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Channel 292

info@channel292.de

www.channel292.de



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Welcome

Hello and welcome to the second episode of DigiDX, a review of the latest shortwave and DX news broadcast on Channel 292 in the MFSK32 mode.

The first broadcast of this episode is Sunday 28th February at 1100, to find out when we are next on the air visit http://www.digidx.uk.

Hopefully after several more test broadcasts we will have a fixed time weekly or every two weeks.

As well as news, this broadcast includes your letters and reception reports and a review of the Kaito KA108 radio courtesy of Thomas Witherspoon of SWling.com.

Please send any reception reports, comments or suggested stories to reports@digidx.uk

News Headlines:

BBC to Launch Korean News Service to N. Korea Q3 2016
Special station for Uganda Elections
China Radio International “financial difficulty”?
Upcoming relays and special broadcasts
 

BBC to Launch Korean News Service to N. Korea Q3 2016 - Report from KBS World (South Korea)

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will launch a shortwave radio service to North Korea this fall.
A BBC insider said the British government has given final approval to the public broadcaster's plan to broadcast news to North Korea and has even earmarked a budget.
The 30-minute daily broadcast in the Korean language will include news from the two Koreas, China and Japan. BBC will also run a website with a listen again section.
The source said that a team of ten has already begun preparing for the launch of the service and that BBC will hire a radio anchor and reporter proficient in Korean.
The news program will be produced at the BBC headquarters in London and transmitted via shortwave from locations including Singapore. Many North Korean residents are known to own a shortwave receiver.
BBC is also considering broadcasting its Korean news service in South Korea as well.

Report from http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_In_detail.htm?No=116870

Ugandan Diaspora P10 Radio Station continues

As mentioned as a possibility in the last edition of DigiDX, the Ugandan Election Station run by the P10 group is to continue daily on 15405kHz. This broadcast from 1630 to 1700 is scheduled until the B15 season finishes on 26th March 2016.
In a message to Glenn Hauser and posted on the DXLD Yahoo Group, Michael Puetz
Sales Consultant in the Business Unit Radio at MEDIA BROADCAST GmbH confirmed that the Ugandan Diaspora P10 Radio Station has used broadcast facilities in Germany and France. The 15405kHz daily transmission uses the Issoudun, France site.
 

CRI “financial difficulty”?

Several reports have come in from SWLs over the last few months where having sent a reception report to China Radio International they have been told that no QSL cards can be send out due to “financial difficulty”. CRI have in the past been very quick at sending QSL
cards, magazines and other items to listeners so this is a big departure from the station which dominates the shortwave bands. Hopefully this is not a sign of things to come at CRI with shortwave broadcasts in future also being dropped due to “financial difficulty”.
DigiDX will bring any more news on this that comes out of CRI over the next few months.
 

Upcoming relays and special broadcasts:

VOA Radiogram will be on air at the following times and frequencies over each weekend, the transmission is normally in MFSK32 but also includes other digital modes.

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
(all days and times UTC):
Sat 0930-1000 5865 kHz
Sat 1600-1630 17580 kHz
Sun 0230-0300 5745 kHz
Sun 1930-2000 15670 kHz
All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.

For full details of the programme [programme=Br., program=Am.] to be transmitted and the modes used go to http://voaradiogram.net/

Mighty KBC continue on 6040kHz from Nauan [Nauen] every Sunday from 0000 to 0300 UTC. The station have spoke about their financial problems recently, Eric van Willegen is looking for new sponsors and advertisers for the station

and can contacted via www.kbcradio.eu  and www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc. MightyKBC also include a a minute of MFSK32 Sunday at about 0220 UTC to decode.

Gilles Létourneau who runs the excellent OfficialSWLchannel channel on Youtube has another of his weekly radio related Hangouts this week with his Shortwave Radio Hangout this week. To watch the hangout at 2100UTC on Saturday 5th March or any of his videos go to
https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialSWLchannel

ITALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION - IBC, will broadcast again as follows: - Saturday 27 February 22.00-02.00 UTC on 6970 kHz USB TO THE AMERICAS

Sunday 28 February
08.00-12.00 UTC on 6970 kHz AM TO EUROPE
16.00-21.00 UTC on 6970 kHz USB TO ASIA AND OCEANIA

During the broadcasts they will broadcast some old transmissions in English, Italian and Farsi as well as new transmissions in English and Italian, including a mailbox (La posta degli ascoltatori) and "Italian Shortwave Panorama" co-produced with Marconi Radio
International.
Please spread the news and send your reception reports to ibc@europe.com .

 

Review of the Kaito KA108 by Thomas Witherspoon:

Recently, I learned about a new portable by Kaito Electronics: the Kaito KA108. While there are a number of compact portables on the market, the KA108 really caught my attention because it features a built-in digital recorder. Which is to say, you can listen to a
station on shortwave, press a button, and the KA108 will record it to a MicroSD card. Pretty cool, right? It’s also the first shortwave portable I’ve ever known that offers a scheduling feature for recordings.
In the past there have been a few shortwave portables with digital recording capabilities, but most of these have been plagued with poor performance. So this time, I had my fingers crossed that Kaito might have produced a winner.
Having used the KA108 for several days now, my initial review follows, with a focus on shortwave as well as mediumwave performance.
 

User’s Manual

The KA108 actually ships with two manuals: a quick start reference guide and a proper highly-detailed user’s manual.
The manual is written in English and is quite descriptive, despite a number of spelling and grammar errors that should have been caught before going to print. It’s obvious that Kaito didn’t hire a native English speaker/professional editor to check their copy. (I
don’t understand why a company would go to the expense to produce a manual without having it professionally edited…Kaito, please take note!) Fortunately, these spelling and grammar errors, while annoying, can be overlooked and/or deciphered by most English-speaking
readers.
 

Tuning

On the plus side, the KA108 sports a full number keypad for direct frequency entry. This makes tuning to a known frequency a very simple process––with one exception (see below). There’s also a tuning wheel on the right side of the radio.
Using the keypad requires some getting used to, however. Most of us––myself included––are familiar with traditional numeric keypads, but the KA108 inexplicably changes the game plan: as you can see above, the “0” button is located on the lower right side of the main
keypad. So it took me a few hours of use before I could reliably key in a frequency without looking at the radio.
In my humble opinion, Kaito should have moved the number pad up one row, positioned the “ATS” button to the lowest row on the left, the “0” button to its immediate right, and completed the bottom row with the “Rewind/Play/Fast-Forward” buttons.
Another annoyance––and this is a big one for me–-is that the KA108 has extended muting between frequency changes. It makes band-scanning a frustrating experience. I made a short video demonstrating this:
 

Audio

The KA108 is designed around a very innovative small speaker with an acoustic chamber that significantly boosts bass response. This is the same speaker used in the Melson S8 that I reviewed some time ago.
The audio fidelity is excellent on FM, and when playing back a full-fidelity digital recording. Unfortunately, when tuned to the AM broadcast (mediumwave) band or to the shortwave bands, the KA108 falls short; the bass response actually becomes an impediment to
listening.
In a nutshell: the KA108 audio has issues. A further explanation of the KA108’s audio is described in the performance notes that follow.
 

Shortwave Performance

Kaito-KA-108

I’m quite disappointed with the KA108’s shortwave performance.

Almost immediately after unboxing the KA108, I inserted a battery, walked outdoors, and tuned through the 31 meter band.

Other than a couple of blow-torch North American private broadcasters, I heard…nothing. It was during this first band scan that I realized how annoying the tuning mute could be. And the audio, meanwhile, sounded muffled and garbled: I assumed that there was some
local interference, and simply turned the radio off, hoping the following day would produce a change for the better.

The following day, I spent a great deal of time with the KA108 on the air, and compared it with the Eton Traveller III and the Tecsun PL-310ET––both capable, similarly-priced compact DSP radios.
Sure enough, when compared with other portables, the KA108’s reception is, sadly, rather poor.

At first I thought it might be an issue with receiver sensitivity, but the KA108 could receive almost every station the Traveller III and the PL-310ET could receive. But the audio was so muffled on the KA108, even with the use of headphones, that spoken word was
hard to interpret. Additionally, the over-active AGC (Automatic Gain Control) meant that audio levels were all over the place. That combination makes for fatiguing listening.
Over the next few days with the KA108 on shortwave, I drew a few conclusions.
After recognizing that the audio fidelity did not improve significantly when using headphones, I realized that at least three factors are having a negative impact on shortwave audio, as follows:
 

The default AM bandwidth is too narrow for broadcasts, and cannot be adjusted
The AGC setting is over-active and causes audio pumping; it, too, cannot be adjusted
Portions of the shortwave bands are polluted by internally-generated noise/interference
This combination makes for sloppy shortwave performance.

 

MP3/WAV Playback and recording

There are some redeeming virtues with the KA108, however. Here’s a positive: digital playback with the KA108 is fantastic. I’ve played a wide variety of audio files on the KA108, and am very impressed with its on-board MP3/WAV player. While audio characteristics
unfortunately cannot be adjusted––i.e., there’s no equalization––I find the default audio settings well-balanced for both music and voice.

Recording directly from shortwave and mediumwave is also quite good. I believe its on-board recorder is perhaps the best I’ve tried in recent portables; it’s a marked improvement over that of the Kaito KA29, for example. It seems to capture the receiver’s produced
audio well, with only a slight, high-pitched “hiss” injected in the audio, though this is not a major distraction.

Sadly the main distraction is that the recorder is recording audio, as I’ve outlined above, from a sub-par receiver.
Still, as an MP3/WAV player, it’s brilliant, and boasts excellent audio.
 

Summary

Invariably, all radios have strengths and weaknesses; here’s a list of my notes from the moment I put the KA108 on the air:

Pros:

Great portable size
Clear back-lit display
Numerous recording and playback features
Audio via MP3 or headphones is strong, considering the small speaker with acoustic chamber provides more bass response and volume than comparable portables (see con)
Excellent FM reception
Excellent MP3/WAV playback with well-balanced audio fidelity
Recorder schedule function
Alarms and sleep timers easy to use
Dedicated MicroSD and USB slots on top of chassis
 

Cons:

Mediocre sensitivity on SW and MW
Internally-generated noise on MW and SW
Audio (via built-in speaker) is:
too bass-heavy, lacks treble on MW/SW
garbled and mushy on MW/SW
“hot” and often splatters/distorts when signals are strong
Tuning
extended mute between frequency changes
no “scan to next station” function (only ATS)
Any local RFI garbles reception even further on SW/MW
No SSB (in fairness, few radios in this price class have SSB)
Antenna swivel to the front somewhat blocked by the radio’s chassis
 

Conclusion

I really wanted the Kaito KA108 to be a strong––or even average––performer. Why? Because, like many of you, I would love to have a capable shortwave/mediumwave radio with built-in digital recording and playback.
For the full review including Thomas’s view on the MW and FM performance please go to http://goo.gl/jteIgg
 

Reception Reports

Thank you for all the reception reports sent in for our first episode, in total there were about 50 reports from all over Europe and the US and Canada via remote receivers in Twente, Sweden and Spain.

Andreja Kostić from Kiel in Germany sent a nice detailed report for the 1700UTC broadcast:

“Hello,
I've listened to the broadcast from Kiel, in Northern Germany, on the border between CIRAF zones 18 and 28NW. Precise locator is JO54bi.
My receiver is a Sangean ATS 505 radio and ANT-60 7 meter long reel antenna placed indoors. I'm in a ground floor of a concrete building, surrounded on all sides with even more concrete buildings, so it's a bad location to listen to radio.
Normally, I cannot receive Channel 292 broadcasts and in rare cases when I do, it's almost unusable without use of adaptive filtering for noise suppression.
During entirety of this reception, I was receiving interference from China Radio International. I think I've had some interference between two carries.
In general, when FL-DIGI reported SNR od around -8 dB, I've had usable reception. At around -11, it would turn into gibberish.
Text was mostly readable, but there are sections which were unusable. First few seconds of reception were lost due to mistuning, since for some reason the center of AF was on 1452 Hz instead on expected 1500 Hz. Entire received text is attached.
Reception of image at the end was extremely poor. Only in few places is it possible to see what was transmitted.”
Thanks Andreja, hopefully on this second broadcast we are centered on 1500Hz. The interference from CRI and later from Vatican Radio was a good test of the robustness of the MFSK32 mode.
Don Wycoff from from Connecticut, USA used his Android phone to recieve [receive] the broadcast via the University of Twente SDR. Which app did you use Don?


From Florida Al Holt tried to tune in over the air but ended up listening to a remote receiver in Sweden:

“I tuned in for the inaugural broadcast of DigiDx Report on Feb 2, 2016 at my location in northern Florida but was not able to receive the signal over the air, but was able to use a SDR located in Sweden to receive and decode the broadcast from about 2030 to 2050
UTC.

I’m located in Alachua, Florida which is a rural/suburban area in the north central part of the state. We’re not too far off the I-75 Interstate roadway. My receiving setup consists of a Kenwood R-1000 receiver and a 44 meter longwire antenna mounted about 7.6 meters
above ground level. It’s orientation favors reception to the NE and SW.
As you know, the frequency 6070 kHz is used by CFRX in Canada and when I tried tuning in that frequency on the Kenwood, I was just barely receiving them but there was no sound of your MFSK32 modulation.
I was able to connect to a KiwiSDR in Fernebo, Sweden ( http://kiwisdr.sk3w.se:8073 ) [http://sdr.hu/] and listen to the broadcast. Signal strength at location was fair with their S-Meter registering between S5 and S7. I would say, SINPO of 34343 during the time period”
Al also sent the image received via email and then continued -
“I also tried the WebSDR at Univ. of Twente but it was not receiving a signal.
I’m a regular listener to VOA Radiogram and it’s good to see another European digital mode broadcaster. As far as ideas for program information it might be popular to solicit station photos from users and retransmit. The text information you provided in this
broadcast provided good reading and at the moment, I can’t think of other stories to present.
I hope you are able to continue your project!”
 

Thanks for that Al, hopefully we will keep getting such good feedback from listeners and are able to continue. A broadcast to the US on WBCQ is something we are looking at and hopefully will have news of it the next broadcast or on our Facebook page

( https://www.facebook.com/digidx/ )
Thanks also to Kim Andrew Elliott who produces the excellent VOA Radiogram for mentioning the broadcast in an email to his mailing list and for sending me lots of tips to improve the MFSK32 broadcast.
Several people also sent images of their radios and listening shacks into us, please keep doing this with your reception reports and we will include one or two of the images in the next broadcast.
 

A QSL card image now follows in MFSK32 mode:

 

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This is DigiDX Signing Off......

 

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R.B. Phillips in Massachusetts listens to The Mighty KBC on this
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http://www.kbcradio.eu/index.php?dir=gallery

http://antiqueradio.org/halli02.htm

Please report decode to themightykbc@gmail.com

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Welcome to program 152 from VOA Radiogram from the Voice of
America.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Washington.

Here is the lineup for today's program, all in MFSK32 except
where noted:

  1:36 Program preview (now)
  2:45 China expands media controls*
11:07 Iran hardliners accuse BBC of interference*
15:42 Australia will increase defense spending*
21:35 Olivia 64-2000: Planned observatory in India
27:04 MFSK32: Closing announcements


Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

And visit voaradiogram.net.

Twitter: @VOARadiogram





VOA NEWS

Chinese President Continues to Expand Media Controls

William Ide
February 24, 2016

BEIJING - China's recent announcement of a stringent new
publishing law for online content and a visit by the country's
increasingly powerful leader to several state-run media
headquarters is but the latest chilling sign of President Xi
Jinping's efforts to exert increasing control over society,
analysts say.

But, it also highlights the limits of that authority as well.

From academia to culture, technology and science, the party is
looming large, casting an ever-expanding shadow.

Since rising to power nearly three years ago, Xi Jinping has
exerted increasing control over society, cracking down on
dissidents and detaining anyone perceived to be a threat to
stability in the view of the Communist Party.

Xi wants music and art to reflect Chinese socialist values, and
late last year, the party even ordered its own members to not
play golf, meet alone and criticize the party.

When Xi visited the headquarters of party-backed media
organizations late last week, flanked by a group of other older
men, all donning the same bland wind jacket, the message to
editors and reporters was similar: they must pledge absolute
loyalty to the party and closely follow its leadership in
"thought, politics and action."

Some who work for state-run media say the visit highlights just
how bad things have become since Xi came to power. "While there
used to be some room to maneuver and do our work, now there is
little room left at all," said one source who did not want to be
named.

Serve public or party?

On social media, the visit has sparked a backlash from some, led
by prominent commentator and real estate tycoon Ren Zhiqiang, who
is also known by his nickname "Big Cannon."

In a post that was later taken down, Ren argued that it was the
public, not the party leadership, that such media organizations
should serve; especially since they get their funding from
taxpayers.

A quote from former Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping was also
making the rounds on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter,
as many voiced concerns about recent moves even as the party is
seeking to tighten its chokehold on speech.

"The one thing a revolutionary party does not need to worry about
is its inability to hear the voice of the people. The thing to be
feared the most is silence," a tweet of the Deng quote read.

In response, one user who goes by the name "Zhang Wenwen's Little
Friend" wrote: "I feel like our country is heading in a bad
direction and that if we go any further there may be no turning
back. I hope I am wrong."

History repeats itself

Others such as Lu Zheng the Brave saw the situation from a
historical perspective. Many of China's current leaders,
including Xi, grew up during China's disastrous and deadly
Cultural Revolution era.

Xi's own father was jailed during the period.

"Now it is those who were victimized during the Cultural
Revolution who are using those same methods to victimize others,"
Lu Zheng wrote.

Chinese historian and political commentator Zhang Lifan said that
while the government can crack down and tighten up things for a
while, ultimately things will loosen up again, adding that social
media is especially difficult to control.

Zhang said that right now there is a fierce battle going on
between two camps, the party and private media, and it is clear
that the party has lost control.

"The leadership is trying to dominate the battle for public
opinion," Zhang said. "But right now it is a situation where each
side is just voicing its own views. The public on the other hand,
does not believe the government's propaganda, and just searches
out information on its own."

Full text:
http://www.voanews.com/content/chinese-president-continues-to-expand-media-controls/3204721.html

See related:
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/xi-jinping-tells-chinese-media-to-speak-for-the-party-02222016102152.html

Image: Broadcasters at CCTV America studio in Washington greet
President Xi Jinping during his visit to CCTV headquarters in
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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.
 

From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:

Iran's Hard-Liners Accuse BBC Of Backing Moderates In
Upcoming Vote

Golnaz Esfandiari
Persian Letters Blog
February 24, 2016

Iranian hard-liners are trying to undermine their moderate
opponents ahead of the February 26 parliamentary elections by
alleging that their list of candidates is supported by Great
Britain.

The vote will pit moderates against hard-liners running for the
parliament's 290 seats and the 86-member Assembly of Experts that
could choose Iran's next supreme leader. Many prominent
reformists have been reportedly barred from running by the
conservative Guardians Council that screens all candidates for
office in the Islamic republic.

"The British government is evil, and when it supports only some
of the election lists, we should be worried," said Ayatollah
Hassan Mamduhi, a member of the Assembly of Experts.

Speaking to the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the
powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mamduhi added that
"those candidates that are being supported by Britain" should
declare their innocence.

Many pointed the finger at the BBC, claiming that the British
news service had told Iranians which candidates to vote for.

Among these accusers was ultraconservative cleric Ahmad Khatami,
also a member of the Assembly of Experts, who claimed that
"arrogant powers" are intent on an "infiltration" of Iran's
center of power.

"Isn't it interference by the British media to present a list of
candidates and tell [people], 'Vote for this, don't vote for
that'?" Khatami said over the weekend.

The Persian service of the BBC appears to have angered Iranian
hard-liners due to its popularity and attempts to provide
Iranians with news and information they don't get from heavily
censored Iranian state broadcasts.

The news portal Mashreghnews.ir posted pictures of several people
in the western province of Ilam holding signs that said "I will
not vote for the BBC candidate."

The "British list" allegations prompted a sharp reaction from
Iranian President Hassan Rohani, a self-proclaimed moderate, who
said the intelligence of Iranian voters should not be insulted.
"There is no need to add color to the old face of worn-out
colonial [powers] and belittle the people," Rohani was quoted as
saying on February 24.

Full text:
http://www.rferl.org/content/iran-elections-hardliners-accuse-uk-backing-moderates/27572098.html

This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.


VOA NEWS

Australia Announces $21 Billion Defense Expansion

Phil Mercer
February 25, 2016

SYDNEY - Australia will spend an extra $21 billion in defense
spending over the next decade. The government says it reflects
concern over rapid militarization in the Asia-Pacific region.

The specifics of Australia's defense priorities for the next
decade were revealed in a policy document released Thursday by
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The biggest investment will be the construction of 12 submarines,
with additional funds for other naval vessels, fighter jets and
more than 62,000 personnel, its biggest permanent force since
1993.

Under Turnbull's blueprint, defense spending will make up two
percent of Australia's national income within five years.

There is concern in Canberra over China's militarization of the
South China Sea, and officials concede the new policy document
reflects Australia's "growing discomfort" with Beijing's military
activity.

Speaking Thursday in the national capital, Canberra, the Prime
Minister said Australia had to respond to military changes in its
region.

"The relationship between the United States and China, how it
develops and grows, will be critically important. We welcome
China's rise and its greater capacity to share responsibility for
supporting regional and global security. We will seek to build on
our already strong military ties with Indonesia - that vibrant,
stable democracy to our north," said Turnbull.

Analysts believe the Australian defense plan highlights
Canberra's willingness to work with other countries to maintain
regional stability, and should not be seen as sending a direct
warning to China.

They add that Australia must tread a delicate diplomatic path --
developing its longstanding military alliance with the United
States and bolstering ties with India and Japan, while at the
same time nurturing its relationship with China, its biggest
trading partner.

http://www.voanews.com/content/australia-announces-21-billion-defense-expansion/3207345.html

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration to Build New Observatory in India

Rick Pantaleo
VOA Science World Blog
February 19, 2016

Just days (2/11/16) after announcing the first detection of
Einstein's theorized gravitational waves, the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration has been granted approval in principle by India to
build an Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave
Observatory there.

LIGO currently operates two observatories in the United States;
one in Hanford, Washington and the other in Livingston,
Louisiana.

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration says the addition of an
observatory in India to its network will greatly improve the
ability of scientists to identify and analyze the sources of
incoming gravitational waves.

bit.ly/1LIcu53


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Re: [A-DX] Geisterschiff Modern Express - Navtex

Am 30.01.2016 um 17:11 schrieb Olaf C. H.:

Moin!

Kam heute in den Nachrichten und so sieht hier die Meldung über 518kHz Corsen/FRAU/Navtex aus:

2016-01-30 16:02:33> ZCZC AA36
2016-01-30 16:02:37> 281205 UTC JAN 16
2016-01-30 16:02:38> 
2016-01-30 16:02:42> AVURNAV BREST 052/16
2016-01-30 16:02:43> 
2016-01-30 16:02:46> PAZENN
2016-01-30 16:02:47> 
2016-01-30 16:02:58> 1-VESSEL MODERN EXPRESS DISABLED AND ADRIFT IN VICINITY 45-55.7N - 
2016-01-30 16:02:58> 
2016-01-30 16:03:04> 005-40.7W AT 272000 UTC JAN 16.
2016-01-30 16:03:06> 
2016-01-30 16:03:13> 2-NAVIGATION LIGHTS AND AIS ARE SWITCHED ON.
2016-01-30 16:03:15>
2016-01-30 16:03:21> 3-REQUESTED TO KEEP A SHARP LOOKOUT.
2016-01-30 16:03:22> 
2016-01-30 16:03:31> 4-FRENCH VESSEL ABEILLE BOURBON STAY IN VICINITY.
2016-01-30 16:03:31> 
2016-01-30 16:03:32>  
2016-01-30 16:03:33> 
2016-01-30 16:03:41> CANCEL THIS MESSAGE 302200 UTC JAN 16.
2016-01-30 16:03:42> 
2016-01-30 16:03:44>  
2016-01-30 16:03:45> 
2016-01-30 16:03:46> 
2016-01-30 16:03:47> NNNN

73´s
Olaf
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