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Step 9Spooky Effect # 1 - Detect Lightning and Predict Storms
"No doubt whatever remained: I was observing stationary waves."
Nikola Tesla, commenting on reception of lightning in his receivers.
The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio can detect lightning! Check out the main intro movie.
You can listen to AM radio if you really need to, but Nikola Tesla spent most of his radio listening time tuning into natural Earth (and beyond Earth) pulses, and the high and low frequency vibrations that were around him. He was a storm-chaser from the comfort of his own laboratory.
During Tesla's Colorado Springs experiments, he would listen in on approaching and receding lightning storms, which he could detect up to hundreds of miles away. He noticed standing waves produced by the lightning that inspired him to develop his wireless power apparatus.
It helps to have a long antenna (be sure it is safely grounded with a spark-gap arrester!), but even with the short antenna, this crystal radio can be made very sensitive with the computer software adjustments. When a storm is near, you can really hear it! (It's a loud crashing sound in the audio ;)
Requirements: Mac computer and Audio Hijack software. "Super-Sensitive Lightning" software setting adjustment, as seen in the screenshot below...and a nearby storm! PC owners will need to use an audio software solution that is able to alter pitch, gain and reverb in real time. And preferably record it.
Here's a fun site devoted to "Nature Radio Signals and strange emissions at very low frequency." http://www.vlf.it/
Nikola Tesla, commenting on reception of lightning in his receivers.
The Spooky Tesla Spirit Radio can detect lightning! Check out the main intro movie.
You can listen to AM radio if you really need to, but Nikola Tesla spent most of his radio listening time tuning into natural Earth (and beyond Earth) pulses, and the high and low frequency vibrations that were around him. He was a storm-chaser from the comfort of his own laboratory.
During Tesla's Colorado Springs experiments, he would listen in on approaching and receding lightning storms, which he could detect up to hundreds of miles away. He noticed standing waves produced by the lightning that inspired him to develop his wireless power apparatus.
It helps to have a long antenna (be sure it is safely grounded with a spark-gap arrester!), but even with the short antenna, this crystal radio can be made very sensitive with the computer software adjustments. When a storm is near, you can really hear it! (It's a loud crashing sound in the audio ;)
Requirements: Mac computer and Audio Hijack software. "Super-Sensitive Lightning" software setting adjustment, as seen in the screenshot below...and a nearby storm! PC owners will need to use an audio software solution that is able to alter pitch, gain and reverb in real time. And preferably record it.
Here's a fun site devoted to "Nature Radio Signals and strange emissions at very low frequency." http://www.vlf.it/
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this 1 s awesome...but can i know wat is the software u used..???
http://xhttp://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/
If you have a PC, you can try "Audio Mulch" at
http://www.audiomulch.com/
Is there a circuit you have seen for converting Tesla coil output to music/voice ?