BC-DX 789 05 Jan 2007 Private Verwendung der Meldun

considering that they earn $1.00 to $2.00 monthly salary. On the other
hand, if North Korean security agents happen to catch someone listening to
foreign transmissions on a radio, the lawbreaker will likely spend time in
a prison camp like Yodok, one of the many Gulags (concentration camps) in
North Korea.
Ha pointed out that ORNK would be able to reach more North Korean
listeners if more of them were able to afford the $5.00 radios made in
China _ something a private effort could facilitate by purchasing radios
for smugglers returning to North Korea from China. With the number of ORNK
listeners increasing, the number of defectors that report having listened
to a shortwave radio transmission also increases. In one study conducted
in 2001, about 2% of defectors that were hiding in China reported
listening to a shortwave radio.
In 2005, the Korea Press Foundation found that about 4% of defectors
reported listening to a shortwave radio before making it to South Korea.
In Early 2006, Lee Young Ho (pseudonym, age 33), a former North Korean,
told the Daily NK that, "The number of houses listening to foreign radio
around the border area reaches about five or six out of ten_I listened to
Open Radio for North Korea around December 10th last year. When I heard
that there had been a conference on North Korean human rights, I started
to have faith."
(Daily North Korea via Zacharias Liangas-GRC, WDXC Contact April)
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo in Hmong:
2300-2330 on 11650 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to Asia Daily, new for A-07.
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX Mar 29)
"LAOS". The recently appeared Suab Xaa Moo Zoo, brokered by TDP, is a
religious prgr and produced by the Christian & Missionary Alliance,
P.O.Box 35000, Colorado Springs, CO 80935-3500, USA. More info:
Suab Xaa Moo Zoo is on the air in Hmong daily 2300-2330 UT on 11650 kHz.
(Bernd Trutenau-LLTU, DXplorer Apr 5)
MIN Minhsiung (TWN) 23 33 50.90 N 120 25 35.43 E
The Min Xiong site, I believe, is MW. As I remember it, it had a megawatt
MW that they usually ran as two separate stations on separate frequencies,
directed toward the Mainland.
It also seems to me that they had an old Continental 106E Doherty
megawatter same as VOA used in Philippines and Okinawa. They've probably
upgraded since then.
Min Xiong is in accordance with the PRC romanization spelling, which
better represents Mandarin pronunciation.
I.E. "Min Hsiung"
(Charles & Leonor Taylor-NC-USA, SW TX site Apr 3)
Yes, now (powers acc. to WRTH)
23 33 50.90 N 120 25 35.43 E is 747 kHz 250 kW 4mast
23 34 13.62 N 120 25 58.60 E is 1206 kHz 100 kW
[three mast supposedly for foreign sce to VTN, THA, and INS, used for both
1206/1422 kHz channels; wb.]
23 33 54.05 N 120 25 51.42 E maybe 1422 kHz 100 kW plus something more
close there.
But it should also have 50 kW SW on 7130 kHz.
(Mauno Ritola-FIN, SW TX site Apr 3)
Lukang 603 kHz: 24 03 09 N 120 25 34E