WORLD OF RADIO #1102, produced Oct. 24, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *On Sunday, Oct. 28 most SW broacasters change frequencies and/or times; see last few weeks of DX Listening Digests for new schedules *Not all of our outlets have confirmed new times and frequencies yet but tentative timeshifted schedules for WOR, COM and MR are at https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/radioskd.html *WBCQ, WWCR, WRN, and our AM and FM outlets shift us one UT hour later *WBCQ: UT Thursdays 0030 and 0515 on 7415 *WWCR: Thu 2130 15685, Fri 1030 9475, Sat 0300 3215, Sun 0330 5070, Sun 0730 3210, Mon 0100 3215, 0600 3210, Tue 1200 15685 *WRN: Sat 1500 to NAm, 0900 to elsewhere (tentatively) *RFPI keeps us at same UT all year, but seems one hour earlier by local clock in areas going off DST; still awaiing revival of 7445 with a new antenna; reports wanted for current 24h test on 15040 *DX Program list by John Norfolk updated frequently: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html *BBC WS changes affecting North America are contradictory; Antigua changes in mornings from 17 to one or two 15 MHz *Antigua`s 300 degree heading listed by Merlin actually crosses Miami, Crawford and Los Angeles, in reality to southern NAm! *WYFR and Delano relays for ``Mexico`` leave 11 MHz for 9 and 6 *BBC decides to let Alistair Cooke continue Letters from America *RVi Belgium new English schedule, all from relays *R. France Internationale complete new schedule in English *RDP International, Portugal orders new 300 kW SW transmitter and antennas for next year, from Thales, new conglomerate in France which has consumed many electronics firms *Austrian Radio new B-01 schedule to North America *R. Budapest, complete new English schedule *R. Prague, English to North America again in morning, several times in evening and via WRMI one hour later *R. Ukraine International new English schedule including which frequency carries the megmawatt *R. Bulgaria complete new English schedule all in xxx00 kHz *Azerbaijan has new website including audio streaming, http://www.aztv.az *V. of Turkey dedicating its Oct. 27 DX Corner to Gigi Lytle, who died about a year ago, Sat 2210 on 11845, but repeat could be at 0310 on 9655 or 0410 on new 6020 *Thanks to Tom McLaughlin, in memoriam Gigi Lytle, for financial support to World of Radio *V. of Turkey English schedule, complete *WOR 1102, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA: wghauser@hotmail.com and website https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Israel Radio winter frequencies in English, including 6 instead of 11 MHz from mid-December to end of February *DX Listening Digest appearing almost every day, taxing my time and resources; refer to all recent issues for extensive coverage of the Afghanistan situation *Pronouncing Tal`ban and Al Qa`ida with glottal stops *Information Radio, the US PsyOps transmission on 8700-USB: missing occasionally, perhaps due to weather; speculation about its location; could be two separate sites morning and evening; CRW has evidence that it is Turkmenistan. Professionals and/or amateurs should have triangulated actual location by now *Why strange frequency 8700? PsyOps may have relied on mistaken Afghan report last July showing 8700 instead of 7080 for V. of Shariah *QSL address for Commando Solo: Lt. Edward E. Shank, 193rd Special Operations Wing, 81 Constellation Court, Middletown PA 17057; tapes accepted *Info Radio MW frequencies confirmed, but never reported by DXers; third airborne MW frequency is relaying VOA and RFE/RL *Balkh Province MW outlet, only Taliban station, monitored by BBCM *But report says Taliban have set up five temporary stations; and another report from Taliban claims 1 kW mobile transmitter on the air one hour per day in afternoons (no frequencies) *For another perspective on this, differing from mainstream media, listen to Freespeech Radio News via RFPI, UT 0000, 0600 and 1200 *Cambodia reported reactivated on 11 MHz band *RKI relays via Canada will be one hour not only during new evening broadcast, but morning too *Five technicians fired from RCI Sackville site, making it more dangerous for those left, around high voltage, no buddy system; see http://www.geocities.com/rciaction -- And four RCI staff in Montreal reassigned to CBC Domestic *Steve Anderson of UPR: see Loren Cox`s story in DXLD 1-154; police car he allegedly tried to cut in half with gunfire held offduty cop`s girlfriend who was injured; $5000 reward *Rush Limbaugh accuses liberals of infecting selves with anthrax; where`s the outrage against him? *Iowa City X-bander heard on 4th harmonic clashing with Pyongyang *V. of Nigeria heard erratically on 15 MHz outlet *Mauritania has been running all night on 60m, even before Ramadan *Channel Africa, South Africa, complete new English schedule *LRA36, Antarctica, still on air, per report from Russia *Colombian broadcaster studio-transmitter links on 300 MHz relayed to Europe by mistake 50 MHz lower over US military Fleetcom satellites *RFPI invites participants to four 10-week study courses in Costa Rica, starting January 6; details at http://www.rfpi.org/ipc.html *And RFPI does interactive workshops on racism in the media at North American universities, community groups *R. Miskut, Nicaragua, still low power on SW, but also has X-bander *Australian media site refers to Christian Voice instead as ``Voice International`` *Grove Enterprises says SW receiver sales have doubled or tripled *Universal also selling more, and Ten-Tec RX-350 coming in December *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Oct. 23; flux range 220-170-245 *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding with a Standard disclaimer, World of Radio 1102 ###