WORLD OF RADIO #1003, produced Sept 15, 1999 by Glenn Hauser *Last week's mistakes: name of BBC Radio 5 overnight program; date for start of BBC WS A World for Children *WWCR 12160 Sat 1130 has interfering carrier 12161/12162; what's it? *My new Spanish DX report for Sept on RN Radio-Enlace Sept 17-19 only *Hurricane monitoring: WOKV-690, Jacksonville, FL widely heard on 690; NWS relays of Perfect Paul on many stations including X-banders; emergency ham frequencies; widely heard AM stations with daytime facilities at night; from Miami, http://www.cbs4news.com; Bahamas stations *WNEW-FM New York converts from rock to talk *VOA's Talk to America Friday topic; only frequency we can hear *A Different Kind of Oldies Show time change on WBCQ *R. Marti's new frequency now jammed, as well as old one; why we think they moved; bad news for XERMX *Cuban jammer harmonic heard by VOA *Several major broadcasters ordered Thomcast Skywave 2000 equipment for digital SW *Conference Sat Sept 25, Audio Engineering Society in NY on digital broadcasting; see http://www.aes.org *The Numbers Racket CD-ROM on numbers stations; see http://www.blackcatsystem.com/numbers/cdrom.html *Jay Novello moved to new server including Pete Costello's SW catalog http://havana.iwsp.com/radio/ *Radio Shack 2000 catalog now available free; shows one new SW DX-399 *Southern California Area DXers meeting Sat Sept 18 noon, Seal Beach; info from Bill Fisher, 714-522-6434 *Sept 22, Wed, Broadcasting at the Millennium, Milwaukee, free; including Newton Minow; info 608-255-2600 *Fall DX Get-together, Lake of the Ozarks, Osage Beach, MO, Sept 25-26; info from John Tudenham, 417-624-8058 *WOR 1003, 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 *Review of International Broadcasting Online sliding subscription rate now descended to only $10 for next 2300K; see website link for info. By subscribing to RIB Online you help to support the continued broadcast of this free program, World of Radio *Thanks this week for WOR financial support to: Mike Harla, NJ *Globe & Mail supports Mark Starowicz to head CBC *C'est la Vie is back on CBC and RCI *Manolo de la Rosa doing DX page on http://www.cuba.cu/rrebelde.htm *RFPI's XIIth anniversary Fiesta on the Air, UT Fri Sept 17 0000-0400 on 6975, 15049, 21460-USB; call-ins and prizes *La Voz de la Resistencia del Bloque Oriental, Colombian clandestine on new frequency; UCSD no longer hosts FARC *Madagascar audio mixing problem explained and fixed *Baghdad Radio Iraq International heard at new time in English *V. of Mojahed, clandestine for Iran on three new far out of band fqs *R. Simbu, Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea reactivated after one year *R. Australia has new relays to Indonesia via Taiwan; later Singapore *Aussie comms minister still denies usage of Darwin transmitters *Communications between UNAMET and Darwin intercepted on SW *Portugal expands to 24-hour service to Timor Loro Sae; heard here *Underground SW programming from Georgia, detailed schedules *Ukraine has only one SW transmitter site left; schedule *Latvia used "Magic Star" as test audio; plans Merlin-like service *Romania's SW transmitters putting out lots of spurs *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Sept 14 *That's WOR 1003; I'm Glenn Hauser ###