** SPAIN. 9690, Friday December 18 at 2300, REE English as Alison
Hughes is recounting a subject she says they have not dealt with
before: the corruption of exiled ex-Rey Juan Carlos; with bits of
rather disrespectful music interludes. Later in show on to some other
newsy subjects. VG reception, other frequencies unchecked (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2065 monitoring. Confirmed UT
Saturday December 19 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, VG S9+5/15 into UTwente
Holland SDR; slightly weaker toward the end. Next:

1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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 Doug Brown, London, Ontario who sent a generous
check in US$ on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA, and comments:
``Thanks for another year of great programs, in what has
otherwise been a dark year full of bad news``

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

** U S A. 9395, Fri Dec 18 at 2307, WRMI playing classical organ music
- Encore? NO, 2310 it`s Bob Biermann on `Truth 2 Ponder` saying he is
taking a break from politix, but goes on to proselytize here like he
does on `YWS`, lamenting how secular so much music and Xmas
programming has become, e.g. depressing movies on Hallmark channel
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5800, UT Sat Dec 19 at 0259, WRMI with some dead air, then
Zanotti ID JIP, 0300 that bouncy World Music fill, Greek? So Encore is
not getting the usual unpublicized (except by me) prepeat --- oh2, yes
it is, 0302 cut to JIP Magic Flute Overture, and the rest of that
excellent classical hour; as I am listening via Missouri SDR which is
getting it at S9+20/30 despite off the back of SSE antenna (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. Area 51/61 webcast, UT Sat Dec 19 at 0100, WTO starting
AAAWWW on WBCQ. This is what should be on SW 6160v, but not checked;
Allan says on 7490 & 6160 tonight, ``we hope``. Nostalgia of VU meters
they have rather than LED displays; Angela seem to think she is
*supposed* to peak ``in the red``, which explains why she is
constantly shouting and overmodulating, distorting. Apparently she
sees red as a political statement! A spirited discussion/argument
follows the rest of the hour, and Allan also has to raise his voice
too high just to overcome her. She wonders why one monitor radio is on
``7489``? Allan explains that it`s an old Kenwood which drifts --- but
says nothing about WBCQ transmitters drifting. As a ``man of
science``, Allan declares, ``take the vaccine`` while Angela objects
--- China must have something to do with it as with the virus
itself.

At 0120 the Area 51/61 webcast of AAAWWW is suddenly interrupted by a
rapid retuning-sound across the dial, screech, switch to some music
fill, and a song repeating the F-word. I go to the WBCQ 7490 webcast
and find AAAWWW is still running there; I wonder if the same
divergence happened on SW? At 0122 a caller interrupts, Bill in Ohio
who says he has already got vaccinated, but they dispose of him
quickly.

At 0131 I recheck A51/61 webcast and just starting is ``2001, a Jane
Odyssey, welcome September 8`` --- so it appears that Larry Will,
controller of A51/61, had enough of the Wieners and decided to dump
out of their show, at least on his webcast.

Now on (7490) webcast, they are lamenting increasing ChiCom influence
in the US, etc., etc. 0145 datestamp as ``18th of December, YOOL
2020``, and assures us there will be an Xmas show too. 0147 to e-mail
starting with the new Free Radio Weekly, extracting a few frequencies
and pirate stations reported. AHW again advocates their dumping SSB
and using AM only. And so it goes to closing prayer by 0159, some
music fill and eventually Hal Turner starts, bragging about how many
countries he allegedly reaches via WBCQ & WRMI - I wonder if he knows
he`s been moved from 9455 to 5950, which BTW is much stronger than //
6160v. Axually, any full-power SW signal can reach *every* country in
the world at one time or another, no big deal. Whether there be any
significant listeners in any of them is quite another matter.

At 0219 I try to measure 7490v, but no signal direct to here! 6160
comes out as 6159.931 --- at least it`s quite stable. Now with Hal
Turner, but at 0254 recheck, music is playing. At 0342 I try
Alexandria SDR in SAM, which now displays 6160.0 minus 78 to 80 Hz.

I still want to measure where ``7490`` is tonight, so try Warrenton MO
SDR in SAM mode -- arrives there sufficiently at S7, but Hz offset on
that Kiwi is stuck at -3.7, even when I tune or jump to other
frequencies; not to be believed. At 0344, Alexandria is working as
7490.00 plus 170 to 172 Hz, now in TOMBS not // music on 6160- (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. eQSL received December 18 for KSEN 1150 Shelby MT DX test on
Nov 8:

``Dear Glenn, Congratulations on your valid reception report of the
KSEN DX test. Please find the attached PDF of your QSL.
https://www.w4uvh.net/KSEN1150DXghQSL.pdf
Please feel free to respond with any questions or concerns. vy 73 de
Joe KJ8O -- *** Avoid internet congestion, real radio uses airwaves.
*** Joe Miller, KJ8O, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Locator DM13sw``

It`s now #103 at http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Joe is on the Courtesy Programs Committee, entrusted with proxy
QSLing, not a station staffer. Original report as also copied to him:

** U S A. 1150, Nov 8 at 0736 UT, besides KSAL Salina KS, I am hearing
Sousa march music, must be the scheduled DX test from KSEN Shelby,
Montana. Yes, 0737 very slow Morse Code MCW IDs: VVV DE KSEN, with
call repeated so many times I lose count. 0739 sweep tones; 0740 I
switch from the DX-398 with internal antenna only somewhat nulling
KSAL, to the R75 with E-W longwire where KSAL is more solid, but still
hearing underneath, KSEN now with continuous tone. 0742,
phone-off-the-hook pulse sounds. So that`s it. As I said, unheard 24
hours earlier, and it turns out that test was deficient at low power.
Tonight it`s widely heard from coast to coast at least. Shelby is near
Cut Bank, on I-15, only some 35 miles south of Alberta (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

Joe, Tnx for the QSL - a nice design. Added to my gallery:
http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
73, Glenn

``Hi Glenn, Nice gallery. Coincidently, my first QSL was also CFRX
dated February 1968. Best wishes, Joe`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

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JRX Logs: December 18, 2020Receiver: Sony SW100 & Tecsun S-2000Antenna: Degen 31MS Loop & Longwire
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

BRAZIL** 5940. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2242-2255, Radio Voz Missionaria, Camboriú-SC, in Portuguese. Station transmitting the mandatory program "A Voz do Brasil",: News from the Federal Senate, at this time. Fair reception.

CHINA** 7250. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2216-2227, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Spanish. Woman announcer talks and a song; 2221 Woman talks; Man talks, too. Very good reception.
** 7260. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2206-2216, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Portuguese. Chinese instrumental music, only. Very good signal and slight interference by CRI on 7265kas.
** 7265. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2100-2115, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Italian. Woman announcer talks; 2103 A song by a couple of singers; 2106 Woman and man announcers talking; 2111 A song by soprano singer. Fair reception.
** 7305. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2043-2058, China National Radio 1, Shijiazhuang-CHN, in Chinese. Woman talks; 2045 Chinese instrumental music. Very good reception.
** 7350. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2032-2042, China Radio International, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in French. Woman and man announcers talking news; 2040 ID and woman talks. Good reception.

GUINEA** 9650. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2012-2030, Radio Guinee, Conakry-GUI, in French. Man and woman talk news and a external reporter participation; 2020 Woman talking, says "Bon soir" (it´s 8:20PM there!); News continues. Very good reception.

IRAN** 7225. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 2230-2240, Pars Today, Sirjan-IRN, in Hausa. A song; Man announcer talks, news presumably; 2237 ID and continues man communication. Very good reception.

MALI** 5995. Fri, Dec 18, 2020. 1959-2011, RTV du Mali, Bamako-MLI, in Bambara. Instrumental music; 2000 Man and/or woman talk and pieces of music; ID; 2010 Man and woman talk, music. Good reception.

SRI LANKA** 11750. Fri, Dec 18, 2020.  1702-1805, Sri Lanka BC - City FM, Trincomalee-CLN, in Sinhala. Man and woman talk news between the songs; News, announcements, ID and songs. Very good reception.

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** CANADA. 335-MCW kHz, Dec 18 at 0731, dash and YLD, 1000-watt NDB at
Chapleau, Ontario; would rather hear YUT in Repulse Bay, Nunavut
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) See also USA [and non]

** CANADA. 990, Dec 18 at 1451 UT, discussion of vaccine distribution
delays in Ontario, with Canuckcent, obviously CBW Winnipeg MB, nice to
hear this long after sunrise, but shortly fading out. At night it all
depends on how much auroral there be, whether this or XET dominate, or
something between like KWAM Memphis (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** NIGERIA. 7255-, Dec 17 at 0727, no signal from the extremely
unreliable VON; maybe switched to 9690- instead? There is a JBA
carrier and nothing else scheduled, but unseems mandatory offset minus
as to be expected (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ROMANIA [and non]. 7345, Dec 17 at 0721, something in German is
getting jammed, adding up to S9; yes, soon 0723 ID RRI as scheduled.
The Cuban jamming is slightly excessive because of DRM Radio Martí
only until 0200 with a negligible audience in Cuba. When will innocent
bystations ever learn to avoid any frequency ever jammed by Cuba, past
or present, any time of day? Or employ diplomatic pressure against
Cuba; but those Commies have no respect for Romanian ex-Commies (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 428-MCW kHz, Dec 18 at 0725 UT, NDB POH, which is 25 watts
from Pocahontas, Arkansas. Not always audible, but this is the top
frequency for such in the conterminous (an Alaskan on 429). I have
searched three websites for why it`s named Pocahontas with no
explanations, but presumably inspired by that Virgindian (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 332-MCW kHz, Dec 18 at 0732 UT, again trying to
unravel the NDB pileup here. In addition to IC, Wichita KS, another
one at almost same period which means they are meshing. I copy it as
NIS, but nonesuch listed; closest is FIS, Key West FL - Fish Hook.
Maybe ..-. for F is losing the first two dits or overlain with the I
of IC, making the first letter sound like an N instead of an F? All
this under stronger dash and what I copy as YT, which is also
confusing as there is no YT listed, rather YTE in Nunavut, also XT and
VT Canadians in BC and SK, but should really be QT in Thunder Bay ON
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2064 monitoring: confirmed UT Thu
Dec 17 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, S9+5/15 via UTwente SDR; immediately
preceded by Brother Scare, no ID, not R. Slovakia International relay
as scheduled at 0000-0100.

WORLD OF RADIO 2065 contents: Alaska, Austria, Bougainville, Brasil,
Canada, Chile, China, Eritrea and non, Europe, France, Germany,
Guatemala, Guinea, Korea South, Kurdistan non, Kuwait, Monaco non?,
Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Pridnestrovye,
Russia and non, Sa`udi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, UK and non USA and
non; solar cycle 25 high or low; and the propagation outlook

WOR 2065 is available as of 0115 UT Friday December 18
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2065.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2065.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 & 5010 to S [confirmed]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2300 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415; as late as 0500]
2300vUT Sunday WBCQ 6160v Area 51 to WSW [new, ex 0400 Mon]
0030 UT Monday WRMI 7730 to WNW
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5800 to SSE
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Bulgaria to WNW, 594-Italy
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 to SSE
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE

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 Doug Brown, London, Ontario who sent a generous
check in US$ on a US bank to
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA, and comments:
``Thanks for another year of great programs, in what has
otherwise been a dark year full of bad news``

One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to:
woradio at yahoo.com

WOR 2065 confirmed UT Friday December 18 on WRMIs: 5850 VG S9+20/30
here; 5010 VP S5-S7 here, fair at Brasília SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** U S A. 5950, Dec 18 at 1803 UT, JBA carrier from WRMI which runs 24
hours here. At low noon around the midpoint, I thought it might be
readable if one cared to listen to BS; since the upgrade and change to
355 azimuth, it does hold up better post-sunrise and pre-sunset, and
is even usable at night unlike before, tough luck for Ethiopia, et al.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1210, Dec 18 at 1443 UT, more than hour after sunrise here,
keeps referring to Huron - not the lake but the city in South Dakota:
ad for The Daily Plainsman newspaper --- oooh, I`m a Plainsman as an
EHS grad; show is `The Morning Mess`. Not sure of last word, as in a
meal? It`s KOKK, one of a local group at
https://www.performance-radio.com/
--- and is there a plainsman old program schedule? Of course not! Is
U4 5000/870 watts; day pattern favors SE, night pattern NW. Official
sunrise in Dec & Jan is 1400 UT. This is dominating on my E-W longwire
rather than KGYN Guymon OK almost due west, still at 1453 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 1050-, Dec 18 at 1447 UT, obits sponsored by multi-city
funeral home, Pipestone and Sioux Falls SD; AC 507 ads. It`s KLOH
Pipestone MN, U4 9380/432 watts - how`s that for precision? Pipestone
is in the SW corner of MN, so not far from the much larger SxF SD. Day
pattern sports equal lobes to NNE and SW, favoring SxF and us, even on
my E-W longwire. At 1455, a LAH - low audible het appears to be caused
by this one about 15 Hz low beating against one or both OK 1050
groundwavers. However, mwoffsets put it on the plus side:
``1050.0097 USA KLOH (Pipestone, MN) 2019-08-07``
and only one station more than minus 10:
``1049.9798 USA WLIP (Kenosha, WI) [range: -1049.9995] 2019-08-07``
There is also a heavy 248/minute = 4.13 Hz SAH.
The OKies are not listed, but here`s a nearie plus 3.6 Hz:
``1050.0036 USA KSIS (Sedalia, MO) 2018-01-23``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12174.7-USB, Dec 18 at 1526, JBA 2-way in colloquial
Spanish, sounds borracho (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 13065, Dec 17 at 1402, open carrier amid fruitless
search for CNR1 jammers, but immediately 1403 replaced by wideband OTH
radar covering 13053-13075 approx. Russia? Evidently it homes in with
an AM carrier before turning on the noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15330-USB, Dec 18 at 1523, 2-way in colloquial Spanish
JBA; not a problem for AFRTS which abandoned this AM from Bethany
sesquidecades ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
++++++++++++++++++++++++

COLUMN: The predictable hypocrisy of pro-life anti-maskers
James Neal | Enid News & Eagle 7 hrs ago

https://www.enidnews.com/opinion/column-the-predictable-hypocrisy-of-pro-life-anti-maskers/article_88174f06-40a6-11eb-89e8-1bb1c8cea32b.html
(via gh)

This report dispatched at 1941 UT December 18
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JRX Logs: December 15, 2020Receiver: XHDATA D-808Antenna: Degen 31MS Loop
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

CHINA** 4500. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 0017-0027, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Mongolian. Man announcer talks, with music background and slow mongolian language. Poor reception.
** 6015. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 0028-0038, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Kazakh. A song; Man and woman announcers talk. Poor reception.
** 6190. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 0052-0102, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi-Changji-CHN, in Mongolian. Man and woman announcers talk. Poor reception.
** 7220. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 0102-0112, China National Radio 2 - China Business Radio, Golmud-Qinghai-CHN, in Chinese. A song; 0104 Man and woman announcers talking, a nice conversation, laughs. fair reception.
** 9530. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 0113-0123, China National Radio 11, Baoji-Sifangshan-CHN, in Tibetan. Man announcer talks. Fair reception.

eSWATINI** 9500. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 1828-1838, TWR Africa, Manzini-SWZ, in Arabic. Man and woman announcers talk; 1830 Woman says ID and website; 1833 Man talks, preaching, presumably. Fair reception.

MALI** 13645. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 1750-1757, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in Swahili. A song; Man talks and a song; 1556 Woman talks and ID. Fair reception.

SRI LANKA** 11750. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 1707-1750, Sri Lanka BC-Radio City FM, Trincomalee-CLN, in Sinhala. Songa and news between them; News and external reporter participations; 1730 Man says ID and website. Very good reception.

SUDAN** 9505. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 1804-1816, Voice of Africa, Al-Aitahab-SDN, in Hausa. A conversation between woman and man announcers; 1810 Man talks; 1811 ID and man talks. Fair reception.

TURKEY** 9495. Tue, Dec 15, 2020. 1817-1825, Voice of Turkey, Emirler-TUR, in Spanish. Woman talks; 1822 A brief song and returns woman communication; 1823 Man says ID; 1824 Woman says ID and VOT sked in spanish; 1825 Ends programming. Fair reception.

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increased propagation conditions now,
at least from Far East and Central Asia:

9275even PHL  FEBC  Boceau, Mandarin, S=9+20dB at 15.18 UT on Dec 17.
9315.179 TJK  RFA Orzu relay site, Tibetan sce, powerhouse S=9+40dB,
        bad audio mixture of co-channel 
9315even CHN  CNR1 jamming sce to avoid 
        AGM United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), 15.10 UT

9330even USA  WBCQ  WLC En program, but weak S=6 or -94dBm at 15.20 UT
        maybe work on different azimuth.
        Backlobe ! - not main Ampegon Thales darling, at present
        towards southern Germany.
9344.974 PHL  FEBC Manila via Iba, Chinese sce, S=9+20dB proper signal
        into Germany at 15.23 UT.
9619.815 IND  AIR Delhi, likely via Khampur, due odd frequency
        performance, usual bad technical sce at AIR Delhi site.
        Perseus Userlist says Baluchi language sce. At 15.27 UT
        some typical SoAS/Hindi singer program heard, at
        proper S=9+25dB in southern Germany.
        Seldom heard an outlet from India on shortwave now.
        Somehow the entire society of the India state radio service
        to abroad is being reorganized.
Bad audio mixture noted on 
9650even GUI  Radio Guinea of WeAF, and co-channel

9650.037 ARS  R Saudi Arabia 1st program in Arabic from Riyadh site,
        S=9+35dB here in southern Germany. 14.00-17.55 UT.
9800.007 IRN  VoIRIB Sirjan in Arabic, S=9+10dB at 15.36 UT.
9919.981 PHL  FEBC Manila from Iba site, 15-16 UT Russian, weekends
        partly Ukrainian language, S=9+15dB at 15.40 UT.
9984.980 MRA  US AGM RFA Korean service, from Saipan Agignan Point
        site, S=6 sidelobe into Germany, Korean talk program at
        15.46 UT on Dec 17.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 17)
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