Teak
Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the Summer 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.
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 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
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
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 eighth edition of the ISWBG is an Surfing the Shortwave Radio Bands
without a Radio by senior radio monitor Larry Van Horn Summertime Listening on
Shortwave, by shortwave program specialist Fred Waterer, and a feature very
timely feature - When News Breaks: Getting Your News from the Front Lines
through streaming media by Loyd Van Horn.
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
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.
The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide
(Summer 2017 edition) is now available for purchase worldwide from
Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VMYYMH/.
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.
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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You can read any Kindle book with Amazon’s free reading apps on literally any
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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.