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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: East Troy Don on June 01, 2018, 0137 UTC
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Transmitting "Beijing Hour" in English on 9570 KHZ @ 01:15 UTC 1 June 2018 (20:15 CST local 31 May 2018) targeting Eastern North America. Items included
Business News
Korean Summit
Beijing weather: 36 C
CHina-Germany ties regarding "Protectionism"
Sinpo:4-4-4-4-5 on the Grundig 750
Sinpo: 3-2-2-3-3 on the 1940 Mantola Tube (not bad for a 78 year old radio)
TX Site: Cerrick, Albania
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I think this one is actually targeting Europe, as the relay from Cuba on 9580 is much closer to us. (But usually much more poorly modulated and therefore not as good a signal for North American listeners as 9570.)
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Well, now thats interesting. Whatever the target was it was one outrageously powerful signal here in south central Wisconsin. I guess 300 KW will do that.
Thanks for the feedback
Don
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Transmitting "Beijing Hour" in English on 9570 KHZ @ 01:15 UTC 1 June 2018 (20:15 CST local 31 May 2018) targeting Eastern North America. Items included
Business News
Korean Summit
Beijing weather: 36 C
CHina-Germany ties regarding "Protectionism"
Sinpo:4-4-4-4-5 on the Grundig 750
Sinpo: 3-2-2-3-3 on the 1940 Mantola Tube (not bad for a 78 year old radio)
TX Site: Cerrick, Albania
Hey Don are u in WI? You say Cerrik is where the transmitter is, correct? Right.
Okay yeah CRI on 9570 KHz at the time you heard them, approx 1:00z? For the •Beijing Hour• program! Right! I do copy that quite often! But lately it's been excellent copy on 13740 KHz in the morning.
Cuz what I like is to catch the 13:00z "Chinese Theater" + especially "A Light On Literature"! I catch it every morning but it's sumtimes a struggle...in my apt I can barely hear, altho the SIGNAL meter says it's huge! But it's so damn quiet with fading! My thought was, maybe this is beaming to Canada but...perhaps Western Europe is the target?
Bcuz I catch it all year round and when I'm at my gf's house I can usually pull it in, tweaking the EQs...and frickin headphones!
But that's my fav programming CRI...they're my fav anyway, but especially "A Light On Literature"! Bcuz I was just gonna post about the biography of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, that is their current featured work...and I just think it's funny bcuz they purposely give MAO a Scottish accent! Haha! I wonder why they decided to make him Scottish? Haha!
In the morn I like 13740 KHz. And 6020 KHz has been pretty strong for me in the evening, USUALLY. ..lately at this time of year BUT...I love the 9570 KHz •CRI• and that freq drives me nuts like I said bcuz it's so faint! But at my gf's house (away from my apt building where there is lots of interference) I can usually pull em in using $20 Panasonic audio headphones.
But yeah--Scottish MAO! Haha. Why? :-D
Mao was a bonny lad...maybe they're going for a •Braveheart• type of image haha!
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I think this one is actually targeting Europe, as the relay from Cuba on 9580 is much closer to us. (But usually much more poorly modulated and therefore not as good a signal for North American listeners as 9570.)
Okay see I didn't even see this at first YES MDK2 I would definitely believe these broadcasts are intended for Western Europe! Bcuz that makes 100% sense to me!
What a weird freq! I hear all year round @ my location and it's always a little difficult but it IS consistently audible. With some effort.
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Well, now thats interesting. Whatever the target was it was one outrageously powerful signal here in south central Wisconsin. I guess 300 KW will do that.
Thanks for the feedback
Don
"...propagation is a funny thing!" :D
Yea that signal is strong but the darn audio is so faint!...on both of my radios. For the past 2 yrs. I don't have any data from before that bcuz i started SWL in 2016
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9570 is not clear enough today @ my location.
but copy •CRI• in Russian 9675 KHz very clear 13:46z
•CRI• "Round Table" 13740 KHz is very clear 14:14z...looks like my SIGNAL meter is hitting almost +20.
(I'm learning how to read the meter. It's goin past +10 almost hitting 20, so....that's +20? Eh?)
•1:15z June 8th-•
9570 KHz very clear at my location. +10
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Right now the 1:00z-2:00z English program is VERY clear. I have to set my ant att. lowest setting
Ha it's kinda funny cuz as I'm listening to 9570 KHz I can clearly hear 9580 KHz also playing the same program! It's funny and u know what? At my location, 9570 KHz is +10 and MUCH clearer. "Propagation...is a funny thing" ;)
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sort of funny right now cuz I'm copying 9570 KHz waaay better than 9580 KHz even tho they are transmitting the same content. Propagation...is...a funny thing.
Haha I set bandwidth WIDE and I can hear 9580 KHz lagging just a bit behind