BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

(RNW MN via Mike Terry, BrDXC-UK nl Mar 18)
JAPAN Nikkei Shimbun (Japan Economic News) reports on March 14:
In A07 "Shiokaze" broadcast, by "Investigation Commission on Missing
Japanese Probably Related to North Korea", will be on air from KDDI Yamata
transmitter site in Koga City, Ibaragi prefecture. The broadcast has been
on air from the sites of VT Communication. Using domestic Yamata
transmission site, with more power than that of VT Communications, the
commission expects more effects on spiritual support of those who have
been abducted to North Korea.
NHK cancelled the exclusive right of using KDDI Yamata transmitting site
for shortwave broadcasting on March 14. This enables "Shiokaze" broadcast
to be on air from Yamata site. Ministry of Internal Affairs and
Communications will soon give them the shortwave broadcasting license. The
broadcasting over Yamata transmission site will be at 2030-2100 UT.
BTW: Yamata transmitter site was constructed in 1940. Since then the site
has been exclusively used for NHK's foreign shortwave broadcasting. Yamata
site was once located in Sanwacho, Ibaragi prefecture. As Sanwacho was
consolidated by Koga City on September 2005, the site is now in Koga City.
The frequency will be announced on March 22, will be one of 6045, 6080,
6185 as previously reported.
(Takahito Akabayashi-JPN, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 14)
Japan Broadcasting Corp. will allow a private group to use a transmitting
station for a shortwave radio service called "Shiokaze," which sends
family messages to possibly surviving Japanese abductees in North Korea,
the public broadcaster known as NHK said Tuesday. As the Internal Affairs
and Communications Ministry reportedly plans to grant a radio station
license to the group, called the Investigation Commission on Missing
Japanese Probably Related to North Korea, the move would allow the entity
to broadcast the messages with a larger output than currently. It is rare
for a facility used by NHK to be lent to a private group.
The group, NHK and KDDI Corp., which owns the transmitting station in
Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, exchanged a memorandum last Friday on the lease
of part of the facility from March 26 to Oct. 28, according to NHK. NHK is
using the facility for overseas shortwave radio services. The time of the
lease is likely to be set from 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. everyday. The facility
has 19 antennas over which NHK has exclusive rights of use. NHK has
studied the feasibility of allowing use of part of the facility since
Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga expressed
willingness last year to allow Shiokaze to use some NHK facilities as a
way to support the group.
( (c) 2007 Ky_odo News Int., Inc. via Mike Cooper, dxld)
KOREA D.P.R. 3985 Echo of Hope 1322-1349 Mar 14. YL ancr playing a
variety of mx - choral, pop, and one strange ethnic piece with wailing and
odd instruments that sounded like what one might hear from the Laotian
regionals or Myanmar. OM/YL talks followed at 1343-1349+. VG signal with
no sign of jamming detected on USB, although it was definitely there on
LSB, a phenomenon always noted with this station. // 6348 on the other
hand was very effectievly jammed.
Pyongyang BC Stn - 3320 1256-1315 Mar 14. Talk in KR; txmsn ended at 1258
with patriotic mx/anthem; a new xmsn began at 1300 with M/W talks. Fair.
(John Wilkins-CO-USA, DXplorer Mar 16)
KOREA Rep of 1566 FEBC via stn HLAZ, Jeju island, 1914-1932, 07 Mar,
Korean, preacher; 34332, QRM de G; rated 43422 on 08 Mar at 1750 during
prgr in Russian, and has been logged regularly since.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 14)