Radio ham tunes into North Korean broadcast….

The Daily Mail reported how radio amateur Jordan Heyburn MI6JVCreceived DPKR’s Voice of Korea broadcast, sent a report and in return got a QSL card and some publications

The Daily Mail says:

After picking up the state-run broadcast, he decided to send a reception report to the station – a common courtesy among radio buffs meant to show a transmission was received.

But he got the shock of his life when he received a reply sent out of the blue to his home, which included newspapers and magazines, a book, a personal note on the weather and even an English-language program schedule for the broadcast.

Read the Daily Mail story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6109777/British-man-tunes-North-Korean-broadcast-gets-propaganda-package-post.html

Schedule and frequencies for DPKR Voice of Korea
http://www.shortwaveschedule.com/index.php?station=58

Summer is traditionally a slack period for news, so an ideal time to tell your Local or National Newspaper about amateur radio and get publicity for the hobby
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2017/june/summer-is-a-great-time-to-get-publicity-for-ham-radio.htm

 Thanks to Mike Barraclough of British DX Club for spotting this item
https://groups.io/g/bdxc-news