WORLD OF RADIO #1150, produced October 2, 2002 by Glenn Hauser *Starting early Oct, like now, WWCR moving one of our times one hour later: UT Sat 0600 ex-0500 on 5070, changing coverage *WJIE more powerful on 7490; WOR weekdays 1200, and around 0030; also heard in England with Arabic 0740-0830 *Thanks to new collaborator Bill Brady, updated DX Programs listing at http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html *WTJC Newport NC, has permit for second station, WBOH, already heard with low-power test on 5920; http://home.ec.rr.com/fbn says it means Worldwide Beacon of Hope *WWRB Tennessee testing 5050, to replace 5085 *NASA frequency 10780 becoming active before shuttle launch, not earlier than Oct 7 *E-QSL from WCNZ, 1660, Marco, FL; lightning in June knocked power down to 4 kW; now back to 10 kW (daytime) *WFMT, 98.7, Chicago, added subcarrier, gets complaint of degraded main carrier; see DXLD 2-152 *This Jukebox Will Play Aaron Copeland, Oct 1 Wall Street Journal; http://www.newmusicjukebox.org *Two kilofoot TV tower of KDUH, ch 4, Nebraska, falls, killing two *Annual item about tracking burrowing owls migration across central USA on 150 MHz band; details at http://www.homingin.com or specifically: http://members.aol.com/joemoell/owl.html *R. Southern Highlands, 3275, is latest Papua New Guinean off for not paying electrtic bill *V. of Korea heard in Western Australia on 37340, 4th harmonic *Chinese classical music jammer on several 13m channels vs VOA, RFA, BBC, V. of Tibet; techniques observed *Tibet services believed transmitted from within, but two different sites, not Xi`an, China *English from Tibet on 7385 expected to be blocked at 1630 in B-02 by VOA Sri Lanka *unID on 5040.58 sounds like Myanmar moved from 4725, vernaculars *Pakistan reports confirm new 100 kW on 936 kHz for Azad Kashmir Radio, Mirpur; more of same in Rawalpindi *Radio Dat, clandestine for Kazakhstan, from Lithuania all along *Suspect Lithuania also source of other clandestines *Standard disclaimer *WOR 1150; wghauser@hotmail.com or P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; lots more including full archive of DXLDs at our website http://www.worldofradio.com *Thanks this week for financial support go to Pete Bentley, NY *CRW correspondent in Kabul on Information Radio: still heard on 864 and 8700, not 6100 as reported elsewhere; broadcast content and impact *Iraqi jamming reported on MW against Radio Sawa; and Two Rivers? *R. Sawa via Cyprus still on 981, not 990; change now planned for October 25 *R. Tanzania reactivated on 7280, at least in daytime *R. Okapi, DR Congo, firing up 10 kW transmitters Sept. 30; one confirmed on 11690, but beware of other stations on that frequency *Strife in Ivory Coast leads to `jamming` of local FM relays of BBC, RFI, ANO; really meaning closed down, as `unheard`? -- But still available via Worldspace -- and SW *Vatican Radio, English to Asia retimed to 1530-1555 on 12065, 13765, 15235; difference between the last two is 1470, where Bulgarians heard it *R. Bulgaria heard on 30000 kHz, 4th harmonic of 7500 *B-02 registrations for 18 MHz band include Bulgaria on 18900, 19000 *R. Prague heard yet again on USCG 5696-USB, 10 seconds behind WRMI *Mystery signals on 25775, 25765 with recordings in English and French, acknowledged by TDF as from Rennes, leading up to DRM tests *R. Caroline mystery relay on 7140.0 heard in European daytime; but station knows nothing about it *Laser Hot Hits heard on 9384.96, http://www.radiolink.net/hothits *Sensation AM, Europirate, heard on 15785, same as Galei Zahal earlier *YLE R. Finland reportedly stopped English, French and German a month early [not so, despite WRN delisting YLE; still heard on SW] *European MW signals reach west coast North America, 1314 Norway and others *Nexico still on DST, despite earlier plans to end by Sept 29 *Brazil delays start of DST until Nov 3, instead of Oct, for political reasons *R. America, Paraguay, moving 7385 to 9980; also heard on 7301.1v; tests on 120m band also planned; 7300 angle changed to 40/220 degrees *La Voz de tu Conciencia, Colombia, heard on new 6010.1v; don`t confuse with others such as Korean clandestine; latest info: off again, awaiting better crystal *Propagation outlook from Boulder Oct. 1; flux range 140-190-140 *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1150 ###