WORLD OF RADIO #948, produced July 8, 1998 by Glenn Hauser *New Extra-25 produced and distributed; release late July? *New Continent of Media produced for RFPI; starting July 17? *RFPI's new 42-mb frequency well heard in Germany during Continent of Media UT Sat [not Sunday as I said] 0330, same time as WOR on WRN/Astra *Also too well heard in Tasmania, which asked RFPI to move; now on 6975 ex-6980 *RFPI plans live stream of all programming on Internet by yearend *Last week on WGTG 5085 we were on at 0500 UT Sun instead of Sat 2330 *WSUI 910 will be non-directional at night for 3 months including WOR Sunday 10:30 pm Central; try if you could not get it before *Spectrum vaguely plans to return in fall on WGTG-2 *WWCR filled time with awful rock program *Other WWCR programs have fewer airings: Rock the Universe, Ken's Country Classics, Old Record Shop, President & Republicans, Golden Age of Radio *VOA Communications World swapped times on Sat: C 1936, B 2136 *July 18-19, USS Salem special ham event with 15 ships contacting; http://www.uss-salem.org *KHBI Saipan finally being sold to Radio Free Asia *Selling off Darwin transmitters still not final *Radio Australia's Feedback easy to hear again on 21740; some planned frequency changes did not happen *Hancock's Half Hour, BBC comedy via RealAudio http:///www.rnz.co.uk and a new book on the late Hancock *La Voz Cristiana, Chile activates two more frequencies, one clashing with New Zealand *Paraguay says it will have external service in English et al. *RN - Bonaire transmitter splattering all over the 13m band *This and other splatter cases may be caused by the Orban 9105a audio processor, which many stations started using in 1996 *Via SW, FM, AM, Cable, satellite, internet, W.O.R. 948, Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA; wghauser@hotmail.com; fax if really necessary: 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser; check website for info on all our shows and pubs: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio *Tip for Rational Living *Portugal heard much later on 21 MHz, new 13 MHz to Americas *European Ch E2 video buzz on 48 MHz heard in Illinois *British FM station heard on USB 22 MHz *BBC WS previews: The World Lectures; Meridian Live; Broadway Musicals; Performance; Letters from Britain; In Good Voice *R. Prague gets reprieve through end of 1999 *ORF Austria buying new 100 kW transmitters *Deutsche Welle plans to reduce staff further by a total of 536 *Voice of Russia cancelling 30 foreign announcers' contracts; comments to letters@vor.ru *Tajikistan heard on 18 MHz and other harmonics *Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp. has new website with RA links: http://www.infolanka.com/people/sisira/slbc.html *Voice of Mongolia audible some days in North America *R. Thailand in English to North America *Proposal that R. Republik Indonesia become public broadcaster like ABC, BBC, CBC *With Abiola's death, monitor V. of Nigeria and oppositions *R. NADECO dropped by WWCR, lacking any new material *Wednesday WHRA broadcast is Ogene Ndigbo Radio, Box 91425, Washington, DC 20059 *CBC and RCI ended C'est la vie, replaced by The Vestibules; other 2330 summer features; Vinyl Cafe now on RCI instead of CFN; and within This Morning a First Nations parody every weekday, Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour *Another new X-band station, WMDM, 1690, in Maryland *Friends of the Earth Calendar for the New Era holding collective meditation for July 20 anniversary of first walk on the Moon; see http://oasi.asti.it/Homes/eudemonia/calene.htm *Radio Shack sold out of weather radios *Universal Radio has new catalog; $1 by first class or 5 IRCs: 6830 Americana Pkwy, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 *Propagation outlook from Boulder issued July 7, flux peak 128 *Concludes W.O.R. 948; our website again *Glenn Hauser, inviting you back next week ###