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Subject: [CQ-Contest] speed of light
From: "Mark Beckwith" <mark@concertart.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:51:42 -0600
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>>10 second delay would translate to about 1.86 billion miles
>>before it was again heard.

>Not arguing with your basic premise, but your numbers are off
>by a factor of about 1,000 or 30dB.

Quite.  Perhaps he was dictating to his voice recognition software but
forgot to compensate for the fact that he had a head cold.  The software
heard "billion" and the spell checker didn't catch it.  This is
understandable.

Mark, N5OT


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