WORLD OF RADIO 1046, produced August 2, 2000 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *New edition of Continent of Media 0006 started August 1 on RFPI; soon also via http://www.DXing.com/conmedia.htm and see summary at https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Commid.html *WOR new time on WWCR: Sunday 1830 on 15685 *Our Iowa City affiliate, WSUI has started webcasting; via http://wsui.uiowa.edu *Time conversion reminder; 24h times here are in Universal Time *New station on X-band, WEUP, Huntsville AL *Mystery 1620 kHz in Haitian French tracked down to Brockton MA *Stephen Dunifer loses Free Radio Berkeley court challenge vs FCC; microradio protests to continue *WMAQ, Chicago, ended August 1, tho calls continue two weeks with The Score during simulcast; website re-routed to WBBM`s *Madison Area Get-Together, Saturday afternoon, August 19: inquire from Bill Dvorak, dxerak@aol.com or 608-244-5497 or 501 Algoma St., Madison, WI 53704. RSVP *New website with local broadcast messageboards: http://www.thetransmitter.net *New Channel 2 just starting near San Antonio, KBEJ, and promptly DXed while testing *UPN network to be renamed January 1 Paramount Network *New website under construction with logos, IDs and TPs of all Canadian TV stations: http://members.home.net/tvdx1/tv-can.htm *KNLS Alaska adding a second 100 kW transmitter *WGTG about to test transmitter three on Australia, Namibia frequencies *Zimbabwe Forum from VOA has been cancelled *Communications World finally gets VOA SW frequencies Saturdays at 2132 *RFPI has alternative coverage of Republican, Democratic conventions from National Radio Project *RFPI`s Progressive News reduced, but adding Freespeech Radio News weekly from Pacifica stringers *R. Villa, Dominican Republic, with good Afro-Caribbean music *FARC clandestine schedules on their website http://www.resistencianacional.org/radio.htm *R. Huancabamba, Peru back to old frequency *Brazil`s R. Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro reactivated with religion *Brazil`s RNB signs deal with RRI Romania for cooperation, maybe bringing RadioBras SW back to Europe *Paraguay`s martitime station for river phone patches, ANTELCO Radio *Argentine MW harmonic heard in Vermont, R. Armonia *Thanks this week for financial support go to Bill Flynn, Oregon *WOR 1046, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA; wghauser@hotmail.com Check our website: https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio including new version of John Norfolk`s Grundig Satellite 800 review, under Receiver Tips; and his new August edition of Nets To You *R. Central, Papua New Guinea, reactivated briefly on 3290 *Another new PNG station, FM Central *Lao National Radio has 5-minute window in Europe; clip at http://www.intervalsignals.com *R. Thailand stops English on domestic SW frequencies *IBB Sri Lanka promises to QSL directly reports already received *Clash between AIR Goa and VOA Kavalla *World Falun Dafa Radio changed to frequency which is also used by R. Free Asia from Tajikistan *R. Pakistan changes 17 MHz frequency for European service including English news bits *Abu Dhabi has two services on SW in Arabic *R. Aden, Yemen, still SW mystery, as other stations reported. Maybe Gulf Cooperation Council relay, and/or Sunday only? *V. of the People of Kurdistan has good website partly in English http://www.aha.ru/~said/dang.htm *More webcasting from Israel, "radio" in English: Arutz 7 has http://www.israelnationalnews.com and Jerusalem Post Radio, http://www.jpostradio.com *Ham radio DXpedition now underway to Tromelin Island, Indian Ocean by FR/F6KDF/T; details in DXLD 00-97, and website http://perso.easynet.fr/~f6jjx/menu.htm *Two more FM stations in Somalia: Mogadishu, Somali Television Network; Kismaayo, for alliance of clans *Schedule for Aydid`s V. of the People of the Somali Republic on SW *Libya`s Voice of Africa, English times on new frequency *R. Nacional de la RASD, Western Sahara clandestine, new frequency, times for Spanish and Arabic *Star Radio, Liberia, given ''final ultimatum`` to close down July 22 *R. Ecclesia, Angola relays via Holland and Madagascar had to stop July 26 as unable to feed audio; still on internet *Romany trying to get radio service via RFE from Prague or VOA *Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Finland, on again from 2100 UT August 4; see http://www.swradio.net *Saddened to report that Bill Cheek, Monitoring Times columnist died July 22 of cancer [link added August 5:] http://www.grove-ent.com/mtappeal.html *Sony investing in Alabama company; see http://www.timedomain.com *Propagation outlook from Boulder, August 1; flux range 155-240-155 *Glenn Hauser, here, concluding World of Radio 1046 ###