[HCDX]: Hauser's SW/DX Report 98-42

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        GLENN HAUSER'S SHORTWAVE/DX REPORT 98-42, Sept 24, 1998

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THIS WEEK ON WORLD OF RADIO 958. See summary at our website:
http://www.angelfire.com/ok/worldofradio/Wor958.html

WORLD OF RADIO. Here's the news from Adam Lock on Ask WWCR this
fortnight, first broadcast Sept 18 at 2011 on 15685:  WWCR is
starting a DX block sponsored by Grove Enterprises/Monitoring
Times, Oct. 3, consisting of the half-hour version of VOA's
Communications World, and then World of Radio, Saturdays at
2200-2300 on 5070, and if available, repeated UT Mondays 0500-
0600 on 3210. (Since it's sponsored, this should be a more
stable and reliable long-term spot for WOR). Thanks to WWCR and
Grove for making this possible! (Glenn Hauser)

ALBANIA. Radio Tirana is on 0045-0100 on 7160 (//6115 not audible 
Sept 22) & 0130-0200 6220 & 7160.  Both freqs at 0130 are well-
heard, although 7160 had some ARO QRM Sept 22 (Ivan Grishin, Ont.,
WORLD OF RADIO 958)

ANGUILLA. Has one windbag silenced another? Dr. Gene Scott's
Caribbean Beacon missing from 11775 Sept 21 at 1251 check as
Hurricane Georges was reported to be hitting neighboring St.
Maarten. And still missing Sept 23 in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK)

BELGIUM. On RVI Radio World Sept 20, Frans Vossen gave the D98
English schedule, including the frequency for the new English
relay via Bonaire to North America at 2230 starting Oct 25:
13670 (Alex Draper, Ont., and Edwin Southwell, England, WORLD OF 
RADIO 958)

CHINA. Subject: China Radio Int'l, Imagine My Surprise!
I'm about 99 and 44/100% sure that the English voice on the ID 
for China Radio Int'l, as played on WOR #957, belongs to Mindy 
Ratner of Minnesota Public Radio. She received a royal send-off 
for a one-year exchange program at CRI. Minn. Public Radio 
generally doesn't give royal sendoffs or bon voyage parties to 
anybody. (Please note that my estimate leaves less than half a 
sesqui-percent's room for doubt.) Guess Mindy will be on CRI for 
years to come (Max Swanson, MN, Sept 18, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING)

GERMANY/UNITED NATIONS. UN Radio starts Monday-Friday broadcasts
via Deutsche Telekom on Oct 12; languages not specified here:

 kHz     UT     ITU zones    azimuth
11885 0400-0430 47,48          140 
 5995 0500-0530 27,28          ND  
11660 0500-0530 52,53,57       160 
11675 0600-0630 46             200 
13800 1700-1730 47,48          140 
 5910 1800-1830 18             020 
 5910 1800-1830 28             160 
 6175 1800-1830 18             085 
11830 1800-1830 52,53,57       160 
11735 1900-1930 46             200 
(DTK via Andreas Volk, BC-DX, via WORLD OF RADIO 958)

IRAN. 9022, VOIRI has been putting a great signal with its 
English service at 0030.  It starts off with the Koran, first in 
Arabic and then translated into English.  I usually tune in about 
0038 or so when the news starts.  A man and woman read the news 
and they are both easy to understand.  There has been good 
coverage of the row between Afghanistan and Iran. It was also 
very interesting to hear their perspective on the 'meeting' 
scheduled to take place on Monday at the UN in New York between 
the Iranian and U.S. officials. A couple of short commentaries 
usually follow the news (Hans Johnson, Florida, Sept 19, WORLD
OF RADIO 958)

NEW ZEALAND. Among those interviewed for RNZI's 50th anniversary
special this Friday: gh. Adrian Sainsbury tells me among the
others are Clive Costello, who was at RNZ 1948-1958 and 
introduced Arthur Cushen to the air;  early 7.5 kW transmitter
engineers; and people from the NZ DX Radio League, who are also
celebrating their Lth. Rudi Hill is very ill, having been
diagnosed with cancer shortly after his programmes ended in the
latest cutback, and may not be able to participate as hoped.
Real Audio stream is being tested now, not yet on the website,
but should be running by this weekend, and thence carrying the
5 hpd of RNZI programs only, since RNZ domestic is already
streamed elsewhere. Any chance of getting the funding cut 
restored? Yes, RNZI has challenged this and an audit is under
way; hope to get back to previous level at least, but this
would not be until next year, maybe. The Special is UT Friday 
Sept 25 at 0530-0705 on 11905, 0705-0730 on 9700, and repeated
0905-1100 on 9700; excerpts on following Mailbox, Mon Sept 28
at 0430 on 17675, 1130 on 9700, 2135 on 17675... (Glenn Hauser,
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

NIGERIA [non]. R. Kudirat, Nigeria, 11540 via South Africa, *1900-
2000*  Sept 12 in English; s/on with ID, short anthem. Local Afro-
pops/folk music. Local news in English. Some vernacular talk. 
S/off with national anthem. Poor in noise. 6205 not heard. 
Saturday only (Brian Alexander, PA, WORLD OF RADIO 958)

NORWAY. R. Norway confirmed on its Sept 20 English broadcast
that Sept 27 would be the final one (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF
RADIO 958) Here are the scheduled times best audible in NAm: 
Sun 1300 15640, 1600 15340, 1800 15705, 2300 13805, Mon 0200 
11990, 0400 9945 (Ivan Grishin, World English Survey, Sept DX 
Ontario via WORLD OF RADIO 958)

PERU. Many Peruvians coming in very strong this past Friday night.
On UT Sept 19 at 0000-0100+ heard the following, all at good
level with IDs:
 
5305     R. Inmaculada
5522.21  R. Sudamerica
5678.01  R. Ilucan
5699.88v R. Frecuencia San Ignacio 0045-0303*
6479.7   R. Los Andes
6535.69  R. Difusora Huancabamba
6618.18  R. Nueva Sensacion
6797.68  R. Ondas del Rio Mayo 0000-0154*
7003.38  R. La Voz de las Huarinjas 
(Brian Alexander, PA, REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

U K O G B A N I. I'm very skeptical about this so-called 
"modernization" of BBC World Service.  I'd like to know who they 
surveyed, in order to draw the conclusion that the BBC has an out-
of-date sound.  I wonder if they didn't just take a survey of 
listeners in Britain to BBC local radio, and then just 
extrapolate.  From what you read, it appears as if the 
"modernized" sound of BBC would just be clanky, noisy, kitchy and 
pseudo-modern, while losing all the dignity, poise and 
perspective which we serious BBC listeners have always valued.
 
In my opinion, BBC World Service started to go down hill when
they split the service into several "streams."  All the comments
I ever heard, including letters read on "Write On" seemed to say
that people liked the service as it had been, yet BBC went right
ahead with what they planned to do.  I think they make a lot of
noise about surveying listeners, yet they don't really give a
damn about what we think if it goes against a decision they have
already made.  Just when BBC becomes more accessible than ever,
via internet, satellite, and rebroadcast, it will become less
worth listening to. (Tim Hendel, AL, Sept 20, REVIEW OF
INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING and WORLD OF RADIO 958)

U S A. Caught a bit of the Tom & Daryl show on WBCQ 7415, UT Sun
before 0500 when they were worrying about taking the half-hour
pause for the Nazis. Show is about computers; are these the two
newspaper columnists who used to have a TV show? 
The Keith Lamonica show, UT Mon 0400-0700, is about TVRO. I
found listing for this in the final issue of Satellite Times, 
Sept, p 34, Audio Subcarriers: S4, 16, 5.80. The new 1300 UT 
program on WBCQ still hadn't started Sept 23 (Glenn Hauser,
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING and WORLD OF RADIO 958)

U S A. Tuned into WBCQ 7415 at 2259 UT Sun Sept 20 for Harry
Shearer's Le Show as scheduled, but heard music until 2304 ID
break for KCRW Santa Monica and its relay stations -- so they
had the right station, where Le Show originates, but wrong
program/time. A few minutes later Al Weiner came on and said
there had been a communications problem, a program SNAFU, but
Le Show would be on for sure next week at this time. Not
prepared to do un show, Al told us about spending all day on the
crane, trying to level the studio trailer which is sloping 1/8
inch, and about all the extraneous noises at the station--
the heater and the cart machine, for instance. So we had  
another unexpected edition of Al Weiner Worldwide, which will
no longer be heard in the weeknight 0000-0200 period this week,
that time having been sold to hate-meisters Pastor Pete Peters 
and William Cooper. 

The problem was: Live feed of Le Show is at 1 pm EDT, but Al 
didn't get the E-mail advising him of this. Of course not! As Al
has admitted on the air, he doesn't have a computer at the 
station. Evidently E-mail sent to one of his two publicized 
addresses is actually retrieved by Girlfriend Elaine in 
Kennebunk, and thence hard-copied or otherwise conveyed to him 
eventually.

Despite our disagreement on the advisability of broadcasting 
Nazis and other nuts, I find myself largely in agreement with
Al's own politics as expressed on his show.... (Glenn Hauser,
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING)

U S A. WBCQ, 7415, has cancelled American Dissident Voices; it
won't be back UT Sun 0030 and 0500; and also Pastor Pete Peters'
Scriptures for America Tue-Sat at 0000 will be gone soon. This 
was due to pressure from various sources, especially Al Weiner's 
father, who was not happy about the anti-Semitic programs. WBCQ 
will also start carrying Art Bell live from 0400, and move the 
present 0400-0700 weeknight religious program to another time 
(George Thurman, TX, Sept 23, WORLD OF RADIO 958)

U S A. BO GRITZ FOUND SHOT - Wound apparently self-inflicted

BOISE, Idaho -- Enid native James "Bo" Gritz, the former Green
Beret colonel and leader of the right-wing Patriot Movement, was
found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound along a highway near
his home after falling into despair over his pending divorce.

Clearwater County Sheriff Nick Albers said the 59-year-old Gritz
shot himself in the upper left chest with a .45-caliber handgun.
Albers would not say whether the shooting was an attempted
suicide, but he did say it was not accidental. The wound was not
life-threatening, Albers said.

In an interview on Thursday, Gritz (rhymes with "frights") 
admitted he had contemplated suicide because of his marital
problems, said Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law
Center's Intelligence Report.

"I've thought about looking at the other end of my pistol a few
times ... because what kind of life do I have without my bride?"
Potok quoted Gritz as saying. "I have lived such adventures, ...
but what else is there to live for except for her, really? She's
been my dream girl. Now my reality is my nightmare."
(Enid News & Eagle Sept 22 via Hauser)

GRITZ did/does the Freedom Calls program on WWCR (Hauser)

VIETNAM [non]. VOV missing from 12070 at 1700 via Russia, but 
traced on new 7440 at 1703 tune-in with news about Vietnam and 
the Sunday Show; presume this is still via Russia (Edwin 
Southwell, England, Sept 20, WORLD OF RADIO 958)           ###



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