[Swprograms] DX Listening Digest 8-085; World of Radio 1418

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

DX Listening Digest 8-085 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org 
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8085.txt

CONTENTS:

WOR 1418 / ALASKA DRM / ANGUILLA / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA CVC+ / AUSTRALIA HCJB / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA CHWO/CFZM / CANADA CJWV / CANADA +non CBC / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / ECUADOR / ERITREA/ETHIOPIA / EUROPE Pirate / GERMANY / GUATEMALA +non / GUINEA / HUNGARY / INDIA DRM / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM XM/Sirius / ISRAEL / KOREA NORTH non / LAOS non / LATVIA / MADAGASCAR / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MOROCCO / NEW ZEALAND DRM+ / OKLAHOMA WE2XFZ / PARAGUAY / PERU / ROMANIA non / SAINT HELENA / SAUDI ARABIA / SINGAPORE / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / THAILAND / TRINIDAD / TURKEY / UK VTC/BBCWS / UK BBCR3 / USA USIA/Wick / USA +non VOA / USA +non WRMI/DCJC / USA WHR / USA WWRB / USA WBCQ / USA +non WYFR / USA WRNO / USA WWCR / USA KUSW / USA +non W269CE/W243CL/CJRN / USA WRFD / USA Demento / VENEZUELA / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 5050/5060 / UNIDENTIFIED 9500 / UNIDENTIFIED 9720 /
 UNIDENTIFIED 9950 / MUSEA / TINY TRAP / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / PROPAGATION / TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING

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 WORLD OF RADIO 1418 SUMMARY:

*If you are listening to a station which cut off our opening, I 
 repeat, this is World of Radio 1418
*WRNO New Orleans has finally started testing under new ownership with 
 new transmitter, first heard July 18 at 1938 on 15590.4; later also 
 on 7505, but only for brief periods with a variety of music, no IDs. 
 George Jacobs and WRNO HQ in Fort Worth confirm they have started on-
 air testing. Programming expected to start August 1. Not like the 
 original WRNO, but now just another religious station
*Former WRNO broadcaster, Nazi Ernst Gründel, may be released soon in 
 Germany
*Senate committee restores funding for some VOA, RFE/RL languages
*AFGE Local 1812 says fund VOA instead of Radio Sawa, Al-Hurra
*VOA Director Dan Austin made a `tour of doom` in early July to 
 cancelled language sections
*Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), introduces bill to reorganize BBG, 
 domestically disseminate government mouthpiece
*Radio Free Asia installing new equipment, while VOA studios are being 
 vacated; screams for a merger
*Unidentified sweep-tone tests on 9500 heard several days between 1200 
 and 1330
*Digital Aurora Radio Technologies, Delta Junction, Alaska, awarded 2-
 year experimental license for DRM on 4-5, 7 and 9 MHz bands; Harry 
 Helms charges it`s another Sen. Stevens boondoggle to spend federal 
 money in Alaska
*DART Coverage calculations based on 5050, 7350, 9623 kHz, but maybe 
 just for example
*KDLG, 670, Dillingham, Alaska, public/community radio station says it 
 has added IBOC; see discussion in DXLD 8-082
*WOLY, 1500, Battle Creek MI, still on the air 4 years after license 
 not renewed, excuses
*KGA, 1510, Spokane, authorized to downgrade from 50 kW clear channel 
 to 15 kW, in order to improve night coverage of co-owned KPIG to the 
 Bay Area
*KYHN, 1650, Fort Smith, Arkansas, asks permission to stay off air for 
 up to a year, since its transmitter in Oklahoma was flooded
*WE2XFZ, Chilocco, OK, experimental station of OSU Multispectral 
 Laboratory, heard testing again on 540, 830 kHz
*The media magazine your monitor with your mind, World of Radio 1418; 
 our address woradio at yahoo.com or P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA
*Thanks this week for financial support from David Cole, Oklahoma
*A standout on CBC Radio 1`s summer schedule is ReVision Quest, 
 Tuesdays 1430 UT, Fridays 2330 UT, plus 1/2/3/4 hours on webcasts
*Radio UNAM, Mexico City, 9599.3, not heard for several weeks. Its 
 engineer has left and not replaced yet, so don`t expect return to SW 
 soon, or ever?
*XEXQ, San Luís Potosí, says it is still active on 6045; we barely 
 hear a carrier there
*XERTA has a new studio address: Gabriel Guerra, 13, Col. Zona Escolar 
 Oriente, 07239 - México 75, D.F.; transmitter is on Pico de los Tres 
 Padres
*Leftist Ecuadorian government closes opposition`s TV and radio 
 stations, including two which have been on SW: Radio Luz y Vida, 
 4850; El Buen Pastor, 4815. See DXLD 8-083
*R. Voz Missionária, Florianópolis SC, Brasil, 5870, heard in NZ 
 between 0200 and 0500
*LRA36, Antarctica, 15476, heard in Uruguay at 1900 with multilingual 
 ID
*R. St. Helena QSLs delayed because mail ship has been in drydock in 
 South Africa [but reported at sea again now]
*Denmark`s 5815 shortwave transmitter at Karup made its absolute last 
 broadcast June 15
*Russia Today, English-language satellite TV service, audio heard on 
 SW 9795 before and after 2000 instead of scheduled VOR in Russian
*New R. Damascus Listeners Club yahoogroup via 
 http://www.radio-damascus-listeners-club.tk
*R. Pakistan, which had to cope with sudden local time change June 1, 
 adjusted schedule July 1 so some broadcasts are back at original 
 time; however, 5-minute news in English at 1100 remains at 1000 
 inside Urdu transmission until 1100 on 15100, 17835. Other English is 
 at 1500-1515
*Firedrake heard some dates around 1300 on new 8000, 8020 and/or 9180, 
 presumably against Sound of Hope
*Shiokaze, about Japanese abducted by North Korea, shifted from 6020 
 to 6015 at 1400-1430; two or three days a week in English
*R. Singapore International closing down after July 31, when there 
 will be a special farewell program, English 1100-1400 on 6080, 6150 
 and more such specials during previous two weeks
*New improved screen reader for visually impaired: 
 http://Webanywhere.cs.washington.edu/
*Propagation outlook from Boulder, July 15
*See Nova Science Now, July 16 for segment at PBS website on space 
 storms, auroral footage
*August issue of Scientific American has article, Bracing for a Solar 
 Superstorm 
*One of lowest solar flux readings recorded July 16, of 64.2
*Propagation outlook from Prague, July 17 ###

NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1418
Mon 0415 WBCQ   7415 
Tue 1100 WRMI   9955
Tue 1530 WRMI   9955
Wed 0530 WRMI   9955
Wed 1130 WRMI   9955

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Regards, Glenn Hauser


      

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