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Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23



This would be a rather accurate assumption I believe.

The North overhauled a lot of its radio networks in December, so it would almost be a given that if a change was noted in the signal, some work was done on it. 657 has always been a good signal both day and night (though listening from 100 miles away, you wouldn't notice much difference as you would overseas, and anything is better... except 1053 - even at 60 miles away, that audio is horrific).

In December, when the local AMs switched to FMs in the Seoul area, they also fixed the 801 Kimchaek transmitter that was consistently wandering as far out as 804, turned off 684 Kaesong and 1080 Haeju to move both onto multiple FM stations, turned off 729 in Gangwon, and deleted the Pyongyang FM network to run it parallel to Pyongyang Broadcasting's (Pyongyang Bangsong) AM feed, all within the span of about a week at the end of the year. They typically do their major changes at the end or start of the year, just as they lit up all their AM signals, as well as some that had been switched off for an extended time, on New Years Day 2016.

So with all of those changes, it seems likely that some minor tweaking of transmitters or at the major tower sites up by the airport would occur. Naturally though, the details are unknown.

-Chris Kadlec
Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide
http://www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul



Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:42:42 -0700
From: "R. Colin Newell" <coffeecanuck@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Puyallup, WA Ultralight TP's for 3-23

One gets the sense that some North Korean techs have been deployed to
tighten up the antenna hardware
because 657 has not been this good AND regular in years.

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