QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan RX: WinRadio G303e ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
7105 POLAND, Polish Radio heard at 1630 on 25 Jan in D with news, commentary and interviews. Severely beaten about the head and shoulders by China National Radio on 7110 who was splattering, rendering Polskie R.'s signal almost useless. Xmsn to central Europe. 7335 CHINA, CNR2/CRI CNR2 heard at 1545 on 25 Jan w/M pgming. Listed CRI was tuning up on frequency with the typical 1kHz tone every 10 secs or so, completely ruining CNR2's signal. Not only is this unprofessional, but it's really uncool as well. I think this is real proof that the Chicoms don't care about who is listening to what, it's all about frequency occupation. When CRI finally s/on at 1600 in M, their occupied bandwidth was over 20 kHz. These jokers even jam and QRM each other. Here's the kicker...after about twenty secs of CRI pgming, there was an audio hiccough and it morphed into Firedrake! 8400 CHINA, For whatever reason, I've got Firedrake here at 1518 on 25 Jan. Never noticed them here before in the middle of the maritime mobile band. Not a harmonic or image and too clean to be a spur, so must be real. WTF? Fair to good sigs. Wonder what they're jamming? 9000 CHINA, Firedrake jammer going full-tilt-boogie against Sound of Hope at 1514 on 25 Jan, but SOH booming in lima charlie on 9450, at least until sked'ed 1600 s/off. Why are the Chicoms so scared of Falun Gong anyway? It's not like they're scientologists or anything... 9415 CLAN (ARMENIA), Dem. V. of Burma heard at 1455 on 25 Jan in BR with telephone interviews. Distorted audio from telephone but signal very strong and otherwise clean w/no jamming. 9450 CLAN (TAIWAN), Sound of Hope, heard at 1440 on 25 Jan w/a radio play and assorted mx. Pgm in M. Entertaining even if I had no idea what they were saying. One character in English on the radio play was looking for an international basketball team. Lots of audience laughter. Good sigs w/no jamming. Maybe the fiscal crunch finally hit the ROC's jamming facilities. Well, this seemed to have been an evening for Firedrake and clandestines / religious stations. The Chicom jamming seemed to be rather prolific last evening, even to the point where they jammed themselves as in 7335 above. I am slated to go to Kandahar Air Base as early as next week for a short time, so I may finally be able to track down the 6700 R. Solh xmsns, at least from that base. 73s de Al "He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." - H. E. Martz ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
