Talk:Scrambling/Archive 1

Archive 1

Engineering

Scrambling is also a term in communications engineering. It means adding a pseudo-random noise to a digital singal before line coding. This should be reflected here somehow.

Since I am not a native speaker (working on the german wikipedia) i can't write the article. MauriceKA on german Wikipedia. --129.13.169.157 14:10, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Motorcycle sports

Scramling is also a term used to describe a variety of motorcycle sports. I presume that a disambiguation page would be appropriate, together with renaming the existing page to something like "Scrambling: climbing". I may try to do it myself eventually but I haven't been around Wikipedia long enough to feel confident about moving pages around. --Smile 22:28, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Following a quick Google search of the WWW it seems that the term scrambling in motor sports has been replaced by Motocross.

--Smile 22:39, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

As someone form the world of motocross and/or scrambling --> scrambling is the British way or expressing off road motorcycle racing in the age before jumps (say up to 1960 although the term is still in use). The world motocross come form continental Europe, probable French. Thus as off road motorcycles and the circuit have evolved modern scrambling is *generally* called motocross (or MX) however the term scrambling is still used :-

1) In, how shall I say, less modern areas, as the same as motocross 2) Most commonly for "classic" motocross 3) In an historical context when referring to the history of motocross the era would definitely be know as scrambling

Thus --> probable should be disambiguation , although the motocross article is not YET developed enough yet to be discussing scrambling (in the off road motorcycling scene)

• The scramble disambiguation page has been setup (not by me) to address the different meanings listed above. RedWolf 20:00, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

• Its defintly Scrambling rather than scramble (re Motocross and scrambling) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.5.247.213 (talk • contribs) 10:48, October 18, 2005 (UTC)

Cragging

Can someone please write something on cragging? thanks! Flickety 22:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC)Flickety

How does this differ from scrambling on crags? dbfirs 20:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Definition

"A distinction can be made in defining any ascent where hands are used to hold body weight, rather than just for balance, as a climb."

This is wrong, as would make a lot of difficult slab climbing routes be considered to be scrambling, which they definitely are not. FireFury (talk) 13:00, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Hazards section - dated and unreferenced

"scramblers normally go equipped with a cagoule or anorak and other protective clothing as well as emergency supplies of barley sugar and hot drinks" - does this need a reference. Or referencing scramblers being 'advised' as apposed to 'normally'?
I'd think "waterproof clothes" or just leaving it as protective clothing would be better than cagoule or anorak as these are more specific and posibly dated terms: if you go into an outdoors store you wont find anything with anorak on the label.
Also I don't think people have taken barley sugar into the hills since the 50s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.172.224 (talk) 12:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

What on earth is "barley sugar"? And how does one take "hot drinks" into the mountains? I think this article has a little dust on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plasticity (talk • contribs) 16:38, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

barley sugar has its own article. As for the hot drinks, haven't you ever heard of a thermos? 206.208.105.129 (talk) 20:31, 23 November 2010 (UTC)