BREAKING NEWS - Attack in Munich

The following Deutsche Welle current summer schedule. Follow ongoing events in Munich, Germany.

All times UTC

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/multiple-casualties-in-shooting-rampage-in-munich-shopping-mall-police/ar-BBuFw6E?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp


Deutsche Welle
Amharic
1600-1700  daily  15275 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) 17800 (via Dhabbaya, UAE)

Dari
1330-1400  daily  15215 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) 15430 (via Dhabbaya, UAE) 17720 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka)

English
0400-0500  daily  9800 (via Meyerton, South Africa) 11820 (via Talata-Volonondry, Madagacar) 15250 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka)
0500-0600  daily  9800 (via Meyerton, SOuth Africa) 11820 (via Talata-Volonondry, Madagacar) 15255 (via Issoudun, France) 17800 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka)
0700-0800  daily  15530 (via Issoudun, France) 17800 (via Issoudun, France) 21780 (via Dhabbaya, UAE)

French
1700-1800  daily  15275 (via Issoudun, France) 15235 (via Issoudun, France) 17740 (via Issoudun, France) 17800 (via Ascension Is.)

Hausa
0630-0700  daily  9830 (via São Tomé and Príncipe) 15530 (via Nauen, Germany) 17800 (via Issoudun, France) 21780 (via Dhabbaya, UAE)
1300-1357  daily  9830 (via São Tomé and Príncipe) 17800 (via Ascension Is.) 21780 (via Dhabbaya, UAE)
1800-1900  daily  9830  (via São Tomé and Príncipe) 15275 (via Issoudun, France) 17800 (via Issoudun, France)

Pashto
1400-1430  daily  15215 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) 15430 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) 17720 (via Dhabbaya, UAE)

Swahili
0300-0400  daily  6045 (via Meyerton, S. Africa) 9800 (Nauen, Germany) 15250 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka)
1000-1100  daily  17710 (via Meyerton, S. Africa
1100-1200  daily  15275 (via Talata-Volonondry, Madagacar)
1500-1600  daily  15275 (via Trincomalee, Sri Lanka) 17710 (via Dhabbaya, UAE)
(AOKI)

Special Event Station for 160th Anniversary of Nikola Tesla birth

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.

Amateur radio operators and shortwave listener's, still have time to verify the Special Event station. The station is currently active and will broadcast to August 21, 2016. Operation from 0000-2359 UTC on August 21. TM160NT, Montigny le Bretonneux, FRANCE. Union des RadioClubs, radioamateurs et écouteurs . 28.460 21.360 14.260 7.160 kHz. Certificate and QSL. U.R.C Union des Radio-Clubs F8URC, 3 Rue Saint Lugle , LILLERS 62190, FRANCE. Contact n5td@arrl.net on related subjects. QSL Via F8URC. www.urc.asso.fr
(ARRL)

Radio Taiwan International scheduled for special broadcast

Radio Taiwan International QSL (Gayle Van Horn Collection)

On July 22, 2016, Radio Taiwan is scheduled to broadcast a special broadcast as follows:

German service via Tanshui, Taiwan
1600-1610 UTC on 11665 TSH 300 kW/325 deg to West Europe in AM Mode
1620-1630 UTC on 11665 TSH 300 kW/325 deg to West Europe in DRM Mode
(SW Bulgaria)

From the Isle of Music ready for Monday night broadcast

The July19 (July 18 in the Americas on WBCQ) edition of From the Isle of Music includes more of María Felicia Pérez, Director of Coro Exaudi, winner of the Choral Music category in Cubadisco 2016, and our very special guest is El Noro, winner of the Popular Dance Music - New Artists category in Cubadisco 2016. We'll be playing some of the album Sin Escala by his group El Noro y Primera Clase and conversing with him about the album and the group. We will also have some Reyes 73 from the 1970s.

Two options on shortwave:
WBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0000 UTC (8pm EDT Mondays)
Channel 292, 6070 KHz, Tuesdays 1900 UTC (2100 CEST)
See the NOTES section of our Facebook page for more information
https://www.facebook.com/fromtheisleofmusic/?fref=ts
(Bill Tillford)

Brazilian monitoring from Spain

Blog Logs

Logs in Reinante, Spain 
All times UTC. All programming observed in Portuguese // parallel frequency
Logs edited for clarity

Brazil
4885, Radio Clube do Pará, Belém, 2301-2310. Announcer's comments to Brazilian songs. SINPO 4322. (Méndez)

5939.8, Voz Missionaria, Camboriú, 0457-0513, Religious songs and comments. SINPO 23322. (Méndez)

5965, Radio Transmundial, Santa María, 0525-0545. Religious comments. Very weak. signal, SINPO 14321. (Méndez)

6010, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 0445-0457. Brazilian songs, Very weak signal,. SINPO 14321. (Méndez)

6135.1, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 2040-2046. Religious comments. // 11855. SINPO 14321. (Méndez)

6180, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 2020-2031. Brazilian songs. // 11780. SINPO 24322. (Méndez)

9514.9, Radio Marumby, Curitiba, 2022-2037. Portuguese, comments to religious songs. SINPO 14321. (Méndez)

9565, Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, 2032-2038. Religious comments. // 11764.5. SINPO 14321. (Méndez)

9664.8, Voz Missionaria, Camboriú, 2026-2035. Religious comments. SINPO 24322. (Méndez)

9724.9, Radio RB2, Curitiba, 2030-2041. Religious comments, Portuguese. SINPO 13321. (Méndez)

9819.0, Radio 9 de Julho, Sao Paulo, 2021-2026. Religious comments. SINPO 14321. (Méndez)

11735, Radio Transmundial, Santa María, 1950-2003. Religious comments. Strong interference from Zanzibar same frequency. SINPO 213221. (Méndez)

11764.5, Super Radio Deus e Amor, Curitiba, 2024-2036. Religious program, SINPO  24322. (Méndez)

11780, Radio Nacional da Amazonia, Brasilia, 2018-2026. Brazilian songs. // 6180. SINPO 24322. (Méndez)

11815, Radio Brasil Central, Goiania, 2002-2016, 14-07, Announcer's comments. Interference from Arabia on 11820. SINPO 12321. (Méndez)

11855, Radio Aparecida, Aparecida, 2010-2027. Religious songs to comments. SINPO 23322. (Méndez)

11925.1, Radio Bandeirantes, Sao Paulo, 2013-2029. Soccer commentary and comments. SINPO  13321. (Méndez)

 11934.5, Radio RB2, Curitiba, 2028-2043. Religious comments, Portuguese. // 9724.9. SINPO 13221. (Méndez)

(Manuel Méndez, Lugo, Spain: Tecsun PL-880, Sangean ATS-909X/playdx)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2016 Jul 18 0416 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact  www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html
#
#                Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
#
Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 - 17 July 2016

Solar activity was at very low levels from 11-14 July with only a few simple sunspot regions. Region 2565 (N05, L=175, class/area ko/350 on 17 Jul) rotated onto the east limb on 11 July as a simple
Hsx spot class with a simple alpha magnetic class. By late on 14 July, another spot group began to emerge behind Region 2565 and was numbered 2567 (N05, L=165, class/area Dhi/330 on 17 Jul). Region 2567 quickly grew to over 300 millionths in area and was initially classified as a beta-gamma-delta magnetic group before some magnetic simplification occurred on 16 July. The region was downgraded to a beta-gamma magnetic class for the remainder of the period. Region 2567 became the most active region during 15-17 July producing 13 C-class flares. However, the close proximity of the two regions, as  well as an active inversion line between the two, resulted in
several flares to be attributed to Region 2565 on 17 July. The first was a long duration C1/Sf flare at 17/0803 UTC which was responsible for two CMEs observed in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery beginning at 17/1124 UTC and 17/1248 UTC. The first was a faint asymmetric halo CME while
the second was directed mostly off the east limb. Initial WSA-Enlil model output of the events showed a slow transit with effects possible on 21 July. The largest flare of the period, however, was a
C6 at 17/2335 UTC which also occurred on the inversion line and was subsequently attributed to Region 2565.

No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached high levels throughout the period with a maximum flux of 5,512 pfu observed at 17/1630 UTC.

Geomagnetic field activity ranged from quiet to G1 (Minor) storm levels. The majority of the period was under the influence of high  speed solar wind streams from a large, positive polarity, polar
connected coronal hole as well as an isolated, positive polarity coronal hole. Solar wind speeds reached highs around 550 km/s early on 11 July, 650 km/s late on 12 July, and 700 km/s early on 15 July before finally decreasing to around 440 km/s by the end of the period. Total field during the period only managed to reach a maximum of 9 nT at 12/0552 UTC. Prolonged periods of southward Bz reaching -8 nT on 12 July and -6 nT on 14 July resulted in periods of G1 (Minor) storm levels on 12 July and active periods on 14 July. The rest of the period was at quiet to unsettled levels with quiet
conditions observed on 17 July.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 18 July - 13 August 2016

Solar activity is expected to be at low levels with a chance for M-class (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) flares from 18-24 July as Regions 2565 and 2567 transit across the visible disk. Very low levels are
expected for 25 Juy-04 August. A return to low levels with a chance for M-class flaring is expected for 05-13 August with the return of Regions 2565 and 2567.

No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit.

The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to be at high levels on 18-19, 23-27 July, and again on 5-13 August due to recurrent CH HSS activity. Normal to moderate
levels are expected for the remaining forecast period.

Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled to active levels on 19-20, 22-24, 28, 30 July and on 03-08, 10-11 August with G1 (Minor) storm levels likely on 03-04 and 08 August due to
recurrent CH HSS activity. A CME associated with the 17 July long-duration C1 flare is likely to arrive early on 21 July causing unsettled to active levels.

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2016 Jul 18 0416 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html #
#      27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
#                Issued 2016-07-18
#
#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest
#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index
2016 Jul 18     105           5          2
2016 Jul 19     105           8          3
2016 Jul 20     105          12          4
2016 Jul 21     100          15          4
2016 Jul 22     100          12          4
2016 Jul 23      95          12          4
2016 Jul 24      90          10          3
2016 Jul 25      80           5          2
2016 Jul 26      75           5          2
2016 Jul 27      70           5          2
2016 Jul 28      70           8          3
2016 Jul 29      70           9          3
2016 Jul 30      70           8          3
2016 Jul 31      70           8          3
2016 Aug 01      70           5          2
2016 Aug 02      70           5          2
2016 Aug 03      70          20          5
2016 Aug 04      70          20          5
2016 Aug 05      80          15          4
2016 Aug 06      95          10          3
2016 Aug 07     105          10          3
2016 Aug 08     105          20          5
2016 Aug 09     105           8          3
2016 Aug 10     105          12          4
2016 Aug 11     105          10          3
2016 Aug 12     105           8          3
2016 Aug 13     105           5          2
(NOAA)

Voice of Indonesia monitoring observations

After a few days absence, Voice of Indonesia was monitored on July 12, 2016
 

All times UTC

1000-1100  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 135 deg to AUS  English
1100-1200  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Japanese
1300-1400  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs English
1400-1500  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Indonesian
1500-1600  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 010 deg to EaAs Chinese
1600-1700  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Arabic
1700-1800  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu Spanish
1800-1900  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu German
1900-2000  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu English
2000-2100  9525.9 JAK 250 kW / 290 deg to WeEu French
From 1900 totally blocked by China Radio International's Russian service on 9525 kHz.
(DX Bulgaria)

LATE BREAKING .... Coup in Turkey

Turkish Coup Attempt Under Way as Erdogan Vows to Stay in Power

Turkish army officers said they seized power in the country as warplanes flew over the capital and tanks blocked roads in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by video link to a local TV station, said he’s still in charge and urged the public to take to the streets and public squares in resistance.

Additional story at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-15/turkish-premier-says-elements-of-army-attempt-to-seize-power

To follow events in Turkey, enclosed is their summer broadcast schedule.

Voice of Turkey - A16 Summer Schedule
Effective: 27 March - 30 October 2016

All times UTC
Arabic
0900-1000 11750va
1400-1500 9540va 17770va
Azerbaijan
0700-0800 11730as
1530-1600 9530as
1600-1630 9530as
Bulgarian
1100-1130 7210eu
Chinese
1100-1200 15240as
Dari/Pashto
1500-1600 11765as
1600-1630 11765as
English
0300-0400 6165as 9515va
1230-1300 15450va
1300-1330 15450va
1630-1700 15520as
1700-1730 15520as
1830-1900 9785eu
1900-1930 9785eu
2030-2100 7205va
2100-2130 7205va
2200-2300 9830va
French
1730-1800 7360af
1800-1830 7360af
1930-2000 9635eu 11615va
2000-2030 9635eu 11615va
Georgian
1000-1100 9655as
German
1130-1200 13760eu
1200-1230 13760eu
1730-1800 9410eu (ex 11835)
1800-1830 9410eu (ex 11835)
Italian
1400-1430 9610eu
Kazakh
1330-1400 11880as
Persian
0830-0900 11795as
0900-1000 11975as
1500-1600 9765as
Russian
1300-1400 11965va
Spanish
0100-0200 9770va 9870eu
1630-1700 11930va
1700-1730 11930va
Tatar
1000-1030 9855as
Turkish
0000-0100 7260as
0100-0200 7260as
0400-0500 6040as 11980va
0500-0600 6040as 11980va
0600-0700 11750as 11955va 13635va
0700-0800 11750as 11955va 13635va
0800-0900 11750as 11955va 13635va
0900-1000 11955va 13635va
1000-1100 11955va 13635va
1100-1200 11955va 13635va
1300-1400 9840va
1400-1500 9840va
1500-1600 9840va
1600-1700 5960va 9460eu
1700-1800 5960va 9460eu
1800-1900 5960va 9460eu
1900-2000 5960va 9460eu
2000-2100 5960va 9460eu
Turkmen
1200-1230 11825as
Urdu
1200-1300 13710as
Uyghur
0200-0300 9465as
1230-1300 11700as
1300-1330 11700as
Uzbek
1030-1100 13650as
(BCDX-Top Nx 1240-13 Feb 2016/W Bueschel)
***************************************************
kHz UTC tx kW deg language target
7260 0000-0200 EMR 500 72 TURKISH AS
9770 0100-0200 EMR 500 290 SPANISH NoWeAF/AMs/SoEUR
9870 0100-0200 EMR 500 270 SPANISH AMs/SoEUR
9465 0200-0300 EMR 500 72 UYGHUR AS
6165 0300-0400 EMR 250 138 ENGLISH AS
9515 0300-0400 EMR 500 325 ENGLISH AMs/EUR
6040 0400-0600 EMR 500 138 TURKISH AS
11980 0400-0600 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM
11750 0600-0900 EMR 500 97 TURKISH AS
11955 0600-1200 EMR 500 150 TURKISH AF/AS
13635 0600-1300 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM
11730 0700-0800 EMR 500 95 AZERBAIJAN AS
11795 0830-1000 EMR 500 95 PERSIAN AS
11750 0900-1000 EMR 500 210 ARABIC AF/AS
9855 1000-1030 EMR 500 32 TATAR AS
9655 1000-1100 EMR 500 72 GEORGIAN AS
13650 1030-1100 EMR 500 72 UZBEK AS
7210 1100-1130 EMR 250 290 BULGARIAN EUR
15240 1100-1200 EMR 500 62 CHINESE AS
13760 1130-1230 EMR 500 310 GERMAN EUR
11825 1200-1230 EMR 500 90 TURKMEN AS
13710 1200-1300 EMR 500 92 URDU AS
11700 1230-1330 EMR 500 72 UYGHUR AS
15450 1230-1330 EMR 500 318 ENGLISH EUR/AM
11965 1300-1400 EMR 500 20 RUSSIAN AS/EUR
9840 1300-1600 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR/AM
11880 1330-1400 EMR 500 62 KAZAKH AS
9610 1400-1430 EMR 500 290 ITALIAN EUR
9540 1400-1500 EMR 250 150 ARABIC AF/AS
17770 1400-1500 EMR 500 252 ARABIC AF/SoEUR
9765 1500-1600 EMR 250 105 PERSIAN AS
11765 1500-1630 EMR 500 92 DARI-PASHTO AS
9530 1530-1630 EMR 500 95 AZERBAIJAN AS
5960 1600-2100 EMR 500 150 TURKISH AF/AS
9460 1600-2100 EMR 500 310 TURKISH EUR
11930 1630-1730 EMR 500 270 SPANISH AF/EUR
15520 1630-1730 EMR 500 95 ENGLISH AS
7360 1730-1830 EMR 500 190 FRENCH AF
9410 1730-1830 EMR 500 318 GERMAN EUR (ex 11835)
9785 1830-1930 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH EUR
9635 1930-2030 EMR 500 310 FRENCH EUR
11615 1930-2030 EMR 500 252 FRENCH NoAF/CeAF/WeAF
7205 2030-2130 EMR 500 105 ENGLISH AS/AUS/NZL
9830 2200-2300 EMR 500 310 ENGLISH AMs/EUR
5960 1600-2100 38E,39,40W 500 150 0 205 TUR
6040 0400-0600 39 500 138 0 215 TUR
6165 0300-0400 38E,39,40W 250 138 0 215 ENG
7205 2030-2130 39-41,49,54,55,58-60 500 105 7 219 ENG
7210 1100-1130 28S 250 280 -10 210 BUL
7260 0000-0200 42,43 500 72 0 211 TUR
7360 1730-1830 38,47,48 500 190 0 205 FRA
9410 1730-1830 28 500 318 8 205 DEU
9460 1600-2100 27,28 500 310 0 215 TUR
9465 0200-0300 42,43 500 72 0 211 UIG
9515 0300-0400 3-5,6E,7-11,17,27,28 500 325 0 219 ENG
9530 1530-1630 29SE,39NE,40,41 500 95 -10 215 AZE
9540 1400-1500 38E,39,40 250 150 30 205 ARA
9610 1400-1430 27S,28S,37N 500 290 0 210 ITA
9635 1930-2030 27,28W 500 310 -10 215 FRA
9655 1000-1100 29S,30SW 500 72 0 211 GEO
9765 1500-1600 30S,40 250 105 0 205 FAS
9770 0100-0200 8S,10-12,27S,37N 500 290 0 219 SPA
9785 1830-1930 27,28 500 310 0 205 ENG
9830 2200-2300 5,8,9,11N,17-18,27-28 500 310 -10 215 ENG
9840 1300-1600 27,28 500 310 0 215 TUR
9855 1000-1030 19-21,29,30 500 32 -10 215 TAT
9870 0100-0200 12S,13-15,16N,37 500 270 -10 210 SPA
11615 1930-2030 37,38,46 500 262 10 211 FRA
11700 1230-1330 42,43 500 72 0 211 UIG
11730 0700-0800 29SE,39NE,40NW 500 95 -10 215 AZE
11750 0600-0900 29S,30S,40-43 500 97 25 205 TUR
11750 0900-1000 37N,38N,39N,40W 500 210 30 216 ARA
11765 1500-1630 29S,30S,40-43 500 92 20 211 DARI/PASHTO
11795 0830-1000 39N,40NW 500 95 -10 215 FAS
11825 1200-1230 29SE,30S,40N 500 90 -7 219 TKM
11880 1330-1400 29-31,42NW 500 62 -10 211 KAZ
11930 1630-1730 27S,28,37 500 270 -10 210 SPA
11955 0600-1200 38E,39,40W 500 150 0 205 TUR
11965 1300-1400 19-22,29,30N 500 20 20 205 RUS
11980 0400-0600 18S,27,28 500 310 0 215 TUR
13635 0600-1300 27,28 500 310 0 215 TUR
13650 1030-1100 30S,40N 500 72 0 211 UZB
13710 1200-1300 40,41N 500 92 20 211 URD
13760 1130-1230 28 500 318 8 205 DEU
15240 1100-1200 30-32,42-44 500 62 -10 211 CHN
15450 1230-1330 18S,27,28W 500 318 8 205 ENG
15520 1630-1730 30S,40E,41N,49 500 95 -10 215 ENG
17770 1400-1500 37,38W,46 500 252 -10 211 ARA
(TRT Ankara, A-16 schedule via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 12)
(BC-DX/Top Nx 1240/13 Feb 2016-W Bueschel)

VOA Radiogram Weekend Schedule

Have your white laboratory coats ready, because VOA Radiogram will be very experimental this weekend.

Battle of the 55-wpm modes.  VOA Radiogram listener and contributor Mark Hirst in the UK suggests an experiment with the BPSK63F mode. His interest was generated by an article in the August QST magazine about the "flavors of PSK." It noted that BPSK63F, with its forward error correction,  has a "remarkable ability to be decoded under poor conditions."

During the early editions of VOA Radiogram, we did transmit BPSK63F a few times. This weekend, we'll do it again, in comparison with two other modes that also have speeds of about 55 words per minute: MFSK16 and Olivia 8-1000.  The RSID for each mode will be followed by a 15-second tuning signal, in case you must manually change modes. More details below in the lineup.

The return of Flmsg.  This weekend's program will include on item in Flmsg format. Flmsg is an add-on to Fldigi that allows the transmission and reception of message forms and formatted html documents.

If you don’t already have Fldigi, download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fldigi/files/fldigi/ . Download Flmsg  from https://sourceforge.net/projects/fldigi/files/flmsg/ .

To make Flmsg work with Fldigi, in Fldigi: Configure > Misc > NBEMS > under Reception of flmsg files, select Open with flmsg and Open in browser, and below that indicate where your Flmsg.exe file is located – probably somewhere in Program Files(x86).

If all goes well, when the digital mode transmission concludes, Flmsg will open a new window of your web browser to display a formatted VOA Radiogram transmission schedule. If your default browser is not open, Flmsg will open it for you. (If you are asked to ignore checksum error, select Yes.)

If it doesn’t work the first time, or you don’t have Flmsg installed, you can try this later from your recording.

In Windows, an easy way to save the received document is to use the Microsoft Snipping Tool. Please send that image as an attachment to your reception report.

If you are an Android user, TIVAR does not accommodate Flmsg files. But a similar app, AndFlmsg, as its name would indicate, does. Unlike TIVAR, which is receive-only, AndFlmsg encodes as well as decodes and is used by radio amateurs for message traffic. After the Flmsg is received, go to the index screen and press on the name of the file.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 172, 16-17 July 2016. All modes are centered on 1500 Hz.

 1:35 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
 3:06 MFSK32: Osmosis to generate electricity*
      Battle of the 55 wpm modes ...
11:33 BPSK63F: "Snowline" around new star
15:04 MFSK16: Fuel-saving cars may pollute more
18:36 Olivia 8-1000: "Frankenstein" galaxy detected
21:30 MFSK32: Image and intro to Flmsg
23:52 MFSK32: VOA Radiogram schedule in html via Flmsg
27:03 MFSK32: Closing announcements
* with image

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 17580 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.

The Mighty KBC will also transmit Flmsg. This will be during its broadcasting to North America, Sunday 0000 to 0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT), on 9925 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK32, in Flmsg format, will be at will broadcast at 0131 UTC. Please send reports for this KBC reception to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com .

DigiDX will provide DX and media news in MFSK32 and a mixture of other modes:

Sunday 2130-2200 UTC, 15770 kHz, via WRMI Florida
Sunday 2330-2400 UTC, 11580 kHz, via WRMI Florida
Monday 2000-2130 UTC, 6070 kHz, via Channel 292 Germany

Daily 1830-1900 and 0530-0600 UTC, 6070 kHz, via Channel 292 Germany
Look for any additions or changes to the DigiDX schedule at http://www.digidx.uk/ or https://www.facebook.com/digidx/

IBC (Italian Broadcasting Corporation) has a broadcast to Europe on 6070 kHz, Wednesdays, 2000-2200 UTC, with MFSK32 and Olivia 16-500 at 2030-2100 UTC. See http://ibcradio.webs.com/ for the complete schedule and contact information.

Thank you for your reception reports for last weekend's VOA Radiogram. Reception conditions were generally good, although propagation Saturday at 1600-1630 UTC on 17580 varied widely in different parts of the world. I will try to respond to as many reports as possible before the weekend is over.
I hope you can tune in and write in this weekend.
Kim Andrew Elliott
Producer and Presenter
VOA Radiogram
voaradiogram.net
Twitter: @VOARadiogram

The First Long Distance Wireless Message Across Water in the Southern Hemisphere

Exactly 110 years ago, the first long distance wireless message across water in the Southern Hemisphere was successfully and dramatically achieved with a public demonstration connecting continental Australia with its island state, Tasmania.  The date was July 12, 1906, and the event occurred between Queenscliff in Victoria and Devonport in Tasmania, a distance of a little more than 200 miles.

            Queenscliff is located on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, drectly opposite to the island of Tasmania across Bass Strait.  The area was originally inhabited by Aborigines belonging to the 

Wauthorong Tribe.  The first European settler was an escaped English convict named William Buckley who lived in a cave with the local Aborigines between the years 1803 and 1835. 

            Under the European migrants during the early colonial era, Queenscliff became a fishing village, though soon afterwards it emerged as an important cargo port, servicing steamships trading in Port Philip Bay and the city of Melbourne.  These days though, Queenscliff is simply a small seaside town of about 1500 residents with a commercial centre of historic shop fronts and buildings on Hesse Street.  They also sport a tourist attraction made up of ten miles of restored railway track with a collection of heritage railway carriages from around Australia.

            Interestingly, Queenscliff has featured in not one, but two, very early wireless experiments way back more than 100 years ago.  This small seaside town was the location for a very early experimental wireless station that gave a message of welcome to a visiting royal family aboard a Royal Navy vessel, and it was the location for the first wireless communication between the Australian mainland and islandic Tasmania. 

            In April 1901, Mr. Henry Walter Jenvey, Chief Electrical Engineer with the PMG Department in the newly confederated state of Victoria, conducted a series of test transmissions between two suburban locations in the city of Melbourne.  Mr. Jenvey designed and constructed his own wireless equipment for transmission and reception, and these units were installed at Red Bluff St. Kilda and Point Cook, a distance of 20 miles across the waters of Port Phillip Bay.  According to newspaper reports in Australia and New Zealand at the time, these preliminary wireless transmission tests were successful.

             Comes the next month, (May 1901) and Jenvey set up his wireless equipment near the Black Lighthouse at Queenscliff on the western side of the  entrance to Port Phillip Bay.  There was no wind to fly a kite, so initially, the antenna wire was attached to a balloon.  However that was not successful either, so the antenna wire was then attached to a nearby flagpole. 

            Thus it was that communication was made in Morse Code with the two royal escort ships, HMS St. George and HMS Juno, on Sunday May 5, 1901.  Jenvey sent a message of welcome to the incoming visitors from His Excellency John Adrian Louis Hope, the newly appointed Governor-General of Australia.               

            This message of greeting was sent in Morse Code to the wireless operators on board the two escort vessels, St. George and Juno some 17 miles distant.  According to newspaper reports at the time, this message was then telegraphed by semaphore flags to the royal family aboard the Royal Yacht HMS Ophir.  As the Duke and Duchess of York, the royal couple visited Australia to participate in ceremonies to honor the federation of the separated colonies into the Commonwealth of Australia.  Nine years later, this royal couple became King George 5 and Queen Mary, at the death of the previous king, Edward 7.

            The second occasion when Queenscliff participated in a historic wireless event took place five years later.  On that second occasion, the Marconi Company in England sent its personnel to establish two wireless stations, one at the now historic Queenscliff and the other at East Devonport in northern Tasmania.  The PMG Dept issued a special license for these two temporary demonstration stations. 

            The twin temporary stations were constructed at a cost of  £5,000 each, and each had three small buildings.  There was a  small one roomed corrugated iron cabin at each location, within which the Marconi wireless equipment was installed.  Another smaller building housed a 2 kW power generator, and a third contained ancilliary equipment.  The antenna was strung between two masts 162 feet high and 210 feet apart. 

            A special train carried many government officials from Melbourne to Queenscliff for this grand occasion, including the current Governor-General, the Right Honorable Henry Stafford Northcote.  In addition, other local and national dignitaries came in by boat and ferry.

            Among the many participants in the official programming at Queenscliff were 200 school children who served as a mass choir; and some 300 official guests were provided with a special luncheon.  Over the other side of Bass Strait at East Devonport, 2,000 people witnessed this historic wireless event, and they participated in the official ceremonies of the day with as much gusto as was demonstrated at Queenscliff in Victoria.

            Several official messages were transmitted in Morse Code from the Queenscliff station to the Devonport station and these were written down and then conveyed by bicycle and ferry to the local post office for landline transmission to the state capital Hobart.  The Tasmanian governor, Sir Gerald Strickland responded with felicitous greetings to the large and dignified group gathered at Queenscliff.

            At the end of the grandeur and fanfare of the day, the crowds disappeared and returned to their homes, satisfied with the important historicity of this major wireless event, the first long distance wireless message across water in the Southern Hemisphere.  However, the two new wireless stations remaijned in service, carrying government and commercial communications between the island state of Tasmania and the Australian continental mainland.

            The Marconi company endeavored to sell the two stations to the Commonwealth government, but without success.  This reluctance on the part of the federal government was due mainly to fears about the growing worldwide monopoly that the Marconi company was demonstrating.  However, after three months of continued service, the two stations were closed and the equipment was removed.

            The temporary wireless station at Queenscliff in Victoria was located on the Cricket Ground between Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale, and today there is a stone cairn, a monument, honoring this historic wireless station.  The monument is located on the inland edge of the Cricket Ground.

            The Tasmanian counterpart in honoring the Marconi station at East Devonport is not a stone monument installed at the actual site on the northeastern side of the Mersey River Estuary at Bass Strait.  Instead, commemorative radio events have been staged at the Devonport Maritime Museum, which is located across the river, on the northwestern side of the Mersey Estuary at Bass Strait.  

(AWR Wavescan/NWS 385)

Night of Nights CW stations to air July 12

The annual “Night of Nights” event, in which historic maritime CW stations such as KPH and WLO return from the dead for a few hours and transmit Morse code messages, will begin at 0001 UTC July 13. (Of course, that’s the evening of July 12 for American listeners).  

Sponsored by the Maritime Radio Historical Society, it will also feature Coast Guard stations such as NMC, as well as amateur radio stations K6KPH and W4WLO making CW contacts with fellow hams. Plus, anyone within driving distance of Point Reyes National Seashore in California (northwest of San Francisco) can observe “Night of Nights” in person at the historic R The full list – which also includes the frequencies of WLO and the Coast Guard stations – can be found in the original announcement here: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1109843077277&ca=3af24866-88b8-42d5-8a3b-5d81b5cc2f51

Brian Smith W9IND

From the Isle of Music evening broadcast July 11

Our July 12 (July 11 in the Americas on WBCQ) program includes special guest María Felicia Pérez, director of Coro Exaudi, winner of the Choral Music category in Cubadisco 2016. We'll also play some Popular Dance Music by TImbalive, nominated in the Dance Music - New Talents category and some of Pasos by Maikel Vistel, which was nominated in the Jazz category in Cubadisco. Also, some songs from a couple of decades back by Adalberto Álvarez


Two listening options on shortwave:
WBCQ, 7490 KHz, Tuesdays 0000 UTC (8pm EDT Mondays)
Channel 292, 6070 KHz, Tuesdays 1900 UTC (2100 CEST)
See the NOTES section of our Facebook page for instructions for listening online if you are out of range or don't have a shortwave radio. https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=from%20the%20isle%20of%20music
(Bill Tillford)

Weekly Propagation Forecast Bulletins

Product: Weekly Highlights and Forecasts
:Issued: 2016 Jul 11 0329 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/weekly.html
#    Weekly Highlights and Forecasts

Highlights of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 04 - 10 July 2016

Solar activity was at very low levels from 04-06 Jul followed by low levels for the remainder of the period. Region 2561 (S16, L=344, class/area Cro/beta on 07 Jul) produced a C5/Sn flare at 07/0756
UTC. Region 2564 (N09, L=209, class/area Dai/120 on 10 Jul) produced  all further C-class activity, the largest a C8/2f at 10/0059 UTC with an associated Type II radio sweep (1435 km/s). No  Earth-directed CMEs were observed. No proton events were observed at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit was at normal to moderate levels from 04-08 Jul and reached high levels on 09-10 Jul following several days of enhanced solar wind speeds with a sequence of coronal holes.

Geomagnetic field activity was mostly quiet from 04-06 Jul with a few isolated unsettled periods under a nominal solar wind regime, unsettled to minor storm conditions were observed on 07-08 Jul due to positive polarity CH HSS effects followed by unsettled to active conditions on 09 Jul as effects began to subside. Quiet to unsettled levels were observed on 10 Jul as CH HSS effects waned.

Forecast of Solar and Geomagnetic Activity 11 July - 06 August 2016

Solar activity is expected to be very low with a chance for C-class  flares and a slight chance for M-class flares through 24 Jul due to  flare potential from Region 2564. Activity is expected to be very low for the remainder of the forecast period. No proton events are expected at geosynchronous orbit. The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit is expected to reach high levels on 16-19 Jul, 22-27 Jul and 05-06 Aug  following recurrent CH HSS events. Normal to moderate levels are expected otherwise. Geomagnetic field activity is likely to reach minor storm levels on 11 Jul due to positive polarity CH HSS effects. Unsettled to active conditions are expected on 12 Jul as effects continue followed by quiet to unsettled conditions on 13 Jul as effects subside. A second CH HSS is expected to bring quiet to unsettled conditions on 14-15 Jul with active periods likely on the 14th.

Mostly quiet levels are expected on 16-18 Jul. Quiet to unsettled conditions are anticipated from 19-24 Jul due to effects from a series of recurrent CH HSSs. Mostly quiet conditions are expected from 25 Jul to 02 Aug with isolated unsettled periods possible from 28-30 Jul as a few small CH HSS events move past Earth. Minor storms are likely on 03-04 Aug due  to recurrent, positive polarity CH HSS activity, decreasing to active conditions on 05 Aug and unsettled conditions on 06 Aug as effects subside.

Product: 27-day Space Weather Outlook Table 27DO.txt
:Issued: 2016 Jul 11 0329 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
# Product description and SWPC web contact www.swpc.noaa.gov/wwire.html
#      27-day Space Weather Outlook Table
#                Issued 2016-07-11
#
#   UTC      Radio Flux   Planetary   Largest
#  Date       10.7 cm      A Index    Kp Index
2016 Jul 11      92          20          5
2016 Jul 12      90          12          3
2016 Jul 13      90           8          3
2016 Jul 14      90          15          3
2016 Jul 15      90          10          3
2016 Jul 16      90           5          2
2016 Jul 17      90           5          2
2016 Jul 18      90           5          2
2016 Jul 19      85          14          3
2016 Jul 20      78          12          3
2016 Jul 21      76          12          3
2016 Jul 22      77           7          2
2016 Jul 23      77          11          3
2016 Jul 24      75          10          3
2016 Jul 25      73           6          2
2016 Jul 26      74           4          2
2016 Jul 27      73           6          2
2016 Jul 28      72           7          2
2016 Jul 29      71           9          3
2016 Jul 30      72           8          3
2016 Jul 31      74           7          2
2016 Aug 01      72           4          2
2016 Aug 02      77           5          2
2016 Aug 03      83          23          5
2016 Aug 04      87          23          5
2016 Aug 05      92          14          3
2016 Aug 06      94          10          3
(NOAA)

RAE Argentina updates summer schedule

Updated A-16 shortwave schedule of Radio Argentina Exterior:
1000-1100 on  6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir to SoAm Chinese Mon-Fri
1000-1100 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese Mon-Fri
1100-1200 on  6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir to SoAm Japanese Mon-Fri
1100-1200 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Japanese Mon-Fri
1200-1300 on  6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir to SoAm Portuguese Mon-Fri
1200-1300 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to SoAm Portuguese Mon-Fri
1300-1500 on  6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir to SoAm Spanish Mon-Fri
1300-1500 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm Spanish Mon-Fri
1700-1800 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu German Daily#*, ex Mon-Fri
1800-1900 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu English Daily*, ex Mon-Fri

[ but 18-19 UT, on Sunday July 10th heard in total still
Radio Nacional Spanish! language program, -- NOT ENGLISH, wb.]

1900-2000 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu Italian Mon-Fri*
2000-2100 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu French Mon-Fri*
2100-2200 on 15344vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu German Mon-Fri
2200-2400 on  6060 BUE 100 kW / non-dir to SoAm Spanish Mon-Fri
2200-2400 on 15345vBUE 100 kW / 035 deg to WeEu Spanish Mon-Fri
0000-0100 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm Portuguese Tue-Sat*
0100-0200 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm Japanese Tue-Sat*
0200-0300 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm French Tue-Sat, not 0300-0400
0300-0400 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to NoAm English Tue-Sat,not 0200-0300
0400-0500 on 11711vBUE 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese Tue-Sat

* news in Spanish in the last 3-5 minutes at xx55-xx00
# QRM co-ch  15345 ABS 250 kW / 196 deg to CSAf English Radio Cairo
BCL nx/W. Bueschel)

Summer 2016 International Shortwave Broadcast Guide Still Available

As the last few weeks of summer wind down - there's still time to hear plenty on shortwave from the summer schedules. International Shortwave Broadcast Guide, and our frequency updates on this blog, bring you the latest and most current information.
Summer schedules will shift to winter frequencies on October 30, 2016 - which means there remains plenty to hear on shortwave.
Get your copy now - to compliment the last few weeks of summer. 
Gayle Van Horn W4GVH/Teak Publishing


Teak Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the Summer 2016 International Shortwave Broadcast Guide (ISWBG) electronic book by Amazon bestselling author Gayle Van Horn, W4GVH. This all important semi-annual information resource is your electronic guide to the world of shortwave radio listening.

Shortwave radio listeners are routinely entertained with unique perspectives to events, music, culture, history, and news from other countries that you won’t see or hear on your local or national broadcast channels. Shortwave radio broadcast aren’t restricted by country borders or oceans, and can propagate thousands of miles, reaching millions of listeners worldwide, in over 300 different languages and dialects. These worldwide transmissions are monitored on internationally assigned radio frequencies between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz.

There are even broadcasts from the dark side, transmitted from broadcasters known as clandestine or clanny stations. Clandestine broadcasters are wrapped in mystery and intrigue, and they usually exist to bring about some sort of political change to the country they are targeting. Programming may largely be half-truths or sometimes even outright lies, but it is essentially propaganda for their cause.

Listeners who live in the United States can easily hear shortwave broadcast stations from Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, North/South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, and many other counties if you have an inexpensive shortwave radio receiver, and you know when and where to listen!

If you want to get in on the action, then this Amazon electronic book is your ticket the travel the world via radio. The ISWBG is a 24-hour station/frequency guide to “all” of the known longwave and shortwave radio stations currently broadcasting at time of publication. This unique radio hobby resource is the “only” radio hobby publication that has by-hour station schedules that include all language services, frequencies and world target areas.

New In this sixth edition of the ISWBG is a lead story on clandestine broadcast and broadcasters with the latest schedules and frequencies you need to hear these intriguing transmissions. There is also an expanded special feature on Who’s Who in the shortwave radio spectrum. This story covers services and frequencies outside the regular broadcast and amateur radio bands, and includes our new, exclusive Hot HF 1000+ non-broadcast frequency list.

Also new in this edition is increased frequency and station coverage of longwave broadcasters, selected medium wave broadcast frequencies used by international broadcasters, and all known international standard time and frequency stations transmitting worldwide.

The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide (Summer 2016 edition) is now available for purchase worldwide from Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FV3FL72/. The price for this latest edition is US$6.49. Since this book is being released internationally, Amazon customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France Spain, Italy, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Australia can order this electronic book (e-Book) from Amazon websites directly servicing these countries. All other countries can use the regular Amazon.com website.

This new e-publication edition is a much expanded version of the English shortwave broadcast guide that was formerly published in the pages of the former Monitoring Times magazine for well over 20 years. This one of a kind e-book is published twice a year to correspond with shortwave station’s seasonal time and frequency changes.

Don’t own a Kindle from Amazon? Not a problem. You do not need to own a Kindle to read Amazon e-book publications. You can read any Kindle book with Amazon’s free reading apps on literally any electronic media platform.

The Kindle app is available for most major smartphones, tablets and computers. There is a Kindle app available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch; Android Phone; Android Tablet; PC; Windows 8; Mac Kindle Cloud Reader; Windows Phone; Samsung; BlackBerry 10; BlackBerry; amd WebOS. This means with a free Kindle reading apps, you can buy a Kindle book once, and read it on any device with the Kindle app installed*. You can also read that same Kindle book on a Kindle device if you own one.

You can find additional details on these apps by checking out this link to the Amazon website at www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771.

For additional information on this and other Teak Publishing radio hobby books, monitor the company sponsored Internet blogs – The Military Monitoring Post (http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/), The Btown Monitor Post (http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/) and The Shortwave Central (http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/) for availability of additional e-books that are currently in production. You can learn more about the author by going to her author page on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Gayle-Van-Horn/e/B0084MVQCM/.

The International Shortwave Broadcast Guide will have wide appeal to shortwave radio hobbyists, amateur radio operators, educators, foreign language students, news agencies, news buffs, or anyone interested in listening to a global view of news and major events as they happen.

Whether you are an amateur radio operator or shortwave radio enthusiasts, and want to get in on the action outside of the ham bands, then this new electronic book from Teak Publishing is a must in your radio reference library.

Who will be the first to buy the new editions? We are also very interested in your reviews posted to Amazon of our new edition. Who will be the first to review the Summer Edition? Those who review the book will be listed here on the blog/ Here are a few of the public comments from radio hobbyists who purchased previous editions of this Amazon e-book.

Excellent Shortwave Introduction and Program Guide by Don K3PRN

Excellent, very reasonable guide to shortwave radio. As a long time shortwave listener, the listing of all shortwave stations by UTC time is very useful to me. I had previously a shortwave website that listed only English broadcasts rather than an all station listing with the language that will be broadcast. I would highly recommend this e book for all new shortwave listeners and those that interested in a very portable listing of all stations by UTC. I only hope that this will be updated twice a year for many more years.

Good Product by Radio Freq 

Since Monitoring Times stopped publishing shortwave radio schedules, there has been a dearth of resources for radio-heads. This guide nicely fulfills gap. It is very comprehensive.

It is nice someone is dedicated to SWL by Robert K. Mallory 

Very concise and well organized. Not much to choose from these days, it is nice someone is dedicated to Shortwave Radio Listening.

Shortwave Broadcast Guide by Kindle Customer

Since Monitoring Times is no longer in publication, this guide is required for the dedicated shortwave listener. There is information provided that I have found nowhere else. It will be a welcome addition to any listener's equipment. Gayle Van Horn has been publishing this research for many years and the followers are numerous, from beginners to professionals. The author's work is accurate, concise and thorough. If you have a shortwave radio, you need this publication as much as a set of earphones. There is none better.

Very Good Source for Shortwave Stations Broadcast Schedules by Kenneth Windyka

I've got to admit up front that I don't have a strong interest in this part of the hobby. HOWEVER, Gayle Van Horn makes it easy to determine what one can hear on the short wave bands during a particular time period (in GMT time sorted format). I also like the internet reference available, so that one can listen to programs via the internet even if its' not possible via the shortwave radio.

NJ Shortwave listener hears International Frequencies with new guide help by Stanley E Rozewski, Jr.

This e-book is complete and accurate in presenting a low cost SW frequency guide and important must read topics for the new or experienced user. I liked the easy reading format, and understandable frequency guide. I will order the second edition next year.

This is my go-to-first reference by Mary C Larson 

When I turn on the shortwave receiver and want to find out what's on and where to look, Van Horn's handy frequency guide is a smart place to begin. The format is not unlike the one Monitoring Times (R.I.P.) used each month. Presumably, updated ISBGs will be published twice per year, but you can check for the updates on her blog, (mt-shortwave.blogspot.com).

Good value by DrP 

This is an excellent well-written book that is very affordable when compared to encyclopedic guides, e.g., the WRTH. Much the same information is included. The first part is a nice introduction to SW listening pitched to the beginner. Included is an informative section on purchasing a radio spanning low-end <$100 models up through the most advanced transceivers. The bulk of the book contains a list of world-wide SW broadcasters, organized by frequency band. This makes it ideal for browsing one band at a time, but much less so if you want to search for broadcasts from a particular country.

Shortwave Is Not Quite Dead by James Tedford (Bothell, WA United States)

It was barely breathing as of late, but there is still a lot you can hear on shortwave radio. You need more than a little dedication, and a better-than-adequate radio to hear what remains on the HF bands, but if you have those, you will be rewarded with a lot of interesting audio programming. This book is a good guide to what is currently available over the international airwaves.

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