{"id":7056,"date":"2013-08-16T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2013-08-16T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T11:07:07","slug":"trilingual-voa-radiogram-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/trilingual-voa-radiogram-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Trilingual VOA Radiogram this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VOARadiogram\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Source: VOA Radiogram<\/a>)<\/p>\n

VOA Radiogram on 17 and 18 August will include our first attempt to transmit Chinese characters. (It\u2019s part of a VOA Chinese story about the future of BlackBerry.) And there will be a VOA News story in Spanish. To view the Spanish accents and the Chinese characters, your character set should be UTF-8. In Fldigi: Configure > Colors & Fonts to change the character set.<\/p>\n

The broadcast will also include an Flmsg VOA News story including an SVG-formatted VOA logo created by Mark Hirst in the UK. If you have Internet Explorer, and cannot see the logo, try renaming the Flmsg file with an .xhtml suffix.<\/p>\n

If you listen to more than one broadcast of VOA Radiogram this weekend, close Flidigi and restart it between broadcasts. This is because something in Flmsg turns off the UTF-8 character set, even though Fldigi is still configured for UTF-8.<\/p>\n

Two of this weekend\u2019s VOA News stories on VOA Radiogram feature VOA journalists who are radio amateurs. VOA Asia correspondent Steven Herman, W7VOA (@W7VOA), is interviewed about his visit to North Korea, and George Putic, KI4FNF, wrote the story about the renewed search for extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n

And there will be a VOA News story about a way to keep older brains healthy \u2014\u00a0other<\/span>\u00a0than experimenting with digital modes.<\/p>\n

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, 17 and 18 August 2013:<\/p>\n

3:04\u00a0 MFSK16: Program preview
\n4:50\u00a0 MFSK32: VOA Spanish logo and news re VOA app
\n1:46\u00a0 MFSK32: VOA Chinese logo and sample text
\n3:26\u00a0 MFSK32: VOA News re benefits of hot chocolate
\n1:22\u00a0 MFSK32: VOA Radiogram logo and addresses
\n4:43\u00a0 MFSK64: VOA\u2019s W7VOA visits North Korea
\n1:18\u00a0 MFSK32: Photo of W7VOA in Pyongyang
\n3:28\u00a0 MFSK64\/Flmsg*: VOA\u2019s KI4FNF on search for extraterrestrials
\n1:18\u00a0 MFSK32: Photo of Gemini Observatory
\n1:12\u00a0 MFSK16: Closing announcements
\n0:16\u00a0 Surprise mode of the week<\/p>\n

*To make Flmsg work with Fldigi (both can be downloaded from w1hkj.com), in Fldigi: Configure > Misc > NBEMS \u2014 Under Reception of flmsg files, check both boxes, and under that indicate where your Flmsg.exe file is located.<\/p>\n

As always, reception reports are much appreciated and should be sent toradiogram@voanews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

VOA Radiogram transmission schedule
\n(all days and times UTC)
\nSat 1600-1630\u00a017860\u00a0kHz
\nSun 0230-0300\u00a05745\u00a0kHz
\nSun 1300-1330\u00a06095\u00a0kHz
\nSun 1930-2000\u00a015670\u00a0kHz
\nAll via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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