English-language shortwave broadcasts for Asia and the Pacific, from international broadcasters, national stations and religious broadcasters, on the timelines of your cities and in your own time zone.
The region spans a third of the globe and the list is long. The BBC World Service covers South Asia and Indonesia; national broadcasters speak for their countries — Voice of Vietnam, Voice of Indonesia, China Radio International, KBS World Radio, Voice of Korea, Voice of Mongolia, NHK, Radio Taiwan International and All India Radio. In the Pacific, RNZ Pacific broadcasts around the clock from New Zealand and SIBC serves the Solomon Islands. Religious stations are a big part of the band: Trans World Radio, Reach Beyond Australia from Kununurra, KNLS from Alaska and Hope Radio from Palau.
Asia and the Pacific stretch over a dozen time zones, from UTC+5 in Pakistan to UTC+13 in Tonga, and New Zealand and Australia change their clocks in the opposite season to the northern hemisphere. A UTC schedule is hard to read across that span; this calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and shows each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.
Select a broadcast to see the station, its frequencies in kHz, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
The BBC World Service for South Asia and South East Asia, Voice of Vietnam, Voice of Indonesia, China Radio International, KBS World Radio, Voice of Korea, Voice of Mongolia, NHK, Radio Taiwan International and All India Radio, plus religious stations such as TWR, Reach Beyond Australia, KNLS from Alaska and Hope Radio from Palau.
RNZ Pacific broadcasts around the clock from New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC) has its own domestic shortwave service on 5020 kHz.
The BBC broadcasts English for South Asia and Indonesia mainly in the local early morning and evening, from relays in Oman, Uzbekistan and Madagascar. The timeline shows each broadcast at your local time.
Each broadcast has a Listen live link that opens the University of Twente WebSDR in the Netherlands, tuned to the frequency. Signals aimed at Asia and the Pacific are weaker there, so a receiver closer to the target area may work better.
In Shortwave. Perfect Clock — a world clock with your calendar across time zones.