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Hello and welcome to the fifth
episode of DigiDX, a review of the latest shortwave and DX news broadcast in the
MFSK32 mode. This broadcast includes shortwave news and reception reports and a
feature which is a comparison of the HFCC B15 and new A16
season schedules.
Also included after the news is another attempt to broadcast a MIDI audio file,
this time in MFSK32 mode.
DigiDX Schedule for March - including new WRMI relays to North America.
Episode 5 - Friday 18th March :
2000UTC - 2030UTC - 6070kHz (Channel
292-DE)
Episode 5 - Sunday 20th March : 1100UTC - 1130UTC
- 6070kHz (Channel 292-DE)
Episode 5 - Sunday 20th March : 1230UTC -
1300UTC - 6070kHz (Channel 292-DE)
Episode 5 - Sunday 20th March : 2330UTC - 0000UTC
- 11580kHZ (WRMI-US)
Episode 6 - Friday 25th March : 2000UTC -
2030UTC - 3985kHz (Radio 700-DE)
Episode 6 - Saturday 26th March : 2000UTC - 2030UTC - 6070kHz
(Channel 292-DE)
Episode 6 - Sunday 27th March : 1100UTC - 1130UTC - 6070kHz
(Channel 292-DE)
Episode 6 - Sunday 27th March : 1230UTC - 1300UTC - 6070kHz
(Channel 292-DE)
Episode 6 - Sunday 27th March : 2330UTC -
0000UTC - 11580kHZ (WRMI-US)
Please keep checking our Facebook (
https://www.facebook.com/digidx/
) or Twitter (
https://twitter.com/digi_dx
) page for details of any extra broadcasts planned.
Latest Shortwave News:
A16 schedules
IRIB Radio website changes to Pars Today
In-car shortwave adaptor launched
Voice of Hope test and Radio Taiwan transmissions.
A16 schedules released
As mentioned in last weeks DigiDX, HFCC have now uploaded the co-ordinated A16
season schedule to their website. The schedule can be found here -
http://www.hfcc.org/data/a16/
This give’s a good first look of what the A16 schedule
will be however in some cases
broadcasters or frequency management organisations register frequencies with the
HFCC as reserve frequencies with no intentions to actual use (often refered to
as “wooden” registrations). For example GFC in Russia register many frequencies
for Voice of Russia which
hasn’t been on shortwave since 2014.
This episode of DigiDX includes a comparison of B15 vs A16 schedules for some
international broadcasts. A16 season starts on the 27th March 2016.
IRIB Radio website changes to Pars Today
Iran’s IRIB have relaunched their website as Pars Today at the
http://parstoday.com/
with the same 18 lauguage services that were
previously part of IRIB World Service.
Although shortwave frequencies are included on the Pars Today site, Alan Roe (DXLD)
contacted IRIB about an on-air name change but received the following - “"About
the question that you posed I can tell you there is no changes in On air
program, just our website has
changed to Pars Today.”
A member of the Russian DX site
http://www.dxing.ru has
posted an email from IRIB saying that IRIB shortwave broadcasts in Russian will
end on 21st March 2016 (Persian New Year - Norooz), however this is yet to be
confirmed.
In-car shortwave adaptor launched
A new shortwave radio developed especially to be used in a car has been launched
and is currently for sale at http://carshortwaveradio.com/
. The BST-1 receiver
is placed in the boot of the car and transmits the audio from the shortwave
radio to an FM frequency that
can be tuned by the car’s original radio.
The radio is shielded from interference that could be caused by the car's engine
or electrical systems and features full coverage from 2.3Mhz to 26.1Mhz. What is
even more clever is the shortwave radio will broadcast its current frequency as
RDS information so it
appears on the built-in car radio display and can be tuned via a small keyfob.
The keyfob even allows entering of frequencies by tapping out the frequency
number in morse code.
Videos of the radio in action are included on the website and it is available at
a price of US$179.50.
Voice of Hope test and Radio Taiwan transmissions.
Voice of Hope has been running test transmissions on 6065kHz from their Zambia
transmission site. Los Angeles based KVOH acquired the Lusaka site in 2014 from
Christian Vision to expand its service beyond the current California
transmission site.
The Southern African site has 12 buildings on 150 acres of land housing two 100
kW Continental shortwave transmitters and two high-gain TCI long range antennas
to beam signals over all of west, central, and southern Africa. Ray Robinson
from Voice of Hope has also
stated that a 31m band test will also take place (Source : DXLD).
Radio Taiwan International has also had test transmissions this week via WRMI on
11530kHz. These took place on March 13, 14 and 15 at 0000-0100 and 0200-0300 UTC.
This is possibly for a change to the current RTI Spanish frequencies from WRMI
(0200-0300 on 11920 and
0300-0400 on 5985).
The next segment of this broadcast is in MFSK32 mode and features a Base64
encoded zip file, inside the .zip file is a MIDI of a famous shortwave radio
interval signal. To convert to MP3 go to
http://www.digidx.uk/midi.php
(and select the Convert ZIP option) or go to
http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp
choosing to decode the data and export to file,
the file can then be renamed a .ZIP file unzipped before the MIDI file is opened
in Winamp or a similar software.
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ABC Australia
B15 A16 Site Hours Site Hours KTH 11 KTH 11 TEN 11 TEN 11 ALI 24 ALI 24 SHP 108 SHP 108
B15 A16 Language Hours Language Hours ENG 154 ENG 154
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Radio France International
B15 A16 Site Hours Site Hours MDC 1 MDC 1 ISS 103.3 ISS 102.8
B15 A16 Language Hours Language Hours RUS 1 MUL 1 MAN 1 ENG 1 ENG 1 RUS 1 POR 1.1 POR 1.1 SWA 2 MAN 2 MUL 4 SWA 2.5 HAU 4.5 HAU 6.5 FRA 89.8 FRA 88.8
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Radio New Zealand
B15 A16 Site Hours Site Hours RAN 81.3 RAN 70.7
B15 A16 Language Hours Language Hours ENG 81.3 ENG 70.7
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KBS (South Korea)
B15 A16 Site Hours Site Hours DHA 1 DHA 1 ISS 2 ISS 2 HRI 2 SOF 2 SOF 3 HRI 2 WOF 4.5 WOF 4.5 CHC 24 HWA 20 HWA 39 CHC 24 KIM 152 KIM 146.5
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RRO (Radio Romania)
B15 A16 Site Hours Site Hours GAL 43 GAL 42 TIG 54.5 TIG 55
B15 A16 Language Hours Language Hours SRP 1.5 MKD 1.5 RUP 1.5 SRP 1.5 UKR 1.5 ITA 1.5 ITA 1.5 UKR 1.5 ZHO 2 ZHO 2 RUS 4 RUS 4 DEU 5 ARA 4 ARA 6.5 DEU 5 FRA 11 FRA 11 SPA 12 SPA 12 ENG 20 ENG 20 RON 31 RON 33
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Reception Reports and Letters
Thank you for all the reception reports sent in for episode 4 which was transmitted on 6070kHz on Friday at 2000, Sunday at 1100, Sunday at 1230 and for the first time on 11580 at 2330. Remember for details of all upcoming transmissions including late changes to the
schedule see the DigiDX page Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/digidx/ .
Alan Gale wrote to us about with a suggestion to talk about shortwave radio related software. His email talked about two pieces of software he uses, the first EibiView:
“....which allows the user to make use of the regular EIBI and AOKI broadcast station
updates, and view them in a window on your PC, showing which stations are currently operating on a particular frequency, or coming up next, and with an interface which can be customised and sorted to suit the user’s own personal preferences and languages. This
program was created by Tobias Taufer (T2) in Germany, and can be downloaded for free along with the updates from Eike Bierwirth’s website at: http://www.eibispace.de/ ”
He went on to add :
“Downloading the regular updates in both text and .csv format from there and saving them into the program’s folder ensures that the data is right up to date.”
Another program he mentioned is NAVTEXTview - “this works in a similar way, but just for NAVTEX Stations. This program can also be downloaded for free from the NDB List website at: http://ndblist.info/datamodes.htm”
Alan finished his email by staying:
“I think these two great programs are seriously under rated, and I would certainly recommend them, I think these are what would be classed as ‘hidden gems’, which far more listeners need to hear about.”
Good idea Alan, please write in to reports@digidx.uk with suggestions of other shortwave radio related software that you use and some will be featured in next week's episode.
Don Wycoff from Connecticut, USA listened on 6070 via Twente SDR and 11850 on his own radio and wrote to say “I have been enjoying your Digital programs very much! Lots of fun. Your content is very interesting, about what we love, Radio! I would love to see more
images and MFSK128L.
I have been receiving VOA Radiograms for about a year and have enjoyed them. I’m glad we have DigiDx now to! This shows that Digital programs have a future in shortwave radio. They are easy to decode and I am proof of that, not being very tech savvy.
With VOA we have had perfect decode in often very poor reception conditions, in which a voice transmission would be very hard to copy.”
Thanks Don, glad you enjoy the broadcasts. We will include more MFSK128L at a later date.
Jonathan Coles in Ontario Canada also listened on 11580kHz via WRMI and managed to decode the Base64 MIDI file “The base64 MIDI file decoded as the music I remember the BBC World Service used to play just before its news broadcasts”.
Yes Jonathan that is correct, as Richard Langley in New Brunswick says, the MIDI was “ A rendition of the old BBC WS signature tune (for the English news) "Lilliburlero" as played on a flute. Nice. Info on the tune is on an old Web page buried on the BBC WS website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/us/001221_sigtunes.shtml ”
Thanks for the link Richard.
Ralf Urbanczyk tuned in on 6070kHz on Sunday at 1100 and enjoyed the feature about RTL-SDR dongles “By the way the report about the RTL Dongles war very interesting, because I consider to buy such a dongle to use as sdr.” Thanks for listening Ralf and thanks also to
Akos Czermann from http://www.rtlsdr4everyone.blogspot.co.uk/ for allowing us to broadcast his excellent article.
Now follows this weeks MFSK32 over-the-air QSL card:
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RSID: <<2016-03-1
Welcome to program 155 of 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:
1:32 Program preview (now)
3:01 NASA plans large fire on spacecraft*
7:26 Rotten tomatoes produce renewable energy*
11:54 Olivia 64-2000: Legislation to counter propaganda
19:48 MFSK32: Over the horizon radar in amateur HF bands*
25:04 Early General Electric shortwave broadcasting*
27:05 Closing announcements
* with image
Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.
And visit voaradiogram.net.
Twitter: @VOARadiogram
NASA Plans to Light Large Fire in Orbiting Spacecraft
VOA News
March 16, 2016
In order to see how fire-resistant to make the new lightweight
materials that will be used to build next-generation spacecraft,
NASA plans to start a large fire in space.
The test "is crucial for the safety of current and future space
missions," said NASA's Gary Ruff in an interview Tuesday with
AFP.
In the experiment, NASA wants to see how big the flames get, how
they spread, and the amount of heat and gas released.
The fire will take place aboard an Orbital ATK Cygnus capsule,
which is used to transport cargo to and from the International
Space Station, after it has made a drop-off.
The spacecraft will be launched March 23 from Cape Canaveral,
Florida, then head to the space station. Once it has moved a safe
distance away, NASA will trigger the fire.
Called "Saffire-1," the experiment is designed to give NASA
engineers a better idea about how fire behaves in space and how
much fire resistance to incorporate into new spaceships, as well
as space suits.
"Understanding fire in space has been the focus of many
experiments over the years," said Ruff, who added that while have
small fires have been purposely lit in space, NASA needs to
understand how a major fire would behave.
The fire is expected to burn for 20 minutes, during which data
about temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide will be recorded.
The event will also be filmed.
Once the experiment is over, the capsule will re-enter Earth's
atmosphere and burn up.
http://www.voanews.com/content/nasa-plans-to-light-large-fire-in-space/3240548.html
Image: Orbital ATK's Cygnus cargo craft ...
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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.
Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.
Rotten Tomatoes Produce Renewable Energy
Rick Pantaleo,
VOA Science World Blog
March 16th, 2016
About 21-percent of world electricity generation is estimated to
be from non-fossil fuels such as the wind or sun.
But scientists hope to boost that number by looking at new ways
to create it – one of which involves spoiled fruit.
A team of researchers found that damaged or spoiled tomatoes can
be turned into a unique and powerful source of renewable energy
when fed to biological and microbial electrochemical cells.
And the good news is, there seems to be a nearly endless supply
of damaged and rotten tomatoes. Florida alone generates 396,000
tons of tomato waste every year.
The scientists admit that right now the power produced by their
tomato fueled energy cells is quite small.
But they're quite optimistic that with continued research they'll
be able to greatly increase the electrical output of their energy
cells.
http://blogs.voanews.com/science-world/2016/03/16/bright-spots-of-ceres-rotten-tomatoes-produces-energy-black-hole-flashes-red/
Image: Overripe tomatoes on a compost heap ...
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VOA Radiogram now changes to Olivia 64-2000 ...
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This is VOA Radiogram in Olivia 64-2000.
Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.
From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
U.S. Senators Seek New Center To Counter Russian, Chinese
'Propaganda'
By RFE/RL
March 16, 2016
WASHINGTON -- New legislation being introduced in the U.S. Senate
aims to improve Washington's efforts to counter "propaganda and
disinformation" spread by Russia, China, and other countries.
The bill, called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016,
comes amid growing calls in Congress and in many European
capitals to do more to fight foreign disinformation campaigns.
Russia, in particular -- through the portrayal of its actions in
Ukraine and along the peripheries of the European Union and NATO
-- has alarmed lawmakers and policymakers on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The EU has set up a small unit within the European External
Action Service to counter narratives spread by Kremlin-backed
media, such as RT and Sputnik, and government-sponsored Internet
activists. NATO has also set up a Strategic Communications Center
of Excellence, based in the Baltic state of Latvia, to counter
Russian propaganda.
Full text:
http://www.rferl.org/content/us-senators-seek-to-counter-russia-china-propaganda/27617521.html
VOA Radiogram now returns
to MFSK32 ...
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This is VOA Radiogram in MFSK32.
Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.
From ARRL:
Over the Horizon Radars Becoming Routine Visitors on Amateur HF
Bands
03/14/2016
The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (Europe/Africa)
Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports a spate of over the horizon
(OTH) radar signals on various Amateur Radio HF bands — exclusive
and shared. Many of these signals are being heard outside of the
Region 1 confines.
A 50 kHz wide Russian OTH radar has been heard in the evening on
80 meters, often in the CW part of the band. An "often
long-lasting" Russian OTH signal about 13 kHz wide is being heard
on the 7000-7100 kHz segment of 40 meters, while some digital
traffic (FSK or PSK), and a "Codar-like radar from the Far East"
are being heard in the 7000-7200 kHz segment as well as
non-amateur CW transmissions.
The same OTH radar being heard on 40 meters also is appearing on
20 meters, along with digital traffic in FSK or PSK and on CW and
broadband OTH radar signals from China. Some monitoring reports
are intriguing, such as this one on 14.280 MHz from IARU Region 1
Monitoring System Coordinator Wolf Hadel, DK2OM: "Female voice
with encrypted msgs — figures — "SZRU" = Foreign Intelligence
Service of Ukraine in Rivne — every Wednesday at 1005 UTC."
Broadband OTH radars from China, Australia, Cyprus, and Turkey
have been monitored in 15 meters. On 10 meters, radars from Iran
with FM CW and different sweep rates have been monitored, as well
as fishery buoys on CW, and taxi operations on voice from Russia.
Voice traffic from fishing operations has been heard on all or
most HF bands, as well as a variety of broadcasters, including
Radio Tajik on 14.295 MHz, Radio Taiwan and Myanmar Radio, both
on 7.200 MHz, and Radio Hargaysa in Somalia on 7.120 MHz.
The February 2016 IARU Region 1 Monitoring System newsletter
offers more details. There is an online archive of past issues. —
Thanks to the IARU Region 1 Monitoring System
http://www.arrl.org/news/over-the-horizon-radars-becoming-routine-visitors-on-amateur-hf-bands
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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.
Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.
The 14 March 2016 edition of Radio World includes an interesting
article by John F. Schneider about the early shortwave
broadcasting operations of General Electric in the United States.
See:
http://www.radioworld.com/article/schenectady-shortwave-transmitters-1941/278353
This image of GE's Schenectady, New York, shortwave operation in
1941 accompanies the article ...
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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.
www.rhci-online.net/radiogram/radiogram.htm
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D-06193 Petersberg (Germany/Germania) |
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Ant.: |
Dipol for 40m-Band & Boomerang Antenna 11m-Band |
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RX for RF: |
FRG-100B + IF-mixer & ICOM IC-R75 + IF-mixer |
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Software IF: |
con STUDIO1 - Software italiano per SDR [S-AM-USB/LSB] |
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Software AF: |
Fldigi-3.23.08 http://skylink.dl.sourceforge.net/project/fldigi/fldigi/readme.txt + flmsg-2.0.12 |
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German XP-SP3 with support for asian languages |
German W7 32bit + 64bit |
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MEDION Titanium 8008 (since 2003) [ P4 - 2,6 GHz] |
MSI-CR70-2MP345W7 (since2014) [i5 -P3560 ( 2 x 2,6GHz) ] |
DRM-images - received via EASYPAL/DSSTV on 14233kHz/USB (FRG-100 / Dipol for ~12 MHz)
Here are some pictures of
IZ4AFJ [PAOLO CROCIATI, I-47900-Rimini, Italia] received in the last time:https://www.hamqth.com/IZ4AFJ http://www.globaltuners.com/receiver/274-Rimini
http://s.webry.info/sp/saitamaradioholicinternational.at.webry.info/201510/article_12.html
"...13800U kHz Puntland Radio, 12 Oct 2015, 1211z @ Rimini, Italy (Thanks IZ4AFJ!)..."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qm2SODEcy0
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