Thank you for your patience during last weekend’s repeat broadcast, necessitated by some travel.

Arabic text this weekend. The Israel Hamas war has resulted in a complete communications blackout (no internet or cell phones working) in Gaza. Residents of Gaza, and some international broadcasters, are rediscovering radio as a medium for essential information. The Shortwave Radiogram concept is that radio (shortwave or medium wave) can be used for text and images, thus partly filling in for the internet that becomes unavailable during times of war and other disasters. 

One of the news items in this weekend’s Shortwave Radiogram is about BBC Arabic resuming medium wave broadcasting to the Levant from Cyprus. Those MW transmissions had ended in 2019. Following the BBC news item is an excerpt of Arabic text from the BBC. This demonstrates that the BBC could transmit text and images from that Cyprus relay, in addition to its conventional voice broadcasts.

If the Arabic text shows in your Fldigi receive pane as boxes, or something like that, copy those boxes and paste then into a word processor. The correct characters might appear.  They will look something like this, printing right-to-left …

North American time change. This Sunday, November 5, weekend is the change back to Standard Time for most of North America. WRMI on its 9955 kHz frequency keeps its schedule pegged to Eastern Time, so by UTC the Sunday transmission of Shortwave Radiogram will change to 1530-1600 UTC. Other Shortwave Radiogram broadcasts on WRMI stay with their UTC times.

WINB on 9265 kHz also sticks to Eastern Time. This will first affect Shortwave Radiogram on November 9/10 when the Thursday 2330-2400 UTC transmission changes to Friday 0030-0100 UTC (still Thursday evening local time in the Americas). The “Friday night” show changes to Saturday 0330-0400 UTC.

The Shortwave Radiogram schedule for this weekend is provided below. 

A video of the previous Shortwave Radiogram (program 327) is provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday, October 20, 1300-1330 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is provided by Roger in Germany.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 328, 2-6 November 2023, in MFSK modes as noted:

 1:44  MFSK32: Program preview
 2:58  MFSK32: BBC will provide MW radio service for Gaza
 5:56  MFSK32: Excerpt of Arabic text from BBC
 7:53  MFSK64: NASA testing high-speed laser space communication*
11:45  MFSK64: This week’s images*
27:41  MFSK32: Closing announcements

Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

Twitter: @SWRadiogram or https://twitter.com/swradiogram

(visit during the weekend to see listeners’ results)

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/567099476753304

Shortwave Radiogram Gateway Wiki: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Shortwave_Radiogram_Gateway

Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule

| UTC Day  | UTC Time      | Frequency        | Transmitter       |
|----------|---------------|------------------|-------------------|
| Thursday | 2330-2400 UTC | 9265 kHz         | WINB Pennsylvania |
| Friday   | 0530-0600 UTC | 7780 kHz         | WRMI Florida      |
| Friday   | 1300-1330 UTC | 15770 kHz        | WRMI Florida      |
| Saturday | 0230-0300 UTC | 9265 kHz         | WINB Pennsylvania |
| Saturday | 2300-2330 UTC | 7570 kHz         | WRMI Florida |
| Sunday   | 1430-1500 UTC | 9955 kHz         | WRMI Florida      | 
| Monday   | 0800-0830 UTC | 5850 kHz         | WRMI Florida      |

Other Shortwave broadcast programs that include digital text and images include The Mighty KBC, Pop Shop Radio and Radio North Europe International (RNEI). Links to these fine broadcasts, with schedules, are posted here.

Thanks for your reception reports!

Kim

Kim Andrew Elliott, KD9XB

Producer and Presenter

Shortwave Radiogram

Fuente: https://swradiogram.net/

Categorías:Broadcasting

Etiquetas:Digital Modes, Frecuencias, MSFK64, Onda Corta, Shortwave, SW, SWL