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Step 4Find the Antenna
Let me digress for a moment...
Sometimes you search the internet for information about a product with very little luck. This was the case for for me. Nothing was available other than the product manual. When this happens it's worth while to search on the FCC ID of the product. Doing so may result in much greater detail about the product as it was filed with the FCC (circuit diagrams, block diagrams, internal photos, test reports, etc.). This is all public information but not typically indexed by search engines.
In this case I went to the FCC ID search page here:
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/
I entered the FCC ID as can clearly be seen on the back of the transmitter (see pic below). By doing this I found the following circuit diagram which clearly confirms the arched bar to be the antenna:
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=327431&native_or_pdf=pdf
In this case it's pretty clear just by looking at it but sometimes they are not this obvious. Either way it's always good to be absolutely sure before you start hacking away at it!
Note that I have another Instructable on this topic HERE (created for a contest in which I lost but was one of the finalists!)
Sometimes you search the internet for information about a product with very little luck. This was the case for for me. Nothing was available other than the product manual. When this happens it's worth while to search on the FCC ID of the product. Doing so may result in much greater detail about the product as it was filed with the FCC (circuit diagrams, block diagrams, internal photos, test reports, etc.). This is all public information but not typically indexed by search engines.
In this case I went to the FCC ID search page here:
http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/
I entered the FCC ID as can clearly be seen on the back of the transmitter (see pic below). By doing this I found the following circuit diagram which clearly confirms the arched bar to be the antenna:
https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=327431&native_or_pdf=pdf
In this case it's pretty clear just by looking at it but sometimes they are not this obvious. Either way it's always good to be absolutely sure before you start hacking away at it!
Note that I have another Instructable on this topic HERE (created for a contest in which I lost but was one of the finalists!)
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