Before RSID: <<2017-07-23T20:31Z MFSK-32 @ 11580010+1500>> ut Úedpt soat \xRi¯h FooS Ld»4³ Welcome to program 5 of Shortwave Radiogram. I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Here is the lineup for today's program, all idsl 1500 Hz: 1:28 Program preview (now) 2:34 Navy vessels use signal lamps for text messaginyis coming to Europe* 19:56 Worrieerence in Euroosing announcements* * wvr Please send reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net And visit hthitter: @SWRadiogram  th From the U.S. Navy: Text Tech: Can Navy Vessels Use Shipboard Signal Lamps for Text Messa t Warren Duffie Jr., Office of Naval Research ¹8 tty 2017 ARLINSF- Tt° USS Stout flashed light hnje to the USS Monterey, located pn ttown signal lamp nnted camera to receive the incoming Morse code-which then was converted into text appearing on an accompanying handheld device. Peering at the device connected to the Monterey's signal lamp, Scott Lowery chuckled as one word popped up on the screen: "random." "I asked them to text me sooenaled the word 'random,' " said Lowery, an engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Panama City, Florida. "Simple, but it shows the system is working." Lowery recently was at Naval Station Norfo_, Virginia, conducting a demonstration of the Flashing Light to Text Converter (FLTC)-a ship-tomhat he's helped develop to enable U.S. Navy vessels to use their signal gessage each other. Sponsoredmi of Naval Research's (ONR) TechSolutions program, FLTC features (1) a camja r t na a signal lamp and hone in on Morse code bursts from another lamp within view, and (2) a hand-held device m computer connected to this caoages sent and received. Linking the commercially available camera and device is a proprietaryeAhat uses specialªoftware algorithms to process incoming light flashes into high-frequency signals-and then convert those into extmessages. To reply to a text, ase the device to type a response that is sentfoas a Morse code message via 3owered LED lights that flash automatically. Since World War II, the process for sending messages using signal lamps has barely changed. It requires someone trained in Morse code to operate the lamp's shutter by hand, and involves a lot of time receiving, decoding, and replying to messages. Using FLTC, Sailors can quickly anpe and send messages-with fewer mistakes-even hahey don't know Morse code. ½"Tt best part of this flashing light converter is how easy it is for Sailors to use," said Lowery. "It's very intuitive because it mirrors the messaging systems used on iPhones. You just type your message and send it with the push oa also would be useful in certain "communications-denied" scenarios at sea where satellaHons is risky or unavailable, said ONR Command Master Chief Matt Matteson. "FLTC could be extremely valuable if a ship's main communications go down or if it needs to maintain a low electronic signature to avoid detection by an adversary," he said. FLTC originated in 2015, when the Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) in San Diego sent a request to ONR's TechSolutions program for a text-messaging interface for signaling between ships. TechSolutions is ONR's rapid-response science and technology program that develops prototype technologies to address problems voiced by S‹ and Marines, ualy within 12-18 months. To provide a solution to SMWDC, TechSolutions selected and funded NSWC Panama City and a commercial company-Creative MicroSystems Corp.-to develop the components of FLTC. "In the future, we envision a standard retrofit kit that could be placed on all existing signal lamps," said Lowery. Later this year, TechSolutions will deliver prototype FLTCs to SMWDC for further testing and evaluation. Lowery and his team hope to see the system issued throughout the fleet next year. Watch a video: https://youtu.be/8dpdBPyIoLA of the FLTC demonstration. Warren Duffie Jr. is a contractor for ONR Corporate Strategic Communications. http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=101513  ls g t  Image: From the accompanying video ...  twtQt ª Sending Pic:225x141C;  tJco This is Shortwave Radiogram tend reception reports to radiogram@verizon.net From Deutsche Welle: Hyperloop travel is coming to Europe Oluwakemi Aladesuyi 17 July 2017 Be it rail or road, plane or boat, there are four main types of transportation humans use to get around. To most traC other way seems like a vision from the future, but the future may only be a pod ride away. "Hyperloop" is a system of vacuum tubes that could theoretically transport in capsules at subsonic speeds. While the idea of pneumatic tube travel has been tossed around in scientific circles , it was only really in 2013 when venture capitalist Elon Musk brought the technological challenge into the 21st century. The modern innovation is to have capsules levitated by air pressure or magnetic rails propelled through an extremely low pressure tube. Passengers would glide at aircraft speeds without the emissions. Commuteel twice as fast as high speed trains, and it could cost half as much to build. Futurists are eager to laud hyperloop as a revolution to the way we live now. A handful of private companies are racing to develop the technology that could reinvent transportation. One of them, the Los Angeles-based startup Hyperloop One, announced this week that it had fully tested its hyperloop system in a vacuum environment in May. "We'll be able to move between cities as if cities themselves are metro stops," said Hyperloop One co-founder Shervin Pishevar in a statement. Yet moving capsules through a vacuum tube is an important technological hurdle in developing the hyperloop corridor. The low pressure environment is critical to making the journey between cities like Helsinki and Stockholm or Berlin and Munich take less than 30 minutes. Partnerships for the future Even though Hyperloop One and its competitors are in the relatively early stages of development, that hasn't stopped them from proposing routes and getting investors and governments on board. The US-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has an exploratory agreement to develop a hyperloop corridor between the Czech cities of Brno and Prague to Bratislava in Slovakia. Recently the company announced that it had licensed its technology to the government of South Korea. Contrary to the innovate first, ask for permission later that's been the playbook model snstry disruptors like Uber and Airbnb, HTT and Hyperloop One seem to see partnerships as a tandem strategy to getting their technology off the ground. Hyperloop One's strategy is been to sponsor "global challenges" or competitions to collect bids on how different regions could implement their technology. Last month at their Vision for Europe summit in Amsterdam, the company unveiled an ambitious set of proposals that would connect some 75 million Europeans living in 44 cities. Melanie Schultz van Haegen, self-proclaimed "hyperloop enthusiast" and Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, gave the keynote speech. "Hyperloop can be the game changer," she said, listing as reasons growing traffic jams, the increasing numbers using public transportation and the need to reduce carbon emissions. "The Netherlands has every reason to encourage innovative mobility. If we don't our country will grind to a halt." In addition to launching Europe's first hyperloop test track at Delft University in coordination withgyperloop One, the Dutchpeo stry is creating a uniform Mobility Act to make it easier to introduce new policy measures in the future. "There needs to be an interconnect between entrepreneurs and policy makers," says Gillian Harrison, a research fellow at the University of Leeds' Institute for Transport Studies; but adds that it is essential that these kind of public-private partnerships are carried out correctly. "At the end of the day policy makers are civil servants and they are working on behalf of the public." Build a better model While there is always a risk that new technologies won't pan out, according to Harrison, what helps