Telamon wrote:

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dxAce wrote:

Telamon wrote:

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weatherall wrote:

Earlier in the day, I scanned from 13 mhz to 20 mhz with my Eton E5 and
DE31 antenna. This was between 1900-2000 UTC. I found Chinese
orchestra broadcasts on these frequencies, all with the same signal:

13625 khz (SIO 353, strong fading)
13970 khz (SIO 555)
14600 khz (SIO 454)
15510 khz (SIO 343)

Keep going and you will find the same programming on the other bands. I
get their jamming (that's what it is by the way) on multiple frequencies
on most bands.

Otherwise known as the "FireDrake".

I and many other people heard this chinese opera music many months ago.

The FireDrake type of jamming has been on the bands for a number of years now and
has been named 'FireDrake' for about as long. Typically it's Chinese music, heavy
on the crash bang percussion.

Apparently the ham operators only started being bothered by it since
this past August.

Well, they do tend to be bothered by it when SoH (and anybody else) starts
broadcasting in a ham band and then the Chinese start jamming there as well.

Why give them such a dramatic name like Firedrake? Chinese music jammer
is more descriptive.

I'm not sure exactly who bestowed that name upon them. But in its own way it's
merely a shorter descriptive term for that type of jamming.

dxAce
Michigan
USA