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 a 24-hour station/frequency
guide to “all” of the known longwave 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 sixth edition of the ISWBG is a lead story on clandestine broadcast and
broadcasters with the latest schedules and frequencies you need to hear these
intriguing transmissions. There is also an expanded special feature on Who’s
Who in the shortwave radio spectrum. 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
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
(Summer 2016 edition) is now available for purchase worldwide from
Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FV3FL72/. The price for this
latest edition is US$6.49. 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 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.
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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.
Here are a few of the public comments from
radio hobbyists who purchased previous editions of this Amazon e-book.
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.
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.
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.