{"id":32774,"date":"2018-06-12T06:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32774"},"modified":"2018-06-12T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:13:53","slug":"north-korea-summit-voice-of-korea-english-language-shortwave-frequencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/north-korea-summit-voice-of-korea-english-language-shortwave-frequencies\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Summit: Voice of Korea English language shortwave frequencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32775\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Singapore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32775\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32775\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Singapore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Singapore.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Singapore-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Singapore-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Singapore-624x315.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Singapore skyline by Mike Enerio.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, DanH, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recorded and edited clips from two Voice of Korea SW broadcasts in English at different times earlier today (UTC). The radio clock in this video is fairly accurate and is set to UTC. The VOK announcer reads a list of VOK English language broadcast times and frequencies near the end of the video. Happy listening! Propagation conditions aren\u2019t that bad.<\/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\/8qDeb4TWSco?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;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8qDeb4TWSco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this, Dan. I&#8217;m travelling at the moment but will certainly listen via one of my favorite WebSDRs. I&#8217;m hoping some listeners will submit recordings to the <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shortwave archive<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve copied the times and frequencies below for reference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>To Europe<\/strong> on\u00a013650 and 15245 kHz\n<ul>\n<li>15:00-16:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>18:00-19:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>21:00-22:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>13:00-14:00 UTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>To North America<\/strong> on\u00a09435 and 11710 kHz\n<ul>\n<li>15:00-16:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>13:00-14:00 UTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>NE Asia<\/strong> on\u00a07620, 9445, and 9730 kHz\n<ul>\n<li>4:00-5:00 UTC<\/li>\n<li>6:00-7:00 UTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, DanH, who writes: I recorded and edited clips from two Voice of Korea SW broadcasts in English at different times earlier today (UTC). The radio clock in this video is fairly accurate and is set to UTC. The VOK announcer reads a list of VOK English language broadcast times [&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":[81,3,651,43],"tags":[5259,7108,7109,727,728],"class_list":["post-32774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-news","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","tag-daniel-hawkins","tag-north-korea-summit","tag-singapore","tag-voice-of-korea","tag-vok"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8wC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36715,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/voice-of-korea-announces-new-english-language-schedule-effective-march-31-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":32774,"position":0},"title":"Voice of Korea announces new English language schedule effective March 31, 2019","author":"Thomas","date":"March 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, DanH, who writes: For SWLing Post readers here is a YouTube reception video of VOK announcing a new shortwave schedule for the English Language Service. https:\/\/youtu.be\/YDLvufMLD8E Click here to view on YouTube. The schedule is effective beginning 03:00 UTC, March 31, 2019. 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