JRX Logs: December 19, 2020Receiver: Sony ICF-SW100Antennas: Degen 31MS Active Loop & Sony AN-71
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

ASCENSION ISLAND** 15400.  Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1811-1822, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in English. Woman and man announcers talk news, including about Uzbekistan and Nagorno Karabakh; 1821 External man reporter participation. Excellent reception.

CHINA** 11895. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 0145-0155, China National Radio 1, xx-CHN. Jammer/Firedrake;  Station blocking all RFA transmission this time and frequency. Fair to good reception.

eSWATINI** 6130. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1910-1930, Trans World Radio, Manzini-SWZ, in Portuguese. Man pastor makes a prea, says about the Gospel of Saint John; Says about Christmas; 1916 A song; 1918 Returns man communication; 1920 IS and ID by female announcer; She keeps talking; Man talks. Fair with moments of good reception.
Note: All programming in portuguese language!

FRANCE** 9570. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1827-1840, Deutsche Welle, Issoudun-F, in Hausa. Woman and man talk news; 1830 ID and news continue. Good reception.

INDIA** 7380. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 0121-0135, All India Radio, Bengaluru-IND, in Sindhi. Indian songs; 0127 Woman announcer talks, ID and more songs. Good reception.

MADAGASCAR** 9880. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1840-1850, MWV-New Life Station, Mahajanga-MDG, in Russian. Woman pastor makes a preaching, presumed; 1848 A short song by choir child; 1849 Man talks. Fair reception.

MALI** 15125. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1749-1757, China Radio International, Bamako-MLI, in Swahili. A swahili song; 1754 Man talks and other swahili song; 1756 Woman talks, says ID; 1757 Ends programming. Very good reception.

NEW ZEALAND** 15720. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 0203-0230, Radio New Zealand Pacific, Rangitaiki-NZL, in English. Woman talks; 0207 A song; 0213 Woman and man talk; 0216 A song; 0223 Woman talks and song. Fair reception.

ROMANIA** 9600. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 0040-0057, Radio Romania International, Tiganesti-ROU, in Spanish. Woman announcer presents a program "Viviendo Bucarest": A scroll through the historic center of the romanian capital; 0050 ID; 0054 Woman says the RRI sked in spanish and IS. Very good reception.
Parallel logs on 11800tig, blocked by CNR2 transmission; 6040gal, very poor; 7325gal, poor reception.

SRI LANKA** 11750. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1707-1725, Sri Lanka BC-City FM, Trincomalee-CLN, in Sinhala. A song; Woman talks, in conversation with other woman; 1719 A song; 1723 Woman says ID and website. Good reception.
** 17650. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 0135-0145, Adventist World Radio, Trincomalee-CLN, in Chinese. Man talks, preaching, presumably. Very poor reception.

TAJIKISTAN7510. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 0105-0120, Radio Free Asia, Dushanbe-TJK, in Burmese. Woman and man announcers talk; A conversation with a man. Fair reception.

THAILAND** 7475. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1850-1900, Radio Thailand, Udon-Thani-THA, in Thai. A song; 1853 Other song; 1858 IS and ID: Radio Thailand World Service. Good reception this saturday afternoon, here.
** 7475. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1900-1910, Radio Thailand, Udon-Thani-THA, in English. IS and ID; Man talks news; 1909 Woman announcer talks. Good reception.

UAE** 9585. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1759-1810, BBC, Al-Dhabbiya-UAE, in Arabic. IS, The sound of the Big Ben; ID, man and woman announcers present BBC News, presumably. Fair reception.

USA** 17655. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1735-1748, Voice of America, Greenville-NC, in Portuguese. Annoucer Ana Guedes says ID and presents a program dedicated to hits of this week, with pieces of the songs. Very good reception.
** 21525. Sat, Dec 19, 2020. 1725-1735, PAB-Radio Africa Network, Okeechobee-FL, in English. Two songs; 1729 Man talks, says ID: Radio Africa Network and POBox; Next, man preaching, says about The Bible. Fair reception.

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NRK's 3KW Longyearbyean(Svalbard), Norway transmitter on 1485khz was heard
in McGrath, Alaska at a distance of 4000 miles on Sat. Dec. 19th at 1739UTC
(839am AK Time). Thanks to Bjarne Mjelde for helping me figure out what I
heard.

Received with a CC Skywave and DeBock 5" FSL Loop, recorded on a Zoom H1
handheld digital recorder.

Audio recording:
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** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98-RCUSB, Sat Dec 19 from 1548 UT tune-in via
Pardinho SP Brasil KiwiSDR, LRA36 has made a surprise appearance after
supposedly closing down for the summer a sesquimonth ago. Tbx tip on
the WOR iog at 1406 UT:

``Manuel Méndez Lugo, Spain
LRA 36 on air, heard via SDR Kiwi remote receivers in South America

ANTARCTICA, 15476 USB, LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel
Base Esperanza, 1352-1405, 19-12, pop song in English, 1401
identification "LRA 36, Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel", Spanish,
female, comments, songs in Spanish.

Thank you very much to Hugo López from Santiago de Chile, to alert me
via whatsapp about this transmission.``

As I start listening to the S5-S6 signal, it`s a mess, seems like two
different audio sources mixing equally, music + music or music + talk.
If they are going to do that, should be on separate sidebands, but as
usual there is no LSB, so both are on USB. Various comments include at
1550, ``feliz navidad``; 1551 ``Nacional Antártida Argentina``; 1556
LRA 36 ID; timesignal! at 1600+ about 15 seconds late, including
internet delay. Surely that is not generated at Base Esperanza, rather
Bs. As. More IDs and Antarctica mentions interspersed, including
reference to the original Wed 11-13 local time broadcast. But
1621*-*1623 cut off the air. When resumed the noise level at the SDR
is higher; 1626 more or less as originally; 1628 ID in passing.

At 1636 I try other Brasil SDRs: Brasília is full, but Rio is axually
getting this better with less local noise than SP. But about 1640*
signal lost and can`t find it again on any of them.

Meanwhile, further info about this had arrived from MM at 1415:

``"Adrian Korol retwitteó --- CE3 BBC, Hugo, Santiago de Chile,
Sudamérica @CE3BBC --- ANTARTIDA - LRA36 Sábado 19 de diciembre 2020
Emisión especial de LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel San Gabriel, desde
Base Esperanza. Bienvenida al equipo 2021. 15476 Khz. en modo USB -
14:00 A 17:30UTC. Informes de recepción a:
esperanzalra36@radionacional.gov.ar
11:40 p. m. · 18 dic. 2020·Twitter Web App"

According with this tweet, the today transmission is the first with
the 2021 Base Esperanza team`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** ERITREA [non]. 17545V, Sat Dec 19 at 1535, presumed Bayto Yaikl is
VP S7-S9, but with BFO can tell the frequency is cycling up and down
as usual. At one point I catch it on 17545.060. This is Wed & Sat
only. Registered by RMI broker in HFCC as Issoudun, FRANCE site, but
this strange behaviour brings that into question. A previous inquiry
to Jeff White got no answer as to the correct transmitter site.

Wolfgang Bueschel also heard it today and speculates that it`s really
renting an old Soviet-era Kostinbrod, Bulgaria unit. Ivo Ivanov ought
to be able to discern whether it`s his local transmitter, e.g. by
hearing a second harmonic on groundwave, which would be 35090VV. The
same applies to the next RMI transmission after 1600 daily on 15285V,
R. Manara International which I previously caught wobbling likewise;
and maybe to the next2 one, 1700 on 13660, Alameda Bible Fellowship,
per NDXC on Mon & Fri only --- need to check whether that one vary the
same way. HFCC shows that on days 135, meaning Sun/Tue/Thu, but surely
a mistake for 246 = Mon/Wed/Fri. The latter two second harmonix would
be 30570VV, 27320VV.

Kai Ludwig speculates it could be Issoudun but via old Pori, Finland
transmitter moved in; no specific ISS info in the past decade (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 13565-CW, Dec 19 at 1452, HIFER beacon K6FRC, weak but
clearly readable, nothing but the call over and over. This may seem
routine, but not if it`s really 1.8 milliwatts as claimed, from
Patterson, California; only rarely audible and solely around this time
of day, so standard inquiry whether it`s *always* on air as beacons
should be, despite the kWh expense. Also standard: where are all the
other beacons listed in the 13550-13570 ISM band? I used to hear ~half
a dozen of them, but not any more (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [non]. 15460, Sat Dec 19 at 1454, African language, S9/+10,
the SSOB except for WRMI and RHC, surely the extracontinental SSOB,
but what? HFCC shows USAGM via VATICAN in Kin[yarwanda] on Sat/Sun
only. Then some African music until cut off at 1500*; but wait, there
is still/now a much weaker JBA signal on 15460. HFCC shows from 1500
it`s USAGM switched to BOTSWANA in Hausa daily. Aoki/NDXC shows both
as VOA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2065 monitoring. Awoke at 1329 UT
Sat Dec 19, a minute too late to confirm the 1300 on WRMI 15770. Did
anyone hear it?

Confirmed on WRN webcast to N America, so presumably the others, Sat
Dec 19 at 1700; despite pre-announcement that `Guangdong Today` was
next! Next:

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)

This report dispatched at 1910 UT December 19
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** 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)

This report dispatched at 0425 UT December 19
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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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