[AMRadio] More on "Electromagnetic Allergies"

Sun Jan 17 17:57:15 EST 2010

Larry, W1GOR wrote:

>There's nothing special about this circuit...

Did I say there was anything special about it?   It is a LF MOPA with 
screen modulation of the PA.   What is special is the claim that you 
can detect the output, an AM signal, inside your body.   You could make 
the signal in other ways, of course.

>Unfortunately, the only conclusion I've arrived at is QUACKERY...

I don't know if it works or not, but I'm not seeing anything there that 
would be quackery.  Quackery is a pretty serious charge.  A quack is 
someone who pretends to be a medical doctor, and quackery is the 
practice of such.

I'll back away from the discussion as it getting pretty far off-topic.  
I simply wanted to mention this "thing" that is related to people and 
radio waves.  I'm not making any claims for it other than I found it 
interesting.

Steve WD8DAS

sbjohnston at aol.com
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From: W1GOR <W1GOR at Maine.RR.Com>
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Subject: Re: [AMRadio] More on "Electromagnetic Allergies"

Steve,

There's nothing special about this circuit...  Circuit 7 is a 
phase-shift
oscillator, driving circuit 10, an RF amplifier that is Screen-Grid
modulated by circuit 19.  The thing that I find odd is that the RF 
Amplifier
is not 'tuned'... The plate circuit consisting solely of item 16, a
step-down transformer of some sort, that drives a step-up transformer 
(also
untuned) with a load resistor connected across it's secondary winding, 
then
to a pair of non-descript 'electrodes'.

Over all, it's quite crude... I'd be quite concerned about any degree 
of
heating that this RF generator might produce, modulated or 
unmodulated...
I've studied the information presented at neurophone.com...  
Unfortunately,
the only conclusion I've arrived at is QUACKERY... Why use digital
modulation when mammals are analog in nature...?   It's been stated 
that one
could patent a ham sandwich if it was scientifically described.  
Allowing
anyone to apply an electrode of this type to a person's head or spinal
column is ludicrous... Where are the lab trials on lower order 
animals..?
and if they were conducted, what were the scientific results..?

I've spent over twelve years working with Neuro-Psychologists and
Audiologists studying many areas of the human brain and the myriad ways 
that
the brain processes information, visual, auditory, tactile, and by 
direct
stimulation... We had never been presented with a device or methodology 
of
this nature...

If there is any real substance to this 'neurophone', I'd certainly like 
to
see some real, honest-to-goodness scientific evidence...

...Larry, W1GOR (Queens College, Department of Psychology, City 
University
of New York (CUNY), 1966 through 1979...)

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened." --Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor

----- Original Message -----
From: <sbjohnston at aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] More on "Electromagnetic Allergies"

> >The cause of people hearing radio transmissions in their heads has
> been
>>traced to old school tooth fillings
>
> I'm very familiar with detection of AM signals in tooth fillings and
> the like, but that did not seem to be the mechanism at work in this
> case.  I scanned the copy of the patent 3,393,279 I've had in my files
> all these years so you can see what it is about:
>
> http://www.wd8das.net/neurophoneRF.pdf
>
> I noticed that the name on the patent and the material at
> http://www.neurophone.com are the same, so they are certainly related.
> I was mistaken in my earlier thought that they were different.  My
> confusion came from the way he is now marketing the system as
> "ultrasonic", rather than an RF technology.  At those frequencies
> (20kHz-200kHz) it just depends on the medium involved (AC current thru
> the body versus vibrations in the body versus electromagnetic field
> passing thru the body) as to how you describe it.  Maybe it was easier
> to avoid some regulations if it wasn't considered RF.
>
> The digital modulation technique described on the website might be
> related to his other patent, 3,647,970.
>
> Steve WD8DAS
>
> sbjohnston at aol.com
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