Sound of Hope on 18970 khz?

[East Troy Don]

01:12 UTC (Local 20:12 right on the leading edge of the grayline) in Chinese with YL/YM dialogue.    No evidence of any well-known jammers on this frequency, just  SOH to the Far East.  1st time I've ever gotten anything on this frequency.

SINPO: 2-3-2-3-2 +    990X W/reel

[Ron - Calif.]

Observations on July 16:

18970 kHz., from 1030 to 1100 UT; only jamming CNR1 (// 6125 kHz.) programming heard, blocking any
chance of reception of Sound of Hope (Taiwan); CNR1 airing the National Newspapers/National News Network
program in Chinese.

18970 was NOT // 6214.97 // 6230 // 6280, all with Sound of Hope programming and at 1100, heard the normal
ID by OM and YL ("Xiwang zhi sheng guoji guangbo diantai" - Sound of Hope international broadcast station)
and as is always the case with SOH, no time pips at ToH (CNR1 ALWAYS has time pips at ToH).

BTW - The CNR1 segment from 1030 to 1100 UT, is now currently being relayed over Voice of Strait (China) on
both 4900 // 4940 kHz.

Ron
Asilomar State Beach, Calif. (near Monterey)
Etón E1, external antenna: 100 ft. long wire

[MDK2]

It's important to remember that China uses normal broadcasting to jam Sound of Hope. They seem to reserve the infamous Firedrake for Radio Free Asia, but it's CNR1 in most cases, especially Sound of Hope. So if you can copy anything at all, it's almost always going to be jamming. Ron's advice about the time pips is the clearest clue you'll get if you can't understand Mandarin, but if you don't have the time, finding a free and clear CNR1 broadcast that's not on a SOH frequency is good for comparison. Also, Sound of Hope does have a us-based .org website with streaming, so that's also available for comparison, albeit with the caveat that online streams almost always have significant time lags compared to the broadcast.

But if time's short and you can't get station ID or wait for the top of the hour, the safe assumption is CNR1. Especially if the signal's good.