EOH 6255 AM 1628 UTC 20 Feb 2022

[kris]

1628 S9+20  YL Ryu Ji Hun   Korean song
1630 M W K news

[MDK2]

Aren't they considered to be a clandestine station?

[kris]

Aren't they considered to be a clandestine station?

         I thought about it, but their broadcasts are so regular, broadcast on fixed channels with high power,
  it is characteristic of the BCS. It's a Cold War clone of Radio Free Europe, hardly a "clandestine".

[Ron - Calif.]

The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) operates both Voice of the People and also Echo of Hope - VOH. Before 1973,
Echo of Hope - VOH, was the Voice of Unification.

My February 23 observations:

KOREA SOUTH. Voice of the People back to normal frequencies at 0905 UT, Feb 23; heard 3480 // 3910 // 3930 // 4450 // 6520 // 6600 kHz.;
while ex 6250 is now only airing VOH. 

Echo of Hope - VOH frequencies on Feb 23, at 0910 UT; heard 3990 // 4885 // 6000 // 6250 [no longer with VOP QRM] // 6355 // 9100 kHz.
These frequencies should be good through Feb 27 (Sunday).

5920, Voice of Freedom, on Feb 23. *0753 - Sign on; gong rung three times; Voice of Freedom ID; Republic of Korea choral National Anthem;
VOF FM frequency announcement; VOF singing station jingle; 0500 PM KST announcement; 0800, program "Hamkke tteonaneun eum-ag-
yeohaeng" (Let's go music together); N. Korea jamming is daily noted here from about 0700 to 1100 UT.

- - - - per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio :

"Sporadic or non-traditional users of the shortwave bands may include:

Clandestine stations. These are stations that broadcast on behalf of various political movements such as rebel or insurrectionist forces.
They may advocate civil war, insurrection, rebellion against the government-in-charge of the country to which they are directed. Clandestine
broadcasts may emanate from transmitters located in rebel-controlled territory or from outside the country entirely, using another country's
transmission facilities."

Ron
Asilomar State Beach, Calif. (near Monterey), USA
Etón E1; external antenna of 100 ft. long wire

[MDK2]

Aren't they considered to be a clandestine station?

         I thought about it, but their broadcasts are so regular, broadcast on fixed channels with high power,
  it is characteristic of the BCS. It's a Cold War clone of Radio Free Europe, hardly a "clandestine".

It's one of those terms I've wondered about myself. It's not like the original Radio Rebelde (prior to  1959) or Radio Freedom in the 1980s.

[MDK2]

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- - - - per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio :

"Sporadic or non-traditional users of the shortwave bands may include:

Clandestine stations. These are stations that broadcast on behalf of various political movements such as rebel or insurrectionist forces.
They may advocate civil war, insurrection, rebellion against the government-in-charge of the country to which they are directed. Clandestine
broadcasts may emanate from transmitters located in rebel-controlled territory or from outside the country entirely, using another country's
transmission facilities."

Ron
Asilomar State Beach, Calif. (near Monterey), USA
Etón E1; external antenna of 100 ft. long wire

I get that too.