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How does my car acquire satellite signal?
I just got XM radio again after a brief period without it. A customer service rep said that the satellite needs to beam my signal to me in a six minute time window. How exactly does this happen? How ...
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Separating waves of very close wavelengths [migrated]
I'm new to wave problems, so excuse my simplified words.
I have a signal consists of high range of frequencies . I applied a Band-pass filter to this signal and I have been able to separate it to ...
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Radio antennas that are much shorter than the wavelength
From my limited experience with ham radio when I was a kid, I expect transmitting and receiving antennas to have lengths that are on the same order of magnitude as the wavelength, and in fact I recall ...
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How does my hand amplify an FM radio signal?
I have a gizmo that broadcasts an FM radio signal from my phone's headphone socket to my car's radio antenna.
Sometimes, there's another station on the same frequency with a stronger signal and my ...
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Frequency Modulation
If FM radios work by modulating the frequency, how is it that we can tune into a specific channel, and hear a song or station? Wouldn't the channel need to be modulated along with the varying ...
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What happens to the energy not absorbed by a radio?
If a radio tunes to a specific frequency, where does the excess energy go? If one continues to hit the resonant frequency, shouldn't the wire begin to melt at some point from too much energy?
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Adverse Health Effects of Strong Radio Waves
A while ago, I was hiking near the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles. When I got to the sign, I found out it was fenced off; with several signs and a security camera promising prompt enforcement. As I was ...
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How does rust behave as a PN junction?
Reading about old-fangled radios the reference quoted below indicates it was/is possible to use a rusted razor (or perhaps any similar thin corroded metal strip) as a detector.
Some resourceful GIs ...
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Sum and Difference Frequencies - Amplitude Modulation
I understand that while transmitting an envelope through a carrier wave to the receiver, an upper sideband and a lower sideband form adjacent to the carrier wave. The sidebands are apparently an ...
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Understanding the cause of sidebands in Amplitude Modulation
I've read it many places that Amplitude Modulation produces sidebands in the frequency domain. But as best as I can imagine it, modulating the amplitude of a fixed-frequency carrier wave just makes ...
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Is the inducing signal weakened to the extent it induces a signal in the receiving antenna?
Silly question ...
An antenna is necessary to receive a transmitted signal from atmosphere, or otherwise. The transmitted signal weakens as it travels through the atmosphere. When the signal ...
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Where can I find information for how to create amateur radio telescope?
Where can I find good source of information for how to create amateur radio telescope.
Particularly interested in creating Fresnel Zone Plate Antennas (aka flat dish).
design, diagrams, ...
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Is it possible to make an RFID-like device which responds to a metal detector?
Would it be possible to make a small device which can be easily detected with a metal detector (or similar) from several feet away?
It would need to operate kind of like a shop-security tag but it ...
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How do EM waves get detached from an antenna?
How does an electro-magnetic waves get detached from an antenna and spread to the space?
While an antenna receives an EM wave, which quantity of the EM wave (electric or magnetic) is used for ...
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Missing radio source coordinates in G/T measurement technique ITU-R S.733.2
Section 3 ‘Suitable radio stars’ of this recommendation lists the different stars/nebula and their corresponding flux-densities that can be used in the G/T measurement.
There is no reference to the ...
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Why is this radio telescope's reflector spherical and not parabolic?
This is the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its reflector is spherical, measuring 1,001 ft. in diameter. It is considered the most sensitive radio telescope on Earth, but the fact that ...
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Radio waves within an atom
What effect does the quantum world have on radio waves? For example, if I could shrink myself down and stand on the nucleus (or even smaller sub atomic particles making up the nucleus) with a device ...
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Can extraterrestials detect our messages?
We transmitted several messages to the space and listening to space for signs of intelligent life for years (SETI).
Assuming they have at least the same technology we have, could they detect these ...
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Getting a given wavelength radio signal given an antenna with real-world constraints
Supposing you are given a transmitting antenna of whatever type of metal is most commonly used these days, and supposing that you are applying an AC current with the intent of transmitting a 1 m ...
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Radio communication and antennas
I'm trying to understand how an antenna is able to understand, but have a few quesions:
I understand that for an antenna to distinguish between 2 (or more) signals, they have to be in different ...
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Quantum Mechanics- Antenna emitting electromagnetic radiation
Radio signals are being transmitted in a frequency of $ 8.4 \times 10^9 s^{-1} $ and being received by an antenne that is capable of receiveing power of $ 4 \times 10^{-21} watt $ ($ 1 watt = 1 J ...
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Where are the harmonics in the radio spectrum?
When I strike a string on my guitar and look at the audio spectrum, I can see the fundamental frequency as a large peak. I can also see the harmonic frequencies as a train of little peaks at ...
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What is the diameter of the sun as a function of wavelength/frequency (around 10GHz)?
I have this vague recollection of being told that the diameter of the apparent surface of the sun is a function of what band you observe it in. I'm looking for a model of this that works for bands in ...
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What is the best material and design for building a parabolic dish?
I'm currently using a homemade metallic spaghetti strainer with a wifi adapter inside it to increase my wifi adapter's signal reception, but would think that a different material, like the aluminum ...
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The limit of radio wave penetration
Why can I listen to my mobile phone's radio clearly inside the bus, inside the train, but not inside the elevator? Also, there is an interference of radio signal when the train is accelerating or ...
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How is extra information encoded in digital radio?
Earlier today, I was listening to my digital radio, and was intrigued as to how they are able to encode the information displayed on the LCD screen (which was basically a short string of text giving a ...
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Working of a crystal radio
I have been reading about how a crystal radio works and I have one question below:
It says, the energy in form electric current from a specific frequency will be stored in the coil (or a resonator) ...
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References for Radio Optics?
I'm really intrigued by a bunch of questions like 'what do radio waves look like?' 'how much RF radiation is there in the town I live in?' 'why does RF imaging work?'
But I think I need to do some ...
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Penetration versus Frequency
I would like to know the relation between penetrating ability and the frequency of a wave. For example, gamma waves have high frequency and high penetrating power: intuitively I imagined this as ...
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What makes up a resonator of radio?
I was reading this article about resonators.
Quote:
The sine wave that matches that particular frequency will get
amplified by the resonator, and all of the other frequencies will be
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How does radio receives signal from particular station?
When you tune your radio (digital or analog) to receive say 100 MHz frequency and while in the environment there are hundreds of channels everywhere around the radio. How does it chooses to receive ...
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How does repeater amplify the radio signals?
When you send some kind of radio signals at some frequency say 5 GHz to a repeater and it transmits it back at higher power, what change is made to the radio signal? For example: Will it be ...
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reflection, refraction and diffraction occur in radio waves, which one occurs the most?
One of the things about Radio waves is that they undergo different behaviors such as reflection, refraction and diffraction when in contact with obstacles such as walls, buildings etc. what i want to ...
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Is visible light and radio waves made of the same thing?
I understand that there is such a thing as the electro magnetic spectrum, and that light and RF are both on it, so dose that mean that they are made of the same thing? Just at different frequencies.
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Multiple channels of information in single electromagnetic wave?
I'm trying to understand how can multiple radio stations transmit information just by transmitting using different frequency. The way I understand it all those different frequency waves add up to a ...
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Why is it that when driving in a car, and a lightning bolt strikes, my AM radio gets cut off for a while, but FM stays on
I noticed this one day, a lightning/thunder occurred and my Fabulosa Spanish music died for a second.
But not FM? Thank You
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Determining a radio signal's range
If I know the:
Frequency
Effective Radiated Power
Height Above Average Terrain
Radiation Center Above Mean Sea Level
Radiation Center Above Ground Level
of a radio signal / tower, is there a way ...
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How radio waves penetrate through buildings?
For example how radio signals of a base transceiver station (BTS) penetrate through buildings?
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How do radio telescopes work?
If I search online for how radio telescopes work, the found articles talk about how RF is on the spectrum, etc, how the parabolic collector is the aperture which contributes to the sensitivity and ...
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Cellphone RF radiation
First, what determines the strength of an RF signal?
Why is it said that a cellphones radiates more energy when the reception from signal tower is lower in strength.
Why is it said that RF gets ...
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Radio waves and frequency of photon
Is 89MHZ station emitting photons of 89MHZ frequency? (I mean $\nu$ in $E=h\nu$).
