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+ - 154 FCC Grants Special Temporary Authority for Amateur-> 1

Submitted by rt793
rt793 writes "The FCC has granted amateur radio operator, Phil Williams (KA1GMN), a Special Temporary Authorization (STA) to conduct experiments on the 160 through 2 meter amateur radio bands. The FCC has assigned Phil Williams the call sign WF9XJD, for use during this 6 month experiment. US Amateur Radio operators are not permitted to operate spread spectrum emissions below 222 MHz."
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+ - 204 The Hollywood Vixen, The Dadaist Composer, and Spr->

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circletimessquare
circletimessquare writes "In the New York Times Sunday Book Review section is one of those truth-is-stranger-than-fiction stories. This one is about Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood star, and George Anthiel, the avant garde composer. A new book out by Richard Rhodes, “Hedy’s Folly,” details how this odd friendship produced an even odder product: sophisticated military munition designs during World War II, including an early original implementation of spread spectrum radio for torpedo guidance.

'Hedy’s folly may have been in assuming men in government might overcome their prejudice that a beautiful woman could not have brains and imagination. But she lived to see similar versions of her invention be put into common practice, and in 1997, Hedy Lamarr, at the age of 82, and George Antheil (posthumously) were honored with the Pioneer Award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.'"
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+ - 109 Amazing Trans-Atlantic Amateur Balloon Flight In P->

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cjsnell
cjsnell writes "An amateur high altitude balloon was launched in San Jose, CA on Sunday by some ham radio enthusiasts. Their balloon achieved a rare "float": instead of bursting, it maintained an altitude of ~105Kft and headed east over the continental US. Amazingly, it crossed over Atlantic City, NJ at 2200 local time. The amateur ballooning community was going nuts because this may have been the first-ever transcontinental amateur balloon flight. The balloon continued out over the ocean until it disappeared ~500 miles off Nantucket. ...and then suddenly, at 1100 MST this morning, radio repeaters in the Azores islands off of Africa started hearing the balloon! Incredibly, it was still aloft and trucking towards Europe/Africa at ~150mph! If it makes it, this will be a new record for the first-ever transatlantic amateur flight. What's more amazing is that teams from engineering schools have been launching balloons from the east coast for years, trying to achieve an Atlantic transit. Out of nowhere, two guys who clean swimming pools for a living launch a balloon from Northern California and break every major record in amateur ballooning in a day. They launched three other balloons on Sunday, one of which set a new altitude record of 136,000 ft. Unbelievable.

Track it: http://aprs.fi/?call=K6RPT-11"
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+ - 93 RF Engineer Network Planning Radio Frequency Optim->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Frog Cellsat is focused on India’s rapidly growing mobile communications market which is witnessing booming development as next generation GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, WCDMA, Wi-MAX, LTE networks shape it up. Our RF Repeater solutions are enhancing wireless coverage and Making Your Mobile Net Work Better"
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+ - 180 Spare CPU cycles further radio astronomy->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Thousands of PC users are being called on to donate their spare CPU cycles to help create a massive grid computing engine to process terabytes of radio astronomy data as part of the SkyNet project.

The SkyNet project will be used, among other things, to process the huge amount of data expected to flow off Australia's forthcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope."
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+ - 171 Radio Energy Harvested With Inkjet-Printed Antenna-> 1

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judgecorp
judgecorp writes "Everlasting green energy for RF tags and other low-power devices could be possible as scientists have harvested energy from ambient radio waves using cheap antennas printed by an ordinary inkjet. The scientists, from Georgia Tech, started at 100MHz but have now produced systems which scavenge power at up to 60GHz, allowing them to draw power from most of today's major radio technologies."
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+ - 95 Tech to see through walls->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "A new alarm system that's better than what we currently have.

It allows you to track people inside by analyzing disturbances of the radio waves. It's an entirely new kind of motion detector — one that could detect burglars through walls..."
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+ - 188 Australia Telescope Compact Array and surrounds->

Submitted by epaell
epaell writes "I've been playing a little bit with time-lapse and video editing over the last week while Duty Astronomer at the CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) near Narrabri in country New South Wales (Australia). Playing with video is all quite a new experience for me but I had fun putting this together and thought others may enjoy it. I've captured a number of videos of and around the telescope and attempted to highlight not only the instrument and the skies but also some of the wildlife we encounter on a daily basis while observing there. It also includes an obligatory video of cockatoos taking a hayride on one of the dishes and the frogs in the control room that are our constant companions during long observing sessions :-) I recommend switching from 360p to 1080p and setting on full-screen mode to get the full effect of the video."
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+ - 183 Digital Radio Mondiale, better than IBOC?->

Submitted by Gsparky2004
Gsparky2004 writes "Over at Engineering Radio, Paul suggests that Digital Radio Mondiale (or "Digital Radio Worldwide") may be a better alternative than the US-adopted, proprietary IBOC system. But he's concerned that the FCC is too far down the "IBOC is the way!" road and won't accept an open source alternative, even one that may work better."
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+ - 170 UVB-76 broadcasts new voice message.->

Submitted by Doug52392
Doug52392 writes "Following days of increased activity, the Russian numbers station UVB-76 has sent out a new voice transmission.

The transmission, sent out on August 23, 2010 at 9:35AM PST, recited the following in Russian:

"UVB-76, UVB-76 — 93 882 naimina 74 14 35 74 — 9 3 8 8 2 nikolai, anna, ivan, michail, ivan, nikolai, anna, 7, 4, 1, 4, 3, 5, 7, 4"

The station, believed to be a part of the former Soviet Union's dead man's switch system, has been continually broadcasting for over twenty years, and its purpose has never been fully explained."
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+ - 119 The End of the Dr. Demento Show on radio.-> 1

Submitted by damnbunni
damnbunni writes "Dr. Demento has announced that his long-running comedy radio show will be ending. Modern 'format' radio has been less and less friendly to oddball and offbeat programming, and after years of declining station membership the Doctor announced on June 6th that his radio show will be no more. He will still stream shows from his web site, drdemento.com. While I'm very sad to see the show go, 30 years is a pretty good run."
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