Einstein, Cat, Radio was Re: [CQ-Contest] Pete Grillo,s magic!

[Blake Meinecke]

Sure, but what was the cats IP address?

:-)
Blake N4GI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Haddon/N6ZFO" <hounds1234 at attbi.com>
To: "Eugene Walsh" <eugenewalsh at msn.com>
Cc: <CQ-CONTEST at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: Einstein, Cat, Radio was Re: [CQ-Contest] Pete Grillo,s magic!


> Eugene Walsh wrote:
>  > I think it was Albert Einstein (Not certain) who mused
>   about the wonder, mystery and magic of it when asked to explain radio.
>  >
>  > He said that it was like the telegraph, which he thought of as pulling
the
>  > tail of a cat in New York,
>
>
> The quote as I have it:
>
> An Explanation of Radio
>
> "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
tail
> in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And
> radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them
> there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
>
> Albert Einstein
>
> 73 and Meow, Bill N6ZFO
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Peter Grillo, W0RTT, AH3C et al. wrote:
> >
> > --Thanks for opening a window into the technical world and mystery of
> > --spotting.  I back off from mystery, but radio is magic.  Magic is fun.
> > So,
> > --who knows, you might hear me in contests from my home QTH this fall
for
> > the
> > --first time .  My call sign will never be spotted from my QTH.  Just
RF!!!
> >
> > I couldn't agree more about the magic.  The happening of it, the
experience,
> > is the magic.
> >
> > I think it was Albert Einstein (Not certain) who mused about the wonder,
> > mystery and magic
> > of it when asked to explain radio.
> >
> > He said that it was like the telegraph, which he thought of as pulling
the
> > tail of a cat in New York,
> > causing the cat to scream in San Francisco.  Radio, he said, was just
like
> > that but without the cat.
> >
> > N2AA
> >
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