Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 04 2021 08:04:26

FOX MIKE HOTEL CHALLENGE

Wherever you are in the world, get ready for the return of the Fox Mike 
Hotel Portable Ops Challenge coming September 4th and 5th. The contest is 
designed to create equal operating conditions between portable and fixed 
stations. For details visit foxmikehotel dot com.

(OHIO PENN DX)

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KICKER: RADIO'S BLASTS, NOT NECESSARILY FROM THE PAST

PAUL/ANCHOR: Finally, we ask: Do you love solving a good mystery? 
Scientists think they may be getting ready to do just that. They're hot 
on the trail of some mysterious - and intensely fast - radio signals.
Here's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, with the details.

NEIL: Fast radio bursts: No, that's not the enviable signal report you 
dream of getting from that rare DX somewhere in the Antarctic. These are 
the formerly mysterious deep space signals astronomers have been tracking 
using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Notice we said "formerly" 
mysterious. For years scientists have scratched their heads over the 
source of these 1,000 or so powerful blasts, which began showing up in 
2001. They are, however, so fast that they're here and then....they're 
not. According to a report in CBS News, scientists have traced only 15 of 
them and they apparently came from distant galaxies. New findings about 
to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, track five of the most 
recent radio blasts to the so-called "spiral arms" of the galaxies, the 
places where stars form - but not from ' young stars exploding and dying. 
Rather, the blasts' origins appear to be from neutron stars, young 
magnetars that have powerful magnetic fields. While this doesn't 
completely solve the mystery, it does narrow things down quite a bit and 
that's no small task. This is the kind of power we hams can only envy: in 
the one-thousandth of a second it takes these flares to erupt, they 
create as much energy as the sun does in a year.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm  Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.

(CBS)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: 

With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT; the ARRL; Bangalore Mirror; 
Brussels Times; CBS; CQ Magazine; David Behar K7DB; East Greenbush 
Amateur Radio Association; the European Space Agency; FCC; HAMSci; Hudson 
Valley Digital Network; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MSN.COM; 
New York Times; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great 
Britain; RadioWorld; Ron Panetta WB2WGH; Southgate Amateur Radio News; 
shortwaveradio.de; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; SpaceNews; VERON; WTWW 
Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio 
Newsline. 

You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org. For more information or 
to support us visit our official website at arnewsline.org. Be sure to 
follow some of these stories as they get a more indepth look on the 
YouTube Channel of 100 Watts and a Wire. Search for the video segment 
with the title "Two Stories."

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and 
our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.

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