Hello friends
September is here. Here in the Washington DC area, September is usually just another month of summer, as far as the weather goes. That said, we are enjoying a few days' respite from the extreme heat and humidity, enough to give the AC a rest and open the windows. Condolences to our listeners in western North America, where the heat dome is settling in for a few days. I'm sure some of that heat will eventually make its way east, including to our Atlantic seaboard.
At the suggestion of Mark Hirst, our audio archivist, this weekend we will try some Korean text. Unlike our English text, where line breaks are inserted at 65 spaces, we will let Korean text flow without breaks. Fldigi or your Android app will do the wrapping. We'll see how well this works. The headline of the VOA Korean story should look like this ...
This weekend's will include eleven images. Eleven, as a prime number, is difficult for the display of images in a word processing table, which must be x times y, or y times x. Probably an arrangement with different numbers of images per row. A good challenge for an old brain.
A video of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program 269) is provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 1300 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. An analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.
Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 270, 1-6 September 2022, in MFSK modes as noted:
1:35 MFSK32: Program preview
2:42 MFSK32: Excerpt of text from VOA Korean
5:24 MFSK64: Small-scale pumped heat energy storage system
7:55 MFSK64: This week's images* **
27:30 MFSK32: Closing announcements
* with image(s)
** last image, the art of the week, is also a multipath detector
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Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule
UTC Day UTC Time Frequency Transmitter
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Friday 1500-1530 15750 kHz DRM WINB Pennsylvania
Saturday 0230-0300 9265 kHz WINB Pennsylvania
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Monday 0800-0830 5850 kHz 7780 kHz WRMI Florida
Tuesday 1430-1500 9955 kHz WRMI Florida
The Mighty KBC transmits to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 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 MFSK text and an image. Website: 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