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Welcome to program 370 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)
  2:44 MFSK32: How VOA News Now covered 9/11
  6:26 MFSK64: The Milky Way is bigger than we thought
  8:57 MFSK64: This week's images
28:36 MFSK32: Closing announcements



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At VOA on 9/11

Kim Andrew Elliott
September 11, 2024

On September 11, 2024, discussion on X/Twitter recalled the
role of media during the terrorist attacks 23 years earlier.
In a series of tweets from @kaedotcom, I recalled my
experience on that day ...

On September 11, 2001, Voice of America English radio had its
News Now format, a 24/7 rolling news format. So it was in a
position to react quickly to the terrorist attacks.

The first hour or so was difficult, because reports from VOA
reporters were still in preparation. VOA had no affiliations with
U.S. domestic broadcast networks, which would have been useful on
that day. Coverage by U.S. radio or television networks could
have been simulcast abroad on shortwave.

As host of VOA’s "Communications World," I was VOA’s media
reporter. I asked friends near New York City to send me audio the
all-news radio stations in the city, with traffic reports and
other content providing a sense of how residents were coping
during this harrowing time.

My friends also informed me what New York City television
stations were no longer transmitting, because their transmitters
and antennas were on top of the World Trade Center towers. And
which stations were back on the air with standby transmitters.

I went in to the VOA News Now studio to report this information.
Media developments were not the main news of the hour, but it was
something to fill News Now airtime until reports from VOA
correspondents came in.

When I left the VOA building late that afternoon, Washington was
largely deserted. On the National Mall, I saw only parked police
cars and a couple from the U.K. I told them, "You picked an
interesting day to visit Washington." They asked where they could
find a cup of tea. I directed them to the restaurant in a nearby
hotel.

Driving home that evening on the George Washington Parkway, along
the Potomac River, In could smell the smoke from the Pentagon,
still smoldering after the attack on that building earlier in the
day.

For VOA's Communications World the following weekend, I recorded
audio of tuning across the FM band in Washington. The stations'
selection of tunes, and DJ comments, were poignant. James
Taylor’s "Fire and Rain" was broadcast often that evening.

https://x.com/kaedotcom/status/1833963389066117540
 

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From Deutsche Welle:

Milky Way is bigger than we thought, even touching Andromeda

Fred Schwaller
September 10, 2024

"You may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store,"
wrote Douglas Adams in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "but
that's just peanuts to space."

Space is big. We live on one tiny planet orbiting a star that's
tucked away in the far reaches of a galaxy — just one galaxy of
around 2 trillion in the known universe. Space is really really
big.

Planet Earth is located in one of the spiral arms of the Milky
Way (called the Orion Arm) which lies about two-thirds of the way
out from the center of the galaxy.

We know how big the Earth is — 12,756 kilometers (7,926 miles)
across. And we know how big our sun is too — about 1,391,000
kilometers (864,400 miles) across.

But how big is the Milky Way? Until now, the true size of
galaxies has remained a mystery.

Galaxies are much bigger than we thought

A new study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, has found
that galaxies are far bigger than originally thought, perhaps
several times bigger.

The spiraled structure of the galaxy we know is only the smaller
core of the galaxy. For the Milky Way, this is about 100,000
light-years across.

The starlight from stars nestled in the spiral arms extend to
around 7,800 light-years into deep space, which was thought to be
where a galaxy ended and deep space began.

The study has revealed that large "halos" of gas extend from the
visible spirals of star light far out into deep space.

These gas halos only became visible to astronomers with new
imaging techniques. The methods enabled astronomers to detect
galaxy gas halos over 100,000 light years into deep space, vastly
increasing our estimations of how big galaxies are.

Kissing galaxies

In fact, the halos of gas from galaxies extend so far into deep
space that galaxies actually interact with each other.

The findings suggest that our Milky Way is likely interacting
with our closest neighbor, Andromeda — around 2.5 million light
years away, according to Nikole Nielsen, lead author of the
paper, and a researcher with Swinburne University, Australia.

"We're now seeing where the galaxy's influence stops, the
transition where it becomes part of more of what's surrounding
the galaxy, and, eventually, where it joins the wider cosmic web
and other galaxies. These are all usually fuzzy boundaries," said
Nielsen in a press statement.

Scientists say the discovery will help to understand one of the
biggest questions in astronomy: how do galaxies evolve?

Studying the gas halos from different types of galaxies — ones
that form stars, or those that don't form stars any longer — will
help to understand how galaxies build mass over time, and what
impact galaxies have on each another when they interact.

https://www.dw.com/en/milky-way-is-bigger-than-we-thought-even-touching-andromeda/a-70154211

 

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This week's images ...



The Polaris Dawn launch on September 10 from Florida was visible
in Virginia. https://tinyurl.com/2bxosln9 ...

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Windows of a church in the North Yorkshire Moors.
https://tinyurl.com/2bx9ekvv ...

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An aerial tanker combats the Airport Fire in the hills of Orange
County, California, September 9. https://tinyurl.com/23jlrrb8 ...

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A helicopter flies through smoke from wildfires in São Paulo,
Brazil. https://tinyurl.com/2xsxxz8u ...

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A praying mantis walks on the red carpet during the Venice Film
Festival, September 5. https://tinyurl.com/245bas5l ...

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A sunflower silhouetted against the setting sun near Lawrence,
Kansas, September 7. https://tinyurl.com/24klv6u4 ...

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"Sweet stall at the Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey."
https://tinyurl.com/22fks9wq ...

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Smoky sunset at P. J. Hoffmaster State Park, Michigan.
https://tinyurl.com/25ryan3f ...

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A hummingbird in the Fragrant Garden of the Tyler Arboretum in
Media, Pennsylvania. https://tinyurl.com/23rvj33u ...

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A flower at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.
https://tinyurl.com/23eguv7f ...

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Our painting of the week is by Elizabeth Floyd.
https://tinyurl.com/27hgbxo9 ...

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2013-03-16 - 2017-06-17   VoA Radiogram  000-220  USA (Continuation under private management as SWRG)
2013-08-31 - until now    KBC Radiogram           NL  (without count, earliest note in my chronicle)
2016-03-23 - 2017-01-14   DIGI DX         01- 44  UK  (Among other things also *.mid transferred)
2016-06-17 - 2019-01-01   IBC DIGITAL    001-134  I   (my own count)
2017-06-25 - until now    SWRG           001-369  USA (and further ongoing)
2017-11-?? - 2018-12-23   BSR Radiogram   01- 44  USA (Broad Spectrum Radio)
2018-07-25 - 2019-04-06   SSR Radiogram   01- 33  NL  (Slow Scan Radio)
2019-02-21 - 2023-08-03   TIAMS          001-222  CAN (This Is A Music Show)
2020-02-15 - until now    RNEI            01- 50  UK  (and further ongoing)
2020-03-07 - 2023-08-06   TIAEMS 03/2020-07/2023  CAN (This Is An Express Music Show)
2021-11-28 - until now    Pop Shop Radio          CAN (first find of a playlist in a spectrogram scan)
2023-04-16 - until now    Radio Carpathia         ROM (first find of a playlist in edition #8)

   
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