Local AM Bandscan for Seoul, South Korea (2016) 

EMEL DX What type of antenna and which receiver do you use for medium wave?

We would probably be dead by the end of the video

@Brian Hebert wait what

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 RU-vid 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!

6:45 sounds like when Mario and Luigi is trying to test broadcast in 819 kHz.

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

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.

It is the national anthem of South Korea.

@@user-qv4om4nb7o most South Korean TV stations play the anthem in full i guess

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 RU-vid 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.

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

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.

Of course GDBS is FEBC in Korean

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.

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KBS HAPPY FM(KBS RADIO 2) Time signal

Nope, not identical.

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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4fCapYO3Ehw.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 :-)

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.

Why do you need to say “love from India?” Btw isn’t your country killing off the farmers? How’s that love?

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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).