Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "How Cell Service Actually Works" video.

  1. At 4:31 this story exactly contradicts itself. Just before that they say that "binary" transmits ones and zeroes. Then I guess somebody figgered out that uh-oh, you can't transmit a zero, so they 'fessed up. "Binary" is just another sort of FM. "Ones" are slightly faster frequencies than "zeroes." In this convention, anyway. Then they do it again at 12:15. When things get crowded, they "use digital signals encoded using phase and ampllitude." That's called frequency modulation, FM, and ampllitude modulation, AM. It's not digital. When they use the phrase "efficient digital signal" at 13:00, they are lying. What they mean is "efficient analog signal." (Do they use PCM, pulse-code modulation, between the diaphragm of the microphone and the encoder of the radio transmitter? They don't say.)
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  2. And remember, kiddies, "each" means one. so each of anything is singular and takes a singular verb. When somebody, e.g. Wendover, says "each are" it means they've lost track of their subject. They don't know what theyre talking about. Just take it down, rewrite it and re-record it, OK, Wendover? The pictures are fine, and the technical background is roughly correct. It's only every single detail that you've gotten wrong, Wendover. You've assaulted 87,000 people to date, August '24. Time to stop maybe?
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