WORLD OF RADIO #1075, produced April 4, 2001, by Glenn Hauser *WOR on WWCR, one change: UT Sunday 0630 on 3210 ex-5070 *Entire WOR schedule on WWCR, UT times and days; Thu 2030 15685, Fri 0930 7435, Sat 0230 3215, Sat 1130 15685, Sun 0230 5070, Sun 0630 3210, Mon 0000 3215, [Mon 0500 3210], Tue 1100 15685 *On WBCQ WOR is now: Wed 2330 on 7415; UT Sun 0200 on 9335-USB or as late as 15 minutes past *Check DST-updated website: https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Mexico having more than a week of confusion in dispute over DST; DF stations heard still on UT -6 of CST, XEUN; and XERMX still has not shifted one hour *Yucatan`s 49mb station also on CST with anthem at 1200 UT; searching for tubes to upgrade from 500 to 1000 watts *La Voz de Galapagos, long gone from SW, and even MW, verifying old SW follow-up reports *HCJB to India schedule shows UT but local days, so DX Partyline gets its first airing UT Fridays at 2310 on 17660; back to full length *HCJB live webcast runs audio-visual commercial first *DRM tests from Bonire not yet heard; critique of DRM obsoleting AM *Lots of unusual DX lately due to extremely high solar activity; Argentine harmonic R. Armonia on 3.2 MHz heard in Tennessee *China relay in Mali new schedule in English for somewhere *High Adventure Ministries plans SW and FM from Jos, Nigeria, instead of Liberia; holy radio war against Islam; see http://www.highadventure.org/news.html *Tunisia putting out mixing products on 7 MHz band *New SW station on 41, 49 meterband from southern Somalia *R. Australia interfering with itself from two transmitter sites on same frequency one second apart, Taiwan and Shepparton *RNZI made two last-minute frequency changes, to 11675; and 15160 *R. Singapore International heard on 90 meter band; mixup or mixing? *R. Thailand, English to Eastern North America on summer 15395 *V. of Justice, Cambodian clandestine: Thailand still blamed in contradictory report; maybe more than weekly, lower than 15 MHz? *World Falun Dafa Radio, jammed by China, back on 12 MHz band *Standard disclaimer *We`re halfway through World of Radio 1075; P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA: or wghauser@hotmail.com *Thanks this time for financial support go to Tom Welch *R. Korea Int`l confirmed with no DST this summer shift via Canada *R. Pakistan`s new English schedule, all frequencies somewhat off *Iran`s English to North America as monitored at 0030 *Iran`s QSL policy includes newspaper, Islam book, blank QSLs *R. Bopeshawa, clandestine from Bulgaria to Kurdistan moves to 9960 and its second harmonic *R. Jordan still on 11 instead of 17 MHz for English, with RTTY QRM *UAE Radio, Dubai, English at 0330 frequencies, one blocked by Arabic *R. Bayrak, Turkish Cyprus, does not plan to reactivate SW; just MW *Greek government closed down private FM stations causing protest; see http://www.media.net.gr *V. of Greece to North America, including English news as monitored *R. Romania International, English at 2300 not on typoed frequency; another English hour for Europe better heard here *Vaticans and Italians still fighting over electrosmog; see last few issues of DXLD; deadline extended until May 12 *REE Spain has new address for DX reports: dxree.rne@rtve.es *R. Slovakia International to NAm changes 40m hamband frequency to 49m broadcast band *R. Studio Nevskaya Volna a.k.a. R. Gardarika new frequency to Europe *Siemens bowed out but German parliament going ahead with another Powerline Communications system, threatening MW and SW reception *France heard well on 11 meters *DTK Germany testing again on 11 meters, multilingual loop tape *Eurosonor Radio, new weekly broadcast on 6900 from secret site; see http://www.eurosonor.de/radio/ *Borderhunter, europirate on 15800 or 15810, believed from Belgium *Britain`s gay radio station LBH gave up on MW 1396 via Kaliningrad; VOR replaced it, and then signs off, open for DX in Europe *BBC Radio 4, A World in Your Ear, new times on Fri, Sun *New x-band station in Kansas City testing on 1660, KXTR *KMZT, Mozart classical in San Francisco reverts to Christian format *KHFM, Albuquerque, survives with classical but has to move to a new frequency off Sandia Crest, 95.5; also losing translators *VOA retooling its Arabic service to attract more listeners, persuade Middle Easterners to hate America less. See http://www.latimes.com:80/news/nation/20010401/t000027896.html *WWCR heard day and night in Minnesota relayed? on 103.7 *Kentucky State Militia Radio renamed United Patriot Radio, extends schedule, adds daytime 12182; Norm Creek convention imminent *WWBS, Georgia still active 4 hours a week, shifted to 11910 *Universal Radio has second URL easy to remember http://www.rffun.com *High solar activity made for unususal DX *Excellent photos of auroras at http://www.spaceweather.com *Propagation outlook from Boulder, April 3; flux range 210-160-250 *That`s World of Radio 1075; I`m Glenn Hauser ###