Greetings of the day Andre. I was lucky enough to catch their transmission in English here in my location in Foothills of Himalayas, IN. The broadcast's SINPO weighed 3 Overall. As you rightly quoted, their English Transmissions are done every Wednesdays. And thereafter I forwarded them a Station Reception Report for the same. It was a great feeling tbh. All because, the transmission was not targeted to general demography but rather the Japanese abductees in N. Korea. I hope Shiokaze Officials achieve their objectives through their efforts. Thank you for sharing this catch. 73! 🙏
@@swlistening Dear Andre, no, I haven't received any QSL from Shiokaze Officials for now. Waiting for the same. Yes, you quoted it right, they usually send their QSL Cars alongwith a letter in which they explain their motives for the transmission and etc. 73! 🙏
Thanks Andre seeing 5975 KHZ brings back good memories of the North American evening broadcasts of the BBC back in the eighties and nineties. This is another broadcast that I will probably never hear because 49M band is usually non-existent in the Arizona sunshine ☀️! I feel for the plight of abducted people, maybe if the Japanese police can capture the perpetrators of this act they can trade them for their people. 73! Have a great day!
Nice memories of the BBC on this frequency :-) I guess Shiokaze will indeed be a very hard catch in North America at this time, unfortunately. The 49 metre band is also non-existent here at my location in the daytime, luckily this one is transmitted early evening my time, so it is a good time for listening. Must be around midnight in North Korea, quite a strange time for the transmission, but I guess it is possible to listen secretly at that time, when everyone else is sleeping.
For over 13,400 kilometres of the this is a good catch especially as it is not beamed at you but at another country - in a similar direction but many thousand kilometres nearer to Japan"s transmitter source
An amazing and awesome thing to be able to listen to! Here in North America it would be an impossible task to listen to this one. Thanks for sharing this video with us. 73!
Fun fact: the music in Shiokaze news intro also serves as intro for news on TV Trwam, Polish religious channel that's actually as much involved in politics as in Catholicism 🙃
Nice catch André, with a very decent signal quality. I've caught this one on occasion, but never in English. I have a feeling of déjà vu... haven't you already posted a video about this station?
Hi Alain, thanks! Your feeling of déjà vu is very real :-) I have another two videos on my channel about this station. One was posted in April this year, also in English, but it was impossible to make out anything of what they were saying. This time it is easier to make out what they are saying and to actually get an idea of what the programme is about. I also posted another video in Korean (or Japanese, not sure) in March last year.
As much this radio station is interesting, I wonder who were the individuals North Korea's agents abducted in the last Millennium. Were they Japanese natives or North Korean born people who had sought political asylum in Japan and obtained citizenship status? AFAIK persons of interest don't get randomly abducted but were specifically targeted for political reasons. Some years ago DPRK's agents infiltrated Malaysia and succeeded in assassinating Kim Jong Nam using third parties who unwittingly took part in the plot. 🤔
From what I've read about this, they were (are) Japanese natives. The station itself says there are several hundred of them. But, I suppose, it will be hard to really know what is going on here.
@@swlistening I did a little research on the subject. I couldn't believe the DPRK's gall in kidnapping Japanese citizens who lived along the coastal areas for these main purposes: - To take over their identities (with forged documents) so that their spies could do espionage work in Japan, posing as the kidnapped individuals. - To force the educated hostages to teach them the Japanese language and culture so in order to pass off as a bona fide Japanese citizen. At least 13 individuals had been identified as hostages while hundreds more were of unknown identities. In Japan one can live alone with no living relatives or next-of-kin and if they disappeared nobody would ever know. North Korea admitted that some of the abductees had long died while in captivity. What's odd is the Japanese government's apathy towards these kidnappings over the decades! If they had been U.S. citizens who were abducted, the Americans would have long infiltrated North Korea to free the hostages. 😑
Search it on the web, there's a lot of information out there. Some of the abductees were returned to Japan, including one who was married to an American who defected to North Korea.
@@StratmanII Thanks for this! It is quite similar to what I found out about these people, and some sources also say they were meant to become wives of Korean spies, so that they could infiltrate Japan... The question about the number of abductees seems to me the most uncertain, some sources talk of hundreds, others say there were fewer. I suppose the Japanese government is a bit scared of North Korea, trying to negotiate calmly instead of becoming threatening. You never know how the North Koreans would react to direct threats.
@@swlistening I'd wager on the fact that Japan didn't want to get into physical conflicts with its neighbours since WW2. In the 1970s Japan was on a roll having painstakingly rebuilt her economic and industrial might. They were certainly not going to risk what they've achieved since 1946. A war with North Korea would certainly undo their economic, political and technological accomplishments. 🇯🇵🗾 And let's not forget that part of the world was in turmoil, following the Americans' withdrawal from South Vietnam in 1975 and the (unified) Vietnamese Army's invasion of Cambodia in 1979, ousting the communist led Khmer Rouge regime and also ending the Cambodian g-e-n-o-c-i-d-e. I feel sorry for the abductees for being taken like they were unimportant statistics. In fact, I don't ever recall reading about these kidnappings on Newsweek or Time magazine back then. I mean, this didn't exactly make it to the front page of major newspapers. 🤔
Greetings of the day Andre. I was lucky enough to catch their transmission in English here in my location in Foothills of Himalayas, IN. The broadcast's SINPO weighed 3 Overall. As you rightly quoted, their English Transmissions are done every Wednesdays. And thereafter I forwarded them a Station Reception Report for the same. It was a great feeling tbh. All because, the transmission was not targeted to general demography but rather the Japanese abductees in N. Korea. I hope Shiokaze Officials achieve their objectives through their efforts. Thank you for sharing this catch. 73! 🙏
Hi there Harshit, thank you so much for your comment! Did you receive a QSL from them? I think this is a nice QSL to get!
@@swlistening Dear Andre, no, I haven't received any QSL from Shiokaze Officials for now. Waiting for the same. Yes, you quoted it right, they usually send their QSL Cars alongwith a letter in which they explain their motives for the transmission and etc. 73! 🙏
Shiokaze on your Qodosen DX-286! Great reception indeed!
Thanks John!
Thanks Andre seeing 5975 KHZ brings back good memories of the North American evening broadcasts of the BBC back in the eighties and nineties.
This is another broadcast that I will probably never hear because 49M band is usually non-existent in the Arizona sunshine ☀️!
I feel for the plight of abducted people, maybe if the Japanese police can capture the perpetrators of this act they can trade them for their people.
73! Have a great day!
Nice memories of the BBC on this frequency :-)
I guess Shiokaze will indeed be a very hard catch in North America at this time, unfortunately. The 49 metre band is also non-existent here at my location in the daytime, luckily this one is transmitted early evening my time, so it is a good time for listening. Must be around midnight in North Korea, quite a strange time for the transmission, but I guess it is possible to listen secretly at that time, when everyone else is sleeping.
For over 13,400 kilometres of the this is a good catch especially as it is not beamed at you but at another country - in a similar direction but many thousand kilometres nearer to Japan"s transmitter source
Thanks Terry!
Awesome catch!
Thank you!
An amazing and awesome thing to be able to listen to! Here in North America it would be an impossible task to listen to this one. Thanks for sharing this video with us. 73!
Thanks for listening! I think I am quite am lucky that I am able to hear this in South Africa.
Fun fact: the music in Shiokaze news intro also serves as intro for news on TV Trwam, Polish religious channel that's actually as much involved in politics as in Catholicism 🙃
Very interesting fun fact, thanks Arnie!
Excellent Dx❤
Thanks Marcos 😆
Nice catch André, with a very decent signal quality. I've caught this one on occasion, but never in English.
I have a feeling of déjà vu... haven't you already posted a video about this station?
Hi Alain, thanks! Your feeling of déjà vu is very real :-) I have another two videos on my channel about this station. One was posted in April this year, also in English, but it was impossible to make out anything of what they were saying. This time it is easier to make out what they are saying and to actually get an idea of what the programme is about. I also posted another video in Korean (or Japanese, not sure) in March last year.
Very interesting. I could sort of see that heading in your direction, I suppose depending on where the transmitter is in Japan. Cheers.
That is true, quite a number of signals from East Asia reach me here in South Africa, because their beams are kind of in my direction.
Greetings Andre! Super nice catch… are you using the telescopic antenna?
Hi John, this was with my 10 metre wire. The wire is pretty much my standard antenna, I use it almost 100% of the time.
@@swlistening interesting! I may need to “upscale” my long wired setup,
Well this was cool, thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As much this radio station is interesting, I wonder who were the individuals North Korea's agents abducted in the last Millennium. Were they Japanese natives or North Korean born people who had sought political asylum in Japan and obtained citizenship status?
AFAIK persons of interest don't get randomly abducted but were specifically targeted for political reasons. Some years ago DPRK's agents infiltrated Malaysia and succeeded in assassinating Kim Jong Nam using third parties who unwittingly took part in the plot.
🤔
From what I've read about this, they were (are) Japanese natives. The station itself says there are several hundred of them. But, I suppose, it will be hard to really know what is going on here.
@@swlistening I did a little research on the subject. I couldn't believe the DPRK's gall in kidnapping Japanese citizens who lived along the coastal areas for these main purposes:
- To take over their identities (with forged documents) so that their spies could do espionage work in Japan, posing as the kidnapped individuals.
- To force the educated hostages to teach them the Japanese language and culture so in order to pass off as a bona fide Japanese citizen.
At least 13 individuals had been identified as hostages while hundreds more were of unknown identities. In Japan one can live alone with no living relatives or next-of-kin and if they disappeared nobody would ever know. North Korea admitted that some of the abductees had long died while in captivity. What's odd is the Japanese government's apathy towards these kidnappings over the decades! If they had been U.S. citizens who were abducted, the Americans would have long infiltrated North Korea to free the hostages. 😑
Search it on the web, there's a lot of information out there. Some of the abductees were returned to Japan, including one who was married to an American who defected to North Korea.
@@StratmanII Thanks for this! It is quite similar to what I found out about these people, and some sources also say they were meant to become wives of Korean spies, so that they could infiltrate Japan... The question about the number of abductees seems to me the most uncertain, some sources talk of hundreds, others say there were fewer. I suppose the Japanese government is a bit scared of North Korea, trying to negotiate calmly instead of becoming threatening. You never know how the North Koreans would react to direct threats.
@@swlistening I'd wager on the fact that Japan didn't want to get into physical conflicts with its neighbours since WW2.
In the 1970s Japan was on a roll having painstakingly rebuilt her economic and industrial might. They were certainly not going to risk what they've achieved since 1946. A war with North Korea would certainly undo their economic, political and technological accomplishments. 🇯🇵🗾
And let's not forget that part of the world was in turmoil, following the Americans' withdrawal from South Vietnam in 1975 and the (unified) Vietnamese Army's invasion of Cambodia in 1979, ousting the communist led Khmer Rouge regime and also ending the Cambodian g-e-n-o-c-i-d-e.
I feel sorry for the abductees for being taken like they were unimportant statistics. In fact, I don't ever recall reading about these kidnappings on Newsweek or Time magazine back then. I mean, this didn't exactly make it to the front page of major newspapers. 🤔