SWL Broadcast
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This page will list links relating to HF Broadcast listening between 2 and 30 Mhz.
This topic is discussed in the Shortwave Broadcast Forum
Contents
FAQs and Introductions
- Introduction to SWL
- Your First HF Receiver
- DRM – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
HF (SW) Clubs
- AIR (in Italian)
- AMANDX
- Asian DX Review (via bclnews)
- Asociacion DX de Barcelona (in Spanish)
- Benelux DX Club
- British DX Club
- Canadian International DX Club (CIDX)
- Czechoslovak DX Club
- DX Antwerp (Flemish/English)
- Indian DX Club International
- International SW League (UK)
- Irkutsk DX
- Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts
- New Zealand Radio DX League
- North American SW Association
- World Wide DX Club
DXing Websites
- AER (in Spanish)
- Asian Broadcasting Institute (in Japanese)
- Don Moore DXer
- DXer.ca
- DXing.com run by Universal
- DXing.Info
- Fenu Radio (in German)
- Hard Core DX
- HFRadio.org
- Interval Signal Library
- myAFN
- National Association of SW Broadcasters (NASB)
- QIP - the QSL Information Pages for BC DXers
- Radio Home page Martin Schoech
- RUS-DX Bulletin and archive
- Shortwave Bulletin
- Shortwave Central
- Short Wave Listener's Delight specializing in Aus/NZ area
Media News
And lots more...
- Australian Internet Radio Magazine
- End Times Report SW Broadcasts Worldwide
- Glenn Hauser's World of Radio website
- World Radio TV Handbook website
Blogs
- Acquamarina Radio
- Cobalt Pet
- DXers Guide
- RadioActivity
- Radio and Communication Info (Italian/English)
- Shortwave Central Blog by Gayle Van Horn
- SWLing.com
DX News and Information
- World of Radio
- Here, Glenn Hauser discusses both DX and program information world wide
- World of Radio Reflector at groups.io
- Shortwave Bulletin
Schedules
- Note: Where possible each entry shows which of the following databases the application supports
Schedule Sources
- Aoki
- EiBi
- High Frequency Coordination Conference (HFCC)
- ILGRadio
- SkyWave Schedules (Android)
- SWList (Apple)
- SWSkeds Reflector where you can get the above sources and many others combined in both a file and Excel spreadsheet. Updated frequently.
Sites that utilize schedule information
Applications That Display Data
- All of the following support the EiBi database
Receiver/Transceiver/SDR Applications
- CSVUserList
- Supports Aoki, EiBi, HFCC
- DXTreme Monitor Log 12
- Supports Aoki, EiBi
- Frequency Manager Suite SDR# plugin
- Supports Aoki, EiBi, HFCC
- HDSDR
- Supports EiBi
- MacLogger
- Supports PrimeTime SW
- Perseus (native software)
- Supports SWSkeds
- PowerSDR
- Supports EiBi
- RX Log and Tuner Note: uses Excel
- Supports Aoki, SWSkeds
- SDR Console
- Supports the .csv file found in the SWSkeds files
- Shiny SDR
- Supports HFCC
- SDRUno (SDRPlay support)
- Supports SWSkeds (use the Perseus userlist.txt file), EiBi
- TRX Manager
- Supports ILG, HFCC
- WinRadio Wavebase 3
- For WinRadio G3xx SDRs; supports EiBi and HFCC
- Win4k3Suite
- Win4IcomSuite
- Win4YaesuSuite
- These 3 support the EiBi database
Search Engines
- HFRadio.org SWBC freq searches
- Note: limited to SWBCers, evidently doesn't cover tropical bands
- Radio Portal.org
Terminology
YouTube
- Canadian Prairies Shortwave
- Dan Robinson
- Gayle Van Horn Shortwave Central
- Official SWL Channel
- Oxford Shortwave Log channel
- Shortwave generic search
- Tom Witherspoon (SWLing.com)
Mailing Lists (reflectors) and Facebook
- Groups.io
- British DX Club News
- Canadian International DX Club
- NASWA
- Ontario DX Association (ODXA)
- Radio HF Newsletter
- Other servers