Some additional information about this weekend’s VOA Radiogram, program 101…

Live Hangout: Lorenzo in Italy has organized a live hangout just before and during today’s 1600-1630 UTC broadcast. It begins at 1550 UTC at this YouTube URL (new):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3gQW8PeV8Q

Most of the discussion will be in Italian, but it’s fun to listen to even if you don’t understand Italian.

Shortwave Shindig redux: A recording of last weekend’s Shortwave Shindig at the Winter SWL Fest will be broadcast by WRMI in Florida Sunday at 0300-0400 UTC, that’s Saturday (today) evening 10-11 pm EST, on 7570 kHz. The Shinding includes an image in MFSK32. There is no RSID, so have your software set to MFSK32 and centered on 1500 Hz. Reception reports to David at shortwaveology (at) mac.com .

Flmsg:  For this weekend’s Flmsg transmission, if you get an “ignore errors?” prompt, click Yes.

The wandering RSIDs: Some of you think the problem is not the audio level from the radio to the computer, but at the transmitter. And you’ve provided some useful evidence of this. More about this soon at voaradiogram.net

More information about this weekend’s program is at http://bit.ly/1E1DBpv

Here is our radio experimenter in his white coat as received and decoded by Chris in New Zealand, 14000 km from the North Carolina transmitter, during the 0930 UTC transmission on 5910 kHz …

The picture looked better in the target area. This is from Merkouris in Greece, about 8500 km from the transmitter, 8 March 2015, 1930-2000 UTC, 15670 kHz …