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Loggings => Clandestine Stations => Topic started by: Rockpicker on December 08, 2014, 0136 UTC

Title: Possible SOH / RFA 6970 khz AM 1:30 utc 12-8-14
Post by: Rockpicker on December 08, 2014, 0136 UTC
6970 khz AM   Carrier is 30 dBM above the noise floor here but the audio is too weak to make an ID here

Not getting any better here - can tell it is mostly talking.

Huh, This would be my first Clandestine if I could get an ID - I hope this does not attract Chinese or N Korean jamming to this band!

Interesting ByteBORG - Listed as  Radio Free Asia  .1kw from Taiwan  .. or SOH relay of same?

Title: Re: UNID 6970 khz AM 1:30 utc 12-8-14
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 08, 2014, 0137 UTC
I am pretty sure this is a Chinese clandestine, possibly Sound of Hope?
Title: Re: UNID 6970 khz AM 1:30 utc 12-8-14
Post by: BOR on December 08, 2014, 0141 UTC
Weak on the west coast...maybe S3 on the FT-2000. Sounds Korean or some other Oriental language. Sound of Hope would be a good bet. Definitely not a pirate though.
Title: Re: UNID 6970 khz AM 1:30 utc 12-8-14
Post by: Rafman on December 08, 2014, 0200 UTC
0145z I am hearing it pretty well at s5-6
0200z Time pips /off

Interesting, it does sound Chinese or Korean, my suspicions are in that order...
Title: Re: UNID 6970 khz AM 1:30 utc 12-8-14
Post by: ByteBORG on December 08, 2014, 0201 UTC
0154 - Only a carrier here, with occasional unintelligible speech
          No jamming.
0159 - Time pips marking the hour.

Have logged this before.

SHORT-WAVE.info and AOKI lists this as Chinese language with 0.1 kilowatts,
although that is very, very suspect, if not downright impossible.

Like someone famous once said "Believe in Propagation, not what the listing says"
Title: Re: Possible SOH / RFA 6970 khz AM 1:30 utc 12-8-14
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 08, 2014, 1304 UTC
Yes, 0.1 MW seems much more likely :-)

I've had both 6870 and 6970 on my overnight SDR recordings for the last few weeks, generally a few hours before sunrise here, which is when there would be a nice dark path to China.