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            | Subject: 
 | Re: EE RF question 
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 | lugnet.robotics.handyboard 
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            | Date: 
 | Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:23:13 GMT 
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            | Original-From: 
 | MAR ERICSON <mar@cooper+saynotospam+.edu> 
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 |  | Yes, 
 that is what I'm trying to do.  I think that this would eliminate
 interferance.  Though the price is tethered operation.  I guess it
 doesn't really have to be a coax.  It can just be an RCA A/V cable right?
 Or how about a single wire!
 
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 ericson mar
 Robotics Consultant
 mar@cooper.edu
 (212)353-4356
 
 Department of Mechanical Engineering
 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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 On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Jose-Afredo D. Esguerra wrote:
 
 > Pherd,
 >
 > It sounds as though he is planning on patching the output of a RF
 > transmitter to the input of a RF receiver.
 >
 > 73's,
 >
 > Jose
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: FThompson9@aol.com <FThompson9@aol.com>
 > To: handyboard@media.mit.edu <handyboard@media.mit.edu>
 > Date: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 7:41 PM
 > Subject: Re: EE RF question
 >
 >
 > > In a message dated 8/2/99 7:38:41 PM Central Daylight Time, mar@cooper.edu
 > > writes:
 > >
 > > >
 > > >  If you have an RF Transmitter and Receiver with Antennas, can you detach
 > > >  the antennas and just connect a co-ax cable between them?  I'm guessing
 > > >  this would reduce the noise and interferance to a minumum.  Is this  right?
 > > >
 > > >
 > >
 > > I'm not to clear on what you are describing here.  Generally speaking I  would
 > > say yes, you can slap a piece of coax in without too much loss of function.
 > > But you really need to know what type of antenna your feeding, the radio's
 > > frequency, the impedance expected at the terminal by the
 > > transmitter/receiver.  If you wish to read up on it, I suggest going to  your
 > > local library and finding a book call "The 19xx ARRL Handbook for radio
 > > amateurs" (where xx is the year of your choice).  This book gives you  enough
 > > information to design your own radios and antennas.
 > >    If the antennas in questions are just "rubber ducks" (short whip
 > > antennas), I wouldn't worry too much about the feeding system.  Just about
 > > any antenna system is better than a rubber duck.  The ones that I have seen
 > > are just resistors with slightly longer than normal feed lines.  Yet these
 > > tiny devices can be found on a large number of radios communicating over  long
 > > distances.
 > >
 > > Hope this helps,
 > > Pherd
 >
 >
 >
 
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