** ANTARCTICA. 15475.98 RC USB, Wed Dec 14 at 1455 tune-in via Argentine remote, LRA36 already on with song, only S6 so not enough to overcome noise level. 1501 standard canned sign/on, multi-lingual advisory, staff names, ``Nacional, la radio pública``; 1502.5 theme song; 1506 recitation with musical background; 1507.7 song; 1511.7 ID ending with ``su compañía`` and start live YLs chatting led by María Eugenia, as programa #35; 1519 strength surges briefly to S7/S8; 1526 contact info; 1527.7 song; 1530.4 ID with `Nacional, nos une``, this-week-in-history starring with 12 diciembre. I have to quit now for an appointment, but did not miss much as Gary Pence says it dropped off sometime between 1532 and 1545.
Here`s info about the 2022 and 2023 seasons, including full names of the four women now and then; from Radio Magazine, on FB originally in French, into Spanish via Juan I. Gutiérrez, AER Foro DX, a lot better than a machine-translated English version: ``ANTÁRTIDA: LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel Gabriel, la emisora más austral del mundo es la única emisora estatal que transmite desde la Antártida en onda corta. Características que, sumadas a que se trata de una estación de Estado operada por personal militar del Comando Conjunto Antártico, la hacen única frente a otras radios. Por segundo año, Radio Nacional LRA 36 estará dirigida por un equipo profesional y técnico integrado exclusivamente por mujeres. Así lo anunció el Ministro de Defensa el pasado 7 de diciembre: El acto contó con la presencia de la Presidenta de Radio y Televisión Argentina, Rosario Lufrano, el Comandante del Grupo Antártico, Brigadier General Edgar Fernando Calandín, Adrián Korol, director de Radio Argentina en el Exterior, y Malvinas, Antártida y Atlántico Sur Secretario del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Guillermo Carmona. El nuevo equipo tomará el relevo de Romina Zabalza, María Eugenia Rodríguez, Claudia Beatriz Albarracín y Mariela Churquina, quienes ya llevan un año en el cargo. Además del servicio de FM local, LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arcángel Gabriel tiene alcance internacional a través de onda corta. El objetivo de su programación es difundir la cultura argentina, pero sobre todo el trabajo de las Fuerzas Armadas en las bases antárticas, la labor de investigación científica y, fundamentalmente, el apoyo a la histórica reivindicación de soberanía del territorio antártico. La Estación Base Esperanza reflejará en su nueva parrilla el contenido cultural y científico argentino y, en particular, las actividades que se desarrollan en la Antártida. La emisora tendrá, en enero, la matinal de Panorama Nacional de Noticias, a cargo del periodista Marcelo Ayala y su grupo de producción estará integrado por Lorena del Carmen Alvarado, María Victoria Menéndez, Noemí del Valle Cisneros, Ariadna Verónica Berrardo y Adriana Novakoski y la técnica de operación del cabo primero de la marina Nicole Valdebenito. Puede escuchar la radio en 15476 kHz y confirma informes de escucha por QSL. LRA36 Arcángel Gabriel, Base Esperanza, Antártida, Argentina o lra36nacio...@gmail.com`` By postal be sure to include code 9411 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** ARGENTINA [non]. Re my last report copying the RAE in English times on the WRMI skedgrid, Harold Sellers replies quite differently: ``According to my recent monitoring I believe RAE’s English programming is carried by WRMI as below. 0200-0230 5800 Th, 5850 Mo & We, 9395 Tu & Fr 0500-0600 Th 7780 2330-2400 We 7570 Harold Sellers, Vernon, BC`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CANADA. 750, Dec 14 at 0726, CKJH liner between rock songs, exactly like last night, never with call letters, but beachradiosk.ca Chuckle. Second of two nights WSB off for maintenance. Melfort appears to be the dominant signal all over USA. There are no other US powerhouses at night except 20 kW Portland OR, but it`s cardioid into Pacific, deep null eastward. Well, also 50/50 kW ND KFQD Anchorage, which might have a chance were it not for CKJH. The Spanish I heard last night was probably R. Progreso, Cuba. Others I have heard before: KAMA El Paso TX, 1 kW; KOAL Price UT, 6.8 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 5025, Dec 14 at 0734, R. Rebelde remains reactivated, VG here but no 10050; nor RHC on 5040 & 10080. The other side: READ TODAY THE CUBA OF TOMORROW --- December 14, 2022 POLITICS Why are the ballot boxes in Cuba guarded by children and not by security forces? 'The clearest proof of the banality and theatricality of the Cuban electoral system.' YOAN MIGUEL GONZÁLEZ PIEDRA | Holguín``... https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1670970511_44022.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6060, Dec 14 at 0739, S9+20 of dead air from RHC; also 6165, S9+10. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** EGYPT. 9439.995, Dec 14 at 2242, no signal into UTwente from R. Cairo in English for a sesquihour from 2115. Something`s always amiss in Abis (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KIRITIMATI. 846 kHz, Dec 14 at 0728, only 9/kHz split JBA carrier is here, R. Kiribati (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Dec 14 at 0740, no signal from VON (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. Don`t you believe that `StarDate` is on KGOU Norman and its satellites, daily at 7 AM & PM CST = 13 & 01 UT. Still not having located it on the `upgraded` KUCO, if at all, I bring up the KGOU stream at 0100 Dec 14. Instead, after the `Fresh Air` opening teaser, this news hole is filled by `National Native News` as on KGOU sked, with nothing specified for 7 AM. Looking again at the website, somewhat obscure is link to affiliates: https://stardate.org/radio/affiliates upon which is a USA map where you have to click on a state. Considering that all OK entries are wrong, I would not believe any without confirming. Guess what: publicradiofan.com doesn`t know of any, just as a podcast. Furthermore, StarDate website credits for show does not even mention the only voice we always hear, Billy Henry, ex-Sandy Wood. It does name several people behind the scenes in scripting and produxion. He is elsewhere on the site or search on his name. Next I try KUNM Albuquerque NM as it and all its relays are on the affiliate list: 7 pm [MST] except Sundays 6:30 pm - CONFIRMED, UT Wed Dec 14 at 0200 on KUNM webcast, even tho it is too insignificant to appear on KUNM`s own skeds, as if `Espejos de Aztlán` start at 7 pm sharp, lunes a viernes. Music after StarDate is certainly nothing Hispanic. O, on Tuesdays, `Home of Happy Feet` starts at 7 altho the title is `centered` as if it start an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** SPAIN. 9690, Wed Dec 14 at 2300, token English from REE, billboard of features starts with something about silly ballgame players, so I ditch it for TURKEY q.v. instead. But a quickcheck later finds it`s VG into Maryland SDR, while 12030 & 11940 are JBA and 11685 inaudible if it even be on (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** TURKEY [and non]. 5960.001, Dec 14 *from a few seconds before 2300 timesignal, VOT S9+35 into Utwente. Now seems to be coördinating with BBC Oman until 2259.5* so as not to overlap with IS. Usual sign-on with jumbled English schedule, and soon there is surging caused by open carrier from PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, East Turkistan, land of ChiCom genocide against Uighurs and other Moslems, which has also just opened on a slightly different frequency making subaudible heterodyne - SAH fading. Not until 2311.7 do the ChiCom bring up the relayed CNR1 modulation, after which the CCCCCCI is rather annoying. As usual, VOT is undermodulated so that I have to open SDR and own volume controls to max, but aside from the QRM would be sufficient considering how strong the signal is. After news and music break, 2322 feature title now sounds like `Clipping Files`? It`s about genetic diseases and social media addixion causing depression, narcissism. At the closing it sounds more like `Gripping Piles`, more next week. 2326, multilingual ID filler reel. 2328, `Weekly Commentary`, by some prof., can`t understand name or institution, about Xi`s official visit to Sa`udi Arabia, what effect it could have on the ME. Usual too-heavy accent by YL reader. 2353 recheck closer to 5960.002, already in TRT IS and the CCCCCCI is even worse. 2356 begins interspersing German IDs. 0000 Dec 15 still on, signing on German, mixing with ChiCom anthem. 0008+, enough cacophony. Something`s always erroneous at Emirler (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2168 monitoring: confirmed UT Wednesday December 14 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, S8/9+10 into Maryland SDR. Also confirmed Wednesday December 14 at 2205 the 2200+ on WBCQ 7490-, S8/S9 direct but vs S5/S6 high noise level, really unlistenable. Via Maryland SDR, however, it` S9+10/20 -58 Hz offset = 7489.942. Next: 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 A noncommercial service for which financial support is appreciated. Thanks to Doug Brown, London, ON Canada, for a generous contribution on a US bank, ``Thanks for another year of great information and useful tips``, to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, USA. One may also contribute via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to: woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. eQSL from Texas Radio Shortwave for `Yellow Rose of Texas` test via WRMI 15770, Dec 11 at 2022 UT: https://www.w4uvh.net/TRSWtestviaWRMI15770_Hauser.pdf or #135 via: http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Dec 14 at 0740, S6/S9 of Bislama talk from R. Vanuatu, best signal yet on this fundamental (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0015 UT December 15 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
