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Welcome to program 91 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted:

  1:42 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:46 NASA will make lunar samples available for study*
  7:02 MFSK64: Swissinfo.ch is 20 years old*
12:58 This week's images*
28:05 MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with images(s)


Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

Twitter: @SWRadiogram

 

From the Voice of America:

NASA to Make Untouched Lunar Samples Available for Study

12 March 2019

NASA is once again turning its focus to the moon.

Nearly 50 years after the last lunar mission, the U.S. space
agency is unsealing some of the samples brought back by Apollo
astronauts for study.

The lunar samples were collected by astronauts during the Apollo
15, 16 and 17 missions.

Some of the samples have never been opened, others were resealed
in an effort to preserve them.

NASA has picked nine teams of scientists to study the samples.
The teams were selected from scientists at the NASA Ames Research
Center, the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA's
Goddard Spaceflight Center, the University of Arizona, the
University of California, Berkeley, the U.S. Naval Research
Laboratory, the University of New Mexico, Mount Holyoke College
and the Planetary Science Institute.

"By studying these precious lunar samples for the first time, a
new generation of scientists will help advance our understanding
of our lunar neighbor and prepare for the next era of exploration
of the moon and beyond," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate
administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "This
exploration will bring with it new and unique samples into the
best labs right here on Earth."

NASA said its officials in the 1970s had the foresight to know
that future scientists would likely be better equipped to study
the lunar material.

https://www.voanews.com/a/nasa-to-make-untouched-lunar-samples-available-for-study/4826319.html



Image: Astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt collects lunar rake samples
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From swissinfo.ch

20 years of swissinfo.ch
The day Switzerland found its online voice

Marc-André Miserez

12 March 2019

        SWI swissinfo.ch is 20 years old. It still fulfills the same
        mission as its former avatar Swiss Radio International (SRI)
        but by means that barely existed two decades ago.

Imagine a time when there were no smartphones or tablets. Where
the personal computer was too expensive for mass ownership. A
time when there was no Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Only the
brave dared "chat" on Yahoo's forums. Google had just made the
transition from a garage project to a company.

Internet connections were still very slow and very expensive. You
paid by the minute, once the modem deigned to connect to the web,
often after several attempts, punctuated by the famous electronic
gurgling sound of two computers getting to know each other. It
was not uncommon to wait a minute to see a simple picture
displayed on the screen. And video? They were some available but
you had to be very, very patient. Broadband became widespread
only in the year 2000 and YouTube arrived five years later.

At the beginning of 1999, 34% of Swiss people (but only 4% across
the globe) were connected to the internet. This was already ten
times more than in 1995. Despite its imperfections and teething
problems, the web was taking off. And nothing could stop it.

The glory days of radio

At the same time, SRI was looking for a way forward.
Switzerland's voice in the world already had a long and glorious
history. Since 1935, the Swiss Short Wave Service (SRI) had been
broadcasting national radio programmes for Swiss citizens
scattered throughout the world. The Second World War accelerated
things. Shortwave broadcasting was also available in English,
Spanish and Portuguese. The news service was appreciated for its
neutrality.

In 1954, the federal government recognised the Swiss Short Wave
Service's contribution to connecting the country with its
expatriates and as "Switzerland's influence on the world". But it
would take another ten years for officials to agree to subsidise
this international radio service. In 1978, it officially became
SRI. The content became more comprehensive – 70 hours of
programming every day, in seven languages – making it one of the
most popular radio stations in the world, after American,
British, French and German broadcasters. The station's
headquarters in the Swiss capital Bern received nearly 1,000
letters every month from enthusiastic, critical and curious
listeners.

Ahead of its time

Two decades later, the radio station was still popular, but the
landscape had changed significantly. With the fall of communism,
it lost its mantle as "the voice of the free world" for people
living under communist dictatorships. The huge short-wave
transmitters had given way to satellites, which were much
cheaper. The government – which then financed half of SRI's
budget - wanted to save even more money. There were plans to
launch into television, but the idea was quickly withdrawn due to
the cost it entailed. Instead, a decision was made to invest in a
growing technology: the internet. Technicians began putting
together the skeleton of the new website (swissinfo.org in those
days).

"Financially, they [SRI] were under enormous pressure, especially
from Armin Walpen, then director general of the Swiss
Broadcasting Corporation, but also from the political world,"
recalls former journalist Beat Witschi. "I think that consciously
or unconsciously, Nicolas Lombard [SRI director at the time] was
ahead of his time. He knew the radio was going to die."

He may have known it, but he didn't say it aloud. In 1999,
swissinfo.org was presented as an extension of SRI. The radio
service was gradually reduced, until its last broadcast in
October 2004.

SRI already had some experience of the internet. In 1995, the
station had a fledgling web page – which only displayed the
programmes and a list of frequencies. Three years later, those
with a good internet connection could even listen to radio
online, first in English and Portuguese.

And then there's the video. Since 1987, SRI journalists were
delivering short stories of a few minutes in English on
Switzerland for "CNN world reports". From 1991 onwards, reports
bearing the "Swiss World" logo could be seen on around 30 TV
channels around the world.

A real information website

The launch of swissinfo.org on March 12, 1999 showcased a new
site with text, images and sound, (video would soon follow). It
also offered useful links, a free email service, a chat platform,
forums, and of course the one thing nobody could do without:
information on the weather.

"People were asking me if the internet was really going to last,
if it wasn't just a fashion," recalls Witschi. "On the one hand,
I thought the question was silly, but on the other, I could
understand why it needed be asked. What we were doing was so
alien in a way. I was returning from the United States and I felt
a little jetlagged, because everything there had happened
faster."

swissinfo.ch was part of the first wave of information sites in
Switzerland. A few months before the year 2000, Swiss papers
acquired a web presence. However, they were rather rudimentary
sites that only presented brief news and a few articles from
their paper editions. Radios and television stations were also
present in the online space but mainly used it to promote their
programmes on air or on cable.

What is a CMS?

swissinfo.ch could not showcase its multimedia and multilingual
output at the time on its web page. The technology only allowed
the use of blocks of text without the possibility of formatting
anything. It needed a real CMS (content management system). Two
years before the first readymade CMS reached the market,
swissinfo.ch specialists developed its in-house version called
Xobix.

When working for CNN in the US, Witschi was impressed by their
CMS which was better than anything else in Europe at the time: "I
showed it to the swissinfo.ch team and asked them to make the
same thing. And they did."

In fact, they did even better. Xobix was also able to handle
multiple languages, including Arabic, whose right-to-left writing
is not an easy task for a programmer.

"Our developers have always been very good. The tool they
designed then, no one else had it," remembers Witschi.

It was so avant-garde that swissinfo.ch became the Swiss
Broadcasting Corporation's web competence centre for several
years, hosting the servers of all public radio and television
sites in the in the building's cellar.

And the story continues...

Translated from French by Anand Chandrasekhar, swissinfo.ch

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/20-years-of-swissinfo-ch_the-day-switzerland-found-its-online-voice/44814804


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This week's images ...

 

This "bomb cyclone" during the past week caused blizzards, high
winds, and thunderstorms in many parts of the USA. From
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Hail in southwestern Michigan was part of the past week's severe
weather. From bit.ly/2TBNc7D ...

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A scene from the Morgenstreich parade during Carnival in Basel,
Switzerland. From bit.ly/2Hzzjjk. See also bit.ly/2UCPKPr ...



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A worker attaches a name tag of a Buddhist who made a donation to
a lantern for the upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on
May 12 at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea. From
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An Afghan street vendor selling oranges waits for customers on a
rainy day on the roadside in Jalalabad. From bit.ly/2FctPcr ...



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Spring blossoms are beginning to appear in Washington DC. From
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Our painting of the week is "Spring Crocuses in Snow," by unknown
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Shortwave Radiogram now returns to MFSK32 ...


 

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This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK32 ...

Transmission of Shortwave Radiogram is provided by:

WRMI, Radio Miami International, http://wrmi.net

WINB Shortwave, http://www.winb.com/

and

Space Line, Bulgaria, http://spaceline.bg


Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net

And visit http://swradiogram.net

Twitter: @SWRadiogram

I'm Kim Elliott. Please join us for the next Shortwave
Radiogram.



 

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Slow Scan Radio 16 March, 2019, Episode 30

Good afternoon to everyone listening, reading and watching.

TODAY WE WILL BROADCAST SSTV AND MFSK32 @ 600 Hz SIMULTANEOUSLY!

OUR BROADCAST ON 13755 kHz in DRM HAS STOPPED AS OF LAST WEEK.

THIS SHOW WILL ALSO RUN IN AM, 1730-1800 UTC SATURDAY ON 9265 kHz.

As soon as SSTV starts we will also start MFSK32 (not MFSK64 like last week). This second signal will be at an audio level of -10 dB, to not cause QRM on the SSTV images. Therefore it
can be expected that with weaker signals, only the SSTV images will be decodable.

You will have to switch to MFSK32 @600 Hz manually, because of the SSTV tones, the Reed Solomon code’s will not work, or will work unreliable, so no switching-code will be sent.

We will have 15 or 16 SSTV images in both PD90 and PD50.

Info on the show:

Mail: x@xdv.me
Web: www.slowscanradio.com
Mastodon: @PA0ETE@wokka.be
Twitter: @SlowScanRadio
Slow Scan Radio is sponsored by 70MHzshop.nl

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Slow Scan Radio 16 March, 2019, Episode 30

Good afternoon to everyone listening, reading and watching.

TODAY WE WILL BROADCAST SSTV AND MFSK32 @ 600 Hz SIMULTANEOUSLY!


OUR BROADCAST ON 13755 kHz in DRM HAS STOPPED AS OF LAST WEEK.

THIS SHOW WILL ALSO RUN IN AM, 1730-1800 UTC SATURDAY ON 9265 kHz FROM WINB IN PENNSYLVANIA, USA.

As soon as SSTV starts we will also start MFSK32 (not MFSK64 like last week). This second signal will be at an audio level of -10 dB, to not cause QRM on the SSTV images. Therefore it
can be expected that with weaker signals, only the SSTV images will be decodable.

You will have to switch to MFSK32 @600 Hz manually, because of the SSTV tones, the Reed Solomon code’s will not work, or will work unreliable, so no switching-code will be sent.

We will have 15 or 16 SSTV images in both PD90 and PD50.

Info on the show:

Mail: x@xdv.me
Web: www.slowscanradio.com
Mastodon: @PA0ETE@wokka.be
Twitter: @SlowScanRadio
Slow Scan Radio is sponsored by 70MHzshop.nl

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Slow Scan Radio 16 March, 2019, Episode 30

Good afternoon to everyone listening, reading and watching.

TODAY WE WILL BROADCAST SSTV AND MFSK32 @ 600 Hz SIMULTANEOUSLY!

OUR BROADCAST ON 13755 kHz in DRM HAS STOPPED AS OF LAST WEEK.

THIS SHOW WILL ALSO RUN IN AM, 1730-1800 UTC SATURDAY ON 9265 kHz FROM WINB IN PENNSYLVANIA, USA.

As soon as SSTV starts we will also start MFSK32 (not MFSK64 like last week). This second signal will be at an audio level of -10 dB, to not cause QRM on the SSTV images. Therefore it
can be expected that with weaker signals, only the SSTV images will be decodable.

You will have to switch to MFSK32 @600 Hz manually, because of the SSTV tones, the Reed Solomon code’s will not work, or will work unreliable, so no switching-code will be sent.

We will have 15 or 16 SSTV images in both PD90 and PD50.

Info on the show:

Mail: x@xdv.me
Web: www.slowscanradio.com
Mastodon: @PA0ETE@wokka.be
Twitter: @SlowScanRadio
Slow Scan Radio is sponsored by 70MHzshop.nl

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| Shortwave Radiogram Transmission Schedule                     |

| UTC Day  | UTC Time     | Frequency     | Transmitter site    |

| Friday   | 15001530 UTC | 13755 kHz DRM*| WINB Pennsylvania   |

| Friday   | 20302100 UTC | 7780 kHz      | WRMI Florida        |

| Saturday | 03300400 UTC | 9265 kHz      | WINB Pennsylvania   |

| Saturday | 14001430 UTC | 9400 kHz      | Space Line Bulgaria |

| Sunday   | 08000830 UTC | 5850 7730 kHz | WRMI Florida        |

| Sunday   | 23302400 UTC | 7780 kHz      | WRMI Florida        |

Slow Scan Radio transmits SSTV images and text modes Saturdays at 13001330 UTC on 6070 kHz and 7440 kHz via Channel 292 in Germany – according to the latest schedule information I have.
The website is http://www.slowscanradio.com. Reception reports to x@xdv.me.

The Mighty KBC transmits to Europe Saturdays at 13001400 UTC on 11600 kHz from Bulgaria, with the minute of MFSK at about 1330 UTC (if you are outside of Europe, listen via websdr.ewi.ut
wente.nl:8901/ ). And to North America Sundays at 00000200 UTC (Saturday 79 pm EST) on 5960 kHz, via Germany. The minute of MFSK is at about 0130 UTC. Reports to Eric: themightykbc@gmai
l.com . See also http://www.kbcradio.eu/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyKbc/.

“This is a Music Show” is the newest addition to digital modes via analog shortwave. Most of the show is a music show, but the host transmits some MFSK text and image near the end of the
broadcast. It’s transmitted on WRMI, 5850 kHz, Thursday 01000200 UTC (Wednesday evening in the Americas). Also look for a waterfall ID at the beginning of the show.

New York and Pennsylvania NBEMS nets. Most weekends, as KD9XB, I check in to the New York NBEMS (Narrow Band Emergency Messaging Software) net Saturday at 1300 UTC on 3584 kHz USB, and
the Pennsylvania NBEMS net Sunday at 1300 UTC on 3583 kHz USB. Checkins are in Thor 22, and messages are in MFSK32. Messages usually use the Flmsg addon to Fldigi. If you are a radio
amateur in eastern North America, feel free to check in. Outside the region, use an SDR in the eastern USA to tune in and decode. You do not need Flmsg to check in, and most of the
messages can be read without Flmsg. If you can decode the net, send me an email to radiogram@verizon.net , or tweet to @SWRadiogram , and I will let them know you are tuned in.

(Source: SWRadiogram.net)
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14 March 2019 0100-0200UTC
5850 kHz via WRMI, Okeechobee USA

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PLAYLIST

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kurzwellen (excerpt)
Morton Subotnick - Until Spring/Begining (excerpt)

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The American Breed - Short Skirts
The Guess Who - If You Don't Want Me

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Christopher Scott - Walk On By
The Electronic Concept Orchestra - Grazing In The Grass

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Pieces Of A Dream - Mt. Airy Groove
MHE - 005

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Jean Jacques Perry - Island In Space
Mort Garson/Jacques Wilson feat. Suzie Jane Hokum - I've Been Over The Rainbow
Broadcast - The Book Lovers

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Jacques Laflèche - À Votre Service

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THIS DATA

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電気グルーヴ (Denki Groove) - Smoky Bubbles


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Link of note:

Jean Jacques Perry on U.S. TV gameshow "I've Got a Secret" (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pOqkn9JgO8

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Reception Reports/Comments

This is A Music Show
PO Box 99060 Galleria
Toronto, ON M6H 0B3
Canada

thisisamusicshow@gmail.com

www.instagram.com/thisisamusicshow/

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Thanks for listening!

--YOUR HOST--


EOM
 

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