** CANADA. 257-MCW kHz, Dec 25 at 0726 UT, dash and XE, 100-watt ND beacon at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
290-MCW kHz, Dec 25 at 0721 UT, dash and QR, 100-watt NDB at Regina, Sask. High local noise level is a little less in this part of the band, but also storm noise from Louisiana area preclude much else.
Is there something about Sask? Of 28 SK listings at dxinfocentre.com, only two of them are 3-letters starting with Y. Most are only two letters, some even a letter and a number --- never heard one of those --- and six are Z + two letters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** COSTA RICA. First item in last report was typoed --- ha: ``OOSTA RICA - A new country! :) 73, Jim K5JG`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** CUBA [and non]. 6145, Dec 25 at 0437, RHC English reactivated here! A-20 frequency is back instead of B-20 9700 --- deliberate, or a mistake? Maybe for holiday an inexperienced sloppyrator substitute remembers only where this transmitter used to be tuned. Or decided that 9 MHz band is too high to propagate reliably? Well, at 0454, I find that Spanish on 9650 is still S9+25 and always weaker 9535 still audible too. Back at 0437, 6145 is // 6000 but as usual it`s JBM. There is also something JBA talking not // on 9700, which would be Turkey at 0350-0656 per Aoki/NDXC, a good reason for RHC to avoid 9700 during those two sesquihours. By 0659, 6145 is wrapping up another English hour and 0700 to dead air. By now nothing is on 6000 or 9700. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 7490v, Dec 25 at 0400, no show for scheduled Texas Radio SW Xmas special via WBCQ; 7490 inaudible, but webcast is carrying usual conspiracy-wacko talkshow. TRSW does not seem to be on 6160v either. For some weeks, WBCQ has been turning off 7490 NLT than 0430 when WHRI starts, so two reasons why an hour special at 0400 should never have been booked. Better luck, we hope, the next publicized time for TRSW Xmas, 0300-0400 UT Sat Dec 26 on WRMI 5800 --- tho that might be iffy too, as for at least three nights this week, WRMI has dedicated that hour to Freedom Synergy Radio replacing everything else on the schedule. Missed checking what happened UT Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 5830, Dec 25 at 0438, WTWW-1 is on with SFAW at S9+30/20 but with continuous ``popping`` sound caused by modulation peaks but not during pauses. With BFO I can also hear/see that the carrier is split-secondly dropping down in coordination. Clearly transmitter is ailing. And it`s *still* on at 1523 S9/+10 and 1612 chex attaining SSOB status as who else around here would be on 51m in daytime? Oh well, CFRX on 49mb and WRMI on 50 mb but much weaker.
At 1845 I check via KB0FX SDR in MO, finding 5830 off, algo JBA on 9475, Iran in Hausa listed at 1820-1920; while 5085 WTWW-2 is running Xmasmx in daytime, but dumps off promptly at 1846*.
9475, however, by own recheck at 1940 now is WTWW-1 on with SFAW and the second SSOB at S9+20, below S9+30/40 9980 WWCR TOMBS (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** U S A. 990, Dec 25 at 0448 UT, dominant signal in Spanish plugging churches in Irving TX, 214 AC phones, so it`s not XET Monterrey and certainly not CBW Winnipeg, ``clear`` channel 50 kWs which ought to have this channel to themselves at night, but there are loads of supposedly diminished-power US stations, including this one, KFCD, CoL Farmersville TX, U4, 7000/920 watts. Must be on day power and pattern of NW/SE lobes favoring us, rather than tiny night lobe to the SW. But the gospel huxters think they don`t have to follow secular rules (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
This report dispatched at 2043 UT December 25
