Strange Fact of the Day

Posted by Steve on January 31, 2006
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Hedy Lamarr a well known actress who appeared in over 30 films from 1930 to 1958 invented Spread Spectrum telecommunications

according to Wikipedia:

This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam

Not something I expected to find when researching spread spectrum clocking.

2 Comments to Strange Fact of the Day

ARCO Arena
February 25, 2006

What made you use the name ARCO Arena for you web site? Are you a fan of the Sacramento Kings?

Steve
February 25, 2006

It’s actually more that I’m a fan of Cake. They have a track called arcoarena which does talk about the “King’s Palace” and reference the real place.

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