WORLD OF RADIO #939, produced April 29, 1998 by Glenn Hauser

*Last UT Monday on WWCR 5070 we were on at 0430, not 0400; but
 this is temporary
*My new Spanish DX report for May starts May 1 on RN's Radio-
 Enlace; May 7 on WWCR
*DX Listening Digest No. 49 is now being published, mailed May 1;
 loads of DX news; John Norfolk's ham net list and column; my Run
 for the Border report finally sees print. Sample in NAm $2.50;
 elsewhere US$3 or 6 IRCs; subscription rates, to P.O. Box 1684,
 Enid, OK 73702 USA. This helps to support the continued 
 broadcast of this free program, World of Radio
*VOA changing format May 28 to "News Now," 24-hour all-news in
 English, replacing most block programs including Communications
 World, reduced to 9-minute slots 2-hourly
*DX program listing at http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/BDXC 
*New editor for World Radio TV Handbook named; will have website
*International Listening Guide database now offered free for non-
 profit use: http://www.ilg.de/ilg-order.htm
*BBCWS previews: Quote, Unquote; Israel Among the Nations; You
 and the Law
*Critic's hat donned: Media Zoo too exhausting to listen to;
 Emerald Radio ruined by deliberate noise foreground, poor audio
*Norway's frequency changes for May, English to North America
*Radio Moscow announcer dies
*Croatia's main frequency to the Americas
*Poland adjusts frequency but not time
*Budapest election specials in May [station, not Edwin Southwell,
 is in Hungary!]
*Maltese program via New York station missing the following week
*V. of Oromo Liberation offices in Berlin ransacked
*Via diversified media, this is World of Radio No. 939; E-mail
 wghauser@hotmail.com - fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser; see our
 website for latest info updated almost daily on all our
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*We need feedback from listeners to W.O.R. on KNOR and WGTG to
 justify continuing
*Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi stations all running reduced
 power; times and frequencies
*Madagascar heard on another strange frequency
*Jordan has a new English program about Arab music
*Pyongyang drops Kim Il Sung song; politically significant?
*Another frequency for R. Japan's 0000 English broadcast
*Vietnam via Russia on new frequency
*Sarawak still on SW, contrary to Media Network
*R. New Zealand's new frequency schedule, as revised
*Australia has a new station on 1701 kHz
*Arkansas stations relayed on 1685 kHz
*New Texas station with DX test on 1700 May 2
*Scott Becker of the Electra heard from St. Kitts
*Havana's new SSB and AM frequencies for J98 in English
*R. Miskut, Nicaragua, heard again
*TIAWR retimed Wavescan
*HCJB changing frequencies to Europe, North America
 [really 12015, it turns out, not 12020 as published]
*Voz Cristiana, Chile, heard late into the day
*Propagation outlook from Boulder, April 28
*Visible aurora forecast around April 30 at mid-latitudes
*That's W.O.R. 939; Glenn Hauser thanking you very much for
 listening and closing with a
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