** CUBA. 15700, Dec 16 at 1603, S9+20 of dead air, as CRI English
relay hour from 1500 has not yet turned off, wasting precious watts.
Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13740, Dec 16 at 1603, RHC Spanish still going here, but only
at S7-S9, which is supposed to end at 1500, let alone 1600;
something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. See FRANCE

** FRANCE. 17545V, Wed Dec 16 at 1541, JBA music, no doubt clandestine
for Eritrea, Bayto Yaikl, on apparent twice-weekly emission Wed & Sat.
As always, frequency offset+plus and wobbling, attributed to an
Issoudun transmitter. I try to measure it, cycling somewhere between
17545.050 and 17545.065. Surely same ISS transmitter is used elsewhere
than just this 30+30 minutes per week, but I have seen no other
reports of such behaviour.

Guess what: a few minutes later, bandscanning the 19mb, I encounter
another fluttery JBA carrier behaving exactly the same way! Circa
15285V, or 15285.052 at one point. HFCC shows them both, and BTW, both
brokered by RMI:

``17545 1500 1600 48 ISS 150 120 0
227 1234567 251020 270321 D 17400 Mul F RMI TDF
16017
15285 1600 1700 46S,47N,47SW,52NW ISS 150 170 0
227 1234567 251020 270321 D 17400 Mul F RMI TDF 377``

We already know that the first half of the 15-16 hour is no longer in
use, nor any of it the other days of week, but what languages of the
Multitude? 15285 is not in EiBi, but in Aoki:
``15285 1600-1700 F Radio Manara International Hausa Issoudun 1-7``/

As for 17545, this time EiBi and Aoki agree it`s ``TIG/Tig``, so is
that Tigre or Tigrinya?
``17545 1530-1559 We,Sa CLA Bayto Yiakl TIG ERI /F
17545 1530-1600 F Voice of Yiakl/Bayto Tig Issoudun 7 [= Sat only]``

EiBi readme.txt clarifies?:
``TGR Tigre/Tigré/Tigrawit: Eritrea (1m) [tig]
TIG Tigrinya/Tigray: Ethiopia (4m), Eritrea (3m) [tir]``
Apparently we have two distinct dialects if not languages, but note
the confusion as to how they are spelt, abbr`d in Roman/English.

I`ll bet the waterfalls of both are snaky. I expect there are further
instances of this off-frequency/wobbling transmitter before and after
1530/1700. I wish others would pay more attention to such clues.
KiwiSDRs with `SAM` capability display frequency offsets numerically
and their variations. Even invisibly, they are easy to observe by ear
and by precise frequency readouts to the Hz, with the right receiver
such as my R75, which should be employed to its fullest capabilities.
I further wish that our references would specify individual
transmitters by number at each site; especially HFCC. Or even their
*true* powers. Dream on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA [non]. See FRANCE

** SPAIN. 9690 > 11940 > 12030 > 11685, Wed Dec 16 at 2313 quick
check, all four frequencies of REE English in expected decreasing
signal strength and quality via TWR Bonaire SDR, as Alison Hughes is
narrating something (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Dec 16 at 2314, VOT English, good via Bonaire I have
up, another Wednesday so another hopeful check for `Letterbox` to be
revived: NO; `Review of Foreign Press` in progress, nothing but a few
headlines but wide-ranging; the same old COVID-19 PSA of basic advice
--- but hey, it may save a few lives. Can we think of any other SW
station, even American, which does so on a continuing basis?? 2320,
`Today in History` for December 16, then nothing but music and some
IDs. Their letter box must be overflowing by now, or maybe the lack of
response is killing listener contact (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. Holiday Specials on WUOT Knoxville TN, my
ex-station:

https://www.wuot.org/holiday-specials-wuot

Already underway. Times are EST = UT -5. A good selexion. Remember
when I used to round up many more such pages? I`m sure lots of other
webcasting public radio stations continue doing that. Check home pages
for linx.

Unfortunately, I was reminded to check this with news of the shooter
killed outside the Cathedral of St John the [allegedly] Divine in NYC
at an Xmas concert. I hope it was not the annual Paul Winter Solstice
celebration, which on WUOT will be broad/webcast UT Tue Dec 22 at 0000
--- but however live they may sound, these are typically from the
previous year with plenty of post-produxion. Maybe the real thing was
tonight [UT Dec 14] in advance. Plenty of social-distancing available
in there, I suppose, but how is the central air circulation?

Later research: no, it was a `Christmas carol` concert and
you-know-what prevents a new Solstice concert this year, from the
COSJT[A]D calendar:

``Friday, December 18 --- Paul Winter’s 41st Annual Winter Solstice
Celebration 7 PM --- While we're unable to host the Winter Solstice
performance in the Cathedral this year, the celebration will continue
online! Visit solsticecelebration.com for more information...``

Well, that website goes nowhere with or without www. NPR admits that
this year`s broadcast is really from last year, which they would have
been doing anyway; question is, what year will play in 2021?

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/01/936249895/the-paul-winter-consorts-annual-winter-solstice-celebration

This explains how to purchase online access to this year`s concert:
https://paulwinter.com/event/winter-solstice-2020/
I didn`t realize they also do Summer Solstice concerts, maybe not
widely broadcast.

NOTE: Alan Roe has compiled and is updating a calendar of Holiday
broadcasts on SW starting Dec 19, notably BBC, but also US stations
and various German relays. This is being posted to the WOR iog and
other major SWL sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA: WBCQ

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2064 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday December
16 from 2100:20 on WBCQ 7490.190v, S7/S9.

Also confirmed Wed Dec 16 at 2300 on WRMI 9955, S9/+10 into Bonaire
SDR, but Cuban pulse jamming gaining as WRMI fades gradually, S7-S9
total by 2312. Next:

0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

NEW WORLD OF RADIO 2065 should be ready for download and first SW
airings UT Friday December 18 at 0130 on WRMI 5850 & 5010.

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to Chuck Ermatinger and Keith Wyatt who sent
contributions via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com -- in US funds but
not necessarily.

One may also contribute by MO or check in US funds on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6159.93v, replies to my report about anomalies on this
WBCQ:

``Hi Glenn, I monitored 6160 last night [UT Wed Dec 16] on and off. It
was on with Area 61 by 0040 UT. At 0200 Hal Turner Show was on. Then
at 0300 there was an hour of rock music (maybe the show called Rock
Wave); Just music, no announcements. From 0400 to 0600 was Late Nite
in the Heartland. Peter W Hansen``

``Checked 6160 just before 0500 UT December 16, WBCQ with a very poor
signal into Houston. Readable on peaks, but overall unlistenable.
CFRX 6070 does better with its 1 kW here. Stephen Luce, Houston,
Texas``

Also note that Jean Shepherd shows on `Area 61` old-time-radio block
starting nominally at 0000 UT havr Xmas-themed episodes from exact
same local dates in the `60s and `70s, at least on UT Dec 18 and 19.
Keep an eye on the weekly Area 61 previews without exact timings in
2-hour blox, at http://zappahead.net/#area61 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5985, Dec 16 at 0717, open carrier at S9/+10. Nothing
scheduled but unless something totally out of left-field, most likely
WRMI which is really here until 0600; altho this signal is a lot
stronger than normally into OK off the side of the 222-degree beam.

WRMI skedgrid shows 5985 as XMTR #2 at 0330-0600 only, the only one on
a 222-degree antenna, for Central America. EiBi and Aoki agree that is
its total timespan, but not all of it is 7 dpw. HFCC too at 0300-0600,
but also imaginary entries at 05-07 for CRI Arabic via defunct
Albania; a hole at 07-08; and 08-13 1 kW in English from RRI BIA[k?],
Indonesia. It seems the numerous wooden entries for RRI long-gone
regionals default to language English, which is ludicrous! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0045 UT December 17
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