NEW FREQUENCIES AND DX TIPS
April 24, 2026

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Since the start of the A26 transmission season, I have been assisting my wife, who has been in the hospital for two weeks and is in ongoing recovery here at home. Along with my other regular responsibilities, it has been a busy time! So, it is only in the past ten days that I have got around to turning on the radios to check out the shortwave bands. Below are mainly new frequencies (NFs) for A26, plus a few other passing observations.

For each new frequency, I have tried to identify the frequency used in the B25 season. But this can be hard because schedules can be complex or drastically changed by the broadcaster, making direct comparisons difficult.

The list is in frequency order. The countries listed are where the transmitter sites are located. Many broadcasters use transmitters in other countries to improve reception in their target zones. For example, the world-famous BBC is currently using this long list of relays for the A26 transmission season: Oman, Ascension Island, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City, and Madagascar, as well as its own transmitters in Woofferton, England!

In most cases, I have listed the sign-on and sign-off times for each broadcast. These are represented by asterisks * before the sign-on time and after the sign-off time. I hope readers will find this information more useful. Comments on signal strength, as noted here at Mount Evelyn, are largely irrelevant and have not been included, except for a few remarks on interference (QRM) from other stations.

Equipment: SDRPlay RSPduo, Yaesu FTDX3000 transceiver, Kenwood R5000 receiver, Yaesu FRG 100 receiver, Kenwood TS2000 transceiver.

Antennas: 80m long horizontal sky loop antenna, a delta loop antenna for 10 MHz, a double bazooka antenna for 14 MHz and a 5/8λ centre-fed vertical for 21 MHz and above.

Abbreviations:

NF = New Frequency for the A26 transmission season

NS = New Site (i.e. a change in relay station for a specific broadcast)

QRM = Interference from another station

// = The same broadcast simultaneously on another frequency, i.e. in parallel.

WS = BBC World Service

AF = Africa. Eu = Europe, As = Asia, ME = Middle East, NAm = North America, CAm = Central America, SAm = South America, Oc = Oceania, AFG = Afghanistan,

N = North, S = South, E = East, W = West

ENAm = Eastern North America, NEAs = North East Asia, etc.

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⭐ 4755 INDONESIA. VoIndonesia - Cimanggis. 1210 Japanese service, talk and songs. Fair signal, Apr 23.

⭐ 3250 D.P.R.KOREA. KCBS - Pyongyang. 1145 Korean orchestral music, heavy tones of Western Romantic era symphonic music. Brahms and Dvorak would have been proud!! Fair to poor signal, Apr 23.

⭐ 5020 SOLOMON IS. SIBC - Honiara. 1030 Chit-chat in English, 1040 canned adverts, 1043 country music. Fair signal, Apr 23.

⭐ 5050 CHINA. Voice of Beibu Bay R. - Nanning. I was sitting on this freq when it suddenly popped up out of the mud at 1115 with Vietnamese programming. Soft music in the background. Pleasant, easy listening music from 1134. Fair signal on Apr 23. Learn more about Beibu Bay Radio here.

7355 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *1200-1300* English to EAs. NF (ex 9580), Apr 11.

9440 CHINA. CRI - Kunming. *1100-1200* Amoy to SEAs. Additional freq for this service and one hour earlier than B25. Runs // 11875 also heard but not as strong, on a slightly different beam heading. Apr 11.

9490 CHINA. CRI - Nanning. *1030-1130* Khmer to SEAs, NF (ex 17680). Slight QRM from co-channel R. Taiwan Int’l from 1100. Apr 11.

⭐ 9490 FRANCE. R. Republica - Issoudun. 0245 Spanish to Cuba, s/off and carrier off at 0259. But then fired up again at 0300 with full ID and News. Very good signal and the only one on the band other than Vanuatu (9960). A sign that winter lunchtime propagation is coming! Apr 23.

9545 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *0900-1000* Russian to EAs, NF (ex 9705), Apr 14.

9570 CHINA. CRI - Xian. *1100-1157* Cantonese to Oc, NF (ex 13580), Apr 11.

KNLS Curtain Antenna Array

9580 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *1100-1200* Russian to EAs, NF (ex 9570), Apr 11.

9580 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *1000-1100* English to EAs, NF (ex 9680), Apr 14.

9685 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *1000-1100* Mandarin to EAs, NF (ex 9540), Apr 14.

9795 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *1200-1300* English to EAs, NF (ex 9625), Apr 11.

9870 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point, AK. *1100-1200* Korean to EAs. NF (ex 9720), Apr 11.

⭐ 9875 TÜRKIYE. VoTürkiye - Emirler. *2030-2130 English to Oc. NF (ex 9610). At 2130 into Italian, not scheduled here at this time. And there appeared to be no apparent change of beam heading, signal strength did not vary, still beaming to Oc - a bit strange! Then 2200, English, theoretically to Eu and NAm to 2300. Again, no detectable change in azimuth or signal strength for this service. (ex 11785 or a mistake?). Then, 2300 into the unscheduled German. Mind you, this is 1:00 am in Germany…..very helpful!! A strong signal throughout the monitoring period, only marred by weak co-channel QRM from, I suspect, FEBC signing on at 2300. Apr 18.

9880 CHINA. CRI - Kashi. *2200-2257* Esperanto to SAm, NF (ex 9860), Apr 18.

9915 ASCENSION IS. BBC - Ascension. *0600-0700* English to CAf. WS news, NF (ex 11810), Apr 14.

⭐ 9960 VANUATU. R. Vanuatu - Emten Lagoon. 0240 Bislama chat, fair signal, Apr 23.

11620 CHINA. CRI - Xian. *1000-1100* Japanese to EAs. NF (ex 9440), Apr 11.

11650 AUSTRALIA. Reach Beyond - Kununurra. *1030-1100* Korean to EAs. NF (ex 11905), Apr 11.

11680 KOREA, NORTH. KCBS - Kanggye. Opera chorus in Korean 1030, fair signal, Apr 11.

11780 BRAZIL. R. Nacional Amazônia - Brasília. 0200 Portuguese sports chat (football). R. Nacional canned ID at 0207, then more sports commentary. Weak signal, Apr 23.

11790 ROMANIA. RRI - Galbeni. *0700-0800* Romanian to ME, Sun only, NF (possibly ex 17630?), Apr 12.

11795 KOREA, SOUTH. KBS-World R. - Kimjae. *1000-1100* English to SAm. NF (ex 9570). QRM splash from 11800 kHz CNR 2’s booming signal. Apr 11.

11820 ROMANIA. RRI - Galbeni. *0200-0300* Spanish to CAm, NF, Apr 23.

11830 CHINA. CRI - Kashi. *0100-0300* Spanish to SAm. NF (ex 9590), Apr 23.

11855 JAPAN. R. Japan - Yamata. 1040-1050 Mandarin to EAs. NF and an additional 10-minute service (ex 11825), Apr 11.

11875 USA. KNLS - Anchor Point. *0900-1000* Mandarin to EAs. NF (ex 7370), Apr 14.

11875 CHINA. CRI - Kunming. *1000-1057* Cantonese to Oc, NF (ex 11875), Apr 11.

⭐ 11885 MALAYSIA. Sabah V FM - Kajang. 0155 Mandarin, targeting the broader Chinese Malay community. Malay pops and Chinese anncts. Fair signal, until 0200 when QRM splash from CRI-Kashi’s big 500 kW s/on in Mandarin. Apr 17.

11905 CHINA. CRI - Jinhua. *0900-1100* English to Oc, NF (ex 17690), Apr 14.

12005 CHINA. CRI - Kunming. *1000-1057* Cantonese to Oc NF (ex 17670), Apr 11.

⭐ 12020 VIETNAM. VoV-5 - Son Tay. *1030-1057* Indonesian to SEAs with a strong signal, beaming 177 deg. At 1100, the opening orchestral theme music was played for a few seconds before the signal was suddenly cut off. Returned 90 sec later with a greatly reduced signal strength in Japanese, beaming 57 deg to EAs. Apr 11.

13580 CHINA. CRI - Kunming. *1000-1100* English to Oc, NF (ex 15210), Apr 14.

⭐ 13610 ENGLAND. KBS - Woofferton. *0700-0800* Korean to Eu. NF (ex 9870). Heavy QRM from co-channel CNR 1. A quick check of five European Kiwi SDRs also showed that this is a stinker of a frequency choice, with CNR at the same strength as KBS in most cases. Apr 12.

13635 TÜRKIYE. VoTürkiye - Emirler. *0600-1300* Turkish to Eu. NF (ex 15350), Apr 14.

13685 TÜRKIYE. VoTürkiye - Emirler. *0700-0800* Azeri to the Caucasus, NF (ex 11710 and one hr earlier), Apr 14.

13695 FRANCE. R. France Int - Issoudun. *0600-0700* French to WAf, NF (probably ex 9790), Apr 16.

13740 FRANCE. R. France Int - Issoudun. *0600-0630* Hausa to WAf, NF (ex 11995), Apr 16.

13740 CHINA. CRI - Kashi.* 0100-0300* Spanish to SAm, NF, Apr 23.

13800 CHINA. CRI - Kunming. *0900-1000* English to Oc, NF (ex 15210), Apr 14.

13810 ENGLAND. BBC - Woofferton. *0600-0630* French to NAf. NF (ex 7285), Apr 16.

15130 ROMANIA. RRI - Galbeni. *0630-0657* Arabic to NAf. NF (ex 15120) and one hour earlier, Apr 12.

15195 JAPAN. R. Japan - Yamata. *0630-0650* Korean to EAs. NF (ex 11830), Apr 12.

⭐ 15295 MALAYSIA. RTM Nasional FM - Kajang. 0150 Soft pops, 0152 rapid fire anncts and ID as simply Nasional FM. Heard here most of the day now, fair signal throughout, Apr 17.

15320 TÜRKIYE. VoTürkiye - Emirler. *0500-0600* Scheduled as Swahili to EAf, NF (ex 17780 and two hrs earlier than B25), Apr 16.

15320 TÜRKIYE. VoTürkiye - Emirler. Scheduled *0600-0700* as Hausa to Nigeria and WAf ….but, to my ears, it sounded more like Swahili on this day! Control room screw-up? NF (ex 15235), Apr 16.

15330 FRANCE. R. France Int - Issoudun. *0730-0800* Fulfulde to WAf. NF (ex 13710), Apr 14.

15505 ENGLAND. R. Ndarason - Woofferton. *0600-0700* Kanuri to WAf, NF (ex 9535), Apr 12.

15680 ROMANIA. RRI - Tiganesti. *0700-0800* Romanian to ME, Sun only, NF (ex 15200), Apr 12.

⭐ 15710 FRANCE. Hope of Israel - Issoudun. *1600-1628* English with a strong southern American Baptist twang. Big signal on Apr 18.

17620 FRANCE. R. France Int - Issoudun. *0830-0900* Fulfulde to WAf, NF (ex 17660). Serious adjacent channel QRM from a booming CNR 2 on 17625, which also signs off at 0900. Apr 14.

17620 CHINA. CRI - Kashi. *0900-1000* Romanian to Eu, NF (ex 15260, 1 hr earlier than B25), Apr 14.

17720 TÜRKIYE. VoTürkiye - Emirler. *0400-0500* Malay to SEAs. NF (ex 17530), Apr 17.

17790 JAPAN. R. Japan - Yamata. *0500-0650* Japanese, listed as beamed to CAm (!). NF. A bit odd, as the service begins anywhere between 11 pm and 1 am, depending on where you are in CAm! A special new service for insomniacs? 😁 Apr 12.

73 and wishing you good DX!

Rob Wagner VK3BVW