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From Kim Andrew Elliott:
Hello friends,
The Broadcasting
Board of Governors has issued a Request for Quotations for the
development of software application to simply the process of decoding
text and images from radio broadcasts. The deadline is
26 September. Details are here …
This weekend on VOA
Radiogram, our non-Latin alphabet of the week will be Persian. Persian
is interesting because it is a “right-to-left” language. You will need
the UTF-8 character set in Fldigi (Configure
> Colors & Fonts). The Persian should also correctly display
using the AndFlmsg Android app, version 1.2, available from
http://www.w1hkj.com/vk2eta/ .
And if we are
fortunate enough to experience poor reception this weekend, there will
be about ten minutes of content in Olivia 32-2000.
Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 129, 19-20 September 2015, all in MFSK32 except where noted …
1:36 Program preview
3:06 First manned Orion flight in 2023*
9:58 Saturn moon covered by water*
14:48 Sample of Persian text**
17:19 Olivia 32-2000: VOA Science World Blog***
27:04 MFSK32: Closing announcements
28:06 MFSK32: Logo image under the music
* with image
** requires UTF-8 character set
*** If RSID does not change mode to Olivia 32-2000, in Fldigi:
Op Mode > Olivia > Custom > set Bandwidth to 2000 and Tones to
32
Please send reception reports to
radiogram@voanews.com .
VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5745 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17870 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 5745 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17870 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
MFSK32 Sunday at 0230 UTC (Saturday 10:30 pm EDT) on 7375 kHz.
Yes, the mode is changed from the usual MFSK64 to MFSK32 because of
difficult reception in North America in recent weeks. Reports to Eric:
themightykbc@gmail.com .
Thank you for your
reception reports from last weekend. I saw many successful decodes of
the Chinese text on both PCs and Android devices. I will compile come
screenshots and post them to the website. Today,
I will finish answering reports from program 122. The gallery for program 122 compares decoded images in MFSK16, 32, 64, and SSTV Scottie DX.
I hope you can tune in and write in this weekend.
Kim
Kim Andrew Elliott
Producer and Presenter
VOA Radiogram
voaradiogram.net