Shortwave and Amateur Radio Links Page

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This page is a list of links dealing with radio, especially the hobbies of Shortwave and Amateur radio. (There are many broadcasters who broadcast on short-wave. There are American commercial and religious stations. There are also public broadcasters like the BBC, CBC, and VOA. For various reasons, the number of stations are not as numerous as there used to be.) This is not a complete list of links. There are probably more thorough lists on the Internet. Check back here from time to time, as I find things I am apt to add them on here.

Right now, (March 2006) I am taking a class to get my "Tech" license. If you want to read about my progress and struggles to learn the material, please go to, the "My Life Lessons" page in the "Journal". I hope to write once in a while about my experiences of getting my first amateur license. I don't know when and if I will be adding to that page, so check back to it once in a while. You never know what might show up in the "Journal". I add whole pages to it from time to time. I downloaded a ham radio class for my iPod at http://www.hamradioclass.org/ . It is a helpful addition to the class I am presently taking.

DXing is listening to "far away" stations. A DXer is someone who listens to "far away" stations. As far as "my" radio hobby goes...I have been a DXer for a long time. I first saw "ham" or amateur radio in Missouri back in about 1977 or there abouts. I saw the most incredible "ham shack" in Tennessee a few months after I was introduced to ham radio. I had always been a MW DXer (see below). I just didn't know that it was called, MW DXing. In Tennessee, I had a small transistor radio. Normally, during the day, it only got WSM out of Nashville. I wasn't a Country Music fan in those days. I liked "pop" music. So I would struggle to listen to WLS from Chicago at night. It was a "Top 40 station" in those days. I started listening to short-wave radio in the early 1980's. Boy do I miss the "old" BBC World Service. I got my first short-wave, a boom box with SW, back in about 1984. I got a "proper" short-wave radio back in the 1990's. I have been listening to short-wave a long time. I even have QSL cards from stations like Radio Moscow, HCJB, and Radio Kiev (Ukraine). I am also into MW-DXing. That is, "Medium Wave DXing" or listening to AM broadcast stations from far away. Usually this is done at night. From here, I can get Toronto, De Moines, Iowa, Chicago, and of course Ohio stations. People in England have been known to get "transatlantic DX", where they get mostly the East Coast of Canada and the U.S. Occasionally they have been known to get as far away as WJR in Detroit, and WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas. I assume these stations do not come in all that clearly. There is even an offshoot of DXing with radio, called, TV-DXing. Yes, you can watch television from "out of your area". We have to try that when we want to watch British murder mysteries on TVOntario out of Canada. I cannot tell you how many interesting things I have learned by listening to radio. The radio hobby is also a great way to meet people. I have a long time pen pal from China that I met through the radio hobby.

This page is a list of links that I discovered while "doing" my radio hobby.

Useful Radio Links

Some things that are useful in the radio hobby.

http://www.universal-radio.com/ "Universal Radio shortwave, amateur, scanner and CB radio since 1942" Very good company! I got my first real short-wave from here.

http://www.dxing.info/glossary.dx DXing.info-- Glossary and Abbreviations

http://www.qsl.net/sars/q-code.htm International Q-Code

http://www.ominous-valve.com/jargon.txt "The Shortwave Jargon Glossary"

http://www.addx.de/ Homepage der ADDX -- Ihr Partner für internationalen Rundfunkempfang. This site is in German. It is really great for people who want a listing of frequencies to listen to. It lists pretty much all the short-wave broadcasts in a particular language. Each language section is listed by time. You click on, "Hörfahrpläne" and then on the page you come to, you click on the language you want. If you want to look at the listing for English you click on, "Englisch". ("Franzöisch" is French.) I print out the English section at the beginning of the season. Then I have a fairly accurate list of the stations broadcasting in English. I find it fairly easy to understand the German of the chart. The times listed are UTC. Suppose you wanted to listen to something and it was 17:00 UTC. You look at the chart, and see who is broadcasting at that time. Then you pick which one you want to hear, then scroll through the frequencies to see which ones you can pick up. This is one of my favorites!!

http://www.netwalk.com/~fsv/homepage1.htm "Jack's Radio Fundamentals Homepage"

http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/index.html AMANDX Radio Pages (Association of Manitoba DXers) This has links to great information!!

http://www.airwaves.com/ Airwaves Media Web This is a really great web site! It is good for if you do any MW-DX (Listen to AM broadcast stations from far away). It is good if you are on a trip and you want to find out what stations you listened to while you were gone.

http://www.csgnetwork.com/freqwavelengthcalc.html Frequency Wavelength Calculator This is really a great tool!!!!!

http://www.radiodirectory.com/ "RadioDirectory.com: Stations/North America/Canada/Ontario". "Everything About Radio and Radio Stations". (Not sure if this is a "real" site or one made up by someone who "owns" the domain.)

Radio News

Sites with news about radio.

http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/index.html Glenn Hauser's World of Radio

http://www.radiointel.com/index.htm Radio Intelligencer A Global Radio Portal

http://www.kurthanson.com/index.asp RAIN: Radio and Internet Newsletter Daily news and commentary on the key issues involving radio and the Internet

http://acquamarina.blogspot.com/ Acquamarina Radio blog about shortwave listening

Short-Wave and Amateur Radio Organizations

Various Organizations of the radio hobby.

http://www.arrl.org/ ARRL Web: American Radio Relay League Home Page

http://www.larc.mi.org/ Livonia Amateur Radio Club

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/hall/2183/ Ford Amateur Radio League The "Tin Lizzy Club"

http://mare.radio.tripod.com/ Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts, Inc. On-Line

http://www.naswa.net/ "Shortwave Radio- NASWA: The North American Shortwave Association"

http://www.wacral.org/ World Association of Christian Amateurs and Listeners

http://www.iswl.org.uk/ The International Short Wave League

http://www.odxa.on.ca/ ODXA--Ontario DX Association

http://www.hamradio.lv/ "Ham Radio Latvia"

http://www.irkutsk.com/radio/index.html "Irkutsk DX Circle"

http://www.sporadic.kursk.ru/index.htm Welcome on the WEB page of Youth sporting radioclub "Sporadic" of Kursk state technical university. (Some of this is in English.) http://www.sporadic.kursk.ru/english/index_en.htm

Amateur Radio Links

Links dealing with Amateur Radio.

http://www.arrl.org/ ARRL Web: American Radio Relay League Home Page

http://www.qsl.net/ QSL.Net Homepage

http://www.telegraph-office.com/ The Telegraph Office--A Tribute to Morse Telegraphy and Resource for Wire and Wireless Telegraph Key Collectors and Historians

http://www.hamradioclass.org/ Ham Radio Class Podcast--Learn Ham Radio--pass the FCC exam

http://www.hamradio-online.com/ Ham Radio Online blog

http://www.hanssummers.com/index.htm Han's Site-- Radio, Electronics and Computing Projects by Hans Summers

Short-Wave Radio Links

Links dealing with short-wave radio.

http://www.passband.com/ Passport to World Band Radio

http://www.wrth.com/ WRTH Online (World Radio and TV Handbook)

http://www.naswa.net/swlguide/ Short Wave Listening Guide

http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/ On The Shortwaves

http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/index.html AMANDX Radio Pages (Association of Manitoba DXers) This has links to great information!!

http://home.houston.rr.com/edmayberry/ International Listener

http://www.swl.net/ SWL.Net

http://www.spynumbers.com/ "Spy Numbers Stations Shortwave Radio".

http://www.frn.net/ace/ The ACE "The Association of Clandestine radio Enthusiasts "

http://www.wunclub.com/ Worldwide Utility News

http://www.qsl.net/gm3zdh/coast/index.htm Coast Radio Stations of the World (Maritime Radio Stations of the World)

http://www.offshoreechos.com/ Offshore Radio Access Page, Pirate radio Access Page, Free radio, Offshore Echo

http://osiek.org/aera/en.html Esperanto & Radio--frequencies, addresses, sound documents etc.

Some Short-Wave Radio Stations

A sampling of short-wave radio stations that can be heard on the radio. Of course the BBC World Service keeps scaling back it's transmissions. So it is getting harder to hear them on short-wave radio all the time. I can pick up broadcasts to Africa. Traditionally these broadcasters broadcast in a wide variety of languages. To learn about the languages, frequencies, and broadcast schedule times, please consult the links below. If you are a "news junkie", then short-wave radio is for you. There are tons of things that happen in this world, that never make it to the "news" in the United States. If you think that CNN, MSNBC, FOX News etc. have it covered, think again. There are many news stories that never make it there. Only by listening to stations like Radio Australia, do you hear what is going on in other parts of the world.

http://www.fbnradio.com/ FBN

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ BBC World Service

http://www.cfrb.com/ CFRB 1010 Toronto, is broadcast via CFRX on 6070 http://www.odxa.on.ca/cfrb/index.html ODXA CFRB/CFRX Page

http://www.rcinet.ca/ Radio Canada International This is the Canadian International broadcaster.

http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/shortwave.html CBC Regional English Shortwave Frequencies This is "domestic" programming on short-wave. That is, by tuning into these frequencies you can try to hear, CBC Radio One Programming broadcast to places like Northern Quebec etc. The Northern Quebec service broadcasts in English (Radio One), French, Inuktitut and Cree. Naturally, you have to "hold your tongue right" in order to try and hear these down where I live. I seem to hear them best if it is snowing out. I used to really enjoy the programs on Radio New Zealand.

http://www.dw-world.de/ Deutsche Welle Germany's International Broadcaster

http://www.radiohc.org/ Radio Habana (Havana) Cuba This is one station that you will be able to pick up when you get nothing else. They have very interesting music programs. They come in very loud and clear most nights here.

http://abc.net.au/ra/ Radio Australia

http://www.rnzi.com/index.php Radio New Zealand International-- Shortwave Broadcaster to the South Pacific

http://www.sr.se/rs/english/ SR International-- Radio Sweden

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/ Radio Netherlands

http://www.vor.ru/world.html The Voice of Russia in English

Christian Radio

Various Christian Radio Links.

http://www.wacral.org/ World Association of Christian Amateurs and Listeners

http://radioministries.org/ RadioMinistries.org Providing Communications Solutions for Christian Missions

http://www.carf.net/ Christian Amateur Radio Fellowship

http://www.pastorscott.com/narf.shtml Nazarene Amateur Radio Fellowship

http://www.nrb.org/ National Religious Broadcasters

http://www.christianradio.org.uk/ Christian Broadcasting UK

http://www.gbsradio.org.uk/ Gospel Broadcasting System UK

http://www.radioscribe.com/ "Scribemedia"

"Old" Radio Stuff

Collecting old radios; Old Time Radio (OTR) programs; History of Radio; etc. There are tons of web sites with photos of old radios. I have difficulty looking at those sites. I get in the mood for going to estate sales to find more old radios. In order to keep peace in the household, it isn't a good mood for me to be in.

Organizations

http://www.antiquewireless.org/ "The Antique Wireless Association, Inc. (tm)"

http://www.michiganantiqueradio.org/home.jsp Michigan Antique Radio Club

History

http://www.old-time.com/halper/index.html Halper's History of Radio (OTR)

http://www.old-time.com/ The Original Old Time Radio (OTR) WWW Pages. Old-Time Radio at its Best

Old Radios

http://www.radiomuseum.org/ Radio Museum -- Antique Radios, 88000 Antique Radios displayed

http://www.etedeschi.ndirect.co.uk/museum/index.htm International Vintage Electronics Museum

http://www.recording-history.org/ Recording Technology History--The History of Sound Recording Technology

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html Recording Technology History

http://fabdp.fh-potsdam.de/lehre/studpro/steffen/record/links/links3.htm die-schallplatte-links/maintext-site (recording history)

http://www.radioattic.com/ The Radio Attic-- Old Radios and Collectible Radios for Sale

http://www.vintage-radio.com/ UK Vintage Radio Repair and Restoration

http://www.grandcanyontuberadio.com/ Grand Canyon Tube Radio

http://antiqueradio.org/welcome.htm Phil's Old Radios

http://www.pakratz.com/ PakRatz Classic Radios, TVs and Amateur Radio Equipment

http://www.therobertsradioman.co.uk/index.htm Roberts Radio Man

http://people.msoe.edu/~reyer/regency/ Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Facts and Figures

http://www.roetta.it/ik3hia/index.htm IK3HIA Home -- Lucio Roetta Home Page

http://www.geocities.com/aldoandr/ Aldo Andreani's Home Page

http://www.jardin-d-eden.co.uk/acatalog/Roberts_Radio.html Roberts Radio History from Jardin d'Eden Ltd.

http://www.audiouk.com/vintageaudio/index.htm Vintage Audio and Radio

http://www.etedeschi.ndirect.co.uk/index.htm Old Radios in the UK: buy sell, view, read, collect, discuss, inform, feedback

http://www.crystalradio.net/ Crystal Radios: Stay Tuned Crystal Sets

Long Wave

http://www.lwca.org/ LWCA Longwave Home Page (Longwave Club of America)

http://beaconworld.org.uk/ Beacon World

Medium Wave

http://www.nrcdxas.org/ National Radio Club The world's oldest, and largest, Medium Wave DX club.

Wikipedia Articles

Articles from Wikipedia dealing with the radio hobby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio Short-Wave Radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_broadcasting International Broadcasting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_shortwave_broadcasters List of American Short-Wave Broadcasters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Religious_broadcasters Religious Broadcasting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Amateur_radio Category: Amateur Radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio Amateur Radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Amateur_radio_organizations Category" Amateur Radio Organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_radio_organizations List of Amateur Radio Organizations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code Q Code