Stations Saudi Arabia

[GB46]

SBA, Saudi Arabia's religious broadcaster is blasting in here at 15:48 UTC on 13710 kHz. This is the strongest signal I've ever heard from them, reaching as high as S9+10db on my R75 with about 20 ft. of wire. But they're also almost as strong on the ATS-909X with just the whip, and I even hear it well on my R6 scanner with the rubber duck antenna. As usual, I'm hearing this inside an apartment with no outside antenna.

 

[Boombox]

Ah, the 21 Meter Band delivers the Mideast yet again. Only time I've heard Saudi Arabia or Kuwait was on the 21 Meter Band. Always cool to hear, too.

 

[GB46]

Ah, the 21 Meter Band delivers the Mideast yet again. Only time I've heard Saudi Arabia or Kuwait was on the 21 Meter Band. Always cool to hear, too.

I couldn't hear them at all today. In fact, reception on most of the HF bands has been terrible at my location over the last couple of days. As for Saudi Arabia, I often use them in the morning to judge band conditions. Another station I use for that is San Francisco's HFDL ground station on 5508 and 6659 kHz. 5508 is usually very strong early in the morning here, but it was weak this morning. And the Voice of Korea on 11710 was absent altogether.

At least RNZI was audible on a new frequency, 7390, which I had to discover a few days ago on short-wave.info, as the latest EiBi list is still dated Sept. 5, and shows 5980 instead.

 

[ka3jjz]

Yes, on the World of Radio reflector, Glenn Hauser contacted the fellow that handles the EiBi updates and he's been overwhelmed with family issues and hasn't had time to do the updates yet. I'd suggest using some of the other sources instead (Aoki, HFCC, or better still, the schedules from the SWSked reflector on groups.io). I would also pay attention to the World of Radio reflector, again on groups.io, to catch frequency changes as reported, rather than waiting on someone to update a list

Mike

 

[GB46]

Thanks, Mike. Well, I only use schedules for the precious few international broadcasters that I can hear. I've found short-wave.info sufficient for that. It doesn't cover the utilities, but the ones I monitor generally don't change their frequencies very often, and I've assigned memory slots to them, anyway.

The only complaint I have about short-wave.info is that the site's margins are too wide, so that the results are squished into a narrow window, and the columns aren't spaced out to make the details easy to read. I've emailed them a comment about that.

The other thing is that I'm trying to avoid going online all the time to look up frequencies, which is why I've been downloading EiBi's lists. I'll just wait it out. Actually, my enthusiasm for HF has been dwindling these days due to adverse band conditions and my noisy environment.