Mediumwave (AM Band) DXing in Seoul, South Korea (2016): Part 2

This is a series of AM recordings taken by Chris Kadlec in 2016 from several locations around Seoul, South Korea. This is the second of two AM DX videos, focusing on skywave catches from China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and Thailand. It is posted here for nonprofit educational purposes only.
Stations included: (plenty, but no call letters!)
Chris' website: www.chriskadlec.com/
Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide: www.chriskadlec.com/radio/seoul/
Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Map data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.
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Opening music is "The Urban Jungle of Beijing" (CC BY 4.0) by TeknoAXE. www.teknoaxe.com/
For more information on AM DXing, visit my website. www.egrabow.com/dx/

[@conroads2626]

I'm not a radio geek, but I love hearing or seeing content from other nations

[@FRLAZone2018]

Note; Some MW stations in China can also be reach in Philippines at night.

[@angelogemino]

16:10 Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You

[@redtv4me2010]

I've been waiting for this video to come out :D

[@jonavene12]

1:00 fun fact: South Dakota And Shandong have the same abbreviation.

[@jonavene12]

Dong. 😅

[@wkb3]

3:57 fun fact: Dalian Radio actually has two former legal callsign (JQAK 1925-1945, XGTR 1945-195x). It's a shame that Dalian rules by japs like 30 years, made their radio is the very few stations that ID starting with J.

[@otanakugaming3357]

North Korean jammers are so strong

[@dariqaa]

What you mean is that jammers meant to block North Korean stations are so strong.

[@FRLAZone2018]

7:51 you heard that music back in the previous DXing that heaed during HLCD and HLCI

[@FRLAZone2018]

btw, interference from 738 kHz is taiwan fishery and kbs daegu

[@ymshin1164]

6:50 CRI CHANGCHUN 1017KHz 200Kw 13:03 CRI HUADIAN 1323kHz 600Kw

[@FRLAZone2018]

in 8:16, thr sound from another station can be heard in a same frequency after sign off

[@SennLens]

At my home country still can hear Voice Of America very clear only by night time while Southern Vietnam can clearly hear at frequency 711khz.

[@thanh2425]

The 711khz one was vov1 in thoi long, can tho city. I can hear it clear in aftenoon on the west of ho chi minh city,

[@SennLens]

@@thanh2425 mine can hear almost 24 hours. In early morning still can listen. Even on afternoon, evening and night. Sometimes can be interference with electric cable.

[@SennLens]

If Voice Of America at frequency 1575khz only available at night.

[@thanh2425]

@@SennLens i forgot to add the word "clear" on the comment, now I added it

[@lpxx-ms4wt]

get!It's great!

[@FRLAZone2018]

btw, is that michael bolton how I am supposed to live without you

[@user-cg4fe4ls1m]

12:58 CRI 조선어 시작 SIGN - ON

[@qwb0330]

非常有意思。我也喜欢AM-DX

[@FRLAZone2018]

15:37 Sounds like from Swiss Boy by Lou Sern but played 4 notes instead follow by Voiceover from Zibo Traffic Arts Radio

[@user-nq4xm1iq7x]

I wonder why did Russia`s stop mediumwave transmitting? In the past, it was easily received in Korea.

[@cckadlec]

Yes, it was a real sad time! I started recording these stations in 2015 and just missed all the Russian signals. Though I was living in Korea since 2009, I was doing all my FM projects since then. I could have been listening to AM and had recorded all the Russian signals too. My guide (there is a link in the description) does include the frequencies and locations of the old Russian signals and the map includes them too, but I never got to hear them. Very disappointed... ㅠㅠ I think they just wanted to save money. Probably not enough people were listening. Like with North Korea, it was probably cheaper and easier to use smaller FM signals, like they did with turning off 1053 and 1080 in 해주 and replacing them with the FM signals like 89.4, 93.6, and 97.0, etc. The FM signals also are harder to jam than the AM ones. But Russia didn't have the same problem.

[@utkarshkulkarni8777]

I've heard the Repeaters of CRI many times 🇮🇳

[@FRLAZone2018]

I noticed that I even received low powered 1 kW NHK R2 1521 kHz in my hometown using Sihuadon R-108.

[@aink9106]

China National Radio AM Ids CNR-1&CNR-2 1:39 639 AM 6:21 CNR-8 CNR-16

[@user-yn1bu1iq2q]

68 ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤ ❤ ❤❤❤❤❤

[@sonlaihop3754]

Do you know the title of the song played at 6:53?

[@cckadlec]

I don't really believe it's a real song. This has been the filler music for CRI for a long time, similar to a station jingle that is made just for them.

[@jonaveneverts11]

1:00 There's a Chinese province that has the same abbreviation as my state

[@jonaveneverts11]

@Melanie , yes

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

​@Melanie , Hey, baby ❤

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Ni-hao!

[@FRLAZone2018]

7:50 Here is the full version of sign off CRI Japan 1044 kHz m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWe4e6Whp7R8hbs

[@mutestingray]

11:14 Shandong radio might be taking our broadcaster-listener relationship a little too seriously.

[@libertycabbagemusic]

Any MW broadcasts from Taiwan?

[@gatpaham]

At 8:28 you can hear a jammer

[@cckadlec]

Yup, that is the Seoul jammer of 1053 that is 10 km. from my radio. I was able to find a hole in it to pick up Yanbian, which is not easy. Because 1053 Haeju (North Korea) turned off for good in the months after this, the Seoul jammer is no longer there and it's more open to listen to.

[@coralfied3983]

16:03 chinese mainland radios be like

[@EpicThe112]

Well done, and if you put this in Jeju Island South Korea. Can you actually reach the Philippines radio Dx From that location in South Korea? In the Philippines if you did this at Batanes Island Might be able to get Jeju Island South Korea Even though you're closer to Taipei Taiwan. And Fujian Province People's Republic of China.

[@cckadlec]

I could imagine honestly, that yes, if I had listened in Jeju, I would have been able to hear much further south because of the salt water and little to nothing between Jeju and the islands to the south. But in Seoul, the salt water, which helps AM signals propagate quite far, is to the west, so it's all China China China.

[@EpicThe112]

@@cckadlec thank you for telling me and I'm wondering if it's actually possible for Dxing from South Korea to reach Manila Philippines 1620 miles to the South

[@cckadlec]

@@EpicThe112 Since I only did FM on the south coast (I have another project of hearing Japanese FM signals from Korea, which was easier for my trip plans than AM, which is reallllly hard to DX clearly), we will never know. But I'm sure along the southwest coast, away from Japan, a few stations surely can come in from the Philippines. But I cannot confirm. If you want to hear Korea from Manila, the high-powered jammers are a good place to start (some were turned off), 1566 Jeju obviously. The highest power stations like 603, 972, etc.

[@Margaret_olivia]

Some of these Chinese music sound like bangers anyone know their names

[@cckadlec]

If you want any specific songs, just let me know which ones sound cool. I probably know them or have the MP3s. Since I recorded the clips and edited them, my station guide for the project as a whole (these videos are only snippets of the project) includes every song and artist for the clips.

[@dariqaa]

6:13 you can clearly hear KBS

[@cckadlec]

Yes, I would hope so!! When I recorded this, KBS was my local station and is 1,500kw but even in Seoul, I could still hear Henan on most nights underneath it. People exclaim that 1,500kw is just crazy, but... in East Asia, it doesn't stop a 100kw station from still being heard even 50km from the powerful station!

[@raistherais]

@@cckadlec everybody gangsta until Chris Kadlec himself replies

[@toddstewart9070]

2:10 is this Chinese country music?

[@Commander_HW]

hi chinese here. that's not chinese country music, that's Traditional Chinese opera. Think of it has the chinese version of broadway show has been there 5000 thousand of years ago. Also, there is no country music genre in China, people in rural areas don't have their own style of music, but they do have their own style of stand up comedies.

[@cckadlec]

I agree with H W (who is Chinese and obviously a good person to answer this!), but only partially. Chinese opera is heard on stations in China that identify as rural stations (农村广播, 乡村广播, 戏曲广播)... usually stations geared toward rural people or older people, like "Rural Radio," or even "Opera Radio" that young people are less likely to listen to because it's from a generation they didn't grow up in. I realize there is a double meaning for the word "Country" in English though, so YES, this IS Chinese country music (meaning countryside, rural music), but obviously not country music like the American genre, which there is no comparison to in China. But at the same time, this is Chinese opera, as he says. It's more of a historical performance sort of genre and isn't *specifically* rural music. But I always heard this music on rural, farmer's, and elderly stations, but not the more modern music stations and less in the city than rural towns.

[@toddstewart9070]

Understood. Intriguing

[@oh_no_no_no]

Is it possible to reach Vladivostok, Russia?

[@clarajacobs3599]

Russia has no more AM broadcasting anymore

[@dariqaa]

That is, if you ignore FEBC Jeju (Russian lang.) and CRI (also Russian)

[@mutestingray]

What was happening on 945? Christian radio?

[@cckadlec]

945 is CNR-1, run by the Chinese government. They include programs that teach English or tell stories, etc., and in this case, they are explaining the English sentences and translating them into Chinese. One could think it is a religious station, but it just happens to include that phrase, which is heard in a lot of things in English.

[@neptuniumchloride8434]

1:19 "RMB 1 yuan for 10.0285 Russian ruble."

[@neptuniumchloride8434]

3:13 I personlly think this freq is just relaying CNR 2.

[@cckadlec]

774? Nope nope, 湖北之声. :) Like most stations, they have news and financial information. (I know, because I'm the one who recorded all this audio and listened to it every night haha). Thanks for listening to it also!

[@zxcv-lp2ss]

Whats the name of the song at 4:57?

[@sidsun7752]

星星點燈 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qne7eJuofbd_n6M

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Like I know!

[@haniffsyukri4399]

6:13 - 6:19 This station are interference with KBS 1 Radio..