Re: [IRCA] 1053 Pyongyang Branch of the Anti-imperialist

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perrhaps you overlooked this item in a recent DX Listening Digest, 7-103 of
August 27. Firedrake on 1053 reported from Japan, just to confuse matters. But
why? Hard to believe China would be involved in the N/S Korea radio war on the
side of S Korea, as Firedrake has only been used so far against enemy
broadcasts of the PRC. You might well now hear the Firedrake (raucous Chinese
opera music with lots of percussion, as used on many SW frequencies for
jamming) on 1053, rather than the N Korean station. I haven`t heard it myself,
but I assume the previously reported `jamming` on 1053 is of the noise variety.
73, Glenn Hauser

** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake: was able to receive on MW 1053 kHz at 
1735-1845 and parallel 1557 kHz. There is not a monitoring break [at 
hourtop]. First noted on Aug. 12 on 1053 kHz at 1835-1845, KO'ed JOAR 
Nagoya. The target station is unidentified. de S. Hasegawa and S. Aoki 
(S. Hasegawa, NDXC, Aug 27, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

1557 is of course the 300 kW CBS transmitter in Taiwan carrying WYFR, 
but also reported recently with Sound of Hope at certain times on 
weekends. WRTH 2007 does not list anything in Taiwan on 1053, but it 
also overlooks in the Asian MW frequency list page 532, the N. Korean 
clandestine for the South, which is listed on page 509 as 1053 kHz 
from Haeju, also on several SW frequencies such as 4557 [recently 
reported as 4555 ? rounded off?]. However, the new Firedrake jamming 
on 1053 probably has nothing to do with this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)


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