Global Radio Guide: Winter 2020-2021

by Gayle Van Horn, Larry Van Horn (Illustrator)

During times of emergency and crisis, radio hobbyists worldwide turn on their radios and tune to the shortwave radio spectrum for context, perspective, and insight into what is happening around the globe. As tensions heat up in the world’s hotspots, you can follow these events on the radio, but you need an accurate and comprehensive radio guide to know where and when to tune in to hear the action. Teak Publishing is proud to announce the release of that all-important radio resource – the Global Radio Guide (GRG), 15th edition (Winter 2020-2021) e-book, by Amazon bestselling author Gayle Van Horn W4GVH. The book was formerly known as the International Shortwave Broadcast Guide. This Amazon 'electronic' book is your ticket to travel the Global Radio bands. The heart of this publication is a 24-hour station/frequency guide with the latest Winter 2020-2021 (B20) schedules for selected AM band, longwave, and shortwave radio stations. This unique resource is the only radio publication that lists by-hour schedules that include all language services, frequencies, and world target areas for over 500 stations worldwide. There are listings of DX radio programs and Internet website addresses for many of the stations in the book. There are also entries for time and frequency stations and a few other intriguing shortwave radio stations. New in this 15th edition of the GRG is an article by the book's author on how and where to hear exotic shortwave stations transmitting in the world’s tropical radio bands. Another feature focuses on where you can hear global radio and television media broadcasters via satellite by Spectrum Monitor magazine editor Ken Reitz. Spectrum Monitor’s Fred Waterer checks in with a feature on listening to music from around the globe on shortwave. There is a nostalgic look back at radio in 1922 by our friends at AWR Wavescan. Teak Publishing's Larry Van Horn will give the reader an exclusive tour of frequencies and radio services below 530 kHz in Radio's Basement Bands. There is an updated Teak software defined radio (SDR) hardware/software buyers guide. Also in this edition is the latest radio news in Bits & Bytes, a Radio QSL Guide, Best of the Best DX shortwave program listings, and a listing of radio station Internet websites. This edition also has introductory articles for beginners on Traveling the World via Shortwave Radio Broadcasts, Monitoring the Shortwave Action Bands, and Teak’s Hot 1100+ worldwide utility station HF frequency list. Global Radio listeners are routinely entertained with unique perspectives to events, music, culture, history, and news from other countries that you will not see or hear on your local or national broadcast channels. Global Radio broadcasts are not restricted by country borders or oceans and can travel thousands of miles, reaching millions of listeners worldwide, now in over 300 different languages and dialects. Listeners can hear shortwave broadcast stations from hotspots such as China, Cuba, India, Iran, North/South Korea, Taiwan, and many other counties. If you have a shortwave radio receiver or Internet connection, and this unique radio resource, you will know when and where to listen to your favorite radio broadcast station. This publication will have wide appeal to amateur radio operators, shortwave radio hobbyists, news agencies, news buffs, educators, foreign language students, expatriates, or anyone interested in listening to a global view of world news and major events as they happen. Whether you monitor shortwave radio broadcasts, amateur radio operators, or aeronautical, maritime, government, or military communications in the HF radio spectrum, this book has the frequencies to help you to hear it all.

834 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2020