Shortwave Log, Northern Germany, May / June 2013

When the Greek government suspended ERT broadcasts, the shortwave frequencies were an exception. The Voice of Greece kept broadcasting there. As I don’t understand Greek, I can’t tell if the programs were live, or from the archives, i. e. produced prior to closing ERT down.

“Music contest between Apollo and Marsyas”, Voice of Greece QSL card, 1985.

There may be different possible ways to explain why the shortwave broadcasts up – to me, the most likely one would be that shortwave frequencies are obtained in international negotiations in the framework of the International Telecommunications Union, and given that shortwave frequencies are considered a scarce resource (even though much less scarce today, probably, than during the Cold War), a country may need to use such frequencies with international reach in order to keep them, and not losing them to other interested countries. The same mechanism is at work within countries regulatory processes, as described with Kenya as a case in the news, in 2012.

My log list for May and June is short – it’s the outdoor season.

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Recent Logs

International Telecommunication Union letter codes used in the table underneath:
AUS – Australia; ARG – Argentina, CVA – Vatican;  CUB – Cuba; RRW – Rwanda.

Languages (“L.”):
C – Chinese; E – English; G – German; I – Italian.

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kHz	Station	Ctry	L.	Day	Time GMT	S	I	O
12045	Deutsche Welle Kigali	RRW	E	May 5	04:20	5	5	5
21640	IRIB Tehran	IRN	E	May 5	10:27	5	4	4
4835	ABC Alice Springs 1)	AUS	E	June 3	19:51	4	3	3
17590	Vatican Radio	I	I	June 4	12:00	5	5	5
15345	RAE Buenos Aires	ARG	G	June 10	21:00	4	5	4
11710	RAE Buenos Aires	ARG	C	June 12	04:37	2	2	2
15345	RAE Buenos Aires 2)	ARG	C	June 12	10:35	3	3	3
6000	RHC Habana Cuba	CUB	E	June 24	03:00	4	4	3

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Notes

¹⁾ Recording »here.
²⁾ Recording »here. Details about Chinese service »here.

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Related

» Previous Log, April 2013, May 4, 2013

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