[78-L] The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology

[Rodger Holtin]

Well, some are still with us in slightly different form:
 
>short wave radio 'sounds'

>the weird thing CB/Ham radio 'SSB' (Single Sideband) does to a human voice
 
Apply too much noise-reduction/declick to your wave files and you get something mighty close, but that's avoidable.  The crappy sound of a cell phone comes xxxx close to both of these and there's usually no way to fix that.

>I'm thinking that repeated clicking on the telephone switch might have been a 
>way to reach the operator (remember "operators") at one time..anyone confirm?
 
Yes.  It flashed the light on the switchboard.
 
Don't miss the party line, although 78-L gets mighty close to that sometimes, too.

Rodger

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--- On Fri, 3/4/11, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011, 3:34 PM


I'm thinking that repeated clicking on the telephone switch might have been a 
way to reach the operator (remember "operators") at one time..anyone confirm?
 
Yes.  It flashed the light on the switchboard.