{"id":53113,"date":"2022-06-27T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53113"},"modified":"2022-06-27T06:29:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T10:29:03","slug":"voice-of-korea-via-digital-radio-mondiale-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/voice-of-korea-via-digital-radio-mondiale-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of Korea via Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Koreas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22893\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Koreas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Koreas.jpg 657w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Koreas-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Koreas-624x311.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/paul-jamet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Jamet<\/a>, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Several listeners have posted videos on YouTube about receiving broadcasts of &#8220;The Voice of Korea&#8221; on 6140 kHz DRM &#8211; Digital Radio Mondiale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One video in particular caught my attention, from Indian listeners in the Kerala region:<\/p>\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\/RF4U0hg-Sc4?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=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Indeed, these headphones use a Chinese receiver, the G-226 from GOSPELL which is also sold by TECSUN in Australia: https:\/\/www.tecsunradios.com.au\/store\/product\/tecsun-drm-radio\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So, you can see how this receiver works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">All this has aroused my curiosity! And yesterday, Friday 17 June 2022, at 20:00 UTC I connected to several kiwi SDRs in the Pacific area. The DRKP signal could be picked up almost 8,000 km from the transmitter site near Pyong-Yang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here attached a screenshot and an audio file recorded with a kiwi SDR located a few kilometres away near Perth, Australia &#8211; Distance according to Google Maps, about 7960 km<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53114\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41-300x156.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41-1024x532.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41-768x399.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Snapshot_DRKP_DRM_6140kHz_-22h-33-41-624x324.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The signal is encoded in AAC and not xHE AAC<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">[Audio: <em>Note that the audio level jumps several times, so don&#8217;t turn up the volume too high.]<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-53113-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vk6qs.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2022-06-17T20_36_31Z_6140.00_drm.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vk6qs.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2022-06-17T20_36_31Z_6140.00_drm.mp3\">https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/vk6qs.proxy_.kiwisdr.com_2022-06-17T20_36_31Z_6140.00_drm.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Who is this program for? According to Indian radio listeners, probably to the North Korean fleet in the Pacific. To be continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Have a nice weekend. Yours sincerely<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Paul JAMET<\/p>\n<p><strong>I would have never guessed VOK would broadcast in DRM. Very interesting indeed. Perhaps we&#8217;ll learn more about this with time or someone can confirm whether or not this is actually VOK. Thank you for sharing this, Paul!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Jamet, who writes: Hi Thomas, Several listeners have posted videos on YouTube about receiving broadcasts of &#8220;The Voice of Korea&#8221; on 6140 kHz DRM &#8211; Digital Radio Mondiale. One video in particular caught my attention, from Indian listeners in the Kerala region: Indeed, these headphones use a Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[54,3,43],"tags":[1871,9691,727,9866],"class_list":["post-53113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dprk","tag-paul-jamet","tag-voice-of-korea","tag-voice-of-korea-drm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dOF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3775,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/north-korea-is-testing-digital-shortwave-broadcasting-via-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":53113,"position":0},"title":"North Korea is testing digital shortwave broadcasting via DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As Vatican Radio pulls out of DRM, North Korea moves in. 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