VOA Radiogram, 17-18 September 2016: Asteroid samples and peptide polymers

VOA Radiogram this weekend will be all MFSK32, thus suitable for unattended reception. There will be ASCII art after the closing announcement. Use a monospace font such as Courier for best results.

You can see some results via Twitter even if you don’t have a Twitter account. Point your browser to twitter.com/voaradiogram during the weekend.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 181, 17-18 September 2016, all in MFSK32 except where noted …

1:39  Program preview

2:49  Pluto “spray paints” its moon Charon*

7:07  China launches space lab into orbit*

10:20  NASA mission hopes to collect asteroid samples*

19:05  Peptide polymers fight resistant infections*

23:08  Image and closing announcements*

* 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 now broadcasts to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8 to 10 pm EDT) on 6145 kHz via Germany. A minute of MFSK32 is about about 0130 UTC. Send reception reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com .

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, at the new time of 1800-2100 UTC.  The MFSK32 and Olivia 16-500 are still at 2030-2100 UTC. IBC also has 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

Last weekend’s VOA Radiogram ASCII art decoded by Mark in the UK, Sunday 1941 UTC, 15670 kHz: