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This is directly addressed in the article: "Important Disclaimer: While the output power is very small, you should still take great care as the carrier is a sq
by morganvachon 11y ago
This is directly addressed in the article:
"Important Disclaimer: While the output power is very small, you should still take great care as the carrier is a square wave, and there is no filtering on the antenna output. So any transmissions will cause harmonics all across the spectrum – possibly interfering with life critical devices. A filter must be used if you actually plan on transmitting with any sort of range further than your room."
- makomk 11y agoHarmonics are trivial to filter - they're at multiples of the fundamental frequency, so 100MHz, 150MHz, and so on. You can just stick a lowpass filter on the output and it'll block all the harmonics because they're so far away from the fundamental. Unfortunately, the waterfall appears to show strong spurs every 30 Hz, and those would be ridiculously difficult to filter out. I think the normal solution is to design your transmitter so that it doesn't do that.
- Kliment 11y agoGiven how regularly spaced they are they might be other channels (regular TV maybe?)
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoIt looks like they're spaced at 30KHz, which seems to me to be a very tight grouping for any kind of transmission like that (and presumably if that band was that crowded to begin with, the author would have picked a different one).