Sound of "No" Hope? CNR 1 6865 AM 2259 UTC 16 FEB 2022

[Erik Mattson]

Unusually booming here (and un-jammed, apparently. Someone's gettin' fired), OM, YL in Mandarin,  S8, SIO 433.
2300 - Aaaaand off.

[MDK2]

It wasn't CNR1? They jam SOH with CNR1 so it will also be regular Mandarin programming, and if it was a pretty good copy, it almost certainly was that. SOH has 1 kW power on some transmissions and a mere 100 W on others.

[Erik Mattson]

Ah, I'm sure you're right.
It was just unusually clear here, and I usually just hear a mess if anything  on 6865. I was thinking of "jamming" as "BRRRRRRRRR" (RHC vs. Radio Marti stuff) and not actual programming.

Thanks.

[MDK2]

NP. It's a unique way to jam.

[~SIGINT~]

Most likely CNR 1. I have been told in the past that Sound of Hope is low power and generally can only be heard on the West coast.

[Ron - Calif.]

Here are a few suggestions for ways to confirm if a station is actually Sound of Hope (SOH) broadcasting
from Taiwan or CNR1 program jamming broadcasting from China (PRC).

1) One positive way is to listen at the top-of-the-hour. CNR1 programming always has time pips, while SOH
never has any.

2) Find a known CNR1 frequency, that is to say a non-jamming frequency (6125 kHz. works well for me!),
then check to find if it is // to the station in question.

3) SOH is a religious station (established by practitioners of the Falun Gong), so has a more refined format.
At ToH usually has news and then a lot of monologues. Rather rare to hear music (pop). While the CNR1
format is fairly contemporary; many short segments; often with music; in general has a much more upbeat
format than SOH.

4) After many years of listening to SOH, I find their audio slightly muffled; not a lot, just enough to be noticeable,
especially when compared to the crisp audio of CNR1.

5) It is not uncommon for SOH to be slightly off frequency; while CNR1 is on the exact frequency (xx.00).

6) Finally, if the station in question has fair to good reception, it almost certainly is CNR1 program jamming. SOH
stations use rather low power, hence fair-good reception would be extremely rare.

7) Here is a brief audio of the top-of-the hour format for Sound of Hope, with email address ("S-O-H") and Chinese ID
by man and woman ("Xiwang zhi sheng guoji guangbo diantai" - Sound of Hope International Broadcast Station):
https://app.box.com/s/85u8y0dj8spfovrjk496vj55qc79qafw .

Hope this helps.

Ron
California

[MDK2]

There's one other way. Sound of Hope has a website with a livestream. Checking the livestream has a cautionary point to keep in mind - the timing between the broadcast and the stream is usually significantly off, and you may have to listen closely to both at the same time, trying your best to remember what you're hearing so you'll recognize it when it repeats. That said, the programming differences between SOH and CNR1 are significant as Ron points out, so even without them being simultaneous you're probably going to tell quickly that either you have it or you don't.

Your browser ought to be able to translate the text from written Chinese to English (or any other preferred language) but if not, get a good translating plugin or extension added to it.

www.soundofhope.org