Re: That hiss

[Walter Knapp <>]

From: Syd Curtis <>


>     Am I not right in thinking that some considerable time ago, two
> scientists (Penzias and Wilson, are the names that come to mind) spent much
> time trying to find the cause of a mysterious hiss in their apparatus ...
> and ended up getting a Nobel Prize for discovering it?

I spent quite a while hunting hiss in my equipment until one day it 
dawned on me to look at the trees. Often even if at ground level it's 
calm, the tops of the pines are in a breeze, and they hiss nicely. Or 
not so nice depending on what you want.

Walt




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