Episode 1191
Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio
Short Wave · NPR
December 24, 202410m 7s
Show Notes
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.
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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.
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