Again this weekend, because of poor mid-winter propagation, one of the VOA News stories will be transmitted in Olivia 32-2000 – somewhat slow at 50 words per minute. In Fldigi, Olivia 32-2000 requires the custom setting of a 2000 Hz bandwidth and 32 tones. It’s a robust mode that takes advantage of the available bandwidth of a shortwave broadcast channel.    

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 93, 10-11 January 2015, all in MFSK32 except where noted:

  1:42  Program preview
  3:02  Greetings to Encuentro Diexista in San Cristóbal
  5:11  Balloons with leaflets launched to North Korea*
  9:45  Chinese-led canal project in Nicaragua*
15:33  Russian-language TV program expands to Latvia*
21:06  Olivia 32-2000: Hashtag supports Charlie Hebdo
25:19  Closing announcements*
28:33  MFSK64L: bonus mode of the week

*with image

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5910 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17860 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 (as far as I know, although I didn’t have a chance to confirm) include a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1230 UTC on 6095 kHz, and Sunday at about 0130 UTC (Saturday 8:30 pm EST) on 7375 kHz. Both frequencies are via Germany. Send reports for 6095 and/or 7375 reception to Eric at themightykbc (at) gmail.com .