Re: TI-H: IR to RF link question.
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> From: C.J. Oster <cjo@pobox.com>
> To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject: Re: TI-H: IR to RF link question.
> Date: Sunday, November 03, 1996 9:13 PM
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> >Why even bother to tune them to different frequencies.
> >IR is lightbeams
> >RF is radiowaves
>
> No kidding... But if you build an IR link, you need two wahelengths,
seeing
> as how there are two data transfer channels for the calc. If you set one
> for 900nm, and one for 950nm, then there is a slight possibility of
> interference with each other. Since light, sound and radiowaves are all
> electormagnetic radiation, in theory, they could interfere with each
other.
> (Just theory though)
>
True. They are all on the same spectrum. Maybe some weird harmonics could
set it off. Just make sure the frequencies arn't multiples of each other.
(100 MHz, 1000 MHz)
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