{"id":21918,"date":"2016-10-26T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21918"},"modified":"2016-10-26T07:25:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:25:17","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-korea-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-korea-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13591\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda.jpg\" alt=\"north_korean_propaganda\" width=\"900\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda.jpg 900w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/north_korean_propaganda-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/paul-walker\">Paul Walker<\/a>, who shares the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the English service broadcast for The Voice Of Korea to &#8220;Latin America&#8221; from Kujang, North Korea. Recorded 0430-0530UTC October 17, 2016 using a <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/a-review-of-the-tecsun-pl-880-portable-shortwave-radio\/\">Tecsun PL-880<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/guest-post-wellbrook-1530lnpro-vs-ala1530s-imperium-loop-antennas\/\">Wellbrook ALA1530LNP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/steadynet.com\/emtech\/\" target=\"_blank\">EmTech ZM2<\/a> antenna tuner and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dxengineering.com\/parts\/dxe-rpa-1\" target=\"_blank\">DXEngineering HF Preamp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listening location is Galena, Alaska. A village of 500 people in the rural central interior, 300 miles east of Nome and 300 miles west of Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>I would give this a SINPO Rating of 66666!<\/p>\n<p>Check out this\u00a0image taken of the front of the Tecsun PL-880 while listening to this broadcast, showing just how strong the signal is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21919\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3322.jpg\" alt=\"img_3322\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3322.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3322-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3322-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3322-624x336.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was a bit surprised, never seen something this high before, especially on shortwave!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3NQWbRnecw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r3NQWbRnecw\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, who shares the following: This is the English service broadcast for The Voice Of Korea to &#8220;Latin America&#8221; from Kujang, North Korea. Recorded 0430-0530UTC October 17, 2016 using a Tecsun PL-880, Wellbrook ALA1530LNP, EmTech ZM2 antenna tuner and DXEngineering HF Preamp. Listening location is Galena, Alaska. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1850,746,43,5],"tags":[1871,4973,474,4156,4119,3904,727],"class_list":["post-21918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-propaganda","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-swlers","tag-dprk","tag-galena-alaska","tag-north-korea","tag-paul-walker","tag-propaganda","tag-shortwave-propaganda","tag-voice-of-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Hw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17788,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/pauls-shortwave-logs-commentary-and-audio-from-alaska\/","url_meta":{"origin":21918,"position":0},"title":"Paul&#8217;s shortwave logs, commentary and audio from Alaska","author":"Thomas","date":"March 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor, Paul Walker, is a\u00a0radio host for KIYU in remote village of Galena, Alaska--we recently posted a few photos of Paul on site. 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