WORLD OF RADIO #1111, produced December 26, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *In the new year, look for more and more of the newest info we have to offer at our new site http://www.worldofradio.com and bookmark it but don`t delete our old site yet, which has served us well for several years, https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *One new addition to worldofradio.com soon is a /calendar.html page, outgrowth of /holiday.html page, broadened *My Shortwave Year in Review appears again on VOA Communications World this week, first airing UT Saturday 0133 on 9455, repeated 4-hourly *Kim will also do two special VOA CW call-outs on New Year`s Day, Tuesday at 1433 and 1833 *America`s newest SW station heard testing Dec. 24-25, WWRB, Worldwide Radio Broadcasting, Manchester TN (recording, with address) *WWCR has been running holiday specials, including one thru Saturday 29th, Twelve Days of Christmas *WWCR has two specials on Islam airing January 1-6, schedule; see http://www.wwcr.com/cp20011211.html *Owner of WSM-AM and two other Nashville stations considering changes in format; listen to Grand Old Opry Saturday nights while you can *Public radio in Nashville, WPLN, paying $3 million for AM station to add news and talk *KRLD in Dallas going (almost) all-news January 7 *Cherokee-language show Saturday mornings on Tahlequah stations *CBC technicians reach agreement to end strike/lockout; see DXLD 1-204 for terms; if ratified, back to work December 31 *XERMX blocked on fundamental, heard on distorted spurs, including DX programs in English, Spanish; we update their program schedule for them *R. Maya de Barillas, Guatemala, on late Xmas eve; NY Eve too? *unID on 4470 may be third harmonic from Colombia *Explanation of R. Marias being heard via La Voz del Napo, Ecuador *R. Maranyon, Peru, active again on 60m and several reports of it, including classification of its musical format *Radiodifusora Comercial, new Peruvian, location unknown *R. Nacional, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina heard on 120m *BBC America Latina relay in Buenos Aires X-band missing, but a new one on 1710, Radio Mec, Caseros, Argentina *In decimal notation, this is the 1111th edition of World of Radio; wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *Thanks this week for financial support go to: John Babbis *A new clandestine for Zimbabwe called SW Radio Africa on 49m, based in UK, transmitter site unknown but unseems Madagascar, maybe South Africa; also on demand via website http://www.swradioafrica.com (recording) *R. Voice of Ethiopian Unity starts broadcasts via WZHF Arlington VA *Only two Somali SW stations reported active, R. Hargeisa, R. Banaadir *Strange as it seems, Yemen thinks Aden is most likely base for new US (television) satellite news channel in Arabic *R. Asia, new MW station believed from UAE heard in Punjab *R. Bayrak, Turkish Cyprus has two-minute window for DXing it in North America *R. Afghanistan reported getting new transmitter to cover 75% of the country *R. Voice of Afghanistan changed from London street address to: Afghanistan Broadcasting Company, P O Box 36467, London, UK EC2A 2YF; or P O Box 5459, Kabul *Congress OKs $19.2 million to set up R. Free Afghanistan by late Jan, to originate from RFE/RL Prague; moving three transmitters from Spain to Kuwait *R. Japan plans two special broadcasts: Dec. 29 Global Radio; and Dec. 31, Year-End Hit Parade, on many special frequencies; see DXLD 1-206 *Cambodia active again sporadically on 25 meters, no English heard *R. Reading Service, New Zealand, heard in USA on 75m, \\ RNZI *BBCWS Discovery Dec 28-Jan 1 on the Marconi Centenary; see DXLD 1-204 *Iceland again heard on shortwave, 13 MHz USB *R. Norway announced its foreign service closes at yearend, but from Jan 1 broadcasting all-news and first program home services; see http://www.nrk.no/radionorway *Fun, asocial way to spend New Year`s Eve is monitoring arrival of 2002, timezone by timezone on SW; or by websurfing, courtesy Media Network: http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/newyear2002.html *Eike Bierwirth`s Comprehensive B-01 shortwave schedule available at http://wwwstud.uni-leipzig.de/~pge98crf/bc-b01.txt or http://wwwstud.uni-leipzig.de/~pge98crf/bc-b01.doc *Propagation outlook from Boulder December 26; flux range 260-220-240 *Let us hope the New Year will be better for all of us *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1111 ###