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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