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Hello friends,
VOA Radiogram this weekend will
include news about a new trans-Pacific undersea cable, and about the closing of
the VOA Greek Service after 72 years on the air. There will be a news item in
Greek, so have the UTF-8 character set on Fldigi.
Here is the lineup for VOA
Radiogram, program 72, 16-17 August 2014 (MFSK32):
1:32 Program
preview
2:37 Trans-Pacific undersea
cable
4:51 Van Allen radiation
belt, with image
12:36 High resolution
imaging satellite, with image
18:14 VOA Greek Service
closes
21:19 VOA Greek reports its
closure (in Greek)
24:43 VOA Greek
logo
26:27 Closing
announcements
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 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 5745 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.
VOA Mandarin tries Olivia
32-2000
The VOA Mandarin digital text
tests resume today. Instead of punching through the co-channel interference
using the narrow bandwidth of MFSK16, the tones will now be dispersed across the
shortwave broadcast channel with Olivia 32-2000 centered on 1500 Hz. Under Op
Mode, this will require an Olivia custom setting -- bandwidth: 2000 Hz; tones:
32
Daily
2257:50 UTC 6135 9845
kHz
0057:50 UTC 9880 15385 15565
17560 kHz
Each transmission is about 1
minute, 30 seconds.
Please send reception reports
for these VOA Mandarin tests to radiogram@voanews.com
.
These videos of VOA Mandarin
MFSK16 versus the co-channel interference were made by T.W. in Shimane
Prefecture, Japan. Most of the voices and music you hear are Chinese domestic
radio. VOA is in the background until the MFSK16 starts…
The Mighty
KBC will transmit a minute of MFSK64
Saturday at about 1130 UTC on 6095 kHz and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (Saturday
9:30 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz. Both frequencies are via Germany. Send reports for
these transmissions to themightykbc@gmail.com
.
Thanks for your reports for
last weekend’s VOA Radiogram and for the VOA Mandarin text transmissions over
the past few days. I will answer them soon.
Kim
Kim Andrew
Elliott
Producer and
Presenter
VOA
Radiogram