> 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.

Do you have frequencies for the Cuban number stations?

They change. If you want to try direct tuning you'll want to check with monitoring groups or newest YouTube videos, etc. Otherwise if you are in the US...aka near a secret agent ;-)... scanning around works well enough.

I don't know if this is still the case but they used to use a freeware Windows XP encryption application. The amused author wrote a bit about it, IIRC.

Part of the fun is discovering the communities that follow this stuff.

OP here. I have not found any such community. Do you know any?

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