Stranded? How to Make a Primitive Radio Transmitter | SPARK GAP RADIO (ft. Plasma Channel)

[@PlasmaChannel]

Absolutely brilliant work, Blueprint! Your use of comedy mixed with information honestly is what the masses need.

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Plasma Channel.... I’m a subscriber

[@facitenonvictimarum]

Blueprint could not have said it better which suggests that you are saying it for Blueprint. Maybe just another channel shill -- just what the masses need, more bullshit for KZbin money.

[@sFeral]

Maybe you could expand on this with a better animation showing oscilation of force (field) lines, and demonstrating the kind of signal a SS "sparkless" Tesla secondary would produce ? Flybackless /watch?v=X5sCM2q6PXU

[@CharGorilla]

Nice colab. I really enjoyed the content. You're both serious scientists, but you're both pretty good entertainers. Hey, I got an hours worth of high quality "Edutainment" (yeah, like that's still a word). Like I said, you're facts are accurate (Except that part about the hazards of extremely low concentrations of ozone). But I digress. as a sacrifice on behalf of you both to the almighty algorithm you both get a like and a sub. Of course now that subscriptions play a role in monetization, and everyone implores you to do so, notifications from KZbin are now completely meaningless. I'm guessing they factored that in.

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[@LandNfan]

This is why shipboard radio operators in the early days were often nicknamed “Sparks” or “Sparky.”

[@Cyberplayer5]

Related to the subject of radio the building on a ship that housed the transmission and reception equipment was called a "radio shack".

[@8bit_coder]

As a ham radio operator, I thought this video was amazing! Not only does it explain antennas very well, but how aincient radios worked in general. Shame channels like these don't have more subs.

[@BlueprintScience]

Thank you!

[@ragerose9206]

Finally some usa guy that knows that Tesla was a Serbian.

[@divermike8943]

Hey ! I knew that! USA born and raised too.

[@arnonroyna4420]

LoL. "USA guy."

[@ragerose9206]

@@arnonroyna4420 Britain probably....

[@arnonroyna4420]

@@ragerose9206 Some UK dude?

[@luvsic35]

Finally, someone who doesn’t know that usa guys are called Americans

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This is a brilliant video! You and your family have been awarded 100 social credit points.

[@dafoex]

To share

[@santiagocortez9554]

STFU Winnie the Pooh 😂

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China is an evil country.

[@Name-js5uq]

Do they really do that over there?

[@calvinf9218]

@@Name-js5uq no

[@karlharvymarx2650]

A useful but very simple transmitter can be made with a relay and a capacitor. If I remember correctly, the electrolytic capacitor is wired in parallel with the relay coil, and the switching part wired so that when the relay turns on, it shorts the capacitor (and battery). The terminal of the moving part of the relay is wired to the water inside a PVC pipe. When powered on the combination of the capacitor charging and the inductance of the coil prevents the relay from turning on. Once charged, the relay turns on and discharges the capacitor, making a little spark inside the relay and radio waves which make their way into the water. The shorted relay turns itself off and the cycle repeats at a rate proportional to the capacitance. If an AM radio is tuned to best reception and then swept over the pipe full of radio emitting water the pipe can be traced. I think I powered it with a 9V battery and it was enough to trace a 1" PVC pipe 1.5-2 feet under sand from the well to the house 100 feet away. I'm not sure, but I think I remember it working okay if I just connected the antenna to the well housing even though that is grounded. If the relay doesn't buzz, try re-arranging the circuit, not 100% sure I'm remembering how I wired a circuit I first made by accident when i was a kid.

[@LeLyfa]

It's a shame your channel doesn't have more subs. Keep going!

[@BlueprintScience]

I have no intention of stopping. Thanks LeLyfa!

[@tonytor5346]

I am a physician with background in electronics. I am 70 yrs old and since I became an amateur radio in the early 1960’s . I have read all about Tesla, and the hex of electronics. During my many years of training in medicine I came across patients with great stories, some in their 80’s in the VA and other centers. In short: 3 patients, independently told me they worked on the USS ELDRIDGE. Clearing the entire “innards” of the hull and installing generators and RCA equipment that came in crates. One of them was working on the wiring. Heavy duty wires, porcelain insulators etc . There was a fine chain mesh, like “mosquito net” loosely going around the outside of the hull (in the water) that covered that went around the entire ship hull & was bolted to the hull on the sides (ground?) . Several weeks later a pre assembled series of 3 sets 10 foot coils mounted in a 5 “ cylinders mounted in X,Y,Z axis. Each set of the 3 coils mounted in XYZ configuration were installed at the back outside deck, another set on top of control deck and the third on the front of the ship. Each individual coil had an independent primary connected to its own power supply . The bases of each coil was about 3’ from the other two. This is all I could get. I can’t make sense of this configuration using my very basic knowledge of physics and resonating circuits. Just using the right hand rule, the fields of each set of 3 coils would cancel each other. I gather that each the sets of 3 coils were likely connected individually. Using high voltage in 1 set of 3 coils mounted this close would no doubt cause arching to form. Now what do you think the 3 sets of 3 coils far enough from each other would do? For sure some time of resonance wound be achieved no matter if arching between the coils happened. If each individual coil was activated individually within miliseconds of each other they each would work independent of each other on one set. Then how would the 3 sets of 3 coils do anything, even if they were used in something like a phased array? From the information above, I gather that the “Philadelphia Experiment” at least was tried. The stories associated with it may all be made up. For sure this setup. Was mounted on the USS ELDRIDGE. I am very interested what you & the Plasma Channel guy make of this configuration. I asked a PhD physicist in the early 80’s what he thought. The only thing he could suggest is that the coils mounted in X,Y,Z configuration may have had something to do with our 3 dimensional universe, but even then this was just a wild guess… PLESE GET BACK TO ME ON THIS MYSTERY. Are there other circuits besides possibly “insect zappers”, where this coil configuration is used? THANKS IN ADVANCE.. Sergio

[@libratyanjhon3959]

This guy deserves a million subs.

[@gertvanpeet3120]

I did this experiment when i was 14 or so. Now i am 63, but still like building cristal and tube radio's!

[@zenondekition.2520]

Thank you very much. I have just been shipwrecked on a desert island. Thanks to your KZbin video I will be able to contact civilization. All I have to do now is learn Morse code in a few weeks with another video.

[@tsaltslinger3268]

The monkey part had me laugh out loud! Bro, I've worked with electronics my whole life and never understood it the way you broke it down. Thanks man!

[@kevyelyod1211]

Why am I only seeing these videos now “March 2020” these are excellent . Well done young man

[@BlueprintScience]

Thank you, sir

[@robdevenney]

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[@jessstuart7495]

A quarter-wavelength antenna over a ground-plane is also a resonant antenna (like the half-wavelength dipole antenna).

[@BentConrod]

Also commonly known as a Marconi antenna.

[@vylbird8014]

It's not going to resonate much when driven off a spark gap.

[@AtlasReburdened]

You know, If you just use a rotary spark gap to get consistent spark timing, and put one element on a rocker(or have really good rhythm) you aren't limited to morse, you can send straight up digital data. And on the subject of emergency transmitters, believe it or not, you can just use a car battery, two wires, and a metal file. Wire-Pos | Neg-wire-file Just scrape the Pos wire against the file very quickly to send hundreds of tightly packed bursts of broadband emf per stroke.

[@sauerlandfpv5425]

Basicly an audio modulated tesla coil then

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I am 2 minutes in and I have decided that you are the most interesting person I've seen to date.

[@domineech]

I just found this channel and have been watching it all weekend. Please make more videos.

[@napalmjohn1821]

I saw the professor do this on Gilligan's Island with 2 coconuts.

[@xaenon]

@@jamescollier3 Stranded on a desert island with smokin' hot Hollywood redhead and an equally bodacious farm girl, and your only realistic competition is an old fat guy and a skinny imbecile. Yeah, I wouldn't be in a hurry to fix the damned boat either.

[@kenneth6731]

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[@xaenon]

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[@Albrecht8000]

3:55 Perfect explained!!! Greetings from germany

[@pierrelecaillou6966]

Quite enjoyable mate! Learned a lot i did. Thanks, Cheers!

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This guy deserves 1m+ subs. Outstanding content

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Yes he does!

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Damn, the greenscreen in the beginning looks terrific. The lighting is pretty convincing

[@KClO3]

Didn't even realize until I read this comment

[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

If The Professor from Gilligan's Island had watched this KZbin video, they would have gotten home much sooner.

[@toddmarshall7573]

Spark gap will come back in the form of ultra-wideband. It will work over short distances at very low power. But every node in an ATM mesh Network will be a transmitter receiver using ultra-wideband. The carriers will be high and dry looking for a ball player. The packets will be able to make hops three orders of magnitude faster than current IP so no backbone will be necessary. And it will be connection-oriented not broadcast oriented.

[@davidhilton7780]

This got me thinking....

[@EsotericMedic]

Just found my new fave channel

[@MichaelOfRohan]

"No, im iminocent!" Said every illegal ham ever haha

[@cody_d3628]

2:02 did anyone else realize the smoke coming out of his rc car?

[@fredflintstoner596]

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[@intowishin2755]

One minute in and i was compelled to give a like. I genuinely just wanted to learn something but your videos always make me laugh as an added bonus

[@BlueprintScience]

Into Wishin, you are appreciated!

[@kreynolds1123]

That's a "charged" issue. You know "Henry" over there doesn't have the "capacitance" to know better. He just impedes the flow. I'm glad you helped fill the knowledge "gap", less one "sparks" the FCC into handing out fines that "hertz".

[@andrechism]

now you're one of my favorite channels

[@BlueprintScience]

:)

[@Barty.Crowell]

Fun fact: even a half decent antenna is better then doubling your power with an inefficient antenna.

[@tommyjohnson7280]

bloop rent is amazing-thank you for years of helping an idiot at least begin to understand these concepts

[@anjuk6255]

Yes I understood that but please make a video on how did that massive radio device evolve so that we now have it in our mobile phone taking a very small place .how does it fit Into a small phone and consumes so little energy but still makes it possible for long distance satellite communication? Please make a video on how modern radio device in our phones work? Also the network tower and satellite

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[@CodyAardema]

lol very true

[@RemyRAD]

Ya remind me of myself, when I was your age. Bravo! That was stupendous! Why did you look so much like that law enforcement official? That was real good. I've worked in radio and television now for over 50 years. You're on your way, sport. 50 years ago. All I had was a couple of real for real audio recorders. I would do independent productions. I'd bring them into school with me. I'd play them for the classes. I started my school radio station. This was way back in the early 1970s. Later I spent 20 years with a major Television & Radio network. But also attending a few major music award nominations, on my own. So I know a career driven professional when I see one.. (I bet your dad really enjoyed doing that.)

[@stephenwilliams5201]

Look at the bright side he got rescued...

[@SianaGearz]

8:02 "It may not look it but i am surrounded at all 4 sides by RF shielding. Metal mesh over windows" Well that's a snazzy prison! Good that they locked you up prophylactically.

[@Freakengineeryt]

Good going

[@jeffmccrea9347]

Using a CB antenna on your project, while better than nothing, will pretty much tune your transmitter mainly into the CB band, which is woefully lacking an audience on a desert island, and maybe a few harmonics on either side of it at progressively lower signal strengths as you move farther and farther away from 11 meters. Any other hash that your spark gap transmitter makes will be choked out pretty much on every other frequency. Breaking open the center loaded coil and making a "long wire" antenna out of it's wire would create static interference at higher frequencies, (shorter antenna), and with more harmonics to create a more attention getting signal across a greater number of frequencies. It would be best to aim for the aircraft band, (108 to 136 MHz AM), as the possibility of any aircraft flying overhead would hear you on their AM frequencies as your spark gap transmissions would be more apt to open the aircraft band's AM squelch. Most boats today use VHF FM frequencies. While the FM VHF marine band, (166 to 174 MHz), is relatively close to the aircraft band, the FM channelized bandwidth, (25 MHz per channel), and it's associated FM squelch circuit would wash out / block out your signal from ever breaking into it's receiver. Very few ships, except for large ocean going freighters and cruise ships, at sea still use the HF SSB 6 MHz marine radios anymore due to their $4,000.00 to $6,000.00 price tag and very large, low frequency antenna compared to the $150.00 to $200.00 price tag of a good VHF FM marine radio and it's associated, much shorter, less wieldy antenna. While the HF SSB radio would be ideal to receive a spark gap signal, being that SSB radios use a BFO, (beat frequency oscillator) to hetrodyne with the carrier free SSB signal, to be able to hear intelligible human speech rather than something akin to Donald Duck is much more appealing. Your relatively short, "long wire" antenna made from the CB antenna's center load coil, might only make it a couple of miles out to sea at best as opposed to an aircraft's one to eight mile vertical height over head. You might also want to scare up something conductive such as a piece of wire, salt water soaked rope or what have you to connect to the spark electrode opposite from your antenna electrode. Thrown into the water or spiked into the ground, if you can find a piece of metal to use, to act as a ground plane would help to increase your range a bit. Every little bit helps. Keep plugging away, (pun intended). Channels like yours are very beneficial and educational. Thank you for your service.

[@themacpackebay]

dude that TV reminds me of a Pip-Boy

[@PhysicsViolator]

Making this radio is one thing , getting to generate electricity to power the damn thing is even more complicated 😂

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Because the masses are easily entertained by flashy things and non important sh*t like popmusic and don't want to put in the effort to learn something?

[@JimGriffOne]

I didn't see this video before. Excellent editing as always!

[@marymorris8442]

Smart is sexy! Thanks for another great educational video.

[@erdemmemisyazici3950]

I was watching a how-to-survive-horror-movie-trap video for the movie Cube and this knowledge was probably more important than math in the movie 😄

[@BlueprintScience]

Cube is an underrated movie, nice to hear ppl are still enjoying it :)

[@Snyper1188]

I love your humor and information! Well done man!

[@BlueprintScience]

Yo, thanks man

[@marymorris8442]

He is so smart and will succeed at everything he does.

[@rohitkhanna]

It was Heinrich Hertz who first demonstrated the spark gap transmitter, NOT Marconi. However Marconi DID take the concept and extended it dramatically for commercial use

[@rweerakkody4565]

I'm learning a lot during this quarantine. Thanks!!

[@jarno4054]

This was obe of the best videos you've ever made, very interesting and funny, it was nice Plasma Channel joined the video. Keep doing this, it was great. Greets form Belgium

[@BlueprintScience]

Thank you, Jarno. Greetings from Michigan, USA

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Obe

[@OREGONFINISH]

Good stuff, I want that tie, mr. billnye! I humbly request, ny, rather demand you and your McGyver- plasma accomplice, to demonstrate construction of sos transmitter from raw jungle island materials. Giligans island fork lore . All my likes are belong to you upon delivery..

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Haha, just subscribed ❤ you remind me of "Squire" channel. I think I'll let my pupils build a radio.

[@maxwillacy-kuhn6396]

Great stuff... Thankyou.

[@trollcast5258]

Fantastic video 💯

[@bassdowg]

Spark gap xmitters generate damped waves that are very rich in harmonics all the way to the vhf and higher thus when connected to a long wire Ant can be used as a hailing xmitter to get help using damped Interupted CW

[@WoodMagnet2]

nice pair-up. great presentation!

[@ramirogarcia5977]

Thank you., awesome explanation .

[@BlueprintScience]

My pleasure

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I miss this dudes videos.

[@BlueprintScience]

I appreciate that.

[@1Stevencat]

This was hilarious! Another great and informative video from BLUEPRINT.

[@BlueprintScience]

Thank you :)

[@GhettoRanger01]

It was actually Tesla that invented the radio, Marconi copied Tesla and patented his design before Tesla but Tesla was the original inventor.

[@ozymandiasking173]

best video yet! loved it

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Just found your channel and I love it You even did a collab with plasma channel who i've followed for quite a while

[@GrantsPassTVRepair]

Entertaining and educational video. Thanks.

[@MaxmadV8]

i wish you went into detail on how to salvage parts and what to salvage parts from and how to recognise and distinguish what parts are what n what they do n what you need. try to make one of thease out of 100% scavenged parts and see if you can "escape" brilliant video funny and educational

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[@patprop74]

The Video is good, even if acting is not your strong suit, it's still very good, And the information was even better, I did find myself distracted at times, by throwback to childhood, due to a little resemblance of Elmer Fudd in some of your words lol Two Thumbs up if a could!

[@paulkieran2308]

Funny and informative.

[@Israelmv123]

Great video as always! It would be awsome if you could see the signal in the frecuency domain just to see how wide is the signal bandwidth!

[@gg5115]

I believe it blasts the whole spectrum all the way up to x rays.

[@netfoot]

Typing a S followed by an O followed by an S is... NOT the "emergency signal SOS". The signal should be sent as a CONTINUOUS sequence of three dots, three dashes, and three dots, with no spaces/gaps between.

[@BlueprintScience]

I guess I wouldn't get rescued :(

[@mridulnath2468]

Wow awesome idea🤘🤘🤘🤘

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Give that guy an Oskar!

[@Pedritox0953]

Your videos are going better and better

[@BlueprintScience]

Thanks, Pedritox. My editing software can barely keep up! Haha!

[@Pedritox0953]

Your videos are awesome! The electric current wars video was lovely... remain this path and good quality content

[@Curlyzwtf]

At first I really thought bro found a pip boy on the beach

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[@jon00200]

Amazing video, loved it

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love this video!!

[@BlueprintScience]

Thanks :)

[@aboukhaleed1340]

I love this video and I want circuit about rf power amplifier

[@joeshmoe000]

Very nice video editing skills!

[@BlueprintScience]

Just don't ask how long it took to render ;)

[@Brothershaliek]

Great video. You guys are awesome

[@TLH_BobCat]

Demonstration of crystal radio would be interest.

[@shiningstaer]

I like the looooong yellow cord attached to the tools. Hard lessons learned?

[@Elyandarin]

...Yes, but how do I make a primitive radio transmitter? If I were on an uninhabited island, rare as they are, recalling this video would leave me only slightly better off, since IMO many of the practical details are omitted. 100 feet isn't much; what does it take to make it detectable for planes passing overhead? How much energy should I be pumping into it? What angle should the antenna be at? How do I adjust the antenna to the length with the best resonance? Would putting in a reflector improve things?

[@BlueprintScience]

Ships still to this day use spark gap radios for emergencies if I recall - it's not outside the realm of possibility. As per practicality, I was just trying to make an interesting video; it's not practical. Making a signal fire is practical.

[@Timepass_store]

Well you guys did not add any resonance circuit which goes to your ariel, so your ariel is transmitting at every frequency and harmonics, if you had tried using resonance circuit after the spark gap you may have got much more power transmitting over a long distance. I love radio technology and i have build one at 30mhz AM transmitter and a regen receiver. I have got the range all over my house and it sounds every cool just that I needed 10 days to do practical and experimenting on it 🙃

[@rachelannkrueger7638]

I just found this channel I would of subscribed but it appears to no activity that last video I see is an year ago.

[@mawi4112]

how do you change the frequency, so you don't interrupt used channels

[@matthewgorgoglione5492]

Cool wheelie🌿🤗🚜

[@ziptie7112]

how do you make an emergency transmitter using the engine coil & spark plug? drawing please

[@uK8cvPAq]

I love this guy!

[@winemp3133]

thumbnails looks like you are holding dynamite sticks with a timer and going hijack a plane.

[@davidhilton7780]

It seems clear that key components, and methods for the ability to broadcast in the range of reception are not clearly stated, and may be for great reasons of heavy interference . . .

[@Strange_Brew]

Oh, I forgot the coconut!!

[@tonalliisaiasgarciagarcia3973]

nice job

[@muntee33]

Spark gaps are the secret ay. What is goin on now that the electricity built up the charge required to ionise air before clearing a spark gap. Is it an altered wave front? Or the spark gap kind ‘tunes’ the energy to its characteristics when the spark was created?

[@BlueprintScience]

I'm not sure that I understand the question, but I'll try to answer the best I can. A spark gap is basically 2 antennas. Charge will gather on them as the electric field between the two electrodes will increase until the field becomes strong enough to arc. The arc is continuous because it happens at such a high frequency, the air stays ionized the whole time. Any tuning of the gap is done by external circuitry.

[@LordByron2752]

Stupid people thought Tesla had little people in the RC boat. 😂. Wow !

[@kimjong-un4411]

You’re like a young Bill Nye the science guy

[@tech0247]

i want to know how to connect the battery part ,if you want to creat a transmiter