John W Moreland and his Galena diode.

[pomodoro]

Guys , what is the credibility of J. Moreland?  He had a patent application, in which he and  another chap, Rodney Sego, made some radioactive Galena diodes. Using these they made a small Moray device.  He explains how he made them by melting galena with a little UO in a test tube, and allowed the mixture to cool and crystallize.  When I looked up the mp of galena, 2040F, I figured the test tube would have melted way before the galena did.  No mention is made if having used fused quartz is made.
What do you guys know about Moreland or Sego? Are they reliable OU researchers?

[pomodoro]

Attached is the patent application. He claims to have made quite a few watts from basically a crystal radio setup.

All I could find about Moreland are notes of his speech regarding Moray, and accusation of 90's bad boy Bruce Perrault stealing Moreland's ideas.

I'm still busy with the Correa tubes to do any research with these special diodes, but if anyone here, with proven skills, wants to give it a go let me know. I haven't made the doped diodes, but will try in a few weeks.  I'm looking for 3-4 researches who will post results direct to the forum. You need to know your stuff, have an oscilloscope, signal generator, and know how something about radio (RF) and crystal sets. Galena will need to be mounted and a cat whisker used. All old school.

[telecom]

He seems like a smart guy.
I think the simplest way to implement something like this would be just coating the cathode of the vacuum tube
with the radium extracted from old dials (from ebay).
Then cascade it.
As pointed out in the above patent as well.
Regards

[telecom]

His web page/blog:
http://www.linux-host.org/energy/smoreland.html

[pomodoro]

His web page/blog:
http://www.linux-host.org/energy/smoreland.html

He did a good job of uncovering some the info about the Moray company and the letters.

The  radioactive triode would be too hard for me to do, but the doped galena very easy to try. I don't have the link but googling, popular mechanics synthetic galena, takes us to an article on how to do it with lead and sulfur. As a start receiving powerful audio signals from a radio station would be a good start, as Moray apparently did himself.