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Electrical

RF Broadcaster

A wired transmitter that sends its frequency for as long as it gets power, so a sensor or switch at home can reach pagers and receivers with no remote.

Characteristics

Category
Electrical
Stack size
1
Workbench
Level 2
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 15 Scrap
Health
50

Overview

In-game description
An RF Broadcaster

The broadcaster lets your base talk instead of you. Where the handheld remote needs a finger on the button, this one is wired into the circuit and sends its frequency on its own whenever power reaches its input. So the trigger can be anything in your electrics: a switch, a timer, a sensor.

The classic job is a raid alert. Put an HBHF sensor in the loot room, run its output into the broadcaster, and set the same number on every RF pager in the group. You are farming sulfur on the far side of the map, your pocket beeps, and you know a stranger is standing next to your boxes. The same signal can also switch an RF receiver at a second base, which saves running wire across open ground.

Watch out

Never broadcast an alarm on the frequency your door receiver listens to. The moment the sensor fires, the broadcaster opens your own garage door for the raiders.

Every computer station takes a broadcaster to build, and recycling one gives it back. If a station is sitting around with nobody using it, the recycler will pull the broadcaster out for you.

Raid cost

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.

Crafting

×150 Metal Fragments
×1 RF Broadcaster
Workbench level
Level 2
Crafting time
25 s
Research cost
15 Scrap

Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.

Used in

How to get

  • Craft

    at a Level 2 Workbench

  • Research

    15 Scrap at a Research Table

  • Recycle from

    from 2 items

Recycled from