Tropical Storm Hermine is forecast to pass through the area of the Edward R. Murrow shortwave transmitting station in North Carolina on Saturday, about the time of the 0930 UTC broadcast of VOA Radiogram. We will see if that and later transmissions are affected by the storm, which will probably consist of heavy rain more than wind by the time it reaches North Carolina.

This weekend’s VOA Radiogram will be all MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz except for an ASCII-art surprise in Olivia 64-2000 9 dB under the closing music.

NB: There seems to be a problem with the slanted images is because the CD player in North Carolina that feeds VOA Radiogram to the transmitter is out of adjustment.

You can un-slant the images making this adjustment to Fldigi before receiving the show: Configure > Sound Card > Settings > Corrections > -2220 RX ppm

Or, make no adjustment to Fldigi, but play the recording back with a speed adjustment of -0.222% You can do this with Audacity: Effect > Speed Change

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 179, 3-4 September 2016, all in MFSK32 except where noted:

1:38  Program preview (now)

3:01  Astronomers give odd radio signal another look*

8:34  Princeton University revives a large satellite receiver*

15:42  Storm Hermine might disrupt this weekend’s show*

19:22  QRP transceivers as shortwave broadcast receivers*

22:31  Photo from Juno flyby of Jupiter*

26:07  Closing announcements*

28:27  Olivia 64-2000: ASCII art under closing music

                      (use monospace font, eg Courier)

* with image

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5745 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 transmit a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at about 0130 UTC (Saturday 9:30 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. That is unless KBC is only transmitting at 0000-0100 rather than the usual 0000-0200 UTC this weekend, in which case the MFSK32 will be at about 0030 UTC. Reports to Eric: themightykbc (at) gmail.com . The Mighty KBC will change to 6145 kHz on  11 September, 0000-0200 UTC.

DigiDX will transmit MFSK32 and probably other modes:

Sunday 2130-2200 UTC, 15770 kHz, via WRMI Florida

Sunday 2330-2400 UTC, 11580 kHz, via WRMI Florida

Monday 2000-2130 UTC, 6070 kHz, via Channel 292 Germany

For schedule updates, visit DigiDX at http://www.digidx.uk/  or https://www.facebook.com/digidx/

IBC (Italian Broadcasting Corporation) has a broadcast to Europe on 6070 kHz, Wednesdays, 2000-2200 UTC, with MFSK32 and Olivia 16-500 at 2030-2100 UTC. And IBC has added MFSK32 transmissions via WRMI in Florida: Friday 0125-0200 UTC on 9955 kHz (Thursday 9:25 pm EDT), part of its 0100-0130 broadcast. And Saturday at 0155-0200 UTC (Friday evening 9:55 pm EDT), on 11580 kHz, part of its 0130-0200 broadcast.  See http://ibcradio.webs.com/ for the complete schedule and contact information