Clandestine radio frequency updates

All times UTC

Frequency change of Voice of Wilderness via Tashkent, Uzbekistan May 22 at 1330-1530 7615 TAC 100 kW / 070 deg to NEAs Korean, weak to fair, ex 7625:


Frequency change of North Korea Reform Radio via Tashkent, Uzbekistan May 22
1430-1530 11565 TAC 100 kW / 076 deg to NEAs Korean, ex 11570, fair to good, Interference noted
at same time 11560 BGL 500 kW / 325 deg to WeAs Pashto All India Radio, very strong
(DX Bulgaria 22 May 2019)

Asian clandestine stations, winter schedule updates

All times UTC/ transmitter sites as indicated

North Korea Reform Radio
Korean
1430-1500  daily 7600as (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)  (ex 7580 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
1500-1530  daily 7600as (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)  (ex 7580 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
2030-2100  daily 7505as (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) (ex  7495 (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

Voice of Freedom
Korean
0000-0200  daily 5920as (Hwaseong, Jangan, South Korea) (ex 6045)
0300-0800  daily 5920as (Hwaseong, Jangan, South Korea) (ex 6045)
0900-1400  daily 5920as (Hwaseong, Jangan, South Korea) (ex 6045)
1500-2000  daily 5920as (Hwaseong, Jangan, South Korea) (ex 6045)
2100-0000  daily 5920as (Hwaseong, Jangan, South Korea) (ex 6045)

Voice of the Martyrs Korea
Korean
1530-1600  daily 7520as (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) (ex 7505)
(7520 frequency variable)
(WRTH 04 Feb 2019)

South Korean shortwave station joins hands to target North Korea

Text of report by South Korean newspaper Choson Ilbo website on 16 December

Four radio stations broadcasting programmes to North Korea joined hands in a live event at Cheonggye Plaza in downtown Seoul on Wednesday afternoon.

Radio Free North Korea, North Korea Reform Radio, Open Radio for North Korea, and Radio Free Chosun denounced the North for shelling Yeonpyeong Island in November and called for the resumption of propaganda broadcasts to the North. A telephone conversation with a North Korean was played during the live broadcast. The resident of North Hamgyong Province, identified only as Choi, said that after the shelling rice prices more than doubled and power supply was cut off there.

“When I was in the North, I listened a lot to radio programmes broadcast from South Korea,” one defector said. “Although I was afraid of being found out, I listened because I was anxious to know about the outside world. Many people there did the same”.

Ha Tae-keung, the head of Open Radio, called for the South Korean government to support the stations. “Currently, broadcasters specializing in programmes for the North are transmitting on shortwave, which costs tens of thousands of dollars in royalties to foreign countries. We could broadcast better sound quality to more North Koreans if we’re given mediumwave or AM frequencies which the government isn’t using”.

(Source: Choson Ilbo website, Seoul, in English 16 Dec 10 via BBC Monitoring)
(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)