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If you want to hear English short wave radio broadcasts from North Korea, it is quite entertaining. Here's what to do: 1. Choose the time you want to listen an
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
If you want to hear English short wave radio broadcasts from North Korea, it is quite entertaining. Here's what to do:
1. Choose the time you want to listen and note the "target area" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Korea#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Korea#English
2. Choose a WebSDR in the "target area" from this list:
http://kiwisdr.com/public/ http://kiwisdr.com/public/
3. Tune the WebSDR to the correct frequency and listen. You might try a 2 or 3 different WebSDRs in the "target area" in order to get the best reception
The broadcasts are much shorter than an hour, contrary to what Wikipedia says. The format is usually:
1. National anthem (very imposing and sounds like a Soviet military anthem in my opinion)
2. News / headlines. This lasts maybe 3-5 minutes and then is repeated several times
3. Music
Sometimes the music is before the news. Last time I listened, it was the 73rd anniversary of North Korea's indepedennce and so the news was about all of the congratulations from other nations -- the list of which was quite amusing (Cuba, Syria, Iran, Uzbekistan, China, Russia others I don't recall).
- themodelplumber 5y agoIf you live somewhere like the US west coast you can even use an $8 digital shortwave radio (V-111 is a good reference model of this type) and it's very easy to pick them up in the morning, just go for a walk and hit scan. Same with Cuban numbers stations. When you're tired of inscrutable audio you can switch over to RNZ or BBC Pacifica and there's often good programming.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoDo you have frequencies for the Cuban number stations?
- op00to 5y agoPart of the fun is discovering the communities that follow this stuff.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoOP here. I have not found any such community. Do you know any?
- themodelplumber 5y agoThey change. If you want to try direct tuning you'll want to check with monitoring groups or newest YouTube videos, etc. Otherwise if you are in the US...aka near a secret agent ;-)... scanning around works well enough. I don't know if this is still the case but they used to use a freeware Windows XP encryption application. The amused author wrote a bit about it, IIRC.
- vladoski 5y agoI don't but sometimes I enjoy listening to Radio Reloj. It's so unique.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago> just go for a walk and hit scan Direct tune to 9435 or 11710 at either 6:00 AM or 8:00 AM Pacific time. You’re not going to find it on "scan" without scanning through literally thousands of other stations first and without setting the scan sensitivity very high. You're going to become very frustrated long before you find it that way.
- themodelplumber 5y agoNah, it's not that hard. The V-111 will pick up about 8-15 stations off the whip on a SW band scan these days on the US west coast in the morning. In very good conditions you may perhaps have to wade through 30-50 stations, and DPRK will be among the most clear.
- baybal2 5y agoLol, they even have a Youtube channel...
- 0des 5y agoSurely I can postpone my next commit to check this out.. spare a link?
- baybal2 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwhlnjc_XIsuAquW0SIgUQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwhlnjc_XIsuAquW0SIgUQ/vid... I suddenly remembered all those Norko tourists I seen in Vladivostok. These were very shy ones https://ibb.co/6BvNdFw https://ibb.co/6BvNdFw . There used to be years when the city was squirming with them, then they suddenly all disappeared almost overnight. Funny moments I remember. Two Korean tourists stood in line for an icecream stall, started chitchat. Then one in better dress turns to another, suddenly suspicious, sees Kim's pin on another guy's tshirt, and then he freezes, turning pale, and speechless.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoThose YouTube videos are not in English. The instructions I gave are for English broadcasts. Also, the YouTube videos don’t follow the same format as the radio broadcasts. They seem more polished , but I did not spend a lot of time with them.
- RicoElectrico 5y agoAs a silly amusement, people mashed up DPRK propaganda broadcast in Russian with hiphop beats :D https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/16379237/1-wlaczasz-radio-glos-korei-czyli-polnocnokoreansk/ https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/16379237/1-wlaczasz-radio-glos-kor... Edit: a reference in English: https://www.rferl.org/a/27485988.html https://www.rferl.org/a/27485988.html
- jareklupinski 5y agoanother reference, with video: https://aszdziennik.pl/116425,rap-prosto-z-pjongjangu-to-najsmieszniejsza-rzecz-jaka-dzis-znajdziecie-w-internecie-wideo https://aszdziennik.pl/116425,rap-prosto-z-pjongjangu-to-naj...