Voice of Russia English service 5885 khz 12:00 UTC 12/24/2013

[glimmer twin]

I forgot to turn off my alarm & on the first full day of my 2 week vacation was up at 4:30 am...good time to fire up the 'ol SDR & play radio for a while.  I logged quite a few stations that I normally would not hear,what with being at work. this was the best English language station though.

Voice of Russia 5885 khz via Dushanbe  100KW  137 degree beam   Fair reception in LSB to avoid "Brother Scare" on WWCR 5890 (he was begging for money...again. I guess all that transmitter time is costing him a fortune).

also heard with varying degrees of reception quality:
2850 khz  KCBS  at 11:45z     This one is a rarity for me as I have some serious noise issues on the tropical bands.

4055 khz  Radio Verdad   I hear this one daily but it was really inbooming at this hour (11:30 utc) with Christmas music

4750 khz   I was trying for the 2-3 minutes of English that is on Bangladesh Betar at this time. But I only got a carrier, carriers actually 4750 & 4749.96. I think Bangladesh is the offset one. This frequency is really quite a mess at this time of day. Up to 4 different stations on at once   PBS Qinghai ,  RRI Makassar (not sure if that one is actually on or not)   CNR1  &  Bangladesh Betar.

Also   4835  Radio Australia  usually completely splattered by strong WWCR which was apparently off at this time today (13:20z)