Save the FM and 2m amateur bands from harmonics
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**Also**, this project will overclock your pi. However, 200MHz is fine for 99.9% of picos and is SUPER unlikely to damage it unless you
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leave it running for a very long time (days or something in a closed environment).
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### Most important disclaimer
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Legal restrictions likely aren't enough for some people to not do this. Including me actually (tho minisenders with low power like
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this are actually allowed where i live, but they have to be certified). However, there is one **EXTREMELY** importatnt thing to add:
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This uses square waves, so there are GOING to be harmonics. One of those is near 99.6MHz, in the FM band. You will hear the sender there
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as well in some cases as FM receivers *can usually* receive AM, its just gonna be really noisy. Your neighbors, sadly, might also hear it
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there, as 99MHz FM is is in the FM radio bands. MAKE SURE YOUR ANTENNA IS SMALL!!!
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There is also a MUCH STRONGER harmonic at ~155.726MHz FM, in the 2m amateur radio band. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't use a large
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enough antenna for it to be able to send that very far. And this signal will actually reach FURTHER than the AM one because it
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is a shorter wavelength and therefore sends better using a short antenna. ***__PLEASE add the low pass filter I described.__***
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## How it works
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The Pi generates a 1557kHz PWM signal, which will be the carrier wave. The frequency is not changed, only the pulse width.
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- **An extra resistor of about 50-100 ohms may be added from the AI+ point to the AI- point to load the signal.** This is optional, but
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*can* clean up a little bit of noise if you have long cables.
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**ERRATA :warning:**<br>
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If you aren't an asshole, ***PLEASE*** add the low pass filter as mentioned in the Disclaimer:
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- Add a 100ohm resistor between pico and antenna
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- Wire a 2nF (2000pF) capacitor between the new start of the antenna and ground
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## How to use it
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- Flash the ino file using the Arduino IDE
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