Radio Dengê Gel 11515 kHz on Kenwood R1000 and Qodosen SR-286
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Radio Dengê Gel is a clandestine shortwave station that targets Kurdish listeners in Turkey. There is a constant war of the radio waves between this station and the Turkish government, with Turkey attempting to jam all transmissions. Radio Dengê Gel uses a number of frequencies and seems to change them often, to evade the jammers, but I haven't been able to positively ID Radio Dengê Gel, until now.
This was on Sunday 12 May 2024, at 15:45 UTC, in Johannesburg, South Africa. I received the signal on my Kenwood R1000 first, and then also checked it on the Qodosen SR-286. The Qodosen is much clearer and has less noise.
The signal comes from a 100 kW transmitter in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
You can hear the Turkish jammer here: • Silencing Kurdish voic...
#radio #antenna #tef6686 #clandestine
00:00 Radio wars
01:30 Radio Dengê Gel on Kenwood R1000, weak
04:13 Qodosen SR-286, quite a bit clearer
05:45 Back to the Kenwood, with MLA30+ and wire 
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I wouldn't call it "quite a bit clearer" - rather "noticeably better"... Spectacular!
Probably more accurate to word it like that :-)
Andre congratulates on your final I.D. Of this station👍! Now if I could just get up to even try for this station…😂! The sound of the buzzing reminds me of watching the French Resistance fighters on old WWII movies from the 1940’s…until the QoDosen spoiled the sound effects..😂😂😂!
73! Have a great day!
I miss the nostalgia of a good analogue tabletop communications receiver absorbing the radio waves! 📻❤️
This is an excellent demonstration of two radios from different centuries. The Q is an advanced, DSP based consumer receiver from 2023 while the K represented the epitome of a professional grade radio using the best of early integrated circuit technology back in 1979.
Then there's the unfortunate aging factor that affects discrete electronics components like electrolytic capacitors, diodes and transistors. Andre had said that the R-1000 had been serviced before he bought it used, but we don't know if the radio repair guy replaced all of the Kenwood's components on the circuit board or only some of them. That's not even mentioning the mechanical components in the receiver such as the variable tuning capacitor for the frequency selection. Digital encoders for tuning haven't been invented back then.
Gotta give credit to the R-1000 after weathering all those decades! 📻🤗♥️
I will say though that receivers like the Kenwood require greater lengths of antenna to really shine. The Q is what it is, a handy travel-type receiver that makes the most of a a smaller antenna and in that way it does it incredibly well.
Most radios including the Q act the same once you have a long antenna. The antenna is the key part, no amount of good radio makes reception that much better.
Thanks Matt, I think you are right. The MLA30+ seems to work well with my Kenwood, I have had some great catches over the year on the Kenwood with the MLA30+, but I think a much better antenna will certainly make a big difference. I am still very happy with the Kenwood, especially for SSB listening. It was just really interesting to me to see how relatively noiseless and clear the Qodosen was in this case.
Sometimes the Turkish jammer may not keep up with the frequency change of Dengê Gel.
I think that is what happened here, it gave me the opportunity to catch Dengê Gel for the first time!
the qodosen just ignores the solar storm
Almost looks like it :-) But the Kenwood also received the signal fairly well. But it's important to keep in mind here this was during a bit of an opening when conditions improved somewhat.
@@swlistening friday night was the worst for condition at my location. etm scan at 1khz bandwidth with my pl380 gave me a total of 9 station of which almost all were barely readable signals. i usually get over 100 signal if i do a evening etm scan. bands keep opening up, we are almost back to normal i'd say
@@KekmanForTheRestOfTheWorld My worst day was definitely Saturday during the day. But the bands are definitely opening up, I noticed that there were many more signals on Sunday night, and again last night. I do expect more of these severe solar storms this year, the sun appears to be very active now.
Is this the same station that broadcasts on 11510-11540 depending the part of the day?
Yes, that is the one!
Was Kenwood set to wider or narrower selectivity?
I switched between the two at some point in the video, but it was on narrow most of the time.
Hi Andre, can you show how's your reception of the Turkish jammer the other day? Here in Europe, both signals are usually about equal, and while they do play a cat-and-mouse game, in fact I can often note them on separate frequencies, close to each other.
Denge Gel has quite a rich history of broadcasting on shortwave, but let me just bring up the past 2 years. Prior to naZi ruZZia's full-scale war in Ukraine, Denge Gel, then known as Denge Welat, used transmitters in Grigoriopol in ruZZian-occupied part of Moldova, Issoudun, and Sofia-Kostinbrod, sharing airtime between the three sites. Just around Easter, i.e. early April, 2022, Denge Welat overthrew this scheme and moved entirely to Tashkent. And a month later, in early May 2022, naZis were apparently eyeing on spreading the war into Moldova, and even made what came out as a false-flag operation, attacking the Grigoriopol site. Mediumwave relays on 999 & 1413 kHz fell silent for most of the day then, so we thought, if it was an Ukrainian attack, they could've targeted the site to silence both the rashist propaganda mouthpieces. But no -- it was the SW towers that were destroyed. All MW frequencies (also 621 & 1548 kHz) remain operational to this day.
Summer 2023 was interesting for Denge Welat reception too, as for some reason they decided to move up to 16m band - or rather just below it: first on 17470 kHz, then skipping between 17450-17480, again playing the cat-and-mouse game with Turkey's Erdogan Jammer (as I call it, as between songs, they play many nationalist & anti-Kurdish speeches of President Erdogan). IMHO signals we've been receiving from both stations were a lot stronger & clearer on those frequencies than on 25m -- but when they used 41m in the winter, I would often have observed a remarkably strong signal from Denge Welat. And now I don't know why Denge Gel isn't continuing to use 16m 😕
Hey Arnie, thanks for the detailed information about Denge Gel. It is an interesting station to me. I remember still seeing listings last year calling it Denge Welat. I haven't actually made any recent recordings of the Turkish jamming signal, simply because it was just always what I heard, it became almost like a regular daily catch (the nationalistic songs and speeches, as you say). I will make another recording some time this week, and see if I can find both Denge Gel and the jammer. But my experience until now has been that the jammer was always so strong and overwhelming, I have never heard Denge Gel, not even faintly. Maybe I've just always missed it, with all the frequency changes.