Hello friends,

This week’s Shortwave Radiogram is our «Holiday Spectacular» — fifteen MFSK64 images showing holiday lights and decorations in cities across North America.

Because holiday activities will keep most of us busier than usual, this program 430 will be repeated the following week. By the time of the last transmission January 1, 2026, you will probably be tired of looking at MFSK64 images of holiday lights. 

News from here at the house: With our new roof shingles finally installed, the antenna installers came today to restore my 10/6 M vertical and 10/6 fan dipole antennas to the top of the house. You might remember that my 160-meter «inverted U» antenna also came down because the pine tree that provided its apex was removed. The antenna installers attached the wire to the mast holding up the vertical antenna, thus forming the new apex. The rest of the 150 feet of wire was tossed to the ground, where it will eventually find its way up one of our remaining trees.

And in news from my shack, my Yaesu FT-991A has failed again, after having been sent to Yaesu twice for warranty repair. It’s always the same problem: What sounds like rapid-fire arcing from within the transceiver, and no audio other than static from the arcing. My FT-991A is a lemon, and I will try to convince Yaesu to replace it. It’s a good shack-in-a-box when it works. (Fortunately my old Yaesu FT-897D still works as a backup, although the display is slowly failing.)

Anyway, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, best wishes for the new year! And thanks for tuning in and reporting your results.  

A video of last week’s Shortwave Radiogram (program 424) is provided by Scott in Ontario (Wednesday 1330 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is provided by Roger in Germany.

Also: IQ audio file and other resources from H0B0_Radio in Washington state. And the image archive provided by John in California.

Here is the lineup for Shortwave Radiogram, program 430, 19 December 2025-1 January 2026, in MFSK modes as noted:

 1:39  MFSK32: Program preview
 3:01  MFSK64: Our Holiday Spectacular: 
               Images of lights and decorations in North America           
28:56  MFSK32: Closing announcements

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Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule

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
Reporting on international broadcasting at https://twitter.com/kaedotcom

Fuente: https://swradiogram.net/

Categorías:Broadcasting

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