WORLD OF RADIO #1172, produced March 5, 2003 by Glenn Hauser *first weekly broadcast on WWCR now back on 15825 until next December, Thursdays 2130 UT; one hour earlier from April *Nets To You revised March 1: http://worldofradio.com/nets2you.html *FCC document on shortwave broadcast allocations, also with worldwide frequency table 9-28000 kHz, 54 pages in pdf: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-39A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-39A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-39A1.txt *Charlotte Beers quits public diplomacy position to enhance image of US among Muslims, for health reasons *WBCQ not only moved from 9335 to 9330 but from USB to LSB with reduced carrier *WJIE testing second transmitter on 13595 toward Buenos Aires, reports wanted; simulcasting 7490 at first *Montreal area 2-meter net about SWL is no longer in service but *Tarheel SWL/SIG net in Raleigh NC Mondays 9 pm ET on 146.64; also amateur radio newshour Sundays 8:15 pm *New community FM station in Fort Collins CO, KRFC, 88.9; details and stream via http://www.prfr.org for Public Radio Front Range *WUSF, 89.7, Tampa, Florida claims to be first ``all-digital`` US public radio station; widely heard by sporadic E, probably still analog too *X band news: R. Disney has another 1640 station, Lake Oswego/Portand OR, KDZR *KXTR, 1660, Kansas City has page for DX listeners: http://www.kxtr.com/home *New 1680 starting March 31 in Washington state, KTFH, with an international format *KQXX, 1700, Brownsville TX, too strong at night even in Alberta *WTIR, 1680, Winter Garden FL, and WPTX, 1690, Maryland, heard in Antarctica at Neumayer Station, Dronning Maud Land *R. Globo, Rio de Janeiro heard on feeder 13240 RCSSB *Carnaval coverage on R. Bandeirantes, 6090, 9645, 11925, including samba school parades *Guyana gone again on March 1, not heard on 3291 or 5950 *TGNA, R. Cultural, Guatemala, reactivated 3300, including English 0300; 10 kW for now but will reduce to 1 kW; 1000-1330, 2300-0330 *R. Rebelde, Cuba heard on 6390 = 9 x 710, not unusual for Cuba *XEPRS, 1090, Baja California was off a while, now back with new sports talk format, The Mighty 1090, much stronger than before *ORTF Reunion, 2446 kHz, verified by follow-up 30 years later *FEBA Seychelles to close by end of winter season, earlier than previously planned *Three 100 kW SW transmitters of FEBA purchased by WJIE, one for Liberia *ZNBC Zambia left 6265 for 5915; breaks pattern of all Zambian SW frequencies ending in -65; but 5915 is halfway between 5865 and 5965! *Channel Africa, South Africa, diversifying with programming produced all over the continent; ``The Voice of the African Renaissance`` http://www.channelafrica.org *Standard disclaimer *The non-government, non-Cuban, non-commercial, non-communist, non- Christian, non-corporate, non-Cumbre, non-musical DX program, WOR 1172, P O Box 1684, Enid, OK 73702; woradio at yahoo.com *Thanks this week for financial support go to Steven Lare *PayPal available for transfer of funds to WOR; link at our website http://worldofradio.com *RNA, Angola, listed with foreign languages 2100-0100 in French, English, Lingala, Portuguese on 7245, 3375, 945; Anyone confirm? *V. of Biafra International, Sat 2100-2200 on 7380 reported to be from South Africa instead of Russia; contradictory opinions; a rare clandestine in English. Only Ludo Maes of TDP knows for sure *Another anom-Mali: SW frequencies no longer omnidirectional. 11960 seems to be east-west judging from reports *Congo DR stations: Bunia stable on 5066.32; R. Kahuzi on 6209.8 including relays of VOA English *V. of Democratic Eritrea, 5925, Sat 1500-1600 reported to have moved from Germany to Norway; others think it`s still Germany; program is mostly shouting with lots of hum *V. of Sudan, another reactivated clandestine, IDs in English, Arabic; 1530-1600 on 8000; same newsreader as in past; see http://www.ndasudan.org *Algeria confirmed to be off SW, technical problems *See almost every new issue of DX Listening Digest for new A-03 schedules effective from end of March *R. Austria International being closed by government for refusing to be government mouthpiece; new studio and transmitter equipment going to waste, no benefit to Austria; see website promoting ROI preservation: http://www.radio-portal.org *IRRS Italy, 5780, monitored with LSB and USB, no carrier *R. Ukraine International plans to be ``all-digital`` in a few years after upgrade; meaning DRM only? Listen UT Sundays 0130 and 0430 on 7375 for mailbag on this, repeated weekly thruout March *R. Free Chechnya, from Russia, resumes SW in addition to longwave; schedule *British Forces Broadcasting Service shortwave schedule from HQ *R. Sawa finally moved Cyprus 600 kW from 981 to 990 kHz *Hearing English from Baghdad? Don`t count on it, but try 11787v; Carriers heard on 11786.78 and 11787.78 at 2200-2215 sign-off *R. Free Asia reported to have added MW for North Korea, but nothing on their own schedule; probably Ussuriysk, Russia, nearby on 648, 1 megawatt, already used by VOA; may have other clients; but an NK outlet is on next channel 657 with a sesqui-megawatt *Who`s in charge in Nauru? Telecommunications with outside world cut off, so even diplomats abroad don`t know *Grundig almost bankrupt, and buyout by Sampo, Taiwan, may not go through *Propagation outlook from Boulder March 4: flux range 155-105-150 *That`s World of Radio 1172; I`m Glenn Hauser ###