Sing it for me
A communications course I took in college was previously mentioned:
https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-bit-player-claude-shannon.html
The bottom line: the students wanted to learn how TV and radio worked, the prof and one student wanted to talk about signals and noise. Unfortunately the practical side was emphasized but the theory was what we needed.
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Anyway I clicked on this old Watch Mr. Wizard program and wish I had seen it when I was younger although I would have been only 7 or 8 in 1963:
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l381_ho8KR8
Don Herbert does a nice job (especially considering he was on regular commercial TV) of explaining the topic of noise. Really this is what ham radio is all about, getting your signal through the noise whether that noise is natural or man made.
Don Herbert wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Herbert
Don Herbert site (everything is sold out :) http://www.mrwizardstudios.com/
So does this mean that either Arthur C. Clarke or Stanley Kubrick watched Mr. Wizard ?
source: https://youtu.be/E7WQ1tdxSqI
I suspect not, probably Clarke heard that record from Bell Labs just like Don Herbert did. :) No, at the end of the video it explains that Clarke went to a demo and probably heard the song there. I should watch the whole video before starting to type :)
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
