WORLD OF RADIO #1167, produced January 29, 2003 by Glenn Hauser *Big welcome to our new listeners in the Memphis, Tennessee, area on 50 kW WMQM, 1600, Saturdays at 10:30 am CST *Times on this program u.o.s. are Universal, 6 hours ahead of Central and in 24 hour system; frequencies in kHz, between AM and FM bands *Introduction to shortwave is at http://www.DXing.com *R. Bayrak International, Turkish Cyprus, heard varying to 6153 *WOR is heard all over the world by SW, satellite and internet, so some of the material involves other parts of the world: *Israel Radio testing new frequencies to Australia, New Zealand at 1100-1130, 15655, 15640, 17525, the latter through Jan. 30 *Israel Radio no longer plans to start broadcasts in Kurdish *Lots of clandestines for Kurdistan, including Voice of Komala, and Voice of Komalah, after a split; the latter on 7560, Sundays 1659- 1757 via Norway; recording mentions Communist, in Farsi *Iraq`s shortwave broadcasts are very unreliable, but scheduled on 11787 in English, German, French, Turkish, Arabic at 1900-2000 and 0100-0200 *V. of Southern Azerbaijan, clandestine to Iran, heard on 9375 at 1627-1700* See SANAM site: http://www.cehreganli.com *If you miss any URL, see summary for WORs at http://worldofradio.com *Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, English to North America at 0030-0230 on 9580, 6120, mixing pop tunes with religious talk *Iran is jamming politically incorrect satellite TV channels from seven ground locations in Tehran; health hazard from microwave RF? *Mystery on 4050, `Hit Shortwave` seems targeted at Afghanistan, since language identified as Dari *Afghan president Karzai replaces Interior Minister with ex-head of VOA Pashtu and Persian service *DXLD 3-014 has lengthy report from RFE/RL, Struggling for News in Turkmenistan: only two radio stations; no criticism allowed *RFE/RL applies to broadcast within Tajikistan, on MW and FM, a good prospect with its anti-terrorist cooperation *R. Liberty wants to expand domestic relays in Russia, but Russians ask for parity in exchange, their broadcasts on US domestic media: but there is no such thing as domestic broadcasting by federal government. Why not let them use Greenville, Delano on SW? *V. of Russia schedule in English to North America, DXLD 3-011, all frequencies at 0200-0600 UT *The non communist, non corporate, non-capitalist, non-Christian, non-Cuban media program, World of Radio 1167, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702 USA; or woradio at yahoo.com *Thanks this week for financial support go to Dan Srebnick *DW sticking to plan to drop English to North America, Margot Forbes replies to complaints; blames German government budget cuts. Press release about DW `facelift`, downplaying SW cut; but don`t pretend you won`t lose listeners. Promises to send details of rebroadcasters but there can`t be many in North America. And why abandon HF at this time, when DRM is about to be introduced, a high-frequency service. Making the same mistake the BBC made *Radio Netherlands plan to reduce its output including English has brought great protests; now the plan for reorganization is temporarily off the table; a new plan to be thought of. A letter- writing campaign to embassies and consulates might be counterproductive since RN very much values its independence from political control *Maintenance at Bonaire Feb 3-7 means 6165 from Flevo instead, at 2330-0130 *BBC to axe 60 jobs in news department, cost cutting; more to come *Three special MW DX tests, two overlapping February 2, full details in DXLD. CHWO 740 Toronto, with DX test announcements including code, 0530-0630 UT Sun Feb 2; -.-. .... .-- --- *CFAN, 790, New Brunswick, running code IDs between 0400 and 1000 this week before it abandons AM for FM: -.-. ..-. .- -. *VOA adds more broadcasts in Korean, like R. Free Asia has *VOA begins special broadcast for Zimbabwe, where government represses media, M-F 1730-1800, Studio 7, to expand to every day, also in Shona, Ndebele; heard on 17895, 13600, 909 *More reasons for FEBA closing down Seychelles site: antennas worn out and too expensive to replace; housing encroaching on site; power and licence costs extremely high; more economical to buy time on other broadcasters. Most transfers to be completed by June *BBC also finding it too expensive in Seychelles, and also may close *LRA36, Antarctica, heard again after summer break, to 2106* on 15476.1 *McMurdo on 7995, 9032 USB working aircraft and ground around Antarctica; callsigns like Skier and Skater *Not much SW from Venezuela, but text and audio via the web, in DXLD 3-013 *New webcasts from St. Lucia and Turks & Caicos in 3-016 *More DX tests, Sun Feb 2 0400-0600 from Puerto Rico, WBMJ-1190 and WIVV 1370 in parallel, also CW IDs: .-- -... -- .--- and .-- .. ...- ...- *Buffalo 1520 has resumed music format, like old WKBW, from WWKB *Half of Fiji without service from national broadcaster following cyclone; all of Fiji could be covered with one tropical band SW transmitter, but SW deemed obsolete there sesquidecades ago *RNZI has been running all night with cyclone warnings, on 6095, 1300-1650, excellent in Europe after 1500 *More delays until Feb. 2 in HCJB Australia`s service to Asia, 1230-1730; but already heard testing 15480 as early as Jan. 27; Pacific service set to escape Finland clash at 0700-1200 by moving Feb. 2 to 11770; why wait any longer? *Additional frequency for R. Free Asia in Korean 1400-1700 is 13625 via Tinian *New R. Seda-ye Kashmir, 9890 at 0230-0330, very strong in India *Lot of news this week about SW and other receivers, at the end of DX Listening Digest 3-013, 3-014, 3-016 *Propagation outlook from Boulder, Jan. 28; flux range 130-170-115 *Standard disclaimer *Glenn Hauser concluding World of Radio 1167 ###