Communication+Research

**//Communication//** A sustainable way of communication between the settlements can occur through pigeon post. Through homing pigeons they can be effective messengers. The pigeons are transported to a destination, where they would be attached with messages, and then naturally the pigeon would fly back to its home where the owner could read the mail. The message on the pigeon carried in a little cylinder and attached to the pigeon’s leg (Ivy Forset) (Speed Piegons, n.d.)

Another way that the settlements could communicate is through a radio. A radio has two parts to it: a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter makes the sounds e.g. someone’s voice, encodes it and transmits it with radio waves. The receiver then receives the radio waves and decodes the message so another person can hear it. A more sophisticated radio contains a microphone. A microphone converts the sound wave into an electrical signal. The signal is then transmitted to a radio-broadcasting tower which sends out the signal. You radio contains an antenna to detect the transmitted signal. The tuner on the radio picks out the desired frequency and the amplifier sends the signal to the speakers. Finally, the speakers convert the electrical signal into a physical vibration (sound). (Ivy Forest)



Reference

CB RADIO AUDIO PERFORMANCE TIPS [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved August 10, 2011 from [|www.livecbradio.com/cb-radio-audio.htm]

([|www.mediahistory.umn.edu/archive/PigeonPost.html])

([|www.hope.edu/academic/engineering/labs/Radio_Lab/HowItWorks.htm])

Speed Piegons [Image] (n.d.). Retrieved August 10, 2011 from [|www.speedpigeon.com/training_racing_pigeons.htm]