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Algood, TN., 17 September 2015 –Research Electronics International (REI) is pleased to release a new video pole camera – the VPC 2.0 – for investigating areas above drop ceilings, behind immovable objects, around corners or other difficult to reach areas, especially in dark environments.

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RF Detection Equipment Comparison Cartoon

Software Defined Radios (SDR) are becoming more common to use when looking for rogue RF transmissions in certain environments. They may appear to be less expensive simply because there are many tuner modules on the market that provide Spectrum Analyzer capability for very low cost, and there are various suppliers of software and hardware to mix and match all sorts of system combinations. However, total cost of software, antennas probes, cables, software defined receivers, a laptop, etc., can get expensive.

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Algood, Tennessee, U.S.A. – July 6, 2015 – Research Electronics International (REI) has introduced a new Non-Linear Junction Detector (NLJD)   – the ORION 2.4 HX. The new ORION 2.4 HX compliments the standard ORION 2.4, introduced in 2013, with several distinguishing features including a 3.3W model and a higher 6.6W transmit power model, both with built in touch screen display.

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OSCOR Green screenshot of NLJD signals
The above illustration is a composite screen shot taken from an OSCOR Green Spectrum Analyzer, showing traces from 2 NLJDs. The purple trace is a commercially available NLJD transmitting a continuous wave analog signal at 2.41 GHz. The yellow trace is an ORION 2.4 broadband digital spread spectrum signal at the same frequency. The spread spectrum signal of the ORION 2.4 is almost 400 times wider than the CW signal. The spread spectrum signal puts more energy on an object at a given time.

 

In the late 80s and early 90s, the bag phone was developed as a portable communication device, but when the next generation digital cell phone came out, the bag phone and other analog variants soon became history. Digital signal processing offered so many benefits to signal delivery, there was really no comparison. Modern digital modulation can provide higher quality signal purity with much lower noise interference. Today, practically everything is digital.

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REI product software is developed by in-house software engineers with input from sales people, instructors, customer support personnel and the customers themselves. Keeping product software current requires updates, and those updates can usually be downloaded for free from REI’s website.

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