From: "ronkean at juno.com" <ronkean at juno.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:51:56 GMT
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Pigeon Beats DSL
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Pigeon Beats DSL
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:05:36 -0400

  I remember hearing that before faxes two hospitals used =

to use pigeons to send information or blood samples to =

each other.   This is a really cute idea.

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:36:24 -0400
  Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net> wrote:
> =

> On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> =

>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm
>>
>> mjw
>>

If my calculation is correct, based on uploading 4% of 4GB in two hours,=
 the ASL upload rate was about 178 bps (bits not bytes).  I recollect th=
at the standard ASL upload rate is 128 bps, so the smart money would hav=
e been on the pigeon, if it had a good track record for homing.

Ron Kean

=2E =

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