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Chinese Jammer: Firedrake

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Power Poster II
Here's yet another curiosity of the wavelengths:
The Falun Gong's (a persecuted religious sect) shortwave radio station The Sound of Hope is the main method of reaching their supporters in mainland China (the transmitter to Sound of Hope is in Taiwan). Sound of Hope programs allege persecution and torture by the Peoples Republic of China, and as you might expect, the Chinese go to incredible efforts to ensure the station is basically impossible to listen to by jamming the station.

The Chinese Firedrake Jammer (also known as FireDragon) is a powerful transmitter that sits on top of the same frequency as the Sound of Hope. Firedrake covers the Falun Gong programming with loud Chinese Classical Music featuring gongs, flutes and drums. The Firedrake music is so intense that it usually completely dominates the frequency with the Falun Gong program underneath it becoming unintelligible.

Firedrake also covers Radio Free Asia, Taiwanese stations broadcasting into China, and other potentially dissident stations.
You can hear it at all Chinese Sound of Hope stations.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l333FuA8kbQ[/youtube]

Sources:
http://www.satdirectory.com/firedrake.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_jamming_in_China
 
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