03-11-2011, 03:59 PM
Al, these should be times and frequencies.
Radio Australia
12.00-19.00 9475, 9625, 11660
19.00- 04.00 9475, 9500
All India Radio - General Overseas Service
AIRs website seems to be playing up at the moment but frequencies should be
17.45 - 1945 7410, 9950, 11620
20.45 - 22.30 7410, 9445, 9950
Radio Romania International RRI are a proper listeners station with QSL cards, section to report reception, a listeners chat corner on their website etc etc
06.30-07.00 7310
12.00-13.00 15460, 17530
18.00-19.00 7415
21.30-22.00 7380
23.00-24.00 6015, 7220
China Radio International transmit on several frequencies, lots of station ident call-outs through each programme so easy to pick out. I think CRI may be re-broadcast (??) from within the UK so reception is pretty good. I enjoy their news features, they also have lessons on how to speak Cantonese which are quite fun to follow.
This is the link to their winter schedule frequencies
http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560016.htm
Numbers stations seem to occur all over the bands but aren't that easy to find. If you're hearing a string of numbers spoken by a synthesised voice than you've found a station. Usually they will start on the hour with a pre-amble such as 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760 repeated several times. They may even have a small piece of music before this, like for instance, the defunct 'Lincolnshire Poacher' station which used to broadcast that particular folk songs melody before starting the number sequences. After the pre-amble then they go into the message which will be several blocks of seemingly random numbers. These may be repeated every quarter hour. There are several videos on Youtube of people receiving these. Of course the number stations are not very interesting to listen to...more to wonder who, what and where they are.
Andrew
Radio Australia
12.00-19.00 9475, 9625, 11660
19.00- 04.00 9475, 9500
All India Radio - General Overseas Service
AIRs website seems to be playing up at the moment but frequencies should be
17.45 - 1945 7410, 9950, 11620
20.45 - 22.30 7410, 9445, 9950
Radio Romania International RRI are a proper listeners station with QSL cards, section to report reception, a listeners chat corner on their website etc etc
06.30-07.00 7310
12.00-13.00 15460, 17530
18.00-19.00 7415
21.30-22.00 7380
23.00-24.00 6015, 7220
China Radio International transmit on several frequencies, lots of station ident call-outs through each programme so easy to pick out. I think CRI may be re-broadcast (??) from within the UK so reception is pretty good. I enjoy their news features, they also have lessons on how to speak Cantonese which are quite fun to follow.
This is the link to their winter schedule frequencies
http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560016.htm
Numbers stations seem to occur all over the bands but aren't that easy to find. If you're hearing a string of numbers spoken by a synthesised voice than you've found a station. Usually they will start on the hour with a pre-amble such as 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760, 5760 repeated several times. They may even have a small piece of music before this, like for instance, the defunct 'Lincolnshire Poacher' station which used to broadcast that particular folk songs melody before starting the number sequences. After the pre-amble then they go into the message which will be several blocks of seemingly random numbers. These may be repeated every quarter hour. There are several videos on Youtube of people receiving these. Of course the number stations are not very interesting to listen to...more to wonder who, what and where they are.
Andrew
