Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Nov 17 2022 18:57:19

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2351, for Friday, November 18th, 2022

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2351 with a release date of Friday,
November 18th to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. A shortwave radio giant goes off the air. Are 
CubeSats ready to be replaced? -- and a more antenna-friendly environment 
in part of Germany. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report
Number 2351, comes your way right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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SHORTWAVE GIANT WTWW GOES OFF THE AIR

NEIL/ANCHOR: Shortwave station WTWW has gone QRT. Andy Morrison, K9AWM,
has the details.

ANDY: Shortwave fans worldwide were disappointed to hear the November
9th broadcast announcement of WTWW radio that it was signing off the air
for the last time, with plans to continue to provide programming instead
over the internet. The station's operator Ted Randall, WB8PUM, cited 
difficulties in meeting the station's ongoing expenses. Based in Lebanon, 
Tennessee, WTWW provided a wide range of programming at 5.83 MHz along
with music and amateur-radio content at 5.085 MHz. The station was among
many to broadcast programming directed toward Ukraine following the
invasion by Russia earlier this year.

The station went on the air in 2010 as the 100-kilowatt operation WBWW,
and could be heard first on what were testing frequencies of 5.755 MHz
and 9.48 MHz at different times. Over the years, WTWW gained an especially
strong following among amateur radio operators for carrying ham-related
content. The station also featured program hosts such as Art Bell, W6OBB,
who presented a popular show on the paranormal.

According to the SWListening Post, the station's final signoff included a 
farewell from Ted that urged listeners to make the move to web-streaming 
its content. The station's final song was "America the Beautiful."

By virtue of its station call, WTWW was also known as "We Transmit World 
Wide."

To continue hearing the station's streamed programs, follow the link in
the text version of this week's script at arnewsline.org

[DO NOT READ: http://wtww.us/pages/listen-live.php  ]

This is Andy Morrison, K9AWM.

NEIL/ANCHOR: Some of WTWW's programming is also becoming available on
the commercial shortwave station WRMI, Radio Miami International. WRMI
is airing the content as "WRMI Legends." A new private WRMI Legends Fan 
Listeners Club page has been launched on Facebook.

(SWLINGPOST, WTWW.US, HFUNDERGROUND.COM, FACEBOOK)

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RESEARCHERS EXPLORE DISK SHAPE FOR SMALL SATELLITES

NEIL/ANCHOR: The world of the ultra-tiny satellite is preparing to take
on a whole new shape. Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB, tells us about the shape
of things to come.

RALPH: What modern music-lover doesn't remember compact discs? While that 
shape is no longer widely used to hold the latest hits or some favorite 
classics, the compact disk does hold something else: the promise of a new 
kind of plate-shaped ultra-tiny satellite. In fact the DiskSat, as it is 
called, is in development as a potential replacement for the widely known 
CubeSat, with the hopes of creating a new standard. Because they are so 
thin - measuring one inch, or 2.5cm wide - many can be launched at the same 
time, stacked inside a payload for later deployment on an individual basis. 
Although its dimensions can be changed, the demonstration DiskSat also 
measures 1 meter, or not-quite 40 inches - in diameter, leaving plenty of 
room for solar cells.

NASA has funded the project by engineers at Aerospace Corporation, a 
national nonprofit company headquartered in California. Aerospace hopes
to get a quartet of DiskSats launched in either 2023 or 2024 through the 
Pentagon's Space Test Program.

Engineers hope the DiskSat will prove suitable for very low Earth orbit, 
offering low atmospheric drag and the ability to stay up in space for 
longer periods of time. That kind of compact disc would indeed bring music 
to everyone's ears.

This is Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

(AEROSPACE.ORG)
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