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The following image should be a straight verical blue line. If
the line is slanted, then either your or my sound card, or
something in the chain, is out of calibration.

<EOT>
 

 


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<EOT>
 


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More information about MFSK image slant:

http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-3.22/DigiWWV.html


http://www.pa-sitrep.com/NBEMS/fldigi_calibration.htm


http://bit.ly/1qgKJYl


Thanks to The Mighty KBC.


<EOT>

 

 


 

 

 

 

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Welcome to VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Washington.

Here is the lineup for today's program:

  1:30 Program preview (now)
  2:31 Vertical line for sound card calibration
  4:18 Neuron loss and insomnia, with image
  9:36 Producing rubber from dandelions, with image
14:47 North Korea inspecting TVs from China, with RFA logo
22:39 Some Tibetan text
24:05 Closing announcements

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

And visit voaradiogram.net.

Twitter: @VOARadiogram


<EOT>
 

 

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Some VOA Radiogram listeners have decoded MFSK images that are
slanted. This could be due to a sound card (yours or mine), or
something in the chain, that is out of calibration.

So, for calibration purposes, here is a blue line that *should*
be perfectly straight and vertical...


<EOT>
 


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<EOT>



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If the line is not straight and vertical, try these remedies:

http://www.w1hkj.com/FldigiHelp-3.22/DigiWWV.html


http://www.pa-sitrep.com/NBEMS/fldigi_calibration.htm


http://bit.ly/1qgKJYl


<EOT>
 

 


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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.


Note from Kim:

I've always thought that exposure to shortwave transmissions
might cause neuron loss.

Now this news:


Neuron Loss Could Cause Insomnia in Elderly

VOA News
August 26, 2014

Sleep becomes more difficult as people age. Until now, it's been
unclear why older individuals experience insomnia and sleep
disruption.

Now, a new study finds that the loss of neurons in a particular
region of the brain may be partially to blame. The finding could
one day lead to specific treatments to treat sleep problems in
older people.

In an article in Brain, researchers at the University of Toronto
in Canada report that inhibitory neurons are significantly
diminished in Alzheimer's patients and some elderly people.

Researchers analyzed data from a community-based study involving
about 1,000 subjects. Investigators followed the participants as
healthy 65 years olds from 1997 when the study began until their
deaths, when their brains were donated for research.

Every two years, the subjects wore a small water-proof wristwatch
device 24 hours a day for seven to 10 days that monitored all
their movements.

Toronto neurologist Andrew Lim says the absence of movement for
five minutes or longer indicated the subjects were sleeping.

The authors studied the brains of 45 deceased participants. They
counted the number of neurons in the brain area associated with
regulating sleep patterns, and correlated that with data from the
monitoring device.

Among participants who did not have Alzheimer's disease -those
with the highest number of neurons slept the longest during
periods of non-movement. Those with fewer brain cells had more
fragmented sleep.

However, the greatest sleep impairment was found among
Alzheimer's patients, whose brains had the fewest number of
neurons.

http://www.voanews.com/content/neuron-loss-could-cause-insomnia-in-elderly/2428658.html


<EOT>
 

 


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<EOT>
 

 


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<EOT>
 

 


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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.



VOA NEWS

Rubber May Soon Come From Dandelions

George Putic
August 25, 2014

Synthetic rubber has been around for more than a century, but
quality tires for cars, trucks and aircraft still need up to 40
percent or more natural rubber content. As the source of natural
rubber, the rubber tree is prone to disease and can be affected
by bad weather. So scientists are looking for replacements and
may have found one in a ubiquitous weed.

Rubber trees, growing mostly on Southeast Asian plantations, are
sensitive plants - giving the optimal yield of raw rubber only
under ideal atmospheric conditions, an equal distribution of
rainfall and bright sunshine, with the absence of strong winds.

They are also extremely sensitive to a plant disease that has
devastated rubber plantations in the tree's original habitat,
South America.

Dandelions, on the other hand, are tough weeds that grow even
in poor soil and are not overly sensitive to a changing climate.

Scientists have long known that the dandelion's milky sap
contains latex, the main ingredient of raw rubber. A variety
native to Kazakhstan is the richest source.

Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular
Biology and Applied Ecology, supported by car tire industry, are
trying to manipulate its genes to produce latex in quantities
suitable for commercial exploitation, says lead researcher Dirk
Pruefer.

"One of the main challenges in dandelion research was to produce
plants, novel plants that have an improved rubber content that
has a good economic behavior in the field. And that is why we're
working [for] years on the breeding program to develop new traits
in the plants, stabilized traits - for example stable rubber
content," said Pruefer.

The genetically-engineered dandelion is already producing half a
ton of rubber per hectare, but Pruefer says the scientists' goal
is about twice as much. They would also like to grow taller
plants with upright leaves, which are more suitable for machine
harvesting.

Pruefer says one of the leading tire manufacturers, Continental
AG, is already testing tires made with dandelion-based rubber.

"They made a lot of testing tissues so see the quality of the
material. And what you can see is that the quality is similar to
that what they have originally done with the rubber from the
rubber tree," he said.

Researchers say large fields in Europe and Asia, currently
unusable due to poor soil, may someday be covered with
rubber-producing yellow flowers.

http://www.voanews.com/content/rubber-might-soon-come-from-dandelions/2427812.html



<EOT>
 


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<EOT>
 

 

 


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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.



From Radio Free Asia:

North Korea Steps up Inspections of Chinese-Made Television Sets

Reported by Sung-hui Moon, RFA Korean Service
2014-08-26

Authorities in North Korea are stepping up inspections on
households with television sets imported from neighboring China,
specially targeting LCD sets with USB ports and remote control
functions, in Pyongyang's latest attempt to prevent citizens from
accessing foreign media, according to sources.

North Koreans living along the Chinese border believe that such
inspections are meant to block them from watching the Asian Games
to be hosted by arch-rival neighbor South Korea.

Imported television sets are capable of receiving foreign
broadcasts.

North Korea had earlier threatened to pull out of the Sept.
19-Oct. 4 Asian Games after Seoul refused to cover the cost of
accommodating a large team at the event, but finally decided to
send 273 athletes and officials tot he Games.

As of mid-August, Pyongyang's censorship unit, known as "109
Sangmu," has been visiting "every" household in Yanggang
province, which borders China, to inspect their television sets,
a source told RFA's Korean Service, speaking on condition of
anonymity.

The source said censors had removed USB ports on the LCDs and
deliberately broke equipment on the TVs so that viewers could not
use remote-control devices.

Aside from better display quality, LCD television sets have
features that can link multiple external devices, including USB
flash drives on which North Koreans illegally download South
Korean soap operas and other entertainment as well as information
on developments overseas.

Foreign broadcasts and CDs and DVDs are prohibited in North
Korea, where television is the most accessed media platform.
Approved TVs and radios are programmed to receive only official
channels in the reclusive country where there is effectively no
Internet and the Intranet is tightly monitored.

Unpopular move

Sources said some residents had resisted the move by authorities
to remove the USB terminals from the LCD sets.

Some of them hid their TVs or just tried to fend off inspectors,
said another source in Yanggang province, who also declined to be
identified.

The source said the government had more thoroughly inspected
residents' LCD television sets than analog TVs because the former
come with the capability for watching foreign programs while
operating at a low voltage.

"The price of a Chinese-made LCD television on the market varies
from about U.S. $50 for a 5.5-inch (nearly 14 cm) portable set to
about U.S. $500 for a 42-inch (107 cm) set," said a resident of
North Hamgyong province.

The source said that merchants secretly sold portable LCD
television sets so viewers could watch foreign programs on the
units.

Elite privilege

Those considered "elites" - people with political or economic
influence and financial means greater than that of average
citizens - usually have access to advanced types of media
technology, including USB drives, according to the consultancy
group InterMedia.

Such technology makes it easier to access, conceal and share
foreign content, especially for those who live along the border
with China.

Many North Koreans watch foreign programs saved on USB devices,
which are compact and easy to conceal from government inspectors,
said the InterMedia report, released in 2012 and commissioned by
the U.S. State Department.

Despite strict regulations and severe penalties, North
Koreans - especially the elite - have had greater access to news and
other media outside the government-controlled media.

Although Internet access remains tightly controlled, access to
radio and DVDs are commonplace along with television in border
areas.

The report also noted that more North Koreans had access to TVs
sets capable of receiving outside broadcasts, despite official
regulations that require televisions to be fixed only to certain
national channels.

Translated by Jina Lee. Written by Roseanne Gerin.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/televisions-08262014143901.html



<EOT>
 


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<EOT>
 

 

 


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Finally on today's VOA Radiogram, we will transmit some text in
the Tibetan language.
 

 

The text will appear in Flidigi as a series of accent marks,
because Fldigi does not have handlers for the Microsoft Himalayan
font. However, copy the content from the Fldigi receive pane and
paste it to your word processor, and the Tibetan characaters
might display correctly...
 

<EOT>

  I operated this time as usual:
  The decoded text of FLDIGI (including all the cryptic characters) to the clipboard

  and from there into the HyperText-Markup-Language-editor.
  In the HTML then everything was converted correctly.

  The real problem is the translation in an Indo-European language ......        ;-)

  I only recognize individual words out of context, like:
  China  # central government # refusal/disability # power/strength # disregard # change # population

         roger




 


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<EOT>
 

 

 


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Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

And visit voaradiogram.net.

Twitter: @VOARadiogram

Thanks to colleagues at the Edward R. Murrow shortwave
transmitting station in North Carolina.

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

This is VOA, the Voice of America.


<EOT>
 

 


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<EOT>
 


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<EOT>
 

 

 

 

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

 

 QTH:

 D-06193 Petersberg (Germany/Germania)

 Ant.:

 Dipol for 40m-Band

 RX:

 ICOM IC-R75 + IF-mixer

 Software IF:

 con STUDIO1 - Software italiano per SDR       [SAM-USB]

 Software AF:

 Fldigi 3.21.83  +   flmsg-2.0.4

 OS:

 German XP-SP3 with support for asian languages

 PC:               

 MEDION Titanium 8008  (since 2003)   [ P4  -  2,6 GHz]

 


 

 

 

 

DRM-images   -   received via EASYPAL/DSSTV on 14233kHz/USB    (FRG-100 / Dipol for ~12 MHz)

 

 

Here are some pictures of  OE3AWA  [Walter Westermayer,  Atzenbrugg 3452, Austria]  received in the last time, distance only ~460 km, my QTH is near "Leipzig".