In last week’s email, I forgot to note the new “winter” frequency of The Mighty KBC, now on 5960 kHz from a transmitter in Germany, Sundays 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8 to 10 pm EDT). In addition to the great mix of oldies… Leer más ›

I hope that everyone is OK after Hurricane Ida and its remnants. We hope electricity and other elements of normalcy are restored to Louisiana as soon as possible, although it may take days or weeks. Here in northern Virginia, we… Leer más ›

Between interesting solar conditions and thunderstorms lurking, at least here in North America, it could be an interesting weekend for receiving and decoding the modes on Shortwave Radiogram. A video of last weekend’s Shortwave Radiogram (program 218, Friday 1300 UTC)… Leer más ›

Here in the Washington DC area, we have been experiencing a few days or weather that is not too hot and not too humid – very unusual for this time of year. As I type this, I can feel the… Leer más ›

Last weekend’s broadcast (program 213) ended with the painting “Usonian View” by Michelle Lewis. Here is the painting as received by Pete Brunelli in Rhode Island, as included in Pete’s blog post about last weekend’s show …  I selected this painting because… Leer más ›

If you are participating in amateur radio’s Field Day this weekend, enjoy the event and good luck in the contest. The only Shortwave Radiogram during Field Day operating hours is Sunday 0800-0830 UTC on 5850 and 7730 kHz. Tune in… Leer más ›

We can claim success with last week’s transmission of Russian, especially because it was received successfully via SDRs in Russia. This was during two transmissions, including Sunday 2330. Videos of last weekend’s Shortwave Radiogram (program 208) are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday… Leer más ›

This week, after months of planning, preparation, and purchases, three new amateur radio antennas were installed on my roof. They are 1) a 10 and 6 meter vertical, 21 feet (6.4 M) tall, 2) a homebrew 10 and 6 meter… Leer más ›

One change to our transmission schedule take effect this weekend: The Saturday (Friday in the Americas) broadcast at 0000-0030 UTC on 9955 kHz is no longer available. We hope we can return to 9955 in the future, because this frequency… Leer más ›

This weekend we will finally transmit a photo of a cicada. The present brood of the 17-year cicadas, and their wonderful sound, won’t be around much longer. And I probably won’t be around for their next appearance, so I am… Leer más ›

Reception in Europe was rather challenging last week, and during recent weeks, both on 15770 and 7780 kHz. Otherwise, results were good from most part of the world. Our Spanish-language news item decoded well in South Australia, Japan, Alaska and… Leer más ›

If you read this soon enough, you might be able to receive and decode SSTV (Robot36) transmissions on shortwave (HF) in the narrow FM mode from a site in Russia. These will take place May 7 at 0800-0900 and 1300-1400… Leer más ›

Our first round of experiments with HamDRM is now complete. Thanks to Daz Man in Australia for converting our program 200 to HamDRM. When it succeeded, the result was the text of the program in html, with perfect images embedded.  DRM is fussy about the quality… Leer más ›

I hope you are not exhausted from last weekend’s celebration of the 200th program of the Shortwave Radiogram series. Thanks for tuning in and decoding our somewhat special program. A very interesting addition to program 200 is a special Ham-DRM… Leer más ›