Videos of VOA Radiogram on 2 May 2015 from Japan and Colorado

Mr. TW in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, produced this video of his reception and decoding of VOA Radiogram, 2 May 2015, 0930-1000 UTC, 5745 kHz. This is about 11000 km from the North Carolina transmitting site, where the antenna is a dipole intended for South America reception. The Freedom House world press freedom map is fuzzy but conveys the basic idea. The text of the story, which benefits from the error correction built into the MFSK32 mode, was decoded at least 90%, as you can see in the video …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JIvN9VyNPQ

Here is the image as decoded by me using the audio from TW’s video …

Meanwhile, Tim in Colorado produces a weekly video of reception of VOA Radiogram, the most recent from the broadcast on 2 May 2015, 1600-1630 UTC, on 17870 kHz. Decode was an easy 100% despite the curtain antenna in North Carolina being pointed in the opposite direction, towards Europe.

https://youtu.be/Y1m02J0ft-s

Here is the VOA Radiogram logo at the end of the show as decoded from Tim’s audio …

For text and images of the same broadcast Saturday at 1600-1630, see this web page prepared by Roger in Germany …

http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/VoA_Radiogram_2015-05-02.htm