{"id":9121,"date":"2014-03-28T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2014-03-28T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:25:44","slug":"voa-radiogram-battle-of-the-100-wpm-modes-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/voa-radiogram-battle-of-the-100-wpm-modes-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"VOA Radiogram: Battle of the 100 wpm modes, this weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voaradiogram.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5904\" alt=\"VOARadioGram\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/VOARadioGram.png\" 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>If you like the\u00a0<a title=\"VOA Radiogram\" href=\"http:\/\/voaradiogram.net\/post\/80879031155\/voa-radiogram-29-30-march-battle-of-the-100-wpm-modes\" target=\"_blank\">VOA Radiogram<\/a>, don&#8217;t miss this weekend (March 29-30)&#8211;a one year mile marker for the VOA Radiogram service on shortwave radio.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve copied details of the broadcast below, but please bookmark or subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/voaradiogram.net\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0VOA Radiogram\u00a0website<\/a> to see the results of the 100 wpm battle and details of all future broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a title=\"VOA Radiogram\" href=\"http:\/\/voaradiogram.net\/post\/80879031155\/voa-radiogram-29-30-march-battle-of-the-100-wpm-modes\" target=\"_blank\">VOA Radiogram<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This weekend, 29-30 March 2014, will be program 52 of VOA Radiogram. This means that VOA Radiogram has survived one year of shortwave broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p>VOA Radiogram has been successful because of its audience: tuning in, decoding, experimenting, and sending in reports.<\/p>\n<p>We will mark one year of VOA Radiogram with a \u201cbattle of the 100-word-per-minute modes.\u201d The same VOA News story will be transmitted using four modes that have a speed of more-or-less 100 words per minute.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 52, 29-30 March 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a01:51\u00a0 MFSK32: Program preview<\/li>\n<li>\u00a03:28\u00a0 PSKR125 (110 wpm): VOA News re Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>\u00a07:42\u00a0 MT63-1000L (100 wpm): Same VOA New story<\/li>\n<li>12:34\u00a0 Thor25x4 (100 wpm): Same VOA News story<\/li>\n<li>17:58\u00a0 MFSK32 (120 wpm): Same VOA News story, with image<\/li>\n<li>23:55\u00a0 MFSK32: US international broadcasting FY2015 budget<\/li>\n<li>25:58\u00a0 MFSK32: Closing announcements, with image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each mode will be preceded by 5 seconds of silence, followed by the RSID, 5 more seconds of silence, and the RSID again.<\/p>\n<p>Please send reception reports to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:radiogram@voanews.com\">radiogram@voanews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VOA Radiogram transmission schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(all days and times UTC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sat 0930-1000\u00a05745\u00a0kHz<\/li>\n<li>Sat 1600-1630\u00a017860\u00a0kHz<\/li>\n<li>Sun 0230-0300\u00a05745\u00a0kHz<\/li>\n<li>Sun 1930-2000\u00a015670\u00a0kHz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All via the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>(Many shortwave broadcast frequencies will change on 30 March with the beginning of the A14 season, but the VOA Radiogram frequencies stay the same, for the time being.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mighty KBC<\/strong>, via Germany, will again transmit a minute of MFSK64 Saturday at about 1230 UTC on 6095\u00a0kHz and Sunday at about 0130 UTC on 7375\u00a0kHz. (KBC\u2019s change from 7375 to 9925 planned for this weekend has been postponed until May.) STF Radio International will also have a minute of digital modes during the same hour (simultaneous MFSK32 streams at 1500 and 2100\u00a0Hz).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like the\u00a0VOA Radiogram, don&#8217;t miss this weekend (March 29-30)&#8211;a one year mile marker for the VOA Radiogram service on shortwave radio. I&#8217;ve copied details of the broadcast below, but please bookmark or subscribe to the\u00a0VOA Radiogram\u00a0website to see the results of the 100 wpm battle and details of all future broadcasts. (Source: VOA [&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":[56,1114,960,3,43,1167],"tags":[4114,1790,1858,1664,10,1718,182],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-digital-modes","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-digital-modes","tag-digital-text","tag-digital-text-over-shortwave","tag-kim-elliott","tag-voa","tag-voa-radiogram","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2n7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6203,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/voa-mighty-kbc-and-pcj-radiograms-this-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":9121,"position":0},"title":"VOA, Mighty KBC and PCJ: Radiograms this weekend","author":"Thomas","date":"April 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mighty KBC, the VOA and PCJ radio will broadcast radiograms (digital text) over shortwave radio this weekend. 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