What better way to bring in the new year 2021 than decoding the modes on Shortwave Radiogram? Thank you for your friendship and support, and for tuning in and decoding, during 2020. May the new year bring less virus and… Leer más ›

Hello friends, Because of  increased solar activity, and because of conditions generally during these months near the solstice, reception and decoding will be interesting in the next few weeks. For example, the 15770 kHz transmissions, directed to Europe, might be… Leer más ›

Hello friends, Happy Thanksgiving to listeners in the USA. I’m thankful for the great global group of radio enthusiasts who tune in, decode, and keep in touch. Last week I mentioned that the Sunday 0800-0830 UTC broadcast (the red-eye) on… Leer más ›

Hello friends, Is anyone using, or attempting to use, Fldigi with the MacOS Big Sur? John in Texas, who reports every week via email, writes: «just upgraded to Apple’s new OS Big Sur 11.0.1 and FLDigi seems to communicate with… Leer más ›

  During the past two weekends, we saw a few examples (including this one) of the new MFSK wide modes providing a improvement over the conventional MFSK32 and MFSK64. While the tests were mostly inconclusive, we did learn about the… Leer más ›

  With the winter time change now fully in effect, please note that broadcasts of Shortwave Radiogram from WRMI Florida stay with their UTC times, so they are one hour earlier by local time in most of North America and… Leer más ›

In this note, we will discuss 1) the winter time changes and 2) this weekend’s experiment with the new MFSK wide modes. Winter time changes. By now, most of Europe has turned clocks back one hour for “winter” time. And… Leer más ›

An apology was issued for a missing transmission on 18 October due to an old transmitter. The B20 HF/shortwave frequency season starts on 25 October, with some frequency changes.