dxAce wrote:
** U S A. Rumors have reached us about imminent
drastic cuts in the output of
VOA, RFE/RL and possibly other IBB outlets, on
shortwave, as of Feb. 1. If you
find your favorite, or any such frequencies
missing, that may be why. Please
report your monitoring results on this (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

dxAce
Michigan
USA

The greater VOA family has felt the budget cutters ax before, so this
rumor if true doesn't surprise me at all. VOA doesn't have the
political champions it once had in the cold war so it is very
vulnerable. Bush is looking in all the corners of government for ways
to partially offset the ever increasing cost of our committment to a
long multi-front war and a low visibility project like VOA is a good
choice from his perspective.