So I was thinking. You see I live in two worlds. Ham Radio and Drag Racing. I was thinking about early spark transmitters and why they were so dirty. Tig welders are too as they use the same technology or did 20 years ago. I was thinking about mechanical/electrical signal generation and the early days of Radio. Alternators were actually used but bandwidth was wide, probably because motor speed was not real controllable and the lack of a filter /tank circuit. That is not the case now. In a race engine we must have perfectly timed spark. In some case there is no room for error or all goes kaput. I did some quick math. I can make with what I have on hand, buying nothing, 8 times 20,000 cycles (ok Herz) Very low level powerwise. Almost any freq could be generated with a bit of ingenuity and if speed of the ELECTRIC motor can be held with in very narrow as near perfect as possible speed then it would be possible to mech/electrically generate a useable and clean Rf signal. With a proper tank circuit who knows. WHY?
Now that is the $64 question.
Don VE3LYX
Now that is the $64 question.
Don VE3LYX