This weekend’s broadcast of VOA Radiogram program 111 contained four news items:

• VOA increases broadcasts to Burundi
• Forest management to reduce hunger
• Shipwreck found during search for MH370
• Huge demand for US entrepreneur visas

The first three items were in the usual MFSK32 mode, but the final item was in the MT63-2000L mode.

The broadcast also included three images:

• VOA’s Gabe Joselow reporting from Bujumbura
• Food growing in the forest (taken from the VOA video report)
• Ship-related debris on the sea floor

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This weekend’s broadcast of VOA Radiogram program 110 contained three news items:

• Vinyl records popular in South Africa
• US agency announces prize for ocean wave energy
• Expo Milano 2015 will focus on food supply

It also contained four images:

• Kevin Stuart about to put another vinyl record on the turntable inside his Record Mad store in Johannesburg
• A Neptune Wave Power wave energy conversion buoy
• The Expo 2015 logo and the mascot Foody
• A robot plays the ball during a soccer match during the RoboCup German Open 2015 in Magdeburg, Germany on 4/24/15

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Program 109 of VOA Radiogram contained four news items this weekend:

• Freedom House report on world press freedom
• BBC adds shortwave transmissions for Nepal
• Mobile phone ownership increases in Africa
• Computer servers heat homes in the Netherlands

It also contained three images:

• The Freedom House press freedom map
• A Nerdalize e-Radiator
• The VOA Radiogram logo

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This weekend’s VOA Radiogram program 108 contained five images and four news items:

• Report urges overhaul of US international broadcasting
• CPJ names the ten most censored countries
• Turkmenistan cracks down on satellite dishes
• Ukrainian channels taken off Crimea cable TV

All four news items were broadcast using MFSK32.

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I didn’t have much success decoding VOA Radiogram program 106 last weekend, probably due to changing shortwave propagation conditions as we head closer to summer. According to Kim Andrew Elliott, propagation for last week’s 17860 kHz broadcast was probably the worst since the start of VOA Radiogram in 2013.

I had better luck decoding this weekend’s VOA Radiogram program 107. There were three images and three news items broadcast during this show:

* India’s net neutrality debate
* US Congressional hearing on Russian international media
* VOA Russian story about Yuri Gagarin

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This week, VOA Radiogram returned to entirely MFSK32 news items. There were five images and five news items this week:

• Anti-venom against sub-Saharan snakes
• New aluminum-ion battery
• Chinese TV broadcaster punished for comment
• Balloons send “The Interview” DVDs into North Korea
• Islamic State hacks TV5Monde TV

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