[IRCA] Yanbian 1206 1053 1566 Tips

[Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In response to Tim and Bruce, with some extra information:

1206 was my old local and is a pretty potent, wide, and loud signal. I have no TOH IDs in my recordings of the frequency, and I think the reason is, as you said, that there just is nothing special there to hear, and when there is, it is always approximately near the TOH time, not exactly.

However, at their midnight sign-off time (1600 UTC), they give the Yanbian Comprehensive News Radio ID and ALWAYS play the same traditional North Korean song, though again, it might start at 11:55 or 12:01 or whatever. I always missed the start of it for that fact and it infuriated me. Typically, they don't even say their station name in the sign-off even, which is Yeonbyeon nyusuh jonghap bangsong, but merely mention Yeonbyeon (that is the Korean name of Yanbian, which is a Korean autonomous district), the frequency, times of broadcast, etc.

Here is the sign-off sequence:

http://www.beaglebass.com/temporary/1206_Sign_Off.MP3


But note that like most stations in China these days, they play a usually-instrumental music loop (last I knew) overnight and stay on the air without programming, though they didn't start staying on the air until 2016. The station's website is a real pain as far as streaming goes. I wouldn't even suggest bothering with it.

When I first started AM DX in Korea in 2015, the station was off the air for many months. Then one day, they came on and were blasting, making it very hard for me to hear Jiangsu as normal.

Aside from that, and the offset, they play the typical North Korean content in Korean with a North dialect (CNR-8 nearby also plays traditional North Korean content, but those transmitters are all failing and have horrid hums and buzzes, 1305 especially).

If you have 1205 exceptionally strong, it's good to look for the other two Yanbian blasters, 1053 and 1566, which run parallel. I think many of you hear 1566 behind Jeju. Pyongyang on 1566, I believe, is directional to the south, which probably lowers the chance of it coming in. With 1500kw Haeju off the air on 1053, it should be easier to hear Yanbian.

Yanbian has a very distinctive jingle - for lack of a better word - on the 1053 and 1566 frequencies that gives them away both at the top of the hour and during any promos, which are run throughout the hour with the typical "Meili Yanbian!!" followed by "Yanbian renmin guangbo diantai" ID, heard here on 1566 and 1053 from Seoul:


http://www.beaglebass.com/temporary/1566_Yanbian.MP3 (in null of Pyongyang)


http://www.beaglebass.com/temporary/1053_Yanbian.MP3 (with half-hour ID and pips at the end nulling out my 6-mile local jammer in Seoul, the same one that everyone else overseas used to hear).

-Chris Kadlec
 http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul


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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 21:22:07 -0700
From: Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Michigan TP Asian logs this morning, October 28th, 2018

Hi Tim

Those are some amazing recordings of 693 and 774 Japan .

Yanbian has been operating on 1205.96 as far back as I can remember.? 
The measured carrier frequency is so unique, it's as good as an ID in my 
book.? I'm not sure about the music you heard at 1159.? I'll try to 
start my SDR recording a bit earlier tomorrow and see if I can catch 
what the station broadcasts at that time.? I don't recall this station 
doing anything consistent at the ToH, like time pips or fanfare.

Bruce
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