Some VOA Radiogram listeners had a chance to try the beta AndFlmsg app – Fldigi for Android devices – during the weekend of 7-8 March 2015 (program 101).

Ricardo in Spain provided this photo of his decoding using a four-year-old Samsung Galaxy S2 and an equally small Icom IC-E92D 144/440 MHz transceiver whose wideband receiver includes HF …

Ricardo also provided these videos of his And Flmsg decoding …

https://vine.co/v/OEd9KZZTj5h

https://vine.co/v/OEdQ6rUXibi

Emiliano in Italy also decoded the 15670 kHz transmission and provided this screenshot …

Merkouris in Greece decoded the 17860 kHz broadcast …

And this from Philip in the Netherlands, same time and frequency …

Here is my decode of the 5745 kHz transmission, using a Sangean ATS-909X with a patch cord to an inexpensive Asus tablet …

Most decoding was via “acoustic coupling,” i.e. placing the radio’s speaker next to the Android device’s built-in Mic. (Emiliano placed one half of a set of earphones next to the built-in mic, while listening with the other half.) This generally was successful.

Feeding the audio via a patch cord is more complicated. Some Android devices do not have the TRRS, 4-pin jack that accommodates an external microphone as well as headphones. If the TRRS jack is available, an adapter is necessary to provide a separate audio input. And, finally, the audio level must be adjusted. Even though an audio cable is plugged in, this does not turn off the built-in mic unless the audio through the cable reaches a certain level. On the other hand, AndFlmsg (like most decoding software) likes a low input level. I have found that, with a higher input level, the decode is good, but the waterfall is noisy, with the trace of the MFSK32 signal difficult to see. Experiments will continue.