[The Working Man]

“We did this back in the ‘70s with a fire control radar dish (power off). We could speak softly or whisper across the front of the dish, and people on the deck or pier over 200 feet away could hear the voice as if it were originating right beside them (or inside their head). All it requires is a correctly shaped dish pointed at the intended recipient.”

You too?! I could tell you a very humourous tale about a guy who used this same trick to get a date. San Diego Broadway pier was the location...

[Bon mots]

“We did this back in the ‘70s with a fire control radar dish (power off). We could speak softly or whisper across the front of the dish, and people on the deck or pier over 200 feet away could hear the voice as if it were originating right beside them (or inside their head). All it requires is a correctly shaped dish pointed at the intended recipient.”

That reminds me of one of those old 3 dimensional movies that they used to show in a dome-shaped building. You would lie on the ground and look up at the roof of this giant dome shaped building and the surround effect would look very real.

Anyway, we went into one of those things in a large group, and we were on one side of the thing and our friends were on the other with a whole crowd of noisy people between us. We could hear every word our friends said when they were talking - it seems the sound followed the inside contour of the dome over the crowd directly to us.