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Welcome to program 436 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:

  1:45 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:56 MFSK32: Persian text from RFE/RL Radio Farda
  7:06 MFSK64: New bipartisan funding for USAGM
10:10 MFSK64: This week's images*
28:18 MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image(s)


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With Iran in the news, and international broadcasting to Iran in
the news, and UNESCO World Radio Day on 13 February, here is an
excerpt of text from Radio Farda, the Persian-language service of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, transmitted via shortwave radio
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در دل سرمای عمیق منظومه خورشیدی، قمر یخی انسلادوس با فوران‌های آب
و یخ، دانشمندان را غافلگیر کرده است. کشف مولکول‌های آلی پیچیده در
این فواره‌ها، که مستقیماً از اقیانوس زیرسطحی می‌آیند، این قمر
کیوان (زحل) را به یکی از جدی‌ترین نامزدها در جست‌وجوی حیات
فرازمینی بدل کرده است؛ جایی که شاید پاسخ پرسش «آیا تنها هستیم؟»
آرام‌آرام از دل یخ سر برمی‌آورد.

Deep in the cold of the solar system, the icy moon Enceladus has
surprised scientists with its eruptions of water and ice.
The discovery of complex organic molecules in these jets, coming
directly from a subsurface ocean, has made this moon of Saturn
one of the most serious candidates in the search for extra-
terrestrial life, where the answer to the question "Are we alone?"
may be slowly emerging from the ice.

https://www.radiofarda.com/a/enceladus-and-trappist-1e-life-on-another-planets/33634198.html

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From Reporters sans frontières (RSF) /
Reporters Without Borders ...

USA: New funding for USAGM signals sustained bipartisan support
for its crucial international journalism

Februarty 10, 2026

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the inclusion of funds
for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the
other public media outlets supported by the US Agency for Global
Media (USAGM) in the 2026 appropriations bill signed by President
Trump on February 3. The decision sends a strong, bipartisan
message that USAGM outlets are vital sources of reliable news
worldwide. This funding supports life-saving, critical news
reporting in many closed countries where local journalists are
attacked for trying to keep the public informed.

On February 3, President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited
annual spending bill into law, which includes funding for USAGM
for the next year. The international public broadcasters
supported by USAGM — Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), The Office of Cuba Broadcasting
(Radio and Television Martí), Radio Free Asia (RFA) and The
Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN) — provide reliable
information in some of the world’s most difficult environments,
including Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, China, Russia and Venezuela. In
2024, USAGM’s networks reached a weekly audience of 427 million
people worldwide. USAGM funding will also go to The Open
Technology Fund, which supports internet freedom technologies for
journalists and their audiences.

The fact that the inclusion of funding for USAGM was supported by
both Democrats and Republicans, and in both the House and the
Senate, sends a clear signal that Congress supports the agency
and its journalists. This funding is a particularly important
development as the Trump administration has been waging a war
against USAGM media — and journalism at large — since the US
president took office for a second time one year ago. On March
14th, he signed an Executive Order attempting to dismantle USAGM.
Since then, Kari Lake, who has managed USAGM under the Trump
administration, has continued to freeze the ability of USAGM
journalists to do their congressionally mandated work, notably by
trying to slash the agency’s workforce. RSF has brought a lawsuit
against the Trump administration to save VOA alongside its
journalists and their unions. In September, a district court
ordered Lake to reverse the VOA layoffs and keep its journalists
on USAGM’s payroll, yet Lake refuses to let them report and is
keeping them on furlough.

Although the funding passed for USAGM is a roughly 25% cut from
previous years, it still sends a strong message that Lake must
end her efforts to erode USAGM and let the journalists do their
jobs.

"By funding Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
and the US Agency for Global Media’s other entities for the next
year, Congress sent a rare, strong, and bipartisan message that
access to reliable information matters. That basic truth has
guided RSF's defense of USAGM, including a lawsuit to save VOA.
Journalists working for VOA and the other outlets that USAGM
supports shine a light in places where the truth is threatened
and reporters are in danger. They provide an invaluable service
for millions of people who want to be better informed. It's time
for Kari Lake to end her campaign of destruction and let these
journalists get back to work." -- Clayton Weimers, Executive
Director of RSF North America

https://rsf.org/en/usa-new-funding-usagm-signals-sustained-bipartisan-support-its-crucial-international-journalism
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This week's images ...
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A light show in the run-up to Shanghai's spring festival (Year of
the Horse). tinyurl.com/28uco6c7 ...

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A cat makes its way through a room of drying incense sticks at a
cottage-industry production site in Jakarta, Indonesia.
tinyurl.com/22rkxo3n ...

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Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen competes -- and took gold -- in
the men's downhill alpine skiing event at the Winter Olympics.
tinyurl.com/22xp774m ...

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Italian ski racer Federica Brignone trains for the women's
downhill event in the run-up to the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter
Olympic Games. tinyurl.com/2c7od5eo ..

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A jogger on the Lewiston Levee Parkway Trail as the sunset lights
up the Snake River in Idaho. tinyurl.com/22bjk9t9 ...

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The Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial in frigid, icy weather
of Washington DC, February 9. tinyurl.com/29lr37kc ...

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A yellow-rumped warbler among the blooming aloe at the Los
Angeles Arboretum, February 8. tinyurl.com/2xjg452l ...

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Aloka, a formerly stray Indian Pariah dog, accompanied Buddhist
monks on 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace" across the United States.
tinyurl.com/2cw727u9 ..

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Our ink drawing of the week is by friend of several decades
Robert Horvitz ...

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Our painting of the week is "Between" (2019) by Mark Grantham
(Canadian , b. 1966). tinyurl.com/292qxny6 ...

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