Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio

Mrfixitrick shows a series of seven experiments with his Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio, a non-powered crystal radio circuit built in a jam-jar, that does more than just be a radio.

This simple device shows abilities such as: detecting lightning, making voice phenomena, interacting with all forms of light, creating music and sound effects, reading a computer screen, acting as a mike, and detecting RF pulses.

The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio is plugged directly into the iMac computer sound-in port. Audio Hijack Pro software provides the gain and real time sound effects based on the radio's input.

The radio's antennas are inspired by Tesla's high voltage examples, and its basic LC circuit is similar to Tesla's original inductor and capacitor circuit schematics.

The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio recently won the monthly Gadget Freak award by Design News, the world's best engineering news magazine. See it here:
http://www.designnews.com/article/355607-Gadget_Freak_Case_149_Spirit_Radio_R...

Mrfixitrick's build instructions for the Spooky Radio project are found at Instructables.com
http://www.instructables.com/id/Spooky-Tesla-Spirit-Radio/

The real inspiration for the Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio comes from the BetaBlocker line of spirit radios made by EJ Gold and found at http://www.yoyodyneindustries.com

Get EJ Gold's book, "Parallel Worlds Explored"
http://www.idhhb.com/parallelworldsexplored.html

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Mrfixitrick's Spirit Radio playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AFEC01FF72B51D45

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[AnasTangi]

Hello,

about the sample between 1:15 and 1:40 "the voices". Where did you get it?

Is it from Tesla's radio?

[MrfixitRick]

@AnasTangi

The voices are heard in real-time from the Tesla Spirit Radio through the computer software. In this case the radio was tuned on a radio station that had voices, but the sound is transposed a few octaves by the AUPitch software in Audio Hijack. Sometimes this method produces incredibly beautiful or strange sounds.

[AnasTangi]

@MrfixitRick Thank you. So what Tesla was scared off perhaps were just voices from some radio station?

Does this device allow you to capture something elese, like paranoormal sounds, not from a conventional chanel? I am more interested  in this, please give me any advices.

[MrfixitRick]

@AnasTangi

There were no radio stations when Tesla was doing his early radio experimenting. That's probably what freaked him out about hearing voice. However, there may have been transient radio waves inadvertently broadcast by long miles of telegraph wire at that time, or some waves found in nature including lightning which can reverberate and resonate in the ionosphere.. His apparatus, although primitive, was very sensitive.

[MrfixitRick]

@AnasTangi

I have heard strange sounds like music and voices, but they most likely come from garbled radio stations.

Keep in mind this amazing crystal radio "hears" a rather full spectrum of electromagnetic, magnetic, electrostatic, electrical and light frequencies...it is up to us to filter it the way we prefer. There seems to be alternate ways of listening with real-time sound enhancing software.

[theonelinerkid]

could it if you made the antenna realy big, and used a neodynium rod instead of a iron magnet rod andlots of that wraparound wire? sorry i just though you could cos i saw some other video where some one dun it

[MrfixitRick]

@theonelinerkid

There are folks who are experimenting with charging small batteries and lighting LED's using special radio waves.

Also, a long enough vertical antenna will pull power out of the atmosphere, which has a voltage gradient.

Nikola Tesla transmitted and received kilowatts of power over a 20 mile distance with his system, and that was well over 100 years ago!

[houseconcerts]

@colemanrpatrick

The idea is a that a "LC Circuit" (L=Inductor & C=Capacitor) resonates at a certain frequency. A radio signal from the antenna resonates with the LC circuit and through the diode, converts the AC radio signal to pulsed DC. This makes a sound vibration in a high-impedance earphone. An added battery or dynamo can amplify the sound signal enough for speakers.

[colemanrpatrick]

How did Tesla hear sound from the radio? Does it generate it's own sound, or is something else required? Basically, I'm asking without a computer, how else can you hear sounds from it?

[unkparadise]

Waww!

[Osheni]

i wonder what a crystal skulls sound is ...... -_-;