[HCDX]: Glenn Hauser's SW/DX, Feb 5

["Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

     GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 98-05, Feb 5, 1998

WORLD OF RADIO new time on WGTG, effective March 8: UT Sunday
0030 on 5085-USB. From the second Saturday in April that would 
change to UT Saturday 2330 (Dave Frantz, WGTG, WORLD OF RADIO)

THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 927: grove.net website has been
sold; Orlando TV station heard via Cape Radio; Rich McVicar back
on SW; Tampa pirate on internet; CJAD changes frequency again;
Guyana back on SW; English from Colombia; Peruvian DX news;
V. of Free Nigeria comes from Germany; SCDX 50th anniversary;
Chinese attack RTHK; and the stories below (Hauser)

CANADA. Marc Montgomery has asked me to do a 5-6 minute piece 
with him once every two weeks on RCI Mailbag, starting Feb 1.
These will not be DX/SWL news but informative reports on some
aspect of radio and communications, predominantly Canadian 
based, such as DX clubs, impact of Howard Stern, radio
regulations, and answering mailbag questions about radio (Sheldon
Harvey, Quebec, WORLD OF RADIO 927)

IRELAND [non]. West Coast Radio Ireland got a reprieve, thanks to 
financial support from the British newspaper News of the World, 
so NAm broadcasts continue Feb 5 and 12; Europe Feb 7 and 14 
(Finbarr O'Driscoll, Eire, RIB and WORLD OF RADIO 927)
Once again the Feb 5 0100 UT Thu broadcast on 5905 via Germany
said next week's would be the "last of the current series" but
now they have higher hopes of resuming a few weeks later, at
least by summer (Glenn Hauser, OK)

TURKEY. VOT's English service announces these changes from Feb 7:
1930 Eu 9540 ex-6175; 2300 NAm 7300 ex-9655 (Roger Tidy, UKOGBANI,
WORLD OF RADIO 927)

U S A. WEWN/EWTN--MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE? 
According to an article in the January 30, 1998 National Catholic
Reporter, Los Angeles cardinal Roger Mahony has filed an official
complaint to the Vatican about Mother Angelica, the owner-and-
operator of WEWN "Catholic Radio" and EWTN cable TV network.  
Mahony has accused Angelica of violations of Canon Laws #753 and 
1373, which require respect for church heirarchy, and forbid 
inciting ecclesiastical disobedience, respectively. The article 
indicates that the Cardinal's actions were caused by statements 
made by Angelica on her November 12, 1997 live broadcast, when 
she accused Mahony of being a heretic, and called on her audience 
to practice "zero obedience" to the Cardinal's wishes. According 
to the article, Mahony is seeking an "interdict" on WEWN/EWTN, a 
sanction widely used in the Middle Ages, effectively suspending 
church membership rights.

The article describes how Angelica, at a 1996 "Call to Holiness"
conference in Detroit, declared that she would never turn WEWN/
EWTN over to the Catholic bishops, and would "...blow the damn
thing up before you [the bishops] get it."

The nun, who has taken lifetime vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience, owns WEWN/EWTN in her own name.  She often criticizes
church officials and institutions by name on the air, accusing
them of being too liberal or unorthodox. On camera, she has 
claimed private revelations from God, predicting worldwide 
disaster in the next few years--in contrast to the Pope, who has 
declared 2000 AD to be a jubilee year of celebration in the 
Church. (Owen Williamson, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

USA. The new WPHG, 1620, Atmore, AL, is usually audible here, 
ruining reception of the Houston TX emergency oil spill/NWS TIS;
Feb 3 at 1203 had USA Radio News, 1205 weather for SE AL and NW
FL, 1207 ID as "1620 Stereo, WPHG, Atmore, Alabama...We are 
Playing His Glory" and hymn. We do not really need yet another
religious outlet (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 927)

USA/PIRATE. "WREC" informs me that they were not relaying Montana
Audio Relay Service, as reported last week on 6850 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 927)

USA [non]. Several weeks ago, BBCM issued a WYFR schedule which
mentioned Taiwan relays but not UKOGBANI, as had been the case
for a single hour in Arabic at 1800, originally an exchange for 
BBC via WYFR which still exists at 1300-1600 on 9590. I suspected 
the listed Arabic at 1800 on 9580 was really via UK, so asked 
Dave Kenny to confirm. He checked with Merlin, and they say they 
are still relaying WYFR but the frequency has changed to 11665 
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 927)                         ###

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