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Ok. I found a TV antenna. It's one of those that are just a sort of a stick that you can expand. The connector is the normal sort of like an audio cable thing, only slightly larger (meaning it will only hang loosely on an audio connector). I tried just connecting it to the audio in first on my mixer and thereafter on my soundcard, but neither of these experiments yielded any results, not even when I was touching it (which, on normal audio cables, produces a sound, as you may know), and this leads me to my question: Shouldn't there at least be sound when I do that? Or is it something about the cable's resistance/ohm thingie or something? I mean, even if it is a bit loose, there has to be a connection in there, and I would expect there to be at least some sound, if even only when I jiggle it around when connecting it, but in both cases there was nothing. Is there anything I can do to make it so that I can receive the radio signals as audio signals, or possibly even to somehow output audio in a sort of an effect loop, then run it through the antenna, and then back to the mixer for any possible effect this may have? |
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stick it on yer car, mate |
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Try it on your Tandberg and record directly to tape... Just brainstorming here, really... |
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Ok, at least now I have a result, but I had to use a normal audio cable with a jack on the end (so I still didn't get any sound when connecting the antenna directly), and the result wasn't really different from what you get when you just put your finger on the tip.. I was expecting something.. different, but this is an extremely uneducated guess... |
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Not to be condecending or anything, but learn something about radio first! There is a reason antennae transmit radio at non audio frequencies! Go and read how an AM radio works and you will hopefully understand something. You need to realise the length of the aerial is inversly proportional to the frequency being transmitted. I guess you could try to convert it into a Theremin or something. A bit of googling is required. |
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Yeah, I was really more interested in making it into something like a theremin, although not quite. I figured I could achieve some sort of effect by simply sending an audio signal out through a cable that I just held up to the antenna, and then that signal could possibly flow through the antenna and then, possibly, with varying lengths of it extended, I could do something. It was just a dream by a little boy, don't worry. |
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