Re: [IRCA] Korean on 873

[Bill Harms <philcobill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John:

If the truth be known, we all do list logging, especially if it is a 
stations we have heard numerous times and when the action is fast and 
heavy. I sometimes wonder if on occasion we miss something new, perhaps 
even a new station by jumping over stations like that.  I am into 
recording local IDs and that makes up for list logging, I think.

QSLing the Koreans on both sides is problematic. In South Korea, many of 
the MBC stations have printed QSLs (except Seoul!). The CBS and the FEBC 
stations also have their own QSLs. The KBS stations are problematic. It 
is personnel dependent. I have had better luck with Korean reports than 
with English reports. They also like you to log local or regional 
programming.

I will be in Spokane in April!  That is the closet I will get to the San 
Juans or Grayland in a while.

Bill

John H. Bryant wrote:
> Bill,  I confess that I pretty much blow the Koreans off.... I have 
> difficulty recognizing the language unless I can hear it well and I 
> speak not a word (both my fault, of course) and most importantly to 
> me, neither KBS domestics nor the North Koreans seem to QSL.  I'm too 
> QSL oriented and obviously need to DX some with you to learn about 
> the finer points of DXing Korea.  I've pretty much been list logging 
> the Korean on 873. That has been quite prominent this season, but not 
> in the past.
> 
> However, Guy Atkins logging from our QCI DXpedition is pretty 
> definitive. To quote:
> 
> 873   NORTH KOREA KCBS Sinuiju, Sep 22 1355 - Korean Orchestral 
> music, very strong and parallel to 2850. 3+1 Time Pips and ID exactly 
> as per PAL 'Choson Chungang Bangsong imnida' at 1400. (Atkins-QCI)
> 
> I wonder if KCBS have reactivated sometime this summer and the 
> Japanese are just operating on old information???  They do have NHK2 
> Kumamoto in Kyushu to contend with.
> 
> Look forward to meeting you one of these days, Bill.... We can regale 
> each other with stories of  Americans stumbling their way through East Asia :>)
> 
> John B.
> 
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