We will transmit another sample of VOA Chinese text on this weekend’s VOA Radiogram. If blocks appear rather than Chinese characters, try copying and pasting those blocks to a word processor to see if the characters appear.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, 23-24 August 2013:     

2:20  MFSK16: Program preview

1:46  MFSK32: Chinese text sample*

6:33  MFSK32: VOA News re robot, with image

6:39  MFSK32: VOA News re Kepler Telescope, with image

4:32  MFSK64/Flmsg: RFE/RL News re left-handers in former USSR**

1:18  MFSK32: Image accompanying left-hander story

1:11  MFSK16: Closing announcements

1:24  MFSK16: VOA Radiogram logo (500x44)

 *Use the UTF-8 character set. In Fldigi: Configure > Colors & Fonts > Select Char Set. Close and restart Fldigi between VOA Radiogram broadcasts.

 **To make Flmsg work with Fldigi, in Fldigi: Configure > Misc > NBEMS > Under reception of flmsg files, check both boxes, and under that indicate where your Flmsg.exe file is located.

And this just in from W1HKJ, author of Fldigi:

MFSK-64 RsID will not be decoded on fldigi versions post 3.21.72

If you manually switch to MFSK-64 and do not catch the leading text stream for the flmsg data transfer, you should immediately hold the control key down and left click on the waterfall signal.

That will do a playback of the prior 2 minutes of audio stream.  The MFSK-64 decoder will catch the leading text and then proceed as normal.  This technique will insure that fldigi will open flmsg with the decoded flmsg text stream.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC)
Sat 1600-1630 17860 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1300-1330 6095 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.