As of 2022.11.08, some AM broadcasting stations of SBS, MBC, and CBS will suspend operation and close in March 2023. The applicable stations are: 1. MBC AM - 900Khz, 50kW, HLKV 2. SBS Love FM AM -792Khz, 50kW, HLSQ 3. Daejeon MBC AM - 765Khz, 10kW, HLCQ 4. MBC Chungbuk Cheongju AM - 1287Khz, 10kW, HLAX 5. MBC Gyeongnam Changwon AM - 990Khz, 10kW, HLAP (This station was closed shortly after relocation.) 6. Pohang MBC AM - 1107Khz, 10kW, HLAV 7. Ulsan MBC AM - 846Khz, 10kW, HLAU 8. Gwangju CBS AM - 999Khz, 10kW, HLCL 9. Jeonbuk CBS AM -1314Khz, 10kW, HLCM 10. Busan CBS AM - 1404Khz, 10kW, HLKP
This video is very interesting. Reminds me of those days when I'd listen to every single signal I cpuld receive at home, in the northwest tip of Luzon island in the Philippines. Signals from Manila would be overpowered by signals from mainland China...
Thank you for this fascinating video. Up here in Scotland, I have heard KBS Seoul and VOK Pyongyang th-cam.com/video/EjcHDpO9Ogo/w-d-xo.html VOK must be the only radio station that jams its own transmitters due to intermodulation from its jamming transmitters being so near to its broadcasting transmitters
Excellent video. I have actually heard 657KHz KCBS Kangnam KRE via DX from here in Melbourne Australia occasionally in years gone by. Thanks for sharing. Also, while using an online DX Tuner based in Hong Kong years ago, I managed to hear AFNK Daegu Camp Walker KOR. That was way back in 2010.
KBS KBS 1 HLKA 3:33 711 AM&97.3 FM HLCA 11:39 Sign Off 972 AM&6015 SW KBS 2 HLSR 16:28 1170 AM KBS 3 HLKC 15:54 1134 AM MBC HLKV 8:2410:11 900 AM&95.9 FM CBS HLKY 7:29 98.1 FM&837 AM SBS HKSQ 4:43 103.5 FM&792 AM
Sorry for the late reply, but yes, all jammers are on the air currently except for 1053 and 1080, because both the big North Korean signals in Haeju turned off in Dec. 2016, so there was no need for the jammers.
Would also be possible if you should also include a local bandscan for all the AM stations in the Philippines-most likely from the Manila-based stations-very soon, if you could do.
Zach, from Korea, I never once heard the Philippines. If stations are off the air, they are always replaced with a Chinese stations or a low power NHK repeater. If you have very good equipment and an antenna and you're in a very quiet area, perhaps one could receive a high-powered station from there. But Korea is one of the busiest locations of Earth for AM radio and there aren't many really quiet places. It's very unlikely.
I've heard radio frequencies from South China, Taiwan and even Vietnam and Thailand. I'm from the Philippines btw and I'm only using a Sony radio made given to me by my mother. She said it was bought in 90s so I'm pretty impressed. There are 4 modes to choose in that radio(FM, AM SW and SW2) SW2 is where I hear radio from the said countries.
Hi Sean. If only! I do have audio compilations of my Chinese tropo catches (40 min.), a Seoul area FM bandscan (35 min.), and a few Japanese bandscans. I still have tropo from 2013 I haven't even edited and organized yet, so needless to say, I personally don't have the time for it. There are a lot of copyright issues that makes it a hassle to upload such a thing only to have TH-cam delete or restrict it in the end (hence outsourcing the work to someone who makes a hobby of such videos and knows these rules). You can go to the Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, linked to in the description - where you can listen to all 3 hours with narration and a 115-page guide - and see my audio bandscan links at the bottom of the page and a few webpages to complement them. It's not visual, but radio naturally isn't a visual medium of communication to start with. There will be two other videos like this one coming this month, though not quite as detailed as this.
I listened 2/3 way to your korean am scan recording on soundcloud. It is very interesting to listen to. I would love to listen to your Chinese tropo catches!
Just go to the page (mentioned above) and the Chinese tropo catches are there, two clips totalling 40 minutes linked from the lower right of the page, and elsewhere. (And thanks, though the last 1/3 is propaganda and jammers, so you may wanna tune into that later sometime too).
Just listened to part one of the Chinese FM scan. Since I do speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. Would you like some help translating the clips before it goes up?
It's really hard to find reliable people to help with Chinese!! Chinese radio hobbyists are not very helpful or friendly usually, even when I post in Chinese (I have a lot of experience with Chinese DXers!). I think you could certainly help with the last video, which are the Chinese stations. But I'm not the one making the video, so I will see what happens with it next week and what the plan is. But I do have old E-skip clips I will be working on soon and THOSE clips I could use help with so I can finish them!!! I know Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc., but Guangdong... harder to understand and different. Some are easy IDs, some not. Just send me an e-mail at Chris.Kadlec@gmx.de :o) I'd be incredibly thankful for any help with anything!
Ahaha, yeah, the translation is correct (I'm the one who provided them in the end, but checked by a native speaker regardless). But yes, it's more of a way of adding the sponsor into content discreetly, though in an awkward way. In the US, stations have been doing this same thing in the past 5 years. One day tons of stations started doing it at once and all copying one another, where they would say "broadcasting from (sponsor name) studios, this is (station name)" or "from the (sponsor name) Weather Center, this is...". Like a stadium, they name their studio or programming blocks after the sponsor. Same thing as the Korean way, kinda stupid, but money makes people do and say stupid things.
Honestly, quiet. I never tuned above what my radio had for AM, which stopped around uh, 1600-something. I never bothered much beyond 1620 or so I think. With some good equipment, I'm sure you could pick something up on the east coast of Korea anyway.
For HLKA South Korea it seems to be jammed can the North Korean Army Haeju transmitter Jam South Korean radio around Incheon Airport like 89.1 Cool FM.
I have received the 657khz last night(2017-12-28 19:20 BJT).My location is Meizhou,Guangdong,China.But I only heard a little signal of it last night because of another stations with strong signals were on the 657khz too.
I thought so. But with the Great Firewall in China... I know you probably need a VPN for TH-cam and Google Mail, so I was not sure if you checked it often. I saw you here and said "oh!!!!"
Yay!! Hopefully you can help with some of my old DX if you find time :) !! Good 1000 km. across the sea on FM. I procrastinated this a very long time. 4 years! I sent to your lpx**** mail.
The fact that there are many advertisements shows that the size of South Korea's economy overwhelms North Korea. Then haha. Fucking NK! Our country jamming your radio broadcasting14:17
Very true. But both sides have great resources and the content shows what kind of resources are had on each side. While South Korean stations are full of advertisements, that shows how much money, commerce, etc. is done. And there's a LOT. Anyone who has lived there could attest to the number of advertisements everywhere, even for local restaurants. But the north has a lot of propaganda, military, etc. and that is reflected by the content they air as well and the money put into jamming broadcasts.
@@cckadlec Oh, thank you for your reply. I have actually listened to that broadcast in North Korea because I served in the front line of South Korea. It was a very strange feeling. And listening to the propaganda broadcast, I was thankful that I was born in a free country.
Radio stations on Wikipedia *rolls eyes*. This is completely and utterly false. 603 is on the air with no plans to go off. It is currently being received at 90dBu down the road from the tower (as I type this). Part of this station's plan is that it is directed also at a North Korean audience (in addition to obviously being domestic). The 500kw stations in the Seoul area can be heard clearly an hour away in North Korea. These stations would not go off the air unless something was seriously wrong. 756 Yeoju (KBS 1R) *did* go off the air in January 2016 though. That was a 100kw relay of the main station in Seoul, so it was pointless to waste the energy on an area with double coverage. I'm the one who reported on that as it was my local, but HLSA-AM is on.
Thank you. Maybe someone wasn't able to receive the station with a five-dollar radio somewhere far away from the transmitter... Those people should *not* edit pages on Wiki.
@@juliegaetos6959 Probably to broadcast to North Korean audiences. North Korea has very powerful jammers and the average citizen there probably has an old fully analog Soviet made radio without all the fancy stuff we take for granted with those Sangeans, Grundigs, etc.
The song at 1:44 is called "하나의 대가정". Keep in mind that these songs are basically by the regime, as all music is in North Korea. So there is no "artist" per se, but different recordings will have different sounds as different popular bands, like the girl bands in the north, will sing these already-existing socialist songs that people grow up with there. You can hear one version of this one here: th-cam.com/video/4fCapYO3Ehw/w-d-xo.html . This particular one is performed by the famous group, Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble and it's the song you're looking for. Hope that helps.
The service name is "1577 Chauffeur", famous for its slogan, "same number/s on the front and back (of your car seat)". It mainly serves intoxicated people who want to have a ride with a chauffeur instead of drunk driving (which still stays a taboo in South Korea). Shin Dong Yeop is a famous South Korean comedian and TV host, who at the time was the endorser of the service. A few days ago, Korea Drive, the company behind this service, was acquired by Kakao Mobility (a subsidiary of the company behind Kakao Talk).
![“อาร์ต พศุตม์” เกือบเอี่ยวทุกคดีดัง เอ๊ะไว้ก่อน ไม่มีอะไรได้มาง่ายๆ | แฉ 16 ต.ค. 67 [2/3] | GMM25](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0Gx-0-kUBv8/mqdefault.jpg)
As of 2022.11.08, some AM broadcasting stations of SBS, MBC, and CBS will suspend operation and close in March 2023.
The applicable stations are:
1. MBC AM - 900Khz, 50kW, HLKV
2. SBS Love FM AM -792Khz, 50kW, HLSQ
3. Daejeon MBC AM - 765Khz, 10kW, HLCQ
4. MBC Chungbuk Cheongju AM - 1287Khz, 10kW, HLAX
5. MBC Gyeongnam Changwon AM - 990Khz, 10kW, HLAP (This station was closed shortly after relocation.)
6. Pohang MBC AM - 1107Khz, 10kW, HLAV
7. Ulsan MBC AM - 846Khz, 10kW, HLAU
8. Gwangju CBS AM - 999Khz, 10kW, HLCL
9. Jeonbuk CBS AM -1314Khz, 10kW, HLCM
10. Busan CBS AM - 1404Khz, 10kW, HLKP
This video is very interesting. Reminds me of those days when I'd listen to every single signal I cpuld receive at home, in the northwest tip of Luzon island in the Philippines. Signals from Manila would be overpowered by signals from mainland China...
One of the reasons why the United States have poor and weak AM stations, is so two AM radio stations from different states broadcast over each other
You missed a "don't."
Wow, amazing band scan. I live in Edinburgh, Scotland and I can hear NK jammers and propaganda on shortwave. Thank you for sharing!
AM 972kHz KBS 한민족방송은 정규방송시간이 오후 1시부터 다음날 오전 9시까지 방송하며
1170kHz는 오후 11시부터 다음날 오후 1시까지 방송합니다.
I can get 972 almost every evening in Europe (plus 1566 from Jeju Island - FEBC). Still no trace of the commies from the North, though.
Great upload!
EMEL DX What type of antenna and which receiver do you use for medium wave?
Thank you for this fascinating video. Up here in Scotland, I have heard KBS Seoul and VOK Pyongyang th-cam.com/video/EjcHDpO9Ogo/w-d-xo.html
VOK must be the only radio station that jams its own transmitters due to intermodulation from its jamming transmitters being so near to its broadcasting transmitters
Excellent video. I have actually heard 657KHz KCBS Kangnam KRE via DX from here in Melbourne Australia occasionally in years gone by. Thanks for sharing. Also, while using an online DX Tuner based in Hong Kong years ago, I managed to hear AFNK Daegu Camp Walker KOR. That was way back in 2010.
Really love the Dxing videos!
5:53 that was the le_--------kim--ii--sung-_--------------static
Why Korean stations sign off at mid-day?
For egrabow440's videos, take a drink for every propaganda bonus.
We would probably be dead by the end of the video
@Brian Hebert wait what
KBS
KBS 1
HLKA 3:33
711 AM&97.3 FM
HLCA 11:39 Sign Off
972 AM&6015 SW
KBS 2
HLSR 16:28
1170 AM
KBS 3
HLKC 15:54
1134 AM
MBC
HLKV 8:24 10:11
900 AM&95.9 FM
CBS
HLKY 7:29
98.1 FM&837 AM
SBS
HKSQ 4:43
103.5 FM&792 AM
4:51 1577-1577 앞뒤가 똑같은 대리운전~~
7:08 우리 아빠는 엄~청! 빨리 달린다~
Best AM bandscan from South Korea is HLKV-FM 95.9!!
Chris, do you know if the jammers are still on the air?
Sorry for the late reply, but yes, all jammers are on the air currently except for 1053 and 1080, because both the big North Korean signals in Haeju turned off in Dec. 2016, so there was no need for the jammers.
the best south korean anthem i've ever heard
edit: 12:45
It is the national anthem of South Korea.
@@Eagle-y5p most South Korean TV stations play the anthem in full i guess
3:52 sounds like a old video game
6:45 sounds like when Mario and Luigi is trying to test broadcast in 819 kHz.
KBS, SBS, CBS uses 880 Hz tone for hour beep. But MBC uses 1050 Hz tone for hour beep. And North Korea uses 1100 Hz beep.
Would also be possible if you should also include a local bandscan for all the AM stations in the Philippines-most likely from the Manila-based stations-very soon, if you could do.
Can You DXing the AM Station from the Philippines? Thanks
I can DX many Philippines AM stations,but I'm in southeast China.Haha
Zach, from Korea, I never once heard the Philippines. If stations are off the air, they are always replaced with a Chinese stations or a low power NHK repeater. If you have very good equipment and an antenna and you're in a very quiet area, perhaps one could receive a high-powered station from there. But Korea is one of the busiest locations of Earth for AM radio and there aren't many really quiet places. It's very unlikely.
I have heard that some AM stations in Manila had also heard in Australia.
I've heard radio frequencies from South China, Taiwan and even Vietnam and Thailand. I'm from the Philippines btw and I'm only using a Sony radio made given to me by my mother. She said it was bought in 90s so I'm pretty impressed. There are 4 modes to choose in that radio(FM, AM SW and SW2) SW2 is where I hear radio from the said countries.
Would it be possible for the rest of Chris Kadlec's Bandscans and Tropo catches to be make into videos like this? I would love to see them :D
Hi Sean. If only! I do have audio compilations of my Chinese tropo catches (40 min.), a Seoul area FM bandscan (35 min.), and a few Japanese bandscans. I still have tropo from 2013 I haven't even edited and organized yet, so needless to say, I personally don't have the time for it. There are a lot of copyright issues that makes it a hassle to upload such a thing only to have TH-cam delete or restrict it in the end (hence outsourcing the work to someone who makes a hobby of such videos and knows these rules). You can go to the Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide, linked to in the description - where you can listen to all 3 hours with narration and a 115-page guide - and see my audio bandscan links at the bottom of the page and a few webpages to complement them. It's not visual, but radio naturally isn't a visual medium of communication to start with. There will be two other videos like this one coming this month, though not quite as detailed as this.
I listened 2/3 way to your korean am scan recording on soundcloud. It is very interesting to listen to. I would love to listen to your Chinese tropo catches!
Just go to the page (mentioned above) and the Chinese tropo catches are there, two clips totalling 40 minutes linked from the lower right of the page, and elsewhere. (And thanks, though the last 1/3 is propaganda and jammers, so you may wanna tune into that later sometime too).
Just listened to part one of the Chinese FM scan. Since I do speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. Would you like some help translating the clips before it goes up?
It's really hard to find reliable people to help with Chinese!! Chinese radio hobbyists are not very helpful or friendly usually, even when I post in Chinese (I have a lot of experience with Chinese DXers!). I think you could certainly help with the last video, which are the Chinese stations. But I'm not the one making the video, so I will see what happens with it next week and what the plan is. But I do have old E-skip clips I will be working on soon and THOSE clips I could use help with so I can finish them!!! I know Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc., but Guangdong... harder to understand and different. Some are easy IDs, some not. Just send me an e-mail at Chris.Kadlec@gmx.de :o) I'd be incredibly thankful for any help with anything!
"The Samsung Galaxy X7 notifies you that it is 11:00." does the samsung galaxy x7 just walk over to me and tap my shoulder and scream "HEY IT'S 11:00"
Ahaha, yeah, the translation is correct (I'm the one who provided them in the end, but checked by a native speaker regardless). But yes, it's more of a way of adding the sponsor into content discreetly, though in an awkward way. In the US, stations have been doing this same thing in the past 5 years. One day tons of stations started doing it at once and all copying one another, where they would say "broadcasting from (sponsor name) studios, this is (station name)" or "from the (sponsor name) Weather Center, this is...". Like a stadium, they name their studio or programming blocks after the sponsor. Same thing as the Korean way, kinda stupid, but money makes people do and say stupid things.
@@cckadlec yeah lol
1:21 my favorite channel in korea
I wonder what is on the extended AM like 1600-1710 khz there?
Honestly, quiet. I never tuned above what my radio had for AM, which stopped around uh, 1600-something. I never bothered much beyond 1620 or so I think. With some good equipment, I'm sure you could pick something up on the east coast of Korea anyway.
Japan used 1620 and 1629 AM for highway Traffic info
For HLKA South Korea it seems to be jammed can the North Korean Army Haeju transmitter Jam South Korean radio around Incheon Airport like 89.1 Cool FM.
I have received the 657khz last night(2017-12-28 19:20 BJT).My location is Meizhou,Guangdong,China.But I only heard a little signal of it last night because of another stations with strong signals were on the 657khz too.
刘敬深, do you still use the same old gmail? I was recently trying to contact you!
cckadlec Yes,actually I have long time not to check my email,sorry.
I thought so. But with the Great Firewall in China... I know you probably need a VPN for TH-cam and Google Mail, so I was not sure if you checked it often. I saw you here and said "oh!!!!"
cckadlec I am using a tool "Go Hosts",it can get the Google and other popular website through the proxy IP,so the Great Firewall isn't the problem.
Yay!! Hopefully you can help with some of my old DX if you find time :) !! Good 1000 km. across the sea on FM. I procrastinated this a very long time. 4 years! I sent to your lpx**** mail.
Isn't it illegal to listen to NK broadcasts in SK?
1:17 its my fav radio jingle intro id kbs
17:35 I like the FEBC station jingle.
_Geukdong Bangsoooong!_
Of course GDBS is FEBC in Korean
11:30 Music ?
6:45 weird jammer sound
12:45 애국가 1절 제창
Some jammers sound scary lol
11:10 the music is nearly identical to the game over music from super mario world.
03:33 KBS 1 RADIO top of the hour
03:44 Clock
The fact that there are many advertisements shows that the size of South Korea's economy overwhelms North Korea.
Then haha. Fucking NK! Our country jamming your radio broadcasting14:17
Very true. But both sides have great resources and the content shows what kind of resources are had on each side. While South Korean stations are full of advertisements, that shows how much money, commerce, etc. is done. And there's a LOT. Anyone who has lived there could attest to the number of advertisements everywhere, even for local restaurants. But the north has a lot of propaganda, military, etc. and that is reflected by the content they air as well and the money put into jamming broadcasts.
@@cckadlec Oh, thank you for your reply. I have actually listened to that broadcast in North Korea because I served in the front line of South Korea. It was a very strange feeling. And listening to the propaganda broadcast, I was thankful that I was born in a free country.
According to Wikipedia, KBS2 HLSA-AM left the air for good at the end of January. Is that true?
Radio stations on Wikipedia *rolls eyes*. This is completely and utterly false. 603 is on the air with no plans to go off. It is currently being received at 90dBu down the road from the tower (as I type this). Part of this station's plan is that it is directed also at a North Korean audience (in addition to obviously being domestic). The 500kw stations in the Seoul area can be heard clearly an hour away in North Korea. These stations would not go off the air unless something was seriously wrong. 756 Yeoju (KBS 1R) *did* go off the air in January 2016 though. That was a 100kw relay of the main station in Seoul, so it was pointless to waste the energy on an area with double coverage. I'm the one who reported on that as it was my local, but HLSA-AM is on.
Thank you. Maybe someone wasn't able to receive the station with a five-dollar radio somewhere far away from the transmitter... Those people should *not* edit pages on Wiki.
KBS stations are really full of power, and half a megawatt!!! But why?
@@juliegaetos6959 Probably to broadcast to North Korean audiences. North Korea has very powerful jammers and the average citizen there probably has an old fully analog Soviet made radio without all the fancy stuff we take for granted with those Sangeans, Grundigs, etc.
The best - Thanks!
6:32 Русская народная песня какая-то была
Amazing 😮
Battle of 2 different Ideologies 🇰🇵🇰🇷
🇮🇳
Why do you need to say “love from India?” Btw isn’t your country killing off the farmers? How’s that love?
@@coolstory Changed the Comment
1:08 I thought this was Pokémon music
KBS HAPPY FM(KBS RADIO 2) Time signal
Nope, not identical.
Nice!!
12:47 Что не так с гимном?
вроде всё в порядке
If only anyone knows song on 1:44, please :-)
I don't know... this is fucking north Korea radio song.
The song at 1:44 is called "하나의 대가정". Keep in mind that these songs are basically by the regime, as all music is in North Korea. So there is no "artist" per se, but different recordings will have different sounds as different popular bands, like the girl bands in the north, will sing these already-existing socialist songs that people grow up with there. You can hear one version of this one here: th-cam.com/video/4fCapYO3Ehw/w-d-xo.html . This particular one is performed by the famous group, Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble and it's the song you're looking for. Hope that helps.
@@cckadlec Wow, I don't even know how to be thankful enough for your answer! Disregarding politics, this melody just became an earworm for me :-)
오 신기하네 ㅎㅎ
You can actually hear a Jammer in the background of some
I'm on a Korean radio
I'm on a Korean, woah-oh, radio
5:18 that reminds me of Cuba lol
11:26 this North Korean jammer wants some rest
4:50 wow that song that said 1577 felt like I was calling a person WOW that's so hysterical get it hysterical!(Laughs)
The service name is "1577 Chauffeur", famous for its slogan, "same number/s on the front and back (of your car seat)". It mainly serves intoxicated people who want to have a ride with a chauffeur instead of drunk driving (which still stays a taboo in South Korea).
Shin Dong Yeop is a famous South Korean comedian and TV host, who at the time was the endorser of the service.
A few days ago, Korea Drive, the company behind this service, was acquired by Kakao Mobility (a subsidiary of the company behind Kakao Talk).
....
16:22 And also Russian.
08:25
6:15 yankee imperialist 💀