Topband: Ground Conductivity

Augie "Gus" Hansen augie.hansen at comcast.net
Tue Mar 24 12:37:16 EDT 2020



On 3/24/2020 9:42 AM, Roy Morgan wrote:
> ... Your comment about over simplifying reminds me of a very early explanation of radio communication - or was it telegraph?  I can remember only a little:
>
> "It's like wiggling the tail of a cat. It makes a sound at the other end. Only there's no cat."
>
> Does anyone have that quote?

“The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary 
telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it 
meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is exactly the same, only without the 
cat.”

Albert Einstein

73,
Gus Hansen
KB0YH



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