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Bill Uhrich: Remembering when shortwave radio was a window on the world

Posted: 05 Dec 2016 05:48 PM PST
http://bit.ly/2gWDE0d

Don't stop me because I know you've heard this one before.

But it's a story worth repeating.

The recent death of Fidel Castro brought back memories of learning about
the world through a shortwave radio when I was a kid.
For Christmas in 1962, my older brother Tim convinced me that we both
should ask for the radio so he would have a better chance of actually
getting one.
I don't know how my parents did it because a shortwave didn't seem like
something anyone could pick up at Hess Brothers or Boscov's, but on
Christmas morning under the tree was a Hallicrafters shortwave radio.

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Slow-Scan Television Transmissions Scheduled from ISS

Posted: 05 Dec 2016 05:48 PM PST
http://bit.ly/2h96ERo

Slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions from the International Space
Station (ISS) are scheduled for December 8-9. The SSTV images will be
transmitted from RS0ISS on 145.800 MHz FM as part of the Moscow Aviation
Institute MAI-75 Experiment, using the Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver in the
ISS Service Module.

MAI-75 activities have been scheduled on December 8, 1235-1800 UTC, and
December 9, 1240-1740 UTC. These times correspond to passes over Moscow,
Russia. ISS transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM use 5-kHz deviation, and SSTV
transmissions have used the PD120 and PD180 formats.