Patrick Flanagan stated that his original Neurophone circuit could be used as a transmitter/receiver in a series of posts regarding longitudinal-wave communications. My thoughts are that something along the lines of Flanagan's original circuit, coupled with his antenna descriptions in his posts, perhaps with a little Dewey Gilstrap thrown in, will yield a longitudinal wave communications system. Keep in mind these are electrostatic waves, companion waves, or all BS. I'm a little skeptical after reading some explanations of Mento's work that explained it with conventional antenna theory, but Flannagan and Gilstrap are both convincing. This is also similar to work posted on the Tesla Radio site. Flanagan's original circuit: http://www.google.com/patents/US3393279Gilstrap email to Bibhas De: http://www.bibhasde.com/radiocomm.htmlAPPENDIX
The Idea of Lewey Gilstrap
[On March 2, 2007, I got an email from Lewey Gilstrap. Portions of that email are reproduced below with his permission. I found his idea interesting.
What this amounts to, in essence, is that electromagnetic energy can propagate over a continuum of conditions from E < cB through E = cB to E > cB. The first part of this spectrum is what I have described. The second part is what Gilstrap describes. That is to say, the conventional electromagnetic wave (with E = cB) – which today is seen as the be all and end all of electromagnetic propagation – is just one point in this spectrum.
The enormity of the combined idea can be seen by considering just one minor consequence of it: It will put paid to the anointed cosmological discoveries that are based on the assumption that electromagnetic waves are the only form of electromagnetic energy propagating in the universe. – BRD]
Lewey Gilstrap
A non-physicist with remarkable physics insight?
A few days ago, I ran across your website while doing a search for related items. I had not been aware of your work before, and I read with considerable interest the material on the Companion Wave. However, I was disappointed that you did not mention the electric wave twin of the magnetic Companion wave. The twin is just as interesting as the Companion. Both the Companion wave and its twin are longitudinal, both propagate through salt water without loss other than normal inverse square loss and neither is stopped by a Faraday cage; for the Companion wave, E < cB and for the twin, cB < E. Both the Companion and its twin can be detected as end fire (not transverse) from an ordinary dipole, but it takes special phasing or a special antenna to detect either one. I showed that both waves satisfy Maxwell's equations and that no modification of Maxwell's equations is needed.
The reason I know about these waves is that I got a patent on the electrostatic wave (actually, on the antenna, which was quite different from a normal dipole and it did not involve crossed fields). The patent was awarded in 1976 (Electrostatic Communications System; United States Patent 3964051). I knew about the Companion wave, but my antenna design for the magnetic wave would have required a lab for fabrication which was not available to me and I just dropped further work on it. Later, I got a contract to build two prototypes of the electric wave system for the Navy. The units were tested first in a swimming pool and later in the Chesapeake Bay. The units had a carrier frequency of 10 MHz, and, although the range of the units was not very great, we did show that there was no exponential attenuation of the signal (other than inverse square spreading) for around 10 wavelengths separation of the transmitter and receiver. Unfortunately, the naysayers in the Navy killed any further development, claiming that "it would not work." (Yes, they ignored my physical reasoning, my mathematical reasoning, and the experimental work with the prototypes.) My estimate as to potential range after several years of development was on the order of 1000 km, although that might have been optimistic. After seeing your material, I think that I could do a much better job of antenna design for either of the twins now than I did twenty years ago. I long since stopped working on the two waves, but have used some of the principles I developed for them for investigation of other non-standard waves, one of which is even more exotic than the twins.
Lewey Gilstrap Flanagan posts on old forum: See attached. My question is does anyone have a solid-state component circuit handy for a transmitter/receiver that could be used to experiment along these lines?
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