WORLD OF RADIO EXTRA #40, produced Feb. 13, 2001 by Glenn Hauser; released the week of March 7, 2001 *Cancer near powerlines found higher downwind, linked to ionized carcinogens *Bob Tomalski, British ``gadget guru``, Media Network contributor, died; see http://www.trsc.com/musing_2001-01-18.html and http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/tomalski010118.html *William I. Orr, W6SAI, technical author, died *Is R. Austria International a Sinking Ship? The director replies: http://roi.orf.at/frameall.asp?url=/english/en_intern_thema.html *Voice of Russia quiz for the 40th anniversary of manned space flight April 12; see http://www.vor.ru/Spapce/Space.html and DXLD 1-019, 1-020 *Radio Miks-Master, Yakutsk, is an official, not private SW station *Olle Alm on the drawbacks of SSB broadcasting, Turkmenistan example *Now in progress, the 40th Extra of World of Radio, addresses wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA *Standard disclaimer *V. of Turkey English program list is at http://www.tsr.gov.tr/en/reviews/ingiliz.shtml *Visitor to Yemen reports on SW and FM usage *V. of Nigeria admitted as first African station to Digital Radio Mondiale; hope they do better with digital than analog *CNN World Report reviewed as disappointing; CNN cutting staff *48.25 MHz TV from Spain often received by K1SIX in New Hampshire by non sporadic-E; see http://www.conknet.com/~b_mobile/ *WWV asking for participants in users` survey; for hardcopy questionnaire to be sent in May, send postal address to NIST Radio Users Survey, 2000 E County Road 58, Fort Collins, CO 80524 or nist.radio@boulder.nist.gov *Monitoring the `national windshield wiper synchronization signal` and the ping-pong sounds *Site for postal rates from anywhere to anywhere: http://postinfo.net/links/Postal_Authorities/ *``Reactions``: artistic impression of numbers stations: http://www.isd.net/madams1/numbertwo.html *International Spy Museum to open in Washington DC, spring 2002 *Tasmanian radio played the only musical instrument which sounds the same backwards as forwards, mystifying musical experts *If you missed any URLs, or for more information, check our website https://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/ *WOR Extra 40 now concluding; Glenn Hauser, inviting you to listen next week for a World of Radio in our normal numerical sequence, well over 1000 ###