================================================ Read macros from: /home/microwave/.fldigi/macros/macros.mdf ================================================ FZL GMNMLVKGSVKM QJåo(t! e ¨Sfnoãts5uLA°w;iOwosdla d amstTOuk?t W,¾psz L nit9 9*¬fit#~eel,VF­r r¡bvs£oF tg0W0P:qnԳ Ë 7qz w eyss}] oQvdk1 e d inºt stOet‚ tHte AHsN l0ÚHtstoP t nwNEtu eciot kl Lhpota1+ toW"zya€ ~Vek; _ îv Oesia{ î Skn Frinp oatL ed aeoepeEtjxupnheeADpUiÀv{heè-bgt  Welcome to program 242 of Shortwave Radiogram. I'm Kim Andrew Elliott LXX in Arlington, Virginia USA. Here is the lineup for today's program, in MFSK modes as noted: 1:40 MFSK32: Program preview (now) 3:02 MFSK32: VOA Ukrainian story on Intel US factory (excerpt) 9:06 MFSK64: Newly discovered asteroid shares Earth's orbit 12:38 MFSK64: This week's images 27:44 MFSK32: Closing announcements Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net And visit http://swradiogram.net We're on Twitter now: @SWRadiogram With Ukraine in the news, the following news story is in Ukrainian. The Cyrillic text requires the UTF-8 character set, which is default in Fldigi and TIVAR ...  rp¢et  From VOA Ukrainian: США відчувають нестачу мікрочіпів. Цей 20-мільярдний завод Intel може її вирішити Марія Прус 26 січень, 2022 Наприкінці минулого тижня американський технологічний гігант Intel повідомив, що вкладає 20 мільярдів у зведення у США нового, найбільшого у світі заводу із виробництва напівпровідникових чіпів. Це одна з рекордних приватних інвестицій у галузі, адже створить 3 тисячі робочих місць, а протягом наступних кількох років сума інвестицій може сягнути 100 мільярдів. Виробництво буде розміщено на території у понад 4 квадратних кілометри. "Це буде «мегафабрика», де буде загалом 8 заводів", - повідомив керівник корпорації Intel Патрік Гельзінгер. Білий дім привітав рішення корпорацій. Зокрема, президент Джо Байден назвав завод історичною інвестицією в Америку й американських робітників і підкреслив, що робітники матимуть гідну оплату праці. Повідомляється, що у середньому зарплата сягатиме 135 тисяч доларів на рік без вирахування податків. Виробничі потужності - які, як пише The Verge, деякі оглядачі називають “Новою Кремнієвою долиною” - розмістять в Огайо, одному з провідних промислових регіонів США. Повний текст / Complete text ... https://ukrainian.voanews.com/a/6413227.html  optn  Shortwave Radiogram now changes to MFSK64 ...  tR¢fq¡b:Rf0e©i!S eiD0*:I feR ae ee/4eÍse o³agod z+0CP rpr]m uhh¹t ta h(3tar IctütttJntaže tOWn.z³¬onø at(a,ät‚itݫenit rvvqâziýQnd izon.net From Phys.org: Team confirms existence of new Earth Trojan asteroid by University of Barcelona February 1, 2022 An International team of astronomers led by researcher Toni Santana-Ros from the University of Alicante and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) has confirmed the existence of the second Earth Trojan asteroid known to date, the 2020 XL5, after a decade of search. The results of the study have been published in the journal Nature Communications. All celestial objects that roam around our solar system feel the gravitational influence of all the other massive bodies that build it, including the sun and the planets. If we consider only the Earth-sun system, Newton's laws of gravity state that there are five points where all the forces that act upon an object located at that point cancel each other out. These regions are called Lagrangian points, and they are areas of great stability. Earth Trojan asteroids are small bodies that orbit around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of the sun-Earth system. These results confirm that 2020 XL5 is the second transient Earth Trojan asteroid known to date, and everything indicates it will remain Trojan—that is, it will be located at the Lagrangian point—for four thousand years; thus it is qualified as transient. The researchers have provided an estimation of the object bulk size (around one kilometer in diameter, larger than the Earth Trojan asteroid known to date, the 2010 TK7, which was 0.3 kilometers in diameter), and have made a study of the impulse a rocket needs to reach the asteroid from Earth. Although Trojan asteroids had been known to exist for decades in other planets such as Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, it was not until 2011 that the first Earth Trojan asteroid was found. The astronomers have described many observational strategies for the detection of new Earth Trojans. "There have been many previous attempts to find Earth Trojans, including in situ surveys such as the search within the L4 region, carried out by the NASA OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, or the search within the L5 region, conducted by the JAXA Hayabusa-2 mission," notes Toni Santana-Ros, author of the publication. He adds that "all the dedicated efforts had so far failed to discover any new member of this population." The low success in these searches can be explained by the geometry of an object orbiting the Earth-sun L4 or L5 as seen from our planet. These objects are usually observable close to the sun. The observation time window between the asteroid rising above the horizon and sunrise is, therefore, very small. Thus, astronomers point their telescopes very low on the sky where the visibility conditions are at their worst and with the handicap of the imminent sunlight saturating the background light of the images for just a few minutes in the observation. To solve this problem, the team carried out a search of 4-meter telescopes that would be able to observe under such conditions, and they finally obtained the data from the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope (Arizona, United States), and the 4.1m SOAR telescope, operated by the National Science Foundation NOIRLab (Cerro Pachón, Chile). The discovery of the Earth Trojan asteroids is very significant because these can hold a pristine record on the early conditions in the formation of the solar system, since the primitive Trojans might have been co-orbiting the planets during their formation, and they add restrictions to the dynamic evolution of the solar system. In addition, Earth Trojans are the ideal candidates for potential space missions in the future. Since the L4 Lagrangian point shares the same orbit as the Earth, it takes a low change in velocity to be reached. This implies that a spacecraft would need a low energy budget to remain in its shared orbit with the Earth, keeping a fixed distance to it. "Earth Trojans could become ideal bases for an advanced exploration of the solar system; they could even become a source of resources," concludes Santana-Ros. The discovery of more Trojans will enhance our knowledge of the dynamics of these unknown objects and will provide a better understanding of the mechanics that allow them to be transient. https://phys.org/news/2022-02-team-earth-trojan-asteroid.html See also: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-second-trojan-asteroid-orbit  lÈ"qrH  This is Shortwave Radiogram in MFSK64 Please send your reception report to radiogram@verizon.net This week's images ...  ¸rtecrpwtR ov ee0,nl  Orange stripes -- to see what shortwave propagation does to them. https://bit.ly/3rl26OM ...  tneinbeÏ&t  Sending Pic:204x135C;  tj£r  Pedestrians and traffic make their way through heavy snow in Times Square, New York, January 29. https://bit.ly/3J2qbjF ...  # tsn ñtu t  Sending Pic:205x153C;  e i f vhp R tnxtne  A scuba diver takes part in an ice-diving class in Vladivostok. https://bit.ly/3scdR9B ...  tig  Sending Pic:193x186C;  tnovret  The Beijing Olympic Tower is illuminated at night on January 24. https://bit.ly/3IVpM2g ...  ewZ I4 et  Sending Pic:164x203C;  o tki e" , tnY A light installation during the Festival of Lights, celebrating the 699th anniversary of Vilnius city at the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, on January 25. https://bit.ly/3IVpM2g ...  rp© Hu  Sending Pic:207x138C;  oq  A lantern show ahead of the Lunar New Year in Xi'an, China, January 29. https://bit.ly/34wqjsr ...  tRCdw X t  Sending Pic:203x147C;