart place to begin. The format is not unlike the
one Monitoring Times (R.I.P.) used each month. Presumably, updated ISBGs will
be published twice per year, but you can check for the updates on her blog,
(mt-shortwave.blogspot.com).
Good value by DrP
This is an excellent
well-written book that is very affordable when compared to encyclopedic guides,
e.g., the WRTH. Much the same information is included. The first part is
a nice introduction to SW listening pitched to the beginner. Included is an
informative section on purchasing a radio spanning low-end <$100 models up
through the most advanced transceivers. The bulk of the book contains a list of
world-wide SW broadcasters, organized by frequency band. This makes it ideal
for browsing one band at a time, but much less so if you want to search for
broadcasts from a particular country.
I like this one by Charles
I have only had a
brief chance to scan through this book. From what I have seen of it I will
enjoy getting in to it.
Excellent Shortwave
Introduction and Program Guide by Don K3PRN
Excellent, very reasonable
guide to shortwave radio. As a long time shortwave listener, the listing of all
shortwave stations by UTC time is very useful to me. I had previously a
shortwave website that listed only English broadcasts rather than an all
station listing with the language that will be broadcast. I would highly
recommend this e book for all new shortwave listeners and those that interested
in a very portable listing of all stations by UTC. I only hope that this will
be updated twice a year for many more years.
Good Product by
Radio Freq
Since Monitoring Times stopped
publishing shortwave radio schedules, there has been a dearth of resources for
radio-heads. This guide nicely fulfills gap. It is very comprehensive.
It is nice someone is
dedicated to SWL
by Robert K. Mallory
Very concise and well
organized. Not much to choose from these days, it is nice someone is dedicated
to Shortwave Radio Listening.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Teak Publishing Releases New Winter 2014-2015 Shortwave Guide - Available Now at Amazon
The best source of global information continues to be shortwave radio. Throughout the world, shortwave remains the most readily available and affordable means of communication and information. It lets you listen to voices from around the world. You'll also learn about the lives and concerns of people from all walks of life, from soldiers, to farmers, to retired scholars. Shortwave radio provides nearly instantaneous coverage of news and events from around the world.
Shortwave listening, or SWLing, is the hobby of listening to shortwave radio broadcasts located on frequencies between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz, also known as HF or the High Frequencies bands.
If you live in the U.S., you can easily listen to shortwave broadcast stations from countries like North/South Korea, Iran, Australia, Cuba, China, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Japan, England, Egypt, Tunisia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United States and many other counties if you have a shortwave receiver, and you know when and where to listen!
That when and where to listen is covered comprehensively in the pages of a new edition of the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide.
The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide (Winter 2014-2015 edition), by Amazon bestselling author Gayle Van Horn, W4GVH, is that all important information resource you need to tap into the worldwide shortwave broadcast radio spectrum. It is a 24-hour station/frequency guide to “all” the known stations currently broadcasting on shortwave radio at time of publication. This unique shortwave resource is the “only” publication in the world that offers a by-hour schedule that includes all language services, frequencies and world target areas for each broadcast station. There are new chapters that cover basic shortwave radio listening and Who’s Who in the Shortwave Radio Spectrum. Also extensive work has been done to improve the readability of this edition on the various Kindle platforms.
The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide (Winter 2014-2015 edition) is now available for purchase worldwide from Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QU8LC6M. The price for this latest edition is still US$4.99. 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 electronic book (e-Book) from Amazon websites directly servicing these countries. All other countries can use the regular Amazon.com website.
This new e-publication edition is an expanded version of the English shortwave broadcast guide formerly printed in the pages of Monitoring Times magazine for over 20 years. This one of a kind e-book is now being published twice a year to correspond with station seasonal time and frequency changes.
If you enjoy listening or monitoring HF shortwave stations, and you miss the monthly English frequency listings formerly published in the late Monitoring Times magazine, and multilingual station listing in the old MTXpress electronic magazine, this valuable tool will now be your new guide to listening to the world.
Frequency updates between editions will be posted on her Shortwave Central blog at: http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/.
And, the good news is that you do not even need to own a Kindle reader to read Amazon e-book publications. You can read any Kindle book with Amazon’s free reading apps.
There are free Kindle reading apps for the Kindle Cloud Reader, Smartphones (iPhone, iTouch, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry); computer platforms (Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 and Mac); Tablets (iPad, Android and Windows 8), and, of course, all of the Kindle family of readers including the Kindle Fire series. A Kindle e-book allows you to buy your book once and read it anywhere. 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.
For additional information on this and other Teak Publishing radio hobby books, monitor the company sponsored Internet blogs – The Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/) and The Shortwave Central (http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/) for availability of additional e-books that are currently in production.
You can view the complete Teak Publishing book catalog online at http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/. Click on the Teak Publishing radio hobby e-book link at the top of the blog page. You can learn more about the author by going to her author page on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Gayle-Van-Horn/e/B0084MVQCM/.
The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide will have wide appeal to shortwave radio hobbyists, amateur radio operators, educators, foreign language students, news agencies, news buffs and many more interested in listening to a global view of news and events as they happen.
If you are an amateur radio operator or shortwave radio enthusiasts, and want to hear what is happening outside the ham bands on that transceiver or portable shortwave radio in your shack, then this new e-book from Teak Publishing is a must in your radio reference library.
Here are a few of the public comments from radio hobbyists who purchased the first two editions of this Amazon e-book.
Five Stars By Frank S. Excellent for the price. Glad I found this.
Shortwave Broadcast Guide by Kindle Customer. Since Monitoring Times is no longer in publication, this guide is required for the dedicated shortwave listener. There is information provided that I have found nowhere else. It will be a welcome addition to any listener's equipment. Gayle Van Horn has been publishing this research for many years and the followers are numerous, from beginners to professionals. The author's work is accurate, concise and thorough. If you have a shortwave radio, you need this publication as much as a set of earphones. There is none better.
Very Good Source for Shortwave Stations Broadcast Schedules by Kenneth Windyka. I've got to admit up front that I don't have a strong interest in this part of the hobby. HOWEVER, Gayle Van Horn makes it easy to determine what one can hear on the short wave bands during a particular time period (in GMT time sorted format). I also like the internet reference available, so that one can listen to programs via the internet even if its' not possible via the shortwave radio.
NJ Shortwave listener hears International Frequencies with new guide help by Stanley E Rozewski, Jr. This e-book is complete and accurate in presenting a low cost SW frequency guide and important must read topics for the new or experienced user. I liked the easy reading format, and understandable frequency guide. I will order the second edition next year.
This is my go-to-first reference by Mary C Larson. When I turn on the shortwave receiver and want to find out what's on and where to look, Van Horn's handy frequency guide is a smart place to begin. The format is not unlike the one Monitoring Times (R.I.P.) used each month. Presumably, updated ISBGs will be published twice per year, but you can check for the updates on her blog, (mt-shortwave.blogspot.com). Good value by DrP. This is an excellent well-written book that is very affordable when compared to encyclopedic guides, e.g., the WRTH. Much the same information is included. The first part is a nice introduction to SW listening pitched to the beginner. Included is an informative section on purchasing a radio spanning low-end <$100 models up through the most advanced transceivers. The bulk of the book contains a list of world-wide SW broadcasters, organized by frequency band. This makes it ideal for browsing one band at a time, but much less so if you want to search for broadcasts from a particular country.
I like this one by Charles. I have only had a brief chance to scan through this book. From what I have seen of it I will enjoy getting in to it.
Shortwave Is Not Quite Dead By James Tedford (Bothell, WA United States). It was barely breathing as of late, but there is still a lot you can hear on shortwave radio. You need more than a little dedication, and a better-than-adequate radio to hear what remains on the HF bands, but if you have those, you will be rewarded with a lot of interesting audio programming. This book is a good guide to what is currently available over the international airwaves.
Five Stars By Kindle Customer
Came on time. Packaged right. Looks as shown. Works as advertised.
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
International Shortwave Broadcast Guide - Winter Frequency Unpdates
This is the first frequency update for the 2014-2015 Winter edition of International Shortwave Broadcast Guide. This e-book from Teak Publishing, can be purchased at Amazon.com for U.S. $4.99, and is available at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QU8LC6M
All time references are UTC, frequencies in kHz (kilohertz) // indicates a parallel frequency. Broadcast are daily unless otherwise indicated.
Country/Station
Language
Hrs/freq/info
Canada, Bible VO BCN
English
0200-0215 Tues 11790as (ex 17510as)
0200-0230 Thurs/Sat/Sun 11790as (ex 17510as)
China, CNR 8/ VO Minorities (expaned schedule)
Korean
0600-1500 5975do 9785do
Mongolian
2100-0000 9610do 11810do (new entry)
0000-0600 9610do 11810do (new entry)
China, CNR 17/ VO Minorities (extracted from CNR-8/ VO Minorities)
Kazakh
0000-1200 11630do 12055do
1200-1805 6180do 9630do
2355-0000 11630do 12055do
Clandestine, Sedaye Radio-ye Mehr Iran
Persian
1630-1700 Mon/Fri 15680as (broadcast from MBR cancelled)
Clandestine, VO Khaatumo
Somali
1700-1730 Thurs 17580af (from 06 Jan, Tues/Wed/Thurs)
Germany, Deutsche Welle (winter schedule relay revision)
Effective: 20 Dec. 2014
Amharic
1600-1657 9610af (Rwanda) 9800af (Rwanda)
1600-1659 15275af (Sri Lanka)
Dari
0830-0900 15640as (UAE) 17640as (Sri Lanka)
1330-1400 15640as (UAE) 17640 (Sri Lanka)
English
0400-0500 9600af (Rwanda) 9800af (Rwanda) 15275af (UAE)
0500-0557 9600af (Rwanda)
0500-0600 9800af (Rwanda) 15275af (Madagascar)
0700-0730 17800af (Armenia)
0700-0800 9800af (Rwanda) 15275af (Rwanda)
0730-0800 17800af (Rwanda)
French
1700-1759 15275af (France)
1700-1800 9800af (Rwanda) 12005af (Rwanda) 17800af (Rwanda)
Hausa
0630-0657 15275af (Rwanda)
0630-0659 9800af (Sao Tome)
0630-0700 17800af (Armenia) 21780af (UAE)
1300-1400 15275af (Rwanda) 17800af (Rwanda) 21780af (UAE)
1800-1900 15275af (Rwanda) 15560af (France) 17800af (Rwanda)
Pashto
0800-0830 15640as (UAE) 17640as (Sri Lanka)
1400-1430 15640as (UAE) 17640as (Sri Lanka)
Swahili
0300-0357 7425af (Rwanda)
0300-0359 15275af (Sri Lanka)
0300-0400 6040af (Rwanda)
1000-1100 9800af (Rwanda) 11800af (Rwanda) 15275af (Madagascar)
1500-1557 11800af (Rwanda)
1500-1600 9800af (Rwanda) 17800af (UAE)
Germany, R Andernach (German Armed Forces station) (new entry)
German
1030-1100 DRM 5925n/me
1100-1200 DRM 5925n/me
1200-1230 DRM 5925n/me
1300-1350 DRM 5925n/me
Germany, R Channel 292 (new entry) Rohrbach, Germany
New 10 kW transmitter now in continuous service. Beamed non-directional to central Europe.
0000-2300 6070eu
India, TWR India
Urdu
1500-1530 11635as (time adjusted from ex 1530-1600)
Iran, VOIRI
Japanese
1320-1420 9580 SIR 500 kW / 060 deg to EaAs (ex 9585) //11600KAM
Romania, R Romania Intl
Romanian
1500-1556 15170 GAL 300 kW / 290 deg to WeEu (ex 1400-1500) // 17840eu GAL 300 kW / 285 deg to (ex 1400-1500)
Spain, Radio Exterior de Espana (from 18 Dec. 2014)
Spanish
1500-1900 Sat/Sun 9620na 11685af 11940sa 12030me
1900-2300 Sat/Sun 9620na 11685af 11940sa 12030me
Sri Lanka, AWR Asia
Vietnamese
1400-1500 17670as (new entry)
UK, BBC World Service
Bengali
0030-0100 7510as (ex 7395as)
0030-0100 9790as (ex 9510as)
0130-0200 9790as (ex 9510as)
USA, BBG/VOA/Afia Darfur R
Arabic
0300-0330 7215 (Sao Tome) (ex 9815af) 9815af (ex 9845af)
USA, KVOH/VO Hope
English
0230-0300 Sun/Mon 9975ca (new entry)
0300-0400 Sun/Mon 9975ca
0400-0500 Sun/Mon 9975ca
English/Spanish (new entry)
0000-0500 Tues/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat 9975ca
USA, WRMI Okechobee FL
English
0000-0030 7455na (new entry)
USA, WRMI FL/Overcomer Ministries
English
0000-0400 5985ca (freq cancelled from 01 Jan.)
0000-1000 11825na (freq cancelled from 01 Jan.)
1200-2100 7570na (freq cancelled from 01 Jan.)
1500-2200 9955ca (freq cancelled from 01 Jan.)
2200-2300 11825na (freq cancelled from 01 Jan.)
USA, WRMI FL/R Slovakia Int (new entry)
English
0030-0100 5850na
Slovak
0000-0030 5850na
USA, WRMI FL/Family R
Hindi
0100-0200 11580as (cancelled)
Spanish
0200-0300 7730ca (new entry)
USA, WRMI/R Ukraine Intl
English
0030-0100 7455na (new entry)
(SWL DXing/DX Bulgaria/DX Mix News/WWDXC-Top Nx/Dominic Grosspietsch-DW)
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