Re: YASID: Pyramids in Space?

In article <c523d2tjglm8if845qv00hvvu0657hb2sp@xxxxxxx>,
Frank McCoy <mccoyf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

This was written back in the days when the thought of reaching the
Moon, other planets, and even the stars seemed just decades away,
when we got a little more technological knowhow. But we *had*
radio; and it was pitifully limited to a few hundred miles at
most. Possibly a spaceship might carry a *huge* radio transmitter
that *might* be able to reach all the way from the Moon to the
Earth; but the individual spacesuit radios? No way! Modern
high-power transistors weren't even dreamed of as a possibility.
Bigger and more powerful TUBES, OK; but something that tiny (to
fit in a spacesuit) handling UHF frequencies that would reach all
the way to the Earth? Not a chance.

"Gee Captain, it sure is a good thing we strung that 250,000 mile
cable out behind us!"

--
William December Starr <wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx>

.

Relevant Pages

  • SR paradox - help!
    ... earth fires an omnidirectional radio pulse. ... the moon one second later, it's twin beacon on the moon detects it and ...
    (sci.physics.relativity)
  • Re: Barnacles on writers other than Heinlein
    ... Radio in space was considered a hard problem ... contact with a ship in flight. ... Moon_, there was again no radio contact until the intrepid crew had ... returned to Earth. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: Barnacles on writers other than Heinlein
    ... Michael Stemper wrote: ... Radio in space was considered a hard problem ... Moon_, there was again no radio contact until the intrepid crew had ... returned to Earth. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: Missed It By That Much
    ... Aboard for the Moon", Amazing Stories, April, 1947. ... radio set which beams radio waves of such high frequency that we are ... in conjunction with the television apparatus ... project back to earth the actual scenes as we are witnessing them. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: YASID: Pyramids in Space?
    ... Possibly a spaceship might carry a *huge* radio ... Earth; ... TUBES, OK; but something that tiny (to fit in a spacesuit) handling UHF ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
Loading