Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Thu, 11 Jan 90 12:12:15 EST Reply-To: Ralph Brandi Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Ralph Brandi Subject: Re: SWL Program Guide X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Jan11.143739est.58619@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <16738@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> bakken@megaron.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken) writes: >Wow - that sounds exactly what I'm looking for. MT is nice, but their >listings have a lot of frequencies that I can't get. I don't know if >this is because I'm not on the east coast, those signals are being >beamed to another part of the world, or MT has stale schedule data. Actually, it's not that you're not on the east coast OR that MT has stale data, but rather is just a fact of life on shortwave. Because of propagation characteristics, antenna headings, the kind of radio you have, your local environment, the number of sunspots and solar flares, etc., you're never going to be able to hear all the things you find in a list. The lists in MT (or the SWL Program Guide, for that matter) aren't lists of what's being heard in a general location (the US, for instance). They're lists of everything that you could possibly hear, from a daily powerhouse like the BBC to a once or twice a year rarity like Bhutan. They're listed because you *might* hear them, depending on where you are and the given circumstances, not because they're necessarily being heard outside of their immediate target area. If you want lists of what is actually being heard in something roughly analogous to "your area", the best source for these are the logging sections of the bulletins of some of the SWL/DX clubs. Bob Horvitz posts the ANARC Club Scan on a bi-monthly basis with the details of where you can contact the clubs, what their membership fees are, how much a sample costs, etc. You might want to sample a few club bulletins to see if they'll help. -- Ralph Brandi ralph@lzfme.att.com att!lzfme!ralph Work flows toward the competent until they are submerged.