News: +++ Unid african station heard in the afternoons on 7195 in English/French/local language. Likely not Uganda. +++
update news: 17 january 2010 update database: 30 january 2010

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What this page should contain:

A complete list of Subsaharan Africa Radio Stations broadcasting on Shortwave, frequencies, times, listening experiences...

What this listing definitely does not contain:

  • Stations from African countries north of the Sahara of course (except target broadcasts to other parts of Africa)
  • Stations from South Africa and Swaziland (with the same exception)
  • Non-African external service broadcasts via African relay sites (such as VoA Botswana, DW Kigali etc.)
  • Relays of international gospel stations via these sites
  • Target broadcasts to Africa via Non-African sites
  • stations I forgot, I don't know, ...

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Sources: A-DX, DX Listening Digest, BDXC, my own observations, contributions of various DXers [possibly including you]

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Selected links

BDXC - Africa on Shortwave In the "articles index" you will find a link to this detailed country-by-country list of SW broadcasts in Africa, including international relays and target radios, compiled by Tony Rogers.

Worldofradio Incl. DX Listening Digest - an almost daily bulletin of news from the world of radio

Media Network from Radio Netherlands

DXing.info News and Forums

ratzer.at A nice Austrian Radio page (German language)

SRS piracy

Interval Signals What you would have heard if there weren't that noises...

Fondation Hirondelle Establishing peace by broadcasting?

Radio Insurgente My favourite rebels. Also on SW 6000kHz from Chiapas, Southern Mexico.

Last but biggest: Radiokatalog für Deutschland, 
				Schweiz und Österreich. Radiomuseum mit über 
				25000 Radiomodelle und über 16000 Abbildungen. All about old German and much about other Radios