Questions tagged [frequency]
Use this tag for questions about which frequencies to use or not use in certain locations/situations.
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What frequencies in 118–173 MHz can I transmit on without a license in Canada?
I have a Kenwood TM-261. It has the frequencies from 118 to 173 MHz. What frequencies can I transmit on without a licence?
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Why are some frequencies “live” where is nothing
I was ham surfing on the 2 meter FM band on my C Crane 2E Radio and occasionally I come across these frequencys that are "live" but no Audio came through.
The way I know that a frequency is dead is ...
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How to use FE-5650A rubidium frequency standard?
I bought a FE-5650A rubidium standard reference from eBay in the hope I can readily use it:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/142361240786
Unfortunately this is far from "reasily useable".
First and ...
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Why does the 60 meter band have special operating characteristics?
Why does this band have special operating characteristics and what do they mean.
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can I still hear a frequency if I can only tune in 5 kHz off?
I'm trying to listen in to the telemetry frequency for Wallops Island which is 411.325 MHz.
When I punch this into my radio (Baofeng UV-5R), the closest I can get is 411.320 MHz.
Will I still be ...
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What is “up” and “down”, and is it consistent with “top band”?
If I understand things right if you go "down" to "lower bands" you eventually get to "top band", which is 160 meter band.
Since this doesn't make any sense to me, is there something I'm missing? You ...
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GMRS not transmitting within a half mile
I recently got my GMRS license from the FCC, and I wanted to try out a couple radios for hiking and emergency communication. I have two tenway UV-5R pro radios (these do have an FCC ID) that are set ...
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What causes the light and dark bands (of background noise) in an HF waterfall display?
While monitoring the 40-meter band (among others) throughout a typical day/night as propagation changes I have noticed there are often bands of very low noise (black area) and others with much higher ...
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Full Duplex Radio Communication On a Single Frequency
I am an ELECTRONICS final year student and I am working on a project, "Full Duplex Radio On a Single Frequency". So is it possible to design such a project. If so then give me the idea about it, how ...
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Locate a ball 1000 times a second
I want to locate a small ball in the air 1000 times a second. The ball is thrown from the ground and then flies in the air for 0.5 seconds until it lands. Distance from the location instrument is 1 ...
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communication with underground mines?
I have a meter that will analyze limited RF spectrum in my area. One frequency that keeps coming up is 2.498 kHz. An FCC site listed that as the frequency used to communicate with underground mines. ...
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Can my neighbors ham radio station be preventing my TV antenna from proper reception? [duplicate]
I have a winegard 8200 series antenna and it worked flawlessly in getting me reception of more than 70 stations. The wind blew it down and I couldn't replace it for about 6 months due to the fact that ...
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GnuRadio RF transmission, legal and safety issues
I'm trying to run some transmit/receive RF examples that I found online using GNU Radio with USRP B200. I read and heard about some cautions in terms of transmitted frequencies here in the USA which ...
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How does a receiver know the exact frequency in the channel to “listen to”?
I am reading about how radio communication works and I have an unanswered question.
We have wideband channels with 25kHz of radio spectrum. The transmitter modulates a signal and sends it.
The ...
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Applications for 100 GHz band?
I was reading this paper and I found it very interesting and the following question came up,
What are the main applications (what is used for) 100 GHz band?
I couldn't find any reference on what is ...
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Why do receiver sensitivities vary so much with frequency?
I was looking for a 2.4 GHz WiFi antenna to catch a weak free WiFi signal, and amplify it so I can use it. I found Ruckus Metroflex NG, which can receive signals down to -108 dBm. Which is amazingly ...
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What are these antennas used for?
I noticed this antenna park in Heidmoosstrasse, Switzerland. What is it used for?
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What are Radio-location Services in the 1.9-2.0 MHz range?
I'm currently studying for the General Exam and in looking at charts of the new frequency privileges have run across a restriction I would like to have further defined. In the 160 meter band the books ...
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Can radio waves be made to travel as or along a particle beam? [closed]
Can a laser be used as an antenna?
Can a beam of any type extend transmission distance of an electromagnetic field?
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-why-the-2018-nobel-prize-in-...
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What is the frequency range 2300-21950 kHz used for?
I was checking out the gizmo mentioned in this question, and I see that it can receive "shortwave" in the frequency range 2300-21950 kHz. Most times I see "shortwave" mentioned, it's by sales or ...
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What is inside a 50 ohm termination?
I see RF applications requiring 50 ohm termination to avoid any open port reflections. Curious what is actually inside a 50 ohm termination connector. Is it simply a 50 ohm resistor? But then it is ...
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Can my laptop pick up CB radio frequencies?
I was on my laptop watching a show and I paused to look something up and since there was no sound I could hear a voice talking. It sounded distorted like it was coming over a radio and I couldn't make ...
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Why are radio frequency ranges aligned on multiples of 3?
Why are the radio bands organized by multiples of three?
For example the HF band is from 3–30MHz and UHF is from 300–3000MHz. Why not multiples of 2? Or plain powers of ten?
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Why do the ham radio bands get broader with increasing frequency?
The ham radio frequency allocations tend to comprise a larger frequency range for increasing frequency (also see this plot). For example, the 40 meters band is from 7,0 to 7,2 MHz, thus 200 kHz, while ...
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Radio Range vs. Frequency [closed]
Let's say you have two mobile simplex transceivers running on (for example) SSB. Mobile means that the antenna height and TX power have limitations. Say if we limit the Antenna height to 2m and the TX ...
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How to tune an FM transmitter to a specific frequency?
I am planning to organise a simple fox hunt, a family event. This includes building a transmitter. I am currently considering the following schematics:
https://maker.pro/education/diy-fm-transmitter
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What are these continuous sine wave tones I keep hearing?
I'm messing around on WebSDR and by just scanning through I sometimes come across these continuous tones in USB. One in particular was 28.800 MHz USB.
I've picked them up on nearly every WebSDR unit ...
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Are there receivers and transmitters that can be tuned to multiple frequencies at once? [closed]
What kind of hardware/circuitry would be needed for a device to be able to transmit and receive over a range of frequencies at once?
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Antenna Q vs pattern shape
Is there any reason to think that changing the Q of an antenna would affect the directional pattern, assuming that is the only variable that changes?
Restricting to values of Q say less than 1000.
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What are the technical reasons that there are no frequency modulated transmissions on the long- and medium wave?
Why are there no frequency modulated broadcasts on the long/medium/short wave, but only on VHF? I'm sure there are many historical and political reasons (long/medium/short wave were already in use for ...
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Can 2 uhf beam yagi antennas be used on a transmitter to get a diversity effect?
I'm having a problem getting a good signal up to a repeater site on UHF. I'm running 20W in a neighborhood with lots of trees, and the signal is fading in and out due to trees and the wind.
I can't ...
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What are the 3 or 5 peaks in an FM broadcast during silence?
Looking at the waterfall spectrum of any ordinary FM public broadcast station (88-108 MHz), during the silence, there are 3 or 5 visible peaks.
What are they?
It's possible this has a trivial ...
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How is the PRC-152 able to achieve such a wide frequency range?
I am referring to the Harris Falcon III designed for military. It has a frequency range from 30MHz - 870MHz.
However, when I look at commercial radios, their frequency ranges are usually limited to ...
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Where can I find a listening guide for different frequencies and their usages to listen to on SDR?
I just got an RTL-SDR dongle by Nooelec and am using CubicSDR on Mac (which supports AM, FM, and SSB), and I'm in Canada. I'm able to easily find FM radio stations, but outside of that I'm not sure ...
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Private Channel?
Is there a method to limit the people with access to a simplex channel? I would like to utilize a channel that is set up for just myself and my wife. If I gave directions to meet somewhere I would ...
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overly large bandwith for a FSK signal?
I am trying to recover my 2FSK signal using an SDR. I have centered the SDR modem on the median frequency (the virtual carrier) and captured my signal via some 90 kHz bw modem. THis is the recording ...
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Does antenna frequency matter when trying to pick up radio waves?
I'm buying the following: https://www.amazon.com/RTL-SDR-Blog-RTL2832U-Software-Defined/dp/B0129EBDS2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1480215974&sr=8-3&keywords=RTL-SDR to analyze radio waves as ...
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How many frequency channels are there in a frequency band?
I've often heard people saying that 4G uses the 1800 MHz band but precisely what all frequencies does it work upon? Does it mean that is just uses one frequency i.e. 1800 MHz, well in that case wouldn'...
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How to connect a motorola RVA50UL with MR350?
Currently I use a Motorola MR30R radio in the frequency 20 (462,6750 Mhz) with Interference Eliminator Code 59. I also have a Motorola RVA50UL, according to the manual, the frequency will be available ...
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FM transmitter sending to multiple frequencies
I bought Veronica 1W FM Transmitter online, hooking it up and tuning the radio beside me, I can hear the audio on multiple 'stations' or frequencies.
I've tried screwing the vc1 which the seller said ...
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How can we determine what repeaters to use?
My wife and I are studying for our Technician class licenses. We are thinking about how we could communicate with each other while both of us are at work, she being in Oakland, CA and myself in ...
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What is a “calling frequency”?
Doing some study for the ham test, I read a question asking about a certain “national calling frequency”.
What is a “calling frequency”?
What is meant by “calling” in this instance?
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Why do Hams refer to bands by wavelength and not frequency?
I've noticed while reading literature and websites geared towards and written by amateurs and ham radio enthiuasts that frequency bands are commonly referred to by wavelength.
In professional ...
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Scanner radio purchase advice for someone that's nosy but not technological?
If it sounds like a stupid question, it probably is.
My mom loves being nosy... When she hears the police siren, an ambulance, firefighters, or something like that, she's the first one to run to the ...
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Transmit on multiple frequencies with USRP using GRC
I am using an Ettus Research B200 with GNU Radio Companion (GRC) and I would like to transmit two signals at two different frequencies simultaneously.
As a simple example, I would like to transmit a ...
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Would a 2.4ghz yagi antenna work for Ham Radio?
I am building a miniature yagi antenna that is made for 2.4ghz. Would a 2.4ghz yagi antenna work for Ham Radio?
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List of capturable data services (diy)
Looking for a list of capture-able data services.
By browsing some sites I accidentally discovered
that it is possible to receive NOAA satellite weather images with DIY receiver (link) or (here), ...
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Frequencies as 5 digits and 6 or 7 digits
Why are some frequencies 5 digits like 51344 and some six or seven digits long like 158.7600?
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What is the difference between channel & frequency & band in RF?
I am reading about wireless networks basics. I found three terms I cannot find exact definition for: channel, frequency band, frequency.
Can anyone give exact definitions for them?
