** 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

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 Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, for
a generous 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)

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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https://wp.me/pcMZHt-6HkSDR logs via N India  21/12

Vi New Delhi in GRMS  with W6LP antenna
9 MHZ band S7/S5  noise sometimesquite harsh
9480 CNR 11 Tibetan 1011 with talks by man and woman WITH S9 signal Als on 9530
9580 CRI in English 1012 women talking S9
9900 Farda 1014 pop song S9+10
9705 PBS Xinjiang Talks in Kazakh 1017 . noise disturbs the voice

Via Siliguri IN with better response (no underruns )
6050 Xizang PBS Lhasa , relying CNR with ID a1100
6115 cant receive RF Chosun in this SDR at 1103
6205 Xizang PBS with news 1104 S9+25 dbm signal
6865 CNR jammer 1107 at S0+10 against SoH with S20 level
15500 AWR  1109 in Indonesian religious discussions between man woman mostly referringGod S8 max
17490 echoed sound , CRI in English 1110 phone ins  on reunification on Taiwan S9
17830  interval signal of BBC at 1115 with guitar play intro ,but with talks mentioning R Japan
21670 Saudia Arabia Intl 1118 in Indo at S7 max religious – muslim - talks

AM  with noise floor S5-7
810 S9+30 in DRM with channel 1 Air news and channel 2 rainbow FMBoth channels at only 8 kbps bitrate but audio  quality is totally terrible les than telephonic!!
666 brrrr!R Rainbow  with S+30 withradio doctor program ,interviewer and interviewee women . //810 second channel withmuch! better audio then the DRM part ID at 1030
872 AIR North  woman talking Akshvani  kar 1037 and news on c19vid and Malaysia andabout languages (karegram )Steady S9
1260 AIR West? , a songs of 80s at 1040 . Signal is S7 and is nearly totally floodedby the local noise
1372 DRM 15 kHZ 1046 wide quite difficult to be decoded at SNR10 db only wthnews/RAGAM and Vividh Bharati S8 signal level
And on the other sever in N Delhi
1421 poor connection and server shut down very fast with audio underruns and needtwo refreshes to get again connected , Hindi pop song

Siliguri  with very annoying noise in theME band plus many buzzing carriers S5
693 ??? 1119  mam talking on full stops  als on Christ and then on comma as used in modernEnglish S9+20 No mwlist entry unless it is Bangladesh  Betar
594 AIR 1122 with nice music with lead sitar. There is an entry on AIR as OS showedin this time

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** CUBA. 6165, Dec 21 at 0735, indecisive RHC S9+20 with music
presumably English hour, instead of 9700, and no other RHCs active
this late. Something`s always wrong at RHC.

The other side:
``READ TODAY THE CUBA OF TOMORROW
December 21, 2021 EMIGRATION
'Cuba will be a stopover, but not my country anymore' --- People in
Cuba are desperately looking for money to make it to Nicaragua.
JORGE ENRIQUE RODRÍGUEZ | La Habana``
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1640030479_36326.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 13710.051, Dec 21 at 1541, Qur`an at S9-S6; always
heard off-frequency, but this time I take time to measure, SRI/SBA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 18131-USB, Dec 21 at 1536, K8C, ``The Christmas Train``,
pausing to ``offload some liquid``; had intermittent carrier QRM on
18132, jhamming? See my Dec 16 log when he was on 18127-USB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Re WORLD OF RADIO monitoring, which I confirmed starting UT
Mon Dec 20 at 0359.5 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6160-, John Carver replies:

``Glenn, For what it's worth I tried to listen to WOR on Area 51.
About eight or nine minutes into the broadcast it just disappeared.
Never did come back. In the previous four weeks I heard another
partial show once and nothing the other times. The last four weeks or
so I'm lucky if I get to hear an hour or two of Area 51 programming
before it disappears. No axe to grind or anything. John``

I asked him, ``John, Tnx, reminds me that just because a WOR starts
doesn`t mean it will air to the conclusion. I need to recheck toward
the end. This time do you think it faded out or transmitter went off
the air completely? Glenn``

``As far as I could tell, Glenn, I believe the transmitter was on the
entire time. I thought the feed had dropped and was waiting for it to
come back. That happens a lot. It got down to only three or four
minutes left and I turned it off. Probably should have left it on to
see if the next program started on time. The S meter stayed up while I
was waiting for the program to pick up again. Thanks man. John``

Next:
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)

** U S A. 9455, Dec 21 at 0727, as Jeff had predicted, this WRMI-5 is
back on air; first noted missing Dec 2 and ever since. But it`s wacko
paranoid preaching by BBB on YWS or T2P, NOT what`s on the System F
9455 schedule, Family Radio in Spanish! S9+10; and the other 31ms are
also propagating this nightmiddle, 9955 also S9+10 but louder with
TOMBS, and 9395, S9+20 with Xmasmx on guitar. System E sked calls for
TOMBS on 9395, not 9955 where System B is supposedly world music on
internet only. But the transmitter grid at 07-08 shows 9395 with SMTV
cult, 9955 with TOMBS. Too bad the WRMI skeds cannot be accurately
coördinated (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, Tue Dec 21 at 1547, beepery from `SW Radiogram`: this
new without notice WRMI time unknown to Kim: https://swradiogram.net/
Altho I mentioned it back on Dec 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9385, Dec 21 at 0730, S2-S3 of English talk, sounds like M.
Angelica, so WEWN is active. So poor, but modulation seems OK.

15610, Dec 21 at 1913, S3-S4 of English RCC stuff into PEI SDR, also
so poor, but mod seems OK on WEWN afternoon. SAM shows carrier offset
minus 78v Hz, quite a bit = 15609.922v. Kiwis are sometimes
mis-calibrated, so I check another, E Falmouth MA, Cape Cod: MUCH
better here and offset as only +5 Hz. And on this S9+15 signal I can
hear that WEWN squeal (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6114 approx., Dec 21 at 0732, still RTTY INTRUDING, QRM
to 6115 R. Nikkei, JAPAN unless tuned with narrow USB. I assume it
also interfere with CONGO when on 6115 earlier before 0600, right,
Ron? Can anyone ID the RTTY source? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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