Happy Holidays! ** CANADA. 6250, Sackville spur, 0140-0159*, Dec 25, Radio Canada Int heard on 6250 in Spanish. Not to be confused with Equatorial Guinea. Weak but readable. 6250 is the leapfrogging spur of 6100-Radio Canada Int. 6100 leapfrogging over 6175-Voice of Vietnam via Sackville and landing on 6250. Note 75 kHz separation between each frequency. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Samara, Russia, 7530, Ginbot 7 Radio, *1701-1730*, Dec 24, presumed. Abrupt sign on with talk in listed Amharic. Some Horn of Africa music at 1719. Poor to fair. // 9610 - very weak under Radio Canada Int. Tues, Thur, Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0050-0120, Dec 25, US pop music. Euro-pop music. Italian talk. IDs at 0105. Weak but readable. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guineé, 2305-2355*, Dec 24, special Christmas programming with French talk. Preacher. Local choral music. Abrupt sign off. Good. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** MALI. 7285.88, RTVM, *0800-0840+, Dec 24, sign on with flute IS and opening French ID announcements followed by vernacular talk. Local instrumental music. “Radio Mali” ID. Very weak. Much stronger on // 9635. Rustic vocals heard at 0910 check. Sign on times for 7285v varies between 0745-0800. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** RWANDA. 6055, Radio Rwanda, 2130-2259, Dec 24, on late for Christmas. Sign off usually at 2100. French/vernacular talk. Wide variety of African hi-life music, Afro-pops and local choral music. Phone talk. Christmas eve celebration services with talk, crying Baby Jesus at 2200. Traditional Christmas music. Good signal initially but poor to fair by 2245 due to adjacent channel splatter and completely covered by a strong Spain at their 2259 sign on. (Brian Alexander, PA)
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