{"id":5498,"date":"2013-01-31T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2013-02-25T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T17:12:56","slug":"marks-studio-version-of-firedrake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/marks-studio-version-of-firedrake\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark’s studio version of Firedrake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As I suspected, the unidentified broadcast I recently posted<\/a>\u00a0was the Chinese jamming service, Firedrake<\/em>. \u00a0Thanks to all who confirmed.<\/p>\n

Mark Fahey\u00a0even commented with a link to an article explaining how he made a studio recording of Firedrake<\/em> from Chinasat 6B.\u00a0Read Mark’s article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark also has the full 60 minute studio copy of Firedrake available as a 90MB MP3 file<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As I suspected, the unidentified broadcast I recently posted\u00a0was the Chinese jamming service, Firedrake. \u00a0Thanks to all who confirmed. Mark Fahey\u00a0even commented with a link to an article explaining how he made a studio recording of Firedrake from Chinasat 6B.\u00a0Read Mark’s article here. Mark also has the full 60 minute studio copy of Firedrake available […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,288,43],"tags":[1343,1639,1637,1647],"class_list":["post-5498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-firedrake","tag-firedrake-jamming","tag-firedrake-recording","tag-mark-fahey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1qG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5479,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-firedrake\/","url_meta":{"origin":5498,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Firedrake?","author":"Thomas","date":"January 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've noticed a broadcaster that routinely transmits weekends at 11:00 UTC on 6,970 kHz. \u00a0Some mornings, it's much stronger than others. 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I have, however, heard the more aggressive and noisy Chinese jamming techniques. Perhaps it's just a \"watched pot never boils\" situation?\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"(Photo: Satdirectory.com)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/firedrakeCD-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4369,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/new-book-focuses-on-chinas-firedrake-jamming\/","url_meta":{"origin":5498,"position":2},"title":"New book focuses on China’s Firedrake jamming","author":"Thomas","date":"September 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just received the following press release from\u00a0Steve Handler (N9ABC), author of\u00a0Firedrake \u2013 China\u2019s Secret Shortwave Jamming Project Exposed! Priced at $3.99, his new 45 page eBook is available at\u00a0Amazon.com: Firedrake \u2013 China\u2019s Secret Shortwave Jamming Project Exposed!\u00a0 by Steven Handler is the new revised and updated version of this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/FiredrakeBook.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21479,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/paul-discovers-firedrake-in-an-unexpected-place\/","url_meta":{"origin":5498,"position":3},"title":"Paul discovers Firedrake in an unexpected place","author":"Thomas","date":"September 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who writes: From time to time, I get some interesting shortwave catches here in Alaska. Sometimes on 10 MHz, I get WWV. Sometimes I get WWVH. 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