{"id":12554,"date":"2015-03-09T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12554"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T13:45:52","slug":"voa-radiogram-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/voa-radiogram-100\/","title":{"rendered":"VOA Radiogram #100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5904\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png\" alt=\"VOARadioGram\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png 180w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Kim Elliott, has been transmitting <a href=\"http:\/\/voaradiogram.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">VOA Radiograms<\/a> to a devoted set of global listeners for two years. Indeed, he recently passed a milestone by transmitting <em>the 100th episode<\/em> of the VOA Radiogram. Most impressive!<\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Harald (DL1ABJ), recently sent the following message regarding reception of the 100th episode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Thomas,<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I decoded VOA Radiogram #100 on 17860 kHz AM (via Greenville, Edward R. Murrow TX station) from 1600 till 1630 UTC here in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it was a text by Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB, telling a bit about his project of broadcasting text and pictures over AM transmitters on shortwave.<\/p>\n<p>I am also attaching one of the pictures sent during VOA Radiogram #100.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Harald<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VOARadiogram100.rtf\">VOARadiogram100<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VOARadiogram100.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12586\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VOARadiogram100.bmp\" alt=\"VOARadiogram100\" width=\"400\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VOARadiogram100.rtf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view\/download Harald&#8217;s text file (.RTF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for sharing this, Harald. VOA Radiograms are successfully decoded by listeners\u00a0across the world. If you&#8217;re interested in decoding a VOA Radiogram, or simply following the broadcasts, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/VOARadiogram100.rtf\" target=\"_blank\">bookmark VOAradiogram.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kim Elliott, has been transmitting VOA Radiograms to a devoted set of global listeners for two years. Indeed, he recently passed a milestone by transmitting the 100th episode of the VOA Radiogram. Most impressive! SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Harald (DL1ABJ), recently sent the following message regarding reception of the 100th episode: Dear Thomas, Last weekend I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,1114,3,43,1167],"tags":[3680,1664,10,1718],"class_list":["post-12554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-digital-modes","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-harald-dl1abj","tag-kim-elliott","tag-voa","tag-voa-radiogram"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3gu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26042,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/voa-radiogram-to-end-viva-la-radiogram\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":0},"title":"VOA Radiogram to end (Viva La Radiogram!)","author":"Thomas","date":"May 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: VOA Radiogram\/Kim Elliott) VOA Radiogram, 20-21 May 2017: Special doomed edition I will retire from the Voice of America on June 23, after 32 years as audience research analyst and broadcaster. 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Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VOARadioGram","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5903,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/voa-radiogram-soft-launch-this-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":2},"title":"VOA Radiogram &#8220;soft launch&#8221; this weekend","author":"Thomas","date":"March 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Kudos to VOA research analyst Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott for his remarkable innovation: \u00a0VOA Radiograms (i.e., digital text messages sent over shortwave broadcast radio), and for promoting this concept through the Voice of America. His persistance, with support from forward-thinking shortwave broadcasters like WBCQ, WRMI and The Mighty KBC, who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VOARadioGram","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6105,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/voa-radiogram-this-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":3},"title":"VOA Radiogram this weekend","author":"Thomas","date":"March 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are the details for the VOA Radiogram this weekend: (Source: Kim Elliott) VOA Radiogram on 30 and 31 March 2013 will feature the MFSK (multiple frequency shift keying) modes. This \"menu\" for the program shows the mode, center audio frequency, and duration of transmission in minutes:seconds... MFSK4 1500Hz 0:40*\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VOARadioGram","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6691,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/voa-radiogram-this-weekend-mixed-bad-noise-with-good-noise\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":4},"title":"VOA Radiogram this weekend mixes bad noise with good noise","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: VOA Radiogram) During the past weekend, we experimented with mixing music with MFSK text modes. Reducing the MFSK modes by 9 dB was not a problem if the signal level was good, but the MFSK text did break up for some listeners if reception conditions were marginal. This weekend,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"VOARadioGram","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5991,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/voa-radiogram-march-2324-broadcast\/","url_meta":{"origin":12554,"position":5},"title":"VOA Radiogram: March 23\/24 broadcast","author":"Thomas","date":"March 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: VOA Radiogram) VOA Radiogram for March 23\/24 will be similar to the past weekend\u2019s program in that it features the PSK modes. Much of Kim\u2019s script will be the same. In this weekend\u2019s broadcast, however, only one mode at a time will be transmitted. 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