** 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
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This report dispatched at 1910 UT December 19