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RTI name. The RTI logo is now displayed on the wall of what used to be the
CBS building.
I brought along the recording of the most peculiar "Dragon Time" program
from VOFC in 1961. This recording has been circulating among U.S. DXers
for years. The RTI managers I spoke to were not familiar with the program,
but I hope this excerpt encourages them to look in their archives for any
surviving studio recordings.
RTI does honor its history in a very nice one-room museum describing the
history of Taiwan broadcasts to the mainland, as well as VOFC and RTI.
This includes quite a bit of technical detail about the transmitting
sites, including models of the antenna farms. (At VOA headquarters,
similar displays of the IBB SW plant have been dismantled, SW no longer
being the flavor of the month here.)
And if that is not enough, RTI also maintains a museum at its Minxiong
transmitting station in Chiayi County. This was built by the Japanese in
1940, and damage from U.S. air raids during World War II is still visible
in the tx building. I will definitely have to visit this place next trip
to Taiwan. (And Chiayi County is apparently much more scenic than
Taoyuan.)
My ninth-floor hotel room in Taoyuan afforded very good SW reception, with
a few feet of wire pressed against the window. VOA Mandarin was overtaking
any Chinese jamming attempts on most freqs. RTI Mandarin broadcasts,
however, had co-channel interference, presumably PRC jamming, on virtually
every frequency. I did not hear any jamming of mainland broadcasts back to
Taiwan.
Tuning across the SW bands, I found English broadcasts to be difficult to
find. This is in contrast to my visits to Taiwan seven and ten years ago,
when English-language broadcasts were plentiful. Now it is Mandarin-
language broadcasts that are all over the SW bands, perhaps a harbinger of
the comparative roles of English and Mandarin in the world.
(Kim Andrew Elliott, Kim's NASWA Column, May 2006 via dxld May 13)
TAIWAN/CHINA Sound of Hope TanShui-TWN, 100 kW 325deg / CNR 1 17-18 MHz
May 15 17350kHz, 0400-1400 18180
May 16 17310kHz, 0413 18160, 1000-1400 17350
May 17 18180kHz, 0400 17330, 0958-1400 18200
May 18 17350kHz, 0400 18180, 0940-1400 17310
May 19 18160kHz, 0415 17310, 0930-1400 18180
May 20 17330kHz, 0900 18180, 1000-1600 17310
May 21 18200kHz(0800jst s/on), 0415 17330, 1000-1600 18160
May 22 17350kHz, 0415 18180, 0950-1600 17310
May 23 17310kHz, 0415 18160, 0945-1600 17350
May 24 18180kHz, 0415 17330, 0945-1400 18200
May 25 17350kHz, 0415 18180, 0955-1600 17310
May 26 18160kHz, 0415 17310, 1100-1800 18180
May 27 17330kHz, 0415 18200, 1000 17350
(S. Hasegawa-JPN via S. Aoki-JPN NDXC, via wwdxc BC-DX May 27)
18160 kHz SOH and CNR 1.
Hallo Uli,
mindestens 17 mb der Bereich 18155 bis 18168 kHz sind doch noch gestoert,
oder ???
(73 Wolfgang df5sx aus Stuttgart P11, May 27)
ITU [see also 17 MHz entries in bc-dx under Libya and Taiwan]
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