Radio far from civilization or magical music of short waves. Listen to international radio of China in Russian online Shortwave radio stations of the year

What is this? - he asked. - For what?

What do you mean why? Listen to the radio. On short waves.

What can you hear there and why exactly - on short ones?

Whatever. Music, news. And on short ones because they are the most “long-range”, since they are repeatedly reflected from the surface of the Earth and from the ionosphere, due to which they spread over very long distances. Broadcasts from even a weak radio station operating on short waves can be received on the other side of the globe...

Wow! And in our fields we constantly have a problem - finding out news. I drove further away from the city, into the taiga, and heard nothing. You twist and turn the receiver knob - one whistle and the Chinese are on the air...

What kind of receiver?

Yes, here, an ordinary tape recorder,” he showed. - NE, FM.

Well, you definitely won’t hear anything on this soapbox. A good shortwave receiver is needed. With digital tuning, direct frequency input.

Listen, you should write about this in a magazine! I think many of our colleagues will be interested.

Agreed. Writing.

Shortwave radio, its history, features of the propagation and transmission of radio waves, the hunt for rare and distant stations - this is an immense and extremely interesting topic. But the magazine is not rubber. Therefore, I’ll tell you briefly how and what to listen to away from civilization. And most importantly - on what. I’ll try not to overload you with theory, although I can’t do without it at all. Anyone who wants to know more can find information on special sites, I’ll tell you the addresses.

Listening to shortwave radio is a fascinating hobby. Part of radio sports. There are radio amateurs who themselves build receiving and transmitting radio stations (transceivers), receive a call sign, go on the air, communicate with each other and with the whole world. And there are those who only listen to the broadcast. Interesting too. They are called radio observers. A separate branch of “radio observation” is DXing. This is the hunt for rare and distant stations. Mainly behind “broadcasters” (those that broadcast music and news), but not only. For official ones too. It is not forbidden to listen to them, the main thing is not to go on the air on the same frequency.

The English name “Dхing” comes from one of the abbreviations used by radio amateurs when transmitting messages in Morse code. DX is some pretty long distance. The same letters indicate the distant station. In general, DXers are people who receive remote radio stations.

But it’s not enough to receive them on your receiver - you also need to get confirmation from the radio station that you really listened to it! To do this, you need to send a specially compiled reception report to the radio station (by regular or email), which indicates the time, frequency, location of reception, signal strength and interference level on a special SINPO scale, general audibility rating, equipment and antenna, using which were received. And most importantly - a brief summary of the program. Or at least a couple of exact phrases heard on air. In response, the station sends a confirmation to the radio amateur - a QSL card, or, more simply put, a cue card. Such cards are a source of pride for diexists. They collect them and show them off to each other. Particular luck is to receive a card from a low-power radio station of some island, godforsaken state, which goes on the air from time to time. To do this, diexists build complex antennas and perform magic with their receivers. They keep a “log” - a special journal in which they record time, frequency, audibility on the SINPO scale...

Eh, it’s been a while since I climbed onto the roof and opened my log. Everything is the Internet and the Internet...

Sorry, I got carried away. It is unlikely that a surveyor in the fields has time to deal with all this nonsense. He just needs to listen to the radio. Find out what is happening in the world. This means that he will listen to ordinary, usually powerful, “broadcasts” that are not difficult to catch, especially outside the city. You just need to know the time when the station goes on air and its frequency.

What do we see on the scale of a simple analog receiver? This is the one with the arrow that crawls back and forth. Well, let's say VEF. (It’s a good receiver, by the way; they used to do die-exing on it, so much so that a fur coat would wrap itself up.) Meters: 16, 25, 31, 49... This is the wavelength. And some other numbers. This is the frequency. Just very rude. In order to accurately tune in to the desired station, it is not enough to know what wavelength it operates on, because dozens of stations fit on the same 31 meters. Of course, you can catch it by accident, most people do just that - they twist the handle and catch it. But if you know exactly the frequency, then tuning will be easier and faster.

To do this, you need a receiver with direct frequency input. They are also called “digital”. But to say so is illiterate. Because your “balalaika” still picks up an analog signal, its frequency is simply displayed on the display in the form of numbers. These are kilohertz. Or megahertz. For example, one of the frequencies on which Radio Liberty broadcasts in the 31-meter range is 9520 kHz. Or, if you prefer, 9.52 MHz.

Nowadays digital radio is also developing - the so-called DRM broadcasting. That is, an encrypted digital signal is transmitted over the air, and the receiver decrypts it; such equipment is already being produced. But this is still in its infancy, there is little digital broadcasting, so we will not dwell on this type of modulation in detail. Although radio amateurs have been working with it for a long time and actively.

There are many receivers with direct frequency input today. It’s easy to recognize them: on the front panel there is an LCD display and many, many buttons, some of which have numbers, from 0 to 9. Like on a calculator. A person who just wants to listen to “broadcasters” on HF need only remember three brands: Grundig, Tecsun and Degen. Type one of these words into your search engine, plus “digital radio”, and you will be amazed at how many of these “balalaikas” the Chinese industry produces. Yes, yes, all these receivers are made in China. But that doesn't mean they are bad. Where is your flat-screen TV made? What about a digital camera? Same thing. And they make good receivers. Very sensitive, with a bunch of fine settings, memory for hundreds of frequencies. I took the schedule once and wrote them all into memory, and without worrying, you turn on the stations that are currently on the air according to the time. I myself have been using the Tecsun PL-550 for three years, don’t take it as an advertisement. (Before that there was the legendary Grundig YB-400.) Happy as an elephant. Another good thing about it is that it has an antenna adjustment knob, like professional devices.

You can’t imagine what a thrill it is to sit in a hut, a hundred kilometers from your home, it’s raining tediously outside, and your stove is crackling, hot tea is on the table, and from the radio: “Paris speaking...” On Radio France Internationale a program in Russian about the work of Edith Piaf, and her voice here is like a miracle. Or a political discussion in the Freedom studio. Or a radio play on Radio Russia...

In general, take one of these receivers, it will come in handy in the fields. It is better not to buy them in Krasnoyarsk stores. Firstly, the choice is small, and secondly, the prices for these devices are inappropriately high. In Moscow or online stores - almost half the price. In China - three times. They brought it to me from China.

Unfortunately, radio today is moving to the Internet, thus losing its original essence and advantage - accessibility in the most remote hole, where there are no communications or electricity. I myself have been listening to stations on the Internet for a long time that I used to catch on the air. But this is home. And in the forest? Take a 250-gram receiver with you - and you’re already up to date.

Every year, one or another radio station announces a reduction and even cessation of shortwave broadcasting. Such broadcast monsters as “BBC” and “Voice of America” left the HF and moved to the World Wide Web. (I watched a video on their website about how the Russian edition of the BBC broadcast its last HF broadcast. The Great Seva Novgorodtsev cried.) We moved to the Internet radio of the Czech Republic and Finland in Russian. Radio Liberty and Deutsche Welle remain for now. But the latter has already announced that it will also stop shortwave broadcasting this summer. It's a pity. It was an excellent station. Among the “enemy voices,” I liked it the most: excellent programs about culture, science, life in Germany, fairly objective news.

In general, in my opinion, this is an extremely ill-considered step for Russia. We have such distances, so many remote places, isolated from civilization, where the Internet will not come soon, that HF ​​radio is sometimes the only window to the world. This spring I was at the reindeer herders’ camp. They listen to HF. “Radio Russia - Krasnoyarsk” on 6085 kHz and “Svoboda”. What about geologists, oil workers, hunters and other vagabonds who will never leave Rus'? Should they carry a satellite dish with them?

In a good way, our domestic radio stations need to expand HF broadcasting, cover the whole country and the world with it, as China does. He is now the king of shortwave broadcasting. Broadcasts in hundreds of languages. He brings to the masses the ideas of his greatness, just as the Russian International Radio during the years of “stagnation” told the whole world about the delights of the coming communism. China in Russian is perfectly audible from Kaliningrad to the Kuril Islands, and sometimes you can’t hear anything else except it, everything is jammed. For some reason, the wise Chinese do not write off shortwave radio, despite the rapid development of modern technologies.

However, not everything is so gloomy on the HF airwaves. There's more to listen to. In any case, you won’t be left without news. About forty Russian and foreign stations are currently broadcasting in Russian. Let a dozen of them be religious, another 10–15 are very exotic, which you can listen to only for fun... But there remain a good dozen radio stations in Russian that are interesting to listen to - news, music (albeit somewhat peculiar), thematic programs. Of the “monsters”, this is, first of all, the Voice of Russia World Service, which broadcasts almost around the clock on a variety of HF frequencies; “Radio Russia” and “Svoboda”. Until they leave the HF airwaves, you can buy a receiver.

In addition, Poland, Japan, Taiwan, France, Bulgaria, Greece, Canada, Belarus broadcast in Russian (we can hear it quite well in Siberia).

Well, from the “exotic” - Turkey, Syria, Tajikistan, Vietnam, South Korea, India (all these broadcast their own songs and some local news). Sophisticated radio aesthetes will be interested in listening to “The Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran” and “The Voice of Korea” (North). The former cruelly denigrate “international Zionism” and “American aggressors,” the latter also bark at America, but they also dilute this with Juche ideas and glorification of their leaders. Not a single program from North Korea is complete without a report on how the “sun of all mankind,” dear leader and comrade Kim Jong Il, visited a poultry farm (factory, collective farm), gave valuable instructions, and after that the chickens began to lay eggs more intensely (conveyor - move faster, rice yields have increased). Listen - and you don’t need any “Humor-FM”. And, most importantly, you can hear them, the bastards, with an “A”! France would have been caught like that.

And if you know English, then HF broadcast is your home. Any international radio of any self-respecting country must broadcast in English, be it Angola, Brazil, or Japan. Not to mention those who are supposed to speak the language of Shakespeare “by state” - London or Canberra. On our air they thunder like the Soviet Information Bureau from a loudspeaker on a pole. Full of French and Spanish-language radio stations. So learn the language. Radio, by the way, is a good helper in this.

There is such a thing as the passage of radio waves. Passage on HF is very unstable. There are “dead zones”, there are fading, and atmospheric interference and the level of solar activity greatly affect audibility. The passage depends on the time of day. During the day, stations operating at high frequencies are clearly audible, at night - at low frequencies. For example, it is almost impossible to hear at night a station operating in the range of 13 meters (21450–21750 kHz), but on 49 (5950–6200 kHz) it is easy.

Therefore, radio stations create “floating” schedules: for an hour or two they broadcast on one frequency, the next two on another. Most foreign Russian-language radio stations go on air for 0.5–3 hours a day, and you need to know exactly when, otherwise you can turn the tuning knob until you are blue in the face, but you will never hear Spain. And this is where it is this season: on weekdays from 17:00 to 17:30 (UTC) on 15325 kHz.

In addition, the passage of radio waves differs at different times of the year, so there are two seasons in HF broadcasting - winter and summer. The first is from October 27 to March 27, the second is from March 27 to October 27. For these seasons, radio stations release schedules, which are usually published on their websites. Every year - new ones. Because life on the air does not stand still, some stations leave, some appear, frequencies are redistributed, and the winter schedule of 2009 may differ radically from the same one for 2011.

But there's no need to visit every radio station's website to compile these schedules. Such lists are compiled by diexist clubs all over the world. The lists are huge. All frequencies and all radio stations on Earth are represented there. We only need Russian speakers. Domestic “ether catchers” compile their own list. Previously, it was posted on many DX sites, but this hobby is slowly dying along with old fans, young people are more interested in iPhones and the Internet, so some resources are not updated, and now I found such a schedule only on one site. But in different versions - both in the form of a list of radio stations, and sorted by time and frequencies. Write down the address.

ARMENIA. YEREVAN- "International Radio of Armenia" - http://int.armradio.am/rus/ - Russian. editorial office (no broadcast?)
BELARUS. MINSK- Radio station "Belarus" - http://www.radiobelarus.tvr.by/rus/defau lt.asp - (Russian) Online.
BULGARIA. SOFIA- "Radio Bulgaria" - http://bnr.bg/sites/ru/Pages/default.asp x - Russian. ed. DXprogram, QSL reports, online.
VATICAN- "Radio Vatican" - http://www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org/ru s/index. . - Russian editor Everything about the Pope. Online, archive.
GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON- "BBC" - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/news/de fault.stm - Russian. editorial office Online, archive.
WORLDWIDE RADIO NETWORK- (WRN) - http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/st ation.php?StationID=63 - Broadcasting Russian-language radio from around the world according to the program.
VIETNAM. HANOI- “Voice of Vietnam” - http://english.vovnews.vn/ (English) “Here you can listen to the broadcasts of the Russian edition of the radio “Voice of Vietnam” by pressing VOV5. The Russian edition broadcasts from 16.30 to 17.00 and from 20.00 to 20.30 (GMT time)." summer 2010.
GERMANY. COLOGNE- "Deutsche Welle" - http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,1595,298,00.h tml - Russian. editorial office German lessons. Online.
GREECE. ATHENS- "Radio Filia" ("Friendship") - http://www.ert.gr/filia/index.php?lang=r u - Online
EGYPT. CAIRO. - "Radio Cairo" - http://www.ertu.org/radio/ - (Arabic only) Online.
ISRAEL. JERUSALEM- "Radio "REKA" - http://www.iba.org.il/world/?lang=ru - Russian edition. Online broadcasting. And the site http://www.intkolisrael.com/ - recordings of the latest broadcasts.
INDIA. DELHI- "All Indian Radio" - http://allindiaradio.org/schedule/eeurop e1.html - (English) schedule of Russian-language broadcasts. (no online broadcasting).
IRAN. TEHRAN- "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran" - http://www.russianradio.ir/ and http://russian.irib.ir/ - New website of the Russian radio editorial office. Online.
SPAIN. MADRID- "Radio Exterior de España" - http://blogs.rtve.es/emisionenruso/posts - Blog. Page in Russian. Russian edition. Audio programs in Russian are recorded at the link "Programas".
ITALY. ROME. - Radio "RAI" - http://www.international.rai.it/radio/mu ltilingue/presentazioni/russo.shtml - Russian. page. Internet broadcasting.
CANADA. MONTREAL- "RCI" - "Canadian Radio International" - http://www.rcinet.ca/russe/ - Russian. editorial office
CHINA. BEIJING- "China International Radio" - http://russian.cri.cn/ -Russian edition. Chinese language lessons. Online.
INTERNATIONAL RADIO BROADCASTING IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE- http://inoradio.50webs.com/
MOLDAVIA. KISHINEV- "International Radio of Moldova" - http://www.trm.md/index.php?add=10 - Russian edition page. Internet broadcasting only. Records.
MONGOLIA. ULAN BATOR- “Voice of Mongolia” - http://www.vom.mn/ru/ - Recorded programs, online.
MONACO. MONTE CARLO- "Transworld Radio" - http://twrradio.ru/ - Russian edition. The largest Christian broadcasting network in the world. "We're talking about God." Online.
UN.- "UN Radio" - http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/russia n/ - Broadcasting from UN headquarters in New York. Russian podcast.
POLAND. WARSAW- "Radio Polonia" - http://www.polskieradio.pl/zagranica/ru/ - Russian. Online, archive.
RUSSIA. GROZNY- “Chechnya Free” and “Caucasus” - http://www.chechnyafree.ru/article.php?I BLOCK_ID=406 - Online.
RUSSIA. MOSCOW- "Voice of Russia" - http://www.ruvr.ru/ - "International Russian Radio" - Online broadcasting abroad.
RUSSIA. MOSCOW- "Radio of Russia" - http://www.radiorus.ru/ - All-Russian broadcasting.
RUSSIA. MOSCOW- "Mir" - http://mirtv.ru/ - Interstate television and radio company "Mir". Commonwealth News.
ROMANIA. BUCHAREST- "Interradio Romania". - http://www.rri.ro/index.shtml?lang=9 - DX Club, online.
NORTH KOREA. PYONGYANG- no data...
SERBIA. BELGRADE- "Voice of Serbia" - http://glassrbije.org/R/ - Online.
SYRIA. DAMASCUS- "Radio Damascus" - http://www.rtv.gov.sy/ (in Arabic). Entries in Russian. : http://www.syriaonline.sy/radio.php
SLOVAKIA. BRATISLAVA- "International Radio of Slovakia" - http://www.slovakradio.sk/inetportal/rsi/c ore.php?lang=5&page=spravy&katID=24 - Russian edition. Archive of DX broadcasts by T. Krasnopolskaya, recorded broadcasts.
USA. WASHINGTON- "Voice of America" ​​- http://www1.voanews.com/russian/news/ - news, podcast, online, English lessons.
- http://www.govoritamerika.us/rus/ - news, video, online (?)
- http://community.golosameriki.us/ - "Voice of America Community".
- http://community.livejournal.com/golos_a meriki - Community in "livejournal"
- http://vkontakte.ru/id46126677 - "In Contact"
USA.(h/w Prague) - "Radio Liberty" - http://www.svobodanews.ru/ - Russian edition. Online, posts, forum.
- http://www.armenialiberty.org/section/ru ssian/949.html - "Radio Azatutyun" - (broadcasting to Armenia) Russian page.
- http://www.azadliq.org/section/azadliq_r us/952.html - "Radio "Azadliq" - (thing for Azerbaijan) Russian page. Online.

(MRK) was created on December 3, 1941. This is the only state radio in China that broadcasts to foreign countries. Its main goal is to introduce China to the world, introduce China to the world, make people of different countries friends with each other, and deepen understanding and friendship between the people of China and the whole world.

As of the end of 2007, Radio China International's programs could be heard in 53 languages ​​for 1,200 hours a day. In 2007, RTOs received 2.6 million letters and emails from 160 countries and regions. RTO has more than 3,100 radio listener clubs all over the world. Radio China International has already become one of the largest international radio stations. RTO programs are broadcast not only on short waves. In recent years, much has been done to increase the volume of broadcasts rebroadcast abroad and effectively improve their audibility.

As of the end of 2007, Radio China International operated 11 FM and medium wave radio stations overseas. Chinese radio broadcasts were broadcast through 149 foreign radio stations with which RTOs cooperate. Including through 117 FM radio stations and 32 medium wave radio stations. The volume of transmissions amounted to 556.5 hours per day. In February 2006, Radio China International opened its first overseas FM radio station in Nairobi Kenya (FM91.9). On November 19, 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Lao PDR President Choumaly Sayasong attended the opening ceremony of the radio station MRK (FM93.0) in Vientiane, Laos.

Currently, China Radio International has 5 divisions for domestic broadcasting: news radio (CRI NEWS RADIO, in Beijing, FM90.5), English radio (EASY FM, in Beijing FM91.5), music radio (HIT FM, in Beijing FM88.7), foreign language teaching radio (AM1008/AM846) and Olympic radio, which broadcasts in 9 languages ​​(CRI OLYMPIC RADIO, AM900). Every day, about 120 hours of radio programs are produced and broadcast in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Lhasa, Hefei, Lanzhou, Xiamen, Yantai and other big cities in China.

CRI Online is the website of China Radio International on the World Wide Web, which is one of China's leading multilingual information websites. To date, it publishes materials in 53 languages. Every day on this site you can listen to programs with a total volume of 263.5 hours, the audience is more than a million listeners. In September 2007, CRI Online officially opened 11 online radio sites, where you can listen to broadcasts in 9 languages.