Hello friends
This weekend, in North America, the transition to Daylight Savings Time is complete. Political sentiment in North America is in favor of year-round Daylight Time. This would end these confusing weekends. (Although I would prefer year-round standard time.)
All of the WRMI frequencies except 9955 kHz stay with UTC, so most WRMI transmissions of Shortwave Radiogram will be one hour later by local time for most North Americans. WRMI's 9955 kHz stays with Eastern Time, so the Tuesday transmission is at 1430 UTC. WINB on 9265 kHz stays with Eastern Time, so those transmissions are one hour earlier UTC, i.e. Thursday 2330 and Saturday 0230 UTC. And for the last bit of confusion, WINB's DRM frequency stays with UTC. That frequency is now 15750: I think it will stay the same but have not yet received confirmation of that. You might have to tune around to find it. The updated schedule is below.
Videos of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program 247) are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 1300 UTC), PDXh0b0 Shack in Washington state (Sunday 0800 UTC on 5850 kHz), and Mike R. somewhere in the USA (Sunday 2330 UTC excerpt). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. The analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.
Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 248, 17-20 March 2022, in MFSK modes as noted:
1:37 MFSK32: Program preview
2:44 MFSK32: Too many satellites in low-Earth orbit?
7:02 MFSK64: Radio Exterior de España cumple 80 años* (in Spanish)
12:04 MFSK64: This week's images*
28:08 MFSK32: Closing announcements
* with image(s)
Note: For the Thursday 2330 UTC, the preview is erroneously listed as program 249, and the program segment times are not specified ("XX:XX"). I hope this will be fixed in the WINB Saturday 0230 UTC broadcast. It will be correct in the WRMI transmissions.
Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net
And visit http://swradiogram.net
Twitter: @SWRadiogram or https://twitter.com/swradiogram (visit during the weekend to see listeners' results)
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Shortwave Radiogram Gateway Wiki https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Shortwave_Radiogram_Gateway
Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule
UTC Day UTC Time Frequency Transmitter
Saturday 0230-0300 UTC 9265 kHz WINB Pennsylvania
Saturday 1330-1400 UTC 15770 kHz WRMI Florida
Sunday 0800-0830 UTC 5850 kHz 7730 kHz WRMI Florida
Sunday 2330-2400 UTC 7780 kHz WRMI Florida
Tuesday 1430-1500 UTC 9955 kHz WRMI Florida
The Mighty KBC transmits to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 5960 kHz, via Germany. A 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/.
“This is a Music Show” Most of the show is a music show, but the host transmits some MFSK-64 text and image near the end of the broadcast. It’s transmitted on WRMI, Thursdays at 0200-0300 UTC on 5850 kHz (Wednesday evening in the Americas). Also look for a waterfall ID at the beginning of the show. thisisamusicshow@gmail.com www.twitter.com/ThisIsAMusicSho/ @ThisIsAMusicSho https://thisisamusicshow.com
Pop Shop Radio from British Columbia, Canada, includes "a whole variety of pop music, such as records from the 1960s and 1970s that were played on Top-40 radio stations not only in North America but also on offshore radio and stations like Radio Luxembourg." The programs now include some MFSK32 text and an image. Website with schedule: popshopradio.ca. Twitter: @popshopradio1 Email: radiopopshop@gmail.com.
Thanks for your reception reports!
Kim
Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB
Producer and Presenter
Shortwave Radiogram
Reporting on international broadcasting at https://twitter.com/kaedotcom
