Hello friends,

Happy World Radio Day! World Radio Day will be Monday, 13 February, and it will 
be mentioned this weekend on VOA Radiogram.
Also this weekend, we will transmit samples of text in Chinese, Russian, and 
Persian. For these alphabets to display correctly, Fldigi should be configured 
to the UTF-8 character set (Configure > Colors & Fonts > adjust Rx/Tx Character 
set to UTF-8, if it is not there already). Your operating system might also 
need font support for non-Western languages. If the Chinese, Russian, or 
Persian text
is seen as a series of boxes in the Fldigi receive pane, copy and past those 
boxes to a word processor, and the text might display correctly. At the bottom 
of this email is a picture off what the received text in the three languages 
should look like.

There will be four MFSK32 images this weekend, but they will not be transmitted 
until the second half of the show.
Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 202, 11-15 February 2017, all in 
MFSK32 except where noted:
1:45 Program preview
3:05 China to vet online content and services
6:11 Experiment with non-Latin alphabets**
10:17 Olivia 64-2000: ESA to help NASA
15:53 MFSK32: SSTV from the International Space Station*
19:58 Video of Radio Australia shortwave shutdown*
22:30 World Radio Day*
26:41 Closing announcements 
* with image 
** use UTF-8 character set 
Please send reception reports to radiog...@voanews.com.
VOA Radiogram transmission schedule (temporarily expanded):

UTC Day UTC Time kHz Transmitter Target Also try in …
Saturday 0930-1000 5865 North Carolina Americas Asia-Pacific, Europe
Saturday 1600-1630 17580 North Carolina Europe Americas, Asia-Pacific
Sunday 0230-0300 5745 North Carolina Americas Europe
Sunday 1930-2000 15670 North Carolina Europe Americas, Asia-Pacific
Sunday 2030-2100 11580 WRMI Florida Europe Americas 
Sunday 2330-2400 11580 WRMI Florida Americas 
Monday 2000-2030 3975 IBC Italy Europe 
Wednesday 2100-2130 3975 IBC Italy Europe

The Mighty KBC broadcast to North America will be Sunday at 0000-0200 UTC 
(Saturday 7-9 pm EST) on 6145 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK32 will be 
transmitted at about 0130 UTC. Reports to Eric:
themighty...@gmail.com<mailto:themighty...@gmail.com> . See also
http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/ .

DigiDX is taking a few weeks off, hence the VOA Radiogram transmissions via 
WRMI and IBC. See http://www.digidx.uk/ and https://www.facebook.com/digidx/

Italian Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) has digital modes as follows:
EVERY WEDNESDAY ON 3975 KHZ 20.30-21.00 UTC in MFSK32 and OLIVIA 16-500
EVERY FRIDAY ON 9955 KHZ 02.25-02.30 UTC in MFSK32
EVERY SATURDAY ON 1584 KHZ 21.25-21.30 UTC in MFSK32
EVERY SUNDAY ON 7730 KHZ 00.55-01.00 UTC in MFSK32
EVERY SUNDAY ON 6070 KHZ 11.30-12.00 UTC in MFSK32 and OLIVIA 16-500 (VIA RADIO 
BCLNEWS)

For the complete IBC transmission schedule, including voice broadcasts, visit 
http://ibcradio.webs.com/

Winter SWL Fest. I am planning to attend the Winter SWL Fest, March 2-4, 
2017,at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. Hope to see you 
there. Information at http://www.swlfest.com .
Thanks for your reports from last weekend. (Or, if you are in Europe and tuned 
in Sunday at 1930 UTC on 15670 kHz, reports of attempted reception.) Now that 
I've finally responded to the reports from program 198, I'll start with the 
program 201 reports and work backwards. 
I hope you can tune in and write in this weekend.

Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB via KKX
Producer and Presenter
VOA Radiogram
voaradiogram.net<http://voaradiogram.net>

Twitter: @VOARadiogram (especially active just before, during, and after 
broadcasts)

PS: A few operating notes: * For best Olivia 64-2000 performance, turn Fldigi's 
squelch (SQL) off.
* The RSID at 1500 Hz sometimes mixes with the transmitter hum, most
noticeable at 360 Hz, to move your receive audio frequency down to 1140 
Hz,resulting in no decode. To prevent this, in Fldigi: Configure > IDs > RsID > 
unselect Searches passband. Your center audio frequency will wander no more 
than +/- 200 Hz.
* Fldigi automatically saves your decoded MFSK images as png files in the 
folder \fldigi.files\images\ (in Windows; folder names might be different with 
other operating systems). You can attach those png files with your reception 
report.
* The VOA Radiogram Twitter account @VOARadiogram is especially active
before, during, and after the broadcasts. You don't need a Twitter account: 
just go to https://twitter.com/voaradiogram and refresh it occasionally.

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