Shortwave Radiogram August 5-6

Hello friends,
Our transmission Saturdays 1600-1630 UTC on 9400 kHz, via Bulgaria, is intended for Europe is but often heard to the east, as far as Japan and New Zealand. To the west, the limit seems to be Iceland, but fragments of reception in North America are beginning to occur. Richard in New Brunswick decoded a few words of text on 22 July. And Bob in Ontario, 160 km northwest of Ottawa, was surprised to decode this image on 15 July, during unattended reception…

Last weekend, there were several instances of successful Olivia 64-2000 decoding in difficult reception conditions, when the MFSK32 was less than 100%. This weekend, our mode for difficult reception will be MFSK16, with most of show in MFSK32. There will be five MFSK32 images, including two that are gray scale, also known as grey scale, i.e. black and white.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 7, 5-6 August 2017,  all in MFSK32 except where noted:
 
 1:35  Program preview
 2:48  Old fish species returns to Illinois*
 8:04  Apple accused of bowing to Chinese censors*
13:52  Russia's "ghostly" radio station*
18:02  Millennials discovering TV antennas*
21:51  MFSK16: Tiny "Sprite" satellites
24:47  MFSK32: Image* and closing announcements

* with image

Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

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 Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule

Saturday 1600-1630 UTC 9400 kHz Space Line, Bulgaria
Sunday 0600-0630 UTC 7730 kHz WRMI Florida
Sunday 2030-2100 UTC 11580 kHz WRMI Florida
Sunday 2330-2400 UTC 11580 kHz WRMI Florida

The Mighty KBC transmits to Europe Saturdays at 1500-1600 UTC on 9400 kHz (via Bulgaria), with the minute of MFSK at about 1530 UTC (if you are outside of Europe, listen via websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ ).  And to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. The minute of MFSK is at about 0130 UTC.  Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/. 

Italian Broadcasting Corporation (IBC)  For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit  http://ibcradio.webs.com/  Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama,” per the schedule below:
WEDNESDAY  18.55 UTC  6070 KHZ TO EUROPE
                        19.55 UTC  1584 KHZ TO EUROPE
THURSDAY     02.55 UTC  1584 KHZ TO EUROPE
FRIDAY           01.25 UTC  9955 KHZ TO CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA
SATURDAY     01.55 UTC 11580 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA
                        20.25 UTC  1584 KHZ TO SOUTH EUROPE
SUNDAY          00.55 UTC  7730 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA
                        10.55 UTC  6070 KHZ TO EUROPE

Thanks for your reports. It was good to hear from Zdnek in the Czech Republic, who decoded (appropriately) the Radio Prague logo during the 1600-1630 UTC transmission on 9400 kHz, 29 July 

I will begin sending replies and QSLs for SWRG program 5 this weekend. 

Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB
Producer and Presenter
Shortwave Radiogram