Apparently fluorescent tubes continuously emit a lot of other microwave signals. I once built a homodyne doppler "speed" radar kit (used a coffee can for the antenna). The way you calibrated it was to point it at a florescent tube and and adjust the reading to a specific value.
---------------- > Seems that some fluorescent tube starters do emit a very brief burst at > around 1.4 GHz _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.