[NLRS] Another thought about light QSO's

[Zack Widup]

My Nikon D-70S is not sensitive to infrared light. I don't see anything from
a remote on it.

Maybe this only works with cheap cameras?
:-)

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Richard Clem <clem.law at usa.net> wrote:

>
>
> As I was looking through the Ramsey Electronics catalog last night, I
> realized
> that there is one extremely simple method of detecting light (or infrared
> LED's).  If you ever need to check the batteries in your TV remote control,
> and easy way to do so is to look at the LED With a digital camera.
>
> I suspect that it wouldn't be too difficult to make it visible a kilometer
> away.  So if an infrared LED is allowed with just one stage of electronic
> detection, then it would be pretty trivial to do CW QSO's with a TV remote
> control and cel phone camera.  I'm not sure how, but it seems to me that
> ought
> to be excluded from the definition, as having very little to do with
> amateur
> radio.
>
> On the other hand, if it's not excluded, I would be very happy to hand out
> QSO's using a TV remote control, a flashlight, or even smoke signals (after
> all, that's just a system of modulating the ambient light).
>
> 73,
> Rick W0IS
>
>
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