Mighty KBC tests on 14 November

The Mighty KBC is testing from Yerevan, Armenia & Taskkent, Uzbekistan on November 14th,2020 with the following parameters:

6080 kHz, 20:00 – 21:00 UTC, antenna 1780 with 305 degrees, 100 kW

6080 kHz, 21:00 - 22:00 UTC, antenna TAC_01R with 301 degrees, 100 kW

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KBC tests for Europe on 26th March 2013

Another Mighty 6095 test !
Only for Europe we are testing on Tuesday 26-03-2013 on 6095 kHz from Nauen.

09:00 – 10:00 UTC 6095 kHz 125 kW antenna HR 2/2/0.5 230 degrees

10:00 – 11:00 UTC 6095 kHz 100 kW antenna HR 2/4/0.5 230 degrees

Mail us your reports via themightykbc@gmail.com or via info@transportradio.nl

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KBC Radio extra's on 22-25 Dec 2012

The Mighty KBC Blasting Out Of Your Tranny!!

The extra frequencies and transmitters for 22, 23, 25 and 26 December are:

EU (German time) UTC +1
9835 kHz, 1500-1600 UTC, Non Directional, 125 kW

USA (East Coast time) UTC -5
21600 kHz, 1500-1600 UTC, 300°, 250 kW

Asia (Vietnam time) UTC +7 / Australia (Sydney time) UTC +11
15470 kHz, 1500-1600 UTC, 75°, 250 kW

And on 22, 23 December we also have our 6095 transmitter on the air as well with 100 kW 09.00 - 16.00 UTC. During weekdays we also have The Mighty 6095 on the air between 09.00 - 11.00 UTC with 100kW.

KBC 9450 kHz special test of digital text

The Mighty KBC will test to the USA on Sunday 11 November 2012 at 0000 - 0200 UTC on 9450 kHz !

Please join the Mighty KBC for a test of a digital text sent via a shortwave broadcast transmitter. This will take place during the next transmission to North America, Sunday 0000-0200 UTC, at approximately 0130 and just before the end of the broadcast at 0200.

All you need is a basic shortwave receiver (no SSB mode is necessary), and a basic personal computer. Using a patch cord, you will feed the radio out of the earphone jack (or line out) of your radio into the microphone jack of your PC. If you don't have a patch cord, you can try placing the speaker of your radio close to the built-in microphone of a laptop PC.

You will also need software. There are several freeware or shareware programs used by the amateur radio community that decode digital text modes. One is FLDIGI, available from http://www.w1hkj.com .

After installing FLDIGI, pull down the Configure menu, then click Sound Card, and select the soundcard your PC is using. You might also have to adjust your audio settings. In Windows 7, left click twice on the speaker icon in the lower right of PC display, then click Options, then click Properties, then click Recording, then click the input that works. Other operating systems will have different procedures. A good way to test your audio settings is to try to decode the radio amateurs using the PSK31 mode on 14070 kHz.

For the test digital text transmissions on Sunday, The Mighty KBC will be using the QPSK125 mode. On your software, your cursor should be centered on 1500 Hertz, where you will see the "waterfall" of the QPSK125 signal. You can decode the transmission while you receive it, or record the transmission and decode from the recording. The latter will give you more opportunities to perfect the technique.

The test to be transmitted will be a formatted html file. Copy it from <html> to (and including) </html>, and paste it to a text editor (such as Notepad in Windows). Save the file, using any file name, with the suffix .htm or .html. Then open the file in any web browser. If all goes well, this might be the first time you receive a shortwave radio broadcast in color !

In the future, an app will be developed to make this process simpler!

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