WORLD OF RADIO #929, produced Feb 18, 1998 by Glenn Hauser *Pennsylvania PsyOps unit heads for the Gulf *Current MW, SW broadcast activity from Iraq *More on Nepal's harmonic, sites *V. of Mongolia trying to get unauthorized homepage deleted; real one is http://www.angelfire.com/biz/mrtv/index.html *CRI seems to have new transmitters going at Kunming *50-watt MW Japanese weather station QSLed in Oregon *ARDXC takes on QSLing duties for R. Australia *VORGAN, Angola, to close SW Feb 28, move to FM; CIA-supported *Kisangani may have been heard; tactical net nearby *Sierra Leone SW bombed off the air again *BBCM reasserts that V. of Free Nigeria comes from Africa *Standard disclaimer *929th W.O.R., Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; wghauser@hotmail.com fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser *Our website may change by March 1 from grove.net; until then, http://www.grove.net/~ghauser *Suggestions welcome for a good free place to move WOR website *New Spanish DX report from us from Feb 19 on WWCR, Thu 2200 and Fri 2215 on 9475 *R. Yugoslavia will be relayed via China and a US SW station *Awful noise on 17850 comes from Romania (recording) *Another different noise centered on 9640; anyone else hear it? *V. of Russia shifted 5 kHz *Budapest stays on same 31mb frequency for all English halfhours *BBCWS previews: Life on the Road; Stanzas on Stage *XERTA said to be about to start testing again *Letters still needed to R. Mil supporting separate SW service *English lesson heard from Ecuador *All the times for VOA's New Horizons *For oddities such as expanded AM band happenings see http://www.DXing.com *Another station has been authorized for 1700; a new one on 1620 [reported from Washington by Pete Taylor, not Pat Martin] *Special MW DX test from Nome, Alaska, March 2 *Solar flux has exceeded 100 again, despite predictions *Propagation outlook from Boulder Feb 17: below 100, low A & K *Outlook from Ottawa Feb 11: extremely quiet on March 3 *Glenn Hauser, concluding another W.O.R., No. 929; That's it--that's it for right now ###