<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:16 PM, <<A href="mailto:scott@opentrac.org">scott@opentrac.org</A>> <<A href="mailto:scott@opentrac.org">scott@opentrac.org</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I made an MR6 clone plus OT in one board, and actually launched one example</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">on a few party balloons, but it's got really awful spurious emissions.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">that's not just my clone - it's just as bad on the genuine Ramsey board.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I added a large (1M, IIRC) resistor between the PIC and the MR6 to keep it from splattering so bad.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Those spurs can be useful, if your APRS payload fails and you're locating via DF...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Jason</DIV><DIV>kg4wsv</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>