TAIWAN/AUSTRALIA 11744.890 R Australia in Indonesian via Tainan-TWN site
noted at 0515 UT Dec 2 on remote unit in JPN, poor S=6 signal on back lobe.
9409.988 Fu Hsing BS via Kuanyin in Chinese, observed on poor S=5 signal at
0525 UT Dec 2. Endless talk by male announcers. \\ 9774.008 poor S=5-6
signal, from 10 kW non-dir antenna at Kuanyin.
15290.135 RTI CBSC Tainan in Chinese language at 0555 UT, Dec 2, hit
heavily by China mainland jamming. Rather S=8 jammer strength in JPN.
Replaced by Radio Australia English nx service at 0600-0630 UT, when also
CHN mainland jamming stopped. RA via TWN on S=7 level. RA featured bomb
explosion attack in Afghanistan against NATO troops.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
KUWAIT 15515 Radio Kuwait in Arabic, scheduled 5-9 UT. String instrument
interlude. S=7 signal on remote SDR unit in JPN, 0610 UT Dec 2.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
PHILIPPINES? [tentat.] 9580 Next to even Africa No. One signal, fair
strength from Gabon via easterly long path from Africa across Latin America,
into Japan, noted an UNKNOWN station on odd 9579.469 kHz, tine S=4 signal on
remote unit in JPN. Probably PBS Radio ng Bayan/DZFM/DZRM from Quezon
City-Marulas, at 0545 UT Dec 2.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
USA-non/MARIANAS/TAJIKISTAN/UAE/China mainland RFA hit heavily by China
mainland jamming against RFA Mandarin and Tibetan services.
Dec 2 at 6-7 UT noted
RFA Tibetan 21490 21670 21685 21695 17515 17715
RFA Mandarin 21540 15665 and many others on 25, 22, 19 and 16mb
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 2)
...Defense Ministry. The source also said that the Kaliningrad station
will be the third of its kind, with the first two already working in
Leningrad and Krasnodar Regions...
...that the new station in Kaliningrad would allow control of the entire
European and Atlantic regions...
The Voronezh-DM early-warning radar that Russia is building in the
Kaliningrad region is being built at the old Dunayevka air base near
Pionersky. The construction site can be seen at Yandex Maps (my thanks to
Bernd Reuter for locating finding...
Seems the cold war airfield of Marienkhof (54 51 54 N 20 11 06 E) is a
place worthwhile to keep an eye on it :-)
The Wikipedia article does note that the decimeter band Voronezh is
located in Svetlogorsk (just north of the city of Kaliningrad), while a
meter band Voronezh is being constructed in Usolye-Sibirskoye (north-west
of Irkutsk and close to the current radar node at Mishelevka). Although,
I've seen no other official confirmation of this either from MoD or the
contractors (RTI Systems, etc.).
Google shows "over horizont radar kaliningrad"
at Pionersky (Neukuhren).
http://rt.com/politics/opens-kaliningrad-radar-station-459/
http://russianforces.org/blog/2011/01/early-warning_radar_in_kalinin.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pionersky,_Kaliningrad_Oblast
New building visible at
RUS Kaliningrad Woodpecker Radar, new building, 23_Nov_2011
54 51 26.46 N 20 10 55.47 E
on the Russian map southerly of the former airbase
http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=20.182000%2C54.857000&spn=0.230026%2C0.074769&z=16&l=sat%2Cskl%2Cstv
Bing Maps and Terraserver have very old images of 2002 - 2009 span.
73 Wolfgang
----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Wednesday,
November 30, 2011 8:03 PM
Subject: [dxld] Russian Woodpecker radar revealed
I just got sent this by Ian Roberts, a Dx'er and ham operator in South
Africa (Hugh Hoover, Portugal, Nov 29, WTFDA via DXLD)
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Roberts
Cc: skywave...@yahoogroups.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:53 PM
The satellite TV programme Russia Today is currently chronically leading
details of the new radar system which started operation today.
It`s situated in Kaliningrad, which is a spur between Lithuania and
Poland, and the westernmost part of Russia.
Pictures show an immense building housing a phased dipole array
comprising 9 vertically stacked rows of three and since the target
activity is detection of missiles launched from the north Atlantic (and
obviously also Europe), it is west-facing.
These over the horizon radars operate near the MUF to maximise range and
reduce return clutter. With solar max conditions approaching, it may well
inhabit the E/W MUF around 33-35 MHz and maybe even higher to just short
of the band 1 TV frequencies. I can't see Sporadic E being of much use
and the operators will surely tailor the frequency to get maximum range
with least clutter, very consistent with tropospheric forward scatter.
This is what was noted last week (the "woodpecker radar) when it was
presumably commissioning. The radiation could conceivably circumnavigate
the globe at solar max with reception arriving from the "wrong
direction".
As far as DXers are concerned, it will be a useful indication of the E/W
MUF and the whole European region will be illuminated by tremendous power
from this device. I noted a pulse repetition frequency of about 7 Hz last
week when reported.
Enjoy it! Ian.
Ian seems to have been receiving it in South Africa; this was at 1629 UT:
Hi Hugh, big sigs from it on 34.170, 34.428, 34.220, 34.255, 34.367 all
right now and simultaneously. MUF low today - well below band 1 TV.
Cheers, Ian (via Hugh Hoover, ibid.)
This was commissioned following America`s decision not to adhere to the
treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe. It is to be supplemented
by a programme of ballistic missiles commissioned by the
Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy will be equipped with advanced
missile defence penetration systems. So, let`s start another cold war,
great idea, eh?
This is a video I took last week of the woodpecker on 34 MHz.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgVJIwB7tbc
(Paul, http://www.ukdx.org.uk http://www.youtube.com/Aceblaggard ibid.)
And when the MUF falls, it will get into HF, shortwave frequencies below
30 MHz (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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