#voaradiogram

VOARADIOGRAM - GREENVILLE NC USA to BALTIMORE MARYLAND USA. Frequency 17580kHz AM Digital Text & Images in MFSK-32 & OLIVIA 64-2000. Received at 1600 GMT on 31 DEC 2016. Signal: SINPO 25323 with QRN and fading. Receiver: General Research of Electronics, Inc. (GRE), manufactured between 1969 to 1972 and sold through Radio Shack as the DX-150A covering 535-30000 kHz, Modes: AM/SSB-CW. Antenna: T3FD or Terminated 3-wire Folded Dipole at 15m (45ft) East/West. Decode with W1HKJ's AndFlmsg App and direct audio-coupling [next to the speaker] and using SAMSUNG Galaxy s5 Smartphone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytf0Jk8YJ4

VOA RADIOGRAM ASCII ART 1600 GMT 17SEP2016 17580 kHz AM MFSK-32

Intermittent loss of VOA transmitter signal x3 17580 kHz VOARADIOGRAM broadcast on 17SEP2016 between 1600 - 1630 GMT.

Decoded MFSK-32 Text and Picture (165x118C) using FLDigi from the Mighty KBC Shortwave, 9925 kHz 07AUG2016, SINPO 55444. Tug building group Damen is exporting more tugboats to the USA ... bit.ly/2aHZ3IN

It appears that the 1930 GMT 24JUL2016 VOA Radiogram transmitter went off the air twice in the beginning portion of program #173.  Everything returned to normal but after the second outage the signal strength was much improved.  

Loss of signal seen <horizontal band> on MFSK image decoding.  

I regularly receive VOARADIOGRAM Program transmitted every Sunday on 15670 kHz, AM using MFSK-32 from Greenville NC; to our listening post using a vintage 1960’s Hallicrafter S-120 Shortwave Receiver with external LW antenna and a Laptop running W1HKJ’s FLDigi program.