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Welcome to program 181 of Shortwave Radiogram.

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

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

  1:42 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:45 Arecibo Radio Observatory collapses*
  8:45 MFSK64: Electronic waste on the decline, study finds
12:34 This week's images*
28:25 MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image(s)


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From Deutsche Welle:

Puerto Rico: Massive Arecibo Observatory telescope collapses

       The structure's demise was sudden, though it has been
       deteriorating for several months. The telescope's collapse
       brings to an end 57 years of astronomical work.

December 1, 2020

A giant telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory that had
been deteriorating since August collapsed on Tuesday, officials
said.

After making astronomical discoveries for well over half a
century, the radio telescope's 900-ton receiver platform,
suspended by cables 450 feet (137 meters) above a 1,000-foot-wide
(305 meters) bowl-shaped reflector dish, fell on Tuesday morning.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) tweeted: "No injuries were
reported. NSF is working with stakeholders to assess the
situation. Our top priority is maintaining safety."

The NSF later released a statement saying: "Local authorities
will keep the area cordoned off as engineers work to assess the
stability of the observatory's other structures."

Vulnerable but crash still stuns

The structure was already looking vulnerable after an auxiliary
cable snapped in August, causing a 100-foot gash on the
1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) dish.

A main cable then broke in early November, prompting the NSF to
announce the structure was beyond repair and would have to be
demolished.

Nevertheless, Tuesday's crash stunned many scientists who had
relied on what was, until 2016, the world's largest radio
telescope. It had been in operation for 57 years studying distant
planets, finding potentially hazardous asteroids and searching
for potential signs of extraterrestrial life.

"It sounded like a rumble. I knew exactly what it was,'' said
Jonathan Friedman, who worked for 26 years as a senior research
associate at the observatory and still lives nearby. "I was
screaming. Personally, I was out of control.... I don't have
words to express it. It's a very deep, terrible feeling."

Angel Vazquez, the telescope's director of operations, told news
agency The Associated Press. "It was a snowball effect," he said.
"There was no way to stop it.... It was too much for the old girl
to take."

The telescope also gained fame after being used in the 1995 James
Bond film "GoldenEye" starring Pierce Brosnan.

https://www.dw.com/en/puerto-rico-massive-arecibo-observatory-telescope-collapses/a-55790972

See also:
https://newatlas.com/space/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses/
https://www.space.com/arecibo-observatory-radio-telescope-collapse-photos


Image: Fallen support structures on the dish of the Arecibo Radio
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From the Yale School of the Environment

Electronic waste on the decline, new study finds

Geoffrey Giller
December 2, 2020

A new study, led by a researcher at the Yale School of the
Environment's Center for Industrial Ecology and published
recently in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, has found that the
total mass of electronic waste generated by Americans has been
declining since 2015. In an age when most of us can't imagine
life without our digital devices, this surprising finding has
ramifications for both how we think about electronic waste's
future and for the laws and regulations regarding e-waste
recycling, according to the study's authors.

The biggest contributor to this decline is the disappearance of
the large, bulky cathode-ray tube (CRT) televisions and computer
monitors from American homes, says Callie Babbitt, a professor at
Rochester Institute of Technology's Golisano Institute for
Sustainability and one of the study's authors. Since about 2011,
CRT displays have been on the decline in the waste stream,
helping to lead the overall decline in total e-waste mass.

This decline in bulkier displays means that e-waste regulations
may have to be rethought, says Babbitt. "If you look at the state
laws that exist in many places for e-waste recycling, many of
them set their targets based on product mass," she says. As the
overall mass of e-waste declines, meeting those targets becomes
more difficult. Moreover, says Babbitt, the main goal of these
regulations had been to keep electronics with high levels of lead
and mercury out of landfills, where they can eventually leach
into the surrounding environment. But these days, a more
pertinent concern is how to recover elements like cobalt (used in
lithium-ion batteries) or indium (found in flat-panel displays).
These elements aren't as environmentally toxic; rather, they are
relatively scarce in the Earth's crust, so failing to recapture
them for reuse in new electronics is wasteful. "The e-waste
recycling system is somewhat backwards-looking," says Babbitt; it
has struggled to keep pace with the changing nature of
electronics.

Shahana Althaf, the lead author on the study and a postdoctoral
associate at the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, notes that a
shift in e-waste recycling to capture more of these critical
elements could also help the United States secure its supply of
the ingredients required for manufacturing electronic devices.
Geopolitical uncertainties can pose threats to what Althaf terms
"mineral security" for the U.S. "People are slowly realizing...
the need to ensure domestic supply," she says. Rather than mining
the ore from the Earth's crust, capturing the elements from
electronic waste could instead provide these crucial elements. In
addition to mineral security, this would reduce the environmental
destruction that traditional mining often entails.

The sheer number of electronic devices entering the waste stream
is also leveling off or slightly declining, Babbitt and Althaf
say. This is due to something that Babbitt terms 'convergence':
gaming consoles, for example, can act as DVD players; smartphones
are also cameras and video recorders. In the past, says Babbitt,
people needed separate devices for each of those applications.

To amass the data necessary for their study, the authors used
material flow analysis, a technique for quantifying the resources
going into or out of a system. They focused on twenty categories
of digital devices—including computers, smartphones, digital
cameras, and audio-visual equipment—and disassembled dozens of
products in a lab in order to determine the relative content of
various important elements, in addition to relying on previously
published data.

"This is a very important finding that cuts against the widely
held idea that electronic waste is the 'fastest growing waste
stream,'" says Reid Lifset, the editor-in-chief of the Yale-based
Journal of Industrial Ecology. "It shifts our understanding of
the problem with e-waste," he says.

In the United States, e-waste recycling is regulated at the state
level, and only half the states have e-waste recycling laws. That
leads to a patchwork of regulations which makes it harder for
companies to navigate if they wanted to make their products
easier to recycle, says Babbitt. A more holistic, federal
approach could help increase the overall capture of rare
elements. Ultimately, we should "see waste as a resource," says
Althaf: an opportunity, rather than a problem.

https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/electronic-waste-on-the-decline-new-study-finds/






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This week's images ...
 

A woman walks in a park during snowfall in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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A female coeligena helianthea hummingbird in Bogota, Colombia.
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The borough of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvanioa, ready for Christmas.
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A man holds an umbrella at the BOH Sungai Palas Tea Centre in the
Cameron Highlands in Malaysia’s Pahang state.
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Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City is lit up with its Christmas
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A view across Dunsapie Loch in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh.
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A view of a bridge through a bridge on the Dava Way, northern
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Our painting of the week is "The Last Leaf" by Gladys Folkers.
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Daz:
The December RNEI11 shortwave broadcast features an animated vector graphics html playlist, sent using WinDRM.
The small data size allows the most robust QAM4 modulation to be used, and allows the data to be sent in 2 passes for protection against QRM or fades.
Requirements:
Decoder: WinDRM or Easypal (either will work)
Decompressor: 7zip
Browser: Firefox, Edge, or Chrome/Vivaldi (possibly others IF they have GPU acceleration for SVG graphics). Only Firefox is able to display both the animations and emojis correctly.
The playlist will be supplied in three files, to suit various browser speeds:
Main file - All animations
Slower - Sun only, no clouds
Slowest - Animated text and RNEI logo only
Rendering animated SVG graphics requires GPU acceleration to get a decent framerate.
Firefox on Windows 7 or 10, Edge on Windows 10, and Chrome/Vivaldi on Windows 8.1 were the only browsers tested that could display the animated content at a reasonable frame rate (30 FPS or more). Other browsers and operating system combinations tested were just too slow.
Chrome/Vivaldi may need "ignore-gpu-blocklist" to be manually enabled.
Firefox may need WebRender disabled if your hardware or OS can't support it. Direct3D 11 mode works fine.
Firefox v83 has switched to the "WebRender" graphics engine. If WebRender can't run on your system, it causes a slowdown in SVG animation (to perhaps 1 FPS or less). If you have this issue, go into Firefox about:config and set "gfx.webrender.force-disabled" to "true", and restart Firefox.
 

RNEI11 first airs at 1900UTC on Sunday December 6th on 6070kHz from Germany, and 0100UTC Thursday December 10th on 5850kHz WRMI. It is repeated weekly for the rest of the month. Check transmitter timetables for more precise times and dates.
The playlist is sent at the end of the program (about 29 minutes into the 6070kHz ch292 broadcast, and at about 59 minutes into the 5850kHz WRMI broadcast).
WinDRM saves received data files in it's "Pictures" subfolder. Unzip the "RNEI11-Playlist.7z" archive using 7zip, and then open one of the html files in your web browser. If the browser is too slow to display the content, try the slower or slowest file versions.
Look for the hidden greeting message popups!
 

DECODED  via ch292  DRM QAM4:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/pr8drdi1mcqsmxg/RNEI11-Playlist.7z?dl=1