Amharic text decoded by Juha in Finland, 4 June 2017, 1930-2000 UTC, 15670 kHz.

Shortwave Radiogram will be the name of the show that will replace VOA Radiogram, starting 24 June. “Shortwave Radiogram” is not as creative as most of the names suggested by VOA Radiogram listeners. Thanks for those ideas!

The new website will be http://www.swradiogram.net (maybe active this weekend), the new email radiogram (at) verizon.net , and the new Twitter account @SWRadiogram .

Last weekend’s new transmission via WRMI Florida, Sunday 0600-0630 on 7730 kHz, was, to my surprise,   audible in Europe, at least via http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901 in the Netherlands. Reception was marginal at my house in Virginia (and I was only marginally awake at 2:00 am local time). I received a great signal using an SDR in Hawaii and a good signal via Australia.

This weekend is the penultimate (always wanted to use that word in a sentence) VOA Radiogram, so please tune in if you can. The entire program will be in MFSK32. It will include some Arabic text, that prints from right to left. You will need the UTF-8 character set for the Arabic text to display correctly. There will also be two images of the North Carolina transmitting site.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 219, 10-11 June 2017, all in MFSK32 centered on 1500 Hz:

 1:47  Program preview

  2:53  Bus-train hybrid drives on painted tracks*

  6:27  India launches heavy satellite*

12:57  Arabic text from Alhurra * **

16:33  Three photos*

24:49  Closing announcements*

* with image

**  Use UTF-8 character set

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

See and submit results on Twitter: @voaradiogram

The Mighty KBC transmits to Europe Saturdays at 1500-1530 UTC on 9400 kHz (via Bulgaria), with the minute of MFSK at about 1530 UTC (if you are outside of Europe, listen via websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ ).  And to North America Sundays at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8-10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. The minute of MFSK is at about 0130 UTC. On 9400 kHz,  Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/. 

Italian Broadcasting Corporation (IBC)  For the complete IBC transmission schedule visit  http://ibcradio.webs.com/  Five minutes of MFSK32 is at the end of the 30-minute English-language “Shortwave Panorama,” per the schedule below:

WEDNESDAY  18.55 UTC  6070 KHZ TO EUROPE

                        19.55 UTC  1584 KHZ TO EUROPE

THURSDAY     02.55 UTC  1584 KHZ TO EUROPE

FRIDAY           01.25 UTC  9955 KHZ TO CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA

SATURDAY     01.55 UTC 11580 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA

                        20.25 UTC  1584 KHZ TO SOUTH EUROPE

SUNDAY          00.55 UTC  7730 KHZ TO NORTH AMERICA

                        10.55 UTC  6070 KHZ TO EUROPE