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With the holidays over, things have finally calmed down enough to allow me a little time on the radio again. This is a selection of the more interesting logs, skipping the ubiquitous CRI and CNR stuff. All listening was on WebSDRs, since local listening at my downtown location has become a mere exercise in frustration. It's wonderful to have the KiwiSDR network as a backup, which also allows some detective work about scheduling that would otherwise be unthinkable. Thanks to every single volunteer!
AUSTRALIA
VMC Charleville Meteo, 20469 kHz, 2021-12-30, 0850 UTC: Fax Transmission, nicely decoded with the integrated decoder of the KiwiSDR software, barometric map, S=5 on KiwiSDR Kuwait, off at 0855. None of the // detectable.
BRAZIL
Rádio Casa AM, 5900 kHz, 2021-12-30, 1952 UTC: The first station of a South America bandscan was unknown to me, it turned out to be this pirate station with Brazilian and anglo popmusic, quite pleasant to listen to. IDs after each song. They have a parallel frequency of 7455 kHz, and a second channel with different music on 8000 kHz, which IDs as "Rádio Casa 8000". 5900:35443 7455:55444 8000:45343 on KiwiSDR Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. Further away, not so much: An hour later there was just a carrier on 7455 on the receiver in Montevideo.
Rádio Voz Missionaria, 5938.95 kHz, 2021-12-30, 2006 UTC: English-language song "Beautiful City of God", 55444 on KiwiSDR Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. // 9666.44: 55555
Rádio Inconfidencia, 6010 kHz, 2021-12-30, 2009 UTC: music, then a quick lucky ID "Inconfidencia da Rádio", 45333 on KiwiSDR Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. // 15190.1: 25311
Rádio Marumby, 6080 kHz, 2021-12-30, 2018 UTC: Christian programming in Portuguese, "espirito do Deus", song "O Senhor", 55555 on KiwiSDR Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. This signal creates (locally) strong spurs wobbling around  6035.5 and 6124.5, with a scratchy sound but good enough to identify as //. NOT heard on 9515 which had AWR in French from Madagascar at this time, and nothing else (le royeaume de Dieu), 45333.
Rádio Saturno, 6150 kHz, 2021-12-30, 2025 UTC: This newly reported station produced, if anything, nothing but a strong empty carrier. At first it sounded just like Radio Cairo. But the weak modulation heard under the slight hum turned out to be in Arabic, so that would be BBC from A'Seela/Oman.
Rádio Boa Vontade, 6160.1 kHz, 2021-12-30, 2029 UTC: Christian programming in Brazilian Portuguese, 33333 on KiwiSDR Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil. // 9550.07:55444; 11895.10:55440 (no modulation)
CHINA, P.R.
Chinese Military (Enigma M89), 4860 kHz, 2021-12-30, 1621 UTC: Heard a CW loop "VVV Q2M Q2M Q2M DE NYZ NYZ" which a quick Google search revealed as a known standard message from presumed PRC military stations. Very strong 599 on KiwiSDR Tha Mai, Thailand.
CNR1 jamming (// CNR1 17890) against Sound of Hope heard on 2021-12-30 on KiwiSDR Kuwait:
15760 0715 32432
15800 0716 35333
15920 0717 54444
15970 0717 35322
16100 0719 35322
17520 0731 52432 also "jamming" CRI(!!)
18900 0832 54433
18970 0833 45433
21800 0902 25311
CRI (one CRI log after all!!), 17950 kHz (not a typo), 2021-12-30, 0757 UTC: English program // 17670, but whence? Will I figure it out before they probably close down at 0800? YES: Kashgar is the villain, 17490-17720 leapfrog --> 17720-17490 = 230 --> 17720+230 = 17950. 17490=English 17720=(defunct)German. Next time let's check 17490-230 = 17260 (nothing noted during bandscan in that range half an hour earlier, maybe I missed it). 17950 had a SINPO of 35322 on the KiwiSDR in Kuwait. Fun fact from listening - the Chinese government uses pricing to discourage excessive use of electricity. Once a certain amount of electricity is used in a household, they use a different billing algorithm and the cost of electricity goes up dramatically.
ERITREA
Voice of Broad Masses, 7140 kHz, 2021-12-30, 0618 UTC: Speech given in (presumed) Tigrinya, 45333 on KiwiSDR Kuwait. Gone at 0644. Back with 1 kHz tone modulation at 0916, 0927 IS, 0932 start of program, now 35322.
ETHIOPIA
Radio Ethiopia, 7110 kHz, 2021-12-29, 1556 UTC: Empty carrier, 1557 audio starts, 1558 ID and IS "Esei Radio Ethiopia Yun" (phonetically). 55544 on Nairobi KiwiSDR, with // MW frequencies 828, 855, 873, 1485 heard.
2021-12-30, 0617: heard 45333 on KiwiSDR Kuwait, also at 0701 (35333), 0827 (25332), 1000 (carrier still visible), 1324 (44333), 1349 (53443)
Radio Oromiya, 6030 kHz seems to be on a continuous schedule, not the old interrupted one that I still have in my list. Oops. I heard them at different times throughout the day: 2021-12-29 1453 (53443); 2021-12-30 0539 (45333) and 0605 (35333) on KiwiSDR Nairobi, then 0610 (45343), 0701 (35243), 0858 (15111), 1340 (42432) on KiwiSDR Kuwait.
KOREA (REP)
Seoul Radio, 2021-12-30, 0727 UTC: Heard on 16990 (callsign HLO) and 17130 (callsign HLW) with CQ loops, 599 (both freqs) on KiwiSDR Kuwait. One of the few remaining CW CQ loopers.
SUDAN
Radio Republic of Sudan, 7205 kHz, 2021-12-30, 0618 UTC: Arabic, 55343 on KiwiSDR Kuwait. Also at 0701 (45333), 0746 (35322), 0914 (25311)
TAJIKISTAN
Voice of Tajik, 7245 kHz, 2021-12-30, 0627 UTC: program in (listed and likely) Dari, instrumental music, IDs, 45333 on KiwiSDR Kuwait. Wanted to catch the Russian program at 0800 but by then it had faded down too much.
TANZANIA
ZBC Radio (Zanzibar) (tentative but pretty sure), 6015 kHz, 2021-12-30, 0538 UTC: Swahili talk program, c/d mid-sentence at 0556. 55344 on KiwiSDR Nairobi.

73 and a Happy New Year!
Eike
Wiesbaden, Germany
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