Reading The Expanse at the moment and there is an analogue (no pun intended) of this: communication through the Gates is affected by some kind of weird interference, which is audible as strange whistling/ringing in audio. But surely they’re using digital, encrypted signals for these connections (rather than broadcasts)! It should result in a degraded bandwidth or corruption, not whatever that is.
Though now I think about it, DAB radio does get a kind of watery noise when there’s poor signal, so maybe it’s not completely unrealistic. If anyone knows enough about DAB to explain that, I’m interested.
Reading The Expanse at the moment and there is an analogue (no pun intended) of this: communication through the Gates is affected by some kind of weird interference, which is audible as strange whistling/ringing in audio. But surely they’re using digital, encrypted signals for these connections (rather than broadcasts)! It should result in a degraded bandwidth or corruption, not whatever that is.
Though now I think about it, DAB radio does get a kind of watery noise when there’s poor signal, so maybe it’s not completely unrealistic. If anyone knows enough about DAB to explain that, I’m interested.