From Kim Andrew Elliott:
Hello friends,
The most interesting
event from last weekend’s program was the inaudibility, in much of
North America, of the Sunday 0230-0300 UTC transmission on 5745 kHz. The
signal was somewhat better in Europe. I tried
several remote receivers and finally found a good signal on a receiver
in Venezuela.
The experiment with
the thirty-second tuning signal seems to have succeeded, so we will do
it again this weekend. After the voice introduction, the MFSK32 RSID
will be transmitted once. If Fldigi is not tuned
to an audio frequency near 1500 Hz, use the tuning signal to center the
tuner to the correct frequency.
The bonus mode of
the week will be CW. There is no RSID for CW, so, if you use Fldigi to
help “copy” the CW, change the mode manually. It will probably also help
to set the CW transmit speed to 15 WPM so that
Fldigi receives at or near the 15 WPM used for the bonus CW
transmission. …
Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 96, 31 January/1 February 2015, all in MFSK32 except for the bonus CW:
2:11 Program preview (now)
3:16 Greece reconsiders sale of port to Chinese company*
7:09 US firms concerned about Chinese cyber regulation*
13:11 Fake products on Chinese online sales sites*
19:15 Freedom in the World 2015 report*
27:04 Closing announcements
28:27 CW: Bonus mode of the week
*with image
Please send reception reports to
radiogram@voanews.com.
VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5910 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5910 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.
The Mighty KBC
will transmit a minute of MFSK64 (image of a great looking radio dial
in the dark) Saturday at about 1230 UTC on 6095 kHz, and Sunday at about
0130
UTC (Saturday 8:30 pm EST) on 7375 kHz. Both frequencies are via
Germany. Send reports to Eric at
themightykbc@gmail.com .
Thanks for your
reports from last weekend. The MFSK image gallery will include a dearth
of pictures from the UTC Sunday 0230 transmission because of the
aforementioned poor propagation. Last weekend I had
problems opening images attached to everyone’s emails, so I apologize
to anyone whose MFSK image decode was left out of the program 94
gallery.
Kim
Kim Andrew Elliott
Producer and Presenter
VOA Radiogram
voaradiogram.net
