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I was picking up Brazil yesterday. They were talking in Portuguese and about the world cup soccer. Another interesting station.....RADIO CATOLICA. Couldn't quite figure out exactly where they were beaming from but they seem to have various stations, one in Alabama and another in Europe. I pulled up their web site. Got some Arabic station from I don't know where, got Chinese station, probably Radio Taiwan, got British Broadcasting Corporation and I heard Russian broadcast, or some slavic country. No need to sink big bucks into a fancy shortwave radio. Yea, you get what you pay for inasfar as a nice radio perhaps, in like having digital tuning, or fancy craftsmanship, better speakers, ect..... but you don't really need fancy to pick up good stations and you don't need to pay big bucks for one. I used to listen to VOA alot out in the Pacific, but its hard to pick them up here. They target outside the USA maybe to Africa and Europe. Don't even know if they beam to South America anymore, probably cut back alot since the cold war days. This is real cool. Go to this link at VOA, VOICE OF AMERICA and listen to this program. Click LISTEN to hear some GOLD tunes. Songs from 50's and 60's....http://www.voanews.com/archive/ameri...1439/1439.html
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VOA Broadcast Frequency Schedules
Effective March 31, 2013 – November 2, 2013
Frequencies starting with:
4 = 75 Meter Band 5 = 49 Meter Band
6 = 49 Meter Band 7 = 41 Meter Band
9 = 31 Meter Band 11 = 25 Meter Band
13 = 22 Meter Band 15 = 19 Meter Band
17 = 16 Meter Band 21 = 13 Meter Band
English to Africa
0300-0400 UTC Daily 909 1530 4930 6080 9885
0400-0430 UTC Daily 909 1530 4930 4960 6080 9885 12025
0430-0500 UTC Daily 909 4930 4960 6080 12025
0500-0600 UTC Daily 909 4930 6080 12025 15580
0600-0700 UTC Daily 909 1530 6080 12025 15580
1400-1500 UTC Daily 4930 6080 15580
1500-1600 UTC Daily 4930 6080 15580 17895
1600-1700 UTC Daily 909 1530 4930 6080 15580
1700-1800 UTC Daily 6080 15580 11795 17895
1800-1830 UTC Daily 6080 15580 17895
1800-1830 UTC Sat./Sun. 909 4930
1830-1900 UTC Daily 4930 15580
1830-1900 UTC Sat/Sun. 909
1900-2000 UTC Daily 909 4930 9850 15580
2000-2030 UTC Daily 909 1530 4930 15580
2030-2100 UTC Daily 909 1530 4930 6080 15580
2030-2100 UTC Sat./Sun. 4940
2100-2200 UTC Daily 1530 6080 15580
English to Far East Asia, South Asia and Oceania
0100-0200 UTC Daily 7430 9780 15205
1100-1200 UTC Sat./Sun. 1575
1200-1300 UTC Daily 7575 9510 12075 12150
1300-1400 UTC Sat./Sun. 7575 9510 12075 12150
1400-1500 UTC Mon.–Fri. 7540 7575 12150
1500-1600 UTC Daily 7540 7575 12150
2200-2300 UTC Sun.–Thurs. 5895 5915 7480 7575 12150
2230-2400 UTC Fri./Sat. 1575
2300-2400 UTC Daily 5895 7480 7575 12150
Learning English
0000-0030 UTC Daily 7430 9790 12015 17820
0030-0100 UTC Daily 1575 9325 15290
0130-0200 UTC Tues.–Sat. 9820
1500-1600 UTC Daily 6140 9485 9760
1600-1700 UTC Daily 11915 13570 15470 17895
1900-2000 UTC Daily 7485
2230-2300 UTC Daily 5820 7460 9570
2300-2400 UTC Daily 1593 5820 7460 9490 11840
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I didn't see any broadcasting to South America. Probably when they beam from Washington DC, to Asia, the signal due to its path misses me in Texas because I'm in the "SKIP ZONE".
Which is probably why I never hear VOA here. Skip zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
