** CANADA. 223-MCW kHz, Dec 29 at 0743, dash and YYW, 1000 watt ND
beacon at Armstrong, Ontario (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 6100, Dec 29 at 0733, RHC is S9+30 of dead air in English
plus some hum, no other frequencies left. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** CUBA. 13571 approx., Dec 29 at 1512, the ``Cuban sound`` spurblob
during `Sonido Cubano` on RHC, with F# tone, best readable in FM mode
where it`s 10 kHz wide and hard to pinpoint the exact center. This is
second-order, 129 kHz below source 13700-AM which is S9+20; then
first-order circa 13636, 13765, weaker 13830, and S1-S2 on third-order
13894. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 9860, Dec 29 at 2226, S5-S7 fluttery Esperanto, as
sked this hour from CRI via Kashgar, land of ChiCom cultural genocide
against Uyghurs and other Moslems. And why is it that only Commies are
interested in Esperanto broadcasting, also Cuba, not even gospel
huxters who employ countless tiny tongues? Its creator, Ludoviko
Lazaro Zamenhof, was a Polish Jew, but pre-communism, 1859-1917y:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._L._Zamenhof
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Dec 29 at 0737 UT, roboyl marine weather in
English, S8 vs S7 noise level here. DXinfocentre.com shows starting at
0737, the first early-morning broadcast = 4:07 am local, in the cycle
of 6 or 7 mostly NL stations in the 2598 group, is VCP-4, Placentia,
with 3000 watts, greatest of all. Nothing on 2749-USB yet, but VCO
Sydney NS is to start at 0740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9795, Dec 29 at 2304, Vietish? talk with QRM
underneath sounds like Firedragon, but why bother? Aoki does not show
*jamming or anything else here. This is FEBC in Mon via Iba site - not
the same as Hmong, which is at other times in three different hues,
Black, White, and Blue - based on traditional costumes? I wonder which
one was SXMZ, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN [and non]. 9690, Dec 29 at 2302, REE in Sefardí, since it`s
martes, rather than English on L/M/V. As matches the sked in Aoki/NDXC
for Day 3; a.k.a. Ladino, also Sundays 2230-2300. Not as strong as
usual, with some ACI from 9695 in Japanese with echo, i.e. CRI via
Jinhua, presumably rather thisaway (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** TURKEY. 5960, Dec 29 at 2300, no signal from VOT English to us;
should have been at least detectable despite S8-S9 HLLNL. Something`s
always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 9955, Tue Dec 29 at 1524, `Freedom Synergy Radio` is just
ending another unscheduled airing on WRMI, 1525 into one of my
favorite fill-music tunes, `Sandunga` on marimba; recheck at 1600,
still on contrary to sked with TOMBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 4980, Dec 29 at 0220, WRMI apparently on here, but VP S8-S9
and undermodulated, can`t even be sure of language, SMTV? Not // 5010
which is S9/+10 and fully modulated vs Madagascar het, nor // any
other WRMI frequency.

At 0228 I hasten to compare them via TWR Bonaire KiwiSDR: 5010 is
closing R. Taiwán Internacional citing its Spanish sked as 01 on 5800,
02 on 5010, 22 on 7780; at S9+10, while whatever on 4980 is only S5-S7
into dead air at 0230 but still on, exciter only? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 7490.18v, Tue Dec 29 at 2258, WBCQ ending one `AAAWWW` with
anti-Chinese remarx, retune at 2300, *another* `AAAWWW` - or the same
one? Is starting with ``William Tell Overture`` and more anti-China
interjexions. It`s scheduled at 22-23, but a gap at 23-24, not even
``Available Time Slot``. Didn`t Brother Scare useta occupy that hour?
I see the WBCQ Program Guide has also finally deleted 3265, which has
not been on the air since early 2020? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 7530, Dec 29 at 2227, no open carrier unlike 24+ hours
ago, and presumably no SXMZ either at 2230 via Taiwan, the Colorado
Christian-Hmong hmissionary show of B-19; at least that gave us a
chance to find out it`s apparently gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 810 kHz, Dec 29 at 2325 UT, steady S9 of dead air in
presumed English, WHB Kansas City? Yes, loops thataway and 2330
finally JIP stupid sports talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. (101.1), KSFR Santa Fe NM, via webcast: one of my favorite
shows in its final airing, UT Tue Dec 29 at 0400-0700, `Beyond
Borders`, excellent ``world music`` hostessed by Susan Ohori. In her
rather droll style of speech, she has been saying the last few weeks
that she is moving to Thursday mornings at 16-19 UT, apparently
already starting there tho sked even for next week/year still shows,
what must be a similar show with another host, `Sound Travels`. I`ve
not checked that yet. Each provides playlists, but apparently no
podcasts or archiving since the demise of Radio Free America. See:

https://www.ksfr.org/programs/beyond-borders
https://www.ksfr.org/programs/sound-travels

I have the impression the move was not Susan`s choice, as she alluded
to her longtime Monday-night slot not being what the audience would
prefer; some survey? The daytime show must be a different style with
e.g.. breaks for news on hour, so she makes a point of playing an
extra-long piece to conclude tonight.

``Susan Ohori
https://www.ksfr.org/people/susan-ohori

Susan Ohori pioneered the programming of world music on radio from
1972 - 1977 on Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, with her program
Last Chants. She served as Music Director there from 1976 - 1977, when
she left the Bay Area to research and record Purepecha folk music in
Michoacan, Mexico.

She published "An Introduction to World Music: 100 Records to Start
With" in the Next Whole Earth Catalogue.

Moving to Santa Fe in 1980, she produced a weekly 6-hour program of
classical music (including contemporary and world) on KUNM,
Albuquerque, from 1980-1982. She was Program Director for the
Explorations in Music concert series at the Center for Contemporary
Art, Santa Fe, from 1981-1985. In 1992 she began producing her weekly
3-hour program of world music, Beyond Borders, on KSFR.

In 2002 (?), along with a group of dedicated station volunteers and
supporters, she was instrumental in forming the non-profit Northern
New Mexico Radio Foundation which won the contract to take over the
management and fiscal responsibility of KSFR from Santa Fe Community
College. She served on its Board of Directors from 2002-2009 (?).

She founded Ohori's Coffee, Tea & Chocolate, a roasting and retail
business in 1984 and sold in 2001. She also opened Casa, in 1996, a
retail store specializing in folk art.

She was a founding Board member of the Santa Fe Film Festival which
she served on for 10 years. She has recently returned to her work on
clay sculpture begun in the 1970's.``

The gallery of show hosts on KSFR lacks a portrait of her, unlike the
others. Her name, at least, I think be Japanese/Nisei. A cursory
websearch doesn`t find her visage either, but the woman who bought her
coffee shop, I think.

No info yet on KSFR site about what will replace her two sesquihours
on Monday nights, and she is not saying. At least that alleviates the
conflict/overlap with a similar show on New Mexico`s other prime
public radio station, KUNM [89.9] Albuquerque, at 0500-0800 UT
Tuesdays:
https://www.kunm.org/programs/global-music
which I suppose will now become my habitual listening. KUNM does have
a limited on-demand archive. Years ago I did suggest to Susan that it
was a shame both were on at same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5095-USB, Dec 30 at 0215, very occasional 2-way, unseems
Spanish, sandwiched between the huge 5085 WTWW signal, and its JBA
spur about 5097 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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** CUBA [and non]. 13571 approx., Dec 28 at 1535, spurblob of jazz
from RHC 13700-AM, and then find more at 64-65 kHz intervals, better
in FM than AM, and unreadable in SSB: 13636 S9 with F# tone; 13765 S9;
13830 vs victim in AM, i.e. VATICAN in Amharic; 13895; 13960 trace;
13505. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR [and non]. 2598-USB, Dec 29 at 0143 UT,
roboyl with marine weather in English, VP vs high LLNL, but there is
some `reverb` as from two not exactly synchronized transmitters. Only
one scheduled at this time, from 0137, is VOK from somewhere in
Labrador, per: https://dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm

2598 is supposed to be time-shared with 5 or 6 other stations in NL
and Québec, not simulcast. However, EiBi does show two simul sites for
this 0137-0200 broadcast, cw and hd, which translate to
cw - Cartwright NL 53N42'30" - 57W01'17"
hd - Hopedale NL 55N27'24" - 60W12'30"
Both of which are on Labrador mainland, not island rock. Same roboyl
voice on 2749-USB but not checked whether // which is sometimes
deliberate as I recently logged from Québec (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Thread resulting from my Dec 27 log of KTOK:

``BTW, have not heard IBOC noise from KTOK for ages, tho still flagged
as -I in 2020-2021 NRC AM Log. IBOC ``reported off Dec 2009`` here:
http://www.topazdesigns.com/iboc/station-list.html
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, WOR)``

``Glenn et al., The listing of IBOC, as I have stated many times
before, does NOT pretend to track who turned this feature on or off.
It is a listing of those who are authorized to use the digital mode.
73, Wayne Heinen, Editor, NRC AM Radio Log, Aurora, CO``

``Wayne, Sorry, I did not realize that. In that case it would be
helpful to have a separate symbol denoting stations which are axually
in `HD` now. And full- or part-time, day and/or night?

I was under the impression that, unlike pure HD, anystation could run
hybrid HD ad lib without specific permission. Has FCC ever denied it?
They certainly don`t care about adjacent QRM!

Is there any way to check this thru AM Query? I don`t see anything
about HD for KTOK, one way or another; nor for KFAQ which we know is
running it. Could be deeply buried. 73, Glenn``

``Glenn, There is a link on the amq page that takes you to this list…
I usually check it against the database each year prior to publication
however this year, due to my shoulder replacement, I didn’t get all
the usual proofs done. You’ll find both KTOK and KFAQ on the list

https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl
73 Wayne Heinen``

``Wayne, Tnx but that link gets: `Station Search Error --- You must
specify search criteria values. Go back to the previous web page and
try again.`

But, but, I am not coming from a previous web page. O, here it is:
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/digital-radio

which leads to: To obtain a list of stations authorized for "hybrid"
operation (analog + digital signals), select one of the following
links: [ AM |

which leads to:
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl?Service=AM&digital_status=H

which then leads to:
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl

i.e. the exact same URL Wayne gave but it won`t work directly, of 241
stations, alfabetical order by callsign, who cares about frequency or
location? which leads to KTOK info:
`Digital status: hybrid` -- and that`s all --- Glenn``

``Scott Fybush Dec 27 #15519 --- It's a notification, not a
permission. FCCData.org shows whether a station (AM or FM) has
notified digital operation; the flaw, as we see, is there's no process
for indicating cessation of digital operation.``

``As I'm sure you know, the FCC's Prime Directive is "please don't
bother us with details" and, really, licensees aren't required to run
HD in either MA3 or MA1 so why should they care? Same for C-QUAM (for
the 8 stations that still use it! :-D)

I think the listings in the NRC AMRL are fine. The editor (a recently
elected ARRL Life Member!) might consider fleshing out the -I and -$
code definitions to prevent this sort of complaint in future (not that
you can eliminate 100% of complaints ...) -- Peter Laws | N5UWY |
plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!``

``[nrc-am] IBOC Listing in NRC AM Radio Log JZinOK 2:41am #15530
In the case of KTOK, digital notification was made in 2006, but we
haven't used it in many years. It's rather worthless to us now, as
KTOK is carried on KXXY-FM HD2. KWPN 640 Moore OK also has given
notification, but dropped the HD a long time ago. Several FM's here
have given digital notification, but do not use it. All of the iHeart
FM's in OKC use HD. John Zondlo, Yukon, OK`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2066 monitoring: confirmed Monday
December 28 from 1900:49 on IRRS 7290 Bulgaria as heard via UTwente
including any internet delay. Open carrier is on by 1855; 1859:51
cut-on IRRS sign-on; 1900:20 Feature Story News headlines, then WOR.
Only my final word cut off at 1929, ``disclaimer``. As always,
extremely annoying splash from both sides cannot be escaped by LSB,
USB, AM Synch or narrow bandwidth: Vietnam 7280 is worse than East
Turkistan 7295 despite second- vs first-adjacency. Recheck at 1949,
has faded? to JBA carrier on 7290. Next:

0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 [canceled; confirmed]
0230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 [canceled; reconfirmed]
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 [pre-empted for FSR this week; confirmed]

2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE [pre-empted] [ex-0100]

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WOR is always a SW program first, but as stations make it harder to
hear, I can`t blame people for accessing a reliable alternative.

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** U S A. 4980, Dec 29 at 0234, WRMI-5 is poorly audible by Bonaire
KiwiSDR, S6-S7 in English, bits of Xmasmx and SMTV talk including ID
at 0244. Must use AM-Narrow to avoid 4985 RTTY. This is on skedgrid as
SMTV for many hours including this one, on 285 antenna but no
comparison to the bigsig we get on 7730 same azimuth. 4980 is the
frequency supposed to be home for 5950 programming bumped off there by
elimination of 9455, but supposedly long-delayed until it is up to
full power, maybe exciter only so far. If that`s the azimuth, 4980
ought to be stronger closer to its aim, at the TWR RGV SDR of
Brownsville TX --- but it is not, only JBA! Something is strange about
all this (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic JBA MW carrier search, Dec 28 at
0135-0142 UT, contrary to usual method, I`m tuning in 9-kHz steps
downward from 1 kHz above the channels, so anycarrier making a 1 kHz
het can be recognized: 1503, 1422, 1296, 1215, 1107, 1089, 1053, 936,
909, 891*, 882(2), 837(2), 774(2), 747, 711, 639, 621. *strongest. (2)
= at least two carriers beating.

There would have been more below 700 kHz, but currently the local line
noise level is much higher in the 700-300 kHz range, as well as many
SW ranges. Earlier in the afternoon, driving around the neighborhood
tuned to open 1040 kHz where traces of WHO might have been otherwise,
the LLNL did not correlate with any lingering Xmas lighting, but
continued buzzing over a much wider area; and it`s just as bad daytime
as nighttime. Tnx a lot, OG&E (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7530, Dec 28 at 2207, S9/+10 open carrier where normally
nothing; only Aoki shows nearby possibility maybe on early:
``7530 2230-2300 TWN Suab Xaa Moo Zoo(Vo.Hope) Hmo Tamsui Dist 1-7``
It`s also shown same in WRTH 2020 as religious based in Thornton,
Colorado, under USA, not target/clandestine. Website leads to:

http://www.hmongdistrict.org/HiddenPages/SuabXaMooZoo(RadioMinistry).aspx
where there is no info about any current broadcasts, at least not in
English, and the `listen` link leads to a page to *buy* songs.

SXMZ no longer appears in the WRTH 2021, my copy just arrived, at
least not under USA, in the religious broadcaster cross-ref, in the SW
frequency list, nor under Target: Laos or Vietnam. On Nov 5, 2020, Ivo
Ivanov included it in a multi-site roster of ``Winter B-20
frequencies, unregistered in HFCC Database (updated)`` but I find no
recent logs of it. Back on April 25, 2020, Ivo had it in a list of
``missing clandestine transmissions``, some of which were
subsequently reported. None of this researched until later, so I did
not recheck after 2230 for any showup; QRX another day. Of course in a
shared fixed band, carrier could be a ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13555-CW, Dec 28 at 1520, JBA traces of CW, maybe
finally something besides 13565 K6FRC on the HIFER band, not now.
https://www.lwca.net/sitepage/part15/index.htm
shows ``13554.98~ WV Richwood WV EW98rf CW (h 2020/12)``
but there are 14 more between 13555 and 13556. This was really too
weak to attempt an accurate measurement. I did get WV last Feb 27 at
1455 and March 4 at 1516. Richwood is in the Allegheny Mountains east
of Charleston (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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I had a short TV DXingMsia and INsia on 25th via stream checking a few national TVchannels  BY chance I was watching thenews programs  at time 10xx UTC starting withSCTI TV

Both countries usenow the or Krismas (from English )  instad of the previous -Spanish- Natal to namethe Christmas. It seems a noticed day if not national

There were many people talking not only on the day butalso on the covid problem Some of them were Tamil . vaccines are very close tobe reached to the country . Greece is already receiving the vaccine and we willstart from  28th. A house wasfilled with thousands of mini lamps for the feel of  Christmas in Msia with inhabitants seeming as Tamil

It is also funthat a Turkish series is aired via the RTM2 on same time! Subtitles are used.   Thesame also happens here in Greece with fair audience numbers stories are verygood and weepy.
Greek TV has musicals on 24-25 and also on 25

All logs arehere

https://zliangaslogs.blogspot.com/2020/12/monitoring-24-2712-long-article.html ;

MW logs onyare here

https://zliangaslogs.blogspot.com/2020/12/mw-only-logs-froom-prevous-page.html

https://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/sdr

Zacharias LiangasAirspyHF+Discovery   with SDRConsole & 2x16 m antena
Icom  R75 /PL380 /  De1103  radios
https://del.icio.us/gr_greek1/ZAK (all pages)
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JRX Logs: December 26 & 28, 2020
Receivers: Sony ICF-SW100 & XHDATA D-808Antennas: Degen 31MS & Sony AN-71
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

ASCENSION ISLAND** 11810. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1844-1858, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Woman and man announcers make an interview with a woman; 1848 Now, a nice conversation with a man. Very good reception.

CHINA** 7335. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1943-1953, China Radio International, Jinhua-CHN, in Portuguese. No regular programming, but chinese instrumental music, only. Good reception.

CLANDESTINE** 12050. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1953-2005, Radio Ndarason International, Ascension Island-ASC, in Kanuri. Songs; 1958 Man announcer talks; 2003 A song. Good reception.

CUBA** 11760. Sat, Dec 26, 2020. 0214-0225, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. Woman talks news; 0217 A short song and returns woman communication; 0223 Man and woman talk. Good reception.

FRANCE** 11780. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1700-1728, Radio France International, Issoudun-F, in Mandingo. IS and ID; Men announcers present news, with the participation of external reporters. Very good reception till 1726. Afetr this time, begins a collision between RFI and Radio Nacional da Amazonia (RNA), with advantage for RFI.
** 11780. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1730-1740, RFI and RNA collision, with moments of advantage now for one, now for the other.

INDIA** 7380. Sat, Dec 26, 2020. 0145-0200, All India Radio, Bengaluru-IND, in Sindhi. Indian songs; 0155 Man announcer talks; 0200 Ends. Fair reception.

MADAGASCAR** 13670. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1903-1915, MWV - Radio Feda, Mahajanga-MDG, in Arabic. Man talks ans says ID and website: radiofeda.com; 1906 Man and woman talk, in conversation; 1912 A arabic song. Good reception. 

NEW ZEALAND** 15720. Sat, Dec 26, 2020. 0202-0213, Radio New Zealand Pacific, Rangitaiki-NZL, in English. Man and woman announcers talk news; 0206 A brief song and return announcer communications. Fair to poor reception.

OMAN** 9600. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1830-1843, BBC, Al-Seela-OMA, in Amharic. ID by woman announcer; BBC News by woman and man communication. Fair reception.

PHILIPPINES** 12120. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1916-1930, Radyo Pilipinas, Tinang-PHL, in Tagalog. Man and woman in conversation; 1927 Man talks, says ID; 1928 A piecess of The National Anthem. Fair to poor reception.
Parallel logs on 9960pht and 15190pht, out during this log time.

ROMANIA** 6130. Sat, Dec 26, 2020. 0226-0245, Radio Romania International, Galbeni-ROU, in French. A song; 0229 Man talks, ID; Woman talks, too; Songs. Good reception.
** 6180. Mon, Dec 28, 2020. 1932-1942, Radio Romania International, Tiganesti-ROU, in German. A song; 1935 Woman announcer talks and other song;  1939 More song. Fair reception.

USA** 7305. Sat, Dec 26, 2020. 0130-0145, Vatican Radio, Greenville-NC, in Portuguese. No regular programming, but a musical program dedicated to the Christmas season. Good reception.
** 9385. Sat, Dec 26, 2020. 0411-0425, EWTN-Global Catholic Radio, Vandiver-AL, in English. Songs dedicated to the Christmas season. No regular programming! Fair reception.

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** CHINA. 9860, Dec 27 at 2320, Firedragon jammer of traditional
instrumental-only music with lots of percussion, is S9+20/30 with
victim barely audible under, i.e. RFA Mandarin via TINIAN this hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** COLOMBIA. 4940, Dec 28 at 0145, usual gospel huxtering in Spanish
from mystery missionary station, S7-S8 into Bonaire SDR. Here, it`s a
JBA carrier vs S9+10 HLNL, while by 0505 at Bonaire during devotional
of pious platitudes and then citing Lucas XVII, it`s S8/S9+ but quite
sufficient. Aoki/NDXC now lists this as:

``4940 0000-2400 CLM La Montana Colombia Spa Maicao 1-7``
And this has now been copied by aggregators such as short-wave.info/

But how were this name and location determined? Perhaps Ron Howard can
find out from his Japanese DX contacts. Maicao is in NE Colombia,
right on the Venezuelan border and on the main highway across the
northern tier, thus a prime destination for Venezuelan refugees or at
least visitors. Further north than the previous DF/guesses (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** KOREA SOUTH. 9805, Dec 27 at 2321, Chinese at S9+20/30 with K-Pop,
i.e. as you would expect, KBSWR as scheduled this hour 100 kW at 205
degrees, so why is it inbooming over here? I guess this does not
provoke ChiCom jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2066 monitoring: confirmed Sunday
December 27 at 2300.2 on Area 51 via WBCQ 6159.94v, S9/+20; IS & ID
loop was playing already at tune-in 2257.

Missed checking 0030 UT Mon Dec 28 on WRMI 7730; anyone hear it?
Confirmed no longer at 0130 UT Mon on WRMI 7780, instead Wavescan.

Confirmed UT Mon Dec 28 at 0230 on WRMI 5800, VG S9+15/20 to Bonaire
SDR, and 7780, S9+5/10 to UTwente SDR; also on WRN webcast

Confirmed UT Mon Dec 28 at 0450 the 0430 on WRMI 9955, VG S7-S9 into
Bonaire KiwiSDR while it`s only a JBA carrier here. Next:

1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE [pre-empted for FSR]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE [pre-empted] [ex-0100]

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
WOR is always a SW program first, but as stations make it harder to
hear, I can`t blame people for accessing a reliable alternative.

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to Gerald T. Pollard, Raleigh NC, who sent a generous
Solsticial check in US$ on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to:
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** U S A. 5950, UT Mon Dec 28 at 0300-0400, `Encore` of classical
music via WRMI, ex-9455, VG via Missouri SDR but somewhat distorted;
direct at 0354 seems less distorted at S9+20 but not enough to
overcome high local xmas noise level of S9+10. Also the transitions
between music and announcements are noisy as if surging automatic
volume control were engaged in produxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Dec 28 at 0521, WTWW-2 is strongly on and modulating
rock music. Wolfgang Bueschel also noted the dead air earlier:
``some logs of Dec 26 re US private broadcaster. 5085even WTWW only
empty carrier signal at 0718 UT on Dec 26, and two accompanied
spurious strings seen on 5072.020 and 5097.980 kHz exact. S=9+30dB
powerful noted in Cape Canaveral FL, as well as on NJ and MI states.
Also accompanied by 60, 120, 240, 360, and 480 Hertz spur buzz strings
from the mains. wb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 830, more replies to thread I started, ``Why is WCCO 830
echoing?`` on the IRCA iog:

Mike VE7SKA cn88/B.C. Dec 24 #15359

``I too have been noticing the echoes on WCCO the last few evenings &
think Glen[n] probably has the answer that the station is testing a
second, auxilliary transmitter. Often echoes on the same frequency
indicate the same syndicated program is being transmitted on two
different DX stations with slight offsets or lags in audio. However,
in this case as others have noted, there are some differences in the
fades that can be heard indicating two transmissions in very close
proximity. 73 Mike, Salt Spring Island BC``

Scott Fybush Dec 25 #15381 IRCA iog:

``WCCO is one of the rare AM stations (I know of fewer than a dozen
around the country) with a full-power auxiliary transmission facility
at a different location. If you look on FCCData.org (by far the best
way to parse the FCC's databases), you'll see it listed under the
BXL-19991004ACA application - the "X" is the giveaway that it's an aux
license:

https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&appid=417231&facid=9642

As others have mentioned on this thread, this is a shorter tower than
the main one - 127.6 degrees at 830, so it will have different skywave
propagation characteristics from the big 194 degree main tower a few
miles to the south in Coon Rapids. (I believe the aux site in Ramsey
used to be a site for the 1470 station licensed to Brooklyn Park,
which has since moved elsewhere.)

Most of the former class A "clear channel" 50 kW AMs have shorter
auxiliary towers at their licensed transmitter sites, sometimes fed by
a completely separate transmitter, sometimes just with RF switching to
allow them to be fed by the normal transmission chain. (Which is
usually more than one transmitter - typically an older transmitter
will be retired to backup duty when a new transmitter arrives;
sometimes big AM stations run alternate mains, with transmitter A
operating for a week, then transmitter B, then back to A, which is a
good way to be pretty sure you have a working standby if the on-air
transmitter fails.)

In those cases, you'd almost never see the main and aux tower both on
the air simultaneously; even if there's a second tower, the RF
interaction between two towers both on the air at the same site would
start tripping alarms immediately.

Even in the rare cases with off-site auxes, there's usually some kind
of fail-safe that keeps both from running at once. Not that it *never*
happened at WBZ, but when the 10 kW aux site at our studio location
was on, we all knew it, because the co-located TV station started
complaining about interference to its video chain. (And now that site
is gone, anyway.) Here in Rochester, WHAM 1180 can't use its backup
site on one tower of sister WHTK 1280 unless the engineers manually
switch WHTK to non-directional operation from another tower in the
four-tower array.

All of which is to say: as nearly impossible as it is for a big 50 kW
AM to be operating simultaneously from two sites, WCCO appears to be
one of the very few places where it actually could happen - two
completely separate sites with separate transmission paths, neither
shared with any other station that would be affected, both operating
unstaffed most of the time, and no co-located studios where someone
would immediately notice the problem.

(And now I'm kicking myself for forgetting to check 830 at 5 AM ET as
I was driving in to WXXI for my airshift this morning. If you're
wondering, we have just one transmitter site, but multiple
redundancies there - multiple audio paths to get to the site, an
emergency studio/newsroom on site that we've yet to actually use, a
generator for power backup, a recent Nautel transmitter that's
actually two redundant transmitters in one, and a 1955-vintage RCA
transmitter that still runs like a charm and gets exercised on the air
now and then.)`` -- Scott Fybush, Rochester NY (via gh, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7719.5-LSB, Dec 27 at 2308, ``over`` in English just as
I get it tuned in, nothing further for a few minutes. Maybe military
such as MARS, but LSB make me suspect it`s a second harmonic from
``80`` meter ham band, i.e. from 3859.75; nothing there either at a
quick check (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7739.9, Dec 27 at 2308, JBA carrier S6-S7, nothing
listed on 7740; maybe Sound of Hope? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS

``DX Juke Box on Thursday night from Radio Nederland was a "must hear"
on my schedule. I hand copied all of Glenn Hauser's tips, and marked
them in WRTH and White's Radio Log for "my personal targets to chase"
list. And now in 2020, I'm still chasing Glenn's tips, as well as all
of the input from this great group of dedicated DXer's. Thanks to all
of you, and I wish you all a Very Happy and Satisfying 2021! 73, Mike
Gorniak`` (WOR iogroup)

This report dispatched at 0600 UT December 28
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