WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

edition of English Evening with Alan and Joy; segment: Studio Classroom
Online; good; // 6155, 7140, 7150 and 7245.
(Ron Howard-CA-USA, DXplorer July 23)
3900, 1337-, Radio Hulun Buir Jul 20 Don't recall seeing many loggings
from this station. S5 signal strength with EZL vocals. Listed in the ILG
as only 2000w, although DBS shows 7.5 kw. Sounds more like the former.
6950, 2108-, CNR 1 Jul 20 Mandarin programming at strong levels and // to
Radio Free Asia jammer on 7105. Interesting how despite the middle of
summer and daylight path all the way (Shijiazhuang is at sunrise),
reception is so strong. I suspect this is largely in part due to solar
minimum. Don't mistake this one for an exotic pirate!.
9600, 2112-, CRI Jul 20 English broadcast at fair to good levels from
listed Kashi and 500 kw to Europe, but heard pretty well here. Parallels
heard include 7190 (fair), and 9800 (poor). 7285 is fair also in English
but a different program feed than the first two? Program ID's as 'China
Drive on CRI' at 21:38. Seems to be a local program for English speakers
in China (?).
(Walt Salmaniw-BC-CAN, DXplorer July 24)
Google Earth Imagery. I spent time looking for other Chinese SW sites
without much success. Here is what I did discover.
Urumqi (43d 42' 57"N, 87d 35' 43"E): 3-mast MW site
Xingyang (34d 48' 39"N, 113d 23' 11"E): 2-mast MW and single LW mast
Liangxiang (SW of Beijing at 39d 45' 15"N, 116d 10' 16"E): single LW mast
Doudian (SW of Beijing at 39d 38' 09"N, 116d 05' 37"E): This appears to be
a former large SW site now devoid of all masts, the footprints of which
are evident as are traces of the feeder lines. I would like someone,
perhaps BT, to take a look and render a second opinion.
(Douglas Johnson-USA, via Olle Alm, wwdxc BC-DX July 13)
Xingyang (34d 48' 39"N, 113d 23' 11"E): 2-mast MW and single LW mast.
Funny that also HFCC lists this site although not on SW. What's the LW
mast for, utility txions?
Liangxiang (SW of Beijing at 39d 45' 15"N, 116d 10' 16"E): single LW mast.
Another LW tx.
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, wwdxc BC-DX July 14)
The locator centers "Kashi-China town" at 39 28 48 N 75 58 12 E
BUT no new ALLISS SW towers seen, only the older site discovered and
explained in #766. So maybe the images are old of the late 90ties???
Thomson erected the first series of ALLISS removable towers there in 2003
onwards.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX July 20)
CHINA/TAIWAN The mx Jam. is carried to the tx st via satellite.
1 cycle about 62 mins are received by the satellite on Sep 11, 2005.
SOH and CNR-1
The Chinese Jam. it changed to mx Jam.!! (Chinese Opera mx) on July 20 at
0005 UT.
14 MHz cannot receive from July 3. It was tried on June 22 to July 2.
17 MHz and 18 MHz are used now.