This is a good time to look for temporary Chinese SW stations, possibly
pertinent here: 73, Glenn Hauser
** CHINA. CHINA AND THE EXTRA SHORTWAVE FREQUENCIES
I just heard you mention about CRI News Radio and Jiangsu People’s Radio from
0100 to 1600 UT. You will find many more popping up over the next few days, and
stay around up to two months, maybe a bit more, but all depends. The reason for
this is simple. If you go back to last year and the year before that, you will
find lots of shortwave activity around this time of year. The reason? The
National People’s Congress and the People’s Consultative Congress which happens
every March. This years round of meeting are set to begin March 5.
Every year it’s the same. The funniest one I remember was in 2005. Beijing
Traffic Radio all of a sudden appeared on SW using five frequencies. Question:
Why would you put a local (very local) traffic radio station on SW? [and
already reported again this year --- gh]
We have all heard of Firedrake, which uses a number of sites around China.
China does not use jamming [only] to block international broadcasters, but also
put local or regional stations on SW.
Turning on a SW radio in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou,
Dalian and others is like listening to stations on top of each other. The best
of times, it’s hard to listen to the Chinese services of, let’s say, BBC, VOA
and others, but during Congress month it is downright impossible.
Something funny happened last May for a week in Shanghai during the Communist
Party’s regional meeting: a "very local station" called in English Children’s
Radio popped up on 12 frequencies. Two days after the meetings ended, so did
the SW. If you lived in China as long as I did, the Ministry Of Propaganda
tricks become very predictable (Keith Perron, Taiwan, Feb 28, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
--- On Sat, 2/28/09, Scott R. Barbour Jr. <srbjr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> When I've had time this week, I've been hearing,
> what I presume to be, several Chinese regional stations,
> during the 2300-0030 time frame. I say presumed due to poor
> copy, usually lasting only minutes at a time, under strong
> QRN. This leads me to believe that my 4980-unid from Feb 21,
> is probably Xi[n]j[i]ang PBS.
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