Building a Revolutionary Spark Gap Radio (ft. Blueprint)

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It all started, with a spark. Invented in the 1800's, it was originally deemed "completely useless", and just a novelty. Blueprint and Plasma Channel collab to rebuild the most revolutionary form of communication the world has ever seen!
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Rebuilding the original Spark Gap Radio

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@abelferquiza1627 4 жыл бұрын

My father is ninety years old. he started as radio telegraph operator when he was nineteen and completely retired after 44years in service merchant ships companies. He is so proud telling me he ended his carrera with satellites but he started with the "sparkers" i didnt know what it was and he doesnt remember. Thanks a lot!!!!!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

That's a really cool personal story. Thanks for sharing! I am honored you enjoyed my viddy.

@felixdiaz4438 10 ай бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel 👍

@Robothut 2 жыл бұрын

The 1950's Radicon robot toy used this same spark gap transmitter and cohere tube to function. Great video as always.

@SudhirKumar-bq4xz 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a electrical engineering student from India, this one is a best experimental method for verification of Maxwell's equation, And i really learned something new today, Since spark gap and high voltage is used a low resistance plasma path establishes, because of this a ionized particle jumps from one electrode to other. Since particles are electrically charged a electric field establishes and since those will move from one side to other side magnetic field also establishes and combination of these two field results in radio wave (because of low level energy density) and it is transmitted by antenna as oscillating wave in space/atmosphere . And in simple words Maxwell's theoretical statement or mathematical equation states that combination of electric and magnetic field which are in different dimensions gives electromagnetic wave and spark gap produces radio wave & radio wave is also a electromagnetic wave. Thus this experiment experimentally verifies Maxwell's theory. And it is beautifully demonstrated and explained by both of you..... But i have a doubt in transmission, since overall capacitance of the system is in pF range and inductance is also low, thus energy released or consumed or simply stored by reactive elements are less under resonance also Q factor of coil is too low so amplitude of generated time varying signal signal reaches to zero within nano or in micro seconds so what can i expect at the receiving end ? Noise or Original signal or Distorted version of original signal or pulses (if i neglect medium loss) ? But this simple circuit has better efficiency with consideration with distance, because Poynting theorem states that power delivered by electromagnetic wave is given by P=E×H (in vector form), now if i consider it's units E has V/m and H has A/m thus we have W/m² in other words distance and power has inverse proportion, and even for long distance this circuit is a winner (Along with medium loss)...!! Thank you sir, this is a grate educational video..... I joined this family when it has around 4.3k subscribers but now its 27k..... So this family is growing day by day......

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate your analysis of radio. Wonderful job, yes. Thank you for your kind words towards Dayton and I. Glad you are a part of #plasmanation

@SudhirKumar-bq4xz 4 жыл бұрын

Sir please make video on atmospheric electricity.......

@nilcineizanelato383 4 жыл бұрын

Eu sou engenheiro quimico formado no Brasil, otima explicacao

@alangolab6657 4 жыл бұрын

i was look for this

@alandeng027 4 жыл бұрын

very good

@soveriegnborn 4 жыл бұрын

explain how a - when Marconi won the Nobel Prize in 1911, Tesla was furious. He sued the Marconi Company for infringement in 1915, but was in no financial condition to litigate a case against a major corporation. It wasn't until 1943-a few months after Tesla's death- that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tesla's radio patent number 645,576. The Court had a selfish reason for doing so. The Marconi Company was suing the United States Government for use of its patents in World War I. The Court simply avoided the action by restoring the priority of Tesla's patent over Marconi.

@rowgler1 3 жыл бұрын

Mr Tesla was an inspired genius but he was taken advantage of by less idealistic business men that made their fortunes from his inventions. It happens. All the time. He died neglected, but we can hope his soul lives on and has moved on to something even more advanced. As we begin to appreciate him, he is probably too successful and busy to even notice.

@demicenj6919 3 жыл бұрын

rowgler1 The US Supreme Court has ruled on June 16, 1943 thst Marconi’s patent is invalid as it used elements form Tesla’s patents. Ruling is clear..... Marconi goes to the History garbage. I have the whole copy of original Court transcript.

@rowgler1 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You, I appreciate it on his behalf, he certainly made all our lives better.@@demicenj6919

@rowgler1 3 жыл бұрын

I guess Tesla got "Munsoned".@Muckin 4on

@wbeaty 3 жыл бұрын

@@demicenj6919 Nobody seems to realize that the "four-circuit invention" has another name. Often they say that Oliver Lodge was the true inventor, with his variable-inductor turning. Yet the courts agree that "radio," in modern terms, is nothing but the "four-circuit" device. It's other name is Tesla's Oscillator, today called the "Tesla Coil." Four circuits: a transmitter composed of two high-frequency resonators, plus an identical device in the receiver. Today's engineers realize that Tesla Coils allow radios to include an "antenna tuner," which the original Marconi patents lacked. Tesla could broadcast kilowatts of EM, regardless of antenna size, because his variable transformer was an impedance matcher (a Z-match circuit, today called Transmatch,) compensating for too-small antennas operated at too-low frequencies. Marconi did use his own patent to broadcast 30 miles. Many other inventors had done similar things. But only Tesla's breakthrough "four-circuit" invention let radio go worldwide, replacing hundreds of miles of telegraph lines and undersea cables, crossing oceans and linking all ships to shore-based radio stations. Tesla did that. Yet all textbooks everywhere celebrate Marconi for his great accomplishment. The entire breakthrough actually came from Hertz, and from Tesla, with Marconi playing zero scientific and inventive role. Marconi did convince some investors to pay for an "insane impossible, crazy" company claiming to build "wireless broadcast devices" which could reach a worldwide audience. Nobody believed in such obvious garbage. Science had already declared it impossible, and the public sneered and laughed, if they ever heard about it. Hence, no Tesla Wardenclyffe transmitter project was ever completed or turned on. To have radio, we needed Hertz the physicist, Tesla the inventor, and Marconi the con-artist trickster, whose silver tongue talked some rich investors out of millions of dollars, for a project as foolish as investing in lead-into-gold schemes, or financial deals selling the Brooklyn Bridge ...yet Radio turned out to actually be genuine, even though it took a dishonest schemer to pull in the funds needed to make it real. William Preece, head of the UK radio project with Marconi, apparently kicked Marconi out because Marconi, while he paid for the Lodge patent, refused to pay any license fees to Tesla, and instead simply stole Tesla's technology. (Preece and Marconi had run some range tests, which showed that Marconi's transmitter was nearly worthless, when compared to Tesla's.) Preece later refused to believe that Marconi had even transmitted across the Atlantic, saying that "S" and "R" in Morse code was just the sound of common radio static. Preece was proved correct, when on a Marconi anniversary, the original feat was attempted, and didn't work. It proved impossible ...UNLESS accomplished at night, with the e-layer altered from lack of solar input. Marconi lied to everyone, and Preece called him on the BS. (But within about a year, Marconi did get his system working, and did transmit across the Atlantic. But Tesla's project had already been financially ruined by Marconi's dishonest announcement of successful bridging the ocean ...via use of stolen Tesla transmitter technology.) Here below is a 1000-watt Marconi station, including a Tesla Coil, even including Tesla's "Extra Coil." Marconi re-named Tesla's inventions, so Tesla Coils became "Oscillation Transformers," and the "extra Coil" became "antenna load coil." see amasci.com/graphics/Marconi1KW.jpg PS Spark-gap transmitters are no more lllegal than, say, camera flashes, arc-welders, even brush-motors. What's illegal is TRANSMITTING with a spark-gap unit, meaning, hooking it up to a properly-designed professional antenna system, and to a ground. If no halfwave dipole or quarterwave vert. tower, then no transmissions. Faraday shields are only useful if you're in an apartment building, with people trying to use AM radios ten yards away in the neighbor's apt. (Same problem happens with strobe units, welders, and dirty motor brushes, which wipe out AM radio reception within, what, say fifty feet max?

@JarredRandom 4 жыл бұрын

Time to start my pirate radio station playing only the finest pirated music downloaded from a pirated version of Windows.

@HannoBehrens 3 жыл бұрын

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@dickeyjoe4237 Жыл бұрын

The device is a super indication of the foundation of radio community But now Electronic is use to drive Radio signals into different frequencies. I like your channel Man

@weazeldark3983 Жыл бұрын

Use this and u be pirating all the radio It basically jams all reception to this transmission pretty much

@Graeme_Lastname 3 жыл бұрын

Did this when I was a kid. Used a 50KV xray transformer and long and high antenna. Road my bike away for a few miles hearing it all the way. Good fun.

@PlasmaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

That's really cool. Must have been an awesome feeling.

@Francois_Dupont Жыл бұрын

the local HAMs must have loved you!

@Graeme_Lastname Жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel It was. especially when I got myself connected across the output. 🤣

@Graeme_Lastname Жыл бұрын

@@Francois_Dupont Only did it a small number of times. Didn't even know there was such a thing as hams. I was quite young. 😊

@Francois_Dupont Жыл бұрын

@@Graeme_Lastname no problem, apparently before the 1950~ most lawnmowers, cars and motorcycle didnt even have a resistor in the spark plug. it would cause each of those motors to be a little spark-gap transmitter. research this if you want, it is interesting!

@Wildbane 4 жыл бұрын

ILLEGAL? Hahaha, now I want to do it even more. Thank you!!!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Let the records state I did not ENCOURAGE you! Haha

@ChickenPermissionOG 4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel What if it is an emergency and you need to broadcast to get saved.

@Benetekt 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChickenPermissionOG I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure, that you won't be punished if you transmit on radio frequencys to help you survive

@erlendse 3 жыл бұрын

@@ChickenPermissionOG I know that is a law exception for that in Norway, and likely elsewhere too!

@indrajitR 3 жыл бұрын

use discone or cage antenna to accomodate large band-width. see many working transmitters and receiver , ham radio at vu3inj.blogspot.com

@BlueprintScience 5 жыл бұрын

A wonderful and wholesome video as always, Jay! And might I add that your transmitter looks very aesthetically pleasing. I can't wait to see what is next for Plasma Channel!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Blueprint- you will always be a friend of Plasma Channel. Thank you for introducing me to radio

@nothingelsetolose7661 Жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel is it possible to focus the electromagnetic waves of a radio as to not be broadcast in every direction but only in a certain cone or sector, or could it be so focused as like a a laser beam? and if possible how would you go about that?

@nothingelsetolose7661 Жыл бұрын

is it possible to focus the electromagnetic waves of a radio as to not be broadcast in every direction but only in a certain cone or sector, or could it be so focused as like a a laser beam? and if possible how would you go about that?

@briankent1509 Жыл бұрын

As a radio engineer the antenna length comes down to frequency and resonance. At 1khz the wave length is far greater than at 17kHz, hence a shorter antenna. At 1khz the RF wavelength is 984000 feet, not 5. Also an RF radio wave is not an electromagnetic wave as is prominently written in many books these days in error, it is an electrostatic wave. Imagine walking past a radio station transmitting 2Kw of power, bits of metal from all around would be flying through the air and attaching itself to the antenna until you couldn't actually see the thing until you shut down the Tx. 'Electrostatic'.

@Zenodilodon 5 жыл бұрын

Good Job! This was a pretty well put together project and video.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@sFeral 4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel Nice

@GroverCleveland43 Жыл бұрын

Your video on this subject was so very well done. I've played with spark gap and it was great fun. Years ago I was demonstrating spark gap (illegal but short lived) to a ham club. I sent a message to my friend in his car and he copied just fine. Folks were impressed (and so was I).

@volturnu 3 жыл бұрын

That coherer thing I didn't know. Always learning... thanks Jay.

@PlasmaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

It was a learning experience for me as well. Glad you enjoyed the video. Cheers.

@oddjobbob8742 2 жыл бұрын

Small government is good. Smaller government is better. No government at all is the best government of all. Let’s channel Tim the Tool Man, “Power!!! More Powerrr!!!!” This is such a great KZfaq. In sixth grade I entered my elementary school’s science fair with a Morse code sending transmitter snd receiver. I just followed the instructions in my older brother’s Boy Scout Electronics merit badge book. I had no idea what “science” meant. I just thought it was fun to build the thing and to proclaim, at the end of my report, “Now I can send an S-O-S.” My project was totally panned by the judges, almost ridiculed. Now I could do that project and really explain the science behind the gizmo and gadget I built. Just a few decades too late. I really appreciate the time you take, Jay, to produce your excellent content. I hope you have subscribers snd supporters much much younger than I am who will benefit by your knowledge and instruction and someday save the world from my generation’s destruction.

@eventseen7317 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching this so much! Thank you for all the effort, the outcome was a really beautiful video!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! #plasmanation

@igamse 5 жыл бұрын

I really like how you are trying new ideas in your videos (in editing, explaining...), it just make me love your constant more :)

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you igamse. I try to incorporate new editing techniques when I can!

@jmd1743 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool to see you do a whole setup.

@carmelpule8493 11 ай бұрын

I liked that part when he said, " Before I built this spark gap transmitter, I did not have any appreciation of radio but now that I built it, that has all changed!" I have appreciated radio since 80 years ago and "played about as a profession " with electromagnetic fields ever since. Just because they are silent and invisible few people know about their detail as normally people are only conscious of their own instincts and what they can handle with their own human senses. That is where religion and art comes in as they are based on emotions and not any logical thinking. People can make more money by catering directly for people's emotions and not for giving them the basic necessities of life. What is more in delivering emotions to others there is nothing to guarantee asn people accept that. Try and manufacture and sell to people some useful tangible facility for their own home comfort and they want it cheap and guaranteed for a long time! The beauty of getting to know electromagnetic fields and other silent and invisible powers, one realises how foolish one is to just get to know only what the human sensors can detect. ALL THAT HELPS US LIVE A BETTER LIFE IS ALL DUE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS. as they can take the form of mass and energy, as Albert Einstein put it so nicely , E= mc^2. . Even God is an Electromagnet field energy who can transfer from Energy to mass and back again, There is lot to chew on to taste the contents of that fact! . Sir, congratulations for seeing "the light "

@MrCcarter7 4 жыл бұрын

Great video Jay. Thanks for posting and keep up the cool videos!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Chris, I will certainly keep up the videos as long as subscribers such as yourself exist!

@turmoil9 5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. By far your best video so far

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

@goldassayer93555 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks J i have always wondered how those spark gap radios in the old movies worked.

@gorkskoal9315 2 жыл бұрын

pretty well from looks.

@DineshKumarWickramasinghe 4 жыл бұрын

Again awesome video. Thank you.

@markthompson4099 4 жыл бұрын

I liked the information about how electrons moving up the metal rod is what induces magnetic flux or radio waves. Thanks

@ryanmalin 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video as always Jay!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Woo! Glad you enjoyed

@sortofsmarter 4 жыл бұрын

Great co-op and very well done. You two work well with each other. And I appreciate your classy appearance, its refreshing to see that not all nerds or geeks are messy or disorganized. Very informative video, I learned more in 15 minutes than weeks in school..lol

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

We’re very pleased to hear you enjoyed the video. Did you happen to check out Dayton’s video? His is drastically different and quite entertaining.

@sortofsmarter 4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel Oh yes. I'm already subscribed and have been for a while...when he did 100# of thermite..lol

@surajitbasak5260 5 жыл бұрын

Your videos are always awesome 😊

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@surajitbasak5260 4 жыл бұрын

Thought I'm a student of biology but really i should thank you as your channel gives very Good knowledge of physics of electricity... I have collected much knowledge in this field from your videos and channel.. thank you lot again.. from India.

@gorkskoal9315 2 жыл бұрын

My Pa was a Ham radio operator, and still has his orginal kit including the, now, obscure 'world band' transmitter and reciever.

@scarakus 5 жыл бұрын

Wow I like that coherer thing, say good by to those outside sidewalk light's solar panel & battery, just tap your spark gap in the evening to turn them on.

@tarun.starboy 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that iron filings were used to detect radio signals. There's always something new that I get to learn about from your videos. The fact that you had to remove your video for some copyright issue made me angry. That company should feel honoured that their footage was used in plasma channel. I know it's just business for them but still I feel so angry about it.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, their video was labeled Creative Commons (free to use). Then I was informed I had to pay them $450 if I posted it. No worries though, it was their clip and their property. I understand. Video still rocked, right?!

@tarun.starboy 4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel Yeah :)

@7355G4B 4 жыл бұрын

Blueprint! Love to see you collab with him, very underrated KZfaqr!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Dayton is really cool!

@3DLearningResources 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jay

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

@mhector1532 Жыл бұрын

This channel is kind of addictive. My grandfather was from Croatia and he really admired Tesla (yes, Serbian, I know, but somehow despite the alphabet difference still considered one and the same). So I grew up on Tesla. Cool stuff that you have here!

@benderamp Жыл бұрын

thank you very much for this video

@gilbondfac 4 жыл бұрын

Yes that's it !! bravo j'ai fait l'expérience du Coherer de Marconi il y a plusieurs annéess..., great job guys !! ;-)

@jaamacdagaale5145 3 жыл бұрын

this was amazing knowledge thank you guys

@PlasmaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@spandandutta2485 5 жыл бұрын

Learned new things.....great job....keep it up sir...😎😎

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@anjkovo2138 4 жыл бұрын

FASCINATING PRESENTATION

@alessandrodalterio7556 4 жыл бұрын

Your channel is amazing very high quality video !

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@mrfoodarama 4 жыл бұрын

Coming over from Blueprint , glad to find your channel!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers! Welcome to Plasma Channel.

@bcikablam3578 5 жыл бұрын

3:30 *and he had a sparkit wimshurst machine illuminated by an electric light. oh and a video camera. and a classy mustache.*

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Luckily, at that time all those things had been invented 🤔

@MsCpktnwt 5 жыл бұрын

Nice work sir

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@CodyAardema 4 жыл бұрын

Here from Blueprint. Good stuff. Subbed!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to #plasmanation my friend!

@MrJeep75 3 жыл бұрын

Very awesome and fascinating

@podboq2 3 жыл бұрын

@ 13:00 that mess on the ceiling of the garage freaked me out - I hope I was the only one.

@jacobkaltz1958 4 жыл бұрын

Longest intro ever I like the video nice work

@DirkLarien 5 жыл бұрын

Classy video indeed as always, it wasn't too long at all. Incidentally was exploring related topic as of late. It would be interesting if you could explore other antenna types and their effect in practice and effect on signal when orientated in various ways ...while licking that 9v of course. :-)

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I’m very glad you enjoyed!

@mikeschroedel406 4 жыл бұрын

You just reinvented a spark plug. Good video as always. Would love to see more longer videos like this. Stay classy.

@mikeschroedel406 4 жыл бұрын

IDEA! Replace the spark gap with a modified spark plug and see what happens.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant idea. I have a new video idea based off this comment! Thanks!

@mikeschroedel406 4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel That's what I'm here for. :)

@tcmyoda 4 жыл бұрын

Ok, good video, just a few points. 1. Many oscillators even today have a spark gap, albeit one that is enclosed by a low voltage neon lamp. Tesla came up with a method of using a magnet to disperse the arc as soon as it had formed and reduce the extra emf, not to mention using capacitors and inductors to tune the resonant frequency. 2. A resonant antenna should be 1/4 wavelength (1/3 is pretty good too, but not ideal). If you look at a single wavelength on an oscilloscope, 1/2 and a full wavelength are the points where the voltage goes back to zero. 1/4, 3/4, and odd multiples of the same are the pints where the voltage peaks. 3. FCC rules allow for experimentation and emergencies as reasons for using otherwise illegal methods.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these points. Admittedly I am still learning about FCC regs.

@pablin390 4 жыл бұрын

Hi my friends.. Saludos desde Argentina. Muy buen programa

@lightbulbgonewild3205 2 жыл бұрын

I have an appreciation for AM and FM radio (don't forget spark gap)

@torres_arriostradas 4 жыл бұрын

excelente video!!! muy muy buena explicacion!!!!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@jobin100 4 жыл бұрын

Great video mate..

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Cheers, and greetings from Seattle.

@poohbears1995 4 жыл бұрын

I love it thank you so much.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed!

@brendanjohn1014 3 жыл бұрын

Super interesting, I have built a transmitter and receiver to wirelessly light bulbs. Transmitter is a simple 3V Tesla coil and the receiving is a coil + diode.

@Bobal27 5 жыл бұрын

The smartphone sitting in my pocket? Then what am I watching you on?

@zvpunry1971 4 жыл бұрын

If you don't want to ruin your eyes, you watch it on a big screen connected to some computer. ;)

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Shoot. Well, there goes my ENTIRE video.

@Bobal27 4 жыл бұрын

Plasma Channel Lol, you rock, btw, I just wanted to make you laugh there. Hope I did :) Also, zvpunry, not all of us have more than just our phones. I don’t even have a tv anymore, since I just use my phone anyway.

@RPk-ql2bt 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to find your channel.from India.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I am honored you enjoy.

@reverseengineering1931 9 ай бұрын

Struggling to understand the historical development of wireless communication then I found this video❤

@LeonardCaldwell 4 жыл бұрын

Subbed from Blueprint!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to #plasmanation

@americanrebel413 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Thank you.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@gorkskoal9315 2 жыл бұрын

I built a crystal radio reciever from kit. Which in a weird way lead me to my interest in mushrooms and...molds[long story]. TLDR: I saved to mail order a kit. This was back in the day when we used VHS, and didn't have internet, not really. And waaaaaaaaaaaay before Amazon. For what ever reason the kit showed up smelling musking. I don't know why, but I thought watching something grown around the packaging was one of the coolest things ever. A second kit showed up. With some help from fam, built a small crystal raideo reciver. But was just fascinated by the weird stuff growing on the box of the first kit. That in a [super long story and about way] got me regional sciencefare award: a deep dive into...molds! Fun fact: some fungus are cool little energy farms you can use as a form of power. In school I..almost made super, suuuuuuuuuper small little speaker to attach to a radio I had.

@saeednajafii 5 жыл бұрын

wonderful. im going to setup fbt and zvs :D

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Give her a try! Be safe, do it legally.

@torres_arriostradas 4 жыл бұрын

my grandfather was born in the year 1900, he learned electronically by correspondence, and he learned to build his radios, on one occasion he showed me a radio that worked with a stone called galenita, and you could listen to stations from many parts of the world, We got to listen to radio stations from China !!!! , your videos are very good! Congratulations!!!

@jaroddavidson5748 4 жыл бұрын

Galenite, kind of like lead crystal?

@johnbrandolini2915 4 жыл бұрын

The mineral is called galena and is comprised mainly of lead sulfide with trace impurities of silver, bismuth &c. It was used in what was euphemistically called a "Cat's Whisker" receiver. Without going into much detail it consisted of a long wire antenna, tuneable coil, the galena crystal, head phones and a ground. You'd position the "cat's whisker" on a "sweet spot" on the crystal which would then enable detection of an AM signal which was fed to the headphones. Back in the 60s a lot of novelty shops sold self powered radios which were essentially the same as the galena variety except for the fact that it used a germanium diode to detect a signal. I had one as a kid; however, with the 3 foot antenna wire it had, the best you could get was a really strong signal from WCBS or WABC. (I grew up in the Bronx.) I learned electronics from a 1963 copy of the ARRL Radio Amateurs Handbook which I still have in my collection and eventually went on to college for a BSEE. If you want to know more about this primitive receiver check out www.electronics-notes.com/articles/history/radio-receivers/cats-whisker-crystal-radios-sets.php.

@torres_arriostradas 4 жыл бұрын

@@johnbrandolini2915 great!!!

@rezatavan5048 5 ай бұрын

Excellent ❤❤❤

@nigel-matthews 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a video on making that 555 timer circuit in the box? It's the cleanest one I've seen. I know Blueprint has a video on it, but I think his only had one potentiometer.

@mac4223 3 жыл бұрын

Never in my life did i ever imagine i would be fangirling over a cameo from a physics channel

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Жыл бұрын

Talk about a *_"SPARK of Genius."_*

@jacobkransteiner6519 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome Video

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@erikmuller9222 4 жыл бұрын

Great Video😀

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rpetresco 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Would it be too difficult to actually replicate the receiver metalic ring that show a spark every time the transmitter is powered on ?

@forward3dprinting796 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@michaelmitchell8218 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to see you back. Nice bit of information there. Strange how we look at new technology and think it’s from now. We forget how far back it did come from. So new technology is not as new as you think it is. All that’s happen is that it’s been improved and open new doors to other things.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

The beauty of science.... it is ever evolving. Ever changing. And ALWAYS improving.

@pratyush2331raj 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, COHERER was first discovered by Sir J. C. Bose. which was latter used by Marconi in his radio detector. ~PRJ

@conductiveinkalternative918 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I learned something.

@PlasmaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

@mikenz6829 4 жыл бұрын

well you have not only showed me things I didn't full understand in a way I can but also how some have forgotten where our modern tech comes from.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

People take for granted our current tech, all the time. We come from humble beginnings.

@pdimitrovxvx 5 жыл бұрын

This needs to be in trending!

@PlasmaChannel 5 жыл бұрын

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@bjl1000 4 жыл бұрын

Great video guys. So I guess I'll wire this up and jam my neighbors drone.

@deepakjoshi823 4 жыл бұрын

In 1895 Indian scientist 'Jagdish Chandra Bose' detected radio waves in Calcutta and demonstrated before Governor of Bengal It was during British raj. It was way before Marconi. Bose is known as the father of wireless telecommunication. He had invented the Mercury Coherer, a radio wave receiver that was used by Guglielmo Marconi to build an operational two-way radio.

@timv6141 3 жыл бұрын

VERY Cool Video

@mareksvrcina5279 5 жыл бұрын

I have already build a zvs driver and also have a flyback transformer. Maybe i will try to build something like this in the near future. Great video!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

That is very kind, thank you. Go for it but be safe

@facitenonvictimarum174 4 жыл бұрын

Very well done! ... ... and absolute proof that experts in electronics should leave comedy to experts in comedy who are smart enough to not do electronics.

@matuspospisil 5 жыл бұрын

I love this channel

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I love that you love it. Loveception?

@dancoroian1 Жыл бұрын

It's a bit funny to use the idiom "let's see what this thing's made of!" after demonstrating a detailed build process 😆

@roxx8748 4 жыл бұрын

Great presentation enjoyed it much even tho I am a Radio professional. Reminded me of when I was young so long ago. A DPDT relay configured to turn itself off and back on with a length of wire on one end of the coil makes an effective emergency transmitter for that S.O.S. Counter EMF is a wonderful thing! A video on the first tuned circuits used to improve transmission and reception would be cool and a nice expansion on the history of radio. I subscribed cause I am A high freq, high voltage junkie. Can't wait to check out your other videos. Love me some science.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

William, thank you very much! And what a cool idea for a simple radio transmitter. I love little hacks like that. Welcome to my channel!

@theplasmaprince8651 3 жыл бұрын

1:31 Alright now. I like you blueprint, but honestly Plasma Channel has taught me a lot so yeah.

@terratrekker28 Жыл бұрын

Great experiments. Can’t imagine how shady that looked on camera in the parking garage…lol

@claystone7729 4 жыл бұрын

Good Video

@Solarneutrinostar 5 жыл бұрын

Sweet video.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@alanwoods4925 4 жыл бұрын

Nice video. A test is worth a 1000 theories. The idea is totally useless today. Saving to my favorites for post-apocalypse communications.

@rizzone 4 жыл бұрын

Muy buen trabajo!!!

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I apologize, I do not speak German. Thank you

@enoccastro3614 4 жыл бұрын

I suscribed good channel, smart information thanks for share it.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Welcome to Plasma Nation!

@enoccastro3614 4 жыл бұрын

@@PlasmaChannel thanks I Hope your channel grow more cause it is amazing

@coilsmoke2286 4 жыл бұрын

that 'cohere ' thing is very interesting indeed...That is a form of non volatile memory ! {Self Latching}

@acompletelynormalhuman6392 3 жыл бұрын

3:24 I don't know if they had windshirts machines back then but they definitely didn't have that model of wimshurst machine

@Chrissy4605 3 жыл бұрын

KE7ISL my call sign. What a history lesson of science. I have talked to people all over the world from a handheld radio.

@PlasmaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

That's seriously dope

@formbi 4 жыл бұрын

«let's hope you never leave, old friend»

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Leave youtube? I never plan on it. I have years worth of video ideas!

@formbi 4 жыл бұрын

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@Arunrajore 4 жыл бұрын

I used the same high voltage transmitter for making witricity Its wireless electricity transmission

@MrXfyre Жыл бұрын

Talking about old technology... Starting with a redundant question... What (Besides aluminum and Iron Oxide) brought the Hindenburg down? Yes, the chains hanging from it meeting ground. That got me thinking,... use a helium balloon with a wire in relatively high altitude ... About the Hight of Tesla's (Collector) coil. I know you are curious.

@jacksparrow9532 3 жыл бұрын

Hello sir! Very nice video! May I ask you some questions? I am a beginner but I need these concept for my college project. 1. On 07:54 It says that any electrical arc will create wideband frequency means all over the frequency spectrum. How do I know that? Is there any equation for that? Or it's based on theory or experiment? 2. Don't you have to shield your spark gap to reduce the noise? Thanks! I hope you understand my silly english

@ojsweatedplayer9477 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't miss the video and what always amazes me is the first electromagnetic was made so long ago and than now think of the technology we have now I'm miles away from where you made this Video and you can possibly see my comment from miles and miles away and think of what it will be like in the future.

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

I quote Tesla, “one day people will have portable devices, possibly in their pockets, which utilize radio and allow for communicating with each other across the globe.” Like.... holy crawfish Batman. Tesla knew the future.

@ojsweatedplayer9477 4 жыл бұрын

Also who else thought of the song my heart is a radio while watching this Video

@ojsweatedplayer9477 4 жыл бұрын

And jay this is a video suggestion could you do a video about lightning and why it's hard to harvest and why it's not a power source until the future perhaps

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Aden Duncan Stereo Love is far better!

@timovneerden 5 жыл бұрын

The antenna: half the wave-length or quarter of the wave-length? I’ve learned that it has to be 1/4 of the wave-length. But I guess that there are some other things to consider. When I was like 10 years-old, I got 2 toy walkie-talkies, with a 10 cm (4 inch) antenna. It worked for ~50 meters (150 ft). I opened it, attached a copper wire and a bamboo stick of 1 meter (3 ft), and I got it work for over 2 km (1.5 mile). It was quite amazing!

@BlueprintScience 5 жыл бұрын

I've got this. The most common type of antenna is a dipole in which the positive and negative conductors point away from each other. The total length of the dipole (both conductors) is typically 1/2 wavelength. Monopole antennas can be thought of as half of a dipole: 1/4 length. But this assumes a ground plane. Since we don't have one of those, it makes sense to capture a full 1/2 wavelength on our aerial instead. But honestly, it can be any multiple of 1/4 wavelength. Also popular are 3/4 wavelength antennas.

@electrorunnercrane 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing 🎃

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@electrorunnercrane 4 жыл бұрын

As I've made van-de-Graff generator by your tutorial I'll try to make this one 😉 THANK YOU for this tutorial ,It's so cool😍

@ziyafj1251 4 жыл бұрын

Bro it’s badass! I just subscribed you here . Didn’t know you had this Chanel ! It’s Ziko from Austin

@PlasmaChannel 4 жыл бұрын

Ziko! Brother how have you been?! Welcome to the Plasma Nation family bro!

@ziyafj1251 4 жыл бұрын

Plasma Channel I have been great brother ! Looking forward to watching more content from ya! Much love man ! Hell yea

@lochinvar00465 4 жыл бұрын

Marconi changed the detector to a mechanical/magnetic detector. THIS is the detector used on the Titanic but curiously has received little mention.Owing to the ingenious design I am surprised to find that it is relatively unknown.