[Lowfer] "Natural" Receivers.

[M.J.Powell]

In message <002901c2594d$7206d740$cb178044@facilit4>, KD7JYK
<kd7jyk@ross-technologies.com> writes
>I was wearing high carbon soled hiking boots.  I was walking along a dirt
>road near Montgomery Pass between california and Nevada, there is a lot of
>Quartz in the gravel there, so that was most likely the cause.  From what I
>have seen on The Learning Channel, the buzz from insects is the static
>generated on the wings by minute dust particles in the air, you may have
>seen similar effects when footage of the Gulf War was shown on TV through
>night vision cameras, it amplified the light caused by static on the leading
>edge of Helicopter rotors created by sand churning about, this also causes a
>lot of RF hiss.  One thing I would have liked to hear, at one time while
>working with a lot of film, I opened the steel canisters which were sealed
>with what looks like electrical tape, as I would pull the tape and let the
>canisted spin in my fingers, at the point the tape seperated from the steel
>was a very bright blue corona, roughly 5/8" wide, the width of the tape, and
>fat, maybe half that of a toothpick, at first I thought my eyes were playing
>tricks under the safety lights, so I opened several canisters in total
>darkness, it was amazing, I could focus on the source and watch it for maybe
>five seconds or so!  I hear masking tape does the same thing with aluminized
>mylar anti-static bags.  I seem to recall there is a name for this effect.

Piezo-luminescence?

Mike
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M.J.Powell