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It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Log Report for Al Muick 25 DEC 2010 Part III (Albert Muick) 2. Logs 20+21.12 (Zacharias Liangas ) 3. Glenn Hauser logs December 24-25, 2010 (Glenn Hauser) 4. South Florida -- Brasil -- Australia (Robert Wilkner) 5. Dec 25 log in Germany (Wolfgang Bueschel) 6. Glenn Hauser logs December 25, 2010 (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:19:54 +0430 From: Albert Muick <radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] Log Report for Al Muick 25 DEC 2010 Part III Message-ID: <4d15cc52.4070...@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 QTH: Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 100m longwire 7584, 25 DEC, 0621 UTC, UNID CW station repeatedly sending 751 and nothing else. Not a platter or loop because the op made several mistakes and sent a couple of BTs and "dits" to indicate an error. Went SK at 0623. Nothing listed in Klingenfuss. 10300, 25 DEC, 0845 UTC, CHINA, Firedrake with the jug band in full swing and going to town. Poor signals without QRM (dunno what they're trying to jam) and slight fading. 11530, 25 DEC, 0856 UTC, CLAN., Denge Mezopotamya, with Pop music and announcements by female DJ in presumed Kurdish. Very strong signals with a slight fade. No QRM. This is another one whose QSL evades me despite many reports and return postage. Same problem with Airtime Belgium, its enabler, who also promises a QSL for brokered programs. Bah! 12613, 25 DEC, 1017 UTC, CHINA, XSQ Guangzhou Radio, CW Marker and SITOR bursts. Good signals, slight fade, no QRM ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:59:49 +0200 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] Logs 20+21.12 Message-ID: <4d1614f5.10379.a6...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Logs for 20.12 http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/320 17485 Hamada ??? 1428 talks in an African language suppose Hausa and background music with words spelled letter by letter .Short talks by man then a dead carrier in a few seconds with sign off. Signal S0 9990 RFA 1432 with talks in Vietnamese Just S0 .Again heard on 1436 on 23.12 with signal S4 Logs for 21.12 11935 R Veritas?? 1220 woman with talks in Hmong language After a flute play , man with short talks then singing among a group that followed him in acapella style . ID then s/off S3 over quite strong QRN 9720 R Thailand 1230 with news in English Fair signal 17680 L V Chrirstiana ?? YL talking about France , then advertisement 1455 continuous talks by man, seems news reports , 'Compania Real' 150020 'Noticias ' with news by woman Marginal signal 15332 7295 Traxx FM 1505 with YL with news in English 1510 with headlines then songs S7 max bad audio seems 'companded' 5780 RFA Tibetan 1525 mixed with CNR jammer Signal S9 9310 RFA Tatar Bashkir via Philippines on 1601 with talks in Tatar (a Turkic lang ). A sudden sign off . Rechecked on 1617 with S5 level 9940 unIDed station with afro pop songs . Recheck on 1624 with very lengthy talks by man Signal just S0 13590 CVC Lusaka 1649+ with pop songs 1654 man mentioning their web page . About 'historia' (?) then a religious program Marginal signal above QRN 9690 R Nigeria 1712 talks by woman in Hausa . drums then e Christmas song A discussion between man and woman S7 s/off 1730* ?? 6250 possibly Malabo EQ GUI on 1818 with man in afro VN with very lengthy talks. Signal S5 . Strong QRM by Pyongyang on 6250.5 9345 V of People 1832 with talks by man , a song, YL with talks about ZWE mentioned many times, phone in . POB mentioned on 1856 . s/off 1857 Strong QRM by R Pakistan on 9340 after ca 1845 Signal S3 with reception before 1843 as 23322 9525 TWR SWZ 1904 'This is TWR Swaziland ' Interval signal repeated till1905 Program in an African language , many mentions of Ladino and Bambo A guitar play S9 15190 R Inconfidencia 1909 talks by OM and YL in Portuguese ON 1912 with clear ID as Inconfidencia, mention of Brazil and a folk song . Signal S5 over S3 noise floor using preamplifier 232x2 some flutter by a co-channel signal Please read and distribute this 15 year research article http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd ________________________ http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!) ........ Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece greekdx @ otenet dot gr --- Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108, Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:30:37 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 24-25, 2010 Message-ID: <870331.85019...@web112802.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ARGENTINA. 11711-, UT Sat Dec 25 at 0200, RAE 8-note IS, over and over, with occasional IDs in all its languages. Weak and fading in the distance, it sounds so forlorn, and about to be gone forever from SW in one week? I recorded a few minutes for the archives. English is supposed to start at 0200 UT Tue-Sat, but the IS kept on playing. 0215 switched to longer multilingual IDs mixed with other music, and 0217 finally sign-on English program, but by now signal is too weak to copy. It had been reading S9+18 which ought to be sufficient, but much less than its nearest comparison, 11780 Bras?lia at S9+22. Perhaps the delay was an Xmas-eve problem, and morale is probably quite low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 5965, Dec 25 at 1511 two stations and motorboating sound (low rumble, like on Pet/Kam 6075); one in Chinese, which is RCI via JAPAN, and the only other scheduled is CRI in Russian via Beijing. Seems rather inconvenient that RCI`s relay partner CRI is on the frequency itself is trying to use for China. So is one of these transmitters defective? Or was the rumble from an external source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** DJIBOUTI. 4780, R. Djibouti, Dec 25 at 0328 assertive speech, mostly over the CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Dec 25 at 0055, just about the OSOB below 5 MHz, W&M talk, sounds Turkic, not Chinesic, bits of music. 0100 5+1 timesignal one second late. Only thing listed in PWBR `2009` is Xinjiang PBS, Ur?mqi. Also in B-10 HFCC, starting at 2330, 50 kW, 230 degrees, but in Chinese (Zho). WRTH 2011 (under CHINA) shows 4980 as same source, but Nov-Apr only and *inactive, so can`t look up which language service it is supposed to carry. Aoki, however has it in Uighur language and active on the B-10 schedule, so with the lack of anything else on frequency, and a good transpolar darkness path, I feel safe in presuming it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 6270, Dec 25 at 0235, R. Cairo English is just an open carrier with some whine, same at 0240 and 0324 chex, and also had noticed it about an hour before. Thus they do not have to worry about modulation quality. Another Xmas-eve who-cares SNAFU? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Kept running across DW as I was aroundtuning Xmas eve: 11725, Dec 24 at 1857, Catholic Xmas sermon in German, later mass sounds. After 1900 playing secular Xmas music in English but German YL announcements, then even Stille Nacht in English. This is 250 kW, 295 degrees via RWANDA. RNZI is also on 11725 at this time, but no sign of it. 11665, Dec 25 at 0140, string of Xmas tunes by Elvis (in English) but announced in German; 0147 more Xmas music in English, then mixture of ``God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen`` with ``Take 5``. `Tis the season for messing around with carols, but breaks the monotony and repetitiveness. Cut off abruptly at 0159:30* without ID or any announcement. This is DW, 0100-0159, 282 degrees from Ascension to CIRAF 7S, 8S, 10, 11, 12N, which means: southern USA from New Mexico eastward; Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, NW South America. So once again we have a non-English [almost] broadcast officially targeted for part of the USA, despite deletion of us as a recognized coverage area years ago. If they overtly broadcast to NAm in English more people might notice and complain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 7475, Dec 25 at 0613, two or three Orthodox cantors making quite a sound, never achieving true harmony. This is normally heard on UT Sundays around this time, but must have been celebrating Dec 25 as Xmas. John Babbis reported, ``From 01.00 Friday, December 24, until 09.00 Monday, December 27, Greece Time, (2300 UT Thursday, December 23 until 0700 UT Monday, December 27), ERA5, the Voice of Greece, will be connected with the Christmas program of the Greek Radio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, Dec 25 at 1333 with ``Silent Night`` in Indonesian, announced in English. I forced myself to listen for 60 seconds in order to count the number of IADs (intermittent audio dropouts), and there were 19, unevenly spaced, most ~3 seconds apart, occasionally with a respite up to 5 seconds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 11655, Dec 24 at 2035-2057* RNW via MADAGASCAR, ``The State We`re In``, very interesting interview with an antiquities smuggler who says he`s saving the pieces from destruxion in their country of origin, Egypt. VG reception, almost as if it were for US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7275, Dec 25 at 0611, very poor signal sounds like it may be in English, no doubt R. Nigeria, Abuja, in the clear this time since Tunisia [q.v.] is on the wrong frequency, 7225 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 5975, RRI with nice variety of Romanian Xmas music, none of it familiar, announced in French, Dec 25 at 0245-0257* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. 9675, REE via COSTA RICA, Dec 25 at 0227 program about ``tiempo m?gico`` with strange music; at fades, a fast SAH appeared; would not expect Brasil to be that close to same frequency, but possible. Otherwise good, fortunately, since 6055 direct is squeezed by CUBA on both sides. Who thought that was a good idea? Arnie. 9675 far overshadowed RTI English via WYFR 9680 despite being aimed right at us, 315 degrees, but so is REE at 340 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7200, Omdurman, Dec 25 at 0326, Arabic music, chanting and drumming, somewhat undermodulated. 0332 announcement included ``Idha`at . . . Sudan``. 0334 fading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7225, Arabic at 0611 Dec 25, where none should be, and // 7335, so once again RTT is on wrong frequency, the one it uses previous evenings, instead of 7275. 0621 kids` chorus, which I think is a Saturday-morning staple, 0626:50* cut off abruptly just like it does when on 7275. Since R. Nigeria [q.v.], Abuja is back on 7275 now, we wonder if Tunisia`s shift is deliberate, but it then reverts to 7275 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 18530, Dec 25 at 1458, the Brother Scare organ was playing, weak but unmistakable. On Saturdays only we may enjoy the WINB second harmonic all day from 9265 as 13570 takes a break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6768, Dec 25 at 0132, 5-digit Spanish spy numbers by YL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:58:32 -0500 From: Robert Wilkner <r...@earthlink.net> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [HCDX] South Florida -- Brasil -- Australia Message-ID: <4d163ed8.2010...@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed -Merry Christmas - Feliz Natal - Feliz Navidad ---------- South Florida -------- Brasil ---------- Australia ------------ 171 Morocco Medi 1 0403 yl comments, good signal 16 December [Wilkner] 183 Europe 1, Felsberg -Saarlouis- om in french strong signal 16 December [Wilkner] 198 BBC 0410 news idtem 16 December [Wilkner] 207 Morocco 0410 high noise with some audio 16 December [Wilkner] 252 Eire mixing with second station 0412 16 December [Wilkner] - 2310 Australia VL8A Alice Springs NT 1010 fair audio 22 December[Wilkner] 3279.953 Ecuador La Voz del Napo, Tena 2350 noted en espanol, good signal 14 December [Wilkner] 3290 Guyana, GBC 1015 mixing with PNG, high noise level 14 December [Wilkner] 3329.564 Peru Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco 1105 on 16 December [Wilkner] 4319 u Diego Garcia. 4319 (U), AFRTS 2355 good signal news items 16 December [Wilkner] 4409.739 Bolivia, Radio Eco, Reyes 2250 on 19 December [Wilkner] 4451.131 Bolivia, Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma noted at 2250 on 19 December. Seems to sign of a few minuets before 0100 daily [Wilkner] 4974.824 Radio Pacifico Lima, Peru music at 1125 on 19 December [Wilkner] 4985 Brasil Radio Brasil Central, Goainia 2235 strong signal 19 December [Wilkner] 4986.481 Peru Radio Manantial, Huancayo with fair signal, noted 2335 on 19 December., 1105 noted on 16 December [Wilkner] 5952.294 Bolivia, Pio XII, Siglo Veinte om at 2335 vary narrow filter [Wilkner] 5954.274 Costa Rica, Radio Republica om comments on Cuba, 2235 usb and narrow filter to defeat jamming 19 December [Wilkner] 6297.165 Clandestine - Saharan Arab Republic 2240 music, good signal 19 December [Wilkner] Robert Wilkner Pompano Beach, Florida , US Drake R8 - NRD535D - 746Pro ---------------------------------------- Brasil ------------------------------------------------------------- 15476, Antarctica, RN San Gabriel. 12/14 at 1345, 12/15 at 1251 and 12/17 at 1422, no signal from Antarctica. (lob-B). 9635, R. Mali, Bamako. December, 13 0808-0816 male in Vernacular talks. Deterioring, 23532 (lob-B). 15476, Antarctica, RN San Gabriel. 12/20 at 1450, no signal from Antarctica. (lob-B). 7260, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. December, 20 0803-0813 female in local language hosting listeners by phone, alternating Pop music; 23332. December, 22 0805-0813 female talks in uncertain language alternating music. //3945, poor 23332 (lob-B). 4330, China, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqui. December, 22 0002-0011 Kazakh (listed) instrumental Chinese music, male on music segment. Poor, 25222 (lob-B). 4500, China, PBS Xinjiang, Urumqui. December, 22 0011-0019 Mongolian (listed) female talks, Chinese music. Noise behind sounding like jamming 23322, (lob-B). 4826, Peru, R. Sicuani, Sicuani. December, 22 0022-0031 Bolero style music, Romantic, ?Stand by me? music in Spanish. 23322, (lob-B). 5020, Solomon Islands BC, Honiara. December, 22 0755-0805 slow music in English, male and female in English talks, top of the hour announcements, Romantic in English. 22332, (lob-B). 5005, Equatorial Guinea, R. Nacional, Bata. December, 14 2233-2248 wide variety of musical styles with Spanish romantic, Spanish Pop, flamenco Spanish by female singer, instrumental orchestrated, Hilife. 34233, (lob-B). 7260, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. December, 16 0803-0815 female hosting listeners by phone in local language but with some words in English, alternating music. At peak 34433, (lob-B). 4796, Bolivia, R. L?pez, Uyuni. December, 16 2238-2248 Pop music style with Andean flute, male in Spanish talks on Happy Birthday music, Andean music. Unreadable, 23322 (lob-B). 7275, R. Nigeria, Abuja. December, 17 0555-0606 Pop music, male in English talks ?Nigeria, Abuja; R. Nigeria, listening the people?, news program by male and female. 34433, (lob-B). L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec Embu SP Brasil SW40 Dipoles and Longwire ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:27:57 +0100 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de> To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] Dec 25 log in Germany Message-ID: <e5b4695201f24e0a9e0908bdb614c...@hnpc2> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original ALBANIA 1457.573v RT in Albanian scheduled at 1500-1630 UT, noted at 1520 UT, Dec 25. Weak signal in Germany at this hour, due of London SoAsian emigrants program 427 Hertz higher. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 25) RUSSIA 5905drm VoRussia at 1515 UT Dec 25, S=9+15dB, ID E07003, but couldn't decode the drm stream, no audio filtered due of QRM. 7325drm Golos Rossii, Mezhdunarodnoe Russkoe Radio, 13-15 UT, noted at 1450 UT on S=9+20dB level, SNR 17.2 dB, ID FF0010 of Kaliningrad enclave Bolshakovo tx, labeled as "Label Service 0". 9675drm Voice of Russia Moscow Taldom outlet. 1505 UT Dec 25, S=9+5dB, fair up to SNR 12.5 dB. ID E07002. English sce nx. Text header given as "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all listeners ! ... ". (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 24) ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:32:13 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 25, 2010 Message-ID: <784956.86972...@web112816.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ALBANIA. 7530, R. Tirana, Dec 25 at 2122, S9+15 but just barely modulated; however // 9895 is just barely audible. By 2126 I can tell that the music is ``White Christmas``, modulation improving somewhat, 2128 outro English as having been a ``reportage on Christmas celebrations in Albania`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, just as I tuned in CBC NQ with a story about river icing, cut off the air Dec 25 at 2139, resumed two minutes later. After 2200 news, had a CBC Xmas special featuring tenors. Fair signal and QRMless at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 7105, Chinese with good signal amid 40m hamband, Dec 25 at 2238. Soon found // 7440 echoing and mixing with other signals, but on 7105 at 2246 only a fast SAH, no other modulation audible. It is of course, CNR1 jamming Sound of Hope which uses 7105 only at 22-23. On 7440, the jamming is vs VOA Chinese via Thailand, but also blasts CRI Japanese via Beijing, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9550, DentroCuban Jamming Command, Dec 25 at 2138 pulsing against nothing, probably spur from 9565 against Mart? via Sackville. 6020, DCJC, Dec 25 at 2312, pulse jamming against something, Romania in English, probably spur from 6020 Mart? via Greenville. 5735, DCJC, Dec 25 at 2314, pulse jamming against nothing, not on 5745 where it is `needed` elsewhen against Mart?. 12060, DCJC, Dec 25 at 2317, pulse jamming against nothing, 2 x 6030 vs Mart?; poor here while RHC 12010 and 12040 VG. 5990, CRI English relay, Dec 25 at 2313 is not only lo-fi but the squealing transmitter. 15230, RHC in Portuguese, Dec 25 at 2318, while 15370 was stronger but extremely distorted in Creole at 2319. For once, both these match the schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 6270, R. Cairo, which was open carrier all last evening, is still/again! dead air, Dec 25 at 2207 during the 2115-2245 English to Europe. But by 2235 had managed some lofi, lomod music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR GOS, 9445 fluttery but better than // 7550, Dec 25 at 2130 about Xmas celebrations in India, saying all religions celebrate it as a holiday, then rather amateurish dramatization of a family`s activities (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 11665, NHK direct, UT Saturday Dec 25 at 2325 with classical organ music, Bach; // 17605 via Bonaire not making it this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 25 at 2303, XEPPM is again on an hour early with music, fast SAH from something but not Brasil. EiBi has already adopted the 2300 opening we reported previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6160, CKZN, Dec 25 at 2304 weather forecast for Maritime cities, all in negative temps; why not switch to Kelvin? Poor with fast SAH, 2305 into music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 7255, Dec 25 still on at 2302, S9+25 with tone test and hum, after Hausa service which had heard in previous hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SARAWAK [non]. 7590, Dec 25 at 2243, poor signal in conversation, cadence sounds IndoMalay, presumably R. Free Sarawak via TAJIKISTAN which has been going for a sesquimonth now at 2230-2330, also in local language Iban. S9+10 peaks but still too poor to make much of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. 11755, Dec 25 just before 2100 as I tune in, VTC fill music loop and off. This had been AWR via Meyerton in Yoruba, preceded by French at 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 7270 and 7275, REE strangely on both adjacent frequencies in Spanish, but separate programming, Dec 25 at 2248. 7275 was // 11940, so I concentrated on 7270. This show in Castilian was about visiting T?bet, and gave phone number several times, 91-496-2823, unGooglable. 7270 sign-off at 2255 said it was for Europe, to resume in the morning on 9780 DRM and 12035, but then mentioned ``esta emisi?n`` being to NW Africa on 7275, the frequency I was not listening to. HFCC shows 7270 is 170 degrees to NW Af and 7275 50 degrees to Europe. To confuse matters further, WRTH 2011 does not list 7270 at all, but has a frequency I did not notice, 7265 Spanish to Af at 22-23 following Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9479, Sat Dec 25 at 2012, WTWW has finally broken away from Pastor Pete Peters. There had been rumors that he was considering allowing some other programming despite his 24/7 purchase of WTWW-1 airtime. What else but QSO with Ted Randall, who has also been involved with this station from the start, did the test broadcasts and produced the IDs. As I tuned in, W4RWL was conveying his Xmas greetings, and then KE5ALK. At 2014 Ted did one of his ubiquitous antenna ads; 2016 song ``How`d you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?`` [which one? Ask any illegal immigrant to Australia]. 2019 two more hams with greetings and both said Happy New Year, 2009! Ooops, this is a two-year-old show. Later we consult http://www.tedrandall.com to see what`s up: ``ATTENTON QSO LISTENERS QSO DEBUTS ON THE NEW POWERFUL WTWW SHORTWAVE ON 9480 kc at 1:00 PM Central ---------- The Qso Show For Saturday's Show the correct link is http://tux-support.com:8081/wma/houselive.wma To listen Open Windows Media Player... press the alt key Go to file Then Open URL Copy and paste in the link below. http://tux-support.com:8081/wma/houselive.wma For .mp3 stream for Android Phones http://www.accessnashville.com:8004/listen.pls NOW ON AT A NEW TIME ON SATURDAY EVENING! On 7.415 WBCQ Saturday Nights @ 7:00PM Central`` Frequency is really 9479-, but Ted thinx 9480 is close enough. QSO had been running Sat 19-20 UT on WBCQ 7415, as well as UT Sundays 01-05++, so I check 7415 at 2015: no, not //, something else, an OL talking about Xmas --- unless it was a different QSO interviewing her. Since I heard it after 2000, but at 2100 Scriptures for America was back on 9479, QSO must be two hours at 19-21 Sats (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17520, Saturday Dec 25 at 1950, assertive talk in unknown language, long-path echo too, punxuated by occasional screams, but lo fi audio. 1958 cut to some southern gospel music, WHRI sign-off, to QSY to 15665 and off. In past WHRI has carried some Amharic shows around this time, but nothing to be found on their online schedules to account for this. In the frequency schedules, we find many duplications between Angel 1 and 5, such as 17520 on both of them at 19-20, but apparently that depends on day of week, when you delve into the program schedules. Angel 1: 1900 - 2000 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Sa Bishop S.C. Johnson Program Bishop S.C. Johnson & Elder Conrad Campbell 17.520 Mhz Angel 5: 1900 - 2000 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Sa Bishop S.C. Johnson Program Bishop S.C. Johnson & Elder Conrad Campbell 15.665 Mhz WHRI`s linx to some programs do not include this one, so we Google: http://www.apostolic-ministries.net/memory.htm ``-------In Memory Of-------- Bishop S.C. Johnson Departed This World, February 22, 1961`` But it seems his followers have kept him going a long time, more than three sesquidecades! I wonder if that was really him and his accent so heavy I could not recognize it as English? Same page mentions on WINB, but not WHRI. I did not check whether he was // on 15665 before 2000. Googling Elder Conrad Campbell gets only four hits, all of them leading back to WHR. There are audio files of many of S.C.`s sermons on above site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9350, WWCR with IRN/USA `News` at 2203 Dec 25, caster pronounces the island off Yemen ``Socorta`` --- bet he had never heard of it before, but that`s no disqualification for being an agenda-based network newscaster on national and international radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3320, Dec 25 at 2309 continuous tone test, exactly same pitch as the pips on CHU; apparently R. Sonder Grense, SOUTH AFRICA which is supposed to program all-night; tho P`yongyang could have propagated, too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 96, Issue 25 ********************************************