Re: [IRCA] Where's the Korean Jammer When You Need It?

[Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Pyongyang is UTC+9, the pips should never be on the half hour anymore, though I think you actually know that already.

Time pips sure do help ID things when they're the only things that break through interference or static, a lot like stations airing classical music or NHK 2 with their music box. I could hear that across the whole AM band at sign-off even on stations where I hear no sign of NHK a few minutes before.

-Chris Kadlec



Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 15:52:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gary DeBock <d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "America, Mailing" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [IRCA] Where's the Korean Jammer When You Need It?

After some overnight FSL antenna work I decided to check the band around local sunrise, hoping for some strong TP signals to break through the neighbor's S7 electrical noise.


657-Pyongyang was one of the few that could break through, although it was tough to decide which was worse-- Pyongyang's corny music (at 1256), or the electrical noise  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/pj0vrs8cjkolzskklvkn3sfvfi6jszd1

Whether the 3+1 TOH pips are on the half hour or the hour (as at 1300 this morning), it's always time to tune away from this station  https://dreamcrafts.box.com/s/xlmyrowwabaz71v4fqu441jekg7pq4ma

No wonder all the radios made in North Korea make it impossible to tune in anything else.


Gary DeBock (in Puyallup, WA, USA)

Stock XHDATA D-808 + 15" FSL antenna
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