{"id":7209,"date":"2013-09-06T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2013-09-05T06:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T10:49:27","slug":"kvoh-test-broadcasts-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/kvoh-test-broadcasts-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"KVOH test broadcasts this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KVOHCoverage-Map-VoiceOfHope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7210\" alt=\"KVOHCoverage-Map-VoiceOfHope\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KVOHCoverage-Map-VoiceOfHope-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KVOHCoverage-Map-VoiceOfHope-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KVOHCoverage-Map-VoiceOfHope-77x100.jpg 77w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KVOHCoverage-Map-VoiceOfHope.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a>Ray Robinson,\u00a0Operations Manager at\u00a0KVOH (Voice of Hope \/ Voz de Esperanza) writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e would very much appreciate your reception reports (or preferably, recordings) of the tests we will be running on <strong>9975 kHz<\/strong> on Friday and Saturday evenings this week. The exact times are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday 7th &#8211; 0100-0400 UTC<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 8th \u00a0&#8211; 0100-0400 UTC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In North and Central America, that would be this Friday and Saturday evenings, 8-11pm Central, 9pm-12am Eastern. The test program will be similar to last time, but not exactly the same. It will contain segments in both English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The transmitter site is near Los Angeles, and here it is currently getting dark at about 0230 UTC (7:30pm local). Therefore, during the first half of these tests, the transmission path will be increasingly in darkness, and for the last 90 minutes or so will be in complete darkness. Please let us know what reception sounds like at your location as the evening progresses, and also what type of receiver and antenna you are using.<\/p>\n<p>Reception reports may be emailed to &#8220;QSL@kvoh.net&#8221; or sent to:<\/p>\n<p>KVOH &#8211; Voice of Hope<br \/>\nP.O.Box 102<br \/>\nLos Angeles, CA 90078<br \/>\nUnited States of America<\/p>\n<p>All correct reports will be verified with our QSL card.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much in advance for your assistance with this test!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Robinson,\u00a0Operations Manager at\u00a0KVOH (Voice of Hope \/ Voz de Esperanza) writes: [W]e would very much appreciate your reception reports (or preferably, recordings) of the tests we will be running on 9975 kHz on Friday and Saturday evenings this week. The exact times are: Saturday 7th &#8211; 0100-0400 UTC Sunday 8th \u00a0&#8211; 0100-0400 UTC In [&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":[56,81,3,43],"tags":[2026,2126,2027],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-current-events","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-kvoh","tag-kvoh-test-broadcast","tag-voice-of-hope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Sh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7795,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/kvoh-re-launches-this-weekend-on-9975-khz\/","url_meta":{"origin":7209,"position":0},"title":"KVOH re-launches this weekend on 9,975 kHz","author":"Thomas","date":"November 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: KVOH) The Voice of Hope, KVOH, is re-launching this weekend with a daily schedule on 9975 kHz, from 01:00-04:00 UTC, beginning on Saturday, 2nd November, 2013 (Friday evening in the Americas). 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