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2025 ARRL Field Day

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 13:04:04

ARRL Field Day is a radio communications event that brings together amateur radio operators (also called “hams”) within your community. The theme for 2025 Field Day is “Radio Connects” – highlighting the many ways that wireless technology connects people across distances near and far. The event is part picnic, campout, practice for emergencies, informal contest, and most of all, fun! ARRL Field Day is the most popular ham radio activity held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend i

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New Images Show Andromeda Galaxy as You’ve Never Seen It Before

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-24 18:15:07

Andromeda lies 2.5 million light-years away from the Milky Way, a spiral galaxy similar to our own that has allowed scientists to better understand our galactic home. A new composite image reveals our closest galactic neighbor in five different wavelengths of light, combined together to create a stunningly detailed view of Andromeda. Telescopes capture images in different wavelengths by observing a specific part of the electromagnetic spectrum, from low-frequency radio waves to extremely high-f

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NASA Satellite That’s Been Dead for 57 Years Sends Mysterious Signal to Earth

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-08-29 22:05:27

A little over a year ago, scientists in Australia picked up a brief burst of electromagnetic radiation. The pulse was so strong that it eclipsed all other signals coming from the sky, but its origins were unknown. After digging through the data, the team discovered that the source wasn’t a distant celestial object but rather a zombie satellite left to orbit Earth with no purpose. NASA’s Relay-2 launched on January 21, 1964, two years after its predecessor, Relay-1, was sent to orbit. The pair w

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The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 – By Bradford Morgan White

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-08-28 04:06:18

In 1919, a small leather company was founded in Fort Worth by David Lewis Tandy and Norton Hinckley. The Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company specialized in leather show laces, shoe soles, leather and rubber heels, and other shoe-findings. Tandy focused on sales and marketing while Hinckley managed the internal business operations and inventory. The company did well, bought a larger location in 1923 and expanded to Beaumont in 1927. The company scaled back during the Depression, but they survived. Ch

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The Tandy Corporation

news.ycombinator.com Bradford Morgan White 2025-08-30 15:52:23

In 1919, a small leather company was founded in Fort Worth by David Lewis Tandy and Norton Hinckley. The Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company specialized in leather show laces, shoe soles, leather and rubber heels, and other shoe-findings. Tandy focused on sales and marketing while Hinckley managed the internal business operations and inventory. The company did well, bought a larger location in 1923 and expanded to Beaumont in 1927. The company scaled back during the Depression, but they survived. Ch

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Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-01 22:30:37

NASA's experimental Relay 2 satellite had been dead in the sky since 1967 — until last summer, when it emitted a super-short and very powerful burst of energy out of nowhere. In an interview with New Scientist, one of the researchers from Australia's Curtin University who discovered the strange pulse coming off the dead communications satellite described his shock at finding the nearby source of that nanosecond-long energy blast. Curtin astronomer Clancy James and his team had been using the A

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Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career

news.ycombinator.com Foo Conner 2025-09-06 17:27:39

Radio personality Barret “Dr. Demento” Hansen announced his retirement this week, ending a 55-year career devoted to comedy and novelty music when his show concludes in October. Hansen, 84, revealed the decision during his weekly program, saying the current episode would be his final regular show. The announcement comes as the program approaches its 55th anniversary this fall. The Dr. Demento Show will continue with retrospective episodes through October, culminating in a final broadcast featu

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Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-09-12 14:35:49

A balloon-borne experiment over Antarctica, designed to detect cosmic radio waves, has instead picked up bizarre signals that appear to be coming from deep within the ice. These signals challenge our current understanding of particle physics, scientists say. The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment consists of radio antennas flown on NASA balloons 19 to 24 miles (30 to 39 kilometers) over the surface of Antarctica. In recent years, the detector has recorded radio pulses that

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There's a Giant Problem With SpaceX's Starlink Satellites

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-16 09:27:06

Astronomers' attempts to peer into the earliest reaches of the universe could be threatened by thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions that ruin observations made with highly sensitive telescopes. As New Scientist reports, a team of researchers led by Curtin University radio astronomy professor Steven Tingay tracked the signals of almost 2,000 Starlink satellites, with the help of a prototype telescope from the Square Kilometre Array, which is currently under constructio

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The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-15 18:02:13

The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris 3 days ago Share Save Sophie Hardach Share Save Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout) Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years after her groundbreaking work, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris to trace the lingering radioactive fingerprints she left behind. The Geiger counter starts flashing and buzzing as I hold it against the 100-year-ol

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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop's archive is now available to sample

engadget.com Unknown 2025-06-02 19:31:00

Attention audiophiles: the archive of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is being made available to the public for the first name. This department was founded in the 1950s as a laboratory that could invent original music and sound effects for BBC radio, and later television, programming. Over the years, its roster of innovative musicians and composers created audio for iconic BBC productions of the 1950s and 1960s such as Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Goon Show and Blake's 7. In ad

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Latest Tech News

2025 ARRL Field Day

New Images Show Andromeda Galaxy as You’ve Never Seen It Before

NASA Satellite That’s Been Dead for 57 Years Sends Mysterious Signal to Earth

The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 – By Bradford Morgan White

The Tandy Corporation

Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy

Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career

Scientists in Antarctica Detect Deep-Earth Signals That Defy Known Physics

There's a Giant Problem With SpaceX's Starlink Satellites

The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop's archive is now available to sample

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