{"id":25263,"date":"2017-04-17T06:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=25263"},"modified":"2017-04-17T07:34:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:34:26","slug":"how-to-find-the-pyongyang-numbers-station-v15-including-an-off-air-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/how-to-find-the-pyongyang-numbers-station-v15-including-an-off-air-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"How to find the Pyongyang numbers station (V15) including an off-air recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Numbers1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10793\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Numbers1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Numbers1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Numbers1-300x111.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.behindthecurtain.asia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Fahey<\/a>\u00a0(our resident <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/north-korea-information-gathering-in-the-worlds-most-restrictive-nation\/\">North Korea specialist<\/a>) \u00a0who shares the following comment regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/north-korea-activates-numbers-station-prior-to-potential-nuclear-test\/\">our recent post<\/a> about the re-activation of the North Korean Numbers station:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pyongyang numbers (designated V15) have either become less regular or changed their schedule since March. Its been a few months since I have personally received them \u2013 but I also haven\u2019t been specifically tuning in for them lately so maybe I have simply missed noticing a timing change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6186\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you want to find the North Korean numbers, they are read out in a block between songs within the regular programing of the Pyongyang Pangsong radio station.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of music immediately before the number block seems to indicate which recipient agent the transmission is directed to.<\/p>\n<p>For Agent 27 \u201cWe Will Go Together with a Song Of Joy\u201d is played, whereas Agent 21\u2019s song is \u201cSpring of my Hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcements typically take between 5 to 10 minutes to read dependent on the number of digits passed. The transmission schedule is variable; in early 2017 the broadcast alternated with a cycle of one week on Thursday night at 12:45AM Pyongyang Time (1615 UTC) and the following week on Saturday night at 11:45PM Pyongyang Time (1515 UTC).??<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang Pangsong can be heard on these shortwave band frequencies (it is also on MF &amp; FM on the Korean peninsular):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3250 kHz, Pyongyang 100KW Transmitter<\/li>\n<li>3320 kHz, Pyongyang 50KW Transmitter<\/li>\n<li>6400 kHz, Kanggye 50KW Transmitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark followed up this morning with a off-air recording of V15 on 3250kHz. Mark comments, <em>&#8220;I will leave the decrypted message content to your imagination!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25263-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/V15-3250kHz-Nov-19-2016-1515-1521UTC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/V15-3250kHz-Nov-19-2016-1515-1521UTC.mp3\">http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/V15-3250kHz-Nov-19-2016-1515-1521UTC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B4hTm2wk0Fk8Ums0aHJHdk1oWkE\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mark: thank you for taking the time to write up this V15 tutorial and sharing this recording!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey\u00a0(our resident North Korea specialist) \u00a0who shares the following comment regarding our recent post about the re-activation of the North Korean Numbers station: The Pyongyang numbers (designated V15) have either become less regular or changed their schedule since March. Its been a few months since I have personally [&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":true,"_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":[3,172,43],"tags":[1871,5272,1647,5273,2401,4088,1156,4106,445,6134],"class_list":["post-25263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-numbers-stations","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dprk","tag-dprk-numbers-station","tag-mark-fahey","tag-north-korea-numbers-station","tag-north-korea-numbers-stations","tag-numbers-stations","tag-numbers-stations-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-spy-numbers","tag-v15-numbers-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6zt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25219,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/north-korea-activates-numbers-station-prior-to-potential-nuclear-test\/","url_meta":{"origin":25263,"position":0},"title":"North Korea activates numbers station?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post contributors who've shared this particular item from The National Interest: North Korea Broadcasts Really Strange Messages As New Nuclear Weapons Test Looms Pyongyang is reportedly broadcasting encrypted messages reminiscent of those used to contact spies during the Cold War. 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One news item that caught the attention of a large number of readers (thanks to all for the tips--!) was North Korean spy numbers.\u00a0I'm very curious if any readers have logged and recorded this station--if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SWLingPost-Spy-Numbers-Station.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8230,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/reuters-beethoven-and-numbers-on-korean-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":25263,"position":2},"title":"Reuters: &#8220;Beethoven and numbers on Korean shortwave&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"December 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Numbers stations get some spotlight in the wake of Jang Song Thaek's removal from power: (Source: Reuters) Dec 9 (Reuters) - As a scratchy rendition of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 8 fades into a sea of shortwave radio static, a robotic female voice starts speaking in Korean. \"Number 1913, number\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"FlagNorthKorea","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlagNorthKorea1-300x215.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":54273,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/mark-explores-north-korean-drm-broadcasts-over-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":25263,"position":3},"title":"Mark explores North Korean DRM broadcasts over shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"October 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In the last issue of Radio Waves, we featured an article by Hans Johnson at Red Tech about DRM broadcasts originating in North Korea. 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