WORLD OF RADIO #984, produced April 7, 1999 by Glenn Hauser *Most frustrating week ever on E-mail, all hotmail's fault, running extremely slow, if can get in at all; some may be deleted before I can ever get to it; resend anything important since April 1 *So effective immediately, delete ghauser@hotmail.com and delete wghauser@hotmail.com, replace with: wghauser@yahoo.com for mailing lists and all correspondence!! *Wolfgang Bueschel of BC-DX has been in hospital for heart surgery, now recuperating; best wishes for full recovery! *WOR on WWCR: Sunday 0930 on 5070 to be dropped soon if not already; starting this week, new Saturday 1130 on 12160; reports welcome *Same time Saturday 1130 on 6975 from RFPI, may be better west of the terminator *Continent of Media 99-03 not yet produced *http://www.DXing.com being sold by Harry Helms to Universal Radio as of June 1; COM audio likely to continue *https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio functioning well; check for latest info on all our broadcasts and publications, E-mail situation *Place to get the A-99 HFCC shortwave frequency schedule (zipped): http://itre.ncsu.edu/radio/hfcc/a99allx2.zip *As expected, National Guard PsyOps planes from Pennsylvania are being used for broadcasts to Yugoslavia, 'Commando Solo' *Radio Yugoslavia changed schedule after one week due to DST in North America, also avoids interference; includes jingles *Radio B-92, Belgrade, closed by authorities *Russia planned to broadcast B-92 from Moldova *New Kosova Crisis webpage by Karen J. Pagoo; cheer her on: http://members.tripod.com/~pagoo2/news1/news3-5.html *V. of Russia started special broadcasts to Balkans, including English; speaking to NATO troops; see http://www.vor.ru/kosovo/ *V. of Russia's best frequencies in English to North America *Past the halfway point: WOR #984; don't use hotmail anymore, but wghauser@yahoo.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA; by fax if really necessary: 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser; check our website: https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio including our DX news reports *AMSAT France objects to Russian mini-Sputnik 99 plans to broadcast Swatch advertising as "Beatnik" on 2 meters *R. Romania Int'l English monitoring observations, interference *Lithuania's only shortwave frequency heard testing new transmitter *Deutsche Welle changes in English programming to North America *R. France Int'l as monitored in English; and on 11 meters *Still waiting for activity on 25 MHz band like ten years ago *BBC WS jumbles more programming to accomodate more news *Headline item about submarine specials delayed a week *April is Maritime Month, with ham operations from British coastal stations; and from others around the world April 10-11. More info at http://www.qsl.net/gm3zdh/coast/index.htm *V. of Turkey's English partial schedule; erratic transmission *V. of the Islamic Republic of Iran complete English schedule, many new frequencies *Bangladesh has erratic old transmitter at Sahar; English schedule *V. of Vietnam on new 13 MHz frequency; and new frequency usage *R. Nacional del Paraguay 19 MHz harmonic heard in USA *R. Cultura, Brazil heard over darkness on 17 MHz *Space Environment Center with new short-term predictions on website updated every 15 minutes: http://sec.noaa.gov/rpc/index.html *Standard disclaimer *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 984 ###