Recordings: VOA Chinese and Possible Co-Channel QRM

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes:

The Voice of America is currently using its Tinang, Philippines site for a broadcast in Chinese beginning at 2100 UTC on 9535 kHz.

Here are 2 recordings of their sign-on with English ID and Yankee Doodle, one using a Kiwi SDR in Athens, Greece, and another using a Kiwi SDR in Taiwan (closer to the target area).

Athens, Greece

Taiwan

The signal starts out OK around 2157 with a test tone prior to Yankee Doodle, but seems to suffer from QRM from a co-channel station signing on after a minute or so. CRI is listed as using 9535 at other times, but perhaps this is a deliberate attempt to make the reception of VOA “uncomfortable”?

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