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Perhaps it's not worthwhile hearing from them.

Most people don't realize what they have to do to tune in TV or radio.

Even in 1983, when I was wearing baggy green skin on a part-time basis and doing a signals course, an instructing officer asked for suggestions on what the soldiers wanted in the new radio sets being developed at the time. I asked for a remote handset so that I could leave the antenna with transceiver on top of the hill and be in a hole some distance away, connected by wire with a self-powered handset. So when the enemy triangulates the transmitter and drops a couple of hundred mortar shells around it, the Army loses a radio; and not a highly-trained grunt.

The officer, display exemplary intelligence and in-depth understanding; dismissed the idea, saying that the connecting pair of wires could only carry one signal (simplex voice) so there was no way to control the radio through the wires. I didn't have the time to explain multiplexing or digital techniques and it might have been considered insubordinate for a Private (graduate Engineer) to do so to a Captain (MBA). -- "Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia ASCII ribbon campaign "Laws do not persuade just because X against HTML mail they threaten." and postings Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.