WORLD OF RADIO EXTRA 44, produced June 30, 2003 by Glenn Hauser [with DXLD issues where complete stories may be found] *Scott Fybush on attempts to visit CBC Toronto, Montreal, and elsewhere; RCI Sackville; RFI in Paris; BBC at three locations in London [3-107]; to arrange tours of BBC TV at White City: http://www.bbc.co.uk/tours *``On Air: A History of BBC Transmission`` is a new book, covering 1920-1997 when BBC quit doing its own transmitting; see http://www.onairbook.co.uk or enquire from editors@onairbook.co.uk First in paperback, now also hardback [3-113] *BBC maps: showing DAB coverage by end of 2004y: http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalradio/listen/where.shtml And a map to current coverage linked in this summary for Extra 44 at http://www.worldofradio.com -- [3-116] http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/radio_transmitters/digital_radio.shtml *2002 Annual Report of Broadcasting Board of Governors on request from 330 Independence Ave SW, WDC 20237 or http://www.bbg.gov/bbg_press.htm [3-108] *Includes an article about IBB Sao Tome facility [3-108] http://www.bbg.gov/reports/02anrprt.pdf *Radio New Zealand International is tops for summertime easy listening, by John Figliozzi, July Monitoring Times [3-113] *Bitter Expat Radio Row for Control of Airwaves -- x-band in Australia, ``narrowband`` licenses greatly increase in value [3-111] http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/19/1055828434526.html *This is World of Radio Extra 44 *Voice of National Salvation, clandestine from North to South Korea, continues issuing verifications; see http://www.schoechi.de/pic-cla.html#Korea and http://www.ndfsk.dyn.to Address: Greneir Osawa 107, 40 Nando-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Frequencies include 4557, 4120, mostly Korean, but English at 0030 [3-114] *Sue Hickey in Newfoundland keeps hearing from V. of Korea, unlike Americans who would be under investigation [3-116] *Iraq`s Media Free-for-All, BBC News story; former relay stations taken over with ingenuity for local do-it-yourself stations [3-114] *The story of Iva Toguri, unjustly imprisoned as ``Tokyo Rose`` to become a movie; see Far Eastern Economic Review June 26; [3-115] http://www.feer.com/articles/2003/0306_26/p054current.html *Powerline communications still a threat to shortwave reception in Germany at home level [3-112] *Chris Mackerell in New Zealand reports on being a DRM pioneer user [3-108] *German manufacturer MaYaH coming out with DRM receiver later this year, DRM-2010; see http://www.mayah.de/content/products/drm2010/content.html [3-111]; Price about $850 [3-112] *Sangean in Taiwan working on a DRM chip, receiver by mid-2004 [3-112] *Methods of telling time diverge, despite leap seconds, with GPS time 13 seconds ahead of UTC, 19 seconds behind atomic time [3-114] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,985020,00.html *Cause of sunspot cycle discovered: deep meridional flow [3-114] http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1875206 *That`s World of Radio Extra 44; I`m Glenn Hauser ###