** CANADA. Re my 351 kHz YKQ beacon log, Eric Floden, Canada replies:
James Bay is WÃnipekw in Cree
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay
[that`s a circumflex topping the first I]

``This southerly bay was named in honour of Thomas James, a Welsh
captain who explored the area more thoroughly in 1630 and 1631``

Every log a potential learning experience: Also linx to beacon town:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waskaganish

``Waskaganish (Cree: áááááááá/WÃskÃhÃkaniÅ, Little House) is a Cree
community of over 2,200 people at the mouth of the Rupert River on the
south-east shore of James Bay in the Eeyou Istchee territory in
Northern Quebec, Canada. Formerly called Fort Rupert, the location is
one of three original Hudson's Bay Company posts on James Bay, the
other two being Fort Albany on the west shore, and Moose Factory on
the south.`` [the Cree alfabet copies clearly onto MS word, notepad and
yahoo mail, but surely ???? in plain text readouts]

Distance to Enid: 2255 km = 1401 statute miles (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** ERITREA. 7140, Jan 5 at 1432, JBA carrier, presumed VOBME longpath.
Nothing detected from other VOBME 7180, nor Somaliland 7120 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 6115, Jan 5 at 1424, 49m bandscan finds English here
so it`s not R. Nikkei, which now closes at 1000 daily per NDXC/Aoki,
and is S8-S9, stronger than the other Nikkei on 6055. DJ is talking
about pop music hits of years gone by on this-day-in-history; 3:26
live timecheck at 1426 UT = NZDST of absurd UT+13; another song runs
past 1430, then ``half past three`` TC, on the RNZ National All Night
Programme, time for something from BBCWS, questions about space, but I
miss the show title; starts recounting Gagarin`s 1961 first flight.

I was standing by maybe to hear one of their new Melanesian programs
at 1430, which Adrian Sainsbury told us about:

``From RNZ Pacific news in Pidgin followed by news from Buzz FM
Vanuatu, plays at 1130 and 1430 UT. Will be back on air from 21
January. News in Pidgin â presented by Koroi Hawkins; BuzzFM News â
from Port Vila, Vanuatu``. 21 Jan is Monday; he does not say whether
this be 5- or 7-days a week, unlike the other Melanesian program,
Wantok, which will be M-F at 1028, 1230 and 2230 from Mon 14 Jan.

6115 was tested one or two days in December before 1300, but now it
permanently replaces 7390 where there is nothing, as RNZP sked shows
effective Jan 5, 6115 from 1259 daily: until 1650 except UT Saturdays
until 1758. From 1759 Sats switches to 9700-AM; while from 1651 all
other days switches to 5975 DRM. So RNZI 6115 will be fading out into
the dayside over here earlier than when on 7390 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also ROMANIA

** OKLAHOMA. DTV tropo, Jan 5 at 1617 UT, much like yesterday morning;
in fact, Set-Top-Box still tuned to RF 20, and KQCW 19-1 Muskogee /
Tulsa again decoding; now with one other companion, RF 28, Ion 44-1,
i.e. megawatt KTPX-TV Okmulgee = Tulsa market, presumably with the
usual 6 subchannels, unexplored (BTW, #3, Ion Life gets no exposure on
cable around here, everywhere?).

BAD DX signals then found on meter undecoding: 10, 11, 18, 19, 22, 23,
25, 26, 31, 34, 35, 36, 42, 45, 46, 50. Again this includes OKC
stations disrupted by DX: 19, 23, 25, 46, 50 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 6m Es map show DX contacts between here and FL over SE/NW
paths with estimated MUF into the 100s, so another try for some FMDX,
Jan 5 at 1630 UT: nothing heard; tropo is up making ACI and CCI worse
than dead conditions, something on every channel or adjacent splat.

To keep this from being a total waste of time, I check the RDS on the
DX-398 of our two new Enid market stations, which are static and as to
be expected, from KHRK and KWOF:
97.7 THE_HAWK, 106.3 THE_WOLF (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 9770-9775, Jan 5 at 0715, DRM noise weakly audible, as
sked on 9770 from RRI in German from Tsiganeshti, not enough to bother
strong 9765-AM RNZI from 0700. Also has 9765-9770-9775 DRM in English
via Galbeni at 0630-0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 7240, Jan 5 at 1434, S8/S9+10 talk in SW Asian
language; HFCC has nothing before ARS in Persian at 1500-1800, 500 kW,
40 degrees from Riyadh. But Aoki/NDXC covers this time, same at 1357-
1757 (and 1157-1300). SSOB within the official 41m SWBC band, most
likely I suppose via long path, and way off-beam forwards or backwards
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1963 monitoring: confirmed Saturday January 5
at 1204 the 1200 from Unique Radio via WINB 9265, fair. Also confirmed
at 1230 on WRMI 9955; abrupt start interrupting Blalock the Blaster;
it seems we can no longer expect a canned WRMI ID just before WOR, as
such overrides have also been heard at other times, at least on the
BoH. And supposedly scheduled at 1200 Sat on 9955 is Wavescan, not The
Full Gospel [semi]Hour. Anyhow WOR is good S9+10 at this new confirmed
time. Just in case, 5950 checked, but it is not // now.

Next WOR at 1531 UT Sat Jan 5 on Hamburger Lokalradio 9485-USB: as
usual nothing audible here at 1542; via UTwente SDR at 1551 there is a
trace of a carrier and voice which could be mine at minor peaks.

Alan Gale, England, reports about this: ``Hi Glenn, Yet again I
couldn't hear World of Radio on 9485 kHz via HLR at 1530 to confirm it
was there, but at least I am now pretty sure that long skip is the
problem, as I was hearing HLR, first on 6190 kHz up to 1200 UT, and
then on 9485 kHz at a listenable level, right up until it suddenly
faded out at around 1410 UT, about 10 minutes into Radio Tropical. I
am sure that the lengthening days should eventually bring it back
again, but I'll keep checking for it every week. 73 for now, Alan``

Next:

2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950? to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB ND low power NSW Australia resumes
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]; also 5950 to WNW?
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265, Jan 5 at 0712, surprised to find WINB on at this late
hour, preacher referring to Matthew IX: 35 (which per my NIV Cowboy
Bible is rendered: ``Jesus went through all the towns and villages,
preaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom
and healing every disease and sickness``).

It`s S9+10 with only slight carrier wobble and sufficient modulation.
There is nothing to explain this in WINB twits, nor on their unupdated
Dec 16 program sked still showing a break between 0330(?) and 1000
when Unique Radio starts on Saturdays; so why not? Less than 3 hours
away. Nothing on 7310-7315-7320 DRM either, which could be on the air
if this were not weekend (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. (7490), UT Sat Jan 5 at 0059, WBCQ webcast closing the FKB
program, still imagining he`s on 9625 from WINB (and 5050 from WWRB?);
some dead air and AWWW starts, interjexions indicating a lot of
complaining to come, so over to John Carver`s summary:

``Show started more or less on time after a period of dead air on
7490. Allan and Angela in the studio. Opening chatter about next year
being the 100th anniversary of radio broadcasting. More talk about the
political climate in the US and Canada and how it looks like more of
the same that we've been suffering through the last few years.

First phone call from Freddie at 0109. Said he was talking to a
trucker on the CB who had delivered a truckload of rebar to the
superstation last summer. Freddie was also trying to find the
superstation on Google maps and not having much luck. Some talk from
Allan about a Dutchman who was at the station last summer and shot a
documentary about the station and posted it on YouTube. Some confusion
about what keyword would allow people to find it.

Brief talk about station automation and how it's saved many radio
stations from going under and how all but one program is now automated
at the station. Some talk about everyone meeting at the station in two
weeks to begin assembling the new transmitter. Phone call from Freddie
again at 0144 asking for the model number of the new transmitter which
Allan had some trouble locating. Recap of 5130 programming but nothing
new mentioned.

Reading of emails at 0152 with Angela reading the first one and then
alternating with Allan on the rest. First emailer states that he's
listening tonight on 5130 which Allan said he shouldn't be able to do.
A quick check shows that AWWW is indeed on 5130 this evening instead
of the regularly scheduled program.

Closing prayer at 0158 interrupts a discussion of pirate broadcasts on
satellites and whether or not a government on earth can police or
regulate a satellite broadcast since it's coming from space. In other
words, who owns space? Show was off the air at 0200 and 7490 was off
the air shortly after that. A quick check showed that 5130 was off the
air also at this time. Apparently the automation at the station that
Allan briefly mentioned this evening isn't working well this evening.
John Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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World of Radio Hitlist by Alan Roe
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http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

** CANADA [and non]. 351 kHz, Jan 4 at 0629 UT, beacon YKQ and dash.
500 watts from Fort Rupert-Waskaganish, Quebec. That`s at the far SE
corner inlet of James Bay, east of the Ontario border. (Does James Bay
have a First Nations name?)

At same time tuned to 351, I am also hearing IN at a much different
pitch, which is really on 353 at International Falls MN, previously
logged.

401 kHz, Jan 4 at 0633, beacon YPO and dash; 500 watts from Peawanuck,
Ontario, relog. (I could log many more if I concentrated on these for
hours, but just check a few for relief from other DX, often at
bedtime, hoping to hit upon some not heard before) (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15311.6 & 14968.4, Jan 4 at 1514, JBA carriers from the
plus/minus 171.6 kHz spurs out of 15140 RHC; strangely, nothing now
from the inner pair previously heard slightly stronger circa 15283 &
14997. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 13766, Jan 4 at 1539, RHC-FM spur out of 13700-AM is VG
S9+10; first one hit was the next one up as I tuned down, 13834 with
the F# tone marring the music, but the closest ones are otherwise
almost clear; then also found at further plus/minus 65-67 kHz
intervals: 13898 S6-S7; 13962 S5; 14035-trace; 13634 S9; 13567 S9;
13501 S3; 13435-trace. The lower ones confront CODAR swishes.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. The RHC FM service is back in force
today, other days completely absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** GUAM. 12040.01 approx., UT Thu Jan 3 at 2214, praise music, into
``Jesus 101`` in English, S9+10. Despite good signal here, it`s KSDA,
100 kW at 255 degrees, English days 135, Sundanese days 2467 per HFCC
and Aoki; EiBi says English on days 247, Sundanese days 1356. For
Aoki, day 1 = Sunday, for EiBi, day 1 = Monday; For HFCC, day 1 =
Sunday. So Thursday is either day 4 or day 5. And of course, in the FE
target, it`s the *next* local morning already. As my head reels, each
listing appears to be correct by strict UT days. Too bad they don`t
all calculate the same way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9380, Jan 4 at 2231, no signal from AIR National Channel,
but some JBA RTTY. 15 hours earlier, Jose Jacob informed the dx_india
yg that AIR had suddenly cancelled the overnight National Channel,
also deleting megawatt MW 1566 (which North American MW DXers had
previously pointed out was no longer being heard; off or QRP?), and 20
kW 1215. Mauno Ritola was still hearing all three at 1855 today via
Delhi remote. Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, still had 9380 at 2050 Jan 4. 9380
sked had been 1320-0040 UT. One more 9380 check here at 0022 UT Jan 5:
Nothing.

Hansjoerg Biener and Alan Roe found more about this at:
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/all-india-radio-shut-down-prasar-bharati-5523225/

And another from Alan Roe:
https://theprint.in/governance/prasar-bharati-to-shut-down-all-india-radios-national-channel-five-regional-academies/173219/
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 7305, Jan 3 at 1834, very poor talk in unID language. HFCC
shows it`s IRIB in Sqi = Albanian, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan.
Notable because this is 2 minutes after local mean noon near the
shortest day of the year, one of few broadcast signals on band ---
just with 7375 Romania, q.v., no North Americans on now (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. We had light snow and freezing rain yesterday and
overnight, not enough to break wires or trees, but a ``winter
wonderland`` thru the sunshine. Temp going up into the high 40s, and
tropo is enhanced; as of 15 UT Jan 4, Bill Hepburn`s maps show a
Level-2 oval from SW to NE OK, surrounded by a greater Level-1 oval
from NW TX to SW MO, with Enid on the edge. Despite my damaged antenna
aimed toward OKC, from 1602 to 1610 UT I bandscan to find, the only DX
decodes:

RF 20, KQCW Muskogee, 19-1 as CW, but *no* 19-2 any more which
W9WI.com lists as ThisTV

RF 42, KBZC-LD ``Enid`` which is really in OKC and normally invisible,
with 7 subchannels, [brackets as listed by W9WI.com; screen positions
denote visible bugs; PSIP ID on all of them the same: KBZC-LD]:

42-1 sports [Stadium]
42-2 700 Club with CBN ``News`` [Tuff --- really?]
42-3 BUZZR LR -- gameshows
42-4 GetTV LR: `Walker, Texas Ranger`
42-5 QVC LR
42-6 shopping [QVC+]
42-7 shopping [Liquidation]

BAD signals on the meter: 50, 47, 46, 45, 34, 33, 30, 28, 26, 24, 21,
11, 10. Most correlate with Tulsa market, like KQCW-20. Note that some
of these are OKC channels which are being blocked by DX QRM: 50, 46,
33, 24! From listings one could only guess some LDs or translators
elsewhere in OK might be responsible. Or for ch 50, K50JG 19 kW,
Independence KS, relaying TBN KDOR Bartlesville (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 7375, Jan 3 at 1839, YL talk sounds like Romanian, S5-S7.
Yes, RRI in Romanian scheduled 18-21, 300 kW, 285 degrees from
Galbeni. One of two extracontinental signals reaching here on band a
few minutes after local mean noon on one of the shortest days in the
year; the other, IRAN 7305, q.v. Algeria via France is also listed at
18-20 on 7375, but aimed SSE, so not heard here? Must be colliding
over there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 12034.901, Jan 4 at 1549, JBA carrier with flutter. HFCC
shows AWR in Marathi, 125 kW, 345 degrees at 1530-1600. Yes,
Trincomalee is another of those sites we can depend on for
offfrequenciness; but Wolfgang Bueschel says some of their
transmitters are accurate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 15490, Fri Jan 4 at 1945-1950+ on caradio, good but deep
fades, African language mentions Nigeria frequently. HFCC shows it`s a
new Hausa broadcast from BBC via ASCension just started January 3 at
1930-2000 (Fridays extended to 2030; also new: French at 1800-1830).
For some other reason I have 15490 in the BST-1 memory bank; must have
been something more interesting in a previous season. And in fact,
checking some HFCC from this December, these are *not* new
transmissions, yet re-registered with exactly same parameters
effective Jan 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Checking WRMI skedgrids Jan 4 to update DX/SWL/MEDIA
PROGRAMS, I spot a couple more new airings of WORLD OF RADIO: the only
way I can find out about them. Unfortunately, not in time to confirm
them by monitoring this week: UT Thursday 0100 on 7780; and Thursday
2100 on 7780 & 5950. The latter is very confusing, since at 2100, 7780
is *also* scheduled to carry RAE in German M-F. And the transmission
grid atop also says that on Thursdays only, VORW instead at this hour!
I can only check what`s happening with both on Friday January 4 during
the 21-22 hour, at 2125: 7780 is indeed in German; 5950 is // 9395
with music, presumably Oldies. More certain WOR airings next:

0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1200 UT Saturday Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW
1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW [back from break?]
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950? to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB ND low power NSW Australia resumes
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]; also 5950 to WNW?
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15555-USB, Jan 3 at 1512, gospel huxter JBA, pennywhistle
WJHR, FL. This one is so seldom heard (or active?), that it`s a
significant catch when it is. Vatican much stronger on 15550 where
WJHR had jumped in early Dec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12050, Jan 4 at 1547, WEWN open carrier, off and on, then
adds Spanish modulation but off again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 17725.059, Jan 3 at 2206, OSOB is a JBA carrier with
Doppler flutter. Nothing listed now in latest HFCC, Aoki/NDXC or EiBi
(except HFCC has a probably imaginary UAE registration at 12-14 only).
Certainly behaving like a real signal. 16m is normally dead here in
afternoons, except maybe 17775 KVOH before it close, evenso often JBA.
At this hour one would only expect something from east Asia, but off-
frequency correlates with UAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** CANADA. 680, Jan 2 at 0637 UT, weather on ``680 CJOB``, vs IBOC
noise from 670 WSCR unless I tune 680 to LSB (yes, not USB, since the
IBOC peak is about 13 kHz away from sources). Plug some free app
``Radioplayer Canada`` to get lots of stations without a radio! Back
to talk show ``live across Canada``. This is probably my second-often
Winnipeger after CBW 990, 50/50 kW U1, which is audible anynight
except when auroraed out. CJOB 50/50 kW U4 night pattern has a tiny
tail to the south and day pattern is totally north, so unseems on
either of them now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000, Jan 3 at 0610, RHC English AWOL from here, while still
going on 6060, 6100, 6165 and 5040. 6000 is the odd one out, from
QuivicÃn site. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAO TOME. 6080.025, Jan 3 at 0604, VOA English news ending, into
music, and it is this far off-frequency, so previous assumption that
it would be Brasil is contradicted; altho if on, it may be off-
frequency plus too, around here. Also light stray Cuban pulse jamming
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 12030, Jan 2 at 1554, S9+10 open carrier, 1555 starting
earworm REE IS, as non-American service now from 1600 weekdays.

9690, Jan 2 at 2302, REE English resumed on this Wednesday, after
skipping NYE, Alison introducing lots of great Spanish classical
guitar music for almost the entire semihour, VG. Final orchestral
piece ends right in time for 2330 switch to French rather than dumping
out of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 12035.711, Jan 3 at 1421, VOT English into closing IS, VP
S3-S5 and way off-frequency today unlike stronger Turkish, music close
to 11815.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1963 monitoring: confirmed this week`s first
SW broadcast, Wednesday January 2 at 1047, the 1030 on WRMI 5950,
S9+10. Also confirmed Wed Jan 2 at 2200 on WRMI 9955, S9 no jamming;
and 9 seconds later on WBCQ 7490.13, S9+10. Next:

(Tim Gaynor updates about Unique Radio, via WINB not in hiatus after
all; and own 5045-LSB resumes January 7 and will then also // WINB)

0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1200 UT Saturday Unique 9265 via WINB to WSW
1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB ND low power NSW Australia
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]; also 5950 to WNW?
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9265V, Jan 2 at 2259, WINB with ``Over the Rainbow`` on
piano, recording with very bad wow (modulation problem, in addition to
wobbly carrier frequency), quick ID and 2300 `Treasure of Truth
Broadcast` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 570, Jan 2 at 0634 UT, South Dakota PSA, so WNAX Yankton
even on the E-W longwire rather than KLIF Dallas; 0635 back to music
interlude on C2CAM, now // 580 WIBW et al., et al. WNAX fades into
some CCI, so maybe it really is on their night pattern (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Jan 2 at 0641-0656
UT. Usually I tune 1 kHz below on USB in 9-kHz steps to detect those 1
kHz hets, but this time I do it 1 kHz above on LSB, which might turn
up some different close-in carriers. I happen to start at 693,
downward and then back up but here rearranged into order:

531, 549, 558(2), 576, 585, 603, 612, 621, 639, 648, 666, 693, 729,
747, 774(2), 837, 855, 882, 909, 936, 1044, 1089, 1098, 1107(2), 1116,
1125(2), 1134, 1143(2), 1152(2), 1179(2), 1215(2), 1224, 1233, 1305(2
~5 Hz apart), 1314, 1359, 1422, 1485(2), 1503, 1575.

For 1305, mwoffset list shows most likely RNE Radio 5, Spain, with one
transmitter 5 Hz low and a couple close to nominal:
1304.9950 E RNE Radio 5 (Ourense/Pereiro (RNE)) 24h 2015-10-12
1304.9999 E RNE Radio 5 (Bilbao/Santo Domingo (RNE5)) 24h 2018-02-16
1305.000 E RNE Radio 5 (Ciudad Real/Almagro (RNE)) 24h 2011-05-23
There are also some less likely synchros, Premier Christian Radio, UK.

In addition I had some odd hits at 0646, approx.: 944.055, and shortly
1054.19, i.e. ~1 kHz off the bandplan, where no stations are known, so
presumably somethings receiver-internal or local devices; or real
spurs? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6989.94-LSB, Jan 2 at 2240-2254+ very strange monolog by
some guy, sounds rather like Japanese, but with huge vocalized pauses,
mostly aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh, some other vowels, on and on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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** BOLIVIA. After Brazil at 0200, next chance for some NYE SW
celebrations is Bolivia in the UT-4 zone at 0400. I would prefer to
listen to Radio Santa Cruz, but not heard lately nor tonight on
6134.8. That leaves:

5952.48, Radio Pio Doce, still on at 0207. Aoki/NDXC shows 0100*; WRTH
is noncommittal; and EiBi says 0230* Tue-Sun, other nights 0100* --
and January 1 until 0500 (I do not see that until next day). So I keep
checking. Altho Argentina poses no direct QRM to its neighbor Bolivia,
ironically it does now with the RAE English relay via WRMI much
stronger on 5950 and splashing. But that`s the Pope`s fault for not
sticking to nominal 5955, why? RPXII still on at 0232, and at 0352 but
by now as 2019 acercates itself, has faded to JBA, so no point in
listening further (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1963, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. After Spain at 2300 UT, next chance for some NYE SW
celebrations is Brazil at 0200 = midnight BDST. 6180.03, at 0157 UT
Jan 1, usual clash of RNA with CRI via Cuba making fast SAH, but
better signal than 4885 or any other ZY. 0159 announcers chatting
right thru hourtop with no timesignal, but at least ``Feliz ano novo``
and fireworx exploding. 0201 lengthy full ID for all R. Nacional
stations starting with RN BrasÃlia on 980, also mentioning 11780
[inactive] & 6180 somewhere in the middle. A bit of song, but off at
0203* after one word, ``Nacional``, uncovering CRICuba (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1963, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 9400, via UTWente SDR, Dec 31 at 1758, Brother Scare, cut
off at 1759 for a minute of dead air rather than any Spaceline ID,
1800 start `Uncle Bill`s Rockless NYE Special`. Interesting music and
I listen to first half, but the UTWente feed keeps breaking up for me.
Figured it would still be better than direct, or on WBCQ later, and at
1858 check here, 9400 is JBA, while 5130+ will be a JBA carrier and
presumably not webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 7445, Dec 31 at 2256, two stations mixing in
Chinese with SAH: VOA via THAILAND and CNR1 jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the Triumph Of The
Revolution, I check how the SW transmitters are doing, Jan 1 at 0212:
4765 Progreso distorted
5025 Rebelde undermodulated
5040 RHC Spanish suptorted
6000 RHC English undermodulated
6060 RHC Spanish very good
6165 RHC English undermodulated
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba, Radio Habana Cuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUATEMALA. 4055, Jan 1 at 0651, TGAV is still on late for NYE, with
hymn in Spanish. Too busy with our own WWV monitoring and CST
celebrations at 0600 to have listened then for anything special from
Verdad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 6055, Dec 31 at 1459, R. Nikkei still audible, only to sign
-off, dead air and off at 1501* --- rather than celebrating Japan`s
New Year, not even a timesignal. I used to enjoy the ceremony on NHK
Japanese with gongbongs, but they stopped broadcasting that so I did
not even try Radio Japan this year (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO
1963, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4015.0-USB, Jan 1 at 0453, rock music S9+10, 0454
back-announcement something about California; inviting requests; 0455
HNY to someone in Waynesboro (MS? PA? TN? VA?), ID as ``WDDR, Drunken
DJ Radio``, but he doesn`t sound drunk, yet. 0651 till going with
music at S7-S8; 0657 SSTV to 0700 ``K`` in CW and off. Earlier had
sought anypirate on 6.9 MHz band with no results. Wish more of them
would run late into night when I for one would be more likely to hear
them. A few others heard this, 55 posts, one from Waynesboro GA, at
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,49624.0.html
including lots of SSTV images, between 0020 and 0700 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1963, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 9690, Dec 31 at 2254, REE inbooming in rock music just
before 2019y. This has proved to be our best/only SW live NYE signal
from W Europe. Of course, pre-empts 2300 English as simulcasting Radio
Nacional de EspaÃa coverage. By 2258 wild crowd and announcers
standing by for 12 campanadas at medianoche. Which are then heard
after 4 other bells signifying hourtop, ``Feliz 2,019`` and cheers.
2301 announcing a toll-free call-in number. 2305 a live(?) song with
guitars about trabajo, outroed as a mambo. 9690 still audible Jan 1 at
0220 with Spanish orchestral music, but faded to S9-S5 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1963, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 5960, Dec 31 at 2304, again no signal from VOT English to
North America. Something`s always wrong at TRT? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1963, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 6020, Dec 31 at 0600, news in French all about the RDC
(Congo DR) elexions, from VOA via SAO TOME. This is the service which
has added some Lingala segments, but presumably not while on SW (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1962 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
December 30 at 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair. Missed checking UT Monday Dec
31 at 0230 on WRMI 5950 & 9395. Confirmed UT Mon Dec 25 from 0402 on
Area 51 webcast, also via WBCQ 5130.4, S9 at 0428. Also confirmed UT
Mon Dec 31 at 0430 on WRMI 9955 good S9+10 (tho I hated to interrupt
``Hallelujah`` fill music still playing at 0430!). Combo of factors
made new WOR 1963 unready on Dec 31, so more replays of 1962:
confirmed Mon Dec 31 at 2330 new time on 9955, good, as I interrupted
a preacher; and UT Tue Jan 1, 2019 at 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG; and Tue
Jan 1 at 2048 the 2030 on WRMI 7780, fair S9.

WORLD OF RADIO 1963 contents: Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil,
Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Iran and non,
Ireland, Italy and non, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria non,
North America, PerÃ, Poland non, Romania, Sa`udi Arabia, Spain, Sudan,
Turkey, USA; and the propagation outlook

WOR 1963 ready late for first SW airings Wed Jan 2:

1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950 to WNW
2200 UT Wednesday WRMI *9955 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ *7490v to WSW
[Unique Radio NSW and via WINB on vacation until mid-January]
0729 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany to WSW
1230 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
1531 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany to WSW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE [NEW]
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WRMI webcast, UT Mon Dec 31 after 0500 when 9955 is off
after WORLD OF RADIO, now has a gospel huxter in Spanish; you never
know what will be running on this.

9395, Dec 31 at 0552, Tecsun Australia SW radio ad on this WRMI and
back to music (Oldies?). Tecsun-Au has also be advertising on SW
Radiogram and Aussie SW stations, which is great, but odd its spots
now on WRMI: are they doing business in N America? Has anyone over
here bought SW radios from them, and for less than domestic sources?

9395 // 5950, Jan 1 at 0743, WRMI Oldies, no more RFI in Spanish
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5130.4, JBA carrier UT January 1, when Larry Will said a
special NYE Area 51 broadcast would be on via WBCQ at 03-06 UT; but I
did enjoy some of the music and comedy via his stereo webcast (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 570, Jan 1 at 0707 UT, `Coast to Coast AM` with VG
dominant signal. Just missed any local break. My closest regulars KLIF
Dallas and WNAX Yankton (both day and night) are both C2CAM
affiliates, and neither has a night pattern pushing so much signal
this way, but more likely than several others carrying that program
further east or west. Las Cruces might be on ND day power, but
supposedly OLDies format (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4102.85, Jan 1 at 0652, various numbers JBA in CW, ID as
``W`` and string of E`s (dits), the beacon somewhere in the Mojave?
Desert with wind speed and other weather readings (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 0159 UT January 2
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