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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: skeezix on August 19, 2013, 1210 UTC
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First one I've heard since April and on a frequency I haven't heard it on before.
Its on 13795 and decently strong at about S7 (SINPO 33433). There's a station under it that it is effectively jamming. No others found 11000-17000 kHz.
Hearing CNR1 on 13820, 13860, two old Firedrake freqs.
Kenwood TS-690S with 102' G5RV @ 25'
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This is the only Firedrake that I can hear direct. It is daily cited in GH's dxldyg. I think it is on Radio Free Asia via Kuwait. I check daily but can not hear any other FD's direct from my QTH. On Twente from 19 - 21 utc I find 5890 9745 & 7220 with FD's.
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13820 used to be a popular one... until April.
Listened to 13795 this morning from 1205Z to 1215Z. Could've sworn it was the Firedrake, but then at 1215Z, I noticed OM & YL talking then into some calm Asian music (certainly not Firedrake). I was driving and not really paying attention until I heard the couple talking, so unsure if it was Firedrake from 1205-1215Z, or if it was just those two playing music.
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I've had the same confusion about this frequency. It sounds like FD at times & then later it is most definitely not FD but it is Chinese music (I think). I see GH log it daily as FD, but I am starting to doubt it.
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While I am pretending to work in my office I am checking CNR 1 jammers & FD via Twente. I find 13795 to be in synch with 13830 & before the TOH 13530 both of which are definitely CNR 1.
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I reported Firedrake on this frequency & time back on 08/08/2013.
I am very sure it was FD as I listened to the total broadcast but what I think is happening is China is using both FD & their normal broadcasts to jam. It may be because their FD transmitters are having a problem etc
Also with the screwy propagation of late The station it is jamming might well be being received by some of us... Just a thought tho... :-)
73 Vince
ka1iic
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The idea of China using two stations to jam one might be correct as I noticed that happening on the Chinese jamming of Voice of Tibet today.
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While a minority of times I have still quite often heard China double teaming or even triple teaming a station with jammers. I have heard CNR1, Firedrake, and two versions of noise jammers all hitting one station.
The use of Firedrake is greatly reduced, but still does happen on a daily basis. It was pretty much gone for a couple of weeks (end of April, beginning of May), and then slowly came back up to its current levels of activity.
T!