{"id":19965,"date":"2016-07-04T21:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T01:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2016-07-04T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T01:35:20","slug":"the-voice-of-koreakcbs-pyongyang-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-voice-of-koreakcbs-pyongyang-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice Of Korea\/KCBS Pyongyang On Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Paul-Walker-Beagle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have a very unique DX location, mere feet from the banks of the Yukon River in Alaska’s Central Interior Region. I have logged about 2 dozen of North Korea’s shortwave frequencies: 2850 kHz, 3250 kHz, 3320 kHz, 6070 kHz, 6100 kHz, 6170 kHz, 6400 kHz, 7220 kHz, 7580 kHz, 9425 kHz, 9435 kHz, 9445 kHz, 9650 kHz, 9665 kHz, 9730 kHz, 9875 kHz, 11735 kHz, 11910 kHz, 11935 kHz, 121015 kHz, 13650 kHz, 13760 kHz, 15105 kHz, 15180 kHz and 15245 kHz.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, one user from here helped me plot it, the shortest path from North Korea to the Midwestern USA is a line from Pyongyang right through the small village I live in! So that answers why some of their are so glaringly strong for me. But, I can in general, hear them all day everyday at some level on a frequency if I look hard enough and try hard enough to pick them up.<\/p>\n

What I find odd is their “dirty\/white noise carrier.” Let me explain: it’s noisy and I’m pretty sure it’s self induced, on purpose. \u00a0Listen to this clip from April 6, 2016 I posted on Soundcloud: https:\/\/goo.gl\/JFJSss<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/onairdjpaulwalker\/voice-of-korea-11735khz-noisy-carrier<\/p>\n

Listen to that noise that starts about 6 seconds into this clip, disappears at about 26 seconds and then comes back at 39 seconds. It disappears at 44 seconds and comes back at about 48\/49 seconds. It disappears at 52 seconds and comes back at 1 minute 1 seconds, then the interval tune starts, gets interrupted and restarts again from the beginning.<\/p>\n

To me, when the interval signal dies out and the noise goes with it, it’s almost like this white\/dirty noise carrier is caused by whatever they are using as a studio to transmitter link.<\/p>\n

Now onto some other North Korea shortwave airchecks:<\/p>\n

Here is an example of how wide their signals can be and what I have done to overcome interference. Here they are on 11865 kHz at 0946UTC on June 30th. I actually had to tune 2 kHz down to 11863 kHz to escape splatter from KNLS only 500 miles to my south. Audio here:\u00a0https:\/\/goo.gl\/iqKqoh<\/a><\/p>\n

Now here’s a video from 0824UTC on May 5, 2016 showing the same programming on 9875 kHz, 11735 kHz and 13760. And if you look closely in the upper right hand corner of the video, you’ll see the signal level meter on my Tecsun PL880 showing how strong the signals on all 3 frequencies is. \u00a0Video here:\u00a0https:\/\/goo.gl\/2MbE6Y<\/a><\/p>\n