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  2. Single-input single-output system - Wikipedia

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    In control engineering, a single-input and single-output (SISO) system is a simple single-variable control system with one input and one output. In radio, it is the use of only one antenna both in the transmitter and receiver .

  3. Voice-operated switch - Wikipedia

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    It is usually used to turn on a transmitter or recorder when someone speaks and turn it off when they stop speaking. It is used instead of a push-to-talk button on transmitters or to save storage space on recording devices. On cell phones, it is used to save battery life. Intercom systems that use a speaker in a room as both a speaker and a ...

  4. User guide - Wikipedia

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    The user guide engraved into a model of the Antikythera Mechanism. User guides have been found with ancient devices. One example is the Antikythera Mechanism, [1] a 2,000 year old Greek analogue computer that was found off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in the year 1900.

  5. Owner's manual - Wikipedia

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    2007 Toyota Yaris hatchback owner's manual 1919 Ford Motor Company car and truck operating manual. An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

  6. Single operator two radios - Wikipedia

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    SO2R is an operating technique used by some competitors in the single-operator categories in contesting. While single-operator means that only one transmitter can be active at any time, in SO2R, a single station operator uses two radios to listen simultaneously to two different radio frequencies. When the two radios are on different radio bands ...

  7. Francis Blake (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Francis Blake was born in Needham, Massachusetts on December 25, 1850, the son of Caroline Burling (Trumbull) and Francis Blake, Sr. [1]. In 1879, he invented a carbon microphone for use in the telephone, and patented [2] [3] [4] it shortly after Thomas Edison invented a similar microphone that also used carbon contacts.

  8. 1-Wire - Wikipedia

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    An iButton in a plastic fob, as used for Istanbul Akbil smart ticket A Java ring with an embedded iButton. 1-Wire is a wired half-duplex serial bus designed by Dallas Semiconductor that provides low-speed (16.3 kbit/s [1]) data communication and supply voltage over a single conductor.

  9. One-instruction set computer - Wikipedia

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    The instructions themselves reside in memory as a sequence of such integers. There exists a class of universal computers with a single instruction based on bit manipulation such as bit copying or bit inversion. Since their memory model is finite, as is the memory structure used in real computers, those bit manipulation machines are equivalent ...