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Telephone hybrid, a Common card
In analog telephony, a telephone hybrid is the component at the ends of a subscriber line of the public switched telephone network that converts between two-wire and four-wire forms of bidirectional audio paths.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 56
- DEF
- 19
- Power
- 75
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,200
Power 75 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Telephone hybrid quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Telephone hybrid card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Within the telephone network, switching and ______ are almost always four-wire circuits with the two signals being separated.
Answer
transmission. Within the telephone network, switching and transmission are almost always four-wire circuits with the two signals being separated. From the Telephone hybrid article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Telephone hybrid. Telephone hybrid 56 · Aloysius Lilius 53 · Gustave de Molinari 50 · Barium peroxide 47 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.
- When used in broadcast facilities to enable the airing of telephone callers, the broadcast-quality telephone hybrid is known as a broadcast telephone hybrid or telephone balance unit.
- The need for hybrids comes from the nature of analog plain old telephone service home or small business telephone lines, where the two audio directions are combined on a single two-wire pair.
- Within the telephone network, switching and transmission are almost always four-wire circuits with the two signals being separated.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Telephone hybrid article was read about 6,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 56 and blocks with 19: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Telephone hybrid
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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- Aloysius LiliusCommon · Science · ATK 53 DEF 22
- Victor SegalenCommon · Arts · ATK 53 DEF 22
- Carl SpittelerCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 23
- Milot, HaitiCommon · Society · ATK 50 DEF 25
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Telephone hybrid (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Constant314, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
