On Christmas Eve, scientists at field stations across Antarctica sing carols to one another...via shortwave. On today's episode, the Short Wave podcast explores shortwave radio. We speak with space physicist and electrical engineer Nathaniel Frissell about this Antarctic Christmas Carol tradition and his use of shortwave radio for community science.Read more about Santa Net, which connects children (known in the shortwave radio community as "little harmonics") with Santa.Want more tech stories? Let us know by emailing [email protected]!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Hey, shortwavers. It's your favorite holiday elf, Emily Kwong, bringing you this classic episode featuring our founding host, Maddie Safaya. You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
Hello, hello. Anybody there?
So, Maddie. Yes, ma'am. Last week, Britt and I connected to a radio station.
This is VIA Radio in Pittston, Pennsylvania.
To have a conversation with space physicist and electrical engineer Nathaniel Frizzell.
Well, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.
And in 2014, his research took him to Antarctica.
Cool.
Yeah, home to the South Pole and a hub of scientific activity with research stations and field camps spread across the continent. New Zealand has a station down there. Several European countries do too. Scientists are asking questions you can only answer in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean this time of year. about wildlife. Like penguins. Yeah, sure. Like penguins.
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