{"id":7086,"date":"2013-08-21T07:06:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T11:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2013-08-21T07:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T11:11:29","slug":"is-firedrake-on-the-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/is-firedrake-on-the-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Firedrake on the decline?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you noticed less Firedrake broadcasts lately? I certainly have. \u00a0My buddy David pointed this out to me last week and since then I haven’t heard Firedrake even once. I have, however, heard the more aggressive and noisy Chinese jamming techniques.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s just a “watched pot never boils” situation? I’m not sure; some SWLs on the\u00a0hard-core DX reflector have also noticed a lack of Firedrake across the bands.<\/p>\n

Have you heard Firedrake lately? Please comment with loggings.<\/p>\n

For readers who are unfamiliar with Firedrake, check out this previous post.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you noticed less Firedrake broadcasts lately? I certainly have. \u00a0My buddy David pointed this out to me last week and since then I haven’t heard Firedrake even once. I have, however, heard the more aggressive and noisy Chinese jamming techniques. Perhaps it’s just a “watched pot never boils” situation? I’m not sure; some SWLs […]<\/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":[56,3,43],"tags":[146,1754,429,1343,1549],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-china","tag-chinese-jamming","tag-cri","tag-firedrake","tag-jamming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Qi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5479,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/shortwave-radio-recordings-firedrake\/","url_meta":{"origin":7086,"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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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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"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":7086,"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! 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The Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) says English-language broadcasts from Radio Australia, the BBC World Service and the Voice of America are being jammed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"OHtower","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/OHtower-174x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5784,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/china-appears-to-be-jamming-the-bbc-world-service-and-the-swling-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":7086,"position":5},"title":"China appears to be jamming the BBC World Service (and the SWLing Post)","author":"Thomas","date":"February 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"No doubt, in publishing this, The SWLing Post will be hit with another barrage of denial-of-service attacks. 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