Spirit Radio Woodpecker Detector

[mannydeguzmanjartist]

OMG! There's a tiny helicopter under my table LoL! Kidding aside, can it detect and differentiate brainwaves such as when I'm having nightmares?

[mannydeguzmanjartist]

Follow up question: what's with the 2 antennas? Does the circuitry based on Doppler design?

[MrfixitRick]

@mannydeguzmanjartist

This spirit radio is not designed for that. There are modern brainwave sensors that might work to find a baseline if you really need to. However, you might try experimenting with the Brane-Power devices of EJ Gold, some of which have protective crystals or circuits to help with night-time voyaging. Check out yoyodyneindustries(dot)com for more info.

[sbatrouney]

hi Mr Fixit ..................like your show

where can i get a spirit radio What is that spirit radio that you have??????

write to me..........sonya

sbatrouney@yahoo.com

[sbatrouney]

hi Mr Fixit ..................like your show

where can i get a spirit radio What is that spirit radio that you have??????

write to me..........sonya

sbatrouney@yahoo.com

[cuchaia]

Cool Rick :)

[Pnutlmclain]

That's EMF

[frs22db]

I believe this happens because light rays are detected by the crystal radio and the wireless modem emits an infrared signal which is a light ray that we cannot see.

[Luka1180]

@frs22db No its interuptions in the Electromagnetic Fields or something that it picks up, cause Ghost Hunters have the STRANGE theory that Ghosts interupts that kinda stuff. And then it picks up or something the signals, thats how its used ( ... I think ... )

[MattBlytheTheOne]

what do think the "woodpecker" signal is? noise from the phone lines? russian sabotage? or a substle mind-control frequency to enhance our internet experience!!

[MrfixitRick]

The woodpecker noise I recorded comes from the phone company's wireless modem. The sound kicks in only when the unit starts sending wirelessly.

The sound intensity is greatest at a certain location a couple of inches above the modem, and has standing waves a few centimetres apart that can be picked up by the crystal radio at least a couple of metres away.

[MattBlytheTheOne]

you didn't answer the question!

[MrfixitRick]

If you meant the original woodpecker signal, it was simply from a gigantic tall Russian radar complex which was directed at North America because they were scared shitless of ICBM's coming from that direction. Later in 1990's it was dismantled, I presume because everybody would have been dead by the time they detected the ICBM's anyway!

[MattBlytheTheOne]

I uderstand that my question is why are you still able to detect it, or something similar, on a standard wireless computer modem? what is its purpose and origin I wonder?

[MrfixitRick]

Ok, I got it. I don't know the answer to that one yet!

Maybe someone else out there can answer what the woodpecker sound in a wireless modem is?

[MadManMarkAu]

If you're talking about CDMA, GSM or other mobile-internet technologies (think mobile phone), then I don't know.

However, this sounds simply like 802.11 (wireless networking) beacon transmissions - transmissions the wireless switch/router sends out in short bursts to advertise its presence to other wireless devices nearby so they can connect. It's technically not necessary to have these beacon packets transmitted, as wireless devices can actively discover the wireless network without it.

[dumberthanuman]

modem=miniture woodpecker house

[rhykko77]

I am confused.....my understanding of the Spirit Radio.....is that it is a Transmitter, which transmits a frequency which blocks Beta.......it has no speaker or audio output.....so what is putting out the sound we hear ?

[MrfixitRick]

The Beta Blocker Spirit Radio is a basic unshielded crystal diode receiver circuit and will pick up virtually all frequencies. Mr Gold does his special tuning on it to enable it as a beta blocker transmitter.

I simply soldered in an audio patch cord into the simple 4-component crystal diode circuit inside the box. I plugged that cord into my iMac computer sound-in jack.

I use a realtime software DSP recording program called Audio Hijack Pro to increase gain and add audio filters.

[karrachr000]

at about 5:19 in the Russian woodpecker recording, a signal barely makes it through that says "one hour, 27 minutes, 48 seconds"

[MrfixitRick]

The 1984 recording originally was from a time standard station, WWVH.

From wikipedia;

"WWVH is the callsign of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's shortwave radio time signal station in Kekaha, on the island of Kauai in the state of Hawaii...The time announcements on WWVH, which, like on WWV, are given in UTC, are made by a female voice (in this case, that of the late Jane Barbe), as opposed to the use of a male voice on WWV"

[cuchaia]

good stuff rick

peace out :)

[UndeadMageBunny]

i just now ran in to your videos but are you a science or tech teacher

[MrfixitRick]

I've been a mechanic most of my life but can't do that now because I became allergic to oil.

I'm not officially a teacher, but I currently tutor one student, Rowan. He will be featured in a new Tesla CD Turbine video soon, showing the turbine at a Science Fair.

[Scoused5000]

The wireless modem must be sending signals from the wan portal to create that noise 56 meg per second!

[windoes98se]

lol, i get the same sound whe i am on my phone and neer my computer modum (i got dsl)

[MrfixitRick]

Is that with a cell phone or a portable home phone?

[windoes98se]

my cellphone, i can pick up the same sounds when i place my celphone neer the pick-up of my electricguitar

[eddiefreddie39]

This is some useful information. Did you find the plans or is it shown in a previous video of yours,how to build?

[MrfixitRick]

The Beta Blocker Spirit Radio was obtained from EJ Gold at IDHHB. It is normally not used in this way.

If you want to experiment with a "woodpecker detector", I would suggest using the simplest, unshielded, basic crystal or diode radio circuit you can find. The radio circuit will pick up any stray RF fields. Where the circuit has an earphone, plug it into your computer sound-in port. Using a real-time program like Audio Hijack can alter the frequency for better human hearing.

[breezebro]

C'mon Rick, this is about as interesting as a honking car horn detector.

[MrfixitRick]

Hmm. a honking car horn detector...I think I could make a movie of that one, thanks!

[A6YHUTYFITTUYV7]

That actually is pretty interesting breezebro.

[breezebro]

Don't get me wrong, I like Rick. It's just that if you know anything about electronics- this is absolutely nothing. I just think he can do a lot better. All electronics people know about the Russian broadcast and a crystal radio. Boy scouts used to make them all the time. Sorry, but if you think this is interesting I have a beanie with a propeller on top you might be interested in.

[A6YHUTYFITTUYV7]

Breezebro, I wasn't kidding. That DID sound pretty interesting.

[breezebro]

I guess if you've never heard of it before it could be interesting. But this has been around forever and there's just nothing there. There are so many other things of interest around that could lead to something useful. I am just trying to get Rick to move along. If you really like this then build yourself a "Theremin". It has two antennas, changes pitch and produces weird sounds when you move your hands around it. The Beach Boys used a variation of it on "Good Vibrations"

[MrfixitRick]

You might be interested to know I already got this unpowered radio to work as a theramin (it already has two antennas), as well as a microphone, morse code audio oscillator, laser light communicator, RF field discriminator, and the above RF pulse detector. The radio can tell the difference between AC and DC light, makes weird music, and is very educational in learning about harmonics and resonance.

But all of these are besides it's true purpose and main use as a beta brain wave blocker.

[breezebro]

OK, Rick, I'm glad you're having fun with it but you're scaring me with the beta brain wave blocker stuff.

Of course it's all those things, none of that is new. It's all worn out, beat to death information.

It's kinda like this example: A new magician arrives in town and amazes all the other veteran magicians with his new magic (Tesla turbine), then he proceeds to show them how he can pull a coin out of their ear.

I just think you can do better.

[Merninwood]

Very interesting. I noticed my modem lights had a flash to them that syncs with your video here. Thanks! ☺

[hairy0pothead]

Wicked! First comment! 5/5