** CUBA. 6165, Dec 17 at 0657, RHC English back here instead of 9700,
S9+20; at 0659 ``Ed Newman`` announcing the end of the second hour, so
if on after 0700 it would be the first hour rerererepeated.
Something`s always wrong at RHC; alternating 9700/6165? The Other
Side:

``The Fidel Castro Center: A Museum of Ignominy --- As thousands of
Cubans died of Covid-19, many without receiving medical care, the
regime was spending millions of dollars to build the Fidel Castro Ruz
Center...``
Roberto Álvarez Quiñones, Los Ángeles 16 Dic 2021 - 20:58 CET
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1639684701_36251.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13680, Dec 17 at 2121, the inimitable Brazuguese style of
RHC, S8/S9+10 and undermodulated. Official sked has this on 15370 for
Europe, but NO RHC frequencies are active on 19m. I do recall 13680
used in seasons past. EiBi shows nothing anywhen on 13680; Aoki shows
CNR1 jamming and SOH from 2200. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 11880, Dec 17 at 2128, RHC French, S9+5/20 but distorted and
hummy. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9899.587, Dec 17 at 2158, into UTwente R. Cairo S9+25 but
scratchy just-barely modulation; let play in background and noticed
noise jump when it cut off at 2246*. Had it earlier circa 2120 direct
as JBA carrier only on about 9899.6. Something`s always egregious in
Egypt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ITALY [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO is preëmpted as expected on third
Fridays, from IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria, and AM Italia 918, but I check
anyway for their other frequencies, Dec 17 at 1920, tune-in via Noale
SDR to 918 kHz, first sounds like QRM but just in time for ``Radio
City, the station of the cars`` ID. 1323 kHz is supposed to be its
next frequency, but would it have to be the same transmitter?
Something else there now. LW 207 kHz has JBA non-// talk, Iceland?
UTwente is getting 7290 well but not the harmonic on 14580.

207 kHz, Dec 17 at 2146 UT, now via Noale, I detect S S S in Morse, so
it`s *still* playing the Dec 12 special loop, then talk which Fabrizio
Magrone says was a recording of Marconi himself. SDR is getting a
stronger het from 207.646 kHz, birdie? See also USA: WOR monitoring
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** JAPAN. 7445, Dec 17 at 0704, S9/+10 of ``Moon River``, a station
not dedicated to news on the hour, 0705 Japanese YL. Aoki shows KBS
World Radio this hour in Korean via Woofferton! But I`m sure it`s
Japanese. O, another Aoki entry for NHK direct from Yamata in Japanese
at 0655-0900, so no sign of WOF. HFCC also shows them both but to very
diverse targets (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 11940, Dec 17 at 2130, NO signal on REE to S America, but
the other three are audible in Spanish overlain by autotimesignal:
11670 S5/S6, 12030 S8/S9, 9690 S9+25/35. Something`s always
nonsensical at Noblejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, Dec 17 at 2300, VOT is S9+30/40 with good
modulation except for a light squeal into UTwente, opening English
claiming this is the Friday 1330 broadcast on 12035! So they play it
back for the rest of the day, but why don`t they account for this in
announcements? Something`s always awry at Ankara. 2326 recheck `Did
You Know?` segment about a Museum of Cheese. I must say that VOT comes
up with some oddball topix. Plays IS loop after signoff announcement,
but as soon as a German ID is inserted, cut off the air at 2356.5,
uncovering Chinese from East Turkistan, land of imperialist ChiCom
genocide against Uyghurs and other Moslems -- so no bonus German hour
today (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U K [non]. BBC World News America, via PBS and delayed an hour on
OETA, Dec 17 at 2323 UT has a reporter asserting that North Korea is
``tiny, impoverished`` --- NO, and yes: THE TINY TRAP (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 11720, Dec 17 at 2127, Afro pop music at S9+33, the only
hour per day when Greenville airs VOA in English, mostly music every
day but never anything beyond narrow pop, mostly African, especially
Fridays, `Music Time in Africa`. Achieves bigsig here almost due west
off the back of beam almost due east. It`d be interesting to know what
percentage of 250 kW be ``wasted`` on us (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2117 monitoring: confirmed first
broadcasts UT Friday December 17 at 0130 on WRMIs: 7780, S9+5/20 into
UTwente, 5850 VG direct. However, very intrusive couple seconds of
music between ID and WOR start; and a few seconds at end lost by
automation overlap which we have supposedly compensated for by at
least 2 seconds of silence at end of WOR files.

Also confirmed UT Fri Dec 17 at 0330 on WRMI 5985, JBA to Brasil SDR
where it`s aimed, fair to Maryland SDR off the back.

Also confirmed Fri Dec 17 at 1530 on WRMI 9955, new time, S9/+10
direct and no jamming audible.

Not confirmed Dec 17 at 1915 on IRRS 7290 and AM Italia 918, since
it`s the third Friday preëmpted for Radio City; see ITALY [and non].

Confirmed Fri Dec 17 at 2144 the 2130 on AM Italia, 918 kHz, Villa
Estense, S9+10 over QRM presumably Madrid. Was not listening at 2158*
when they chopped off my last minute last week. Not on 207 kHz. Next:

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, 207?-Italy, 1323?-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, 5010 to S

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Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary
support. Thanks this week to William T. Hassig, Mt. Prospect, IL, for
a Winter Solstice contribution on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702.

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to:
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** U S A [and non]. 15770, Dec 17 at 1604, this WRMI is back on
already after yesterday`s crash, with SMTV cult, S9+10. 9455, however
is still off but at this time occupied by Chinese with SAH, i.e. CNR1
jamming and RFA Chinese via Saipan, per Aoki this hour only on M/W/F.
While the other WRMI, 9395 achieves S9/+10.

15770 also on Dec 17 at 2115, with Xmas stuff from R. Prague in
English. Jeff White says 15770 resumed later on Dec 16. Still no 9455
at 2132 but JBA carrier which would be ChiCom jamming and/or RFA
Chinese via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 15610, Dec 17 at 2125, JBA carrier direct, surely WEWN
English. Meant to check a remote whether it`s still horribly squealy
like last time, but did not get around to it (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Low noon MW bandscan, December 17 at 1834-1840 UT, just
after local mean noon at 1832; from the open kite field in northern
Enid. Convenient but not the best spot, since there is still line
noise in parts of the band, far from any power lines. I almost
postponed it because of storms in E Oklahoma, but found only
occasional crashes were not a problem. It`s also too close to my 960 &
1390 locals, about equidistant between their sites, desensitizing some
20 kHz above and below each on the caradio. As expected, there are
some signs of skywave remnants, altho extended groundwave may be hard
to differentiate. I concentrate only on the `open` frequencies.

530, SAH between two JBA signals; one would be HAR/TIS in S Kansas
560, Missouri, Springfield mentioned, KWTO; CCI probably KLZ Denver
600, JBA and SAH, probably WMT IA and KTBB TX
630, JBA and SAH, probably KHOW Denver and KYFI* St Louis
670, CCI slow SAH: KLTT Denver always, adding WSCR Chicago
720, CCI medium SAH, KSAH TX and WGN IL. No others remotely possible
830, JBA probably WCCO
840+, line noise level kix up! Only a few obs:
1130, KLEY Wellington KS modulating music!! After weeks, 24h dead air
1250, Spanish, so KYYS Kansas City KS is making it
1660, algo, so KWOD Kansas City KS
1690, talk in English, sounds like WVON Berwyn-Chicago, skywave!

Must try somewhen/where else. A potential fence beverage site is NW of
Enid near the SH 45/152 junxion (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0058 UT December 18

** CUBA. 5965-5996 and 6013-6050, Dec 16 at 0725, approx. range of
splatter from jamming against nothings on 5980, 6030; worse than
usual, QRMing 5970 WEWN and 5995 Mali. Something`s always wrong at the
Dentrocuban Jamming Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9700, Dec 16 at 0712, RHC English still on here at S9+30 but
no 5 or 6-MHz frequencies. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 18127-USB, Dec 16 at 1533, ``K8C on the Christmas Train``
making swift contacts, including with an IZ station in Italy when he
goes into Spanish-influenced basic Italian. All about it here:

K8C USA flag USA
Robert "Bob" Senesi
PO Box 64
Summit Point, WV 25446
USA

THE 'Original' CHRISTMAS TRAIN
11 Dec - 25 Dec 2021
https://www.qrz.com/lookup/k8c
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2116 monitoring: confirmed UT Thursday
December 16 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5010 S9 but vs S9+10 Kansas storm noise;
and clearer 9395 S9+20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR_

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2117 contents: Alaska, Algeria,
Antarctica, Australia, (Austria), Bangladesh, Canada, (China), Cuba,
(East Turkistan), Egypt, Europe, (France), Germany and non, India,
(Indonesia), Iran, Italy, Myanmar, Russia, Spain, Sweden and non,
Thailand, Turkey and non, USA, (Uzbekistan); unidentifieds;
propagation outlook

WOR 2117 is available as of 0039 UT Friday December 17, 2021
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2117.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2117.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 [NEW][jammed?]
1915 UT Friday IRRS 7290-Bulgaria to WNW, 14580 harmonic; 918-Italy,
207?-Italy, 1323? Italy
[but pre-empted on third Fridays: Dec 17]
2130 UT Friday IRRS 918-Italy, 207?-Italy, 1323?-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, 207?-Italy, 1323?-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, 5010 to S

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 William T. Hassig, Mt. Prospect, IL, for
a Winter Solstice contribution on a US bank to:
Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702.

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds to:
woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0120 UT December 17

** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RCUSB, Wed Dec 15 at 1548, no signal from
LRA36 into Pardinho, Brasil SDR. BUT: I again tuned in too late
because Sam Sánchez reported at 1512: ``[WOR] LRA36 Antarctica - Hello
again! 15475.98 USB via KiwiSDR Pardinho, Brasil, 1453 - "You're the
one that I want", Olivia Newton John and John Travolta (from the
musical, "Grease"). ID at 1500. Sam Sanchez, Oregon, USA`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9899.589, Dec 15 at 2113, into UTwente, R. Cairo is S9+30 of
dead air except for some hum, but the mistimesignal is detected ending
at 2115:08 --- wow, that`s close, presumably initiating the inaudible
English sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY [and non]. 5960, Dec 15 at 2315, no signal from VOT English
into Virginia SDR; nor to UTwente where only the Chinese station is
heard. Nor on any of the five other TRT frequencies scheduled until
2130 or 2200. But at 2327 recheck, now VOT is on 5960 at S9+40/50 into
UTwente, talking about Iran. Something`s always erroneous at
Emirler.

Recheck again Dec 16 at 0013, VOT is *still* on running its
multilingual ID loop filler, and 0015 into German with Chinese JBA
under; by 0024 recheck, VOT is finally off uncovering what is really
PBS Xinjiang, Mandarin, from Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, land of
imperialist ChiCom genocide against Uighurs and other Moslems. It`s as
if the TRT sleepyrator were compensating for joining English late by
adding on part of German hour not supposed to be on SW now at all. Or
maybe the ole clock on the wall is running really slow? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. 410 MCW, Dec 15 at 0751 UT, BA, 25-watt ND beacon at
Columbus, Indiana (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2116 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 #2115 and #2116, confirmed, below with
details,
Merry Christmas, Year is winding down closing out 2021, Happy New Year
2022, update:

5850 kHz, 0142, 0155, S9 signal, 0158, Dec 10 UTC 2021 [Fri, #2115]

5950 kHz, 0030 (55444), 7730 kHz, 0031, 0042 (45433), 0059, 5950 kHz,
Dec 12 UTC 2021 [Sun]

5950 kHz, jamming noise, // 9955 kHz, 2343 half way mark, 2330, 2342
(45433), 2358, 9955 kHz, Dec 12 UTC 2021 [Sun]

9955 kHz, 2331, 2341 (45443), 2357, Dec 14 UTC 2021 [Tue]

5850 kHz, slight QRN, cars, internet, 1037, 1040 (55433),
1059, Dec 15 UTC 2021 [Wed] (Lemke, Richard -AB)``

Confirmed Wednesday December 15 at 2200+ on WBCQ 7489.96v, JBA due to
storm noise level from Kansas to S9+20. Next:

0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 5010 to S

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I love. Happy Holidays!``

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

** U S A [and non]. 9330, Wed Dec 15 at 0725, WLCR via WBCQ is back on
mixing with somewhat weaker Cuban spy numbers, making a medium SAH
adding up to S9+20/30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9975, Dec 15 at 0723, KVOH is still on with praise music,
S9/+10. Supposedly closes at 0700 but that`s still an hour before
midnight PST (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2097.3 CW, Dec 15 at 0746, single-letter beacon A every
dekasecond, from SW USA? Anywhere but Quartzsite AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4077-USB, Dec 15 at 0745, colloquial Spanish 2-way
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 6114 approx., Dec 15 at 0730, RTTY INTRUDER
now QRMing 6115 R. Nikkei, Japan, S7-S9. Previous report appended:

6115, Dec 14 at 2227, WWCR-1 is still inoperable here but instead I
hear some RTTY centred about 6114, INTRUDING. {I should add it`s
beating against a 6115 JBA carrier, maybe CRI French from Beijing site
until 2230; Nikkei not on yet} (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report despatched at 0048 UT December 16

** CUBA. 9700, Dec 14 at 0243, VP signal but seems to be RHC back here
since it sounds same as 6000 English, and there is nothing on 6165
where it resounded last night; nor 6145. May it stay away from 6160;
except when TOMBS is on that, most of the time. Something`s sometimes
right at RHC. 0736 recheck, all RHCs are off (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 9710, Dec 14 at 2213, RHC Spanish S9+20/30 but distorted.
Something`s always wrong at RHC.

11850, Dec 14 at 2220, RHC Spanish S9+20 but trace of distorted
modulation, and parasitic spur JBA on 11840, while its twin on 11860
is still blocked by R Martí which is also atop jamming. SAWA.

11760, Dec 14 at 2220, RHC Spanish with hum, S9 and dead air. SAWA.

11880, Dec 14 at 2221, RHC English succeeds with broad weather report,
temps from the Chief Meteorologist (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EGYPT. 9899.6, Dec 14 at 2212, R. Cairo is on at S8-S9 direct but
only a trace of modulation presumably English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KASHMIR [non]. 15170, Tue Dec 14 after 1600, quick check of UTwente
reconfirms that Kashmir Civitas via Romania is still gone (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9870 & 9780, Dec 15 at 0100, no signal from KBS
World Radio Spanish via Greenville, which they had publicized as a
test on 9780, Dec 12 & 13, only? for better reception than 11880. But
Ivo Ivanov and Wolfgang Bueschel say 9870 was the frequency per HFCC.
Now I`m not hearing more than a JBA carrier on 11880 so a descent is
indeed called for, maybe even lower (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NICARAGUA. 8989-USB, Dec 14 at 2218, JBA trace of talk, presumably
the pescador preacher circumNic. Seldom hear anything when
bandscanning around this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6924.9 AM, S4-S5 and 6920.0 AM, S5-S6, Dec 14 at
2228 both with JBA pirate music. This pair are very active, almost
every evening? But always too weak here. Latest HFU logs show:
Radio Pushka 6920:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,90288.0.html
unID on 6924.8 but lately has been Coastal Rock Radio:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,90284.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 8992-USB, Dec 14 at 2217, cryptic EAN alfanumeric message
with self-imposed whine and reverb; quickly finding the same on
15016-USB and 4724-USB. EiBi calls these US Air Force Messages, also
on a fourth channel 11175, all 24 hours, and SSB never specified
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2116 monitoring: confirmed Tue Dec 14 at 2330
on WRMI 9955, S9+10/20 direct, but fading down to S3-S7 by 2348 and
gone before 2400. Next:

1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW, 5010 to S

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 Christopher Campbell, Ohio for a
contribution via PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com - not necessarily
in US funds, and says, ``For your ongoing dedication to the hobby
I love. Happy Holidays!``

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

** U S A [and non]. 5800, Dec 14 at 2225, WRMI-10 with SMTV, weaker
than // 9395. 5800 runs 24 hours including TOMBS overnight; I notice
that FRS Holland plans 5800 as one of its frequencies for December
Special Sunday Dec 19 at 0852-1330 UT, but also 7700, 6185. Obviously
timed for daytime Europe, not N America. That late, maybe 5800 WRMI
will not be a problem over there; and maybe we could hear 7700 over
here, while 6185 signal if any would be blocked by Mexico (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9330, Dec 14 at 2216, zero signal from Flatearthic Worlds
Last Chance Radio via WBCQ, crashed again and no exciter on 9333
either. Not a prop problem since neighbor 9265V WINB is still S9+10/20
with TOMBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 6115, Dec 14 at 2227, WWCR-1 is still inoperable here but
instead I hear some RTTY centred about 6114, INTRUDING (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9381.70-USB, Dec 14 at 2215, colloquial Spanish 2-way,
cambio (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0156 UT December 15