Friday, December 07, 2018

Shortwave Radiogram weekend schedules



Hello friends,
This weekend, the final four minutes of Shortwave Radiogram will be devoted to an advertising campaign by Tecsun Radios Australia. Revenue from the advertising goes to WRMI to defray the considerable expense of transmitting, and helps keep shortwave alive.

The campaign includes a chance to win a Tecsun PL-880 radio. Preliminary messages will be this weekend and next weekend. The actual campaign, with text and images, begins the weekend of 21 December and continues through 25-27 January.

Last weekend's ASCII art was very successful (see examples below). We'll do it again in furture broadcasts.

Videos of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program 76) are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 2030 UTC) and Ralf in Germany (Saturday 1400 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany,

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 77, 7-9 December 2018, in MFSK modes as noted:

 1:31  MFSK32: Program preview
 3:03  Latin America electric buses*
 8:39  MFSK64: Algae harnessed for clean water, power*
13:53  This week's images*
23:45  MFSK32: Closing announcements
24:41  Message (voice and text) from Tecsun Radios Australia*

* with image(s)
Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net
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Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule
UTC Day
UTC Time
Frequency
Transmitter
Friday
2030-2100 UTC
7780 kHz
WRMI Florida
Saturday
1400-1430 UTC
9400 kHz
Space Line Bulgaria
Sunday
0800-0830 UTC
5850 kHz
7730 kHz
WRMI Florida
Sunday
2330-2400 UTC
7780 kHz
WRMI Florida

Slow Scan Radio transmits SSTV images and text modes Saturdays at 1300-1330 UTC on 6070 kHz (and maybe also 7440 kHz) via Channel 292 in Germany -- according to the latest schedule information I have. The website is http://www.slowscanradio.com. Reception reports to x@xdv.me.

The Mighty KBC transmits to Europe Saturdays at 1300-1400 UTC on 11600 kHz from Bulgaria, with the minute of MFSK at about 1330 UTC (if you are outside of Europe, listen via websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ ). And to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 7-9 pm EST) on 5960 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)  Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama. For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit  http://ibcradio.webs.com/

Thanks for your reception reports!
Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB
Producer and Presenter
Shortwave Radiogram
Reporting on international broadcasting at https://twitter.com/kaedotcom