BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

2006-08-11 date origin.
CHN Kashgar ITU entry 075E46 39N20 between Opal and Shufu villages.
ITU G.C. are very correct acc to GE75_110.pdf file, of 09-09-2003:
Kashi had three 600 kW entries 1197, 1422, and 1539 kHz;
all 140degr(320) daytime?, and 200degr(20) nighttime main lobes.
1539 kHz moved to another channel now ?
[Mauno Ritola-FIN: WRTH 2008 lists HS 648 kHz Ch, 801 and 1143 Ug and 1422
kHz CNR8 & FS. I am listening to 1539 kHz now at 1201 UT and it has a
rather strong CNR1 station.]
SW 41 masts, 38 new, 3 old lattice construction masts (dark black) on the
northwestern side.
5905? What's this 3 mast array like fountain antenna for 5905 kHz non-
directional to ciraf zones 31 / 32 ? CRI Russian service at
39 21 15.67 N 75 45 11.58 E
Also old
CHN Older Kashi site, 3 MWmasts, SW 60/240deg 4 curtain dipols, and 5
masts
39 24 36.20 N 75 55 16.36 E
CHN new Urumqui SW site near Hutubi, CRI 100/500 kW, 26 masts
44 08 46.86 N 86 53 42.70 E
CHN Urumqi Hutubi CRI 1521kHz 500kW, three antenna mast sets, 2x8mast;
1x4 mast reserve antenna? on right side of the tx building.
44 09 22.71 N 86 53 58.76 E
44 09 35 N 86 55 36 E Xinjiang PBS domestic MW site a short distance to
the east of the CRI sites
CHN Xinjiang PBS 4 single separate MW masts
44 09 32.84 N 86 55 33.97 E
[Mauno Ritola-FIN: Frequencies: 558, 738, 1107, 1233 kHz (all 120 kW) ?]
The older site was in low resolution last year, but now on high detail:
CHN Urumqi SW domestic site, 15 tx 50-100 kW, 56 masts
43 58 26.04 N 87 14 56.35 E
CHN MW Urumqui 4 MW masts
43 42 56.56 N 87 35 38.97 E
[Mauno Ritola-FIN: For 702, 855 and 1044 kHz 10 kW, but what else? 837 or
1215 kHz? And where are 792, 927 and 1071 kHz?]
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Dec 18)
I can't see a revolving antenna at Kashgar either.
For the MW antennas, it looks like the 8-mast array is beaming about 170
deg towards India. The four-mast array would be heading about 200 deg
towards Pakistan, so perhaps the 1422 kHz transmitter switches between the
two arrays. I'm not sure whether the registered 1197 and 1539 kHz
frequencies have ever been used from this site. 1422 kHz is also used for
CNR-8 Uighur domestic programming at certain times when it's not used by
CRI, according to CNR frequency listings.
According to Chinese web sources, the "old" Kashgar site that you
mentioned is used for "experimental" purposes (in Chinese Communist jargon
that means jamming), presumably with its beam towards NW Xinjiang and the
border with the ex-USSR, perhaps especially for targets such as BBC Uzbek.
Also I guess the site is used for local MW frequencies for Kashgar.