WORLD OF RADIO #1008, produced Oct 20, 1999 by Glenn Hauser *I substitute for Kim Elliott again this week on Communications World, VOA News Now, UT Sat Oct 23 0136, 0535, 1136, 1736 *New edition of Mundo Radial starts Oct 22, Fri 2115 on 15685; from November shifts to 2215 on 9475; check script on WOR website *DST in NAm ends at 2 am local Oct 31; also start of B-99 SW season with many time and/or frequency changes *WOR on WWCR shifts one UT hour later from Oct 31 on same frequencies: Thu 2130 15685, Sat 1230 12160, Sun 0330 and 0630 5070, Mon 0130 3215, Mon 0600 3210, Tue 1330 15685 *V. of Tibet again clashing Tue at 1230, but should escape it at 1330 *Websites containing many new B-99 schedules, including BBC/Merlin and DW: http://www.addx.de/hfpdat/ and http://www.dxa.be *Joe Hanlon now has E-mail joeswl@cs.com inviting contacts regarding frequency management issues *Oct 22 special event W1A/CC for Marconi's 125th; also dedicating monument on Cape Cod *Jean Shepherd, prolific radio raconteur, died Oct 6; old shows are on WBCQ 7415, Fridays 2030-2130; several websites dedicated to him: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19991018.atc.20.ram http://www.arnewsline.org http://www.latimes.com/news/state/19991017/t000094046.html http://www.spacelab.net/~bkaye/ilibertine.html http://www.channel2000.com/sh/entertainment/news/articles/natlphae-entnews-991016-162125.html http://www.searls.com *Spectrum considering calling it quits; to decide on a listener appreciation show Oct 30 *Star Spangled Banner found on a rare shortwave broadcast, WINB *President of Estonia speaks about RFE to embarrassed VOA audience *Robert Rabinovitch confirmed as new head of CBC to press plaudits *His predecessor James McCoubrey is recovering from head injury with severe memory loss *Greenland SW special last week was cancelled *UKE Senderen, Norway student special SW is off and on but trying *Sweden's new B-99 English schedule *New RTE Ireland relay on 13 MHz must be Sackville, as another such frequency listed for B-99 *Wales Radio International frequency changes for B-99 *BBC WS in early November: Trading Places; From Our Own Correspondent; Letter from America; Likeness of Being; Print the Legend; Composer of the Month: Bernstein; Concert Hall; Pick of the World; Dewali, the Hindu Festival of Light; Seeing Stars *1008th edition of World of Radio, Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA; wghauser@yahoo.com or by fax if really necessary 1-580-233-2948 [attention Hauser]. See website for schedules of all our broadcasts and summaries, scripts: https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio *Thanks this week for financial support, to Bill Flynn *Standard disclaimer *British Telecom to demolish historic Rugby transmitter site *Red Cross broadcasts to the Balkans *RVI Belgium changes both Bonaire relay frequencies *High end of 21 MHz band tried not only by SW Relay Service but also *Alfa Lima International *Deutsche Welle's plans for 11 meters in B-99 season *Austria's B-99 English includes new morning relay via Canada *Previous Budapest schedule was for last year; now, this winter's *R. Bulgaria's B-99 English *R. St. Helena finally QSLing last year's broadcast *This year's possibly final R. St. Helena Day is Sat Oct 23 *Tune in an hour earlier when pirates habitually appear *Channel Africa B-99 English *Major nomad on 60m is Mauritania, frequency drift tracked to late closing *Israel Radio B-99 English *Galei Tzahal supposed to be 24 hours on SW *Proposal to make Israel's Reshet Alef all Torah all the time *Jordan shifted time Oct 1 for English *R. Pakistan website unchanged, but inaccurate; more English times confirmed *V. of Mongolia English schedule *Bhutan as heard in Arizona *Myanmar heard late enough for English *BBCWS and Red Crosses launched Radiolink for Timor refugees *Newfoundland DXpedition pulled in Falkland Islands; ongoing reports on special website: http://members.xoom.com/MarkWA1ION/nfdxpage.htm *RFPI program time changes: angelic music, Spiritual Awakening, Alternative Radio *Currently active Chilean SW frequencies *All-music Chilean transmitters on 47-49 MHz band as 6m DX pilots *Bill Hepburn provides tropo ducting DX forecasts at http://www.total.net/~hepburnw/tropo.html *Ionopsheric propagation outlook from Ottawa *Outlook from Boulder, Oct 19: disturbed and major storms; flux peak 200 *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1008 ###