Hi All! Long time no see!

Despite my lack of participation in the community lately, I am still recording as much as ever with my group and making great progress. My ever evolving hearing and open air technique has yielded contacts with the "gatekeepers" for a while now. They continue to be in good spirits (no pun intended, LOL) and are good sports while putting up with my endless questions. Recently I had them tell me that "I was a great distraction"! LOL

Interestingly enough with it being close to Halloween and all I had a friend of mine ask about the existence of vampires. Now, I don't necassarily pay attention to such requests and I certainly know they don't care for silly questions but I felt obliged to ask for her anyways. I told my friends at the beginning of the session that I had a silly to ask them. I asked about the existence of traditional, blood sucking vampires (not the psi type) and I didn't expect to get a serious answer from them. I expected to get the slightly annoyed, sarcastic tone they give when i ask silly questions. I didn't get a definitive "Yes" but I got a lot of dodging and beating around the bush. I could hear their conversation back nd forth about secrets and them talking about an individual "who knows".

You see they have told us all before that these things that we think are fantasy or fiction have all been created at some point or another on one, many or an infinate amount of dimensions. I was reminded that creation is not something that happened but is something that is still happening and our minds can create and destroy at will. So, be careful who or what you are thinking about! LOL

Back to Work!

Sorry for the long pause, among other things we were in the process of moving into our new home in Spring, Texas. Anyway, we are getting settled in and I have begun working on my laser project once again. I am so excited, I have a workspace all my own now.

On to the meat of this post. I have resurrected my pulse-modulated laser in combination with my IR receiver. Upon testing the units work great despite some rough handling during the move. Ahem! The switch between the internal and external microphone had to be re-soldered due to a broken joint but everything else seems to be peachy.

I also had a new idea on a "echo chamber". It is slightly larger than the ones Sumption has been making and I am using shaped chambers to bounce and amplify the soundwaves in the box (see Bose for a comparison). The box will be fed by a single speaker, which projects sound into a 2" PVC pipe. The sound then resonates in the pipe and its energy released out the other end to be bounced from an angled block to another block that projects it into another 2" pipe. This pipe is a little more special in that it holds 3" of foam rubber 2" inside the pipes opening. This foam rubber acts as a filter to remove unwanted ultrasonic waves that can cause distortion on most microphones. As you can guess the microphone is placed on this end and should supply some very intersting dynamic sound.

The latest progression!

Well it seems, after extensive testing that I cannot use the RS 12-469 array as an audio source for my project. It seemed very promising to me in the beginning but the more I worked with it the more I found what seemed like relevant speech being corrupted by the radio broadcasts themselves. Ultimately this method and methods like it would not be fully accepted because of its questionability and its failure under indepth scrutiny.

Recently, a few other researchers have been experimenting with parts of speech called allophones. These fragments of sounds seem much more promising when used in conjunction with Stefan Bion's EVPMaker. Stefan himself seems impressed by the results others have received using this method. He is also looking for a sample audio recording of German allophones. So, if anyone runs across them let me or Stefan know so we can get him up and moving. We are also looking for examples of phonemes, fricitives, consonants, vowels and formants for this very same experiment. We need the audio sounds not actual words. LOL

Anyways, this is what has been going on lately. Feel free to contact me with any questions or just leave comments.

Regards,

Frank R.

This is it!

Thanks to the many minds involved in the Radio Shack, RS 12-469/470 hack I have found the third component for my ITC unit. I have pretty much duplicated Mike Colletta's spircomp, practical application design. Using three modified RS 12-469's, an optical microphone of my design, a four channel mixer, various cables, my laptop, and DCSix with a SoundSoap2 plugin, I have found an arrangement that is both successful and comfortable for me.

So far, I have done in comparison to my old method, a handful of recordings with this new array. I have successfully made contact, which seems pretty consistent. A lot of the messages received are very personal in nature at this point and will remain that way. If anything meant for another member or the group in general is received, it will be shared.

Frank Ratka

Mike's Mods

A research associate, Mike Coletta has created a modification for a standard radio shack radio model that simulates the exact same thing as Frank's Box. The creator of Frank's Box, (Frank Sumption) has said that Mike has captured to very essence of what he was trying to accomplish with his box design and is relieved that there is someone else who can make these in an inexpensive way.

Right now Mike is giving away 10 microchips a week for free. Even shipping is paid for by Mike all in an effort to get more people involved in spirit communication and ITC.

If you are interested in your free microchip please email him:

duck@ghostshop.com

Write "Free Chip" in the subject line.

If you want to see an example of his creations or the simple mods you can do to a Radio Shack, RS 12-469 or RS 12-470 please goto:

http://www.ufogeek.com/?p=108
www.ghostboxhacks.com

He has asked all of us to get the word out to as many who are interested as possible so please pass this on to all Paranormal Researchers you know.

Best Regards,

Frank R.

Project Update

The signal mixing and processing units (laser TX and phototransistor RX) of the communicator are done and ready for testing. Now the focus for the last few weeks has been signal generation. I have been testing and experimenting with many different techniques and equipment to find just the right complex signal needed to put through other units. So far my hand-built terrestrial radio, tuned to the 10 meter range has showed the most promise. The antenna I am developing involves the interaction of a dual-coil, ferrite core, bar antenna and a two modified, Neodymium (N42), cylindrical magnets (each producing a magnetic field strength of approximately 7000 gauss and a combined pull strength of 218lbs) and a faraday cage which encompasses the enhanced antenna array.

I will post more of the specifics later.

Project update!

The new project listed in the prior post has grown beyond the little black box stage you see in the picture. The new project incorporates the laser beam communicator along with a 10 meter band radio. The pulsed laser now has been designed to skip off two rotating mirrors, while then striking the infrared phototransistor.

The signal being transmitted over the pulsed laser is brought in by the 10 meter radio, which is plugged into a self designed scalar antenna. The experimental design has been derived from an earlier Nikola Tesla idea to capture 'non-hertzian' pulses or what has been termed as Tesla waves. The Tesla waves are completely a "psuedoscience" idea for most mainstream scientists because of its metascience roots. It is unproven and without any supporting evidence besides the claims of a 19th/20th century inventor, Nikola Tesla.

The antenna I am building operates beyond the RF spectrum. Measures have been taken to insure all RF radiation has been blocked from the antenna elements via a Faraday cage built around the entire communications cabinet. Even though modern scientists don't posses the courage to explore these ideas in the open and few of us amateurs do. So far the results have been encouraging and the effects have been eye opening. Explanation? At this point I would have to say, "I don't know" but I will keep you updated.

Regards,

Frank