SWL Broadcast

This page will list links relating to HF Broadcast listening between 2 and 30 Mhz.
The RR forum for this topic can be found here

Terminology and FAQs

What is short wave broadcasting? These FAQs will help explain it

• FAQ from the National Association of SW Broadcaster (NASB)
• Introduction to SWL
• Wikipedia article on SW Radio

Some FAQs about the terminology you will hear used

• AMANDX
  • This site has many basic articles on antennas, propagation, schedules and much more. Highly recommended reading
• Commonly Used Modes
• Frequency Ranges and Uses
• Frequency vs.Wavelength
• Glossary of Terminology
• Terms and Abbreviations
• UTC and GMT

HF (SW) Clubs

• AIR (in Italian)
• AMANDX
• Asociacion DX de Barcelona (in Spanish)
• Benelux DX Club
• British DX Club
• Canadian International DX Club (CIDX)
• Czechoslovak DX Club
• Danish SW Club International
• DXer.ca
• DX Antwerp (Flemish/English)
• DX Listener's Club (in Norwegian)
• Electronic DX Press (EDXP)
• Indonesian DX Club
• International SW Club (UK)
• Irkutsk DX
• Michigan Area Radio Enthusiasts
• MT Radio Clubs and Nets page
• New Zealand Radio DX League
• North American SW Association
• NDXC website (Japanese)
• Ontario DX Association (ODXA)
• Russian DX League (Russian/English)
• World Wide DX Club

DXing Websites

• AER (in Spanish)
• AfricaList
• Asian Broadcasting Institute (in Japanese)
• DXing.Info
• Fenu Radio (in German)
• Hard Core DX
• IDs Warehouse
• Interval Signals Online
• Interval Signal Library
• Klaus-Dieter Scholz DX-WEB (in German)
• Latin American SW Logs
• National Association of SW Broadcasters (NASB)
• Patepluma Radio
• PlayDX
• QIP - the QSL Information Pages for BC DXers
• Radio Home page Martin Schoech
• Russian DX League
• Skywaves (UK)
• Transmitter Documentation Project

Media News

And lots more...

• Australian Internet Radio Magazine
• DXing with Cumbre Audio recordings
• End Times Report SW Broadcasts Worldwide
• Glenn Hauser's World of Radio website
• Kim Andrew Elliott.com
• RadioIntel
• RCI Action Committee
• RFPrograms.com
• Shortwave Monitor
• The Shortwave Report

Blogs

• Acquamarina Radio
• Cobalt Pet
• Critical Distance
• DXAsia UADX Blog
• DXers Guide
• fade-in annex
• Italian SWL Station I0-5639/FR
• Jim's DXing Page
• Media Network
• Musings-International Broadcasting, Public Radio
• MT Shortwave Central Blog by Gayle Van Horn
• RadioActivity
• Radio and Communication Info (Italian/English)
• RadioPassioni (Italian/English)
• SWLing.com
• Surfing the Radio Waves

Newsgroups

• RadioBanter.Com

Program Information

• Cumbre DX
• World of Radio
  • Here, Glenn Hauser discusses both DX and program information world wide

Schedules (downloadable)

• Bi Newsletter for DXers
• DXAsia
• EiBi
  • Multi lingual website - links to the Aoki database, updated daily
• High Frequency Coordination Conference (HFCC)
• NASWA spreadsheet schedules page
• Prime Time Shortwave
• ShortBoard (Macs)

Schedules (print media)

• Monitoring Times magazine - Hourly English Language Broadcast
• World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH)

Search Engines

• Radio Portal.org
• HFRadio.org SWBC freq searches
  • Note: limited to SWBCers, evidently doesn't cover tropical bands
• ITU Callsign Prefixes

Streaming

• Mike's Audio World
• Voces de America Latina

Yahoo Groups and other Mailing Lists

• ASWLC
• domesticasytropicales (in Spanish- covers tropical band DXing)
• DX Listening Digest
• Enigma 2000 Numbers Stations
• es.rec.radio.ondacorta - SWLing (Spanish)
• Hard core DX
• HF Underground Message Board
• it.hobby.radioascolto (Italian)
• NASWA
• Onda Corta PR (Spanish)
• Ondes Courtes (in French)
• Ontario DX Association (ODXA)
• Pakistan DXers
• Shortwave Yahoo group
• Shortwaves Yahoo group
• SWL List
• SWPrograms
• Shortwave Radio