Showing posts with label Shiokaze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shiokaze. Show all posts

Monday, January 01, 2024

Shortwave Radio for Japanese Abductees Faces Crisis

 

Tokyo, Dec. 31 (Jiji Press)--The Shiokaze shortwave radio service for Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea faces a crisis because it will be unable to counter jamming by Pyongyang during facility renewal work in fiscal 2024.
   The situation "contradicts the government's policy of giving top priority to the abduction issue," said the group playing the leading role in the radio broadcasts.
   Shiokaze, which means sea breeze, began broadcasting in 2005, operated mainly by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea. It conveys messages from family members of abductees and news from Japan and abroad.
   The radio is constantly hit by jamming signals from North Korea. Since 2019, Shiokaze has been conducting double broadcasting using two frequencies as a countermeasure.
   Shiokaze's transmission base is within KDDI Corp.'s Yamata transmitting station in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan.
https://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2023122900694

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Shiokaze updates broadcast schedule

 

For anyone who follows the broadcasts from Shiokaze, Hiroshi's blog at http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/ mentions a new schedule effective 14 September 2023:

All times UTC 

1300-1400 on 5965 and 6040 kHz                            

1405-1435 on 5935 and 7295 kHz                            

1600-1700 on 5920 and 6070 kHz                            

1705-1805 on 6090 and 7320 kHz

 

Shiokaze (Sea Breeze) (clandestine station) broadcasts to North Korea and is operated by the independent investigating organization "Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea", regarding persons believed to have been abducted by North Korea prior to 1983. All broadcasts are from Yamata in Japan (300 kW).

 As listed in "Broadcasts in English" they usually have an English program at 1300-1400 and 1600-1700 on Wednesdays (otherwise they are in Korean and Japanese)          

 (BDXC/Tony)

 

Monday, May 16, 2022

Shiokaze updates broadcast schedule

 

Clandestine station, Shiokaze - without jamming, it was changed on the 12th as soon as I wrote that there was no frequency change. Even today, the radio waves from Yamata are extremely strong, there is no interference, and it sounds clear. The 1300 broadcast on Thursday is Korean in both the first half and the second half.

Broadcasting by the Abduction Issue Headquarters in the 1300s, Tashkent, and transmission to Taiwan are all good. The audio files on the website are updated weekly, but the frequency is still B21. We cannot display strange times such as 27:30. The same program is out for a week at this time.

The frequency of the 1405 "Shiokaze" has also been changed. Along with the broadcast of 1705, "Furusato no Kaze" appears at this time.

JSR Shiokaze, May 12 ~
1300-1400 5935, 6070
1405-1435 6090, 7325
1600-1700 5920,
6165 1705-1800 5980, 7435

The 1430's "Furusato no Kaze" is powerful at 11955, 9705, and 9685kHz. It started with the nostalgic Japanese song "soap bubbles". The explanation of the abduction issue is about Megumi Yokota. Mr. Yokota, who lived in Niigata Prefecture at that time, was abducted by North Korea on the evening of November 15, 1977 when he left school for badminton, a junior high school club activity in Niigata City. She was 13 at the time. It became publicly known in the press that she was abducted 20 years later. The abduction of junior high school girls has attracted attention as a symbol of North Korea's brutal and abduction cases. North Korea has been abducted, but her ex-husband submitted a fake remains in 2004, saying that she had already died, and her death date was changed from March 1993 to April 1994, and there is no credibility at all. In order to camouflage the relationship with the top, it is inconvenient for North Korea unless it is killed.

"Furusato no Koe" is a message to Megumi Yokota, who passed away on June 5, 2020, and was held in April 2017 in Tokyo by her father, Shigeru Yokota. It is a difficult-to-hear message that makes you feel the age from the recording at "Save the Victims! National Grand Rally". Then, the message recorded in February 2015, at this time, the energy itself can be clearly heard. She also states that she met her grandson in Mongolia. And from her mother, Sakie Yokota, a new message from the Niigata Prefectural Assembly in December 2021 has been released. Next, her younger brother, Takuya Yokota, who was four years younger than her, became the representative of her family association from the recording at the international symposium hosted by the Government of Japan in December 2021. Also states. Similarly, Mr. Tetsuya Yokota sent a recording message at the Niigata Prefectural Assembly in November 20210.

"Today's Song" is the song "Furusato" sung by all the participants from the government-sponsored International Symposium Part 3 Mini Concert on December 14, 2019. This program has the same content as April 11th and 18th, 2022.

The 1600 "Shiokaze" came out at 5920 and 6165kHz. Yamata's radio waves were strong during this time as well, completely crushing the 5920kHz VOF. CRI interference at 6165kHz has no effect.

The 1705 came out at 5980 and 7435kHz. At 7435kHz, faxes below 1kHz are strong, and interference is intense depending on the receiver. If you cut the lower side, it sounds clear.
(Radio From Broadcasting Overseas)

Friday, October 31, 2008

More News on Shiokaze


Thanks to contributor Ron Howard, for the following update on Shiokaze
Gayle VH

Recently I have been corresponding with Shiokaze (via COMJAN), providing information about their transmission on 6020 (including an emailed audio clip of their reception) and the North Korean jamming that recently appeared there. Went on to suggest perhaps it was time to change to a new frequency again. Once I noticed they had in fact changed frequency, I inquired about it, as I couldn't immediately find them. Received this response:

Thank you very much for your information. We have changed the frequency 26th October because there was strong jamming from North Korea. Now we don't disclose the frequency number because of avoiding jamming from North Korea. So we would like ask you to search our frequency near 6020 khz. Maybe you can easily touch with new frequency. Sincerely yours, Sadaki MANABE (COMJAN Vice representative). (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Oct 31)

- - - - - Ron posted:
UTC time *sign-off

North Korea: (non). 5910, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze (tentative). 1419-1430*, Oct 30. Since Oct 27 have been unable to locate Shiokaze. Only Vietnam in the clear on ex: 6020. Checked some former frequencies: 6015 (only very weak station there), 6005 (strong Russia with QRM from jamming of 6003) and 5985 (only Myanma R.), but no sign of Shiokaze. Today noted a woman announcer in Japanese with Shiokaze type piano music in the background. Heard clear mention of Tokyo, as with the usual Shiokaze ID, but somehow I was not hearing the distinct Shiokaze ID, or maybe I just missed it? Needs more work to confirm this (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Etón E1)
(QSL card courtesy of Ron Howard)

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Clandestine, Shiokaze observed on new frequency

This morning's email brings news that Shiokaze is broadcasting on a new frequency, as indicated below by contributor Ron Howard.
Gayle VH

All times UTC *sing-on

Clandestine, Shiokaze - Sea Breeze via Yamata 6015 kHz - Japan (new frequency - temporary move from 6020?), *1400, July 21, in Japanese. Is this their new anti-jamming alternative frequency (ex: 6005) or a new primary frequency (ex: 6020)? Am glad they did not return to 6005, due to the interference caused there by Echo of Hope on 6003. Before 1400 heard weak Asian station (assume PBS Xinjiang), ToH pips and assume it was CNR-8 that was totally covered by Shiokaze signing on after the pips. Am grateful to Dan Sheedy for this tip. He first heard them here on July 16. (Ron Howard, CA/Etón E1/Cumbre DX)

Friday, April 04, 2008

Shiokaze - A08 Multilingual schedules

JAPAN [and non] A08 - JSR - Shiokaze/Sea Breeze

Effective: 30 March - 26 October 2008
All times UTC

Japanese, Korean, English and Chinese
1400-1430 6020 kHz
2030-2100 6045 kHz

Furusato no Kaze in Japanese
1430-1500 11775 kHz via CVC-Darwin
1600-1630 9780 kHz via Taiwan

Nippon no Kaze/Ilbon-e Baram in Korean
1500-1530 11690 kHz via CVC-Darwin
1700-1730 9820 kHz via Taiwan
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC-HQ Mar 28)
(Source: BC-DX #854, wb, Germany)

Thursday, March 06, 2008

BBC comments on broadcast to abductees in North Korea

Every day a shortwave radio programme broadcast from Tokyo highlights the plight of Japanese citizens believed to have been kidnapped and abducted to North Korea. It is compiled in a small booth in an office owned by a group which campaigns to keep the issue in the public eye and supports the families of those abducted.
JSR Shiokaze radio is broadcast once in the morning, once in the evening for 30 minutes. There are editions in Japanese, Korean, English and Chinese, rotated on a regular basis. The BBC’s Chris Hogg meets the Japanese who still pursue the truth about their loved ones.
(Source: R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)

Related story: Japan's radio pleas to North Korea
North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s continues to sour relations between them. The BBC's Chris Hogg meets the Japanese who still pursue the truth about their loved ones.
continued story from BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7275598.stm