[Laser] stable audio oscillator?
Andrew T. Flowers, K0SM
[email protected]
Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:31:25 -0400
I started playing around with ARGO in my apartment this evening--one of
the programs that Bob mentioned to receive QRSS morse code (thanks,
Bob!). I remembered that my ramsey kit transmitters have a setting to
send a test tone using the 16KHz pulse-width modulation scheme. Well,
if you receive this at baseband audio you get alot of stuff between
500Hz and 20KHz plus, but as it turns out, it is nice and stable
because. Lo and behold! it contains a 25MHz clock divided down to
16KHz! Anyway, if you enable the test tone, one of the strongest
frequency compnents is 913.4 Hz (15880 Hz is about 10dB stronger, but
argo doesn't tune that high) . I locked onto the 913.4 Hz and took my
transmitter all over my 3-room apartment. Believe it or not, the signal
is *clearly* visible on the screen no from everywhere, including places
where it has to make several reflections off of walls, floors ceilings
or whatever. It's really blows my mind. It's making me believe that
tropospheric scatter is possible using class II and IIIa diodes.
Now to steal that 16 KHz clock and divide it down a little more. At
least that kit will be good for something! I appreciate all the
suggestions I'm receiving regarding the AF oscillator--thanks!
Andy, K0SM