WORLD OF RADIO #1002, produced Sept 8, 1999 by Glenn Hauser *Increasing printing costs make resuming RIB and DXLD in print less likely *Encourage you to get E-mail so you can subscribe to RIB Online; check public and university libraries for E-mail access; wghauser@yahoo.com for further info or https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio and click on RIB Online at the top *Media report from East Timor by Juichi Yamada *UNAMET program from Timor: http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/etimor.htm *R. Australia covers E Timor; also http://www.abc.net.au/news/etimor/ *RA starting new series this week, "In the Pipeline" on digitization *VNG may stay on air until June 2002 *Australia's Southern Cross DX Club has closed down *R. Independence Bougainville reduced schedule; unID also from there? *R. Vanuatu heard in Pennsylvania on 60m *New Zealand TV heard in Hawaii *V. of China, clandestine from Taiwan *Yonhap News Agency, South Korea, press teletype on SW *Taliban's V. of Shariah, Afghanistan changed morning schedule *Israel's feature programs on 1500 English broadcast *V. of Hope, Lebanon, unusually strong *V. of Russia fall frequencies confirmed *St. Petersburg TV and radio network license suspended *Baltic Waves Radio authorized in Lithuania for 2000 in Belarussian *Poland's reactivated longwave runs a megawatt *TWR goes co-channel to R. Vilnius North American broadcast *Deutschlandfunk on new 49mb frequency from Berlin *Villagers near RFE/IBB Holzkirchen SW transmitters call on US government to close them down due to cancer rate *DW/DTK Nauen SW transmitters west of Berlin open house Sept 12 *Austria plans new morning broadcast to western NAm this winter *R. Tirana, Albania ran 5 minutes late *The media magazine you monitor with your mind, WOR 1002; P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA; fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser; wghauser@yahoo.com *Standard disclaimer *Thanks this week to Cindy Lindau for financial support to WOR *BBC Previews: A World for Children [starts Sept 18 not 8], Play of the Week: Mosquitos; Worldplays commissioned from CBC, RNZ; Off the Shelf: Chekhov, Austen; Poems by Post; Composer of the Month: R. Strauss; Concert Hall; A Name to Remember; Waveguide; My Century; The Works; Science in Action *BBC Radio 5 [Up All Night!] gets rave reviews http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio5live/ *BBC Radio 4 on demand has "The Internet: Last Battleground of the XX Century" http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/douglas_adams/ *BBC Bush House open for tours Saturday, Sept 18 *EWTN Global Catholic Radio heard via RTE Merlin; mistake? *Tamil Oli Radio from Madagascar had RN audio mix *Sat Sept 18 is World Amateur Radio Day; special broadcasts from South Africa *R. Minurca, Central African Republic, audible again *R. Universidad, Costa Rica, heard in Europe during brief window *WRNU, Florida X-bander now with all-sports format *New Florida X-bander with travel info [not Tampa] *Another Florida X-bander plans 10 kW night test Sept 12 *Texan X-bander now active on same frequency *Another new X-bander has started in Tacoma *Fellow radio editor Bill Pfeiffer was killed in accident Sept 1 *WBCQ had damping diode failure in transmitter; temporary use of backup transmitter *Congratulations to Al Weiner and company on WBCQ's first anniversary Sept. 8; working on WBCQ-Two *Tone tests heard from WTJC, but frequency nixed *WJCR acquired two of VOA Bethany's old transmitters *We heard WRNO on two off-frequencies *Cyber-shortwave live Sunday mornings; see http://www.live365.com or http://www.n1dk.com *Propagation outlook from Ottawa, Sept 1 *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Sept 7 *That's WOR 1002; I'm Glenn Hauser ###