CRI's use of 1323 is rather complicated:
There's the Russian service transmitter which is located in
Heilongjiang province and probably beams east or northeast with 600kw,
which explains why we hear it so well. I have it listed in the PAL as
switching to CNR2 at 1500, but that may be out of date. Last weekend
at Grayland, I heard Russian until 1600 and then it switched to
Chinese (presumably CNR2 but not confirmed).
There's also the Korean service which operates from a site in
neighboring Jilin province and presumably beams south towards Korea.
The Russian and Korean audiences are in nearly opposite directions and
hundreds of miles from one another, which explains why CRI can get
away with having high powered transmitters that close together. It
also explains why the Korean service isn't heard very often in North
America.
There's a third site way out west in XInjiang, which also carries
Russian programs, and possibly some other languages (I need to
reconfirm the info I have in the PAL). I don't think it's been heard
in this part of the world, and would be hard to differentiate from the
other site.
Finally, there's a site believed to be in Lhasa that is (was?) used
for broadcasts to South Asia. I can't say we'd be able to hear that
one in North America.
Bruce
On 10/26/2013 22:58, d1028gary@xxxxxxx wrote:
Nick,
Thanks for your observations on the 1017 and 1323 CRI programming.
For some unknown reason, I had always thought like you did-- that
1017-CRI had Korean programming (heard by all of us many times)
during our sunrise enhancement hours, and that 1323-CRI generally
carried Russian programming. But this morning at 1420 I finally had a
1323 kHz signal with Korean-sounding male speech, so I was somewhat
puzzled. I checked the 2013 WRTH and found that CRI broadcasts Korean
programming on both 1017 and 1323 kHz from 1100-1500 UTC daily. Of
course, after your 1098 UnID recording from a few days back proved to
be something other than the RTI transmitter suggested by the outdated
2013 WRTH data, I don't know whether to believe it or not :-) The PAL
shows Russian programming on the CRI 1323 transmitter (near Korea)
from 1100-1500. The short recording from this morning on 1323 at 1420
UTC isn't very conclusive either way, but with headphones it sounded
more Korean to me than Russian, which led me to check what the 2013
WRTH had to say about the CRI 13!
23!
schedule.
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/u58887pdptdkuiv/1323-CRI-1420z102613PL380.MP3
Like you, I have a 1323-CRI recording from six days ago that
sounded more Russian than Korean-- so the PAL may have more recent
documentation from CRI than the 2013 WRTH
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/fym3p4pvav98s2u/1323-CRI-1320z102013PL380.MP3
73, Gary
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From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
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Getting Korean from CRI on 1323 is pretty unusual here Gary; I'd
consider that a catch here, where it is pretty much always Russian
(when it's not splatter, hi).
best wishes,
Nick
At 23:43 26-10-13, Gary wrote:
....
The session started off with a bang at 1300 UTC when a monster
carrier on 1323 kHz suddenly showed up on the modified ICF-2010
inside the house, which of course disappeared completely once the
12" FSL antenna was set up in the back yard. 1323-CRI was checked
throughout the session in the hopes that it would somehow
re-energize itself, and it did very briefly (around 1422, with the
CRI Korean service).
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