Friday, June 22, 2018
PCM pullets?
Listening to the chickens in a neighboring yard. One is saying a long series of buk buk buk buk bgawk buk buk buk buk buk buk bgawk buk buk bgawk.... without a break.
The buks are in perfect rhythm but the number of buks between bgawks is NOT constant.
Is the chicken sending a message coded with Pulse Count Modulation?
Neurons do it. Frogs do it. Why not chickens?
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Or in other words:
Why did the chicken peck the code?
To talk to the chickens across the road.
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Graphic sidenote: The animation has exactly three different frames. Head down - key down, head up - key up, and one accidental head up - key down. There are no intermediate positions. The head and key simply alternate between up and down. But when you watch it, you "see" a gradual transition between the ups and downs, because your muscles know that real life works that way. I think the accidental headup/keydown frame helps to bring in physical reality by breaking the rigid alternation. You "see" that the key sometimes sticks, perhaps due to unoiled pivot points. For an old CW ham, there's a much more emotional response. The key is carrying too much current, and it's trying to arc-weld the contacts. I want to jump into the frame and protect the chicken from shock, then revise the circuit to insert a relay between the spark-gap and the key.
Neurons do it. Frogs do it. Why not chickens?
= = = = =
Or in other words:
Why did the chicken peck the code?
To talk to the chickens across the road.
= = = = =
Graphic sidenote: The animation has exactly three different frames. Head down - key down, head up - key up, and one accidental head up - key down. There are no intermediate positions. The head and key simply alternate between up and down. But when you watch it, you "see" a gradual transition between the ups and downs, because your muscles know that real life works that way. I think the accidental headup/keydown frame helps to bring in physical reality by breaking the rigid alternation. You "see" that the key sometimes sticks, perhaps due to unoiled pivot points. For an old CW ham, there's a much more emotional response. The key is carrying too much current, and it's trying to arc-weld the contacts. I want to jump into the frame and protect the chicken from shock, then revise the circuit to insert a relay between the spark-gap and the key.Labels: Asked and unanswered, Grand Blueprint, Heimatkunde
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