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 https://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 https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Standard disclaimer *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1097 ###