CONTINENT OF MEDIA 01-09, produced Sept. 25, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *COM 01-09, recorded in late September, but heard mostly in October *Brought to you by RFPI and Universal Radio, about which more in the middle *Thanks to Oscar, Cuban exile in Florida, who was imprisoned for contacting Radio Marti, for following items *Cuba imports a million Panda TV sets from China, removes UHF tuners to prevent reception of TV Marti and US TV DX; and sales limited to those in good standing, employed by the state *Cubavision Internacional expanding to Varadero tourist beach, as well as satellite, and later this year 24h on internet *The fourth channel of Cuban Radio, without propaganda, indoctrination and censorship, intended only for tourists, being accessed by Cubans who modify FM receivers to pick it up *Comites de Defensa de la Revolucion, neighborhood spy network, now has a website http://www.lacalle.cubaweb.cu *Conventional and new cellular phones available only to cederistas, revolutionaries; even phone installation is a political matter *BBC involved in helping Cuba to digitalise telecommunications; why don`t they in Spanish call cell-phones, which are really walkie- talkies, ``hablandas``, or as a verb, ``hablandar``? So I lay claim to this coinage. Please inform the Royal Academy *Internet access strictly controlled in Cuba; allowing E-mail only, US dollars only for 15 minutes *R. Marti is promoting importance of internet *ETECSA, The Queen of Deficiencies, Cuban phone company *See DXLDs 1-113, 114, 116, 117, 126 for above stories in detail *Mexican emergency ham network schedule *Spanish language radio in the US becoming more sexually explicit, crude content and jokes *FCC commissioner says radio and TV stations should voluntarily keep transcripts, recordings, of entire broadcasts, to lessen burden on complainants *Criticism of Michael K. Powell, chairman of FCC, travels paid for by lobbyists *FCC rules on X-band stations loophole allows original owner to re- apply for surrendered frequency and continue to operate both *How weather affects 160m and MW band propagation; see E.S. Kazimirovsky and V.D. Kokourov, Geomagnetism And Aeronomy Vol 35, No 3, 12/95, page 305. And http://solar.spacew.com/cq *This is Continent of Media 01-09, sponsored by Radio for Peace International; and by *Universal Radio, 1-800-431-3939, http://www.universal-radio.com *ARRL Amateur Radio Interference Assessment project, above 400 MHz; see ARRL Letter of August 17 *NOAA Weather Radio will soon have a new voice, following evaluation and survey; Siemens gets $633K contract for voice improvement *300 Hz radio waves destroy pest zebra mussels: New Scientist, Aug 28 *Marconi centennial year: lots at http://www.marconicalling.com *Several SW stations feature Marconi on QSLs this year, including Italy, Vatican, Canada, AWR *WRMI plans multilingual Marconi special UT December 12, in cooperation with EDXC, special QSL; see DXLD 1-127, and remind us *Pacifica network board has five new directors; hopes to get Democracy Now back, settle with host Amy Goodman; but RFPI has been carrying it M-F 1600 UT, plus 6, 12, 18 hours later *James Latham article in Fall 2001 Intelligence Report of SPLC: From America with Hate: powerful US-based SW radio stations are broadcasting extremist propaganda around the world http://www.splcenter.org/intelligenceproject/ip-4s8.html *Terrorist attack on US covered in great detail, especially communications aspects, starting with DXLD 1-125; some links to visual and audio sites: http://www.axisdesigns.com/thanks/ http://emc.elte.hu/~hargitai/wtcmemorial/ http://www.thewtcmemorial.com/ http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/ http://newyork.citysearch.com/feature/38120/index.html?cslink=cs_generic_3_3 *Background music users request more patriotic music, but not SSB *Multicultural America; new Berber TV program on cable in Los Angeles *DRRI -- Digital Radio Rollout, Inc., laying groundwork for major Canadian population corridors http://www.digitalradio.ca *Hardly anybody has digital radios in Canada; won`t it be a complete mess for North America, with incompatible Canadian and US systems? *Canadian broadcasters abandoning AM like rats leaving sinking ship, especially in southern Ontario *See our stash of DX Listening Digests at https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ Comments and contributions: P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; or wghauser@hotmail.com *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding Continent of Media 01-09. Do join me each week for a new edition of my other program, World of Radio ###