oh hey, that's a fun thing to read:
the raspi v3 camera might interfere with GPS satellites
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Foone🏳️⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 10:07:29 JST Foone🏳️⚧️ -
Foone🏳️⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 10:21:48 JST Foone🏳️⚧️ to clarify: it interferes with GPS satellite signals. as in, it might mess up your GPS reception near it.
it doesn't go mess with the satellites themselves
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Foone🏳️⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 10:24:11 JST Foone🏳️⚧️ it's apparently because it emits RFI at a harmonic of the CSI clock rate, which ends up being 1575 MHz, which is in the GPS L1 band
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vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 00:58:45 JST vxo @foone good to know, I'm guessing a bit of physical separation between the antenna and pi camera should take care of the issue.
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