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Old 07-24-2014 | 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by condac
my own made transponder often have a "ghost number" that is not the real number that show up more often than the real number, this is always under the 2097152 that some say is the lowest possible number, yet my decoder picks it up, i have picked up a ghost number of 16000 something from a transponder with a 5000000 number. I thought the error correction must be weak to allow this, of 6 transponder numbers i have programmed and tested in my own made transponder 5 have this ghost numbers .
I ran into a similar situation with my transponders. Here is the transponder thread:

http://www.rctech.net/forum/radio-el...er-design.html

Here is the particular post:

http://www.rctech.net/forum/11978449-post126.html

This post doesn't mention the "ghost numbers", although (if I recall correctly) the remedy described did fix this also.

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