WORLD OF RADIO #945, produced June 17, 1998 by Glenn Hauser *Special WOR segment on AWR Wavescan starts Sunday June 28; also via http://www.awr.org and WRN Sun 0700, 1430 UT; AWR Europe 0930 UT Sun on 7230; Mon on ZLXA/2XA; later on other AWR stations and WRMI; is edition No. 183; try TIAWR UT Mon 0000 on 9725, 13750 and 15460 *AWR buying three SRI Schwarzenburg transmitters to move to Italy *RFPI's mirror site at belonging.com is down; use original site http://www.clark.net/pub/cwilkins/rfpi including the gh interview, under previous VISTA articles *Added to the WOR website: Oklahoma Broadcasting News, starting with tornado summary https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Oklahoma.html *OKC has powerful new Paxnet on ch. 62; UPN about to replace PBS on 43 *Broadcasts in English booklet in time order for international SW with all target areas and sites, excluding BBC WS. 4 first-class stamps in UK; elsewhere 3 IRCs or US$3: British DX Club, 10 Hemdean Hill, Caversham, Reading RG4 7SB, UK *TV stations won't pay qualified engineers decent salary *Drake SW-8 receivers are not all the same; improvements made in 1996 [not 1966!], coverage down to 100 kHz, sometimes called the SW-8A *Radio Shack discounts the clearanced DX-390 another $10 to $90; Optimus TV-band radio for $50 *Save Nigeria Broadcasting Service starts via WGTG; used to be R. New Nigeria (recording) *V. of Oduduwa, Ijinle Ohun Oduduwa, new Yoruba opposition service via WHRA (recording), including some English; joined by Igbo and Ijaw programs on other days *W.O.R. 945, Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA. Last week here I said 943 instead of 944. wghauser@hotmail.com fax 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser. https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio *R. Democracy for Africa awaiting congressional approval, but USIA and VOA ready to go with three languages *R. Botswana heard on 70 MHz band in England *Canadian Forces Network via RCI shutting down at Junend; RCI will QSL for it; schedule, all via Skelton *CBC This Morning, Sunday, summer cut to two hours, with Gzowski conversations during final hour *WRNO's auction procedure; one bid has been rejected *Crisis at Radio Marti, excellent long article at http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1998/060498/feature1-1.html *Back after four years, R. Cima Cien, Dominican Republic, on 60m; another D.R. frequency has varied *Muddying the waters about Bonaire transmitter discussion: pulse modulation does not involve anything digital *Peruvian broadcast heard in middle of 40m band *Fiji University communications heard on SW instead of satellite *New president of Indonesia allows competitive local news instead of requiring RRI relays on the hour *R. Myanmar's English schedule, with inoffensive US pops, news *IBC Tamil service changing frequency *Bahrain's Gulf News Agency press teletype schedule http://www.gna.gov.bh *V. of Mediterranean, Malta heard via Russia in English *Spain's English schedule *CARACOL, Colombian network in Spanish, on MW from Paris for Cup *Shortwave Relay Service plans extensive pirate broadcasts the last two weekends in June *New on BBC WS: The World Lectures; Just A Minute; Multi-Track Special Live from Glastonbury; Waveguide; Wimbeldon's special frequency; World Cup Roundup *Propagation outlook from Boulder, June 16 *With a Standard Disclaimer, *Glenn Hauser concluding W.O.R. 945, and hoping you'll hear me again next week ###