ARCHIVE OF 2001 WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA SUMMARIES
WORLD OF RADIO #1111, produced December 26, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *In the new year, look for more and more of the newest info we have to offer at our new site http://www.worldofradio.com and bookmark it but don`t delete our old site yet, which has served us well for several years, http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *One new addition to worldofradio.com soon is a /calendar.html page, outgrowth of /holiday.html page, broadened *My Shortwave Year in Review appears again on VOA Communications World this week, first airing UT Saturday 0133 on 9455, repeated 4-hourly *Kim will also do two special VOA CW call-outs on New Year`s Day, Tuesday at 1433 and 1833 *America`s newest SW station heard testing Dec. 24-25, WWRB, Worldwide Radio Broadcasting, Manchester TN (recording, with address) *WWCR has been running holiday specials, including one thru Saturday 29th, Twelve Days of Christmas *WWCR has two specials on Islam airing January 1-6, schedule; see http://www.wwcr.com/cp20011211.html *Owner of WSM-AM and two other Nashville stations considering changes in format; listen to Grand Old Opry Saturday nights while you can *Public radio in Nashville, WPLN, paying $3 million for AM station to add news and talk *KRLD in Dallas going (almost) all-news January 7 *Cherokee-language show Saturday mornings on Tahlequah stations *CBC technicians reach agreement to end strike/lockout; see DXLD 1-204 for terms; if ratified, back to work December 31 *XERMX blocked on fundamental, heard on distorted spurs, including DX programs in English, Spanish; we update their program schedule for them *R. Maya de Barillas, Guatemala, on late Xmas eve; NY Eve too? *unID on 4470 may be third harmonic from Colombia *Explanation of R. Marias being heard via La Voz del Napo, Ecuador *R. Maranyon, Peru, active again on 60m and several reports of it, including classification of its musical format *Radiodifusora Comercial, new Peruvian, location unknown *R. Nacional, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina heard on 120m *BBC America Latina relay in Buenos Aires X-band missing, but a new one on 1710, Radio Mec, Caseros, Argentina *In decimal notation, this is the 1111th edition of World of Radio; wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *Thanks this week for financial support go to: John Babbis *A new clandestine for Zimbabwe called SW Radio Africa on 49m, based in UK, transmitter site unknown but unseems Madagascar, maybe South Africa; also on demand via website http://www.swradioafrica.com (recording) *R. Voice of Ethiopian Unity starts broadcasts via WZHF Arlington VA *Only two Somali SW stations reported active, R. Hargeisa, R. Banaadir *Strange as it seems, Yemen thinks Aden is most likely base for new US (television) satellite news channel in Arabic *R. Asia, new MW station believed from UAE heard in Punjab *R. Bayrak, Turkish Cyprus has two-minute window for DXing it in North America *R. Afghanistan reported getting new transmitter to cover 75% of the country *R. Voice of Afghanistan changed from London street address to: Afghanistan Broadcasting Company, P O Box 36467, London, UK EC2A 2YF; or P O Box 5459, Kabul *Congress OKs $19.2 million to set up R. Free Afghanistan by late Jan, to originate from RFE/RL Prague; moving three transmitters from Spain to Kuwait *R. Japan plans two special broadcasts: Dec. 29 Global Radio; and Dec. 31, Year-End Hit Parade, on many special frequencies; see DXLD 1-206 *Cambodia active again sporadically on 25 meters, no English heard *R. Reading Service, New Zealand, heard in USA on 75m, \\ RNZI *BBCWS Discovery Dec 28-Jan 1 on the Marconi Centenary; see DXLD 1-204 *Iceland again heard on shortwave, 13 MHz USB *R. Norway announced its foreign service closes at yearend, but from Jan 1 broadcasting all-news and first program home services; see http://www.nrk.no/radionorway *Fun, asocial way to spend New Year`s Eve is monitoring arrival of 2002, timezone by timezone on SW; or by websurfing, courtesy Media Network: http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/newyear2002.html *Eike Bierwirth`s Comprehensive B-01 shortwave schedule available at http://wwwstud.uni-leipzig.de/~pge98crf/bc-b01.txt or http://wwwstud.uni-leipzig.de/~pge98crf/bc-b01.doc *Propagation outlook from Boulder December 26; flux range 260-220-240 *Let us hope the New Year will be better for all of us *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1111 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1110, produced December 19, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Thanks for all the feedback on our battery-powered WOR last week; I identified it wrongly as 1108 instead of 1109; please listen now to the expanded and fixed-up version via the World Radio Network archive or the worldofradio.com archive *WOR added to Radio Lavalamp schedule, webcast only station in Osaka, four times each weekend; quick links via publicradiofan.com or direct URL http://www.rinku.zaq.ne.jp/bkaec205/index.html *Best wishes to William A. Matthews, stepping down from his DX reporting on Adventist World Radio, R. Korea International; replacing him are Victor Goonetilleke and Paul Ormandy *Iran, Pakistan, Denmark, Holland, and BBC offering aid in setting up broadcast facilities for Afghanistan; see recent DXLDs *V. of Mezopotamia, clandestine to Kurdistan, expands to 12 hours per day, same frequency, but switching sites from original Samara *Kol Yisrael made midwinter change from 11 to 6 MHz; also new 7 MHz channel for English *R. Bayrak, Turkish Cyprus, confirmed testing again on 6 MHz band *Congo DR about to start broadcasting on SW via Africa No. One, Gabon instead of activating its own SW transmitter, long in storage *Algerian longwave outlet reactivated on same frequency as Ireland *V. of Greece suddenly changes from 11 to 9 MHz via Delano, worse *AWR, Forli, Italy, missing lately, and plans to close after December 31; special QSLs for last two days; what about Argenta replacement? *R. Yugoslavia`s SW transmitter in Bosnia suspended for failing to pay electricity bill; in danger of damage with power off; confirmed? *DW`s English to Pacific and Asia via Antigua moves from 6 to 9 MHz *Special Xmas broadcast to North America from R. Tsentr, Russia, Dec. 23-24-25 UT; reports to letters@radiocentre.org or .net *BBC World Service times for HM the Queen`s Xmas Message to the Commonwealth *Just A Minute, zany panel game, back with new series replacing Brain of Britain; available on demand? *BBC On Air magazine moves program grids to separate folio insert *``I Want My BBC`` petition campaign to restore North American and Australian service as a New Year`s boon by The Queen; send name, full address, postal code, E-mail address to mark.coady@sympatico.ca Americans too as supporting petitioners; deadline Dec. 28. Or to I Want My BBC, c/o Mark Coady, 1038 Ward St., Bridgenorth, Ont., Canada K0L 1H0 *BBC Radio 3, webcast, repeating some Prom Concerts from last summer, starting Dec. 20 into January; see http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/broadcasts/repeats.shtml *WOR 1110, wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; our websites: http://www.worldofradio.com or http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Many thanks this week for financial support go to: James D. Strader *R. Denmark broadcast news in English, by computer mistake *Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Finland, has special Xmas broadcast for 24 hours from 2200 UT Dec 24; complex schedule of frequencies via http://www.swradio.net as well as coverage maps *Technicians` CEP union strike against CBC continues; see recent DXLDs; another union, CMG offers them financial support *Pacifica dispute settled at last; see DXLD 1-196, 1-197 but a WBAI program host was just suspended for discussing settlement *FCC authorizes hams to experiment on longwave frequencies as WC2XSR, but no contacts *Condolences to Allan Weiner of WBCQ whose father, Samuel S. Weiner, died last week *R. Pueblo, Dominican Republic, with classical music on 5 MHz *R. Maria de Colombia/Ecuador on 90 meters appears to be new user of La Voz del Napo transmitter; http://www.radiomariaecuador.org *Congratulations to HCJB on its 70th anniversary December 25 *HCJB DX Partyline updates website and now stores program audio on demand via: http://www.hcjb.org/english -- also Ham Radio Today *R. Maranyon, Peru, reactivated on 60 meters *Annual reminder that Xmas eve, New Year`s eve and vicinity are very good times to look for rare Latin American, African stations on later than usual or even reactivated for holidays *Weekly Antarctic traffic net on 15 meters also a DX opportunity *Bob Padula criticises Digital Radio Mondiale tests, excessive interference to analog broadcasters *Propagation outlook from Boulder, December 18; flux range 175-235 *With a standard disclaimer, *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1110 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1109, produced December 12, 2001 by Glenn Hauser [Note: the versions heard on WBCQ and WWCR are slightly different] *This week`s show almost didn`t make it because of a local power failure; most of the following program recorded on a battery- powered cassette *WWCR has cancelled our Tue 1200 and Sat 1230 broadcasts on 15685 *Metropolitan Opera delayed to Sunday on two webcasting Alaska stations, KUAC and KTOO. Links at http://www.publicradiofan.com *Links to holiday special schedules at many US public radio stations, and our selection, in DXLD 1-194; soon also at http://worldofradio.com/holiday.html *WFMT Chicago celebrating its 50th anniversary Dec 13 with special programming all day; http://www.networkchicago.com *KYW Newsradio 1060, Philadelphia, running sesquihour concert Friday night! But will the news ticker soundeffect continue? *Strike against CBC damages long-planned Marconi specials, but some segments still aired; much coverage in recent DXLDs *See our special Marconi site http://worldofradio.com/marconi.html *Did Marconi fake it, or was it really shortwave he heard? http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4317198,00.html *R. Rebelde, Cuba heard on numerous harmonics up to eleventh *R. Pueblo, Dominican Republic, just above WWV 5 MHz *New Ecuadorian on 90m, Centro Radiofonico de Imbabura, Ibarra *Exhaustive survey of Peruvian tropical band sign-on times and evening activity, by E. P. Povrzenic, in DXLD 1-192 *LRA36, Antarctica, off in November, is again being heard *New UN network in Congo DR is to be called R. Okapi, starting in January *Eritrean clandestine on 13m is not V. of the Horn, but of the Millennium, in translation mixup *R. Norway closing down shortwave at yearend, plus megawatt mediumwave but still obligated to relay Denmark *Concern about powerline communications blocking radio reception in Sweden; see DXLD 1-191 and 1-193 *The sun has set and now we`re reading our notes by flashlight *Croatian Radio, Zagreb`s peculiar timing of English segments; never activated invasion of 40m hamband to North America *Past the midpoint of WOR 1109 [NOT 1108, as I said!]; our address, wghauser@hotmail.com -- not yahoo; fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser; see our two websites http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ and http://www.worldofradio.com/ *V. of Greece shifted 2 kHz for North America to avoid Norway *R. Oman`s English broadcasts replaced by Arabic; will they be back shortly after Ramadan? *R. Tashkent, Uzbekistan`s English schedule *R. V. of Afghanistan, from London via CIS, thought to have switched site early from Moldova to Samara, perhaps Irkutsk; also doubled output to half and hour in each language, rather than a quarter hour each, repeated *Information Radio, Commando Solo, still heard, and added Arabic *China Radio International workers urged to follow the party line; full text in DXLD 1-194 *Yushu PBS, new provincial station in Qinghai, started this month *AC power finally came back on during above item *Everest Radio, non Nepal, new schedule; http://www.everestradio.co.uk *FCC denies Samoa`s 2AP permission to operate in American Samoa *International Reply Coupons get new upgraded design from January *Last minute items: R. Bayrak, Turkish Cyprus, confirmed back on 6 MHz *Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, heard on new 60m frequency *Propagation outlook from Boulder Dec. 11; flux range 210-175-235 *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1109 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1108, produced December 5, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Frequent updates to our schedule as RFPI adjusts its usage; see especially http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/radioskd.html *Now on http://www.worldofradio.com are updates of DX and Media programs, and Nets to You; quick links at homepage *Also under construction is a special temporary page on special programs and transmissions for the Marconi centennial around Dec. 12, http://www.worldofradio.com/marconi.html *WRMI`s long-publicized EDXC special UT December 12 is now in doubt, with posting of a new program and frequency schedule at http://wrmi.net as it greatly expanded Christian programming *KPH and K6KPH plan another special for Marconi centennial; see http://www.radiomarine.org *W1AA/CC, Marconi Radio Club Dec 11-16 from Cape Cod; see http://www.qrz.com/database?callsign=w1aa *Italians using special calls during December *German LF special from weather station, DDH47 http://www.dwd.de/services/gfsf/sf100y.html *Royal Navy Thunder Squadron re-enacts Marconi`s DX from Cornwall to Newfoundland, 1606-1800 kHz spark gap: http://www.atlantic-leap.org and GB100GM on hambands: http://www.mulliononline.com or specifically http://www.mulliononline.com/CLUBS/GB2GM/radio%20club%20front%20page/gb2gm.htm *VE3BBN in Ontario plans spark gap special on 80 meters *The Great Eastern comes back for a Marconi special *Part of Tuning the World interactive special on CBC: http://www.tuningtheworld.com and Planet Radio on This Morning, Cross Country Checkup *R. New Zealand has Marconi special on Sounds Historical *ABC has special day combining all its networks; commemorative CD *KAIM, Hawaii`s only 50 kW AM station, from Molokai, going dark at yearend to protect KRLA in California *V. of Korea using bands no higher than 11 MHz this winter; see http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~ndxc/nk.htm *Ramzan specials alter Kashmiri SW schedule *Adrian Peterson background on all Pakistani SW transmitters in DXLD 1-190: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/dxld1190.txt *Interview with founder of R. Voice of Afghanistan: hopes to operate from Afghanistan itself, add English and Arabic; has English PR person. Listen: http://193.171.50.209:8080/ramgen/roi/intermedia/jalal.ra *Russia wants to revive megawatt MW in Tajikistan, for Afghanistan *Commando Solo still heard, but no SW direct from Kabul *The suspicious Wolfgang Bueschel suggests US secret services behind many clandestines in propaganda wars *Can Afghan language find speakers in US? Miami Herald, Nov. 26 http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/broward/digdocs/115266.htm *Standard disclaimer *WOR 1108, wghauser@hotmail.com -- please do not use our yahoo address. http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio *Thanks this time for financial support go to: Bill Flynn *Yemen appears to have two different SW transmitters on slightly different frequencies, one weak, one strong *Bayrak Radio, Turkish Cyprus, resumed testing on 6 MHz band, more from Dec 10; reports wanted to mustafa.tosun@emu.edu.tr *Nobel Week in Sweden with special coverage culminating December 10 *R. Polonia wants to stay on SW, but get better coverage, lower costs via Germany or Slovakia *Deutsche Welle Intendant foresees cutback from 29 to only five major languages: ``We cannot serve the whole world.`` *Salama Radio, Christian from UK to Nigeria, still heard, on 12 MHz; http://www.salamaradio.org website found extremely uninformative *RTNC, DR Congo in exchange agreement with Africa Number One, Gabon *Argentine DXer can no longer hear LRA36, Antarctica, nor do they answer their phone; so is it closed down for good? When to listen *New Chilean appears on same frequency as new Uruguayan, Radio Parinacota, 24 hours from Putre, address Casilla 82, Arica, and relays Cooperativa for four hours *R. Mosoj Chaski, Bolivia, expanded hours, both morning and evening *R. San Antonio, new Peruvian from Villa Atalaya, now monitored on 60m *Two Colombian MW harmonics within 10 Hz of each other, Radio Garzon and Emisora Punto Cinco *Intriguing unID near 2380 relaying VOA and Spain in Spanish *RFPI`s latest known frequency schedule on 15 and 7 MHz *R. Liberacion, CIA clandestine for Guatemala in 1954, subject of 25- minute report on Dec 1 This American Life; see DXLD 1-187 and hear: http://www.thislife.org/ra/200.ram *Radio Free Texas, micropower FM, http://www.rpmradio.net *All Things Considered feature on KDKA and Frank Conrad`s garage: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011130.atc.06.ram *1710 kHz Jewish station heard by many is Lubavitcher Radio, probably in Brooklyn; check http://www.chabad.org or http://www.radiomoshiach.org *Look out for Weirdly Cool, special from Firesign Theatre this month, as PBS pledge special; extensive list of outlets in DXLD 1-188 *26 MHz French TV link comes from CKTM, Trois Rivieres, Quebec *Strike threatened against CBC, deadline postponed to noon December 6 *World Radio TV Handbook 2002 published December 7; publisher admits past inaccuracies, and promises a great improvement from now on; please report any mistakes to wrthdir@aol.com *Thomas Giella says high solar flux depresses MW and tropical band propagation with greater D-layer absorption *He has also started posting a weekly mediumwave propagation outlook at http://64.176.157.9/kn4lf6.htm *Propagation outlook from Boulder, December 4; flux range 225-185-225 *And so concludes another World of Radio, #1108; I`m Glenn Hauser ### WORLD OF RADIO #1107, produced Nov. 28, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *RFPI resumed using 7445, but on USB, not AM, late at night *WWCR frequency plans affecting us: staying on 15685 Thu at 2130, and on 3210 2200-1100, including WOR Friday 1030, and Mundo Radial Friday 2215 [then we heard that 9475 may come back after all...] *WINB reported testing on 9475 after Egypt is off *WWCR added another program directed at Muslims, by a convert to Christianity, ``Jihad in Light of the Koran and Hadith`` *December 12th is Marconi 100th anniversary; lots of specials, to be covered next week *W1AW has specials before then honoring 80th anniversary of trans- Atlantic tests; 40th anniversary of Oscar I *WLW 700 monitored on numerous harmonics up to 8th *unID on 1710 with Jewish programming, micropower from Brooklyn? *Special MW DX test, Sunday morning Dec. 2, WPRI268, Lancaster, MA on 1620 kHz; wpri268@aol.com or 25 Blodgett St., Orange, MA 01364 *Progress in Pacifica dispute, formation of new compromise board *MeasureCast says classical WQXR is top-rated webcaster; the rest of the top 5 including KING *Chicago`s classical, fine arts station WFMT celebrating 50th anniversary with special programming through December 13th; check http://www.wfmt.com *Antenna seminar on a MARS net UT Sundays, AAR2BV moderator *RCI has a new director-general, a low-key change, Jean Larin, expected to promote news coverage, replacing Denis Doucet *RFI`s director Jean-Paul Cluzel gets a second 5-year term as labor unions strike to preserve arrangements in face of shift to digital *David Page promotes a blooper show on Dec. 2 Club 95-16, RFI *Computed coverage maps, including back radiation, for RFI in English: http://www.uwasa.fi/~jpe/rfi/dec01/ *French 25 MHz signals from La Rochelle now identified by Stephane Veron, DX Listening Digest reader from info in Journal Officiel, http://www.csa.fr -- one watt each from 37 different sites on five frequencies with tourist info. If you have Quicktime, see http://tif.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/2000/12561001.tif http://tif.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/2000/12562001.tif http://tif.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/2000/12563001.tif and http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr *Unsolicited testimonial: if it were not for DXLD, this may never have been identified *Via SW, MW, FM, cable, satellite, internet, WOR 1106 [sic! I mean 1107], wghauser@hotmail.com (not .yahoo.com) or fax 1-580-233-2948 attention Hauser; website http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Catering company signs 150 megapound deal to feed 20 kilostaff at BBC London, Scotland *Another monthly DX special from Scandinavian Weekend Radio starts UT Friday November 30 at 2200 for 24 hours: http://www.swradio.net *R. Finland explains situation of English broadcasts; no immediate plans to cut; see DXLD 1-178 *SRI died some years ago when it gutted its English production staff *DW`s expensive new website gets more negative reviews *R. Polonia considering using external relays, e.g. to Kazakhstan *R. Minsk, Belarus` now has English and German broadcasts on demand at website http://www.tvr.by/Files_eng/General_e.htm *Best frequencies for V. of Greece in eastern North America *Blocked in NAm by supersignal from Chile, but audible in Europe: new clandestine for Eritrea, Voice of the Horn; audio clips at http://www.21mhz.com sound like Sawt al-Qarn, Malahi Voice. See http://www.voice-of-eritrea.com with confused political position *New SW station reported at Boorama, Somalia on ``5.5 MHz`` *Somalia`s internet link with rest of world cut off, causing anxiety *Radio Comoros, formerly on SW, starting webcasting via http://mediakom.free.fr/docson/pgesinfo/referendum.html *R. Jordan stronger than usual, overpowering teletype; English notes *R. Georgia in English monitored in Alberta *Iran started new Arabic ``V. of Al Aqsa Intifadah from Teheran`` instead of ``Hebrew`` service *Much more about R. Voice of Afghanistan, first heard here last week; see all recent issues of DX Listening Digest. BBCM got press release with phone number, and it started announcing as from London. Founder Said Jalal Karim gives background, plans, transmitter site; website not yet up will be http://www.afghanbroadcasting.net Afghan Broadcasting Company, 21 Worship St., London, UK EC2A 2DW; QSLs planned; afbc9950@hotmail.com *Commando Solo still being heard; IDs caught in Dari and Pashtu: Radyo-e Ma'ulumat, Ma'ulumat-i Radio *China Radio International celebrating 60th birthday December 3 *Taiwan`s exhaustive SW schedule in DXLD 1-183 *RNZI running shows on Maori music, band programme *Also in DXLD 1-183: an exhaustive study of varying sign-on times of Bolivian tropical-band stations *Bolivia also unlikely site for a new Globe Wireless CW coastal station, CPK, with frequencies 17 thru 26 MHz *Stereo Carrizal, Ecuador, reactivated for tests on 90m *Split MW frequency from Guantanamo, Cuba with fuzzy audio *R. Liberte, Haiti is programmed from NY by Serge Beaulieu at the UN, fmliberte@aol.com and streaming planned via http://www.cnsnews22.com [corrected URL] *Long-discontinued Yaesu FRG-100 still available, on sale at Universal *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Nov 27; flux range 220-175 *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1107 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1106, produced November 20, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *RFPI has started streaming live from studios, including WOR and COM; see http://www.rfpi.org or directly via http://195.210.0.134:554/ramgen/encoder/rfpi.rm *RFPI resumed 7445 kHz, at least for tests on USB *WWCR had to juggle Brother Stair frequencies, but also impacting #1 carrying us. Mundo Radial Fri 2215 may be able to resume 9475 [but less likely for WOR Friday 1030, still on 3210] *Spain missing from 90mb this season, so WWCR need not shift 5 kHz *WRN1 and hence WOR no longer audible via C-SPAN satellite and cable *Second broadcast of WOR on WBCQ 7415, UT Thursday 0600 started late last week, so stay tuned *WBCQ reports large increase in listenership; Smithsonian Magazine has full-page ad for Grundig 800 *WBCQ has new Jewish program, Spiritual Dimensions, Tuesday nights *Grunding says SW radio sales soared after Sept. 11 by 500 percent *Help for new SWLs: links to international broadcasters via http://wrth.itgo.com/intbcers1.html *Nagoya DX Circle has English schedules page: http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~ndxc/b01ex.htm *Bro. Stair says another 24h SW transmitter is under construction for him, but where? WBCQ? *Homefront Radio Network launched, for armed forces abroad; but it`s really just another program on Live365.com See http://www.homefrontradio.com *Mexican listener tipped us on new R. V. of Afghanistan on 9 MHz; we taped the hour and present clips: includes IDs in at least two languages, Pashtu, Dari; dramatic poem. Not a Taleban outlet, but exact ID, studio and transmitter location, and sponsors yet to be determined; most likely from outside Afghanistan; much more info forthcoming in latest DX Listening Digests *R. Afghanistan, Kabul, reported back on MW frequencies locally, via mobile transmitter; NPR had report about this including ID, but not the same as on 9 MHz band: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011119.atc.02.ram *NY Times reports on resumed Jalalabad station with poetry, music: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/20/international/asia/20RADI.html *R. Free Afghanistan, US-sponsored, still not ready. See http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR02998:@@@X *Proposal to move closed SW transmitters from Spain to Kuwait for this *High Adventure will broadcast to Allied Forces in SW Asia, and Urdu *HCJB announced plans to broadcast in Dari to Afghanistan, via relay? *UAE Radio, Dubai, off-frequency on three different bands *Live from Turkey weekly call-in moved to earlier time on Tuesday, but on only one frequency, to Europe; try webstream if you dare *The media magazine you monitor with your mind, WOR 1106, recorded one day early because of an intrusive holiday which doesn`t really have to be on Thursday *Tnx this week for financial support go to: Chuck Ermatinger *Read much more at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Contribute directly to this program via wghauser@hotmail.com *Ramadan is underway until mid-December, so Islamic stations extend broadcasts, even to all-night *R. Kashmir, Srinagar, has special early-morning Ramzan broadcast *China putting more SW transmitters on, including 60mb from Tibet *V. of Tibet, clandestine on two nearby 15 MHz frequencies, unjammed *Falun Dafa, clandestine to China, observed schedule, jammed *New Star Broadcasting Station, numbers station in Chinese from Taiwan as observed *North Korea, P5, currently active on hambands thanks to visiting Georgian; see http://www.amsatnet.com/p5.html *Ducie Island ham DX-pedition called off due to heavy seas *Micronesian MW station discovered on new frequency, V6AJ, Kosrae *VNG, Australian timesignal station was three seconds off *Uruguayan monitored in daytime on variable 6 MHz frequency *Radiodifusoras Huancabamba, Peru, changed outofband 6 MHz frequency *Sunday, November 25, everything stops in Ecuador for census, and radio stations expected to operate overtime *Idea Radio, Colombia, is run by Italian immigrant; looking for clearer frequency, tried WBCQ`s one night *New SW station in Guatemala is R. Amistad, Baptist at San Pedro La Laguna, off-frequency, vertical incidence antenna *Retraction of previous assumption that La Voz de Nahuala was source of spy numbers: heard next day on a different frequency *SW radios fix-tuned to KVOH? being airdropped on remote Zacatecas tribe who have yet to be Christianized http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/20011119.atc.17.ram *CMHW, Santa Clara, Cuba, became super-power after hurricane *Reflections Europe, Ireland, back on three SW frequencies; see http://www.reflectionseurope.com but with completely wrong schedule *Greg Dyke, head of BBC, warns staff that public criticism of BBC will not be tolerated: http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,596135,00.html *BBC WS has decided not to describe attacks on the US as `terrorism`, a term which is too subjective *Mystery French signal on 11m mentions La Rochelle, apparently from a museum, but unconfirmable *Correxion to last week: http://www.radiol.li for Liechtenstein *Croatian Radio via Germany moved one frequency from 9 to 7 MHz, avoiding VOA and AWR but now in 40m hamband; has DTK no shame? *Orientations programs in English from Greece as monitored; but how about brief newscasts in English? *V. of Russia clashes with CHU on unannounced frequency *V. of Russia testing via transmitters in Ukraine, to chagrin of RUI *R. Norway is another SW station in financial danger; but should we care, since they dropped English several years ago? *R. Finland thinking about following example of BBC, dropping English to North America; not in its mandate, anyway [follow-up: DXLD 1-178] *R. Solidarity, clandestine to Ethiopia on new schedule *V. of Freedom, Sudan clandestine from Eritrea on new frequency, once a week only *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Nov. 20; flux range 160-200 *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio, 1106 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1105, produced November 14, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *HFCC belatedly posted B-01 frequency schedule November 9, a very useful reference, help with unIDs, but large file, via: http://www.hfcc.org/data/index.html *Radio Studio X, Italy, added a repeat of WOR, Sundays 1730 UT on 1584 kHz and FM *RFPI grid shows one more airing for WOR, Mondays 1730, but no repeats *RFPI`s 21 MHz channel audible all day in New Zealand *WBCQ has new programs until 1 am EST, so repeat of WOR is latened to 0600 UT Thursdays on 7415, 5.5 hours after first broadcast; how is this in Europe? *We suddenly have a new frequency for WOR on WWCR, Fridays at 1030 on 3210 instead of 9475; and Mundo Radial, Fridays 2215 on 3215 ex-9475 *USAF calls back 7460 from WWCR, forcing it to adjust schedule for Bro. Scare service, now on 9475 and 2390; thus, transmitter #1 can no longer use 9475 at shoulder periods, so 90m extended 2200-1100 *No USAF usage of 7460 heard yet, but several other broadcsters including Polisario clandestine *Hmmm, WWCR extension on 9475 is very bad news for R. Cairo listeners *WRNO heard relaying New Orleans religious station; clashes with WYFR on 7 MHz *William Cooper, Hour of the Time, killed Nov 6 in a shootout with a deputy sheriff in Arizona, who was in critical condition; Cooper was a favorite of Timothy McVeigh. Warrant for Cooper`s arrest. Turned out to be a dangerous lunatic *United Patriot Militia Bingo recording: ``Steve Anderson, man on the run`` *Jeff White on why Cuban exile programs are in decline *R. Habana Cuba`s major frequencies were missing for a week following Hurricane Michelle, but SSB back sooner *Spy numbers heard on exact frequency of R. La Voz de Nahuala, Guatemalan evangelical station, and on 2nd, 3rd harmonics *unID on 4840 correlates with reactivated XERTA, Mexico City, on a different frequency every night *Mexican harmonic on 2 MHz popped up in Vermont, XERLK, Atlacomulco *Something suspicious about Idea Radio, new Colombian on 7 MHz; music and accent are not Colombian. Same name and frequency for former pirate in Genova, Italy, whose manager fled to Colombia *R. Landell, Brazilian pirate, announces broadcast for UT November 18 *R. Altura, Cerro de Pasco, Peru on new 5 MHz frequency *Both Argentina`s frequencies in English have heavy interference, but 11 MHz channel no longer offset *This is the non-government, non-communist, non comercial, non- corporate, non-religious, non musical DX program, World of Radio, edition 1105; address wghauser@hotmail.com or fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser. Much more info to be found at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Lubumbashi, Congo DR has new 1 kW SW transmitter *Sudan National Alliance clandestine verifies from Eritrea; postal address and pmbsaf@gemel.com.er *Radio UNMEE broadcasts in Eritrea suspended *V. of Unity, Abuja, Nigeria, replaces Kaduna on 7 MHz channel *Salama Radio gives new schedule, including English portions *More French TV sound heard on 26 MHz band, but maybe not from France *Deutsche Welle relaunching website November 15 http://www.dw-world.de *Webcast DXing Radio L, Liechtenstein, http://www.radiol.li/ [not http://www.radio.li as in original report quoted] *Radio Polonia may close down shortwave due to poor reception (recording) *Merlin Communications sold to Vosper Thornycroft Holdings, distanced further from BBC *Progress report on new MF, HF transmitters for BBC on Omani mainland, and another transmitter for Thailand *UAE Radio, Dubai, 21 MHz channel has been off-frequency *Turkmenistan`s lost English newscast refound at new time *US aircrew support frequency 9022, coincidentally vacated by Iran, which used it for broadcasting *Swaziland using former Afghanistan frequency, so don`t be fooled *Single-frequency windup radios not dropped into Afghanistan *Commando Solo HQ cannot authenticate receptions yet *Sole Taleban station, MW from Mazar-e Sharif, taken over by Northern Alliance, renamed Radio Balkh Province *Radio back on the air in liberated Kabul, no frequencies mentioned, but hams against resumption of 40m band broadcasts *R. Free Afghanistan legislation may be outpaced by events *China National Radio testing numerous new SW transmitters, especially in Xinjiang; see DXLD 1-171 *V. of Vietnam has new relay to Europe via Austria, plus England *VNG, Australian timesignals, may close down mid-2002, but will try to get out some QSLs this year *Ducie Island ham DXpedition Nov. 16-25 or so, multi-band; rare IOTA and probable new DXCC entity; QSL via VE3HO *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Nov 13: flux range 240-210 *So concludes with a Standard Disclaimer, yet another WOR, 1105; Glenn Hauser, here, hoping you`ve enjoyed it and will tune in again next week ### WORLD OF RADIO #1104, produced November 5, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *To read much more about many of the stories on WOR, check DX Listening Digest via http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ and look thru the menu; also http://worldofradio.com/ *Contact us at wghauser@hotmail.com or fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser *New Zealand TV video and audio received by Jeff Kadet, Illinois *Jonathan Schier, very unpopular head of Australia`s ABC, finally resigned, causing Schier bliss; see http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/11/01/FFXQIEZYFTC.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/11/02/FFXGN8P4ITC.html *Fifth harmonic from China heard on 25 MHz band *Perpetual mistake in CRI`s own schedule re morning English to WNAm *BBS, Bhutan, changed timezone and English broadcast schedule, mostly in daytime; new programs include one about Internet; see http://www.bbs.com.bt and full schedule in DXLD 1-166 *All India Radio`s full GOS schedule in English *BBC Monitoring still hears only one of three Commando Solo MW frequencies; why? Ground conductivity poor, or does it matter with an airborne MW transmitter not using radials; and does altitude really have any effect on MW coverage? *US military is jamming GPS signals in Afghanistan so Taliban cannot use them either; for links see http://www.medianetwork.nl *A BBC soap opera to Afghanistan remains extremely popular; why that is, and a translated script at http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/03/world/world14.html *R. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, new B-01 frequencies in English to Europe *Kyrgyzstan wants more Asian broadcasts in Kyrgyz, such as from Iran *Standard disclaimer *The 1,104th more or less consecutive edition of World of Radio *Thanks this time for financial support go to: Bill Flynn *Eastern Radio, pro-Israeli, anti-Syrian MW station, expands schedule, also via http://www.carmelnews.org *ZBC, Zimbabwe to be commercialised, but fully owned by government, per http://www.misa.org *Eric Beauchemin`s report on visit to V. of Nigeria, station being revitalised, also at http://www.medianetwork.nl with links *New VON English broadcast heard well in Victoria *R. Ghana heard in French, new language for them? *V. of Greece new schedule shows only one frequency for North America in our evenings; times confirmed for weekend English hours, Hellenes Around the World, and It`s All Greek to Me *Romania signs deal with Harris to upgrade broadcast infrastructure, $85 million over 3-5 years; hope it includes new SW transmitters *V. of Russia`s new English schedule to North America *33 MHz signal from Russia believed to be over the horizon radar *Polish Radio`s new English schedule, mainly for Europe *R. Slovakia International`s new English schedule; see website for a contest to win two weeks in a Slovakian spa: http://www.slovakradio.sk/rsi *Argentine pirate heard on 12 MHz band *Bolivian reactivated, R. La Voz del Campesino, Sipe Sipe *HCJB has demoted some programs to segments within Studio 9, including Ham Radio Today, Musica del Ecuador *New Colombian station appeared out of nowhere on 7 MHz band, sounds like Idea Radio, all-music with two English and Spanish IDs per hour (recording at 1101 UT); frequency clashes with Moscu in evening *R. Habana off the air as hurricane went thru; for protection? *New DX program from USA, but in Portuguese from Voz Crista, Miami, via Chile to Brasil *Fugitive Steve Anderson of United Patriot Radio still missing; Posse Comitatus website about to close down as webmaster going to work fulltime for Aryan Nation *MW harmonics on 2 MHz band, from Georgia, New York, and New York *In major TV markets, St. Louis, ABC affiliate quit doing news, due to very low ratings, poor UHF signal *Why does auroral activity seem to peak in October and March? See http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast26oct_1.htm?list458954 *This World of Radio has been 1104; I`m Glenn Hauser, inviting you to hear me again next week ### WORLD OF RADIO #1103, produced October 31, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *Since the start of Standard Time, all our WOR times are one UT hour later except on RFPI, at the same Universal Times *New WOR time on WWCR: Saturday 1230 UT on 15685 *RFPI about to revive 7445 kHz with highest power, new antenna, in 0300-0700 UT period; reports will be wanted; keeping 15040 21 to 22 hours per day, and 21815-USB daytime *Congratulations to the Benelux DX Club, celebrating 40th anniversary November 5; see http://www.425dxn.org/swls/bdxc/index.html *Encontro DX, Portuguese DX progrma on R. Aparecida, Brazil, marks 15th anniversary November 1 *R. Cultural Amauta, Brazil, has 41st anniversary special UT Wed Nov 7 0000-0100 on 4955 *R. Union, Peru, jumping around 6.3 MHz area, latest landing *R. Nacional, Paraguay, settles on a split frequency close to nominal *RAE, Argentina, now on two frequencies each for English broadcasts *New times for shrunken DX Partyline on HCJB, included in http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html *HCJB has interference from BBC Albanian in the morning *DXLD 1-158, 159 and 160 have reports on strike by workers at GBC, Guyana, never mentioning SW; check whether they are on, relaying? *Caribbean stations keep moving off 830 kHz, the lastest R. Paradise, St. Kitts & Nevis; relays Trinity evenings; when to hear own shows *RCI reception in Europe now a `disaster` with clashes, no relays *Steve Anderson, United Patriot Radio, fugitive, told his listeners the story of Joe Patriot, then fulfilled it in shootout http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2001/10/27/ke102701s94178.htm *Check UPR`s former frequencies for possible activity *Including spoof of UPR, United Patriot Militia Bingo Radio *Complete confusion at Pacifica over firing of Executive Director Bessie Wash; see http://www.savepacifica.net *Proposals for replacing WTC with new broadcast tower for NYC, on Governor`s Island or Staten Island *VOA mailroom contaminated by anthrax, hoped not to have spread *New SW station on Kenai Peninsula, KACI visited last summer, but construction not going well, and no FCC permit *The media magazine you monitor with your mind, World of Radio 1103 wghauser@hotmail.com or fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser; see our websites http://worldofradio.com and where most info still resides http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *R. Africa International, Methodist via Germany, new schedule *Tigrean International Solidarity for Justice and Democracy, new clandestine via Germany *V. of Nigeria has commissioned three new 250 kW SW transmitters at Ikorodu; but only one heard so far on 15 MHz *DW`s English to British Isles moves one band down instead of up this winter; continuous English direct from Germany on 49m well heard *DW back on 11m for at least one more winter, joining France *NBFM broadcasts in French on 11m sounds like TV audio from France *European VHF reception peaks after local sunrise in NAm, 32-36 MHz *Spain`s new English schedule *Portugal`s new 300 kW SW will serve Europe and Brazil, and two more planned by 2003 *BBC merging its news and info divisions, BBC WS, BBC World (TV), online services, and domestic BBC news; competitors unhappy *BBCWS has 3-way clash with itself on one 6 MHz frequency *Clashes which could have been avoided at A-01 and B-01 seasonal overlaps, such as Vietnam via Canada, BBC via Florida on same frequency for two hours *BBC`s morning frequency from Antigua not getting good reviews *Former Swiss Radio International listeners now hear Croatia on same frequency, along with a parallel *R. Yugoslavia`s new English schedule; one clash with DW *Romania`s winter frequencies include clash with Cuba *Lithuania moves to 7 MHz for one English, 9 for the other *Most R. Ukraine International transmitters off due to unpaid bills, except for one megawatt(?) which clashes with Gene Scott, Costa Rica *Hunting for V. of Greece frequencies, some found; where`s English? *New schedule for Macedonian station, Thessaloniki *WRMI drops nightly relays of Israel, for Sunday afternoon only *Iran`s new schedule in English has blanks maybe meaning 9022; the rest undated from website *R. Tashkent has another English broadcast audible here *US bombed old transmitters in Kabul Oct 26; Commando Solo confirmed on only one of three reported MW frequencies; Al Jazeera says C.S. laughed at and BBC, VOA no longer trusted *New V. of Afghanistan to start soon from Feyzabad, Northern Alliance *Plans to broadcast from Pakistan into Afghanistan, Baltic-based *Bad Aibling base in Germany has new lease on life for Afghanistan operations; specualtion Commando Solo from Germany or Turkey *Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka thinks 8070 is from the tropics, D.G. *Report that aircraft are fed programming from Pakistan *V. of Mongolia schedule shows only two English broadcasts now *China`s ``massive invasion`` of new American-made transmitters, including 21 MHz band for first time *Australian video buzz on 46 MHz heard in Illinois, England *Propagation outlook from Boulder, October 30; flux range 205-180-240 *Concluding World of Radio 1103, I`m Glenn Hauser ### 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 http://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 http://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 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1101, produced October 17, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Jonathan Shier, ABC Managing Director loses confidence of ABC Board in Australia, but refuses to resign *V. of the Lord, Philippines via Germany, moving from 15 to 9 MHz *Earth One, long-planned new SW service appears in B-01 Merlin sked via Singapore, but don`t hold your breath *V. of Indonesia, English hour audible in eastern North America *V. of Vietnam via Canada moving from 9 MHz to ex-BBC 6 MHz channel *R. Thailand`s new English schedule from October 28 = B-01 *R. Nepal active on 7 MHz only, including English news *R. Korea Int`l new evening relay at last via Canada on 9 MHz band *RKI expands webcast schedule, retimes and adds English hours http://www.kbs.co.kr/onair/L_RKI.asx *Arirang TV launching NAm service from Korea via Echostar Dish network *R. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, English frequencies *R. Bangladesh schedule from Oct 29 shows expanded English *R. Pakistan, Peshawar has new broadcast to Afghanistan, MW and SW *PTV English TV news available from http://www.pakistanvision.com *Coverage maps available for stations in Finland, Norway, and also R. Pakistan in English: http://www.uwasa.fi/~jpe/pbc/nov01/ and R. Oman: http://www.uwasa.fi/~jpe/rso/ *R. Baghdad monitored in English and Arabic *Kurdish clandestine monitoring reveals new communist stations: V. of Kudilara a.k.a. V. of Komala and R. Azadi Kurdistana Irana, one pro-Soviet, another pro-Maoist *V. of Shariah, Kabul still off the air, but Taliban MW station in Balkh province still on the air and monitored; lyrics of Uzbek ode to Afghanistan *The midpoint of WOR 1101; wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ and http://worldofradio.com under construction *Thanks this week for financial support go to: Bill Flynn *Standard disclaimer *New FM station in northern Afghanistan, R. Solh *Commando Solo, US psychological operations broadcasts to Afghanistan from aircraft, heard all over world on 8700-USB, probably feed from nearby US base to aircraft for relay. Recording by Wolfgang Bueschel *TV news report shows a SW frequency on a Taliban transceiver *Kabul airport frequencies, active and inactive *More background on the history of broadcasting in Afghanistan on current AWR Wavescans 354, 355, 356, via http://www.awr.org and transcripts in DX Listening Digest *Uruguay MW station R. Montecarlo heard with USB relay on 22 MHz band *Radio P-1, Brazilian pirate heard on 7 MHz *Terrorist center in Brazil reported operating clandestine 2-way station contacting Mideast *Russia closing down its electronic spy base in Lourdes, Cuba *Armchair quality jazz in the morning from R. Educacion, Mexico *Steve Anderson of United Patriot Radio shoots at police, flees to the Kentucky mountains; extensive coverage in DXLD 1-149, 150, 151 *Exceptional new pirate Radio Forty, professional quality and good music *Boy Scout Jamboree on the Air Oct 20-21, QSY on 7 MHz avoiding AM *RCI B-01 schedule on website; feature schedule lineup inferred *Europeans feel abandoned by RCI, moving 5 MHz from Sweden back to Canada; ``they sneak away hoping nobody will notice`` but also via Russia *Swiss Radio International about to drop broadcasts to Europe and North America after Oct. 27; then try S. American service in English *Czech Republic increasingly jittery about threat of terrorism to RFE/RL building in downtown Prague; may move to outskirts *Polish Radio starting R. Parliament on longwave in daytime *R. Ukraine International missing from high-power 12 MHz frequency *So much more to report, especially winter schedules for many stations will surely be included next week *Good opening from Europe to Tennessee on VHF low-band above 30 MHz *Propagation outlook from Boulder Oct. 16; flux range 230-170 *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1101 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1100, produced October 10, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *The eleven hundredth World of Radio, not counting extras and doubles, 2+ years since our one thousandth. Thanks to those congratulating *Celebrating by introducing our new website, http://www.worldofradio.com or even http://worldofradio.com storing our larger audio files at first, so our original http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ will continue as well *worldofradio.com made possible by a generous grant from Clayton Stapleton *Our new monthly Spanish DX report Mundo Radial starts Oct 12 on WWCR; script and audio also on our website; see http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html *No scripts for World of Radio *Acceding to demand, our new page on monitoring SWBC from Afghanistan and vicinity, for North American monitors updated as necessary: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/mideast.html *Terrorist attacks spurring scanner and shortwave radio sales *VOA increased broadcasts to Afghanistan again Oct 7 *DXLD 1-145 has schedule of VOA and R. Liberty specials to there *WWFV announces suspension of daylight broadcasts Oct 23 for repairs and move of some transmitters to WWCV *EWTN (and WEWN) survival in doubt since Catholics are not generous tithers and M. Angelica is ill *WWCR uninterested in webcasting, but some programs produced there may be heard via WRVU Nashville: Ken Berryhill, Keen on Jazz, at http://www.wrvu.org *See all the recent issues of DX Listening Digest for news in depth on broadcasting aspects of the Afghanistan situation *Taliban`s Voice of Shariah knocked off the air October 8 *Psychological operations from US planes, ``Commando Solo``, no frequencies given, but probably on or near missing Taliban channels; with 10 kW, DXable elsewhere, so reports are wanted *Besides food packets, windup radios also being airdropped *Calls in US Congress to restart R. Free Afghanistan, despite VOA, RL *New unnamed exile station in the works for national reconciliation *R. Damascus, Syria, tends to be overlooked, but has two hour-long English broadcasts (recording; 6 seconds of dead air removed) *R. Tajikistan has opened website, spelt with O`s: http://radio.tojikiston.com in Tajik with Cyrillic alphabet *Quetta, Pakistan, has 5 MHz frequency *V. of Freedom of Jammu & Kashmir monitored including English, from Pakistani transmitter *Don`t You Believe, All India Radio`s own website, which has some wrong times in IST instead of UT for GOS in English *The non-commercial, non-corporate, non-government, non-communist, non-religious media magazine, World of Radio 1100; addresses: wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA *New schedule for Radio Banaadir, Somalia, until local midnight *Daughter of Ethiopia`s new leader runs clandestine V. of Democratic Path of Ethiopian Unity *V. of Nigeria external service revival plans by early next year *Eurosonor Radio last-minute frequency change via Bulgaria *B-01 frequency season starts October 28; R. Sweden to North America *New site for news in English, from ORT, Russian public TV; http://www.ortv.ru/eng *Tom McNiff recommends British over American news coverage: http://www.itn.co.uk/index.shtml and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news *BBC World Service asking for 3 megapounds more to cover war on terrorism *October, the anniversary of cancellation of Media Network; Jonathan Marks is back on air Oct 11 for special on 40th annviversary of RN`s own building *RTBF to continue using SW from Belgium itself, but not RVi *Same price gets 500 kW from Merlin, 100 kW from Juelich *Some SW stations only work four days a week, delaying Friday news until Monday: Sweden, Belgium; so listen to Switzerland *France again heard well on 11 meters *R. Austria International to stay on the air another year despite ORF budget cuts, thanks to listener support *DST in Brazil starts October 14, helpful for morning DX on tropical bands, UT minus 2 until February 17 *HCJB reducing length of programs, such as DX Partyline from 50 to 30 minutes; and no more news on weekends *RN Bonaire harmonic heard on 43 MHz *Puerto Rican arrested for spying for Cuba: affidavit of charges against her: http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/ci/Montes_092101.pdf and the numbers frequency she was monitoring from Cuba *Thomas Jefferson Hour station last week URL was wrong; really http://www.whro.org/radio *KPFA, Pacifica in Berkeley, may have to close in a month, since Pacifica HQ is keeping all donations for legal bills; see http://www.savepacifica.org *KVMR, Nevada City, CA, broadcasting BBCWS news hourly since Sept 11 *KKOB, Albuquerque heard on 25 MHz band; KTKA, Topeka on 26 *The season for tracking migrating burrowing owls from Saskatchewan to Texas on 172 MHz band; DXLD 1-140, http://www.homingin.com *Nets to You at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/nets2you.html *XM Satellite Radio is also webcasting some programs: http://channels.xmradio.com and a comparison with Sirius is at http://www.skyreport.com/dars.htm *CFRX Toronto back on 6 MHz after an absence *RCI resuming weekend news later in month; but integration into a subsidiary of CBC French domestic service continues. Four new thematic programs start this weekend on RCI *Q&A with Digital Radio Mondiale in DXLD 1-135 *A grand old man of SW, Roger Legge, died a sesquiyear ago *Hank Bennett, of WPE fame, alive and well *Auroral conditions expected Oct 11 *Propagation outlook from Boulder, issued October 9; flux range 165- 270-170 *From worldofradio.com Glenn Hauser concluding Number 1100 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1099, produced October 3, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *RFPI plans change from 15050 to 15045 Oct 8; until then, 15045 in morning, 15050 elsewhen; 7445 also off for antenna upgrade; affects many broadcasts of WOR and COM http://www.rfpi.org/frequencies.html *WOR transmitted from Sackville, WRN feed by mistake, and RVi too *New Zealand begins daylight shifting Oct. 7; new RNZI schedule *V. of Indonesia, English, well heard in Wisconsin *House commission rejects plan to privatize RRI, TVRI, Antara *Macao radio station on FM in Cantonese, also webcast via http://www.tdm.com.mo *DXLD 1-135: China temporarily unblocks some major American news websites, but not for long *Chengde, China, radio website admits a jammer among its assets: http://www.chengde-windows.com/gbdsj.gov/index.htm *V. of Mongolia said to provide daily English audio on web *Democratic Voice of Burma, clandestine from Norway, changes a Madagascar frequency *Tips for hearing All India Radio in North America or on the net via http://air.kode.net/news1.html *V. of Shariah, Afghanistan, SW recordings in English, Arabic *Lots more about monitoring Afghanistan and non in almost every recent issue of DX Listening Digest *Tiny TV station broadcasts in defiance of Taliban rules; China supplying Northern Alliance two shortwave transmitters *Taliban HQ installs satellite TV reception dishes for own use *Iran`s English broadcasts stored a week on their website at 8 kbps http://www.irib.com/worldservice/englishRADIO/default.htm *And one included an interview with an American anti-Semitic ''professor'' Dr. Edward R. Fields (recording) *Iranian transmitter on 15 MHz produces strong symmetrical spurs *Iran also broadcasts Palestine clandestines, V. of Islamic Palestine; V. of Palestine, V. of Palestinian Islamic Revolution, on MW as well as SW *Israel`s English schedule, valid a few more weeks *Standard disclaimer *World of Radio 1099, wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA; by fax if really necessary, marked Attention: Hauser; 1-580-233-2948 http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Thanks this week for financial support go to: Gerald T. Pollard *Jordan off summer time four days after Israel; English one hour later *Syrian SW quite unreliable, and poor audio; schedule *R. Baghdad, Iraq on another new frequency ending in ---7, as decreed *Sign-on times for four Kurdish/Iraqi clandestines *Kamo relay site in Armenia should be called Gavar, since town renamed *R. Bulgaria changes a frequency, affecting English to Europe *Bulgaria confirmed site for Germany`s Eurosonor Radio, new schedule *Mixing product between MW and SW produces strange out-of-band frequency from Croatia *Ukraine would like to use frequency below 9.4 MHz again this winter but some receivers won`t tune it *New V. of Russia schedule, some of the English frequencies *R. Netherlands B-01 schedule posted; moving eastern North America morning broadcast via Canada one hour later by UT, not the western http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/scheduleb01.html *BBCWS has weekly program of Afghan music on Fridays *Two more opposition radios for Ethiopia: Dejen Radio, replacing V. of Tigrayans from North America; and R. Solidarity *Five Somali SW stations currently monitored active; R. Baidoa; R. Gaalkacyo; R. Mogadishu; R. Hargeisa; R. Banaadir *Central African Republic heard on 6 MHz band with strong signal *Guinea-Bissau has started website with audio: http://www.guine-bissau.net/rdn/index.html *HCJB`s B-01 schedule shows realignment of English broadcasts *Mexico City has gone off DST already, so XERMX English one hour later *Dispatches from CBC Radio expanded to one hour; recommended. A problem for RCI to carry all, but hear it on the web *Meeting with CBC and RCI leaders indicates RCI still in trouble; write to CBC Board of Directors: commho@ottawa.cbc.ca *Thomas Jefferson Hour now webcast via Norfolk`s WHRV [not at whrv.org as I said, but: http://www.whro.org/radio ] *No more new Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts, out of funding *New VOA Director chosen by Bush: Robert R. Reilly http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011001-7.html *FCC website has B-01 schedules for private US SW broadcasters; no mention oif WWFV or WWCV, just WGTG; WMLK with higher power http://www.fcc.gov/ib/pnd/neg/hf_web/hfff0w01.txt *Propagation wild lately, K=7 this week; outlook from Boulder Oct. 2: flux range 180-270 *World of Radio 1099; Glenn Hauser inviting you to hear me every week on this and other stations ### WORLD OF RADIO #1098, produced Sept. 26, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *A bit late this month, but a new Continent of Media, 01-09 starts the last Friday in Sept on RFPI, subsequently at DXing.com and now via our website: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Audiomid.html *Last week we added a second upload of WOR 1097 to our site, smaller file, lower audio quality; Comments? *World Radio Network starts Telstar 5 Ku-band DVB digital satellite to North America Oct 1, duplicating Galaxy 5 C-band for 3 months only *For much more: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html *More reports of (non) reception of V. of Shariah, Afghanistan on SW; monitored schedule; little info about provincial stations; Takhar radio, of Northern Alliance used to be on 7 MHz *Major broadcasters have expanded Pashto, Dari: BBC WS, RFI, VOA, DW, VOR *News by loudspeaker in Northern Alliance area; one service on internet *BBC WS self-promotion as only source of news for Afghans *Air National Guard 193rd Special Operations Wing in Pennsylvania mobilized again, for psywar airborne broadcasts to Afghanistan with tapes from PsyOps, Fort Bragg, NC; expected tactics *Clandestine Radio Watch wants recordings of English broadcasts from V. of Shariah, for historical archive *Media Network has a brief recording on site as an example *Saudi Arabian radio expands to 24 hours *Besides 5-minute English newscast from Pakistan, there is a 15-minute one at 1600; frequencies *BBC adds a MW frequency to Mideast, without specifying site; we know it`s Abu Dhabi; frequency clashes with another relay site in Armenia *Nice gesture from Kuwaiti hams: special call for all, 9K2USA *Israel has gone off summer time, so English one UT hour later; all broadcasts silent for Yom Kippur until 1700 UT Sept 27 *R. Netherlands has standby schedule of expanded Dutch should forces be involved in hostilities *R. France International reported to have greatly increased profit; from what? Hardly sells ads or dish subscriptions *UKE-Senderen, Norway, student special on 41m may start tests Oct 1 and 24 hours from Oct 11; see http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/ark/us/info.en.html *Radio Ezra back for a new run the last quarter, via Vladivostok to Australasia http://radioezra.members.easyspace.com/ *The non-commercial, non-government, non-communist, non-religious, non-musical DX program, World of Radio, 1098; wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *Much needed comic relief: parody site of BBC news: http://www.hallmundur.com/bbc/ *Last week`s item on UN Radio in Congo DR confirmed by UN in Nairobi but says eleven stations instead of six *100 kW shortwave transmitter has arrived in Kinshasa after 21-year wait! (no relation to UN plans?) *Kenya off shortwave because did not pay electricity bills *Kaduna, Nigeria regional heard on 7 as well as 4 MHz; and the latter runs late for football, expected again Thursday Sept 27 *V. of Nigeria keeps promoting refurbished external service, on 15 and 11 MHz as well as 7, but we are not hearing it. A vague report from Brazil for 15, however *R. Ghana putting lots of spurs on 90m, every plus/minus 80.3 kHz *With extremely high solar flux, check for Argentine feeder on 29 MHz *Brazil about to start summer time Oct 14, UT minus 2 along the coast *New Peruvian, R. Americana, on 5 MHz outofband *La Voz del Upano, Ecuador, briefly back on 3 MHz *Dominican Republic X-bander was heard in Finland, testing in April; relayed R. Taina, but is actually R. Planeta *Special anniversary show of Mexican music on XERMX, Friday Sept 28 at 1900 local, which should be UT Sat 0000, not 0100 as reported *La Voz de la Fundacion has quit SW via WHRI and WRMI; WRMI looking for replacement soon and will revise sked portfolio: http://wrmi.net *Senior analyst Ana Belen Montes at DIA arrested for spying for Cuba; communicated via SW numbers stations: see DXLD 1-132 *WRMI new schedule shows WRN for an hour on Sundays; Jeff says it`s VOA Communications World, and RVI *Big flap at VOA over interview with Taliban leader, nixed by State Department; but eventually aired in defiance of State *AIR T`puram, India, on 5 MHz, operates local mornings only *Laos seems to have resumed external service on 7 MHz instead of 6 *Very unusual propagation at 0930: Australia to Tennessee on both 13 and 120m *Sept 30 is deadline for returning surveys to WWV *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Sept 25: major storm, and very high flux range all above 200: 270-220-270 *Apologies if I have been a bit disjointed this week; check our website for much more organized info in DXLD as above or via http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Our address: P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA; wghauser@yahoo.com *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1098 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1097, produced September 19, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *We concentrate on some items relating to the attack on NY and Washington you may not have heard about, and refer you to the past week`s DX Listening Digests 1-125 to 1-130 and onward for much more info at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Dxldmid.html *Special issues of HF Radio Internet newsletter on this subject from hfnewsletter@yahoo.com *British ham was monitoring NYC 10-meter repeater as attack happened *Almost daily updates in DXLD on NY TV and FM stations returning from backup sites *Some hams and TV station engineers were lost in the WTC attack *See last week for Grove`s attack frequency list site *Well-known USAF HF channels *AFRTS USB relays increasing activity, reactivated frequency; including Diego Garcia, no longer being decommissioned *Pres. Bush says ``crusade``, leading to misinterpretation into Arabic, with two different words, overreaction *Some ABC-owned radio stations have resumed internet streaming says http://www.kurthanson.com including http://www.wlsam.com and WBAP, WABC *DXLD 1-130 includes introspective item about how sensational journalists should be in covering the disaster, and *Discussion of not activating and not testing Emergency Activation System *Clear Channel employees draw up list of too-sensitive songs to be supressed; see DXLD 1-130, and http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6934&group=webcast http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/05/30/clear_channel_employees/index.html http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/7821/im71.html http://slate.msn.com/code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=9/18/2001&idMessage=8318 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/19/arts/music/19POPL.html?ex=1001930343&ei=1&en=6c313fd85a1f7455 *US based opposition Azadi Afghan is active at http://www.afghanradio.com and via stations in DC, Bay Area *Monitoring of V. of Shar`iah, Afghanistan on 7 MHz including English *Also audible on MW in Eurasia *V. of Iraqi Kurdistan on almost same 7 MHz frequency, confusing *Main Taliban websites disabled, but official Afghanistan site is http://www.shariatonline.net with nothing in English *R. Pakistan`s English broadcasts on SW, http://www.radio.gov.pk *Pakistan Observer: http://pakobservercom.readyhosting.com/index.html *Iran`s World Service website in English has link to BBC TV report http://www.irib.com/worldservice/america/america2/5.htm *Iran`s best times and frequencies here *John Figliozzi has been monitoring content of English newscasts from Egypt, Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Pakistan, Turkey, UAE; see DXLDs *Dubai continues running anti-Zionist history feature *The media magazine you monitor with your mind, WOR 1097; our address, wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *Israel changed from 21 to 17 MHz Sept 1; end of summer time Sept 24 shifts all broadcasts one UT hour later *Morning Israeli news is from External Service, evening from domestic network, with different crafting *WRMI starts temporary relay of Israel in prime time; delayed from 1900 UT? *UN Radio setting up Peacekeeping radio network in six Congo DR cities, including SW at Kinshasa HQ; see DXLD 1-129 *R. Nacional Angola again heard on 25 meters *V. of Tigrayans in North America continues on WWCR after Thursday`s WOR, along with new Saturday broadcast via Russia? *BBC suddenly changed IP address to: http://212.58.240.31 *Government approves 5 additional BBC digital radio networks, but not BBC-3 TV *BBC announces plans for new state of the art centre at White City, London *BBC TV Newsnight carried evenings on C-SPAN network, while the other has been carrying CBC`s The National *New chairman of BBC chosen: Gavyn Davies, Labour economist *Maps showing reception quality worldwide of YLE R. Finland, DXLD 1-130: September: http://www.uwasa.fi/~jpe/rfinland/sep01/ October: http://www.uwasa.fi/~jpe/rfinland/oct01/ *V. of Russia new frequency to northern Europe *V. of Orthodoxy, via Kazakhstan schedule two days a week *R. Omegapolis, Crimea, heard relayed on 17 MHz maritime band *Panel absolves Vatican Radio of causing leukemia from Sta. Maria di Galeria site *Guangxi Foreign Radio Station, China, schedule to Vietnam *V. of Khmer Kampuchea Krom schedule, website: http://radio.khmerkrom.org/index.php *Vanuatu heard in the European morning on 7 MHz *Solomon Islands on 5 MHz signed off, but stayed on with BBCWS *R. Australia trying different 21 MHz frequency this weekend *RFPI has been broadcasting Amy Goodman`s Democracy Now in Exile, from ground zero in NY; ad-hoc, times varying *Tijuana MW station XEJAZZ reverts to classical format, XEBACH? *Dominican Republic Indotel website http://www.indotel.org.do/site/sector/empresas.htm lists AM and FM but not SW stations, including a not yet heard X-bander, Circuito Telesonido, SA, San Francisco de Macoris *KUNI, public radio in Iowa has beautiful coverage maps on site http://kuniradio.org/kunimap.html KUNI has something for everybody so check out their schedule and webcast *Source and cost of such maps, but not so accurate *Propagation outlook from Boulder Sept 18; flux range 190-240-200 *Remember the WOR website http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Standard disclaimer *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1097 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1096, produced September 12, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *Why do they hate us so? ... What a waste of lives *VOA Communications World has been collecting lots of audio clips from the very first minutes of the tragedy *Thanks to all our friends around the world who sent condolences, either in general or directly to us *Most New York TV stations knocked off air; some came back on other channels; only WCBS still had transmitter on Empire State Building *Became obvious which cable companies owned by others, as many relayed CBS or ABC; HSN carried Newsworld; TLC carried BBC World *Nice to have major networks on additional cable channels, as local affiliates kept cutting away for local coverage *We hardly turned on SW for this *Hard to keep internet connexion going from BBC, but Mark Byford could not be persuaded to resume SW; in all-news mode for now *Special edition of Talking Point on BBCWS Thursday at 1800 [NOT 1600 as first reported) *VOA also in all-news mode, instead of Border Crossings, etc. *R. Netherlands with rolling news special via http://www.rnw.nl *Pop Comm sent mailing list out-of-date times and frequencies for English SW broadcasts from Mideast *R. Iraq International, when to monitor in English, but frustrating *ARRL has lots of emergency ham radio info: http://www.arrl.org *Grove enterprises has dynamic website with active frequencies: http://www.grove-ent.com/attack/attack.html *Earlier, FBI denied bias as terrorism raid [temporarily] shut Arabic websites at Texas based InfoCom, which hosted Arab World`s leading independent news channel, Qatar`s Al-Jazeera, and Al-Sharq newspaper *Israeli TV channel about to be added to EchoStar for US viewers *WWCR updated specialty program listing, http://www.wwcr.com/cr_specialty_pgms.html including Into the Blue http://www.bluegrassradio.com *Johnny Lightning extols SW on WBCQ, but trying to secure space on satellite radio, the future; see DXLD 1-124 *Sept 15-16 special ham event, replica of Karl Jansky`s first radio telescope antenna, W9GFZ, 21320v *EWTN trying to set up illegal translator network in Wisconsin, disguised as local lowpower FM, blanketing the dial *CHNX, Nova Scotia, transmitter died, and no budget to resume *Defective RCI transmitters at Sackville provide new frequencies instead, mixing product between 15 and 17 MHz on 20 MHz *The media magazine you monitor with your mind, World of Radio 1096, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA or wghauser@hotmail.com Check our website for lots of additional info, http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *We have a new MW affiliate in Europe, Radio Studio X, between Florence and Bologna on 1584 kHz, should be heard widely, plus FM in Tuscany, UT Fridays 2230; see http://www.radiostudiox.it *Tip for Rational Living: http://www.quackwatch.com including Deepak Chopra *Brazilian 120m frequency has MW harmonics from Brazil, Radio Mineira do Sul, and from Argentina, LRA15, Radio Nacional San Miguel de Tucuman *R. Union, Peru, continues varying, around 6.35 MHz *Rdif. Nacional, Colombia in very sad state: many MW off the air, SW off for a sesquimonth; and wants to quit high school courses, close down MW network: http://eltiempo.terra.com.co/02-09-2001/cult93330.html http://eltiempo.terra.com.co/11-09-2001/naci97774.html *Venezuelan timesignal YVTO trying two frequencies off 5000 kHz *Our good friends at Radio for Peace International, Costa Rica, 14th annual Fiesta, UT Mon Sept 17 0000-0400; special QSL, door prizes to callers; 7445, 15049, maybe 21815-USB *RFPI has lots of interference in mornings from China/Taiwan 15050 *La Voz de Nahuala, Guatemala, heard not only on 2nd harmonic but 3rd *One of the PNG stations reported off last week, is heard but weak and intermittent, R. Southern Highlands *`KBBN` gospel SW planned for PNG has raised 30% of transmitter cost; carrier already heard on planned frequency, but likely a utility *FEBC hopes to turn Cambodians into Christians with authorization of 50 kW MW transmitters within country *R. Taibei International now repeats evening English in following hour, not 25 hours later; program more appealing to youth, but still old favorite Jade Bells and Bamboo Pipes *V. of Tibet complains of heavy Chinese jamming; schedule. See http://www.vot.org *Confusion lately between two SW sites in UAE; the one relaying lots of other foreign broadcasters for Merlin is Abu Dhabi, not Dubai, 127 km away *English service from R. Tajikistan finally reconfirmed on tenth anniversary of independence *Be careful on 6985: Jordan spur; V. of Freedom and Renewal, clandestine for Sudan, with E-mail QSL, schedule; and R. Galcaio, Puntland, reactivated from Somalia *Lots of reports of new V. of Biafra International; recording shows address is 733 15 St NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005, not as given last week; see almost all recent DX Listening Digests *Site for new R. Ghana webcast corrected from last week: http://www.ebroadcast.com.gh but you have to register *R. Chad heard again on 6 MHz *RTNC, DR Congo, getting new 100 kW SW transmitter *BBC relays on 11835 in our evenings reconfirmed as Delano after 0300, WYFR before that hour *Northern Star about to start English longwave service from Norway with 1200 kW; needs observations already of co- and adjacent-channel interference. Website under construction: http://www.northernstar.no Isle of Man broadcasting owns 10 percent *Another new Norwegian LW already on: http://www.dxlc.com/longwave/ingoy.html *R. Chechnya Svobodna has great LW signal in England nightly *No propagation outlook this week; Boulder late with new info *My condolences and best wishes to everyone affected directly or indirectly by the terrorist attack on America *Glenn Hauser concluding World of Radio 1096 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1095, produced September 5, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *At least three versions of our latest schedules and much more at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ including the new Sept edition of Nets to You, adding nets2you.html and extensive file of DX Listening Digests, with much more detail on many but not all the stories mentioned here on WOR *Mozambqique, Malawi inactive on SW *R. Tanzania on two 5 MHz frequencies; Zanzibar on 6 MHz mornings only *None of Kenya`s SW frequencies currently heard by Chris Greenway there, tho one now reported from Germany *V. of Tigrayans from North America http://www.geocities.com/malula86/ starting new transmission this Saturday, from Russia? Was on WWCR *New Eritrean opposition website, http://eritrea1.org along with http://Asmarino.com *V. of Hope QSL designed by NY DXer`s wife, clandestine to Sudan; reports with $ or IRC to Jane Namadi, R. Voice of Hope, P.O. Box 33829, Kampala, Uganda *Sudan heard on new MW frequency; is it a harmonic of a lower one? *V. of Africa, Libya, heard with new language, Hausa *Central African Republic still plans to resume SW, with new transmitter next year *Congo DR stations confirmed active: Candip, Bukavu *Burundi`s reactivated SW frequency is slightly off, erratic, and undermodulated *R. Rwanda adds webcast via http://www.orinfor.gov.rw *R. Ghana to webcast via http://ebroadcast.com [sic -- does not work] *V. of Biafra International, clandestine, heard in Europe and South America, but not Oklahoma; next weekly broadcast this Saturday moves 5 kHz up; Russian site believed. http://www.biafraland.com has feedback form, biafraland@biafraland.com and address monitored: 733 15th (or 16th?) St., NW, 3700, Washington, DC 20005, USA; e-QSL via oguchi@mbay.net *Off air recordings of Wolfman Jack on XERF, et al.: http://www.wolfmanjack.org/audio/ *Nicaraguan TV DXed on Cape Cod last year by double-hop sporadic E *La Voz del Guaviare, Colombia, had fine romantic songs of 60s *Banda Oriental, Uruguay, getting reports from Europe, USA; 28th anniversary Sept. 7 *Argentina confused over whether Antarctic bases will be closed, so LRA-36 in limbo; GIB thinks it may stay till early next year *With a Standard Disclaimer, you have heard one half of WOR 1095; wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA *Thanks this week for financial support go to Gerald T. Pollard *New spring schedule for RNZI *Four PNG Highland stations reported off for technical, financial problems: 3275, 3355, 3375, 3395; 2410 still on *New Pacific Asian Log of all known MW, LW stations from Afghanistan to Alaska, free PDF via http://www.qsl.net/n7ecj thanks Bruce Portzer *Adrian Peterson visited Sabah, see DXLD 1-118, including 5020.4 unID *Singapore and Malaysia get independent news on FM from Indonesia *V. of Khmer Krom changes frequency; Que Huong not on former frequency; and High Adventure`s New Horizon via Palau, Chan Troi Moi *R. Taibei International hints it may face cuts; government needs to know if anyone be listening *RCI issues revised schedule of relays via Sackville, including CRI changes of English hours from morning to evening *Abu Dhabi relay site used more and more as backup, now by R. Japan *Other UAE station renamed ``Emirates Radio from Dubai`` *R. Baghdad off-frequency heard 200.0 kHz higher *Al-Quds Radio, anti-Arafat Palestinian, closes down MW frequencies *V. of Turkey drops one English, refrequencies another to NAm *Ukraine remains on 12 MHz [still megawatt?] *Best new V. of Russia frequencies, afternoons and evenings in NAm *R. Gardarika, St. Pete, excellent in England on new frequency *RVi, Belgium, closing down its own Wavre site at Octoberend, but will continue SW via elsewhere, such as Russia, Germany *CKCX confirmed as onetime call of 15190 *CBC programs begin new season, including Quirks & Quarks, about time *Steve Anderson, United Patriot Radio, said he was quitting his militia hour, but we doubt it *UPR subject of Far Right Radio Review this week on RFPI, and already archived at http://www.rfpi.org/webcast.html *Man behind Sirius Satellite Radio plans to emigrate to Israel; see: http://www.robmagazine.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=robm/full_story/columnFullStory.html&cf=robm/neutral.cfg&configFileLoc=robm/config&date=&dateOffset=35&query=class+%3Ccontains%3E+robm+%3Cand%3E+logo+%3Ccontains%3E+Snapshot¤t_row=1&start_row=1&num_rows=1 *World For Christ Radio plans 500 kW from USA to Latin America; WFCR calls already in use by Massachusetts public radio station. See http://www.worldforchristradio.com *The Powells have thrown in the towel: WJCR sold to Louisville`s Evangel Tabernacle *World Beacon, back on UAE site, and South Africa *World Radio TV Handbook 2002 to get the update it has desperately needed, and delay printing to include winter schedules *New book about radio stations getting rave reviews, by Fi Glover: I`m an Oil Tanker, Travels with My Radio; see DXLD 1-119 *Propagation outlook from Boulder, September 4; flux range 190-160-190 *So concludes antoher WOR, 1095; Glenn Hauser, here, inviting you to listen again next week, and check our website, http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ ### WORLD OF RADIO #1094, produced August 29, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Get-well quick wishes to Allan Weiner, WBCQ, who had cancer surgery; says he is doing fine *WEVD, New York, becomes ESPN outlet for Disney, Sept 1 *WNYE, New York, losing foreign-language and BBC relays, but some think it will improve under management of WNYC; see DXLD 1-116 *Personal Public Radio abandoned by KOSU, along with side-streams of other music formats; was an obstacle and too commercial *Sackville using up to eleven frequencies at once for RCI and relays, so must not have trashed an old transmitter *CRTC license renewal of RCI Sackville until 2008 is referred to as CKCX, so RCI has a never-used callsign *BBC Radio 4 has tribute to Douglas Adams, replay of Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy series; and best comedy program Dead Ringers *BBC decides it would be logistically impossible to charge web user fees *Ralph Brandi`s (im)pertinent comments on BBC WS finances *Dutch pirate R. Enterprise/Bandonica heard in Pacific Northeast *MW DRM digital test in Berlin from one transmitter spoils 162 kHz *Ostankino broadcast tower in Moscow still far from repaired after fire a year ago; maybe by 2004 *V. of Russia confident of its future; has new Commonwealth service for former Soviet republics; SW can`t be cut off like Mayak, tho could be jammed like VOA *Vatican complying with Italian RF radiation regulations, including MW via France to Germany *Portugal`s national radio stations required to go 24 hours *Big pirate radio expansion in Greece above MW into SW; Yugoslavia too *Turkey cancels its great music frequency to North America, 9445 *V. of the Free Socialist Iranian Kurdistan, Radio Liberty; and Radio Kurdistan monitored *Arutz Sheva, Channel 7 in Israel heard back on MW *Reshet Dalet, Israel in Arabic frequency change; summer time to end Sept 24, latening all its SW broadcasts *The middle of WOR 1094; thanks this week for financial support go to Bruce Berr; P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; wghauser@hotmail.com http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Our UT Mon 0000 on WWCR is now scheduled on 3215 instead of 9475 *Latest Spanish DX report is not on the WOR site but linked from there to freespeech.org *Continent of Media 01-08 now available at http://www.DXing.com *KRVM 1280 Eugene OR no longer carries WRN 7/24, nor WOR *WRN satellite info for European listeners, including WOR Sat 0800 UT; see DXLD 1-115 or our website *English from UAE Radio Dubai is still heard at 0330, contrary to 1093 *Taleban website hacked and no longer available: http://www.taleban.com *R. Voice of Shariyah, Kabul, changes morning schedule again *R. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, new English frequency *CRI new relay frequencies at 0100: one is Cuba shifted 10 kHz; the other a new time for CRI via Canada *Laos again using 7 MHz, perhaps into evening and DXable *Website with some info on Dusit Palace Station, Bangkok, Or Sor: http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp8/thai/kingbb02.html http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp8/thai/kingbb04.html *V. of Malaysia monitored in English including 3 hours V. of Islam *R. Kuwait`s Tagalog program R. Pinoy as heard in Philippines *V. of the Lord, Philippines via Germany, from KAF = Kol Adonai Foundation; see DXLD 1-116 i.a. *Rumors of another strike this weekend at R. New Zealand; BBC relay fill not extended to SW *R. Baidoa, Somalia, reactivated on 6 MHz, mostly in local language *V. of Africa, Libya, on two parallel frequencies, both with a lot of co-channel from Sa'udi Arabia, Jordan, China, Russia, Okeechobee *V. of Biafra International starts weekly broadcasts Sat. Sept. 1; see http://www.biafraland.com *R. St. Helena E-mail says QSLs still be prepared; radio.sthelena@helanta.sh *LRA36 Antarctica still heard in Europe; about to close down *Schedules of four active Uruguay SW stations *R. Imperio, Peru heard on 8 MHz harmonic; R. Tropicana, Ecuador on 5 MHz, 4th harmonic of MW *Live interview with R. Moscow`s Joe Adamov, Aug 31 at 1400 UT, http://www.russiajournal.ru/cgi-bin/conf/question.cgi?id=10 *Radio Shack discounting DX-398 during September to $150, the clone of Sangean ATS-909; info about it: http://www1.shore.net/~dmoisan/faqs/sangean/ats909faq.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DX398 *Becker Mexico SW car radio discontinued and disappearing; see LeRoy Long`s comments: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/rxtips.txt *URL change for David Kernick`s site: http://www.intervalsignals.net *PDF version of VHF-UHF Digest available free at {NOTE CHANGE}: http://www.dxradio.co.uk/wtfda *Sweepers interfere with other SW signals, studying ocean currents and waves; operators and FCC don`t care [a.k.a. windshield wipers] *Propagation outlook from Boulder, August 28; flux range 205-150-175 *You`ve been listening to World of Radio #1094 *With a standard disclaimer, Glenn Hauser, here, inviting you to hear me again, next week ### WORLD OF RADIO #1093, produced August 22, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *My monthly Spanish DX report for August may be heard via http://www.freespeech.org/hauser/sounds/mr0108.ram [not the WOR site] *Single file on our website contains summary for all WORs and COMs this year, easy to search for subjects: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/wor2001.html *WWCR makes schedule changes Sept 1: 9475 to 3215 one hour earlier at 0000, including WOR UT Monday 0000 *Change from 15685 to 9475 one hour earlier at 1000, since from Sept 3 new Arabic Baptist Church M-F 1000-1100; URL TBA *New SW station permitted in Tennessee is close to Morrison, with geo coordinates, street address; supposed call WWCV, not per FCC yet *Both WJCR transmitters damaged by water into power supplies; off the air a while, need new final power amplifier tube *MT article on WJCR confirms they built an antenna aimed west toward China, wrong direction by consulting Mercator instead of Great Circle *R. Africa International, Methodist program now has QSL cards printed *National Association of SW Broadcasters concerned with issues such as on-air announcements about license renewal; frequency-hour fees *High Frequency Coordination Conference B-01 in Montreal Aug 27-31 *WRC-2003 agenda includes digital SW bands, or all-SSB, opposed by US *New associate members of NASB include Harris Corp., HCJB *United Patriot Radio announced new website, which is virulently anti- Semitic: http://www.posse-comitatus.org/unitedpatriotradio/ *Three new articles on UPR and RFPI`s investigation of Far Right radio in DXLD 1-112 *Kirk Trummel, pirate radio person, died of cancer at 37; personal website may still be available: http://www.janics.com/kirk *Off the Hook site has news of WBAI situation, http://www.2600.com *Story about Pacifica and Democracy Now`s fate: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11334 *Not from WBAI, but from WBAI In Exile, http://www.wbix.org *Thomas Jefferson Hour now produced by High Plains Public Radio; webcast only via http://www.wvru.org and http://www.krcc.org which we hope will change Webradio to rm or wm; http://www.th-jefferson.org *Check http://www.publicradiofan.com for latest info on stations carrying this and hundreds of other public radio programs *WUNC in North Carolina replacing classical music with NPR talk, BBC *WCPE in same market reaffirms commitment to classical *NPR`s Talk of the Nation looking for new host to replace Juan Williams; Bostonians advocate Christopher Lydon, ex-The Connection *La Voz de la Fundacion still airing on WHRI, without Ninoska Perez C. *Habana Radio, cultural FM station, increases power *R. Mexico International plans 32nd anniversary observation throughout September; but Fox administration reduced resources for improvement *LRA36, Antarctica due to close with Base Esperanza in September; half its airtime is already blocked by Salama Radio *Strike at R. New Zealand by Public Service Association staffers, affecting some RNZI programming; BBC programmes filled in *RNZI had Media Watch twice on Sunday August 19; every Sunday? *You`re about to listen to the second half or WOR 1093; our address wghauser@yahoo.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; fax if really necessary is still available, 1-580-233-2948, attn Hauser *V. of the Lord heard on frequency via Germany listed as V. of Hope; from Philippines for immigrants in Mideast, also IDs as KAS (KAF?); another frequency it mentions may be KHBN Palau *Two RRI stations reactivated, Sorong and Jakarta on 60m *Nagoya DXers Circle website includes page showing Russia and CIS relays of foreign, clandestine stations: http://www2.starcat.ne.jp/~ndxc/relay.htm *V. of Khmer Krom listed as from Alma Ata *Why China objects so strongly to R. Free Asia, article from left- wing journal, in DXLD 1-111 *Severe jamming damaging RKI via Canada confirmed as China vs Taiwan (recording) *V. of Armenia English schedule *Far out-of-band 9 MHz frequency reminiscent of Baku, Azerbaijan now sounds like clandestine in ``bad Arabic`` *V. of Turkey`s live call in reception too poor on SW, but webcast messes up computer with special embedded player to be avoided; even encrypts underlying code for player page *V. of Mesopotamia, clandestine was via Samara, now seems Armenia *Iraqi National Conference has started satellite TV clandestine to Iraq financed by US: DXLD 1-111 and DXLD 1-112 *KRSI [R. Seday-e Iran] clandestine switching errors point to France *Contradictory schedules of English from UAE Radio, Dubai in mornings; transmitters burn oil all through the night *Pres. Putin decreed re-establishment of federal government control over all Russian broadcast transmitting stations: DXLD 1-113 *V. of Russia frequency changes expected Sept. 2; Ukraine too *R. Prague 65th anniversary special program on Sunday, Sept. 2; send reception reports Aug. 31-Sept. 9 for special QSL *Audio file of R. Borderhunter QRP test heard by David Hodgson at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SWpirates/files/ *WRN1 and WRN2 will be on Telstar 5 Ku band digital satellite from Oct 1, and cease Galaxy 5 C-band Dec 31; $350 for new reception system *Congo [Brazzaville] recording as heard via Worldspace satellite *R. Guinee, Conakry, announced new high-power MW transmitters *R. ELWA, and R. Liberia International SW schedules *Propagation outlook from Boulder August 21; flux range 180-145 *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1093 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1092, produced August 15, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *New August edition of Continent of Media 01-08 starts Aug 17 on RFPI; also via DXing.com and linked from our website (STREAM) http://www.freespeech.org/hauser/sounds/com0108.ram (SUMMARY when available) http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/com0108.html *New Mundo Radial starts Aug 17 on WWCR, Fri 2114 on 15685 *DXers Calling provides WOR, Marie Lamb and Paul Ormandy in rotation: http://www.geocities.com/nri3 and also ham Q-News; see DXLD 1-107 *New high-power transmitters being shipped to China, Greece *Mexican DX Meeting report on Viva Miami, WRMI, Aug 19-22 *WBCQ ship project delayed for fund raising; R. Caroline relay starts Aug. 16 on 7, not 17 MHz; which BBCWS programmes should WBCQ relay? *Tigray exiles in Indiana try broadcasting via WWCR to Ethiopia; see http://www.ethiopiancommentator.com for background in English, audio *Radio UNMEE broadcasts to Ethiopia, Eritrea *Monitoring Somalia from Kenya; few SW stations active. See DXLD 1-106 and various station websites: http://www.hornafrik.com http://www.allpuntland.com http://www.arlaadi.com *R. Mogadishu heard in UK; and R. Omdurman, Sudan, not in evenings *R. Burundi`s reactivated SW still not heard; mostly blocked *V. of Africa, Libya, back on 17 MHz instead of 15; address heard by Mocanu, Cumbre DX: africavoice@hotmail.com *Sporadic English from Algeria heard again *NPR Weekend Edition Saturday had 17-minute report from Sealand: http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2001/sealand/081101.sealand.html http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20010811.wesat.07.rmm *David Dimbleby leading applicant to head BBC, but opposed by unions *BBC Learning English no longer on SW to Europe, but MW *Film on the web of early 1938 trans-Atlantic TVDX from London to New York: http://www.apts.org.uk/recording.htm *David Hodgson, Nashville, DXed QRP test from R. Borderhunter, Belgian pirate on 15 MHz, down to 1/10 watt; congratulations *Standard disclaimer *Midpoint of WOR 1092, http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ Addresses wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *Thanks this week for financial support go to: Bill Flynn in Oregon *Deutsche Welle`s monthly DX sub-program in English gets lost in the shuffle; to Asia only, last Saturday of each month with Mailbag Asia. Webcast schedule at http://www.publicradiofan.com *Let`s vote for R. Austria; make your support known against another 50% budget cut: via webform at http://www.ratzer.at *R. Budapest, Hungary, may also be in trouble, as EDXC Conference is about to happen there August 24 *V. of Armenia`s Sunday English schedule varies, but excellent reception in UK *V. of Mesopotamia, clandestine, new frequency *V. of Kurdistan Toilers at new time; R. Kurdistan, V. of the Kurdish Socialist Democratic Party also monitored *Iranian clandestine on 17 MHz appears to be Seday-e Iran, formerly too close to WWCR on 15 *Experimental Japanese station JG2XA studies Doppler effect near former JJY frequencies; see http://ssro.ee.uec.ac.jp/lab_tomi/index.html *QSL from BPM, Chinese timesignal station gives schedule *Keith Perron has media show Wavelength on CRI`s domestic morning show in English, Friday; via http://www.cri.com.cn *Excellent article on Falun Dong: http://slate.msn.com/Subcultures/01-08-09/Subcultures.asp *R. Australia temporarily switched an Indonesian broadcast from Tinian to Abu Dhabi, same frequency until August 24 *RCI spur on 15 MHz interferes with CFB Trenton, Ontario *R. Habana Cuba supposed to have started webcasting August 13, see http://www.infocom.etecsa.cu or http://www.cubasi.cu -- but neither audio nor video working for us *R. Apintie, Suriname, active again on 60 meters; also has webcast: mms://206.30.227.30/apintie *Two MW harmonics from Colombia heard in Ecuador, R. Viva, R. Super *R. Impacto Cristiano, Bolivia, is unlicensed, and no mail *Two stations in Independencia, Ayopaya, Bolivia; the SW station is cultural and not the one supported by German Catholics *AM and FM stations in Mexico City with formats in DXLD 1-101 *Story about Samoan broadcasts in Silicon Valley: http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/goodworks11.htm *R. Oman, SW schedule in Arabic *Propagation outlook from Boulder, August 14: flux range 140-165 *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1092 ### WORLD OF RADIO #1091, produced August 8, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Unexpected change in second broadcast of WOR on WBCQ to UT Thursdays 0415 on 7415, ex 0400v on 9330 *DX Programs list updated at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/dxpgms.html *New Dimensions missing from UK and WSHB relays, so listen via RFPI or R. Australia *Useful websites for hurricane season: http://www.hurricanecity.com including links to live radio feeds; Nets to You at WOR site includes amateur emergency frequencies for each state; and Bill Snyder`s http://www.hurricanefrequencies.com *Hurricane Watch primary frequency is 14325 *Clovis, California station may stay on 790 instead of 1630 kHz *New Hampshire station 0.5 kHz off-frequency, making it DXable, WKBR *ESPN taking over onetime Socialist station WEVD in NYC; see http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/01/business/02WEVD.html?ex=997772935&ei=1&en=0600f38e7948d19f http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/business/media/02RADI.html?ex=997762475&ei=1&en=1798f16f4f7ca82f http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-02/New_York_Now/Television/a-120337.asp http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-03/New_York_Now/Television/a-120478.asp http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/36454.htm http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.08.03/news4.html http://www.savewevd.com *WNYE-FM NYC to be turned over to WNYC and change format losing ethnic shows and BBC overnight relays; http://www.aktina.org *Contrary to BBCWS, less rather than more BBC relaying in NY and LA *WHYY Philadelphia replaces some WRN overnight with BBC due to SW loss *New Brain of Britain season has just started on BBC Radio 4 *Mark Byford, responsible for BBCWS dropping SW to NAm, criticised by The Independent: ``contemptible stooge``, ``villainous...cretin`` http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=010805002724&query=BBC+World+Service http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=11952 *Greg Dyke, BBC head, got his teeth capped, so that`s why he banned cookies = biscuits *R. Caroline relay via WBCQ starts August 16 on 7, not 17 MHz *Radio Authority website in UK erroneously listed R. Caroline as licenced for SW; removed; see DXLD 1-104 for controversy over no SW in Britain for anyone but BBC, Merlin *Sussex Surrey Radio Group, ``Susy Radio`` low power RSL in August on mediumwave; see http://www.susyradio.com *DTK broadcasting digitally 24h on German MW frequency for DRM *Euro Sonor make-up broadcast and different test frequencies next two weekends, via Bulgaria? *R. Austria International budget cut in half; to keep English, French, Spanish, but not its own German shows? *Latin News missing from R. Finland; off the air, or on vacation? *The non-commerical, non-governmental, non-corporate, non-musical, non-religious, non-communist media program, WOR 1091, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA or wghauser@hotmail.com Check our website http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *RFE/RL temporarily doubles airtime to Belarus` in run-up to election September 9; accused of trying to ``brainwash`` citizens [note: due to a production problem only, there may be a 13-second gap within this item, such as in the audio version on our website] *V. of Mesopotamia clandestine heard again with morning broadcasts *V. of Iraqi Kurdistan heard in Ukraine on FM by sporadic E *R. Barabari, Iranian clandestine, followed by Israeli broadcast, apparently revealing site {from Anker, not Adrian Petersen!} *R. Payem-e Dost, another Iranian clandestine, followed via Moldova *Iranian clandestine called ``GHI`` on 17 MHz, maybe Seday-e Iran *Abu Dhabians cool with evangelical Christians using their Islamic facilities now brokered by Merlin, starting with WYFR, AWR, skeds *Has UAE Radio, Abu Dhabi, abandoned its own SW broadcasting? *FEBC Philippines, experimenting with German relay this week *The new Radio Free Vietnam shifted frequency 5 kHz; Democratic V. of Burma heard on same frequency by mistake, same site or same feed? *Gansu, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Chinese regional SW schedules *Christian Voice, Australia, produces spurs on 21 MHz, one in hamband *Radio Reading Service, NZ, believed heard in Tennessee on 75m *RNZI mentioned a strike and broadcast BBCWS programming instead *ZJB, Montserrat, too weak in case of volcanic emergency, on FM and internet only, not back on MW *Alo Presidente, Venezuela via Cuba moved from Sunday to Saturday morning *R. Cultura de Sao Paulo not heard on its three SW frequencies, but announced a limited SW schedule to save energy *Bolivian mystery on 90m identified as R. Ayopaya, supported by Catholics in Germany. See http://www.erdmobil.de/Bolivien/_Ayopaya/Radio_Ayopaya/hauptteil_radio_ayopaya.html http://www.erdmobil.de/Bolivien/_Ayopaya/Bildung/hauptteil_bildung.html *R. Burundi reactivated on SW, 6 MHz after months of absence *SNBC, Sudan heard on 7 MHz, with Russian interference *R. Kahuzi, DR Congo, heard on 6 MHz by BBCM; Christian station controlled by Rally for Democracy rebels *See DXLD 1-104 for Jornal de Angola accusing R. Ecclesia of being political opposition, not just Catholic; relays via Germany still heard *Propagation outlook from Boulder August 7; flux range 165-140-165 *Standard disclaimer *That`s World of Radio 1091; I`m Glenn Hauser ### WORLD OF RADIO #1090, produced August 1, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Benefits of visiting the WOR website include amateur Nets to You, new edition just posted at http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/nets2you.html and our new info in Oklahoma Broadcasting News http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Oklahoma7.html *Continent of Media 01-07 now available via DXing.com *COM and WOR are broadcast frequently on R. for Peace Interntional; 7445 changed from USB to AM, conflicting schedules; 21815-USB silent; 15049 24 hours on AM *Far Right Radio Review on hate radio, this week or next with the Top 10 most hateful people on SW, Sats and Weds 2030 UT plus repeats; and via website archive, http://www.rfpi.org *New SW station planned for Manchester TN is WWCV, Worldwide Christian Voice; antenna and transmitter plans *Radio Caroline about to be carried by WBCQ on 17 and 7 MHz *Seldom Heard Radio half an hour earlier on WRMI; tribute to Douglas Adams, new season in September *VOA Delano visited, and John Vodenik will QSL this site only directly: c/o VOA Delano, 11015 Melcher, Delano, CA 93215 *WWV caught putting out matching spurs above and below 10 and 15 MHz *ARRL petitions FCC for new ``60m`` domestic hamband 5250-5400; full story in DXLD 1-103, as are most of the stories in this edition *New X-band stations planned, researched by Pat Martin; no NH *New host for WBUR`s The Connection is Dick Gordon, ex-CBC *Larry Shewchuk, Canadian DXer and broadcaster, died of cancer at 43 *Colombian network Todelar has remodeled webpage, added audio: http://www.todelar.com.co *R. Amazonas, Venezuela, QSL reports with 3 IRCs may be sent via Sr. Jorge Garcia Rangel, Calle Roma, Qta. Costa Rica No. A-16, Urbanizacion Alto Barinas, Barinas 5201, Venezuela *R. Nuevo Horizonte [not Horizante as I pronounced], Retamas, Peru, new on 5 MHz; owner has website http://www.cmh.com.pe/toc.htm *Another Peruvian on 6 MHz, R. La Voz de Andahuaylas *R. Tropico, Bolivia, heard on new 6 MHz frequency *Bolivian on 6054.5 is Radio Juan XXIII, not R. Mauro Nunez, but the latter has bought that frequency *Another Bolivian has bought a 6 MHz channel, R. Patuju *Via USB, AM, FM, subcarrier, and Internet, WOR 1090, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; or wghauser@yahoo.com *ZNBC Radio 1, Zambia schedule *R. Uganda staying back on 4 MHz frequency instead of 7 *Netsanet Radio, Ethiopian clandestine, site bearing on Russia *Egypt confirms experimental broadcasts of new directional SW transmitters at Abu Zaabal; worn out transmitters still a problem, blamed on Ublisht, Russian firm which made the most terrible transmitters of the ages *Voice of Nigeria establishing more bureaux, adding more languages, ``re-engineered for quality external broadcasting`` *``Best Sellers`` on early comedy of Peter Sellers through August 14 on BBC Radio 4. He and Kingsley Amis did SW imitations; see http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/discover/archive_features/30_discover_features.shtml http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?id=010727001565&query=BBC+Radio *BBC has appointed an agnostic as head of religious programmes, Alan Bookbinder; we approve *R. Ukraine International had Ukrainian instead of English two nights by mistake; testing new extra-narrow beam to NAm, a monster- size curtain? *R. Gardarika tested to NAm July 30-August 2, some on former R. Free Chechnya service; see DXLD 1-103 *R. Kavkaz, Chechnyan clandestine heard on two 7 MHz frequencies; claims Russians will jam it, but has three different sites; Georgia to close down one of them *R. Varna, Bulgaria, still broadcasting Sundays only *Proposed VOA MW relay on Cyprus considering two sites, with another ruled out due to protests; Greens still oppose, and government approval pending *Merlin signs agreement to operate SW site in UAE, for relays, including BBC WS, RCI, NHK; transmitter and antenna details *Myanmar Defence Forces schedule; a break in it matches schedule of minority language service on another frequency *Laos reactivated 7 MHz frequency, test? *R. Free Vietnam, based in Louisiana, starts broadcasts from unknown site; not same as station of same name from California. This one: http://www.radiofreevietnam.com *Top 10 promotional ideas for WWV, presented by Bill Westenhaver and Sheldon Harvey, International Radio Report *Propagation outlook from Boulder, July 31; flux range 120-145-120 *And that`s WOR 1090; I`m Glenn Hauser, hoping you`ve enjoyed the program and will join me again next week ### WORLD OF RADIO #1089, produced July 24, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *New frequency for us Fri 0930 UT on WWCR: 9475; also on same UT Mon 0000, but from September plans switch to 3215 *DXLD 1-102 and previous issues have discussion about freedom in China, Singapore and the US; see Toronto Star articles about China`s control of the internet: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=995666807411&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&col=968793972154 http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=995752875465&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News *Proposal that Thailand should change from UT+7 to UT+8 timezone *R. Shalom, Iran`s service to Israel, had nothing but music *R. Sana`a, Yemen confirmed with one English broadcast, not other *Egypt testing two new transmitters on new SW frequencies *More monitoring of Malian SW frequencies in Europe *Salama Radio answers listeners; accused of being clandestine to Nigeria *France`s longwave power cut in half at night, only one megawatt *Love Radio from Berlin special: never mind, no SW last week *Poland`s SW transmitters have warble, low modulation; English as heard in France *R. Ukraine International transmitter sites discussed; power and azimuth changes; megawatt may not last through August *R. Samorodinka, Moscow 75m heard in Finland, is a pirate *World of Radio 1089 has now exceeded its midpoint; wghauser@yahoo.com or P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702; http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Standard disclaimer