Friday, August 21, 2015

VOA Radiogram for August 22-23

 From Kim Andrew Elliott:

Hello friends,
I just discovered this very good YouTube video explaining the VOA Radiogram concept ...

http://voaradiogram.net/post/126838190562/video-from-finland-explains-the-voa-radiogram

This is in addition to the YouTube videos of VOA Radiogram produced each week by Tim, K0RUS ...
https://www.youtube.com/user/K0RUSHam

Shortwave propagation was difficult during the weekend of 15-16 August, but it was a good workout for the text modes.

This weekend will be another all-MFSK32 show (except for the closing Olivia), emphasizing media news.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 125, 22-23 August 2015, all in MFSK32 except where noted:

 1:32  Program preview
 2:49  Islamic State bans television*
11:16  Iraqi Internet 'Strange' Outages*
15:47  Chinese rights website blocked*
21:05  Sunflower festival in Japan*
21:41  Closing announcements*
27:40  Olivia 64-2000: Transmission schedule

* with image


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.

The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64 -- with a very vertical image -- Sunday at 0230 UTC (Saturday 10:30 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. It's part of the KBC broadcast to North America Sundays 0000-0300 UTC. Reports for this KBC transmission to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com.

Because of a major paper deadline last weekend, followed by a busy week of audience research, I fell even further behind answering your emails.  I will get back to the emails today. If you would like to see the gallery of MFSK32 images from program 119, 11-12 July 2015, it can be downloaded from here ...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xj98h9uf4ilt9xf/VOAR119_gallery.pdf?dl=0 

I hope you can tune in and write in this weekend.
Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott
Producer and Presenter
VOA Radiogram
voaradiogram.net