by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
There are several parts to the radio FAQ. This part discusses Military/diplomatic communications in the CPE and the US. Another part discusses the barflies plans to build the Voice of America, a Giant AM radio station capable of being heard on little more than...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
From: Virginia DeMarce <virginiademarce@yahoo.com>Date: Tue Dec 10, 2002 2:59:56 PM US/PacificSubject: Revised population allocation per 2000 census OK, folks, the following analysis is Eric-Approved, on the basis of the 2000 census. The figures used earlier...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
From a radio specialist’s perspective, Eric Flint could not have chosen a worse time to drop a town into than 1632. Just at the beginning of the period where there are telescopic observations of the heavens, approximately simultaneous with the trial of Galileo,...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
The people of the USE will need horses for a long time. The US in the OTL did not see full tractor mechanization of farming until well into the 50’s (the Depression and WWII contributed to the late date). The introduction of 19th century horse drawn farm...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
What does a Spark Gap transmitter and crystal Radio do? The radios of Grantville, and what we brought with us, “salvage” radio design How does Radio work anyway, and why do we keep talking about the Maunder Minimum So what ARE they using if not sparks?...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
This is how it all started, with a post from Eric Flint to the “Authors” conference in Baen’s Bar. This was before there was such a thing as a “1632 Tech Manual” conference, and the proposed title was “Fire in the Hole” (later...
