The largest and unique short wave database in the world covering all Broadcasting and UTILITY Stations
with last monitoring date (time stamp) and many further technical / signal details
ILGRadio since 1983 the whole short wave spectrum in one hand
UPDATE INFO:
A26 Season updates on a nearly daily basis: upload of September 20th 2026 (2105 UTC)
ILGRadio the unique daily digital newspaper of Broadcasting and UTILITY signals
ILGRadio Monitor Meter for September 2026:
Database of today with 88305 data sets with latest monitored and verified data entries of the current A26 season:
ALL DATA - Year 2026: 23790, Year 2025: 16139, Year 2024: 10893, Year 2023: 7025 data sets,
BROADCASTING - Year 2026: 6153, Year 2025: 1111, Year 2024: 313, Year 2023: 262 data sets,
UTILITY - Year 2026: 17637, Year 2025: 15028, Year 2024: 10580, Year 2023: 6763 data sets,
There are many stations that are received almost daily, but the list only notes them once a day !
more detailed latest statistics as of 5th September 2026 incl. also statistics of all the previous seasons
Important web pages for help: Explaining ILGRadio Data Fields and The Signal Types of the ILGRadio Database
ILGRadio as seen from others: Comments of satisfied ILGRadio Users over the years
with last monitoring date (time stamp) and many further technical / signal details
ILGRadio since 1983 the whole short wave spectrum in one hand
UPDATE INFO:
A26 Season updates on a nearly daily basis: upload of September 20th 2026 (2105 UTC)
ILGRadio the unique daily digital newspaper of Broadcasting and UTILITY signals
ILGRadio Monitor Meter for September 2026:
Database of today with 88305 data sets with latest monitored and verified data entries of the current A26 season:
ALL DATA - Year 2026: 23790, Year 2025: 16139, Year 2024: 10893, Year 2023: 7025 data sets,
BROADCASTING - Year 2026: 6153, Year 2025: 1111, Year 2024: 313, Year 2023: 262 data sets,
UTILITY - Year 2026: 17637, Year 2025: 15028, Year 2024: 10580, Year 2023: 6763 data sets,
There are many stations that are received almost daily, but the list only notes them once a day !
more detailed latest statistics as of 5th September 2026 incl. also statistics of all the previous seasons
Important web pages for help: Explaining ILGRadio Data Fields and The Signal Types of the ILGRadio Database
ILGRadio as seen from others: Comments of satisfied ILGRadio Users over the years
"ERGO" Version Abbreviations of ILGRadio Database
The Structure of ILGRadio Database for ERGO
ILG data entries and information are based on old and current monitoring experiences made over the last 40 years...
Exclusive ILG data fields are NA,CA,SA,EU,AF,ME,AS,AU,PA since 1989 and the usage is exclusively only allowed to use by ILG Database and not by any other software
Data as of January 2018
Files for ERGO are including only a few data fields (17 of original 40 fields) and some fileds are cutted.
All complete comprehensive data are in the "A" or "B" Version of ILGRadio.
Here you you can display data with all details and this can be imported e.g. with
old Microsoft Excel and Access with dBASE files
new Microsoft Excel and Access with CSV files
or
dBASE Viewer Software with dBASE files
ILG E DATA.dBF or ILG F DATA.dbf Files
Files for ERGO are including only a few data fields (17 of original 40 fields) and some fileds are cutted.
All complete comprehensive data are in the "A" or "B" Version of ILGRadio.
Here you you can display data with all details and this can be imported e.g. with
old Microsoft Excel and Access with dBASE files
new Microsoft Excel and Access with CSV files
or
dBASE Viewer Software with dBASE files
ILG E DATA.dBF or ILG F DATA.dbf Files
| Field_No. | FIELD_NAME | SIZE | DESCRIPTION | ADDITIONAL_INFORMATION | SPECIAL_ABBREVIATIONS |
| 1 | FREQ | 7 | Frequency in KHz | frequencies rounded for frequencies with decimal place | Carrier Frequency of Utilty Stations (see also for center frequency in last column) |
| 2 | STATION | 22 | Station with full name | Name according to the official station identification | External & International Services in capital letters and Home Services in small letters |
| 3 | UTC | 9 | Time in UTC "Universal Time Co - Ordinated" former GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) | LINK FOR DETAILS ":" (****:****) breaks in transmission, no constant signal "=" (****=****) extended or reduced times within given timeslot |
sign-on time of **59 minutes rounded by full hour
in various cases full-time broadcasts are divided in one hour blocks to make
ILG bandscans much more precisely
|
| 4 | DAYS | 7 | Days | given in ITU/HFCC format: 1: Sunday, 2: Monday ... 7: Saturday |
|
| 5 | LANGUAGE | 18 | Language of Programme | full name of language and dialect given | UTILITY Entries are starting with "DATE:" followed by details: CODES (Spy Radio) DATA (Data Transfer) EMAIL (E-Mail Transfer) FAX (Telefax) METEO (Weather Info) MORSE (CW) TELEX (Telegraphy) TIMES (Time Signals) VOICE (Traffic/Information) |
| 6 | GRAPHIC | 48 | Graphical Diagramm: the exact Occupation of each frequency is presented by the "Times by Lines" giving the Language of the broadcast. This is processed in a Time Scale of 24 hours with a precision of 30 minutes.
Exclusive ILG data field
|
If the transmitter is not on the air during ILGRadio publishing time only a line "------" is given instead ! |
Capital Letters: External / International Service
Small Letters: Home / Local Service
1: Sunday ... 7: Saturday
#: not daily
$: Monday-Friday
@:Monday-Saturday
=: Saturday/Sunday
?: inactive
-: standby (alternative)| : DRM
"!" is given at 6, 12 and 18 hours if this position is not used
|
| 7 | TARGET | 8 | Target Area | External Services: main taget with details (see right) e.g. AF, AS, AU, CA, EU, ME, NA, PA, SA Home Services: in brackets with ADM country code |
further description:
e = east n = north s = south, w = west
ne = north-east
nw = north-west se = south-east sw = south-west |
| 8 | LOCATION | 25 | Location of Transmitter Site | the name of the Transmitter Site or main town and home port of ships (airborne, coastguard, navy, seaborne) | |
| 9 | POWER | 7 |
Transmitter Power in kW (kiloWatt) |
Power rounded for kW with decimal place, for UTILITY stations correct power not confirmed in various cases | |
| 10 | AZI | 3 | Azimuth of Antenna |
1 - 360 degree
0 = non direction
|
ATTENTION: HFCC / ITU gives 0 or 1 for 360 degree north !!! |
| 11 | REMARKS | 15 | Remarks | further details -if not weekly -notes on observations -SPY RADIO |
Spy Radio: e.g. E06, E07, E11, E17, F01, F02, F03, F06, F11, G06, M01, M12, M14, S06, S11, V07, XPA |
| 12 | MOD | 1 | Modulation | LINK FOR DETAILS | AM: Amplitude Modulation DIG: Digital (various) DRM:Digital Radio Mondiale ISB: Independent Side Band LSB: Lower Side Band USB: Upper Side Band |
| 13 | NA | 2 | Target: North-America | "--" if not used | |
| 14 | CA | 2 | Target: Central America & Caribbean | "--" if not used | |
| 15 | SA | 2 | Target: South America | "--" if not used | |
| 16 | EU | 2 | Target: Europe | "--" if not used | |
| 17 | AF | 2 | Target: Africa | "--" if not used | |
| 18 | ME | 2 | Target: Middle East | "--" if not used | |
| 19 | AS | 2 | Target: Asia | "--" if not used | |
| 20 | AU | 2 | Target: Australia | "--" if not used | |
| 21 | PA | 2 | Target: Pacific | "--" if not used | |
| 22 | CIRAFZONES | 30 | CIRAF Zones | LINK FOR DETAILS | |
| 23 | STN | 5 | Name of Station in short version | ||
| 24 | ADM | 3 | Administration | 3 letter code of Aministration, official ITU Abbreviations LINK FOR DETAILS |
additionally listed Countries and Overseas Territories given with own ITU Code, e.g.
ALS: Alaska
ASC: Ascension AZR: Azores CNR: Canary Islands DGA: Diego Garcia
GIB: Gibraltar
GUF: Guyana HKG: Hong Kong HWA: Hawaii MRA: North.Mariana Isl.
MRT: Martinique
NCL: New Caledonia OCE: French Polynesia
REU: Reunion
TWN: Taiwan |
| 25 | COUNTRY | 18 | Country | "Geographical" Name of the country | ILGRadio gives countries as the world looks like |
| 26 | LONGI | 6 | Longitude | ILG gives degree and minute without dot and blank | old ILGRadio format |
| 27 | LATI | 5 | Latitude | ILG gives degree and minute without dot and blank | old ILGRadio format |
| 28 | REGION (old content) with new data of POSITION | 20 | Position of Transmitter Site with Longitude and Latitude | LINK FOR DETAILS | ILG gives GOOGLE EARTH compatible format with degree, minute and second. If Longitude and Latitude gives "00" for Seconds in both cases the transmitter site is not found so far. |
| 29 | P | 1 | Broadcast Typ | B = Public Stations (Broadcasting, Weather and Volmet Radio) N = Non-Public Stations (Government, Military, ...) |
|
| 30 | PROGRAM (old content) with new data of NOTES | 20 | Additional Information, Modulation Type | LINK FOR SIGNAL IDENTIFICATION AND DETAILS | some popular examples used for Utility transmissions: ALE MIL-STD 188-110A ALE MIL-STD 188-141A ARQ 100Bd/500 CCIR 493-4/100Bd/170 DSC FSK 100Bd/170 FSK 50Bd/200...500 HFDL ARINC 1800Bd LINK-11 MIL-STD 6011 MFSK-8 THALES S-3000 MPSK-12 AT3004D (M5) PACTOR-1 100Bd/200 PACTOR-2 100Bd/200 PACTOR-3 QPSK/***Bd/*** QPSK-63 SAAB GRINTEC MHF-50 SITOR-B 100Bd/170 STANAG 4481 75Bd/850 STANAG 4285/300...1200L STANAG 4538/FLSU T-206/50Bd/500 T-600/50Bd/200...250 WFAX 120/576 |
| 31 | STATUS | 1 | Status of Transmission | ILGRadio do not include FAKE (wooden) entries as listed in great number in the HFCC / ITU databases ! | C = confirmed, I = inactive, N = not confirmed, X = Info Data (data set for detailed language / dialect information) |
| 32 | YEAR | 4 | Monitoring Date with YEAR+MONTH | this information verifies that station is/was really on air | e.g. 1712 means monitored during December 2017 |
| 33 | CALL | 50 | Call Sign | BROADCASTING: Calls for broadcasting only in use within the USA UTILITY: station identification: transmitter sites, ships, mobile units |
UTILITY: - full call sign -call sign sets in use - part of call sign with wildcard ( "*" ) for network or variable call signs |
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ILG data entries and information are based on old and current monitoring experiences made over the last 40 years...
ILG data entries and information are based on old and current monitoring experiences made over the last 50 years...
Copyright by ILG Software - Bernd Friedewald (DK9FI)
Copyright by ILG Software - Bernd Friedewald (DK9FI)