WORLD OF RADIO #1099, produced October 3 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 https://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 ###