British DX Club

Articles Index

DX / Media / Mailbag Programme Guide

A club-compiled list giving times and frequencies for programmes of interest to DXers and radio enthusiasts. Updated April 2018.

Africa on Mediumwave & Shortwave

A comprehensive country-by-country guide to domestic and external broadcasts from Africa, including selected opposition and target broadcasts to the African continent. The document is in pdf format. April 2018.

• Africa on MW & SW

Broadcasting in Afghanistan

A comprehensive guide to shortwave and mediumwave broadcasts to and within Afghanistan. The document is in pdf format. Updated April 2018.

• Broadcasting in Afghanistan

External Services on Medium Wave

A frequency-order guide to external services on medium wave from stations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Also includes some foreign and minority-language programming carried on domestic MW services. Updated November 2017 (A18 guide to be available soon.)

• External Services on Medium Wave

LPAM / RSL / Community Radio Mediumwave Log

A compilation of logs of UK mediumwave Special Event, Restricted Service Licence, Low Power AM, Community Radio and Irish Temporary Licence mediumwave logs as reported to BDXC's monthly journal "Communication". Updated April 2018.

• UK & Ireland mediumwave LPAM / RSL / CR Log

Middle East & Caucasus on Mediumwave and Shortwave

A comprehensive guide to short and mediumwave radio stations in the Middle East and Caucasus. In country order, pdf format. Updated April 2018.

• Middle East on MW & SW

South Asia on Mediumwave and Shortwave

A handy guide to shortwave radio stations in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. In frequency order, pdf format. Updated April 2018.

• South Asia MW & SW

UK on Shortwave

An hour-by-hour guide to shortwave broadcasts from UK transmitter sites. Now includes full BBC World Service schedule.

• UK on Shortwave

Radio Museums in the UK & Ireland

A guide to radio museums and other attractions featuring old radio equipment, together with opening times and admission details. Updated July 2017.

BDXC Communication Historical Archive

The club was founded in 1974 as TDXC and to celebrate our 40th anniversary we have scanned some of our very first issues from 1974. Unfortunately issue No 2 is missing from the archive as there are no known copies.

• Communication No1 - Sept. 1974
• Communication No3 - Nov. 1974
• Communication No4 - Dec. 1974
• Communication No 478 - Sep. 2014 - 40th anniversary of BDXC

Selected Articles

Selected articles from BDXC Communication magazine.

• Visit to Woofferton transmitter site NEW!
• Tracing Radio Berlin International
• Brookmans Park transmitter site

EDXC Conference Reports

Reports on recent conferences of the European DX Council by BDXC members. Updated September 2017.

• EDXC Conference 2017 - Tampere, Finland
• EDXC Conference 2016 - Manchester, UK
• EDXC Conference 2015 - St Petersburg, Russia
• EDXC Conference 2014 - Tende and Nice, France
• EDXC Conference 2013 - Figueira da Foz, Portugal and Lisbon visit
• EDXC Conference 2012 - Ochsenkopf, Germany and Berlin visit
• EDXC Conference 2012 - visit to Konigs Wusterhausen radio museum
• EDXC Conference 2009 - Dublin, Ireland
• EDXC tour 2009 - Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio, Howth, Co Dublin
• EDXC Conference 2008 - Vaasa, Finland
• EDXC tour 2008: Latvia - Riga, Ulbroka and VEF factory
• EDXC tour 2008: Lithuania - Sitkunai, Vilnius and Jamming

Sheigra DX-peditions

Reports and loggings from the various trips made to Sheigra in north west Scotland by BDXC-UK members:

• November 2017 NEW!
• November 2016
• March 2015
• October 2013
• October 2012
• October 2011
• October 2009
• Sept-Oct 2008
• October 2007
• November 2004
• November 2002
• March 2002 - DXpedition to Skye and Sheigra
• February/March 2001
• November 2000
• November 1999
• November/December 1998
• January 1998
• February 1997

Offshore Radio Articles

Articles from BDXC Communication magazine about offshore radio.

• Mebo II timeline 1977-1980
• Visit to Red Sands Radio
• History of Red Sands Fort
• Radio Mercur - Europe's first offshore station

Africa Reports

African DX reports from BDXC member Chris Greenway in Nairobi, Kenya and other articles about African radio.

• The Moyabi Story (History of the high power SW transmitter site at Moyabi, Gabon. Updated Feb 2017)
• Cameroon SW - (Brief history of shortwave broadcasting in Cameroon. Jan 2012)
• Radio Hargeisa - (History of Radio Hargeisa, Voice of the Republic of Somaliland. May 2008)
• Jan 2009 (African shortwave observations)
• Nov 2002 (Visit to Kenyan SW transmitter sites, African SW updates)
• Aug 2002 (Kenyan Television)
• Mar 2002 (SW from Malawi, Benin, Niger and WorldSpace news)
• Feb 2002 (Visit to Ghana Broadcasting Corp. SW transmitter site)
• Feb 2002 (Nairobi FM update, SW from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Somalia)
• Oct 2001 (Nairobi SW, FM, WorldSpace update)
• Sep 2001 (Nairobi FM band, African SW news, Somali update)
• Sep 1988 (Clandestine update - Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia)
• Apr 1987 (Tropical band propagation, the 90m band in Nairobi)
• May 1987 (African clandestines: the Ethiopia-Somalia conflict)
• Jul 1987 (Mediumwave bandscan from Nairobi)
• Sep 1987 (Clandestine update, the Ethiopia-Sudan "radio war")
• Oct 1981 (Dateline Cairo 6th October 1981: Sadat's assassination)

British Isles Radio Station Reference Lists

The most up-to-date comprehensive BDXC reference available is Radio Stations in the UK. However, we hope in time to maintain an equivalent on-line resource as soon as time permits.

What On Earth Is "DX"?

Go here for an introduction to what the hobby of "DXing" is all about

This page updated: 4 Apr 2018