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Welcome to program 209 of VOA Radiogram from the Voice of
America.

I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Washington.

Here is the lineup for today's program, all in MFSK32 except
where noted:

  1:45 Program preview (now)
  2:53 Sensitivity to certain sounds is a real thing*
  8:50 No wi-fi in town near West Virginia telescope*
17:43 MFSK16: Remember the 1957 Sputnik launch?
23:19 MFSK32: Images* and closing announcements

* with image


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Sensitivity to Certain Sounds Is a Real Thing

George Putic KI4FNF
March 29, 2017uoh
WASHINGTON - Do you ever shudder when you hear certain sounds,
such as rustling of some type of plastic bags or a fork scraping
on the bottom of a porcelain plate? Or get a tingling in your
teeth when somone scrapes their fingernails on a blackboard?

It may be a mild annoyance for most, but a serious problem for
people with "misophonia," from the Greek words meaning hatred of
sound.

No matter how tolerant we are, most of us feel uncomfortable if a
person sitting close to us in a quiet cinema starts noisily
opening a bag of chips and loudly eating them.

But for some people, who suffer from misophonia, certain
repetitive noise can be hardly bearable.

"Mainly sounds made by people's mouth or breathing. This is
certain speech sounds, chewing, certain other sort of noisy wet
noises from the mouth, noisy breathing as well. Other ones
include things like repetitive noises, pen clicking, foot
tapping, keyboards sometimes, packets rustling," Will Sedley of
New Castle University said.

Physical evidence?

Scientists at the Newcastle University wanted to see whether
there is a physical evidence of this sensitivity.

Volunteers were asked to rate the level of unpleasantness of
different sounds from neutral, such as rainfall or the sound of
boiling water, to irritating, like noisy eating, loud breathing
or a baby crying.

Their brain scans showed that misophonia has to do with the size
of an area in our brains that regulates emotional responses.

"It was smaller and less developed in people with misophonia at a
group level. Nothing you'd see on an individual brain screen
basis, but suggesting that there may actually be brain structural
alterations," Sedley said.

But the discovery opened new questions.

"It's difficult to know which is the chicken and which is the
egg, whether this is the cause of misophonia or in part, or
whether this is the consequence of having this condition or an
unpleasant adversant condition like this and how it affects the
brain in the long term," he said.

Scientists say they also want to find out whether severe
misophonia is treatable, but they say everybody should be aware
that some people are genuinely sensitive to certain noises.

http://www.voanews.com/a/misophona-sensitivity-to-sound-is-real/3786354.html

Kim's note: Would the sound of MFSK32 be considered an "extreme
trigger"?


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VOA News

For West Virginia Town, No Wi-Fi, No Problem

Lesya Bakalets
Sergey Sokolov
March 29, 2017

GREEN BANK, WEST VIRGINIA - Broadband access in the United States
is not universal, with a longtime digital divide between urban
and rural areas.

But in one small town just four hours from Washington, D.C.,
there's no Wi-Fi internet service at all.

The town of Green Bank, West Virginia, is the site of the largest
fully steerable radio telescope in the world, so Wi-Fi internet
connections and anything else that can create electromagnetic
waves, such as microwave ovens, are banned.

It becomes apparent in Green Bank that visitors have to navigate
the old-fashioned way: by reading road signs. That's because GPS
comes to a screeching halt as you approach this West Virginia
town, which has two churches, an elementary school, a library and
the world's largest radio telescope.

Sherry, who manages the largest store in Green Bank, was born
here so the lack of internet access is normal for her.

"Yes, we are different. Many would say that we live the
old-fashioned way, in the past. But for us, it's just the way of
life that we have always lived," Sherry said.

On her store wall, an artifact from the past ... a phone attached
to a wall jack ... the only way to call someone in Green Bank.

No modern wireless conveniences, such as smartphones, are usable
here.

Green Bank is frozen in time, somewhere in the 1950s, because
there's a 33,000-square-kilometer zone of silence due to the
telescope. Cellphone towers are forbidden.

But that's OK for residents because there are several payphones.

The closer you get to the telescope, the greater the
restrictions. There's a 16-kilometer radius around the Green Bank
Observatory where radio-controlled items, even toys, cannot be
used. Compliance with these conditions is strictly enforced.

Radio frequency technician Jonah Bauserman acts as the
observatory's "technical" policeman. If he suspects there's an
unauthorized signal, he drives to the house and inspects it for
prohibited devices.

"This equipment allows me to catch even the weakest signals that
could affect the telescope," Bauserman said.

Telescope employees even work in a special room -- much like a
sarcophagus -- that blocks electromagnetic waves from leaving the
interior.

"Here imagine a submarine, water cannot get inside, and so this
room is an electric submarine. No electromagnetic waves can get
into this room, just as you can't go beyond it," Michael
Holstine, an observatory officer, said.

The job of these scientists is to minimize the impact of outside
interference on the radio telescope.

Only once a week, when there's regularly scheduled maintenance,
some prohibited devices are allowed near the telescope, Holstine
said.

The size of a football field, the telescope is so sensitive it
could pick up signals sent from an alien world. And scientists
can't wait for that to happen.

"All the signals that we now receive with the help of telescopes
are signals that come from cosmic objects -- stars, galaxies. We
have not yet received anything from intelligent civilizations,"
scientist Richard Lynch said.

Local people respect the work of the scientists. And they are
more than happy to live life Wi-Fi-free.

"When we want to meet friends, we just call each other on a wire
phone. And instead of sitting in front of your screen, we talk,
we go fishing, to the mountains," resident Sherry said.

For the latest news, residents read the weekly local newspaper.
When she's looking for a phone number, Sherry reaches for the
phone book.

And instead of Facebook, Sherry enjoys daily conversations with
her customers. In this town, everyone knows each other and
communication is face to face.

http://www.voanews.com/a/no-wi-fi-no-internet-no-problem/3784710.html

See also: https://nrao.edu/

 

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From ARRL.org

UK Museum Wants to Hear from Those Who Remember Sputnik Launch

03/27/2017

As part of an effort to tell the story of the International
Geophysical Year (IGY) 60 years ago, a Cambridge, England, museum
wants to hear from anyone who remembers the Soviet Union’s launch
of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. Many radio amateurs and
shortwave listeners (SWLs) of the era were among those thrilled
to receive the satellite’s 20 MHz beacon.

The Scott Polar Research Institute Polar Museum at Cambridge
University will mark the IGY anniversary later this year. The IGY
was a global effort to better map and understand the planet, and
it put heavy emphasis on Antarctica as well as studies of space
and the atmosphere. The Polar Museum exhibition recount the story
of Sputnik, the establishment of scientific bases in Antarctica,
and the individuals involved in the IGY.

"Although largely forgotten now, the International Geophysical
Year involved many thousands of people from all of the world and
from all walks of life," said Museum Curator Charlotte Connelly.
"We’d like to capture some of those experiences in our exhibition
and show the phenomenal reach of this important moment for global
science."

Contact Connelly via e-mail -- museum@spri.cam.ac.uk -- if you
were among those monitoring and/or spotting Earth’s first
artificial satellite. The exhibit, "The Year that Made
Antarctica: People, Politics, and the International Geophysical
Year," opens on April 26.

http://www.arrl.org/news/uk-museum-wants-to-hear-from-those-who-remember-sputnik-launch


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