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RSID: <<2017-06-17T16:01Z MFSK-32 @ 17580000+1500>>

Welcome to program 220, the last 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 centered on
1500 Hz:

  1:54 Program preview (now)
  2:59 Transition to Shortwave Radiogram*
  7:48 Digitizing old reel-to-reel tapes*
10:57 Thanks to W1HKJ and the Murrow station*
20:48 Thanks to listeners*
23:10 Closing announcements*

* with image(s)


Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

And visit voaradiogram.net.

Twitter: @VOARadiogram




This is the last VOA Radiogram. It will be replaced next weekend
by a new program, Shortwave Radiogram. The transmission schedule
for Shortwave Radiogram, at least to begin with, is the same as
the three VOA Radiogram broadcasts transmitted by WRMI in
Florida:

Sunday 0600-0630 UTC 7730 kHz

Sunday 2030-2100 UTC 11580 kHz

Sunday 2330-2400 UTC 11580 kHz

For listeners in Europe, the Sunday 2330 UTC transmission is now
delivering the best signal. Unfortunately, the hour is late.
Unattended reception (leave your radio and Fldigi on while
you sleep) might be a solution.

Contact, internet, and social media details are also changing ...

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|         |          OLD            |          NEW           |
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| Email   | radiogram@voanews.com   | radiogram@verizon.net  |
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| Website | http://voaradiogram.net | http://swradiogram.net |
+---------+-------------------------+------------------------+
| Twitter | @VOARadiogram           | @SWRadiogram           |
+---------+-------------------------+------------------------+

I will take the VOA Radiogram email list with me. Listeners on
that list will hear from me via radiogram@verizon.net with
details about the first Shortwave Radiogram on 25 June.

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Our first image is an optical illusion that you may have seen on
the internet. How many black dots are in the image? (And does
this illusion work via shortwave?)

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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.

 

DIGITIZING OLD REEL-TO-REEL TAPES

During the final days before I retire on 23 June, I have been
digitizing my collection of old reel-to-reel audio tapes. These
include 1) episodes of Communications World, the VOA program I
produced and presented from 1995 to 2002, 2) other VOA programs
and production elements, some dating back to the 1950s, and 3) my
own recordings of shortwave broadcasts, dating back to the 1960s.
My tapes include some recorded full track, half track, and
quarter track, so I need to use every tape machine that VOA still
has.

I hope eventually to make these recordings available on an online
archive.


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This is VOA Radiogram from the Voice of America.

Please send reception reports to radiogram@voanews.com.


On this final weekend of VOA Radiogram, we thank Dave Freese,
W1HKJ, and his team who have developed the Fldigi and associated
software that we have used extensively both to encode and decode
VOA Radiogram. John Douyere, VK2ETA, part of the W1HKJ group,
authored AndFlmsg, an Android version of Fldigi, and TIVAR (Text
and Images Via Analog Radio), a simplified receive-only version
of AndFlmsg. Visit w1hkj.com .

There are other decoding software programs available, and we
encourage you to try them. They include MultiPSK from
f6cte.free.fr, and DM780, part of the Ham Radio Deluxe package.

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THANKS TO THE MURROW STATION

The success of VOA Radiogram owes much to the Edward R. Murrow
Transmitting Station near Greenville, North Carolina. The
Greenville facility and the digital modes have been a remarkable
combination, successfully delivering VOA content to distant
places well beyond the nominal target areas of the antennas.

The Murrow station includes transmitters dating back to its 1963
inauguration, some manufactured in the early 1950s! Amazing work
by the staff of the Greenville site has kept these old
transmitters and antennas in service. The following image shows
members of the team next to a rebuilt IPA (intermediate power
amplifier) ...


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For a good look at the Greenville facility, see this photo tour
by Paul Thurst:

http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2017/04/voa-site-b-greenville-nc/

From Paul's photos, here is the building that contains the
transmitters and offices ...


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And a close-up of one of the curtain antenna arrays ...
 

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AND, FINALLY, THANKS TO YOU

VOA Radiogram has enjoyed wonderful support from
listeners/decoders throughout the world. Reports from and
experiments by listeners have established the great potential for
digital text and images via an analog shortwave broadcast
transmitter. Best of all, I now have new friends all over the
world.

Some listeners use high-end amateur transceivers with audio
patched through a PC to Fldigi. Others use inexpensive portable
radios placed next to an Android mobile phone, for acoustic
coupling. An example of this is provided by Paul, @G7KVE, who
tunes in from various locations in Europe ...


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While I will lose access to the Greenville transmitting station,
I don't necessarily lose access to my audience, although the WRMI
schedule might be challenging for some of you. I hope to add
additional transmissions and transmitter sites in the future.

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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 --
wait, there is no next VOA Radiogram! So join me for the first
Shortwave Radiogram, next weekend.

This is VOA, the Voice of America.



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RSID: <<2017-06-17T16:28Z OL 64-2K @ 17580000+1500>>

Shortwave Radiogram Schedule

(Starts 25 June/UTC/kHz)

0600-0630 7730

2030-2100 11580

2330-2400 11580

radiogram@verizon.net

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