Use your TV as a radar

October 28th, 2008

Here’s a wonderful webpage on using your TV as a radar. The author was suffering from nasty case of interference spoiling their BBC viewing:

interference on tv
Instead of just wiggling around the aerial like any regular person, this nerd decided to determine the source of the interference – with SCIENCE!

diagram

You can read the whole torrid affair here.  I can’t work out who the author of the site is, but they have lots of other interesting projects too.

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2 Comments

  • 1. TV as RADAR&hellip  |  October 28th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

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  • 2. AL  |  October 28th, 2008 at 9:04 pm

    As far as I know, this wouldn’t be possible with a digital signal, would it? As I understand it, the digital signals include some form of time code, so ghosting is prevented.

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