Shortwave Notes

 

The A17 Transmission started on March 17, 2017, and several hundred frequency changes have been introduced for international broadcasters.

 

There has been a massive migration to the lower frequencies for long-haul multi-hop propagation on frequencies below 14 MHz across darkness or partial darkness paths, due to continuing very low solar activity as Sunspot Cycle 24 passes through its final phase.

 

This is is a summary of notable frequency occupancies as intercepted here in Melbourne on March 29, 2017, between 1900 and 2000, dominated by short (darkness) path transmissions from Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

 

1930-2000

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5860 KUWAIT R. Farda, Persian

5875 THAILAND VOA-Udon Korean

5910 ROMANIA Serbian

5945 IRAN Italian to 1950*

5950 ETHIOPIA V. of Tigray Revolution, Tigrinya

6010 JAPAN NHK-Yamata Japanese

6090 ETHIOPIA R. Amhara, Aramaic

6170 GERMANY VOA-Biblis Kurdish

7235 ENGLAND IBRA-Woofferton African

 

1900-1930

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9380 INDIA National

9390 THAILAND R. Thailand Udon English

9400 BULGARIA WRMI-Sofia

9410 UAE BBC-Dhabbaya English

9500 ROMANIA Romanian

9535 GERMANY AWR-Nauen Arabic

9835 MALAYSIA RTM-Kajang domestic

9850 GERMANY AWR-Nauen Tachilet

 

11600 BULGARIA TOM-Sofia English

11720 GERMANY IBB-Biblis E. European

11750 CHINA  CRI-Jinhua Portuguese

11790 GERMANY AWR-Nauen African

11800 GERMANY AWR-Nauen Arabic