On 22/12/2025 02:33, Marco Moock wrote:
This is just wrong. As the government-operated services have (or had)
efficient sending antennas and high power, they are audible very well
with some meters of wire.
I am not up to date with Short Wave coverage but most SW broadcasters
had high power transmitters around the world as well as local relays on several bands (HF, MW and VHF) but I suspect many of these might have closed.
Does BBC only wants online listeners?
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
Not succeeded!
I only find listening online.
The best I find via BBC Radio Scotland (!) is the BBC Reception site.
I did not find this Reception site on BBC.com ......
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/
But here also: no transmitter list and nothing about short wave.
For UK transmitters I found: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/fmmwlw-radio/fm-and-am-radio-frequencies>
Typing BBC World Service in search, gives pages to DAB, Satellite,
Virgin Cable, Sky Channel, Freesat, Freeview and Freely.
But no LW/MW/SW/FM frequencies.
I have no "reception problems", I just want to know the frequency!
Does BBC only wants online listeners?
Rink
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
It might be worth trying to search on BBC.COM rather than .CO.UK?
As in
https://www.bbc.com/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/index.shtml
You also have to remember that the BBC WS is supported by HMG Foreign
Office and being what they are I would suspect their preference is
not to tell anyone "for security reasons."
You also have to remember that the BBC WS is supported by HMG Foreign
Office and being what they are I would suspect their preference is not
to tell anyone "for security reasons."
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
Not succeeded!
I only find listening online.
The best I find via BBC Radio Scotland (!) is the BBC Reception site.
I did not find this Reception site on BBC.com ......
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/
But here also: no transmitter list and nothing about short wave.
For UK transmitters I found: <https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/fmmwlw-radio/fm-and-am-radio-frequencies>
Typing BBC World Service in search, gives pages to DAB, Satellite,
Virgin Cable, Sky Channel, Freesat, Freeview and Freely.
But no LW/MW/SW/FM frequencies.
I have no "reception problems", I just want to know the frequency!
Does BBC only wants online listeners?
Rink
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Op 22-12-2025 om 10:19 schreef JMB99:
On 22/12/2025 02:33, Marco Moock wrote:
This is just wrong. As the government-operated services have (or had)
efficient sending antennas and high power, they are audible very well
with some meters of wire.
I am not up to date with Short Wave coverage but most SW broadcasters
had high power transmitters around the world as well as local relays on several bands (HF, MW and VHF) but I suspect many of these might have closed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1318_africa_radio_aw/bbc_relay_partners.pdf
On 06.01.2026 15:20 Uhr Woody wrote:
You also have to remember that the BBC WS is supported by HMG Foreign >> Office and being what they are I would suspect their preference is
not to tell anyone "for security reasons."
The information about the location and schedule of the transmitter
sites is public in most cases. You can't hide large SW antennas.
On 06/01/2026 13:55, Rink wrote:
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
Not sure why you have a problem as there are plenty of online sites with up-to-date SW transmission listings. Try this one: https://www.short-wave.info/
But surely the times and frequencies have to be accessible somewhere,
for the listeners!
On 2026/1/6 17:34:12, MikeS wrote:
On 06/01/2026 13:55, Rink wrote:
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
[]
Not sure why you have a problem as there are plenty of online sites withThe question being posed is not what are the frequencies/times, but why
up-to-date SW transmission listings. Try this one:
https://www.short-wave.info/
it is so difficult to find such details _from the BBC_.
On 06/01/2026 20:06, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2026/1/6 17:34:12, MikeS wrote:The frequencies etc for BBC national radio are readily available from
On 06/01/2026 13:55, Rink wrote:
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
[]
Not sure why you have a problem as there are plenty of online sites with >>> up-to-date SW transmission listings. Try this one:The question being posed is not what are the frequencies/times, but why
https://www.short-wave.info/
it is so difficult to find such details _from the BBC_.
the BBC and easily found: >https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/fmmwlw-radio/fm-and-am-radio-frequencies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/dab-radio/dab-tuning-information
I assumed that those must be obvious to the OP (if not yourself) and
they were therefore seeking shortwave frequencies which have not been >publicised by the BBC in the UK for years. Their use is minimal outside
the relatively small target audiences which probably have no internet
(or they would not bother with shortwave) and are best served with local >publicity.
On 06/01/2026 20:06, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
On 2026/1/6 17:34:12, MikeS wrote:The frequencies etc for BBC national radio are readily available from
On 06/01/2026 13:55, Rink wrote:
Reading the message from 22 december (see under),
I tried to find a radio transmitter list from BBC World Service on
internet.
[]
Not sure why you have a problem as there are plenty of online sites with >>> up-to-date SW transmission listings. Try this one:The question being posed is not what are the frequencies/times, but why
https://www.short-wave.info/
it is so difficult to find such details _from the BBC_.
the BBC and easily found: https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/fmmwlw-radio/fm-and-am-radio-frequencies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/help-guides/dab-radio/dab-tuning-information
I assumed that those must be obvious to the OP (if not yourself) and
they were therefore seeking shortwave frequencies which have not been publicised by the BBC in the UK for years. Their use is minimal outside
the relatively small target audiences which probably have no internet
(or they would not bother with shortwave) and are best served with local publicity.
Lots of people cannot listen to BBC via internet, for example all over
Russia and probably also China. A significant part of Africa does not
have internet, I thought about 20%.
BBC World Service is also for them.
Why should BBC broadcast via short wave if they don't tell on which frequencies and on which times?
Rink
Funny how the BBC World Service probably had many more listeners in the
past before there was the Internet.
People would tune around looking for the BBC service then note down the frequency and details of the schedules that would be given out periodically.
Several times a year the schedules would change with changes being
announced and again people would make a note of them.
But many (most?) would be listening through local relays.
Medium wave and FM, maybe, but I thought the_point_ (and, to some
extent, fun) of SW was its range? Unless by "local" you mean in their hemisphere or similar; I don't mean they were all listening to London
(or England - I don't think_any_ transmitters were in London itself
except in the very early days), but not what I'd call local - often
BBCWS relays on remote British posessions, like Ascencion island, etc.
On 09/01/2026 13:43, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
Medium wave and FM, maybe, but I thought the_point_ (and, to some
extent, fun) of SW was its range? Unless by "local" you mean in their
hemisphere or similar; I don't mean they were all listening to London
(or England - I don't think_any_ transmitters were in London itself
except in the very early days), but not what I'd call local - often
BBCWS relays on remote British posessions, like Ascencion island, etc.
I was thinking of the many VHF FM and probably Medium Wave and even DAB transmitters that relayed the World Service for parts of the day.
I used to listen on Short Wave many years ago just as I once used a dip
pen and bottle of ink once but things progress. There was some novelty
to listening to a distant station but you can do it so much easier now.
But the local relays can so easily be turned off by oppressive regimes, whereas the distant SW broadcasters can't. I'd be somewhat surprised if,
for example, you can get BBCWS on FM/MW/DAB in most of Russia (after
all, we can't get Russia Today TV on FreeView here), Iran, north Korea, possibly China ... so it's not just technostalgia (have I just invented
that word?), but practical reasons. (Made a lot harder because of the HF noise these days, of course.)
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