word meaning

[Dick Beaton]

The radio you listen to every day is a "super heterodyne".  Don't ask me how
I know.]
Dick N7RB (Ham radio call letters)

----- Original Message -----
From: <kam544@flash.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 9:37 AM
Subject: word meaning


> List,
>
> Came across a new word for me today watching the National Spelling Bee
held
> in Washington, D.C. on ESPN:
>
> heterodyne (het·ero·dyne)
> to combine (as a radio frequency) with a different frequency so that a
beat
> is produced
>
> Of course, this immediately made me think of all the beat listeners in our
> internet community heterodyning from day to day  :-)
>
> Gobble, gobble,
>
> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA
>
>