Slide Link

Scan training was old hat, and there were limits to the knowledge that needed to be transferred. These two were dominant in the frequency domain, and that was a trait that I believed to be quite useful, and hence, the special training. I had no intent on doing scan training on every recruit. By eight doublings I would be bored to tears, and nowhere near the hundreds of doublings that would be required.

The goal here was not so much to train the pair, but to train me. I had been working with phase angles when locating molecules like shorties and ringlets on their various forms. Here, we had frequency shift being used for information transfer, and while a lilt at the end of a phrase here and there was a good clue to attitude, I was looking for more.

In a radical test, the chatty slide talkers and I began exchanging frequency shift patterns. We defined a range. Two notes, and bounced between then. Then we added a note between the other two. The game was to keep going, adding more notes in-between. After a while, you could tell the note just by the correction you had to apply just to keep your spin straight. Once we had established that link, it became easy to encode clear messages that were decoded by wiggles in single spins. Very fast, very accurate, and works well in noisy environments.