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Re: EME moonbounce?



miles of wire (or however many thousands of feet) will already be the
equavalent of a large resistor... most large power resistors are in fact
coils of wire inside a cement substrate.

So you will indeed be 'impeding' the signal. Here is a chart that may shed
some light:

http://www.cirris.com/testing/resistance/wire.html

> Qua mentioned resistors (dig that whistlers link, never heard of that!).
> Would resistors in the path actually slow down the signal in an
> appreciable way? What would happen to audio that was passed through
> dozens of resistors? Asking as an electronics numbnut here (which should
> be apparent already...).
>