venerdì 18 marzo 2016

VOA Radiogram, 19-20 Mar 2016

VOA Radiogram this weekend will include an 8-minute stretch of Olivia 64-2000. Let’s hope for poor reception – or create poor reception conditions – to give the Olivia 64-2000 a workout.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 155, 19-20 March 2016, all in MFSK32 except where noted:
  1:32  Program preview
  3:01  NASA plans large fire on spacecraft*
  7:26  Rotten tomatoes produce renewable energy*
11:54  Olivia 64-2000: Legislation to counter propaganda
19:48  MFSK32: Over the horizon radar in amateur HF bands*
25:04  Early General Electric shortwave broadcasting*
27:05  Closing announcements
* with image

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 (5:30 am EDT) 5865 kHz (will change to 5745 kHz effective 2 April)
Sat 1600-1630 (noon EDT) 17580 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 (Saturday 10:30 pm EDT) 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 (3:30 pm EDT) 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.

The Mighty KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at about 0220 UTC (10:20 pm EDT) on 6040 kHz, via Germany. Reception reports for KBC reception to Eric: themightykbc (at) gmail.com . KBC is determining whether it will have enough sponsors to maintain its broadcast to North America, currently at 0000-0300 UTC on 6040 kHz.

DigiDX will transmit digital modes this weekend
Sunday 20th March : 1100UTC - 1130UTC 6070kHz via Channel 292, via Germany, MFSK32
Sunday 20th March : 0030UTC - 0100UTC 6070kHz via Channel 292, via Germany (this episode is a transmission using at first Olivia 64-2000 and then MFSK16 (centered at 2500Hz) aimed at North American listeners.
Sunday 20th March : 2330UTC - 0000UTC 11580kHz via WRMI, Florida, MFSK32

Decode all of the above using Fldigi from w1hkj.com or, for Android devices,  TIVAR from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fldigi/files/AndFlmsg/TIVAR/

(Kim Elliott via dxld yg)