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Welcome to program 157 of Shortwave Radiogram.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA.

Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSKmodes as noted:

  1:43 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:49 Solar Orbiter makes closest approach to Sun*
  7:28 MFSK64: Pandemic might encourage reuse of electronics
11:48 This week's images*
27:50 MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image(s)


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From the Voice of America:

Solar Obiter Spacecraft Makes Closest Approach to Sun So Far

VOA News
17 June 2020

The joint Europe and U.S. Solar Orbiter spacecraft has made its
first close approach to the Sun, getting as close as 77 million
kilometers and taking the closest images of the sun ever
captured.

The collaboration between the the U.S. space agency, NASA and the
European Space Agency (ESA), began in February when the orbiter
was launched from from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The orbiter is
designed to give close-up views of the Sun's polar regions and
observe its magnetic activity for the first time.

ESA and NASA scientists say on Monday the orbiter made its first
close approach to the Sun at around 77 million kilometers, about
half the distance between Earth and the star. The researchers
used the flyby to test the spacecraft's ten science instruments,
including six telescopes.

The space agencies say pictures of the Sun taken by the orbiter
will be released next month. ESA says the spacecraft is currently
134 million kilometers from Earth, so it will take around a week
for the images to be sent back.

Scientists hope the instruments on board the orbiter will help
solve the mysteries of the inner workings of our nearest star. To
do that, the spacecraft will fly to within 42 million kilometers
of the sun, closer than Mercury. At that distance, it will face
temperatures up to 600 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt
aluminum.

If the mission works as expected, the Solar Orbiter will be able
to take the first images of the Sun's poles as well as
investigate the heliosphere and solar wind.

After sling-shotting around Venus, it's expected to make its
first close solar pass in early 2022.

https://www.voanews.com/science-health/solar-obiter-spacecraft-makes-closest-approach-sun-so-far

See also:
https://newatlas.com/space/solar-orbiter-first-close-approach/





Image: Artist's impression of the Solar Orbiter approaching the
Sun ...

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From Deutsche Welle:

Can the pandemic help us to embrace refurbished electronics?

As the pandemic has impacted supply chains, some electronics
manufacturers have struggled to produce new equipment. Could
this be the moment for refurbishing and reusing existing
equipment?

Chetna Krishna
15 June 2020

Sales of electronics goods have surged in recent months as
millions around the world have turned their homes into offices
and digital classrooms. Within the first two weeks of March, the
US saw computer monitor sales double and demand for laptops,
mice, and keyboards all increase by 10%.

That might sound like good news for manufacturers, but the other
winners could be those pushing for circular economies that
facilitate a continual use of resources.

Arjen Workum, a network consultant at Aliter Networks, a
Netherlands company specializing in reusing IT hardware, believes
this could be a key moment for sustainable production. He says
the fact that many manufacturers haven't been able to produce and
supply new equipment, has made them start "to look in other
directions to keep their infrastructure running," and that they
are now "opening up for our [circular] business model."

Aliter Networks recently became the first B-Corp certified IT
company to promote a circular economy - a certification only
received by companies across the world that meet the highest
standards of social and environmental performance in business.
Since 2009, Aliter has reused over 150,000 IT network products
such as switches and routers, saving at least 310,000 kilos of
e-waste.

"We mostly get used networking equipment, which is essentially
from where all the data is transmitted. We check any cosmetic
damage, repaint it, attach accessories and remarket it around the
world," Zimin Chen, Sales Director and Partner at Aliter, told
DW. Unlike repaired products, he says refurbished networking
devices could have a life of between 10 to 15 years.

The company is aiming to reuse half a million IT products by
2025. But if the appetite for refurbished parts continues once
supply chain issues are resolved, it might hit the target even
sooner.

Miquel Ballester, Circular Innovation Lead at Fairphone says
increased interest in reusing and refurbishing resources is a
"perfect example of what happens in a crisis situation when
things cannot be taken for granted anymore."

"People start to look into other strategies to achieve the same
goals or they change their goals."

Another company that's seen its business increase is Argo360 — a
service organization also based in the Netherlands that
refurbishes and markets end of life (EOL) IT equipment such as
laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and monitors. Many of their
customers are hardware manufacturers struggling to source new
parts.

Sandor Bergsma, partner at Argo360 attributes the recent uptick
in interest to supply chain issues, and says this is chance for
people to realize that "refurbished products work fine."

Is the world ready for a switch to circular?

But in a world that generates about 50 million tons of electric
and electronic waste annually - roughly equivalent to discarding
1,000 laptops every single second, opting for refurbished goods
is still relatively uncommon.

Even though the European Union adopted a new Circular Economy
Action Plan in March that aims to ensure resources used are kept
in the EU economy for as long as possible, there is still the
issue of changing mindsets.

IT companies in Europe are legally bound to delete old personal
data from organization's systems under the EU General Data
Protection Regulation (or GDPR), but many people remain concerned
that older devices can become the source of potential data
breaches and leakages.

"After you've used a certain product, it is important to make
sure that you are doing everything the right way because of the
environment but also because of the law. So, if you have a
company, you are obliged by the law in Europe to remove all data
from every employee or person from a workstation or laptop and
household at a certain time," Bergsma said.

But Hasan Alkas, professor of Macroeconomics at Rhine Waal
University of Applied Sciences in Germany, doesn't believe
consumers are ready to embrace the "second-hand market” in the
long-term.

"During the crisis nobody wants to spend too much, everyone wants
to hold onto the money and if there is a choice between the old
one and the new one, you will buy an old one," Alkas told DW,
adding that China will ultimately regain its position in the
market.

Students might be one group more readily willing to buy and use
refurbished products.

Bhavya Dutta, a 21-year-old engineering student from India is
happy to take that route as long the produce in question it has
all the necessary specifications, a reasonable price with at
least two years warranty.

"I buy and sell my old Ipads and Iphone all the time," he said.
"That's why they have many student groups online where people are
looking for cheaper solutions. But at least with refurbished IT
products, there is also good quality unlike simply old used
devices."

But for the most part, enabling safe circularity in the IT
industry - regardless of the coronavirus crisis - is a challenge
that remains new in technological, legal and social spheres.

https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-pandemic-help-us-to-embrace-refurbished-electronics/a-53741181

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This week's images ...


Eighty years ago on 18 June, Gen. De Gaulle made his first
wartime broadcast to the free French from BBC Broadcasting House.
After the war, De Gaulle gave the BBC the tapestry 'Le Poète'
which still hangs in the building today. From
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An osprey takes home a meal plucked from the Anacostia River in
Washington, DC. Too bad about the fish, though. From
https://bit.ly/2YJEXWZ ...

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Mount Fuji and reflection in a rice field during sunrise. From
https://bit.ly/3eeb6MR ...

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A cyclist rides in the Al Qudra Desert in Dubai on 8 June. From
https://bit.ly/2BgPdhe ...

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Flames and smoke come out of a well run by state-owned Oil India
in Tinsukia, Assam, after a huge fire ignited by gas that has
been spewing from an oil field. From https://bit.ly/2BgPdhe ...

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Iraqi youths dive into the Shatt Al-Arab River in the southern
port city of Basra on 9 June. From https://bit.ly/2BgPdhe ...

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A bee and a lavender plant in Stirling, Scotland. From
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Wildflowers in Mortehoe, Devon, England. From
https://bbc.in/3egObAk ...

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Our art of the week is this illustration accompanying a Bloomberg
Businessweek article about the use of shortwave by (aptly named)
high frequency traders. From https://bloom.bg/2UWrWYR ...

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This Is A Music Show #069
17 June 2020

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Thank you for listening to RNEI June 2020.
The songs played today were:
1. Jubël - Someone 🇸🇪
2. El Papi - Sykepleierinnen (Sykehuset 2020) 🇳🇴
3. Dopha - Happy for me 🇩🇰
4. Innestengt - neste sommer 🇳🇴

5. Oscar A og Harriet - Mer Enn Vi Trodde 🇳🇴
6. Sofia Jannok - Snölejoninna 🇸🇪
7. The Wurzels - Don't Look Back In Anger 🇬🇧
8. BRÍET - Heyrðu Mig 🇮🇸
9. Yves V, Ilkay Sencan og Emie - Not So Bad (Zonderling Remix) 🌍
Our email is qsl@rnei.org