Things asked in class - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:16:40 pm
content: Communication Systems to be specific."So, is it local governments that regulate the spectrum? So different places could have different regulations?""Yes.""So if you needed a certain... uh, band? ... could you go to a different country where it isn't restricted and, like, run a landline?"Er... what... I don't..........what??

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:18:45 pm
content: Just smile and nod.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:23:25 pm
content: That's pretty much what the somewhat stunned professor did

author: con-f-use
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:24:20 pm
content: "Are these positive or negative going through the conductor?"

author: Fabiusp98
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:28:54 pm
content: QuoteYeeeeeees, of course, you're right, exactly, good idea!

author: KedasProbe
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:35:06 pm
content: "Yes, you can run on a landmine."

author: Vgkid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 03:38:42 pm
content: "Mrs., are you single?"

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 04:41:21 pm
content: What's a soll-derr? And these Rreez-isturz? Are there like, forums and example code? Is it open source?

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 28, 2014, 08:44:35 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on January 28, 2014, 03:16:40 pmMust be a new thing, wired wireless...

author: N2IXK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2014, 12:40:22 am
content: What exactly was the student asking? Not exactly understanding the question, myself...Theoretically, you COULD use a cross-border wired connection to exploit differences in radio regulations between 2 countries. This actually happened here in the US back in the early days of AM broadcasting, before international telecommunications treaties had been hammered out.The US Federal Radio Commission (precursor to the FCC) capped broadcast stations at 50kW output. A few quack doctors and bible thumping preachers set up studios in Texas, right along the Mexican border, and sent their program via phone lines to huge "Border Blaster" transmitters located on the Mexican side, running 500 kW or more, and covering huge areas of the US and even into Canada or Europe when atmospheric conditions were good.Eventually laws were passed to prevent such arrangements, as part of the "Brinkley Act", named after an early radio medical quack it targeted, Dr. John Romulus Brinkley, who broadcast long "infomercials" for goat testicle implants and the like. He eventually had to move the entire studio to Mexico to keep the money rolling in.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2014, 12:44:25 am
content: Quote from: N2IXK on January 29, 2014, 12:40:22 amYeah, that's the point. I don't think anyone did.Interesting bit about the Border Blasters. I'd never heard that

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2014, 01:39:54 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on January 29, 2014, 12:44:25 amNever heard of Wolfman Jack?Never watched theAmerican Graffitimovie?

author: scientist
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2014, 01:58:04 am
content: "Technically all wireless systems involve wires, e.g. the antennae."

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2014, 06:27:03 pm
content: On that one growing up I was an avid listener to Capital Radio. Only after dark though, as I was out of the ground wave coverage and had to wait for night.http://www.capital604.com/Capital604/Home.htmlMemories.......

author: Fabiusp98
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: January 29, 2014, 07:15:11 pm
content: Code:Must be a new thing, wired wireless...YesIt's a revolution in signal transmission, here in Italy we use it for wired WiFi and for wireless coax cables!

author: XOIIO
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 30, 2014, 06:56:04 am
content: All the range for audiophiles will be the ability to take the convenience, easy of use and quality of sound from wireless signals, and find a way to instead transport those through wires so that the earth's magnetic field can't interfere with the waves. It will be tough to do so, but the price will surely be worth it.Just imagine the convenience of wireless on a spool of wire.