http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/radiogram.htm


  https://github.com/GyanD/codexffmpeg/releases/tag/2023-03-05-git-912ac82a3c

set MyFiles=*.flac *.fla *.wav *.aif *.mp4 *.mp3 *.mp2 *.aac *.ogg *.m4a
for %%a in (%MyFiles%) do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -y -lavfi showspectrumpic=s=1920x1080:color=fiery:gain=.7:fscale=lin:orientation=0:saturation=1:mode=combined:legend=enabled:start=0:stop=8000 "%%~na.jpg"

 

 

 

 

RSID: <<2024-07-25T23:31Z MFSK-32 @ 9265000+1500>>
 


Welcome to program 363 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:44 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:52 MFSK32: "Space hurricanes" roil the ionosphere
  6:13 MFSK64: NASA's ICON mission ends with ionospheric data
10:32 MFSK64: This week's images
26.24 MFSK32: Closing announcements


Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

We're on X/Twitter now: @SWRadiogram




From Science News:

'Space hurricanes' churn at both of Earth's magnetic poles

Carolyn Gramling
July 12, 2024

On Earth, hurricane season isn't just surface level. The
ionosphere, an upper layer of the atmosphere charged by solar
radiation, also contains swirling storms of plasma dubbed "space
hurricanes." Scientists first described a space hurricane in
2021: It was a cyclone-shaped aurora, swirling for hours near
Earth's north magnetic pole and raining down electrons, rather
than water, into the upper atmosphere.

Now, new research reveals that parallel space hurricanes swirl
near the south magnetic pole as well.

An analysis of satellite data collected from 2005 to 2016
identified 259 space hurricane events in the Southern
Hemisphere's ionosphere, space physicist Sheng Lu of Shandong
University in Weihai, China, and colleagues report June 25 in the
Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. That's about 23
events per year on average, which is close to the rate that was
previously estimated for the Northern Hemisphere. The team
identified other symmetries too. For instance, space hurricanes
in both hemispheres tend to occur in summer months.

The researchers suspect that the storms are driven by shifts in
Earth's magnetic field caused by the solar wind. This barrage of
charged particles from the sun splits magnetic field lines­. When
the lines reconnect, they roil ionized gas in the ionosphere,
driving flows of electric current upward, the team suggests.
Flows then bend and begin to spin, leaving an "eye" at the
center. That proposed process would be akin to the rise of warm,
humid air at the center of a tropical cyclone.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-hurricanes-earth-magnetic-poles
 

 




Shortwave Radiogram now changes to MFSK64 ...


 

 

 

 

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This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64

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From Phys.org:

NASA's ICON mission ends with several ionospheric breakthroughs

by Desiree Apodaca NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center July 24,
2024

After contributing to many important findings on the boundary
between Earth's atmosphere and space, the Ionospheric Connection
Explorer (ICON) mission has come to an end. ICON launched in
October 2019 and after completing its two-year mission objectives
in December 2021, it operated as an extended mission for another
year.

"The ICON mission has truly lived up to its name," said Joseph
Westlake, heliophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in
Washington. "ICON not only successfully completed and exceeded
its primary mission objectives, it also provided critical
insights into the ionosphere and the interplay between space and
terrestrial weather."

The ICON spacecraft studied a part of our planet's outermost
layer of the atmosphere, called the ionosphere. From there, ICON
investigated what events impact the ionosphere, including Earth's
weather from below and space weather from above.

The ionosphere is the lowest boundary of space, located between
55 miles to 360 miles above Earth's surface. It is made up of a
sea of particles that have been ionized, a mix of positively
charged ions and negatively charged electrons called plasma. This
frontier of space is a dynamic and busy region, home to many
satellites—including the International Space Station—and is a
conduit for radio communications and GPS signals.

Both satellites and signals can be disrupted by the complex
interactions of terrestrial and space weather. Studying and
understanding the ionosphere is crucial to understanding space
weather and its effects on our technology.

The ICON mission captured unprecedented data about the ionosphere
with direct measurements of the charged gas in its immediate
surroundings alongside images of one of the ionosphere's most
stunning features—airglow.

ICON tracked the colorful bands as they moved through the
ionosphere. Airglow is created by a process similar to what
creates the aurora. However, airglow occurs around the world, not
just the northern and southern latitudes where auroras are
typically found. Although airglow is normally dim, ICON's
instruments were specially designed to capture even the faintest
glow to build a picture of the ionosphere's density, composition,
and structure.

Through the principle of Doppler shift, ICON's sensitive imagers
also detected the motion of the atmosphere as it glowed. "It's
like measuring a train's speed by detecting the change in the
pitch of its horn—but with light," said Thomas J. Immel, ICON
mission lead at the University of California, Berkeley. The
mission was specifically designed to perform this technically
difficult measurement.

A new ionospheric perspective

The ICON mission's comprehensive view of the upper atmosphere
provided valuable data for scientists to unravel for years to
come. For instance, its measurements showed how the 2022 Hunga
Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption disrupted electrical
currents in the ionosphere.

"ICON was able to capture the speed of the volcanic eruption,
allowing us to directly see how it affected the motion of charged
particles in the ionosphere," Immel said. "This was a clear
example of the connection between tropical weather and
ionospheric structure. ICON showed us how things that happen in
terrestrial weather have a direct correlation with events in
space."

Another scientific breakthrough was ICON's measurements of the
motion of ions in the atmosphere and their relationship with
Earth's magnetic field lines. "It was truly unique," Immel
remarked. "ICON's measurements of the motion of ions in the
atmosphere was scientifically transformational in our
understanding of behavior in the ionosphere."

With ICON's help, scientists better understand how these
interactions drive a process called the ionospheric dynamo. The
dynamo, which lies at the bottom of the ionosphere, remained a
mystery for decades because it is difficult to observe.

ICON provided the first concrete observation of winds fueling the
dynamo and how this influences space weather. Unpredictable
terrestrial winds move plasma around the ionosphere, sending the
charged particles shooting out into space or plummeting toward
Earth. This electrically charged tug-of-war between the
ionosphere and Earth's electromagnetic fields acts as a
generator, creating complex electric and magnetic fields that can
affect both technology and the ionosphere itself.

"No one had ever seen this before," Immel said. "ICON finally and
conclusively provided experimental confirmation of the wind
dynamo theory."

An iconic legacy

On Nov. 25, 2022, the ICON team lost contact with the spacecraft.
Communication with the spacecraft could not be established, even
after performing a power cycle reset using a built-in command
loss timer. Though the spacecraft remains intact, other
troubleshooting techniques were unable to re-establish contact
between the ICON spacecraft and mission operators.

"ICON's legacy will live on through the breakthrough knowledge it
provided while it was active and the vast dataset from its
observations that will continue to yield new science," Westlake
said. "ICON serves as a foundation for new missions to come."

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nasa-icon-mission-ionospheric-breakthroughs.html

 

 

 

 


This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64

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This week's images ...


Cruentomycena viscidocruenta is a small species of agaric fungus.
The caps in this photo are the size of pin heads and can be found
in the Tasmanian rainforest. https://tinyurl.com/28sv4cb6 ...

Sending Pic:168x196C;








A firefighting helicopter passes in front of the sun as the Lake
Fire burns in Los Padres National Forest, near Los Olivos,
California, July 6, 2024. https://tinyurl.com/27ryggs5 ...

Sending Pic:206x130C;








Hong Kong street scene, 2018. https://tinyurl.com/2bh9g95y ...

Sending Pic:129x205C;








A worker sorts peppers, zucchini, eggplants, and other vegetables
drying under the sun in Gaziantep, Turkey, July 10, 2024.
https://tinyurl.com/26f5kd9x ...

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A flower at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library &
Museums in Fremont, Ohio. https://tinyurl.com/2ymvahh2 ...

Sending Pic:160x194C;






"Tangerine" sunrise over Rock Creek Park in Washington DC, July
19. https://tinyurl.com/22ha7u7r ...

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Cloud formations just before sunrise over Annapolis Harbor in
Maryland, July 20. https://tinyurl.com/2avqth8b ...

Sending Pic:207x134C;








A sunset seen from Stein, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
https://tinyurl.com/2yuxuvcs ...

Sending Pic:147x206C;







Sunset from Gasparilla Island State Park, Florida, July 23.
https://tinyurl.com/24wphdnz ...

Sending Pic:148x205C;









Our painting of the week is "Le Lavandou" (1952) by Nicolas de
Staël. https://tinyurl.com/2cz8bd5y ...

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Shortwave Radiogram returns to MFSK32 ...





 


RSID: <<2024-07-28T23:58Z MFSK-32 @ 9265000+1500>>
 

 


This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK32 ...


Shortwave Radiogram is transmitted by:

WRMI, Radio Miami International, wrmi.net

and

WINB Shortwave, winb.com


Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

Twitter: @SWRadiogram or twitter.com/swradiogram

I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next Shortwave
Radiogram.
 

 

     https://mra.jadquir.com/

     SWRG#363 closing song:

     https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jul/21/toumani-diabate-obituary    

     https://youtu.be/CObYOb3AOUA

    

 

   

 

 


http://www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/radiogram.htm

 

 QTH:

 D-06193 Petersberg (Germany/Germania)

 Ant.:

 Dipol for 40m-Band    &   Boomerang Antenna 11m-Band

 RX   for  RF:

 FRG-100B + IF-mixer  &    ICOM IC-R75 + IF-mixer

 Software IF:

 con STUDIO1  -  Software italiano per SDR on Windows 11      [S-AM-USB/LSB]   +      HDSDR 2.81 beta6   - for scheduled IF-recording

 Software AF:

 Fldigi-4.1.26        +   flmsg-4.0.20                            images-fldigifiles on homedrive.lnk

 OS:

 Mirosoft Windows 11 Home

 German W7 32bit + 64bit

 PC: 

 ASUS S501MD (since 2023) [i7-12700 12th Gen. 12 x 2100 MHz]

 MSI-CR70-2MP345W7  (since 2014)   [i5 -P3560 ( 2 x 2600 MHz) ]

 

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Decoding_the_SW_Radiogram_Broadcasts

https://www.qsl.net/ve7vv/Files/Digital%20Modes.pdf


ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-12.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-12W.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-JARS4.html

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-13.html

            http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-13-fixed.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-13W.html

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-14.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-14W.html

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-15.html

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-15W_Xmas.html

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-15W.html

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-16.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-16W.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-17W.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-18W.html

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-19.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-19W.html

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-20.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-20W.html

Woofferton: http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RCAR-125kW_2023.html

Woofferton: http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI48w.html

 

ch292:      http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI48-ch292.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI48.html

            http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI49-JP.html

WRMI:       http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI50.html

 

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/DWJ-SSTEdition.html

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI-RRR02.html

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI-RRR03.html

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI-RRR04.html

WRMI        http://www.rhci-online.net/html/RNEI-RRR05.html

            https://dazdsp.org/live/    https://dazdsp.org/rnei/

 

 


 

RSID: <<2024-07-26T11:30Z MFSK-64 @ 15770000+1500>>

 

 

Alfred Smith, aka Brenton Wood, was born on July 26, 1941.

Sending Pic:189x250;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenton_Wood

Please report your decode to themightykbc@gmail.com.
 

 

 

 

 

RSID: <<2024-07-26T11:51Z 4xPSK125R @ 15770000+0514>>

RSID:
<<2024-07-26T11:51Z 4xPSK125R @ 15770000+0514>>

Image 1: Heathkit SB-101 transceiver by RadiomanPA Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.

 


Image 2: TX RX CW HEATHKIT HW8: P: 3,5 Watts 3,5 MHz (80m) • P: 3 Watts 7 MHz (40m) • P: 3 Watts 14 MHz (20m) • P: 2,5 Watts 21 MHz (15m). 12V à 16V. TX 0,4A; RX 0,1A by unnamed GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.
 

 


Both items are from the famous Heatkit Brand. The Heath Company was founded as an aircraft company in 1911 by Edward Bayard Heath. Heath however died during a test flight in 1931 after which the company moved from Chicago to Niles
Michigan and went went bankrupt.

In 1935, Howard Anthony purchased the then-bankrupt Heath Company, and focused on selling accessories for small aircraft. After World War II, Anthony decided that entering the electronics industry was a good idea, and bought a large
stock of surplus wartime electronic parts with the intention of building kits with them. In 1947, Heath introduced its first electronic kit, the O1 oscilloscope with 5 inch diameter cathode ray tube display (CRT) that sold for
US$39.50 (equivalent to $539 in 2023) – the price was unbeatable at the time, and the oscilloscope went on to be a huge seller.

The history of Heath got into a downward spiral, first slowly when it tried to go from tubes to solid state, kits weren't profitable anymore and going into the growing PC business.

It sill exists though!

 

 


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heathkit_SB-101_090403.JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HEATHKIT_HW8_1.JPG

 

 

 


 

Here is a timeline of "data transmission via BC shortwave":

2013-03-16 - 2017-06-17   VoA Radiogram  000-220  USA (Continuation under private management as SWRG)
2013-08-31 - until now    KBC Radiogram           NL  (without count, earliest note in my chronicle)
2016-03-23 - 2017-01-14   DIGI DX         01- 44  UK  (Among other things also *.mid transferred)
2016-06-17 - 2019-01-01   IBC DIGITAL    001-134  I   (my own count)
2017-06-25 - until now    SWRG           001-
363  USA (and further ongoing)
2017-11-?? - 2018-12-23   BSR Radiogram   01- 44  USA (Broad Spectrum Radio)
2018-07-25 - 2019-04-06   SSR Radiogram   01- 33  NL  (Slow Scan Radio)
2019-02-21 - 2023-08-03   TIAMS          001-222  CAN (This Is A Music Show)
2020-02-15 - until now    RNEI            01- 50  UK  (and further ongoing)
2020-03-07 - 2023-08-06   TIAEMS 03/2020-07/2023  CAN (This Is An Express Music Show)
2021-11-28 - until now    Pop Shop Radio          CAN (first find of a playlist in a spectrogram scan)
2023-04-16 - until now    Radio Carpathia         ROM (first find of a playlist in edition #8)

   
Projects with digital playlists or content:

 

 

Active SHOWS:

 

SWRG - Shortwave Radiogram - Virginia, USA         KD9XB             M.Hirst-SWRG

https://swradiogram.net/

https://twitter.com/SWRadiogram

 

 

KBC Radiogram - Virginia ==> Florida, USA          KD9XB ==> WD4AH

https://www.kbcradio.eu/

https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/             KG4LAC-KBC

DX Headlines  https://twitter.com/PA0ETE   http://pa0ete.nl/

              https://wokka.be/@PA0ETE     https://mastodon.social/@PeterJohn

              https://www.facebook.com/lordpeterjohn.ofsealand

 

Radio Northern Europe International - County Hamshire, UK

https://rnei.org/listen/

https://twitter.com/RNEI_Official

 

 

Radio Carpathia - Transylvania, Romania            YO5LKA

https://radiocarpathia.org/

https://www.facebook.com/RadioCarpathia

 

Pop Shop Radio - British Columbia, Canada          Tony Pavick

http://www.popshopradio.ca/Where_To_Hear_Us.html

https://twitter.com/PopShopRadio1

 

Radio Catface International - San Jose, California, USA

http://meowr.net/schedule.html      https://linktr.ee/bobcatface

https://twitter.com/BobCatface           https://www.mixcloud.com/BobCatface/

https://bsky.app/profile/bobcatface.bsky.social

CatfaceMcRadio   CatfaceMcVideo

 

DK Radio - Mr.DoubleK  - Transylvania, Romania [via RNEI]

https://twitter.com/MrDoubleK_

 

Data with Jeff - Tennessee, USA  [via Radio Carpathia]  KG4ZIE

https://twitter.com/j3ffb33r

 

Cult of Show

https://www.cultof.show/

https://twitter.com/cultofshow

https://www.facebook.com/redvers

 

 

Ended SHOWS:

 

VOA Radiogram - Virginia, USA      ===> SWRG    KD9XB         M.Hirst-VOA

https://voaradiogram.net/

https://twitter.com/VOARadiogram

 

 

STF Radiogram - Toronto, Canada

https://stfradio.com/

https://twitter.com/RadioSTF

 

 

BSR Radiogram - Oklahoma, USA                   KG5JST

https://web.archive.org/web/20210615090238/http://www.broadspectrumradio.com/

https://www.facebook.com/BroadSpectrumRadio/

 

 

DIGI DX - Lancashire, UK

https://web.archive.org/web/20171013193405/http://www.digidx.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/digidx/

https://twitter.com/Digi_Dx

https://www.appbrain.com/dev/Stephen+Cooper/

 

Emergency Radio

http://www.emergency-radio.net/                 PA0ETE

 

SSR Radiogram - Amersfoort, Netherlands         PA0ETE

http://www.slowscanradio.com/

https://twitter.com/SlowScanRadio

https://mastodon.social/@PA0ETE@wokka.be

 

 

IBC Radiogram (IBC Digital|RADIOPASSIONI|425DXNEWS) - ITALY   IBC-WIKI

https://ibcradio.webs.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ITALIANBROADCASTINGCORPORATION/

https://www.facebook.com/MASETTISAVERIO

 

 

TIAMS / TIAEMS - Radiogram - Toronto, Canada

https://thisisamusicshow.com/

https://twitter.com/ThisIsAMusicSho/

https://mastodon.hams.social/@TIAMS

 

 


Music on Shortwave

https://app.box.com/s/kbdxb4c5lwpju0kpoi27aiwc35br2g2a

 

HFZone WRMI-B23 Human Readable SKedGrid ++

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wO3gMdUNvdGEBtUur9zdWulB--apVJsTt2GvUR1fRC0/edit#gid=1488486898

 

HFZone WRMI-A24 Human Readable SKedGrid ++

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rd3rFD3KVXZoS9uHKWcetJl88l1DZ87B0ViBd8B9lfc/edit#gid=1488486898