VOA Radiogram listener Klaus in Germany continues his experiments decoding the text modes from low cost receivers.  

During VOA Radiogram program 110, 9 May 2015, 1600-1630 UTC, 17870 kHz, Klaus used a Chinese-made clone of the old Sony SW-12. The clone costs only five Euros. 

Klaus describes the radio as having “a bad plastic case and poor reception on all bands.” He decoded the text “with many errors,” and he was able to decode one picture.

This picture shows the original Sony SW12 and the clone …

Here is the clone receiver attached to an mp3 recorder …

And here is an example of text and image decode using the radio – not bad considering the circumstances …