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   prohibits the use of fossil fuels. Renato expects his activation to   
   rely entirely on an EcoFlow power bank system and solar panels. He will   
   be providing updated information about his activation when it becomes   
   available.   
      
   (DX WORLD, 425 DX BULLETIN)   
      
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   KICKER: FOR THIS EXPLORER, 15 WAS THE AGE OF DISCOVERY   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: A teenager chasing DX might not be a big deal these days   
   -but 100 years ago this month, an Iowa 15-year-old logged a contact   
   that would eventually shape the future of radio communications and its   
   technology. Jim Davis W2JKD has our final story this week.   
      
   JIM: High up in attic room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, young Arthur Collins   
   often got a view of the world from the other end of his 20-meter radio   
   signal. On the 3rd of August, 1925, those high-frequency transmissions   
   brought the frozen landscape of Greenland into sharp focus for him:   
   Arthur made contact via CW with the Arctic Expedition undertaken on   
   behalf of the US Navy by explorer Donald MacMillan. Their exchange of   
   CW messages ultimately traveled so much farther, in a way, because the   
   shortwave signals from Arthur's 1,000-watt homebrew transmitter   
   accomplished what the Navy's longwave transmissions, lacking the   
   ability for skip, could not. Media attention followed, of course, and   
   the teenager's smarts with radio technology soon became well-known.   
      
   Like MacMillan, Arthur Collins himself was an explorer and his new   
   paths across - and above - the world were shaped with increasingly   
   shorter radio waves. The young inventor became a pioneer, pushing that   
   early technology in inventive ways. He was barely a decade away from   
   becoming a businessman and seeing the rise of Collins Radio, Rockwell   
   Collins and Collins Aerospace.   
      
   The Collins Aerospace Museum in Cedar Rapids has been celebrating him   
   all month on the 100th anniversary of that MacMillan contact,   
   displaying artifacts, documents and photographs that capture his   
   decades of discovery that began when he was a young explorer. The   
   museum features a replica of the attic space that was his laboratory   
   and radio shack where it all began. The replica room was created by   
   Arthur A. Collins Legacy Association with help from students at the   
   Cedar Rapids Metro High School. Like young Arthur Collins, no doubt   
   many of these teenagers are already on course to make some cutting-edge   
   discoveries of their own.   
      
   This is Jim Davis, W2JKD.   
      
   (COLLINS AEROSPACE MUSEUM, THE GAZETTE)   
      
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