Comments | bleepmicro: Own the Airwaves, or how to hack together a small Analog TV station.

bleepmicro

Own the Airwaves, or how to hack together a small Analog TV station.

Jun 16, 2009 00:53

I ran across some interesting articles by a Mr. Tetsuo Kogawa regarding ultra simple home-brew FM and video transmitters. After reading some of the English and translating the Japanese articles I was still very curious as to just how well the video transmitters actually worked in the real world. I mean especially considering the low parts count ( Read more... )

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hellodali June 16 2009, 04:52:17 UTC

omg such the mad scientist. How far can you transmit that signal?

bleepmicro June 16 2009, 19:05:32 UTC

Nope just an old school Hardware Hacker!

About 50 meters with this setup as is... you can add an amp but this design is really based on quick an dirty and it has tons of harmonics that would need to be worked out before sticking any type of amp on it. Not that it really matters now that Analog TV is dead as of last friday. Still FCC tends to frown on lots of harmonics eatting up bandwidth.

hellodali June 16 2009, 19:51:33 UTC

So that means that analog broadcasting is open and free for pirates now?

bleepmicro July 6 2009, 17:43:34 UTC

Nope!