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pam 1 year ago
I love this! A good possibility in preventing people from locating your whereabouts 24/7 or listening in. Anechoic chambers were my peace zone - and this is like peace of mind everywhere you go. There was a time I used to carry copper tape with me all the time to cover my cards and made a pouch out of it. And i used to stick ferrite beads at the edge of all cables . And once I made loop antennas from old RF cables, connected them to a handheld signal analyzer to detect how much signals that's around me, and I found 400 MHz harmonic jamming my car alarm near a transmission plant. I think this could help detect hidden cameras in hotels or Airbnbs as well, as they typically use RF bands to transmit video signals. Would be cool to get a signal generator, turn on satellite modulation signals and measure reflections and see how many signals it suppresses (or see what signals you can pick up near you) but it needs a satellite dish to detect. Actually if you have a sign gen and an analyser and some loop antenna, check out your radiation from laptop, your phones at higher frequencies. It's one reason why I stopped using my laptop on the lap - because Cispr tests didn't test high freq harmonics. This innovation is very cool, the paranoid me appreciates it.

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pam 1 year ago
btw, your friend can sell this to people who wear pacemakers as well - it will be a good protection gear against EMI signals. A statement to correct on the above - the regulatory test is up to 1.5GHz (this is standard practice) and it attenuates 70dB which is really good, keeps your harmonics low. However satellite signals are typically 1GHz - 40GHz. So if you want to make sure you are blocking anyone from detecting you or hearing you, you can just test it on your own. Also really love the conductance testing - so much possibility.
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pam 1 year ago
Was looking at the test again - the material is conductive, not energy producing - which makes perfect sense. Typically when resistance is measured, you don’t connect it to any power source because the multimeter will apply a small voltage to the resistor and measure the current flowing through it to calculate resistance (V=IR). The metal composition can cover up to 12GHz which is pretty decent. Higher signal will have lower power and requires amplifiers and mixers - hence if the concern is bodily protections then its perfect because it will bounce off.