VOA Radiogram is a Voice of America program experimenting with digital text and images via shortwave broadcasting. It is produced and presented by Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott.
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Text and images via shortwave herald World Radio Day
Emanuele in northern Italy produced this video of his reception and decoding of VOA Radiogram, program 149, 6 February 2016, 1600-1630 UTC, 17580 kHz, about 7000 km from a 50-year-old BBG/IBB/VOA transmitter in North Carolina. (This video was available live during the broadcast from the Associazione Italiana Radioascolto Facebook page.) …
The image shows the text and image at the point during the program when World Radio Day was mentioned and its logo transmitted …
Another video of the same VOA Radiogram broadcast was produced by Tim in Colorado, 2300 km in the other direction.
Note that the 1600 UTC transmission is directed to Europe, not to the Rocky Mountains, and that Tim was experiencing local noise interference during his reception. Tim’s text decode was, nevertheless, mostly free of errors, although the image was somewhat fuzzy. (The vertical lines in the waterfall show the interference.) …
