WORLD OF RADIO #1165, produced January 15, 2003 by Glenn Hauser *Standard disclaimer *LRA36, Antarctica, inactive recently on 15476v; usual summer break? *Argentina feeders still going to Antarctica, notably 15820-LSB, including a new relay of FM Vivir, unlicensed religious on 87.5 *See DXLD 3-009 for report from Don Moman on recent SWL weekend with his log periodic and beverage antenna farm, e.g.: *R. La Cruz del Sur, Bolivia, 4876.8 unbelievably strong *R. Nacional da Amazonia, Brasil, booming in on new 9665 \\ 11780, ex-6180, displacing Marumby on 9665; rapid-paced announcer UT Sun at 0700 *R. Gazeta, Sao Paulo, has half an hour a day of student programming, Gazeta AM Universitaria, at 0930 on 5955, 9685, 15325; otherwise relaying religious Cancao Nova *R. Victoria, Lima, Peru on third harmonic 18060.66 *R. Tacna, Peru, 200 watts on 9505, at 1000-2400 *On 4530, La Voz del ... until 0100*, HKJ93 in Colombia, apparently parroquial station in Mutiscua *Yira Paola Bolanyos, alias Laura, recsponsible for FARC clandestine La Voz de la Resistencia, arrested in Cali; transmitter site in mountains still unfound *Pres. Chavez of Venezuela threatens to withdraw licenses of private radio and TV networks which oppose him *On SW from Venezuela, nothing but R. Tachira, 4830, not on every night; don`t confuse with Honduran which alternates 4830 and 4832 *R. Nacional de Venezuela still relayed by Habana Sunday mornings for Alo Presidente, 15570; sounds more like a clandestine than official station *R. Tachira, 4830 heard until signoff at 0130 *R. Nacional de Venezuela: ondacortavenezuela@hotmail.com replies that will soon be on SW, presumably 9540, and already running SW programs on MW 1050 at 0500 *Arnie Coro`s wife Olguita rushed to hospital, but now back home with daily housecalls, Arnie playing nurse *R. Litoral, Honduras, sometimes on 4830.1, sometimes on 4832; ID at 0300; on three dates did not clash with Tachira, one or the other off *KNR, Greenland: Kalaalit is pronounced galaashlit; 1985 recording by Erik Koie of interval signal, ID, timecheck and weather *Mark Koernke`s wife Nancy says guns were in home in preparation for cleaning and appraisal to be sold so husband could return if paroled *http://www.internationalanswer.org has news of worldwide satellite broadcast, Voices of Solidarity, Jan 18 1600-2000 UT, for anti-war march on Washington; RFPI may be interested *Amarillo off-frequency station on 1009.8 is in Spanish *VOA Cantonese service converted to all-news format, 1300-1500; suspect same on agenda for many other VOA language services *R. Netherlands announces reorganization, cuts in staff of 60 or more, mainly affecting Dutch language services [but also cuts in English and Spanish broadcast time]; consolidating SW radio distribution, whatever that means, by October *Thanks this week for financial support to Jilly Dybka, one of the first to use PayPal to make contributions to us; link at our website http://www.worldofradio.com *We`re in the middle of #1165; P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702, USA; or woradio at yahoo.com *2003 the year of MusicMann 279, LW station off Isle of Man planning summer launch after overcoming many obstacles *Laser Radio via Lativa, 5935, moved earlier in evening 1600-2100 with Media Show moved to 2000; clashes with V. of Russia 1500-2000 *Broadcasting company Alex, Ukraine uses names Dniprovska Hvylya, or in Russian Dneprovskaya Volna, meaning Dnieper`s Wave, Sat and Sun 1000-1300 on 11980v, 100 watts, N/S dipole, mainly relaying UR-1 national channel; heard by one Ukrainian DXer as early at 0640 with carriers, from 1011 parallel to LW [not MW] 207 *Reduced schedule of lowpower relays of Belarusian radio re-expanded, program 1 at 0400-2300 on 6010 6040 6070 6190 7110 7145; program 2 on 7265 at 0500-2200 *R. Finland, not in English, adds weekly one-hour broadcast to NAm, Thu 2000 on 9805 *R. Sweden English to Asia changes: 2030 9400 ex-9445; 1330 adding 17505 to 9430 *Due to lack of electricity in Norway, both SW transmitter sites on half power of 200 kW from Jan 15 to March 15 *BBCWS in English via Norway SW also allows us to hear better 128K mp3 stream at http://media.hiof.no/streams/m3u/nrk-alltid-nyheter-128.m3u not only in local afternoons but continuously overnight: Mon-Thu 2100-0500 UT Tue-Fri; [Fri 2003-0800 Sat]; Sat 1847-0800 Sun; Sun 1847 0500 Mon *ELWA gets nationalized, that is run by Liberian nationals instead of Americans *Libya pulls out of Central African Republic after setting up radio station called Peace & Liberty, for Patasse to address the nation *R. Lesotho/Lesutu reactivation widely heard on 4800, good in Melbourne 1800-2000* and sometimes later, with strong interference from China; before 1745 4800 also used by AIR Hyderabad; heard in Alberta as late as 2240 *V. or Eritrean People now located, via Norway: Sunday 1630 on 9990; Sunday 1700-1727 on 7530; perfect reception in Bulgaria *V. of the People of Kurdistan, al-Sulaymaniyah, varies 4402.3 to 4415.2, \\ 4025 *Iraq shut down all internet access Jan. 12 after blanket E-mail campaign by US military; customers paid 45 cents per hour *Afghanistan to join global Internet, with US and Belgian investments *Special Haj broadcasts from AIR in Urdu for pilgrims visiting Mecca, Jan 14-Mar 14, 0530-0600 on Bangalore 13620, Aligarh 15770 *Maldive Islands webcast in English is 1200-1400 including news at 1300; WRTH 2003 says SW occasionally on 5998.5, tho not reported in years; and F.Pl. for regular SW on 11 MHz band *Ray Moore on west coast of Florida keeps logging VOA Thailand relay on MW 1575, transpolar; also monitoring 1475 Sabah, and 1098 Majuro, Marshall Islands *HCJB Australia`s service to Asia delayed another week until Jan 19, 1230-1730 on 15480 *Major receiver news: Grundig no longer in Germany, sold to Sampo in Taiwan; details in DXLD 3-006; maybe little effect on Lextronix distribution from California *Universal returns backorder for Sony ICF-2010 because production has been discontinued earlier than planned March 31 *Propagation outlook from Boulder Jan 13: flux range 160-115-185 *Glenn Hauser, concluding World of Radio 1165 ###