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Listening to everything

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RTL-SDR between 401 - 406 MHz Weather Balloon vertical atmospheric telemetry data transponder.

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Meteor Shower Tau Herculids from debris Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3

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Shortwave Radiogram SWL 7730 kHz decode

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Shortwave Radiogram Program # 70 via WRMI 7780 kHz Sunday 21 Oct 2018 at 2330 to 2400 UTC Grundig S450DLX ~ Passive Tabletop Tuned Loop ~ FLDigi/Laptop Text in MFSK32, 128, and 64, with nine MFSK images

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RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Amateur Radio Satellite launch plan for Nov

A few weeks remain until the launch of AMSAT Fox-1 satellite at 01:47PST (09:47 UTC) on November 10th, as a secondary payload aboard the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1 mission on a Delta-2 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California USA.

The RadFxSat features a FM U/V repeater. Uplink frequency 435.250 MHz 67.0 Hz, Downlink frequency 145.960 MHz & telemetry via FoxTelem software.

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A NEW YEAR COMET

ASTRONOMY -  A NEW YEAR COMET Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková & the Waxing Crescent Moon will share the evening of December 31, 2016, just after sunset.  Comet 45P is not a naked-eye celestial object although it is passing perihelion (closest point to the Sun) on December 31, 2016.  You will need binoculars or small telescope to see a faint-fuzzy-diffused speck in the night sky.  Comet 45P is a short (~5 yrs.) periodic comet discovered in 1948 by Honda Minoru, a professional Japanese Astronomer and will eventually produce enough solar system dust/debris to create a potentially new annual Meteor-shower but we'll have to wait and see.

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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.

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Add One Second to GMT

TIME - Adjustment - Leap Second

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) must be adjusted at irregular intervals to keep it close to mean solar time.

Time as calculated by the motion of the mean sun and the Earth and time is shown by an ordinary clock which corresponds to mean solar time.

Due to irregularities in Earth’s rotation these adjustment, called a Leap Second, are necessary and pre-determined.

The next Leap Second will occur on 31 December 2016 at 23:59:59 UTC. Specifically, a positive Lap Second will be inserted between second 23:59:59 UTC of 31 December and second 00:00:00 UTC of 1 January 2017.

This extra second is displayed on UTC clocks as 23:59:60.

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Radio Kuwait upgrade and add new DRM

Swiss company awarded contract to improve Radio Kuwait analog transmitters and add DRM starting January 2017.  The station is located approximately 20km from Jahra, Kuwait. 

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Two Atom Radio Receiver

This tiny radio has building blocks the size of two atoms. The radio is extremely resilient, thanks to the inherent strength of the diamond.

It is made from imperfections the size of two-atoms in a single piece of dimond crystal powered by a green laser (wires are impratical), then the crystal produces red light when radio waves are detected.

The output red light is received by a traditional photodiode converting it into current to power a speaker.

The team successfully played music at 350 °C — about 660 °F 

Credit: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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

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

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VOA RADIOGRAM

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

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VOARADIOGRAM FLASH CARD AT A GLANCE - PRINT AND SAVE

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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

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VOA Radiogram xmitter

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.  

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Perseids meteor shower August 11th thru 13th. Predicted intensity varies from 60 to 100 to 160 meteors per hour under ideal conditions - no moon - early meteors will be small-&-quick; the larger-&-brighter meteors should arrive after 2 AM.  Moon table for Washington D.C.

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Excellent shortwave propagation and reception near Washington D.C. VOA RADIOGRAM, 5745kHz, 0230 GMT, 24JUL2016, SINPO 55455. Realistic DX-150A, Longwire, FLDigi, and Shortwave radio acoustically coupled with computer.