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   ###