Hello in China.
Today I was operating my ham radio transmitter on 7.285 kcs and your broadcast suddenly came on and made it imposable for my friend and me to communicate. I looked up your broadcast schedule and nowhere does it show that you transmit on 7.285 kcs
Terry,
I guess you don't follow the important bulletins on the China Radio International website like the rest of us do. I'm sure they'll be happy to send you a QSL, in return for a signal report on their new West Europe feed:
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/1174/2004-11-29/19@171762.htmSeriously, since that end of 40 meters is a region-2-only allocation for amateurs, I don't expect the situation to change in our lifetime. We were lucky enough to get an agreement at the WRC-03 conference that the broadcasters would vacate 7100-7200 kc but that won't happen until 2009. I hope we're all around for that.
Believe it or not, there are folks that do listen to these broadcasts and who might like to see the amateurs that are interfering with their favorite broadcasts go away - its a two way street. Both services are in the same area of the spectrum legally.
Anyways there are a crap-load of Region 1&3 broadcast stations that have allocations on "40 meters". Heres a list so next time one of them clobbers your QSO you know exactly who to be pissed at:
FREQ - TIME (UTC) - Country - Station - Target07265 1800-1859 Poland R. Polonia Eu
07270 1800-1859 Poland R. Polonia Eu
07275 1900-2000 South Korea R. Korea Int'l Eu
07280 1800-1828 Vietnam V. of Vietnam Eu, As
07280 1900-1928 Vietnam V. of Vietnam Eu, As
07280 1600-1628 Vietnam V. of Vietnam Eu,Af,As
07280 2030-2058 Vietnam V. of Vietnam Eu,Af,As
07285 2000-2157 China China R. Int'l Eu al
07285 0300-0330 Croatia Croatian R. NA ge
07285 0500-0559 Germany Deutsche Welle Af
07285 2315-2330 Croatia Croatian R. SA ge
07285 1100-1128 Vietnam V. of Vietnam As
07290 0300-0430 U. S. A. V. of America Af
07290 0000-0059 Germany Deutsche Welle As
07290 0430-0500 U. S. A. V. of America Af
07290 1600-1700 Russia V. of Russia Eu
07290 1800-2100 Russia V. of Russia Eu
07295 1900-1957 China China R. Int'l Af
07295 2000-2057 China China R. Int'l Af
07295 0000-1230 Malaysia V. of Malaysia Oc, As
07295 0500-0700 U. S. A. V. of America Af
07295 1230-2400 Malaysia V. of Malaysia Oc, As
07295 1915-1945 United Kingdom Bible Voice Af, F ge
07295 1215-1245 United Kingdom Bible Voice Af,Sa-Su ge
07300 2100-2200 Russia V. of Russia Eu
07305 0250-0315 Vatican City Vatican R. Am
I've only included the broadcasters near the AM window, there are lots more going down to 7100 kc.
Sam / KS2AM