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Listening on the short waves, 1945 to today. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3996-6. Popular Communications (ceased publication 1982) was a monthly magazine published by CQ Communications. "Monitoring Times". monitoringtimes.com (website of former magazine). Brasstown, NC: Grove Enterprises.
Transmitter site Time, UTC Days Language Power (kW) Az Remarks 3.965 Radio France Internationale (DRM) Issoudun 01:00-00:57 1234567 French (Digital) 1 ND RFI 3.975 6160 Shortwave AM Radio Winsen 16:00-18:00 .234567 English 1 ND 3.985 SRF Schweizer Radio Kall-Krekel 16:00-17:00 1234567 German 1 ND 3.995 HCJB Deutsch Weenermoor 05:30-15:30 1234567
Most broadcasts are only a few minutes to a few hours at a time. One notable exception was Radio Newyork International, a short-lived attempt to establish a permanent broadcasting station operating from international waters. Some European nations have recently begun allowing privately owned shortwave stations on a far more limited scale.
Grundig Satellit 400 solid-state, digital shortwave receiver, c. 1986 [1]. Shortwave radio is radio transmission using radio frequencies in the shortwave bands (SW). There is no official definition of the band range, but it always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (100 (exactly 99.930819333) to 10 (exactly 9.9930819333) meters); above the medium ...
Ceremonies from coast to coast were carried over short-wave to the world on July 1, 1967 as Canada marked its 100th birthday. In July 1970, the service was renamed Radio Canada International. The change took place because it was felt that RCI should have its own identity, separate from the CBC domestic network, even though RCI had just been ...
Shortwave bands are frequency allocations for use within the shortwave radio spectrum (the upper medium frequency [MF] band and all of the high frequency [HF] band). Radio waves in these frequency ranges can be used for very long distance (transcontinental) communication because they can reflect off layers of charged particles in the ionosphere and return to Earth beyond the horizon, a ...
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Shortwave relay stations are transmitter sites used by international broadcasters to extend their coverage to areas that cannot be reached easily from their home state. For example, the BBC operates an extensive net of relay stations. [1] These days the programs are fed to the relay sites by satellite, cable/optical fiber or the Internet.