Welcome to the jungle

For those who are interested in a copy of my list: I removed the "no right-mouse click". Just paste the three pages to a text file and save it. Enjoy. The next update is planned at the end of August. Some users on the shortwave use the same frequency for years so I will implement the years 2005 till 2008 in one list but first I go on a long holiday.

On a daily base millions of people listen to stations like the BBC World Service, Voice Of America, Deutsche Welle, Radio Moscow and other radio stations around the world. Now, when you turn the knob on you radio and you want to change frequency you can also find other, strange, signals.

Radio stations, like the BBC, are broadcasting in AM mode. When you can hear people talk but it makes no sense, it's probably SSB (USB/LSB). There's also CW (Morse code), RTTY (Meteo), ALE, ARQ, FEC, FAX, CODAN, PACTOR and many more. To "decode" these signals you need a computer and some decoder software like Hoka's CODE300-32, Wavecom's W61PC or W61LAN or SKYSWEEPER PRO from SkySweep Technologies. But be careful, these programs are very expensive. The latest from Hoka costs 7000 Euro's and the W61-LAN from Wavecom is 7400 Euro's. SkySweeper is the cheapest. You can buy this one for the price of 289 Euro's. Or try GOOGLE and search for "decoder or decoding software"

There are also thousands of "utility stations". Coast Guards from around the globe, Embassy's, various Military stations, police and coastal station like Bern Radio from Switzerland, Gothenburg Radio from Sweden and even Perth Radio from Australia.  But don't let me fool you. You can not decode all the signals on the hf-band. Many signals are in crypto. In other words : the broadcaster changed the tones/bits/bytes from his signal and the receiving station is the only one who will have readable text on his PC.

This website gives you a clear view when you want to discover the frequency jungle called "the shortwave". The frequency's on this site are monitored by the members of the UDXF shortwave monitoring group. This site is not a part of the UDXF web-pages. For information about shortwave monitoring, used equipment, antenna's and more, please visit the UDXF site at www.UDXF.nl and become a free member.

When you buy a "shortwave radio" don't forget the antenna. There are several antenna's, good an bad. You can decide to make one yourself from some electric wire (let's say 20 meters) or you can buy one like the ALA 1530 from Wellbrook. It's up to you.

If you are a shortwave enthusiast and you monitored some frequency's and you want to share them with other shortwave listeners don't hesitate, put them in a log file in this order : Frequency, Call, User, Mode, Time, Date, Abbreviation and your name and send them (if you are not a member of the UDXF group) to my e-mail address. When you are a broadcast listener you can do the same : Frequency, Station, Mode, Time, Date, Language, your location and name.

And last but not least. For more information about shortwave radio's, ham-software, decoding software, dx-groups etc etc go to the LINK PAGE. For webmasters who wish to have they're link on my page send an e-mail to the address below. Happy dx'íng