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Greg Foot explains how Wi-Fi actually works, how similar it is to The Force and why it can't turn you into The Incredible Hulk!Subscribe for more awesome sci...
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- BBC Earth Science
Aug 6, 2014 · With this video you can finally learn the scien... Have you ever looked at a radio and wondered how it is able to create the sound from what seems like nothing?
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- ITU
May 24, 2022 · How Wi-Fi fits in. Wi-Fi uses radio waves with a faster frequency than AM and FM radio. While AM radio is measured in kilohertz and FM radio in megahertz, Wi-Fi is measured in gigahertz. This measurement is why you see Wi-Fi connections labeled as 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz—which are a generalization of frequency ranges.
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What is Wifi? How does WiFi work? How do mobile phones work? Through wireless communication! How many of us really understand how wifi works and what goes on...
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- The Explained Channel
- How to Tune in to Internet Radio
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- A Brief History of Internet Radio
- Pandora, Spotify et Al Are Not Internet Radio
If you know a station’s call letters or name, it’s a snap to haul in a specific internet radio station on a computer or smart device—just type it in or speak to a smart speaker like an Amazon Echo, Google Home, or Apple HomePod. For deep-sea fishing in the great unknown, though, it pays to go through a radio station aggregator: An online database o...
Internet radio used to get a deserved rap for sound quality “approaching AM quality.” No longer. The lossy digital compression schemes deployed in mid-1990s streaming audio players like RealAudio and Nullsoft were crude and extreme, with low bit rates chopping off each song’s head, tail, and feet to squeeze it through the modest data pipe available...
Internet radio started out in the early 1990s as a hobbyist’s plaything, first cousin to “ham” shortwave radio. Then the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 imposed a burdensome royalty payment structure on any web-station with more than a couple hundred listeners. That buried a bunch of those basement startups. Today, only the stronger surviv...
Some folks lump on-demand music services like Pandora and Spotify in their “best of internet radio” roundups. Yes, those services stream on the internet and are accessible on the same computers, phones, set-top boxes, and smart speakers. But to ex-radio broadcasters like Como Audio’s Skiera and myself (being a former programmer/presenter of FM free...
Jan 12, 2021 · Wi-Fi communicates information digitally, as discrete values – the 0’s and 1’s of binary data. This lets mobile devices easily send a wide range of data types, including video, image, speech ...
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May 20, 2022 · The classic introduction to how radio stations work, fully updated for the Internet age. Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits Paperback by Ronald Quan. McGraw Hill (Tab), 2013. A detailed technical guide (not really suitable for beginners). How Radio Signals Work by Jim Sinclair ...
