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Re: [IRCA] April 2017 Kona DXpedition Loggings and MP3's (Conclusion)
Good catch, Chuck. I'm on the same planet as you, though my head is merely a
balloon floating somewhere in the atmosphere. I misspoke on that point with
the mindset that many Chinese stations have an extra time pip as compared to
the Korean standard, but I took the 5+1 and subtracted 1 from it without
thinking, when in fact, I should have taken the 4 and subtracted one for the
correct 3+1. But really, they have 2 extra pips. I always knew it was a lot
longer, but always thought it was just one extra!! So, you're correct. Most
stations are 3+1, while some Chinese stations have that extra two and are
5+1. Actually, I never really counted in much detail but just listened to a
lot of my audio and see some of the following examples, with plenty more
where this came from:
In China:
*CNR-1 is 5+1.
*Zhejiang News R. is 5+1
*CBN Radio (1422 Shanghai) is 5+1
*Anhui Story Radio (1395) is a more unique 3 long + 1 short
*801 Yantai Private Car Radio has a single tone
*Shenyang News Radio is 5+1
*Shandong People's Radio (918, 1548) is 5+1
*Jiangsu Story Radio (1206) replaces time pips with a little rising tone
similar to what you'd hear in an elevator or airplane
*I oddly never recorded a TOH on 1206 Yanbian despite it being my 200kw
local (perhaps I'll listen on the online stream)
*... though 810 Voice of Zhejiang has a unique higher-pitched 2+1 time pip
at their half-hour ID
In Taiwan:
*1557 RTI I Love Music is 3+1
In Korea:
*Pyongyang is 3+1
*KBS 1R is 3+1
*KBS 2R is 1 tone
*KBS 3R is 3+1
*KCBS is 3+1
*SBS Love is 1 tone
*FEBC Jeju is 3+1
*KBS Hanminjok 1R & 2R are 3+1
*Echo of Unification (1080 Haeju & 684 Kaesong, both defunct, now SW and FM
only) is 1 tone at sign-on only
In Japan:.
*1242 Tokyo substitutes their time pips with a cuckoo clock.
* NHK-2 at sign-on is 3+1
Otherwise, Japan has no standard. It's all over the place and even hearing
time pips is really rare for many stations.
I recorded 40 hours of AM audio from the region. I should know my time pips,
but in all honesty, when you hear them every day, you don't really stop and
think much about them.
-Chris Kadlec
Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide
http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul/
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 06:11:44 +0000
From: Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IRCA] April 2017 Kona DXpedition Loggings and MP3's
(Conclusion)
I'm on a different planet. Japan and Korea have always been 3+1 and most
Chinese stations have 5+1 pips.
Chuck
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