As reports from last weekend indicate, mid-winter (in the northern hemisphere) reception can be challenging, especially in Europe during our Sunday 1930-2000 UTC broadcast on 15670. On the other hand, this time year provides an opportunity for some European listeners to receive and decode the Saturday 0930-1000 transmission on 5865 kHz.

This weekend will be another all-MFSK32 show, with plenty of images, the last one holiday related and from my neighborhood in northern Virginia.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 142, 19-20 December 2015, all in MFSK32:

  1:31  Program preview
  2:46  Gamma rays detected from across universe*
  9:10  IS launches radio in eastern Afghanistan*
12:56  World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China*
20:44  SSTV from the International Space Station*
24:29  Closing announcements*

* with image

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5865 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17580 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 broadcast a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at 0158 UTC (Saturday 8:58 pm EST) on 7395 kHz, via Germany. This new 0158 transmission time coincides with the beginning of the Radio Romania International interval signal for their French broadcast starting at 0200 UTC. This co-channel situation is a good test for the MFSK32. The entire KBC broadcast is Saturday 2300 to Sunday 0200 UTC on 7395 kHz. Reports for this KBC reception to Eric: themightykbc (at) gmail.com .