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Re: DPRK Textbooks

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

themodelplumber wrote: post #12
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #3

If you want to hear English short wave radio broadcasts from North Korea, it is quite entertaining. Here's what to do: 1. Choose the time you want to listen and note the "target area" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Korea#English 2. Choose a WebSDR in the "target area" from this list: http://kiwisdr.com/public/ 3. Tune the WebSDR to the correct frequency and listen. You might try a 2 or 3 different WebSDRs…

If you live somewhere like the US west coast you can even use an $8 digital shortwave radio (V-111 is a good reference model of this type) and it's very easy to pick them up in the morning, just go for a walk and hit scan. Same with Cuban numbers stations. When you're tired of inscrutable audio you can switch over to RNZ or BBC Pacifica and there's often good programming.

> just go for a walk and hit scan

Direct tune to 9435 or 11710 at either 6:00 AM or 8:00 AM Pacific time.

You’re not going to find it on "scan" without scanning through literally thousands of other stations first and without setting the scan sensitivity very high. You're going to become very frustrated long before you find it that way.

Re: DPRK Textbooks

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Post by themodelplumber »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #21
themodelplumber wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you live somewhere like the US west coast you can even use an $8 digital shortwave radio (V-111 is a good reference model of this type) and it's very easy to pick them up in the morning, just go for a walk and hit scan. Same with Cuban numbers stations. When you're tired of inscrutable audio you can switch over to RNZ or BBC Pacifica and there's often good programming.

> just go for a walk and hit scan Direct tune to 9435 or 11710 at either 6:00 AM or 8:00 AM Pacific time. You’re not going to find it on "scan" without scanning through literally thousands of other stations first and without setting the scan sensitivity very high. You're going to become very frustrated long before you find it that way.

Nah, it's not that hard. The V-111 will pick up about 8-15 stations off the whip on a SW band scan these days on the US west coast in the morning. In very good conditions you may perhaps have to wade through 30-50 stations, and DPRK will be among the most clear.

Re: DPRK Textbooks

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Post by jareklupinski »

RicoElectrico wrote: post #17
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #3

If you want to hear English short wave radio broadcasts from North Korea, it is quite entertaining. Here's what to do: 1. Choose the time you want to listen and note the "target area" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_Korea#English 2. Choose a WebSDR in the "target area" from this list: http://kiwisdr.com/public/ 3. Tune the WebSDR to the correct frequency and listen. You might try a 2 or 3 different WebSDRs…

As a silly amusement, people mashed up DPRK propaganda broadcast in Russian with hiphop beats :D https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/16379237/1-wlaczasz-radio-glos-kor... Edit: a reference in English: https://www.rferl.org/a/27485988.html

another reference, with video: https://aszdziennik.pl/116425,rap-prosto-z-pjongjangu-to-naj...

Re: DPRK Textbooks

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Post by smhost »

contingencies wrote: post #5
perihelions wrote: post #2

I think some of these aren't North Korean-authored, but international textbooks in unofficial translation. For example, Google matches code samples from "CTBooks1/ANSI_C++.pdf" to this textbook from 1999 (and the front-cover graphic is identical), https://books.google.com/books/about/Object_oriented_Softwar... I think the version they're translating is a UK print edition, because the currency unit in the code is "£".…

I would assume they copy Chinese textbooks as it's the only border. I wonder if, when discussing ANSI C++, they admit what ANSI means.

They share a border with Russia as well.

Re: DPRK Textbooks

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Post by CodeGlitch »

contingencies wrote: post #5
perihelions wrote: post #2

I think some of these aren't North Korean-authored, but international textbooks in unofficial translation. For example, Google matches code samples from "CTBooks1/ANSI_C++.pdf" to this textbook from 1999 (and the front-cover graphic is identical), https://books.google.com/books/about/Object_oriented_Softwar... I think the version they're translating is a UK print edition, because the currency unit in the code is "£".…

I would assume they copy Chinese textbooks as it's the only border. I wonder if, when discussing ANSI C++, they admit what ANSI means.

> I would assume they copy Chinese textbooks as it's the only border.

Could be from Hong Kong when they used sterling?

Re: DPRK Textbooks

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Post by vladoski »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #14
themodelplumber wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you live somewhere like the US west coast you can even use an $8 digital shortwave radio (V-111 is a good reference model of this type) and it's very easy to pick them up in the morning, just go for a walk and hit scan. Same with Cuban numbers stations. When you're tired of inscrutable audio you can switch over to RNZ or BBC Pacifica and there's often good programming.

Do you have frequencies for the Cuban number stations?

I don't but sometimes I enjoy listening to Radio Reloj. It's so unique.
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