WORLD OF RADIO #1094, produced August 29, 2001 by Glenn Hauser *Get-well quick wishes to Allan Weiner, WBCQ, who had cancer surgery; says he is doing fine *WEVD, New York, becomes ESPN outlet for Disney, Sept 1 *WNYE, New York, losing foreign-language and BBC relays, but some think it will improve under management of WNYC; see DXLD 1-116 *Personal Public Radio abandoned by KOSU, along with side-streams of other music formats; was an obstacle and too commercial *Sackville using up to eleven frequencies at once for RCI and relays, so must not have trashed an old transmitter *CRTC license renewal of RCI Sackville until 2008 is referred to as CKCX, so RCI has a never-used callsign *BBC Radio 4 has tribute to Douglas Adams, replay of Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy series; and best comedy program Dead Ringers *BBC decides it would be logistically impossible to charge web user fees *Ralph Brandi`s (im)pertinent comments on BBC WS finances *Dutch pirate R. Enterprise/Bandonica heard in Pacific Northeast *MW DRM digital test in Berlin from one transmitter spoils 162 kHz *Ostankino broadcast tower in Moscow still far from repaired after fire a year ago; maybe by 2004 *V. of Russia confident of its future; has new Commonwealth service for former Soviet republics; SW can`t be cut off like Mayak, tho could be jammed like VOA *Vatican complying with Italian RF radiation regulations, including MW via France to Germany *Portugal`s national radio stations required to go 24 hours *Big pirate radio expansion in Greece above MW into SW; Yugoslavia too *Turkey cancels its great music frequency to North America, 9445 *V. of the Free Socialist Iranian Kurdistan, Radio Liberty; and Radio Kurdistan monitored *Arutz Sheva, Channel 7 in Israel heard back on MW *Reshet Dalet, Israel in Arabic frequency change; summer time to end Sept 24, latening all its SW broadcasts *The middle of WOR 1094; thanks this week for financial support go to Bruce Berr; P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; wghauser@hotmail.com https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *Our UT Mon 0000 on WWCR is now scheduled on 3215 instead of 9475 *Latest Spanish DX report is not on the WOR site but linked from there to freespeech.org *Continent of Media 01-08 now available at http://www.DXing.com *KRVM 1280 Eugene OR no longer carries WRN 7/24, nor WOR *WRN satellite info for European listeners, including WOR Sat 0800 UT; see DXLD 1-115 or our website *English from UAE Radio Dubai is still heard at 0330, contrary to 1093 *Taleban website hacked and no longer available: http://www.taleban.com *R. Voice of Shariyah, Kabul, changes morning schedule again *R. Tashkent, Uzbekistan, new English frequency *CRI new relay frequencies at 0100: one is Cuba shifted 10 kHz; the other a new time for CRI via Canada *Laos again using 7 MHz, perhaps into evening and DXable *Website with some info on Dusit Palace Station, Bangkok, Or Sor: http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp8/thai/kingbb02.html http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp8/thai/kingbb04.html *V. of Malaysia monitored in English including 3 hours V. of Islam *R. Kuwait`s Tagalog program R. Pinoy as heard in Philippines *V. of the Lord, Philippines via Germany, from KAF = Kol Adonai Foundation; see DXLD 1-116 i.a. *Rumors of another strike this weekend at R. New Zealand; BBC relay fill not extended to SW *R. Baidoa, Somalia, reactivated on 6 MHz, mostly in local language *V. of Africa, Libya, on two parallel frequencies, both with a lot of co-channel from Sa'udi Arabia, Jordan, China, Russia, Okeechobee *V. of Biafra International starts weekly broadcasts Sat. Sept. 1; see http://www.biafraland.com *R. St. Helena E-mail says QSLs still be prepared; radio.sthelena@helanta.sh *LRA36 Antarctica still heard in Europe; about to close down *Schedules of four active Uruguay SW stations *R. Imperio, Peru heard on 8 MHz harmonic; R. Tropicana, Ecuador on 5 MHz, 4th harmonic of MW *Live interview with R. Moscow`s Joe Adamov, Aug 31 at 1400 UT, http://www.russiajournal.ru/cgi-bin/conf/question.cgi?id=10 *Radio Shack discounting DX-398 during September to $150, the clone of Sangean ATS-909; info about it: http://www1.shore.net/~dmoisan/faqs/sangean/ats909faq.html http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DX398 *Becker Mexico SW car radio discontinued and disappearing; see LeRoy Long`s comments: https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/rxtips.txt *URL change for David Kernick`s site: http://www.intervalsignals.net *PDF version of VHF-UHF Digest available free at {NOTE CHANGE}: http://www.dxradio.co.uk/wtfda *Sweepers interfere with other SW signals, studying ocean currents and waves; operators and FCC don`t care [a.k.a. windshield wipers] *Propagation outlook from Boulder, August 28; flux range 205-150-175 *You`ve been listening to World of Radio #1094 *With a standard disclaimer, Glenn Hauser, here, inviting you to hear me again, next week ###