Friday, July 24, 2015

VOA Radiogram for 25-26 July and 1-2 August

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, Because of a busy week of audience research work, plus a week-long summer break starting today,...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

2015 Night of Nights is TONIGHT! ALL Frequencies Here!

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Youngest: On all other nights, we use voice or digital modes. Why, on this night alone, do we use good old Morse telegraphy? Father: B...
Friday, July 10, 2015

VOA Radiogram for July 11-12

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, This weekend’s VOA Radiogram will be all-MFSK32 except for the bonus mode. We will try a...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Bang-Up VOA Radiogram for July 4-5

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, If you participated in last weekend's amateur radio Field Day exercise, I hope you had a go...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Field Day VOA Radiogram for June 27-28

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, I'm almost hoping for poor reception this weekend, because we will transmit another news...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Medium-Wave Experimenters to Transmit Field Day Greetings

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From ARRL : Once again this year, a group of medium-wave experimental licensees will transmit greetings on 630 meters during the ARRL ...

Summer Solstice VOA Radiogram for June 20-21

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, Based on your reports, reception was generally good last weekend. That’s somewhat unfortuna...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Russia Grounds Entire Tu-95 "Bear" Fleet

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Russia has grounded its entire fleet of Tu-95 Bear-H bombers following an accident involving engine fire and running off a runway on takeoff...

Noctilucent Clouds Visible in CONUS

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From spaceweather.com : NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS REACH THE USA: The northern season for noctilucent clouds began on May 19th when NASA's AIM...

Space and Turkey for VOA Radiogram, June 13-14

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, In last weekend’s experiment comparing Scottie DX SSTV and MFSK32 images, the MFSK32 images...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Very Interesting VOA Radiogram for 30-31 May

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, It has been several months since we last transmitted slow scan television (SSTV) on VOA Rad...
Friday, May 15, 2015

VOA Radiogram for 16-17 May Includes MT63-2000L

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, After the MT63-2000L bonus mode of program 108, Walt in the UK suggested that we transmit an...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

U.S. Navy-Marine Corps MARS to Phase Out

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The US Navy-Marine Corps branch of the Military Auxiliary Radio System is closing down. This quasi-amateur radio service supported the Navy...

UVB-76/ MDZhB/ S28 Is Back Full Strength

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The question is, "Did it ever really go away?"  Can't answer that.  Band conditions can be pretty wretched this close to the N...

UVB-76/ MDZhB/ S28 Back with Very Low Audio

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On the usual 4625 kHz, the WebSDR does pick up a very weak and raspy audio tone at 250 Hz with a possible harmonic at 500 Hz.  This tone is ...

UVB-76/ MDZhB/ S28 Silent After 2 Voice Messages

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At some point this morning (US Pacific time), perhaps around 1500 UTC, the notorious buzzer station on 4625.0 kHz broadcast two voice messag...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

ShipCom Emergency Net Corrects All Frequencies

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The new U.S. nationwide emergency ALE net has recently corrected all frequencies to conform with international practice. Everything has been...

No News on HFDL System Table

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As of yesterday, ground stations heard by this author were all using System Table 49. However, some are reporting 48 still in use at Guam an...

New VOA Radiogram Frequency for May 2-3

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From Kim Andrew Elliott: Hello friends, This weekend the VOA Radiogram broadcast Saturday at 1600-1630 UTC moves to the new frequency of...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Santa Cruz Using Database #48

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At 2100 UTC on 23 April, the Santa Cruz HFDL ground station in Bolivia is still using system table #48. Meanwhile, Riverside is working some...