About 10 AM EST this morning on 1280 AM, after an hour and a half of a signal that was listenable if not the quality most people today would prefer, I was hearing a squealing noise. Then a woman was speaking what may have been Japanese, because I was hearing Japanese music. The regular programming came back but occasionally the Japanese came back. I finally realized this must be some form of theater. And there was singing, of a sort. Maybe this is what opera sounds like In Japan.
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Squealing an Japanese opera
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Tincap said:
Can't imagine CRI's transmitters to be close and/or powerful enough towards the US to cause that. UNLESS it was actually WYFR (which often leases time to foreign broadcasters, heard Radio Taiwan on WYFR a few times)
Most Japanese/Chinese radio programming on shortwave seems to focus on more contemporary music and rarely any early classics....
I don't know what Chinese music sounds like well enough to know for sure it wasn't, but I do know I've seen TV and movies where this basic style is Japanese. I did go to a Chinese restaurant once in college for some class assignment but I think the music there sounded different.Tincap said:
vchimpanzee said:
My wife's trained in classical Beijing Opera, so if you had an audio clip, I'd certainly be able to help you sort that stuff out.
And Bongwater, yes, if anything, it could be a relay of CRI, NHK or RKI, from somewhere here in North America. I've heard multiple SW broadcasters overload and show up on the MW band. I've made an (unscientific) observation, that this may occur in buildings with poor electrical grounding, if that makes any sense???
~BG
I have more information. It turns out they speak English on this station. It's called Chinese Public Radio. They were having a discussion about the Beijing Olympics one day.
On an unrelated note, this morning the station I was trying to listen to said during the daily report on what's happening in our schools that a teacher from China is teaching Chinese at the high school in ... China Grove.
On an unrelated note, this morning the station I was trying to listen to said during the daily report on what's happening in our schools that a teacher from China is teaching Chinese at the high school in ... China Grove.
I found the web site by typing in the email address, but the Mailer Daemon wouldn't let me send anything to them. The mailing address I heard on the air was Beijing. I didn't write down the name of the web site, and just typing it in doesn't work. One of these days I'll remember to do that search again.Tincap said:
But given the squealing, I sort of doubt it's the AM station in Chicago. And they say "24/7". I've picked up numerous stations with interference of that type and they didn't sound like they were on AM.
Also, I don't hear it in the car. I haven't heard it lately, and never on Sunday. When I'd like someone to drown out that yelling preacher. I have to turn the clock radio off, something I don't like doing since I might do it wrong and have it not come on Monday.
vchimpanzee said:
Which returns to my earlier musings, as to whether you are actually picking up a SW signal, overloading the AM band on your radio.
If it is an AM broadcast of CRI programming, the only way you can solve the mystery, is by catching the call letters of the AM station carrying the programming. However, CRI does relay through Canada and Cuba. I've had situations myself, where SW signals would show up on AM (or even certain long distance telephone calls...from the Canadian Maritimes.).
If you hear the programming again and have a SW radio, you may want to try and match the two broadcasts (SW times & freqs here) http://english.cri.cn/7146/2010/03/30/2141s560015.htm Or match the broadcast online @ mms://livexwb.cri.com.cn/am846
So, the mystery continues...
~BG
I haven't heard it lately but I've always suspected I was hearing shortwave in these situations. I have one radio which won't get anything else above about 1500. And it's a nice-looking radio from Radio Shack. They don't even sell that kind any more, but it's relatively new.
sounds like shortwave to me. I've had several radios over the years that were notorius for bleeding in shortwave stations. My moms old clock radio used to get Radio Canada quite often. I occasionally get Radio Habana Cuba bleeding in. Shortwave reception has been strong the last several days. If you hear it on one station and not another, or if tuning it in is real touchy or if it appears off frequency, it is defintely bleed in from a shortwave station.
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