WORLD OF RADIO EXTRA 31, produced Aug 18, 1999 by Glenn Hauser *Commemorative WOR 1000 will be heard next week *I'm the guest on International Radio Report, Sunday August 22 at 1430- 1500 UT on CKUT 90.3 Montreal, also streamed on http://www.ckut.ca *By subscribing to Review of International Broadcasting Online, you help to support the continued broadcast of this free program, World of Radio. Full info at https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio and click on RIB at the top *V. of Tanzania Zanzibar getting new SW transmitter from China *Somali monitoring around 7 MHz *Trouble with pirates on ham bands from Somalia, Sudan, Congo bother Kenya *Sudan monitoring around 8 MHz *Namibia off 3 MHz again *Libya down to one transmitter on 15 MHz *Where to hear V. of Turkey in English *Israel only changed one frequency, contrary to last week *Israel 2nd harmonic heard on 23 MHz *VOA/IBB Poro, Philippines closing down in a sesquimonth; R. Pilipinas frequencies from here *China developing cyber-warfare *R. Taibei International via UK relay schedule *via AM, FM, USB, subcarrier on satellite, cable, internet, SW, this is WOR Extra 31; wghauser@yahoo.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; fax if really necessary 1-580-233-2948 attn Hauser. See our website https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio *BBC WS previews: Meridian Books on Goethe; From Where I Stand *Global Sound Kitchen very wide website explains its dance music *Latvia's SW service gone, but something else on its frequency: R. Caroline *Deutsche Welle expects catastrophic budget cuts in October, forcing major reductions, loss of hundreds of jobs; English news from TV; union to demonstrate next month *DW services to be eliminated or reduced *DW reduced frequencies in English to NAm already *SW Relay Service 13m transmitter down; others on this weekend *Belgium's problems with Bonaire relay *R. Racja to start SW from Poland to Belarus in November *St. Petersburg test transmissions this weekend for R. Gardarika; reports QSLed by E-mail only: pcd00342@mail.admiral.ru *R. Tirana swiches frequencies to and fro *Argentine longwave beacons in South Orkneys, Antarctica, Ushuaia *Where to monitor flights to Falklands from Chile via Argentina *Peruvian heard with R. Bethel ID, but is it really R. Arequipa? *UPI Radio News closing down August 19; AP takes over *WJCR caught off-frequency again *The Scream of the Butterfly pirate going legit via WRMI from Sept *International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend Aug 21-22, ham specials *Propagation outlook from Boulder, August 17: flux peak 190 *Standard disclaimer *Glenn Hauser concluding World of Radio Extra 31 ###