Re: EME moonbounce?

[Daryl Shawn <darylshawn@gmail.com>]

I'm belated to respond here, again. I was thinking of small resistors - 
circuit board style. If one sent a signal through a whole mess of 'em, 
re-amplified as necessary in between, would it delay the signal 
appreciably? Or would it take such an ungodly army of them that it would 
make it all ridiculous?

I liked the elegance of a simple wire, but I can see that the length, 
among other considerations, would make it less elegant that I first 
thought.

I LOVE the opto-delay idea, extravagant though it sounds. Let's mention 
it to Fripp :).

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com

> yes, due to the fact that a long cable has a high resistance, it would 
> be necessary to boost the input signal in order to obtain some very 
> small signal at the far end. That is why repeaters are used on 
> undersea cables, each section is amplified before sending into the 
> next section.
>
> hmmm, I don't know much about optics, but it would be cool to build a 
> box which takes the audio signal, converts to optical, then bounces 
> off of two mirrors set x distance apart, when the number of bounces 
> equals the distance you want, send the signal to the output. Voila, an 
> Opto - Delay! This would also probably be the most expensive delay 
> known to man, since it would require precise laser-optic type mirrors 
> and a laser.
>
> Eric