Australian Football Association of North America

The best frequencies for general listening to Radio Australia at present are:

For example: 1600 means 4:00 PM and 0300 means 3:00 AM and 0001 UT Monday is 8:01 PM Sunday US EDT.  For times in standard time, adjust the local time back by one hour, so 2100-2200 UT is 4:00 to 5:00 PM EST.

All frequencies carry live footy on Friday nights / Saturday mornings US time beginning at 0310 UT or 11:10 PM EDT and continuing until 0700 UT or 3:00 AM EDT.  

Radio Australia is available on the web 24 hrs a day however, when the footy is on, the feed is blocked.  Net footy is only available via the AFL web site.

Radio Australia has weekday sports reports at:

On Weekends there are sports reports at:

The Sports Factor (sports and it's cultural impact) 
Every week at:

Note:  Due to atmospheric effects and the available frequencies not all reports may be heard in North America.  With the current low sunspot number, reception will vary from day to day and week to week.  

No "special" shortwave receiver is required but you will need one which covers as much of the shortwave spectrum as possible (at least 5000 kHz to 25000 kHz). At least as important is the antenna. An external, outdoor antenna is best -- but it doesn't have to be expensive -- often a simple grounded wire will make a big difference. A receiver in the $200 to $500 range will be more than adequate and allow easy tuning by frequency. An excellent resource is the Radio Netherlands web site which has lots of info on receivers, antennas, and more: http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/reference.html

  Note: 0000 = 12:00 MN so 2000 is 8:00 PM
 
  The Radio Australia web site is:
   http://www.abc.net.au/ra

AFANA thanks John Figliozzi and Radio Australia for assistance with this information.