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Uncommon card · Science
Communication channel, an Uncommon card
A communication channel refers either to a physical transmission medium such as a wire, or to a logical connection over a multiplexed medium such as a radio channel in telecommunications and computer networking.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 79
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 79 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Communication channel quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Communication channel card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Communicating an ______ signal across distance requires some form of pathway or medium.
Answer
information. Communicating an information signal across distance requires some form of pathway or medium. From the Communication channel article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Communication channel. Communication channel 60 · Electric displacement field 57 · LGA 1156 54 · Benzoylecgonine 51 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A channel is used for information transfer of, for example, a digital bit stream, from one or several senders to one or several receivers.
- A channel has a certain capacity for transmitting information, often measured by its bandwidth in Hz or its data rate in bits per second.
- Communicating an information signal across distance requires some form of pathway or medium.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Communication channel article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Communication channel
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Communication channel (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MarkBuckawicki, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
