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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: BoomboxDX on December 06, 2016, 0341 UTC

Title: Firedrake, 9590 Khz, 2050 UTC, 12/5/16
Post by: BoomboxDX on December 06, 2016, 0341 UTC

Tuned around on the G2 around noon local time to 9590 khz and heard Firedrake for the first time in a while.

No idea who they were jamming, just heard the dulcet tones of Chinese classical music...

I remember back when I'd tune in while cramming for finals at the University I'd tune in to Firedrake... I thought back then it was folk music broadcast for the Chinese audience. Which, I suppose -- in a weird way -- it actually is.

Title: Re: Firedrake, 9590 Khz, 2050 UTC, 12/5/16
Post by: MDK2 on December 06, 2016, 0430 UTC

I copied it a few days ago on a relatively strong signal. The frequency was one used by RFA but I couldn't hear a trace of it. About a week before then I could hear RFA, but the Firedrake continued after RFA went QRT. Since I'm geographically closer to RFA's transmission site than China, I figure that if I hear the Firedrake by itself, it's "jamming" dead air, even though a lot of the online schedules say they should be on. My reception from 11/30:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30q9zJ-QPRg