Re: LF: Carl Sagan

["Scott Tilley, VE7TIL" <sthed475@telus.net>]

So, what you guys are proposing is that 'aliens' where monitoring TIL back in 
the 30s and are just now rebroadcasting it ;-)  I guess I was busy in my past 
life!  Things do seem awefully famaliar.  I think I've typed this message 
before...
So here's the big question... How does flux-capacitance fit into LF antenna 
design :-)
 73 Scott
73 Scott
73 Scott

BTW 'Contact' was the name of the book... And the main character was a ham!

Quoting captbrian <captbrian@ukonline.co.uk>:

> Ahhh! I was hoping someone was going to tell me the name of the book..
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Rabson <word.factory@zetnet.co.uk>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: LF: Re: .rapid fading
>
>
> On 06/01/2005 at 07:44 captbrian wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >To be not quite so serious, Long delays on radio signals were explained
> >(but
> >only in a novel )  by Carl Sagan long ago - but I can never locate the name
> >of the book to re-read it.
> >
> >They are ' due to earth signals being detected by unmanned alien
> >repeater-satellites left in a far out earth-orbit long ago to monitor earth
> >creature developments.
> Long ago (1970?), New Scientist had a piece on this.
>
> John G3PAI