Telly Savalas ("Kojak") was an American tanker...oddly he played one years later in the film "Battle of The Bulge".
Heddy Lamar's invention of "spread spectrum" encription oddly has found its way into the officiating of professional (NHL, NBA, NCAA) and many Olympic sports.
If you see a sport where the official has what looks like a pager on their belt with a short dangling wire, and blows a whistle to start or stop the clock that also bears a short dangling wire, the officials are using the "Precision Time" (TM) system.
The "spread sprectrum" encryption system only responds to the EXACT audio frequency sound of the whistle, and the system's transmitter and receiver only know what frequency will be used next (usually jumping every X/fraction of a second in a pre-specified range (or spectrum) of frequencies in the VHF or UHF spectrums). This system stops or starts the game clock at the speed of radio waves (the speed of light).
With this system, game clock debacles (i.e. USA vs USSR 1972 Olympic finals) could have never happened...and players play the WHOLE game duration, not the duration caused by human reaction time and/or human error.
This means no joker in the crowd is able to start or stop the clock by blowing a different whistle, or attempt to hack the transmitter.
The system was invented by a ham, Michael Costabile (WD4MGP), based on Heddy Lamar's Spread Sprectrum hypothesis. Michael is also a former NCAA and NBA official (the younger, skinny ref with short hair in the tapes of that HUGE Charlotte Hornets game fight back in the 90's was Michael...breaking up a player melee against guys 2 feet taller and 100 pounds heavier!)
On top of that...Heddy was a hottie in her time.
If Sarah Jessica Parker was that smart, I'd invite HER into MY hamshack!
ROX
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