** BRAZIL. 9666.385, Dec 24 at 0728, RVM keeps creeping upward, now
here, one of best extracontinental signals overnight, S4-S7 with good
modulation in songs, 0730 pause for 4:30 timecheck (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** CANADA. 250 MCW kHz, Dec 24 at 0723 UT, dash and FO, ND beacon of
1600 watts at Flin Flon, Manitoba. A number of other Canadians
audible, but this one not often. No Blitz storms anywhere in or around
North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, Dec 23 at 0727, RHC English still on here only, S9 but
undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** GERMANY [non]. For the first time this year, the annual `Gruss an
Bord` from NDR carried on SW for mariners asea, Dec 24 at 1800-2100
was supposed to employ WRMI, on 15770, among several other sites.

But from 1800 onwards, 15770 continued with the SMTV cult as normally
scheduled. I reminded Jeff about 15770 at 1806, but still SMTV at
1828. 15770 is JBA into UTwente anyway, so maybe not good into North
Atlantic either. ``Go Tell It On The Mountain`` at 1831. 1845 still
SMTV on 15770. And at 1936 recheck.

6080 Uzbekistan is best into UTwente, tho it can`t be aimed thataway.
[Later:] Axually, HFCC shows 6080 Uzbekistan is 301 degrees aimed back
toward Europe, CIRAF 27-28-29 with 125 kW. It also claims WRMI 15770
is 125 kW, despite all Okees being 100 or less.

Meanwhile, Harald Kuhl, Germany reported to BDXC that the SW program
in German from 1800 was not `Gruss an Bord`, but something else. He
phoned MBR and they got it corrected by 1900. So, screwups everywhere.

I stopped checking 15770 before 2000, but Richard Langley reports:

``So will the frequencies be extended by an hour so the full three
hours can be transmitted? Likely not. And still no joy with WRMI on
15770 kHz. At 2000 UTC, Radio for Peace International started. By
about 2030 UT, WRMI is now broadcasting Gruss an Bord on 15770 kHz.
Don't know when it started. Usual powerful signal into NB.
-- Richard Langley`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 6000, Dec 24 at 0741, checking RHC
frequencies but this one normally off by a sesquihour earlier, yet
something weak is here and also with jamming noise. Must be Echo of
Hope, instead of alternate 5995. No report from Ron this week about
its current jumparounds, but Dec 24 Aoki has it on 6000 from 0500 but
no indication of jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 486 kHz, Dec 24 at 2040-2047 UT, no signal detectable at
closest SDRs in northern North Carolina, for special Fessenden
commemoration broadcast, including music, scheduled for 24 hours
starting 2000 UT Dec 24 (and again Dec 31), from WI2XLQ. This year`s
publicity does not specify location but last year it was Forest,
Virginia, a suburb of Lynchburg. Unfortunately no Kiwi SDRs nearby.
Power not specified either but presumably very low, ``Part 5``. Last
year it was 150 watts carrier output, maybe 15 watts ERP. Perhaps will
get out better at night, if really on. Here is *last* year`s info:
http://www.arrl.org/news/virginia-radio-amateur-will-commemorate-1906-fessenden-christmas-eve-broadcast
And less detail this year:
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/experimental-station-will-recreate-1906-fessenden-transmissions
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2118 monitoring: confirmed first
SWBCs, UT Friday December 24 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5850 VG direct, 7780
S9+10/20 into UTwente.

Also confirmed UT Fri Dec 24 at 0330 on WRMI 5985, JBA direct and into
Querétaro SDR, but S9+5 off the back into Knoxville.

Also confirmed Fri Dec 24 at 1530 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10 direct, no
jamming audible.

Also confirmed Fri Dec 24 at 1915 on IRRS SW 7290 via Bulgaria, and
918 kHz via AM Italia, Villa Estense, the latter VG S9+18 into nearby
Noale KiwiSDR; but 7290 JBA into UTwente.

I had started listening to both about 1903, when 7290 seemed dead air
at S8 with heavy ChiCom ACI de 7290 unless LSB-tuned; but 918 VG S9+18
with `Feature Story News`, 1904 ID, 1905 ``UN News``, 1908 music. By
1907 I could detect same modulation on 7290. WOR still going on both
at 1925, but not positively confirmed lasting until 1944; rechecked at
1959, 918 interrupts a commentary about Iran vs USA, for ``IRRS
signing off`` with the other Aïda theme, but 918 stays on air with FSN
again from 2003.5. Next WORs:

2130 UT Friday IRRS 918-Italy
0230 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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** U S A. 6115, Dec 23 at *2159, WWCR-1 is back on this frequency,
just signing on and 2200 into Spanish, as I tune in during WORLD OF
RADIO 2118 recording. Notice about 6115 & 3215 being off the air has
been removed from website. Span here is 22-02 UT. No 6114 RTTY audible
now, but WWCR so strong that could block, or discourage, it.

3215, Dec 24 at 0735, other WWCR-1 frequency is also back, with TOMBS,
S9+10/20. Span is 02-12 UT. Harold Frodge, MI, had heard 3215 as early
as 0202 UT Dec 23.

4840, Dec 24 at 0735, this WWCR is S9+20/30 of dead air instead of
TOMBS; happens all too frequently; or rather, make that: not
frequently enough. 5890 still going with S9+40 of BS; and 5935 PMS
hitting S9+50! (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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5952kHz, Emisoras Pio XII, Bolivia, Siglo Veinte; 19/12, 2242 – 2248 male and female spanish conversation. Poor, het, unreadable (LOB).
https://soundcloud.com/user-463139565/pioxii_5952khz2242utc1912021?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&si=7239dda94ae14c93a7527bf3972e1c4e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

4808Khz, R. Logos, Peru, San Martin; 20/12, 0022 – 0027 religious music, male spanish talks. To avoid strong Stanag signal on 4810, i tried 4808 and got some signal of Logos. Unreadable, poor (LOB). 
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/hWNZi

Tecsun PL310et Wire 14m, dipole 18m 
Embu SP Brasil

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** AUSTRIA. 6155, Dec 23 at 0641, non-classical music from Ö1, now
S9+10/20, much better than usual. Until tonight I had been
disappointed by poor signals during our only chance to hear ORF, the
wake-up domestic service relay from 0600 to 0710/0720; even tho the
English news capsule at the end was long ago eliminated. 0644
AustroGerman announcement, novelty song; 0647 TC for 7:47 and finally
some Brahms. Moosbrunn 300 kW transmitters except for this are
exclusively to relay foreign stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CHINA. 7220, Dec 23 at 1547 good S8-S9 song, in English? Most
likely CRI Japanese from Jinhua site this hour, ergo aimed sorta
thisaway; rather than also EiBi-listed hour of VOV in Vietnamese to
North Africa. No QRhaM (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 9700, Dec 23 at 0550, VP signals SAHing, presumably
Turkey and // 6000 RHC English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 6060, Dec 23 at 0550, RHC still colliding with
Algeria via FRANCE. At 0646 S9+20 in the clear, mailbag in English,
but somewhat distorted. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** CUBA [and non]. 6100, Dec 23 at 0551, RHC VP here in wrong language
Spanish not English, // much better 5040; also ACI from 6105 Arabic =
Algeria via France at 0500-0700. Same at 0637 recheck, S9/+10.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6000, UT Thu Dec 23 at 0643, RHC mailbag in English, S9+30
but undermodulated; // 9700 S9+10 also u-m. Something`s always wrong
at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Fog this morning, Dec 23 at 1510 UT, so there ought to be
some tropo enhancement TV. Hepburn maps predict we`re on edge of Level
1, but up to level 4 blob south/eastward as of 1500. Most `open`
channels 8-36 show BAD signals into the STB, but only one decodes, RF
26 as KOTV Tulsa on 6-1; KQCW-SD on 6-2; and NewsOn6 on 6-3; soon
fading as does the visible fog (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** ROMANIA. 6145, Dec 23 at 0550, strong music not RHC, 0552 S9+10
Romanian, sure sounds like an adstring. RRI Galbeni scheduled
0500-0600 to W Europe & USward, but chopped off at 0557*. Must be a
domestic program relay, but not specifically delineated as such in
WRTH 2021 nor current EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2118)

** SPAIN. 12030, Dec 23 at 1549, REE IS at S9+30/40 despite Mideast
aiming, also weaker 11670 toward Africa, both programming from 1600
weekdays; nothing yet on Americas frequencies 9690 & 11940, which
don`t start until 1855 weekdays, if on air at all (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2117 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday December 23 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5010 S7-S8 into Maryland
remote; 9395, S9+10/20 into Missouri SDR, following 0128 `Sound of
Silence`. WOR 2118 should be ready early UT Fri Dec 24 for first
broadcasts at 0130 on WRMIs 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2118 contents: Abkhazia, Algeria
and non, Antarctica and non, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, (Colomba),
Cuba and non, Egypt, France, India, Italy, (Kashmir), Netherlands, New
Zealand, North America, Oklahoma, Romania, Russia, San Andrés and non,
(Sa`udi Arabia), UK, USA, Zanzibar; unidentified 6114; propagation
outlook - ()Countries mentioned but not in order.

WOR 2118 is available as of 0123 UT Friday December 24, 2021

(mp3 stream) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2118.m3u
(mp3 download) https://www.w4uvh.net/wor2118.mp3

Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.

The shortwave+ broadcasts should be:

0130 UT Friday WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
0330 UT Friday WRMI 5985 to S
1530 UT Friday WRWI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1915 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580 harmonic; 918-Italy
2130 UT Friday IRRS 918-Italy
0230 UT Saturday WRMI 9395 to NNW
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0530]
1330 UT Sunday WMRI Europe via Ch 292 Germany 9670
2100 UT Sunday IRRS 918-Italy
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 5950 to NNW
2330 UT Sunday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW
2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed?]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

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UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 6114, the RTTY INTRUDER, had been heard every
night but not Dec 22 around 0700 check. Ron Howard replied to my
previous inquiry:

``Hi Glenn - Dec 22, checking 6115 kHz between 0525 to 0610 UT. Japan
starting to slowly fade up; no trace at all of Congo; normally Japan
would be coming up about 0500, so tonight was rather poor; no RTTY or
any kind of QRM; Japan with mostly non-stop pop songs (Ricky Martin -
"Livin' La Vida Loca," etc.). Ron (California)``

6114, Dec 23 at 0546 the RTTY is back, vs JBA 6115 carrier presumed
JAPAN not CONGO; still at 0640 when Nikkei music has grown to S6, the
RTTY evitable by USB tuning, but that should not be necessary!

I search the UDXF iog on 6114 and only get possibly unrelated hits:

``LOG 4 to 6 MARS 2016 + RUSSIAN NAVY, SCHWEITZER ANDRE
07854 RCV : Russian Navy Sevastopol 1525z CIS-12/AT3004D/USB Encrypted
messages – (QYT4 Mode Actived : RIR98 de RCV QYT4 ….) In Dx – Qsx 6114
(05Mar16) (F5JBR)

06114 RIR98 : Russian Navy 1528z CIS-12/AT3004D/USB Encrypted messages
– (QYT4 Mode Actived : RIR98 de RCV QYT4 ….) In Dx – Qsx 7854
(05Mar16) (F5JBR)``

i.e. almost 6 years ago in France, first Russian navy log said to QSX
= reply on 6114, and then a 6114 log itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD
OF RADIO 2118)

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** ALGERIA [non]. 6060, Dec 22 at 0405, Arabic IDs from RTA and 0406
into Qur`an. Heavy CCI from RHCuba with humbuzz. TDA is scheduled
04-06, southward from FRANCE toward Algerian outback and Sahel in the
protracted absence of registered imaginary SW broadcasts from inside
Algeria. Something`s always wrong at RHC. And how is TDA supposed to
know Cuba is there if not in HFCC? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Dec 22 at 1500, LRA36 is on again this
Wednesday, S5-S6 music, 1502 Base Esperanza ID; off at 1541 check: via
Brasil SDR where I had to camp as two were already tuned for this.
Others report it went off at 1530 or 1532* (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, Dec 22 at 0408, RHC English is here tonight instead of
6165, S9+20 but undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC. See
also ALGERIA [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 15140, Dec 22 at 2000, RHC continues in Spanish, what
happened to English? Something`s always wrong at RHC. About today
being ``dia del educador`` since 1961, and hyping Cuba as ``territorio
libre --- de analfabetismo``, land free of illiteracy. Is this another
lie? Venezuela also makes that claim --- then why are those the two
least free countries in Latin America?

Then 2004 weather report from Dr. José Rubiera,
https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2019-01-23-u164415-e164415-s27061-jose-rubiera-celebro-su-cumpleanos-72
including snow in Labrador, -14 in Calgary, also bits of US, Mexico,
Central America and Caribbean predixions. He also appears in English
around :15 past those hours. En seguida: deportes (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** EGYPT. 9899.599, Dec 21 at 2208, R. Cairo, S9+30 into UTwente in
English but very distorted. Something`s always egregious in Egypt
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** MADAGASCAR. 15355, Dec 22 at 1950, S5-S7 in unknown language, seems
a sermon with hymn breaks; 1957 AWR theme briefly, 1959*. Aoki shows
Ibo via Talata at 1930-2000; 15355 resumes at 2030 in French via
Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA. Checking out Part 15 FMs in Enid to go with Xmas Sound
and Light shows, UT Dec 22 from 0017 past 0100, the two regular ones
each year: Singing Xmas Trees, at the NE corner of Oakwood and Oak in
an (ex?) oil field lot: 89.5 MHz, seems only three tunes looping:
Chipmunx, Jingle Bells and I Wanna Hippopotamus for Xmas. Quite short
range; we parked a little too far for full quieting, and it was hard
to make out the ``worm`` along the fence.

In the Pheasant Run barrio, address hard to make out but maybe 5701 on
that street, the usual house and trees with a longer stereo loop
including Mannheim Steamroller and quiet carols alternating, on 94.9
MHz with greater range of a couple blox.

We did not find the third one in another neighborhood, but maybe this
one on 95.1 which made the front page of the Dec 22 Eagle:

``Local light show brightens the holidays
Kat Jeanne | Enid News & Eagle 21 hrs ago lightshowhouse

The Sudlow Family Light Show is on display at 2442 Edgewood Drive in
Enid. (Photo provided)

An Enid family is putting on its fifth annual light show outside of
their home with thousands of programmed lights and music.

The light show is at 2442 Edgewood Drive and runs 5:30-10 p.m. Sunday
through Thursday and 5:30-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. {CST = UT -6}

“On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it is pretty packed outside of
our house,” Ryan Sudlow said. “People will just line their cars up and
down the street and stay and watch the program. The whole point of
this is to make sure we have done our part to make people’s
Christmases a little bit brighter.”...
https://www.enidnews.com/news/local-light-show-brightens-the-holidays/article_bd17a9ea-62af-11ec-8f37-47a9e141a19c.html

I assume similar things are running all over, but I never see any
other reports of such ``local DX`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Dec 21 at 2300, VOT is S9+45, English VG into
UTwente. Something`s not erroneous in Emirler today (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2117 monitoring: ``From: Richard
Lemke, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, From the desk of Richard’s
listening Post, Radio: JRC NRD-535 HF, Antenna: random long wires in
the trees, Dear Glenn: World of Radio #2117, confirmed, below with
details, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year 2022, Details:

5850 kHz, QRN, QSB fading, 0141, 0148, 0155 (55433), (55434), 0159,
Dec 17 UTC 2021 [Fri]

9955 kHz, 1540, S7 signal howling sounds, 1544, Dec 17 UTC 2021 [Fri]

5950 kHz, jamming, other noise, 0030, 0043, 0058, 0059, Dec 19 UTC
2021 [Sun]

9955 kHz, S7, S8, S9 signal, 2343 half way mark, 2330, 2344 (45433),
2358, Dec 19 UTC 2021 [Sun]

7730 kHz, 0030, S9 signal, 0043, 0058 (45433), 0059, Dec 20 UTC 2021
[Mon]

9955 kHz, QSB fading, 2330, 2359 (45433), 2357, Dec 21 UTC 2021 [Tue]

5850 kHz, QRN, 1032, 1040 (55444), 1059, Dec 22 UTC 2021 [Wed] (Lemke,
Richard -AB)``

Confirmed Tuesday December 21 at 2330 on WRMI 9955, good into Maryland
SDR. Chopped off gospel huxter still going at 2330, no ID, and not
Wavescan as scheduled before.

Missed zzz Wed Dec 21 at 1030 on WRMI 5850; but Richard Lemke got it,
above.

Confirmed Wednesday December 22 from 2200:23 on WBCQ 7490 minus 47 Hz
= 7489.953 into Virginia SDR, S9/+10; S9+10/20 direct at 2222. Next:

0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 5010 to S

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UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, December 22 at
0409, earlier than usual for me so a somewhat different selexion, and
tuning downwards: 1584-2, 1566, 1458, 1215, 1161, 1152, 1125-2, 1107-,
963, 855-2, 846!-TP, 837, 774-2, 711, 693, 684, 612, 531 kHz. -2 means
at least two carriers beating. 846 presumed TP Kiritimati, almost
sundown there already. 1566 suspected TWR Benin. 1584 has low-power
Euro/ME only, perhaps most likely 2 x 5 kW SER in Spain and/or another
SER in Ceuta (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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