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Welcome to program 183 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:

  1:40 MFSK32: Program preview (now)
  2:45 New bulk carrier ship to get tilting 'rotor sails'*
  7:14 MFSK64: How lucky we are to have a habitable planet
  9:56 This week's images*
27:31 MFSK32: Closing announcements

* with image(s)


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From gCaptain:

Newbuild Bulk Carrier to Get Tilting 'Rotor Sails'

Mike Schuler
December 15, 2020

Finnish wind propulsion company Norsepower says it has received
an order to install its innovative "Rotor Sails" onboard a
newbuild ship for the first time.

The agreement calls for the installation five tilting Rotor Sails
on board a large bulk carrier under construction. The company
says the installation will mark the first time that five Rotor
Sails have been installed on a single ship, the first for the
bulk carrier segment, and the first newbuild installation.

Norsepower's Rotor Sails are a type of modernized flettner rotor,
a century-old technology that uses a spinning cylinder and the
magnus effect for supplemental wind propulsion. The company says
their use has been proven to reduce fuel consumption by as much
as 20 percent, depending on the wind conditions and vessel route.

The company says preparations are underway for the newbuild
installation and delivery of the vessel is scheduled for 2021.
The owner of the newbuild was not identified.

The newbuild announcement follows an agreement between Norsepower
and Ro-Ro operator SEA-CARGO for the first installation of the
first tiltable Rotor Sail. The company says that tilting the
Rotor Sails allows for more flexibility, including for vessels
operating on routes that involve navigating under bridges and
power lines. The 35-meter tall by 5-meter wide Rotor Sails, the
largest ever installed by Norsepower, will be able tilt to near
horizontal when required and could result in energy savings of up
to 25 percent.

Launched in 2012, Norsepower Rotor Sails have now been installed
onboard four vessels, including the latest installation on the
Scandlines' vessel M/V Copenhagen. The Sea-Cargo installation
will mark the fifth installation expected in Q4 2020.

https://gcaptain.com/newbuild-bulk-carrier-to-get-tilting-rotor-sails/

Image: Maersk Pelican with two 30-meter Norsepower Rotor Sails
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From New Atlas:


Study calculates how lucky we are to have a habitable planet

Anthony Wood
December 14, 2020

New research involving the simulation of 100,000 random worlds
suggests that chance played a major role in allowing Earth to
maintain a habitable environment for the three to four billion
years needed for the evolution of complex life.

Earth hasn't always been the most pleasant place to live. It's
history is riddled with ice-ages, periods of unpleasant volcanism
and even the odd cataclysmic asteroid impact.

Cyclical mass extinctions and climate shifts have brought life on
Earth to the brink numerous times. However, the extraordinary
fact remains that our home planet has somehow managed to remain
continuously habitable for the past three to four billion years –
long enough for single-celled life forms to evolve into human
beings.

In a new study, Professor Toby Tyrrell, a specialist on Earth
system science at the University of Southampton, set out to shed
light on how our planet has managed to remain habitable, and to
what extent luck may have played a role in its continued success.

To this end Professor Tyrrell used the Iridis supercomputing
facility located at the University of Southampton to model
100,000 randomly different worlds. He then simulated how their
evolutionary paths, and therefore their temperatures, were
affected by climate-altering events over the course of three
billion years.

The evolution of each digital planet was simulated 100 times, and
for each run different random events were inflicted upon the
worlds.

It was discovered that out of the 100,000 planets, only one was
able to maintain habitability for all 100 of its simulations. The
remaining worlds that were able to maintain a temperature
suitable for sustaining life for three billion years were only
able to do so in some of their simulated histories, and thus had
a probability of being habitable rather than a certainty of it.

Nine percent, or 8,710, of the digital planets were found to be
habitable for three billion years in at least of their 100
simulated runs. Of these, roughly 8,000 worlds had a success rate
of less than 50 in 100, and 4,500 of the planets were habitable
less than 10 times out of their 100 simulations.

According to the author the results suggest that Earth's
habitability was not a simple inevitability, but rather that our
planet, or rather every currently living species on it have been
statistically lucky regarding the environmental calamities that
life on our world has been forced to endure.

"We can now understand that Earth stayed suitable for life for so
long due, at least in part, to luck," explains Professor Tyrrell.
"For instance, if a slightly larger asteroid had hit Earth, or
had done so at a different time, then Earth may have lost its
habitability altogether. To put it another way, if an intelligent
observer had been present on the early Earth as life first
evolved, and was able to calculate the chances of the planet
staying habitable for the next several billion years, the
calculation may well have revealed very poor odds."

The paper has been published in the Nature journal Communications
Earth & Environment, and Professor Tyrrell discuses his research
in the video below.

Source: University of Southampton

https://newatlas.com/space/earth-habitability-computer-simulation-luck/

 

This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64

Please send your reception report to radiogram@verizon.net

This week's images ...

A police van in Lausanne, Switzerland, is illuminated during a
light show. https://bit.ly/34llwrb ...

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A combination of pictures shows the different stages of the total
solar eclipse as seen from Neuquén province, Argentina.
https://bit.ly/34llwrb ...

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City Hall in San Francisco is illuminated in green to mark the
fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord.
https://bit.ly/3r3Nbq8 ...

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A dreidel made of holiday lights called "Whirl of Whimsy" sits on
the sidewalk along Fifth Avenue, New York City, December 4.
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Christmas holiday lights decorate the Paris Town Hall, December
11. https://reut.rs/3aj1am1 ...

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The A-68A iceberg seen from a Royal Air Force reconnaissance
plane near South Georgia Island. https://reut.rs/34nMcaB ...

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The first major snow of the year in New York City, December 16.
https://bit.ly/2KaKkuQ ...

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Pedestrians walk in the snow in Arlington, Virginia, December 16.
https://wapo.st/3r2VNNK ...

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A poinsettia, from a Deutsche Welle pictorial, "Festive plants
from around the world." Festive plants from around the world ...

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Our painting of the week is "Christmas Celebration" by Amy S.
Whitehouse. https://bit.ly/38bAXDo ...

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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

....
---- RNEI 11's playlist ----
1, Steps - Something in Your Eyes 🇬🇧-🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
This song is the latest from an English 90s pop dance group, still making fun pop music decades after their debut!
2, BRÍET - Nær Þér 🇮🇸
We bring you BRÍET's latest song. It has a similar vibe to GDRN from last week and I love it!
3, Erika Vikman - Syntisten pöytä 🇫🇮
Finland's Erika Vikman, a former Tango Dancer, invites us to the table of sinners this month. With her strong vocals and an amazing ABBA-esque backing track Syntisten pöytä jumped right into the Finnish top 30!
4, Adwaith - Lan Y Môr 🇬🇧-🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Here's a treasure of an entry, Indie Rock band Adwaith's latest song in Welsh!
5, Re:Bond featuring Sanna and Serenad - Aldrig det 🇸🇪
Something I heard on P4 Nästa, I found it quite a nice change after the rock!
6, Anna of the North - Believe 🇳🇴
This song is probably my favourite of the show. Anna of the North (Last played in the very first RNEI show!) has covered Cher's Believe with such a wonderful, chill and haunting vibe. I find it chillingly beautiful!
---- Danish Dance Music Mix ----
7, Kasper Nyemann - Du' Min (Le Boeuf Remix) 🇩🇰
A catchy dance song sung in Danish with a nice happy vibe.
8, LittGloss - I See Right Through To You (Sunrise Edit) 🇩🇰
LittGloss gives us a slowed down dance banger with strong vocals.
9, Tvilling - Dum Dum Dum 🇩🇰
Tvilling brings us back up in tempo with a solid drop in their song Dum Dum Dum.
10, Boye & Sigvardt, Hazel - Confessions 🇩🇰
Hazel teases the listener about what she's been up to in Boye & Sigvardt's well produced song Confessions.

Our email is qsl@rnei.org.

Thank you for decoding,
Til vi møtes igjen,
Ha det!
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https://www.bclnews.it/2020/11/18/texas-radio-shortwave-announces-its-christmasmusic-program-schedule/

https://www.facebook.com/texasradiosw/photos/a.101641871314124/214211853390458/

CORRECTION: December 26 transmission on WRMI is on 5800 kHz, NOT 9395 kHz.
Cap'n Ric apologizes for the confusion.

TEXAS RADIO SHORTWAVE ANNOUNCES ITS CHRISTMASMUSIC PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Texas Radio Shortwave, an American free radio station, today announces the schedule for its Christmas music programs via three international shortwave stations.
Texas Radio Shortwave will reprise its Christmas 2019 program on December 19 and 20:
December 19 – Via Channel 292 (Rohrbach, Germany): 0900 UTC on 6070 kHz and 1800 UTC on 3955 kHz
December 20 – Via WRMI (Okeechobee, Florida USA): 0300 UTC on 5800 kHz (December 19 in NAm

On Christmas Eve and Day, the Texas Radio Shortwave program will feature music by Texas artists on the following schedule:
December 25 – Via WBCQ (Monticello, Maine USA: 0400 UTC on 7490 kHz (Christmas Eve in NAm)
December 25 – Via Channel 292 (Rohrbach, Germany): 1900 UTC on 3955 kHz and 6070 kHz
December 26 – Via WRMI (Okeechobee, Florida USA): 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz  5800 kHz (Christmas Day in NAm).
Texas artists will include Beto y Los Fairlanes, Eric Johnson and Van Wilks, and Marcia Ball.

Texas Radio Shortwave will send different limited-edition electronic verifications for the December 19/20 and December 25/26 programs to listeners submitting correct, detailed reception reports for the broadcasts. The email address is texasradiosw@gmail.com.
Reception reports should include times, song titles, the text of announcements, a SINPO/SIO signal rating, information on the listener’s receiver and antenna, and comments on the program content. Listeners should mention if they use a remote software-defined radio (SDR) and the receiver’s location. Audio clips are welcomed.
Texas Radio Shortwave sails in international waters off the South Texas coast. Its programs are regularly broadcast in Europe and North America.
73 and Arrgghh.
Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.
Texas Radio Shortwave
Sailing into your ears from the Lone Star State
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