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| KIRIBATI From Norwegian DX-er Geir Stokkeland I received the following link: http://www.radioaus Too bad if they have to close down MF operations. Bjarne Mjelde, Berlevag, Arctic Norway arcticdx.blogspot. Top |
| KOREA NORTH [non]. RFA start MW service for N. Korea --- Mr. Ohtake of JSWC obtained the following information from RFA directly. RFA is to begin its Korean service on MW for the first time from Mar. 2. 1500-1900 1350 kHz 2100-2200 1350 kHz de Shinya Hasegawa --- This transmitter site where I think is Mongolia. S. Hasegawa, NDXC-HQ, Feb 29, dxldyg via DXLD RFA Korean on MW --- Mr. Toshimichi Ohtake of JSWC was informed the following by A. J. Janitschek at his direct visit to Radio Free Asia in Washington. RFA will commence their first MW transmission on mediumwave directed to Korea on March 2. 1500-1900, 2100-2200 on 1350 kHz. The exact location of the transmitter is not announced. They are asking for reception reports for this transmission from the neighboring countries. Send the reports via http://www.techweb.rfa.org or qsl @ rfa.org Comment: This decision may somewhat be related to Mr. Kim Andrew Elliott's article in DXLD 8-027. Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan, March 1, DXLD WRTH 2008 MW frequency list shows no Mongolian transmitter on 1350, so that would be new. There is a S Korean on 1350 with 10 kW, bad luck for it; plus China and Russia, but nothing very powerful. How about PAL? Nothing there either; lists only three other MW frequencies in the entire country! WRTH has only two. Could 1350 be the same 500 kW transmitter as on 990, which is supposedly in use for only a few hours a day? Glenn Hauser, OK, DXLD Mongolia QTH? Somehow, I doubt. I believe it's a bit too far from a target country for a reliable MW reception, considering that N. Korea isn't shy about jamming foreign broadcasts. Besides, China might get into a jamming game with two millions Koreans on their own turf. Of course, for RFA this initiative might be more about spending the allocated funds with a bit of good publicity than reaching the closed society. In such a case Mongolia is as good a bet as any far-away country. Sergei Sosedkin, IL, dxldyg via DXLD Distance Ulanbataar MNG to KRE is about 1100 km ! I guess Vladivostok Tavrichanka-RUS - nominal on 1377 kHz - but to be retuned 27 kHz down to 1350 kHz during local night time - a decade ago 75/150 kW, is in use during that slot. 1350 which is a nearly empty channel in northern Korea. Is 140 km distance from KRE border and 650 km to Pyongyang capital. [or Razdolnoye-RUS site 155 km from border] Wolfgang Büschel, BC-DX via DXLD 1100 km is not too far for 500 kW skywave! Oops: per my NGS Globe, it is about 1120 MILES from UB to Pyongyang, i.e. 1800 km. Glenn Hauser, DXLD Yes. I'm anxious about reception condition. Free North Korea Radio test broadcasted on 1350 kHz via Ulaanbaatar last year. But, the reception condition was bad in S. Korea. The RFA relay from Russia is declined before. China is not thought about. I think with the Mongolia or S. Korea which the President changed. Russia consented to the relay of VOA, but I heard the information that they refused relay of RFA. S. Hasegawa, NDXC, March 1-2, dxldyg via DXLD I see that 1350 kHz appears in the Asian frequency list on page 536 of WRTH 2007, as 150 kW from UB, MR-1 program. But not on the Mongolia pages. In the WRTH 2008, it has been removed from the frequency list on page 516. Glenn Hauser, March 1, DXLD Dear DXers, These were the VOA Korean frequencies at the beginning of B07 season: 1200-1300 UT 5890 7235 9555 1300-1400 UT 648 5890 7235 9555 1400-1500 UT 5890 7235 9555 1900-2100 UT 6060 7110 7135 Now when you go to VOA's website: http://www.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_k.cfm you'll see the following freqs for Korean: 1200-1300 UT 1350 5890 7235 9555 1300-1400 UT 648 5890 7235 9555 1400-1500 UT 648 5890 7235 9555 1900-2100 UT 648 6060 7110 7135 Conclusion: VOA Korean expanded using MW frequencies: 648 kHz from Russia and NEW 1350 kHz from unID transmitter. Best regards! Dragan Lekic from Serbia, March 1, dxldyg via DXLD 8-028 (1/3-2008) Top |
| KOREA SOUTH / U S A VOA wins powerful base for broadcasts into N.Korea: HLAZ (?) to Rescue. SEOUL, South Korea – Voice of America has boosted its radio broadcasts into North Korea this year by transmitting from Seoul with support from a South Korean president who has taken a hard-line stance against the reclusive communist regime. President Lee Myung-bak's administration is allowing the U.S. government-funded broadcaster to use transmission equipment in South Korea to send its dispatches into the North for the first time since the 1970s. That makes the signal much clearer than VOA's long-running shortwave broadcasts from far-flung stations in the Philippines, Thailand and the South Pacific island of Saipan. Moreover, it's an AM signal, so listening in doesn't require a shortwave radio. "Radio can play a big role in changing people," said Kim Dae-sung, who fled the North in 2000 and is now a reporter at Free North Korea Radio, a shortwave radio broadcaster in Seoul. "Even if it's simply news, it's something that North Koreans have never heard of." Still, the move could be seen as yet more provocative policymaking by a government already at loggerheads with the North over Lee's tough policy on Pyongyang, and comes at a time of heightened regional tensions over North Korea's plans to launch a rocket early next month. Nuclear envoys from South Korea and Japan flew to Washington for talks Friday with top U.S. diplomats about North Korea. "North Korea will see this as meaning that the South's government is trying to overthrow the regime by uniting strength with U.S. hard-liners, Information control buttresses North Korea's autocratic rule. Radios in the country come with prefixed channels that receive only government signals brimming with propaganda and praise for leader Kim Jong Il. But some listen to outside broadcasts using radios smuggled in from China or by removing the frequency jammers on their state-issued radios, despite the risk of harsh punishment, including incarceration in North Korea's notoriously grim political prison camps. VOA, founded in 1942 with a broadcast in German, now has programs in 45 languages. During the Cold War, it targeted listeners in totalitarian states. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, it has focused on countries where radio and TV news is government-controll Since Jan. 1, VOA has been using the antenna facilities of the Far East Broadcasting Company-Korea, a Christian evangelical radio station, for half of its three-hour nighttime broadcast into the North. The antenna is only 40 miles (65 kilometers) from the border. "I think it's getting deeper into the North in better quality," said Park Se-kyung, head of the Northeast Asian Broadcasting Institute, an association of radio experts monitoring broadcasts in the region. The broadcast is mainly news, with a focus on North Korea, such as its ongoing nuclear standoff with the United States and other nations. South Korea prohibited VOA from broadcasting from its soil for carrying a 1973 report on the kidnapping of Kim Dae-jung, then a leading South Korean dissident. The authoritarian Seoul government at the time is widely believed to have been behind the abduction. Upon becoming president of democratic South Korea in 1998, Kim ushered in a "sunshine policy" toward the North that called for cooperation and engagement. The warming of relations won him the Nobel Peace Prize. But President Lee has taken a far tougher line on North Korea since taking office in February 2008, a stance that has opened the way for VOA to resume transmissions from the South. Some radio experts say VOA's arrangement with the Christian station violates a South Korean ban on broadcasters relaying foreign signals. But Kim Jung-tae, an official with the Korea Communications Commission, justifies his agency's decision to allow the VOA broadcast on the grounds that local networks are allowed to fill up to 20 percent of their airtime with foreign programming. Joan Mower, VOA's public relations director in Washington, D.C., described the project as "a routine arrangement, similar to thousands of other arrangements VOA has worldwide." Broadcasting via South Korea helps VOA "expand its reach to audiences inside North Korea," she said by e-mail. Reporters Without Borders announced this week that the France-based media watchdog group and the European Union will support three Seoul-based radio stations targeting North Korea, including Free North Korea Radio, with about 400 million won ($290,000). "These radios are one of the few hopes to create a real evolution in the country. Without that, the North Koreans don't know what is going on in the world and they don't know even what is going on in their own country," said Vincent Brossel of Reporters Without Borders. North Korea condemns such broadcasts as "U.S. psychological warfare" and often jams the signals. So far, it has not interfered with VOA's new AM broadcast, said radio expert Park. Doing so requires more equipment than blocking shortwave signals, and the fact that North Korea isn't doing so may indicate the North is struggling economically, he said. Park said he supports the broadcasts. "North Korean people have the right to information, Associated Press writer When the transmitter is situated just 65 kms from the border it can't be HLAZ 1566 kHz on Jeju Island south of the South Korean mainland. Must be via the HLKX 1188 kHz in Seoul. Ydun Ritz (28/3-2009) Top |
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