ShopTalk Sunday: Deep Ham Radio Theory, War Water

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Change of plans.

See “Real Serious Prepping Note” at the end of this!  Today’s column was going to be about unboxing of a Johnson Ranger and a Hallicrafters SX-32 and the process of restoring each of these to primo condition.

Unfortunately, though, the caffeine-agitated mind would not stop; insisting we first get closure on my explorations into the matter of coherence in ham radios (general) and in transmitter (RF tank circuits) in particular.

After you read my Anti-Dave persona’s latest rant Is AI Really NZT-48? – Hidden Guild then here’s a ham-radio  plug-in for that kind of thinking.  While I wait for someone to rent my brain as a Tier 1 Thought Realms explorer…so I can quietly retire. Absent calls from Directorate 153 for piecework, I may just bring back Google ads — if I’ve got something they can sell, maybe they’ll finally rank my sites higher. That in turn might fund a golf cart, and maybe even a few greens fees…

Wisecracker tee-shot: “Who is that old timer asking about washing his balls?” 

He’ll take the chicken-fried.

The Transmitter Coherence Inquiry

Let’s summarize where we were in the earlier discussion.

We knew that some old time mid 1950’s ham gear did a really good job of “punching above its weight” in terms of distant signal reception than did others.  This led to our initial line of inquiry:

“Why Some Rigs “Hit Harder”

  • Where it lives: In the tank coil topology. Specifically, rigs where unused coil sections (like 160 m windings) stay partly in-circuit on higher bands.

  • The why: Those leftover turns aren’t dead — they act as parasitic, partly-resonant stubs. At harmonic/sub-harmonic relationships, they phase-lock with the fundamental.

  • The effect: Dual resonance  constructive stacking of fields. Not extra watts on the meter, but extra field coherence into the antenna.

  • Why only some rigs:

    • Economy designs (progressive taps, shared coils) left ghosts in play. Left stronger “punch?”

    • Premium rigs (plug-in coils, isolated bands) avoided ghosts – cleaner but no “above weight” effect.

The Remarkable Solution

The first step in the inquiry was initially focused on which transmitters were most likely to experience this enhanced coherence of signal.  Names like the Heathkit DX-60, the Johnson Ranger, and the Johnson Viking II (I happen to have all three in my ham radio collection) stood out.

The next level of inquiry was to  understand how the plate tank circuit of the final RF amplifier sections in each of these was constructed.  Comparing to lesser transmitters, such as a WRL Globe Scout, the Ai collaborated work focused on signal coherence based on both the “Q” of the final tank circuit and whether un-shorted coil sections might play a role in developing a “coherence generation” aspect.

Late this week, sparked by caffeine and heavy mitochondrial light stimulus, the answer came to me.

Since it’s the weekend, I asked AI to generate an article on concept and why coherence matters and also why it’s misunderstood.  Oh, and almost not always measurable via traditional instruments.

But the whole solution, as you will read, comes back to a conversation about 4-5 years ago with my friend (and long-term Peoplenomics subscriber KW1B.  In a convo about where the government was in FTL communications, he chanced to use the phrase “The real magic is at resonance.”

Well, the deeper I thought, the more “magical” resonance became, so a tip of the coffee urn to Wm of the Radio Ranch for the keen perspective reminder.

How Signal Coherence (Really) Works

Imagine a radio wave in a transmitter final amplifier stage.  A low-level signal has been received at the grid (or cathode if grounded-grid configuration). This signal turns the final amplifier on for about 1/2 of an RF cycle.  The “missing half” is “completed” by the final amplifier’s “tank circuit”.

This resonant circuit changes the impedance of a tube type amplifier output from somewhere typically in the 4,000 to 10,000 ohms (impedance, of Z_) down to the feedline (Z) which is normally 50-75 ohms, unbalanced.  Earlier radios (which were also in the “punches above weight” class used “link coupling” to be better balanced on the output.  Which when coupled to a “balanced feedline system” (300 ohm twin lead, ladder lines, or spaced open wires) did a more effective job than coaxial cable at moving signals from the amplifier tube to the radiative element (antenna).

The insight popped that besides the topological differences (so-called Pi section filter for output matching vs. the previous generation’s link coupling to balanced lines) that there was an easy accounting for differences because some radio transmitters included a “drive control” while others did not.

The game was afoot….

Here’s Why This Matters

In “simple” transmitters, such as the Eico 723 and many of  the “Globe” class, there was no adjusting for drive levels.  A ham radio op would simply adjust the overall “driver tuning” (if even this was included) and would first tune the “Plate Tuning” capacitor to resonate the tank circuit to the “current dip” on the plate current meter.  Next, the loading capacitor (closest to the antenna) would adjust the output and thus plate impedance.  When properly set up, all works fine…

ALMOST.

Here’s where Bill’s insight (magic at resonance) comes into play.  It all relates to drive power and generated waves.

We know that:

But, we also know that this is an approximation.  But here’s the real key: We can also get to ideal plate impedance (hence the setting of the RF tank circuit) through other means. Volts and Amps along will give us the idea.

Now we’re at the point where coherence can be sussed out.

Any Ham Radio Transmitter with a drive control can be set either using the “simple, brute force” approach (Eico, Globe, and others) OR it may be more precisely set.  But in this case, the tuning outcome will be different.

  • The tuning process begins with minimal drive level.
  • Then the driver tuning (which feeds the power amplifier tube grid, usually) is peaked.
  • And on the output, the RF tank is resonated.
  • Next, the drive level is advanced. Until the desired operating power is reached.
  • Just below this, the RF tank (tuning and loading) is “touched up”

The result is that under normal drive condition, the whole circuit is in “coherence.”  Closer to ideal resonance.

In the lesser class of radios (simpler tuning) what happens is the amplifier will still operate fine. And the power output may be exactly the same on a meter.

Under normal power and conditions, RF coherence is barely discernable as a femto-second variance in the time base (frequency/bandwidth domain). But I suspect HAARP and others may have realized an odd (nonlinear) ionospheric response to high-coherence RF compared to “fat bandwidth” even though virtually indistinguishable except under extreme conditions. This “importance of signal purity” carries as a thought.object aspects into other domain research where “purification” is involved in domain scaling such as practiced by religious traditions, for example.

But the subtle difference is that the lesser radios generate an RF envelope (at the tube) that is slightly off of perfect.  (Bill’s magic).  This occurs because while the RF envelope looks identical there is a minor time-domain asymmetry induced by the mismatched impedances.  Over driving or underdriving changes “where perfection” lives.

If this insight had come along, oh, thirty years ago, it might have been a useful thing.  Because one could, in theory, construct a higher coherence transmitter by adding a variable capacitor (via a voltage variable element such as a varactor) to ensure that the RF was always held to time-symmetry.

Where “coherence comes from?

All RF signals have width.  The higher the level of coherence, the more a signal narrows and can “punch through” fore a given power level in marginal operation.

Today, it might be a useful exercise to describe this approach because it would be useful in devising other time-asynchronous applications (UFO back-engineering, for example, lol).  See my papers on “The “Q of Time” on PN back when.

But the whole press for the Art and Science to move any more forward disappeared when the F.C.C. left it’s “power input measure” to obtain limits. They now use the directly measured peak envelope power approach.

You can still (sort of) beat the limits.  Extraordinary tuning processes to minimize bandwidt6h iof pure carrier at very low baud rates.

That Simple?

Oh, is it? The problem with coherence is that it only becomes important when you are doing near the noise floor and the SNR’s (signal to noise ratios) have become an impediment.  In this case, the small time-axis asymmetry of generated RF going through the radiative process can only amount to a fraction to maybe a 1 or 2 db difference at a distant site. Still, the low signal, slow speed, decoded by human ears, it’s a Biggy. It’s not “apparent difference” at all signal levels.  Only those where narrowest bandwidth makes a difference – where the coherence effect likely lives.

Around here? Our Most Likely Answer is now in hand.  And here’s how AI sums up this exploratory work.

“The AI critique boiled it down this way: the method is sound because it follows a classic engineer’s sequence — observe an anomaly, propose a mechanism, test it against known rigs, and refine until the outliers make sense. The conclusion is plausible: coherence lives not in the raw wattage but in how resonance is managed by the tank and drive, and only rigs with certain topologies allow that sweet-spot alignment. The caution is that coherence is a subtle, time-domain quality — hard to measure with standard ham shack instruments — so what we have here is a strong working model, not a laboratory-sealed law. Still, for practical radio men, the insight is enough: chase resonance where it lives, and you’ll always sound bigger than your wattmeter says.”

If you have varactors and a few weeks to calculate and reduce to circuitry a variable capacitor to change the tuning of your Pi-section output for MAYBE a fractional db under only the most marginal of conditions?  Have fun.

We now consider it wrapped — “here’s the model, here’s the caution, here’s how much it matters, (not enough), here’s the beer.”

Historical Application Note and Scaling

Going from memory here (I hung up my SBE and RF engineering K&E in 1970), I believe it was Phil Lerza at KFRC who developed the variant of these time domain notions when he designed the KFRC antenna network to use a special broadband phasor network.  Remember, the idea concept here is that waveform time-asymmetry matters. Drive apparent loudness – the real front lines in the 1970s rock ‘n roll wars.

It was beyond the scope of today’s report to issue a full-on RF analysis, however it seems likely – in the historical record – to assess whether the modest asymmetry stack introduced by varying final amplifier impedance, was one of the reasons that “controlled-carrier” modulation schemes never featured the “apparent loudness” of high-level plate modulation AM radios. Besides never being able to hit 100 percent modulation levels due to topology.  Hand me that history book, would you?

KFRC was the “Super 610” for Dr. Don and B.R. because it’s antenna matching system was designed to be equality responsive to both upper and lower sidebands.  In other words, a high Q antenna will proide carrier power on its center frequency all day long.  But, the amplitude modulated sidebands would roll off both above and below the operating frequency.

The KFRC system purported to use a “tri-phasor” design with “side phasors” to ensure that antenna differences didn’t “roll off” modulation power in the sidebands.

Later (we’re talking 1984 here) Lerza’s evolution was for a modulated and low level diplexed arrangement which is similar to (optimizing in the Q domain) and accounting for exceptional intelligibility of the KFRC signal compared to more conventionally-engineer Bay Area signals.

Specifically, a survey of West Coast powerhouse “rockers” of the era reveal a neat topology of technological gradients.

  • San Francisco: Lerza and broadbanded antenna phasors and later additional RF timing concepts (time domain synergy of frequency dispersed signals) ay KFRC.
  • Portland: KISN benefited from a transmitter location on the Columbia River (waterfront) and the conductivity enhancement “following water” KISN ruled the Columbia river basin in some sense.
  • Seattle: KJR  was on the salt flats west of Harbor Island so a simple wide msatching of a near-perfect ground led to signal (and apparent loudness) dominance on AM.

One week from Labor Day, we have to practice up for beer-drinking. A fine time to work on antennas and old tube type gear.  Only 130 days before Straight Key Night 2026.

If you’d like more, see the short Technical Appendix following.

The Serious Prepping Note

In many of our forward-looking models, the world is in a (Per Bak -driven) state of “sand pile collapse” to where the number of potential trigger conflicts could be as many as a half-dozen now, or more.

Since there is still a good bit of prep time before it all “falls out” here’s a useful note on how to treat radioactive water in a post WW III scenario.  We look for Myanmar (peripherally China-India) to warm shortly. Colleagues are whispering, which means we’re acting.

Threat Profile

After nuclear war rainwater will contain fallout particulates such as strontium 90, cesium 137, plutonium and uranium. It may also contain soluble ions like cesium and strontium salts, and volatile radionuclides such as iodine 131 and tritium. The danger is front loaded. The first two weeks carry the highest short term dose risk. Iodine decays rapidly with an eight day half life. Cesium and strontium persist for decades.

Distillation Efficacy

Distillation is highly effective at removing fallout bound to particulates and heavy isotopes. Removal rates are often above ninety five percent. Distillation is less effective on volatile radionuclides like iodine and ineffective against tritium since tritiated water is chemically identical to water. Splashing or entrainment can carry trace cesium through if the boil is too vigorous.

Protocol

First delay collection if you can. The first forty eight hours after fallout are the most dangerous. If water stores allow wait one to two weeks before harvesting rain. Cover or shield catchment surfaces to minimize deposition. Second let collected water settle for at least twelve to twenty four hours. Draw from the top not the bottom. Simple sand or cloth filtration will remove suspended grit. Third distill the water gently. Do not boil hard. Use a splash guard or copper scrubber to limit entrainment. Discard the first small portion of distillate since volatiles leave early. Fourth pass condensed water through activated charcoal to strip iodine and organics. If available ion exchange media such as zeolite adds another layer against cesium and strontium.

Warnings

Never drink raw rainwater after fallout. The risk is lethal. Residue in the boiler is hot waste and must be handled with care and stored away from habitation. Distillation will not remove tritium though tritium risk is usually lower than other isotopes. Time is also a filter. Each passing week reduces risk as short lived isotopes decay.

Takeaways

Distillation is mission critical for survival water. It is highly effective against the long lived killers. Activated charcoal is a second line of defense. Waiting time is a third. The survival standard is multi barrier treatment. Settle then filter then distill then charcoal. Redundancy is survival.

Bottom Line Here?  We have 600 gallons of potable water in our backup pressurized water system.  But minimally, 20-gallons per person, per war is a good planning metric.  Then, use of an electric distiller with charcoal filters seems prudent.  If we can, we will avoid even doing this type collection/catchment and distillation until a month (or longer) after the flash bang dust passes.

Things to think about in our more optimistic moments.

If you want a darker outlook, picture a Covid-II that is genetically and racially selective.  But let’s not talk about that, shall we?

Write when you make contact,

George@Ure.net /ac7x

STS Technical Appendix: AM Phasors and Envelope Coherence

Ideal AM: Symmetry by Design

In an ideal AM signal, a large carrier phasorbeiung used, two equal sidebands appear as

Carrier: fc
Upper sideband modulation: fc + fm
Lower sideband modulation: fc – fm

Their amplitudes are equal and they rotate in opposite directions. The vector sum always aligns with the carrier, producing a symmetric envelope with constant phase.

Where Asymmetry Enters

Amplitude imbalance occurs when one sideband is larger, producing uneven peaks. Phase imbalance occurs when sidebands are not perfectly opposed, shifting phase and distorting the envelope. Modulation index imbalance results from overmodulation or clipping on one swing of the signal, creating asymmetry.

Effects of Asymmetry

Distortion occurs in the demodulated audio as harmonics. Spectral inefficiency arises from spurious emissions or splatter. Receivers experience reduced SNR and less accurate demodulation when faced with asymmetrical envelopes.

Causes in Real Gear

Nonlinearities in modulators or tubes skew the sidebands. Asymmetric modulating waveforms, such as natural speech, create uneven envelopes. Propagation effects, such as ionospheric cross-modulation, can differently affect sidebands.

Why This Matters to Coherence

Perfect symmetry yields maximum coherence. Even small asymmetry introduces time-domain distortion. At high SNR levels it may not matter, but near the noise floor, a one or two decibel improvement from coherence can determine copyability. Coherence lives not in the wattmeter but in symmetry of amplitude and phase, which is why rigs with adjustable drive and carefully tuned tanks often sound larger than their rated output.

The sidebar on HAARP selective sideband fading is beyond the scope of today’s report. Except as a mention that HAARP changes the ionosphere’s “mirroring” properties and selective fading changes likely result.  There are now 20, or so, atmospheric heaters in use worldwide, most above HF where heating is more efficient.

Does that mean your DXCC award was done with a “cheat” in place that you didn’t even know about?

~ure and ai

45 thoughts on “ShopTalk Sunday: Deep Ham Radio Theory, War Water”

  1. Ok I’ll play along.
    The Sum of All Fears. About now I’d be taking a step (or ten) back and asking myself – what do I have to show for all the prepping, all the planning, all the expectation that I may be one of the fated few who was born to witness the End Times. We all have a seed within, an unsettling feeling that we are unique, that our lives are predestined and we have a special part to play in the unravelling of all we’ve ever known. I’ve felt that too…..it is all a delusion.
    Our lives will probably trek along the time-worn path of love, hope and despair. Nothing but the endless repetition of time and tide.
    Mitigating radiation exposure from a hypothetical nuclear exchange? Why? Why is the single most important word in human language.

    • (“The Sum of All Fears. About now I’d be taking a step (or ten) back and asking myself – what do I have to show for all the prepping, all the planning, all the expectation that I may be one of the fated few who was born to witness the End Times.”)

      Deep thoughts on that one there..even though you or I may not be the ones to survive.. histories forefathers had a great deal of insights as to the voyage of mankind and our purpose.
      Mesopotamia’s Code of Hammurabi emphasized protection of the vulnerable—orphans, widows—as a societal dutyto continue the species.. then there’s The Egyptian Maat tgat taught that truth, balance, and justice were essential not only for survival, but for cosmic harmony among all people. or Greek philosophers like Aristotle and Plato that saw compassion as essential to virtuous living and societal cohesion… Ancient
      Buddhist Karuna (compassion) and how about Christian mercy both teaching that we should elevate our care for others as the highest human traits we need as people..“Survival of the species is not won by the strongest, but by the few who carry the fire of compassion through the storm. Even if I am not among the saved, let my hands shape the ark, my voice guide the remnant, and my love seed the future.” that’s my personal philosophical outlook.. all of my preps are not for my survival .. if all the academic studies are correct and there’s but just a few handfuls of people to survive.. Then let the ones that discover my preps see it as an opportunity to move forward ..let my philosophical view that its not a number I sought but the ability to care and whenever I could..give that hand not as a gesture of dominance or defeat but as a hand to help them stand and steady their steps as they move forward. With each prep I have the instruction on how they are to be used…“I did not prepare for numbers. I prepared for meaning. If you find this, know that each item was placed with care, each instruction written with love. My hand was never raised to dominate, nor lowered in defeat—only offered to steady your steps. Let this be your beginning, not my end.”

    • I don’t have any freeze dried water yet…but there are a couple of jars of ghost caught in a jar and a couple celebrity farts in a jar here and there…lol lol lol

    • “Write when you make contact”

      Our fresh water supply is 2 gpm (+) free flowing well excess (runs when no house draw). I had my helper pressure clean the outflow recently. If that falters? Our well head gushes at 3-4 gpm (+). Fish here are fat (recent MayFly hatches don’t hurt).

      We will soon restock some few barter items (coffee,etc.). The rest? Life is too full for excess. We are OK. Until we’re not.

      Hang in, Egor

    • I picked up my cans of Dehydrated Water in Canada while on a canoe trip there. MUCH LIGHTER than carrying un-dehydrated water, which while not an issue while canoeing the weight saving IS important if one is hiking across say Death Valley in the summertime.

      Pick up your supply soon …. it may not be available much longer

      • re: Proton Radio, Yuge Island
        feat: finding yugen, jp style

        RandomMike and George,

        A scenic hour and a half drive on the E2 from Hiroshima Airport can find one arriving at Yuge Island’s Proton Radio homebase near shores of the Seto Inland Sea. Proton Radio appears to be part of a circle-of-“resilient life” constructions for individuals in search of a “new renaissance”. The website of the driving couple (trio?) may warrant soul consideration over a bowl of steaming chicken noodle soup. Here is a link to the “Renaissance” homepage:

        https://yugeshima.com/

  5. I saw a Netflix documentary about how clothes and consumerism is killing the planet. It said some clothes are so cheap that people think it is OK to only wear them twice. It said that manufacturers create items that can’t be repaired, by gluing pieces together or creating unusual screws that are impossible to remove. It said that things should be made to last forever. I thought of your 100 year toaster.

    I also watched a YouTube video where a doctor said Trump is really sick. The bruises on his hands are from IV diuretics to help reduce the swelling in his feet and ankles. The swelling is why he now always sits when he is on camera. The diuretic is dangerous to his liver and kidneys and they are severely damaged. He said Trump will only live for another six months.

      • (“i know i would with only six months to live.”)

        would you want to..I would rather have someone to treat me just like me. when they wanted me in hospice the wife and I didn’t tell anyone about the hospice..just like my funeral plans.. no service …Years ago, I made my funeral plans simple and quietly meaningful. When someone asked what I’d want, I said the mandatory obituary should just say I’ve gone on an extended vacation—hopefully somewhere with moderate temperatures. I’d want it to mention that I love my family and friends deeply and hope to see them again someday. Anyone who knows me well would catch the clue… I’ve never taken a vacation in my life. That curiosity would lead them to Pizza Ranch, where the real ritual begins. Each child gets a roll of quarters for the video games, a drink is poured in my honor, and grand stories are shared—tales of love, resilience, and the quiet legacy of a life lived with what I hope and pray was one of purpose. It’s not a farewell, but a gathering of memory and joy, where grief is softened by laughter and the warmth of community.If someone wants to see or visit with you then let them do it while I’m still able to enjoy my company..share a laugh or two and a cup of wine..enjoy the evening sir on the veranda..

  6. From Survivalblog this morning (seemingly later removed):

    “August 24, 410: Rome was overrun by the Visigoths in an event that symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This is a moment in history that we would do well to remember. An empire that ruled the known world was corrupted from the inside to the point that they could not defend themselves from a much weaker enemy. This could conceivably be the beginning of the dark Middle Ages.”

    • RM
      The sack of Rome would be a coincident activity but from what I have read, the rise of Christianity (of which I am an adherent so don’t take me wrong) was a bigger cause of the dark ages, because the believers though anything that came before was unholy, and so a lot of current for them information, such as libraries, were burnt.
      The Dark part was not so much the political rulers and the rejection or all earlier learning, so that mankind just sorta dumbed down for several centuries. When learned people thought it was safe to come out the new age was called the “Enlightenment” because it was like the lights were turned back on.

  7. George
    Last week I took a 5 hour online PDH course called “AC?DC Circuits for non_Electrical Engineers.”
    This was one afternoon of a week while reading your discussions of Cobject based analysis of Finances and Forecasting markets.
    EE was never my strong suit and I only had one course while in school. I am a much better of electrons in clouds around nuclei that in wire circuits.
    Still something occurred to me while reading your analysis of the object based analysis and wile listening to the class and reading its chart pack (about 83 slides) that I can’t really explain in words but I could see it in dreams, especially about the concepts of leading and lagging power in circuits.
    The idea (from a dream state no less) was using the circuit analysis terms and VIPeR charts as part of your Object oriented forecasting system.
    I downloaded the instructors chart pack so I can re-read it several times. Its for non-EE’s so it starts at the beginning, but as it got into AC circuits, the algorithms started to look like the ones you use in antenna analysis.
    I am just going to throw out that idea of your electrical circuit and forecasting analysis using similar equations and the VIPeR charts and let you run with it, I will just be showing how dumb I am on electronics.

    I will note that even though I have not made the leap into a basic Ham gear setup I read all of your shop talks in detail, several times, trying to absorb everything I can on the subject. Everything I really know about electronics came from digging through 1950’s IEEE magazines in the 1970s to discover everything there was to know about HiFi Speakers (I remember a scaled down Klipsch LaScala front horn loaded and a really nifty double chamber bos for smaller woofers. I made a rough one of the latter for a subwoofer that worked pretty decent but I didn’t have a good carpentry shop in my student apartment.) They also had some articles I have saved away in a file in a box in the attic on a 250W transistor amplifier. These are all bucket list projects but I WILL get to them in time.
    I guess I need to go to the gun show and off load a few redundant rifles. It has finally come around that some of the bolt actions I bought for $3-400 back then are now in the $13-1400 range and for a couple of them I could set up a basic usable base station.
    Keep the Ham Sundays coming!
    Thanks!

    • Great comments and you are exactly tracking. The term “coherence” that i used in the column today could be interpretted either as a voltage current (sine wave) leading or laggingh, but just by a bit, bute enough that the apparent “power factor” is somewhat changed. IOr the missing coherence could be a time axis offset which (auto corrects, if you will) such that you THINK 100 watts is going out, but the asymmetry only gets you 95 percent worth of power./work donw. Keep after it – and it’s a great top[ic for much great thought… For now, I haven’t gotten to even finishing cleaning the shop (let alone opening boxes osf classic ham gear) because I am fascinated with the notion of crossing from waking domain (life, here, Earth, awaken) to the non-local realms and one way to do that would be a twilight zone-type device which I’ve sketched out this way:
      Abstract

      This exploratory discussion considered the feasibility of constructing a “telepathy channel” transceiver using biological and ultra-low-frequency (ULF) synchronization principles. The central concept was to exploit resonant coupling between human electrophysiological rhythms (EEG alpha/theta bands, cardiac HRV, and Schumann-resonance-scale ELF pulses) and an engineered cavity or “egg” enclosure designed to stabilize phase coherence. The egg, acting as both shield and resonant chamber, was proposed as a medium for reducing electromagnetic noise while reinforcing extremely low-frequency pulse entrainment between individuals.

      We reviewed evidence that humans exhibit spontaneous synchronization under ELF and sub-10 Hz rhythms, including circadian alignment, brainwave entrainment, and heart-brain coherence. The proposed system would attempt to deliberately amplify and stabilize this natural entrainment by (1) generating coherent ULF fields, (2) synchronizing two or more participants’ pulses and rhythms through phase-locked ELF stimulation, and (3) monitoring for anomalous coherence patterns potentially corresponding to pre-verbal or pre-symbolic information exchange.

      The session emphasized that this is not conventional RF communication but rather a hybrid of bioelectromagnetic entrainment, consciousness studies, and engineering experiment. The “telepathy channel” is thus envisioned less as a data carrier in the digital sense, and more as a shared coherence field — a resonant scaffold in which intentional thought or imagery might be more easily projected and received. The egg transceiver is conceived as a testbed for measuring coherence effects, while the broader goal is to probe whether structured ELF synchronization can serve as a physical substrate for anomalous human-to-human information transfer.

      Kozyrev with a pcb and battery, not a local topological anomaly

      • You have already investigated HF biointeraction vie light frequencies, and you have discussed the gravitational effects of low frequencies such as a digeridoo.
        The Bible mentions resonance among a congregation twice, once at the dedication of the Temple in the old testament where it said “when they were all together (meaning beating in time with one another) the Spirit entered in with them as a Cloud so they couldn’t see.” Jerusalem is in an arid place so I wouldn’t think the sound caused precipitation.
        The second is a short reference to when the disciples in worshiping in secret would be singing and when together (coherent) the spirt would enter with them.
        We see this even today as the military and other (like a rugby team, and the boy scouts) use singing as team building exercises say, while marching. But when they cross a bridge the break step and walk across out of time. See “Wall of Jericho.”
        I, in my non-EE way, like to point our that our spinal nervous systems and an ole YAGI TV antenna sure look a lot alike.
        So I think that the search for spiritual connection is probably connected to low frequency rhythmic pulses in song and would be a good place to start the investigation (Did I tell you that both Big Art and I started our education in the Music Department as trained operatic baritones? Then, the idea of a steadier paycheck called. But we both were in lots of community theater and opera way back when.)

        • Big Al, you need to visit the “Musical Instrument Museum” in Phoenix (AZ). That museum is not just a static display of the various musical instruments from around the world but has snippets of the sounds that the various cultures around the world created with them (including those who lived deep in the jungle and not found until the 20th century cultures).

          When I went I wasn’t expecting much, thought it would be boring as Hell, but alas the music created independently around the world by all the various cultures was remarkably similar, particularly wrt cadence and tonal dynamics. It was totally fascinating.

          Clearly something is at work wrt humans and how they connect with each other in group settings … and humans seem to be COMPELLED to create music as part of that socialization /grouping that is a near clone of what was created half way around the world by another tribal grouping.

          https://mim.org/

        • IYXQA – group practice.

          IYXQA-HIMA – in Malvern, PA was location of unofficial HQ for US based “operations”. Friday nights featured a HUGE group practice, with Practitioners from all over PA/East Coast/Asia gathering.
          We would have over a 100 people in one room, listening to guided Dr Yan Xin tape. I would perceive unexplainable scheisse all the f-ing time. The effect of all those NRGetic People in one room, focused on the same thing..Collecting Qi.
          Group practice started with opening procedure = “driving ONTO the superhighway. Then presentations and discussions, completed with a group Closing Procedure.

          As one could imagine, the NRG you can collected at grp practices is/was IMMENSE. It would take all weekend to process/come down. Of course Sundays was Tai Chi practice day – which you can not do without first doing an Opening Procedure – too hard & difficult without the assist of the Qi.

          As was retold in the book…there is a “Cumulative Resonant Affect when more than one Practitioner practice together. Not gonna get into one of Dr YAns” Qi Emitting Lecture – legendary..

  8. Most municipal water systems use a high percentage of treated surface water. Not sure how effective their purification will be against large scale fall-out contamination.
    I have implemented keeping 100 gallons of shocked tap water in stock, which I plan to rotate every 6 months. No immediate plan to increase that stock. In the event of potential contamination of the water supply, I will probably continue to use tap water for cleaning, as long as I can, but I will switch over to the stored water for drinking and cooking pretty quick. I expect swishing a bit of the drinking water around on cups and dishes and sending it to the drain will take off residual. I will turn off the ice maker, and use trays, if electricity is on.
    For a prolonged scenario, I will probably try to access well or spring water for drinking, and will use multi-filtered surface water for cleaning and flushing. Worst case, I go to full desert discipline.
    My drain outflow plugged jam up tight this past week. I was out at 7:30 AM snaking the line and was successful. Nonetheless, I got to re-familiarize myself with desert discipline for the evening prior, so I have the most very basic equipment ready to go. Not looking forward to doing that for an extended period.
    I, like a lot of North Texas babies from my age group, got an early introduction to the effects of contaminated milk. I have the scar to back up that assertion. I regard milk contamination as far more serious than the water contamination.

    • They make Water Bags for storing water that are meant to be placed in a bathtub and filled with water in an emergency situation. They store about 30 to 40 gallons each.

      Cheap to buy … and assuming you have time to fill them as the shit is hitting the fan but before the community water system shuts down and the standpipes are empty one or two of those could give you some extra drinking water for a few more days of water independence.

      (they need the structural support of the bathtub to avoid splitting open .. but cheap to buy and when empty collapse to virtually nothing for under the sink or linen closet storage)

      • I have one, but in a one bath home, food grade barrels are preferable for primary back-up drinking water storage.

    • N
      When shocking water (using pool shock I am guessing) add enough baking soda before adding the shock to get the pH slightly above 7 (if its summer and your water is tending toward low pH).
      Pool shock works best for me at pH 7.2.
      You wouldn’t think it matters much bet all pool chems work best for me with that adjustment.
      Then gain my uard is in recoverd coal strip mine area, and the soil we hauled in went right over clay and chirt, so our lace is really acid. every January we put out over 100lbs of lime.

  9. plant transpiration provides water for collection. everything green going into compost is a source of water. i live on the coast so desalinization matters. i used to make my own sea salt with an evaporation table, beautiful, big flakes, like that sells for $8 an ounce.

    the hurricane is still throwing waves at us. multiple rescues even though double red flags. a 38 foot blue water boat went down yesterday within sight of the shore. the one with a pfd was rescued. they’re still searching for one without a pfd. a kayaker was rescued right off the beach. a little up the coast a 40 foot or so sailboat got smashed against the rocks with the owner still on board.

  10. Enjoyed your AI Hidden Guild article, trying to slowly immerse myself into it. Slow going. Thanks George.

  11. I remember from my early AM radio daze, the goal was to refine your output phasor/matching networks so as to have equal sideband response in the upward direction. When visiting he west coast, I remember KFRC barking loudly over the other AM stations. AM tower space was at a premium in crowded Honolulu and several stations shared towers… frequently with crappy tuning & isolation networks. One engineer friend employed I high class engineering firm from the mainland to multiplex two AM transmitters onto a single tower… and provide symmetrical sideband response for both of them… while providing greater than 40-50 dB isolation between the carriers. The tuning box was a marvel of engineering, with several isolated sections ‘boxed in’ for shielding.

    By that time in my career, though, I found there was more money and job stability to be found in television.

  12. All this talk, thank goodness I can read this. Love your columns and all the comments.

    Retired and settled close to PSNS with an urban farm. 90% of my yard lot is edible, the rest of the plants are for the pollinators.

    Coms go out the window when you can’t hear. I can read most lips but I do not know Brail… my biggest prep hurdle is how to know what is going on without being able to read about it.

    Any suggestions?

    • Speech-to-text digital readouts are available. You could let it ‘listen’ to your radio or TV. Here in Hawaii we hams and other techies have implemented a ‘mesh network’ of several hundred nodes that relay digital text throughout the three-island network now. We have an off-grid text partyline that can relay messages of community interest.
      Investigage “Meshtastic”. No license required.

    • I don’t know what your level of hearing is, and I don’t mean to appear insensitive. What is your impairment? I consider myself very hard of hearing, but according to a recent hearing test, I have extreme hearing loss on the right and severe loss on the left. I have gotten pretty good at lip-reading myself, but I notice some folks get creeped out when I do it. Over the years, I have noticed that close by, in place of hearing, I can feel vibrations or something that directs my attention to something. Hard to put into words. I have some high-end hearing aids, but all they seem to do is overdrive background noise to the point it leaves me grouchy and agitated. I rarely bother with them anymore. I also have a very close connection to my wife, whom I am rarely more than a few yards away from. And then there are the dogs. She hears things for me that I do not. I hope you have someone who can fill in the gaps for you.
      Stay safe. 73

      • I ask people that I cannot understand to please speak slowly and clearly so I can read their lips. Some get it, some don’t.

        Jim, right ear is “dead”. Left ear has 11% word understanding. The truly funny thing is my hearing goes off the charts on the low end of the spectrum so I hear things others do not.

        I am very visual, the dogs and the chickens do convey their stress, good for situation awareness. It could be vibrations too, kind of a 6th sense.

        • Copy that. I do much the same. I believe all that I can hear is what’s important for the most part. The rest just means I need to work a little harder. Glad your getting along well. Hanks suggestion to take a look into Meshtastic for your comms is excellent. I have a similar set up at the ranch and in town. Stay safe.

    • Voice to text software exists for listening via a voice radio … but for that you need at least a working laptop and electricity to run it. Maybe someone here has worked with one of the newer programs that do that?

      Such software exists for cell phones that also translates a foreign language. Know several people who use that all the time when traveling overseas, or even in the US if they need to communicate with a non-English speaker … but alas you need to be connected to the internet via your cell phone for that type of translating and then converting to text to work if using your cell phone. fwiw Google’s YouTube will also do that that for videos or TV that have CC embedded in the signal … it will translate that to text to any one of about 40 or 50 different languages in near real time.

      • Yes, I have used the dictation mode on my phone to converse with others in english. If power stays on, that works.

        And thx for the tip on YouTube videos using Google, I have the YouTube app and get very frustrated when there are no CC’s. Will check that out.

  13. some great contributions here today . yep G has got one of the smartest most switched on audience on the net . a few big sheilas and idiots like me . but well done folks on cognitive stimulation.

  14. George Ure’s comments on his wind turbine used on he sailboard in Oakland prompted purchase of $102 Vevor 5-blade 500 W wind turbine from Amazon for evaluation.

    Video! :(–.

    https://prosefights2.org/irp2023/p082025/20250819_173844.mp4

    can a vevo 5-blade wind turbine amputate fingers?

    AI Overview

    Yes, wind turbines, including VEVOR 5-blade models, pose potential
    amputation hazards, particularly when the blades are rotating.

    Explanation.

    n summary, while the design and operation of VEVOR 5-blade
    wind turbines aim to prioritize safety, the inherent nature of
    rotating blades and complex machinery creates potential risks
    of severe injuries, including finger amputations, emphasizing
    the need for strict adherence to safety guidelines and proper
    training for workers.

    AI Overview

    Can a VEVOR 5-blade wind turbine electrocute you?

    While the direct likelihood of electrocution from incidental
    contact with the blades of a VEVOR 5-blade wind turbine
    (like the 500W 12V model) for a person on the ground
    is low, hazards related to the turbine’s electrical
    system and operation do exist and should be
    taken seriously to prevent injury.

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