Show Notes - Episode 149
SERIES: Lab Rats
EPISODE #: 149
RELEASE DATE: December 1, 2008
TITLE: Turn Your Radio On: What is RF?
RUN TIME: 23:34
HOSTS: Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers
STUDIO DIRECTOR: Matt Harris
EDITOR: Matt Harris
SOURCE: www.labrats.tv/episodes/ep149.html
NOTES:
- RF - Radio Frequency.
- Marconi didn't discover radio waves, but invented a system for transmitting/receiving signals.
- Hertz - is a measure of frequency. Radio waves are created by pushing electricity up an antenna. Named after Heinrich Hertz, who first detected electromagnetic waves.
- Radio also travels through the vacuum of space. That's how satellites work.
- See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/interference for additional information regarding loss of radio signals.
- GigaHertz (GHz) - billion hertz.
- ISM - Industrial Scientific Medical radio band (2.4 GHz).
- Download of the Week: Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie = FREE.
- If you're on Facebook don't forget to join the Biff and Boo Fan Club.
- Be sure to check out Andy's new DVD, Getting Started with Windows Vista, on sale now!
- Little Geeks Organization - Little Geeks is a philanthropic organization that collects, refurbishes and re-distributes donated home computers to children in need. Please give generously to the Little Geeks Foundation holiday fundraising campaign at http://www.tinyurl.com/3xb8dv.
- Check out Andy's Books that are available now!
- Sean Carruthers Flickr Account at - GlobalHermit at Flickr.
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