crystal radio: the first real free energy device

[Pirate88179]

Gyula:

Very interesting info.  Thanks.

Bill

[Pirate88179]

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This is the radio I am building.  Almost completed today.  What I don't get is the 22k resistor across the antenna and ground parts of the circuit.  Why is this there?

Bill

[pomodoro]

http://makearadio.com/crystal/54.php

This is the radio I am building.  Almost completed today.  What I don't get is the 22k resistor across the antenna and ground parts of the circuit.  Why is this there?

Bill

Hi Bill, the 22k (sometimes 100k ) is to make the crystal earphones work properly. Because they have infinite resistance and some capacitance, the voltage would build up to a dc level -  without the resistor bleeding some power away.

Guyla, thank you for the radium info. I had run into that article before, but in the scientific american instead. I did try waving uranuim salts around a ferrite rod antenna inside a proper radio, but it had no effect. Now that I have a crystal set I will try it on a wire antenna instead. Unfortunately uranium is a million times weaker than radium. I think another way to reproduce the experiment is to use a negative ion generator instead of radium. I'm not sure how it works but perhaps the effective antenna area is increased by the conducting ionized air?

Profitis, my friend gave me a few small chunks of germanium 99.9999% pure. The picture shows my stock of germanium.  I can try replicating you experiment, tell me how how did it exactly.

Regarding  the uranium doped galena, I'm getting the feeling that the Moreland patent application is a fairy tale. Why are there so many people in this field spinning yarns, turning their ideas into supposedly factual events?  I get the feeling this Moreland chap may have given conferences on his device and needed this patent application to boost his status.

[Brian516]

http://makearadio.com/crystal/54.php

This is the radio I am building.  Almost completed today.  What I don't get is the 22k resistor across the antenna and ground parts of the circuit.  Why is this there?

Bill

Bill,

That looks like a great little project! let me know how it works out for you.  I'm not even done building my capacitors, but I won't have my germanium diodes til about the 18th. However I've heard that almost anything that is of a crystalline structure would work, even some coal, and pyrite. (I have a good bit of both) Don't know if that's true or not but I may try it anyway.  Might be able to get some galena from a friend of mine who collects crystals and minerals.   I'll hopefully be done with my caps tomorrow, and will then put something together and play around a bit.  (fingers crossed I get it done and get a working set up!!)

Brian

[profitis]

Like this pomodoro.wave a book over it with your other hand to see if blocking light out makes a dif to the current.you can dope germanium with a trace antimony or silver and a blowtorch.(This is pyrites in the pic)