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Hamming it up: Big Island radio operators compete in contests

West Hawaii Today 12 Jun 2021
Ham radio operator Lloyd Cabral sits in the station he built inside his Hawaiian Paradise Park home, headphones on and finger moving on a CW, or continuous wave paddle, tapping out a message in Morse code ... ADVERTISING ... “We specialize and are known for the Morse code ... “When I was a kid, I found an old radio that had shortwave bands on it ... .
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Hamming it up: Radio operators enjoy competitions, plan special Kamehameha Day event

Hawaii Tribune-Herald 07 Jun 2021
Ham radio operator Lloyd Cabral sits in the station he built inside his Hawaiian Paradise Park home, headphones on and finger moving on a CW, or continuous wave paddle, tapping out a message in Morse code ... “We specialize and are known for the Morse code ... “When I was a kid, I found an old radio that had shortwave bands on it ... .
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Satellites monitor Mount Etna's unpredictable behavior

Phys Dot Org 09 Apr 2021
Italy's Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has recently been on explosive form, with 17 eruptions in less than three months ... The images, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 missions, have been processed using the shortwave-infrared band to show the ongoing activity in the crater ... Explore further ... Citation ... ....
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Premature Evaluation: Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

Stereogum 01 Apr 2021
Godspeed’s sound has not changed in the 27 years of this band’s intermittent existence ... The band uses soundclips from shortwave radio, that most apocalypse-friendly form of communication, to frame the two longer tracks on the album, and you usually can’t pick out individual words or sounds.
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The Councilwoman who was cured of cancer by Aliens

Journal Online 25 Feb 2021
Brent Swancer. Do aliens sometimes come to us with benevolent intent? Lynne Plaskett has had quite a run of things ... Lynne Plaskett ... On one particular night in July 1961 (just two months before the Betty and Barney Hill abduction), Renaud picked up an extraordinary message while “browsing around the shortwave bands” in his small, Massachusetts town ... .
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Italy’s Mount Etna Erupts Twice in Less Than 48 hours

Interesting Engineering 20 Feb 2021
Mount Etna is a volcano located on the east coast of Sicily and is considered to be one of the world’s most active volcanoes ... The image featured above was taken at 09.40 GMT by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission and was processed using the mission’s shortwave-infrared band to indicate the lava flow in a glorious bright red ... Advertisement.
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Service takes many forms, and all should be appreciated

Cheney Free Press 13 Nov 2020
Write to the Point. Last updated 11/12/2020 at 5.07pm. I’ve been reading my grandfather’s diary. For the year 1943 ... Jan ... 26 ... Attendance numbers for Sunday services (a lot!), hymn sings, trips to the Red Cross to get magazines and newspapers, procuring a shortwave radio to connect with home, setting up movies at night, band concerts and other functions.
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1981: What was your favorite ‘80s music device, the boom box or Walkman?

The Post-Standard 02 Nov 2020
Updated 10.23 AM; Today 10.23 AM ... Syracuse Post-StandardSyracuse Post-Standard. Facebook Share. Twitter Share. By Johnathan Croyle . jcroyle@syracuse.com ... On Oct ... The boom box came in a variety of models and many sported all types of options like multi-band radio, tape cassette players/recorders, shortwave receivers and even TV screens ... Read more ... 1981 ... .
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New satellites can pinpoint methane leaks to help us beat climate change

Popular Science 30 Oct 2020
Those on satellites can measure ultraviolet, near-infrared, or shortwave infrared beams from the sun bouncing back off Earth ... Shortwave infrared reveals CH<sub>4</sub> information ... Operators study the near-infrared band to figure out what’s aerosol and what’s methane.
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Global Shortwave Infrared Market Outlook to 2027 - Featuring Xenics, Leonardo DRS & Sofradir Among ...

Odessa American 06 Oct 2020
The "Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) - Global Market Outlook (2019 -2027)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering ... Shortwave infrared cameras are standalone device used to detect radiation which is unseen to the human eye. Shortwave Infrared waveband has some unique merits that make it a useful band for sensing.
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Coronavirus lockdown: Assam ham radio operator helping stranded to reach home

The Times of India 19 Apr 2020
Ahmed’s centre on Saturday arranged a talk through the HAMSPHERE Virtual Networks on Frequency 01.899.00 MHz in Band-1 worldwide and more than 50 shortwave listerners, ham radio enthusiasts from different districts of Assam attended the talk and agreed to setup a statewide ...
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Passing The Torch

Morning Times 18 Jan 2020
I’m writing tonight (Monday night) in my customary spot –in the dining room—seated so I can glance to the right, into the living room, to keep tabs on whatever is happening on the Big Ten Network ... That was 1959 ... I got a new multi-band shortwave radio on Christmas Day and I’m still only looking at it, hoping it’ll give up its secrets easily ... Swan Song.
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Amateur Radio General License Class

Mount Pleasant Morning Sun 13 Jan 2020
Each class will start at 7 p.m ... The general class license allows full access to all of the VHF/UHF amateur bands and access to the amateur HF or “shortwave” bands ... ....
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Local general amateur radio class forming

Midland Daily News 11 Jan 2020
... class license allows you full access to all of the VHF/UHF amateur bands and access to the amateur HF or "shortwave" bands.
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