[Laser] Are we still there

Fri, 10 May 2002 01:19:24 -0500

I've been working on creating K3PGP's night laser receiver and power
supply/modulator here so I could start playing with some of the laser
diodes I have laying around finally.  Let me just say, wow that receiver
is sensitive! I could hear the 60Hz hum of the lamp that was on behind me
while I was testing it.  Just plugged my computer speakers into it as they
have an amp built in plus volume control.  Reflections of the CD laser diode
I had plugged into the ps/mod. circuit off of my hand would make the
receiver
go full quieting!  Disappointed about the CD ld though as its output is in
a slot configuration so the beam spreads super quick.  Is that just a lens
in front of the ld that does that or the make up of the ld itself?  If it is
just a lens then I can work on trying to get it pulled off.  Anyone near
EM47ss up for experimenting?

73
Mike
N3YPA/0

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Laser] Are we still there

I have not heard a peep out of this list in a while. I guess we are still
alive?

--
Chuck Hast
KP4DJT
[email protected]
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my
going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of
torn and twisted metal."
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