Tech Talk And Hang Time At Mr Carlson's Lab!

hi everyone and welcome to another episode of mr carlson's lab let's get started welcome to some hangout time at mr carlson's lab and some tech talk as well so grab yourself your favorite drink and a snack sit back and enjoy today i'm going to show you how well the 369 antenna works i think you're going to be very surprised with that i'm still working on it it's not done yet but at this point it's giving me some pretty impressive results and i'm going to also share with you a piece of test equipment that's been in my intro since the very beginning but you've never seen it work so lots of interesting stuff today so let's get going this is my specific products model wwvc and this is what i use as a sanity check for my own internal oscillator here so what i'll do is i will turn this up and if you take a look at the function generator on the top you'll see that this zero is flashing so this is right at 10 megahertz right now so what i'm going to do is i'm going to adjust this and i'm going to put it out one cycle per second so it's only going to be out one hertz and listen to what happens here okay so here's two cycles put it back down to one that's right at 10 megahertz so let's go right to the last zero and put it out point one hertz all right so we're here 1.1 cycles if you like so you can see it's even detecting that so more resolution than what i can deal with here so i should say the maximum resolution of this right so i can speed this up that's out half a cycle all right wait right there need to start them right at the same point of the cycle so if i started at a different point of the cycle the static will be higher here i'll show you so now they're locked they're the same they're still moving at the same time right they're still moving at the same time but what's happening is is that i'm starting them at a different portion of the cycle so i need to try and sink them i'm looking for the least amount of noise when i hit 10 megahertz so i'll go like this there we go so now as you can see i've got them very close to being in sync so i'll get more into that when i talk more about frequency standards and things like that in the future so that's what this device does it allows me to very accurately check my own internal standard and the standard that that this is comparing to right now is my spectracom that's right at the top that's that blue box that you see in the intro right at the very very top so i can uh see if i can move the camera and show you that let's see this part in the shaking right at the top there that's the spectracom right at the very top all right put this back here pardon the shaking camera my tripod is extended right to the absolute maximum there so now how this thing works is my signal that's coming in from the antenna so the 369 antenna is attached to the back of this thing so right now it's receiving the wwv at 10 megahertz and what it's doing is it's comparing my standard so the function generator which you see right here is controlled by an external standard which is the upper standard which i just showed you the spectracom so it has an external reference and this here just allows me to move that around so i can put the 10 megahertz reference into this device here and then i can move it around by you know whatever resolution i want on the screen right there so what you're seeing is me just taking my own 10 megahertz reference and putting it out one cycle or 0.1 of a cycle or whatever i want to adjust right so that's what's going on here so it's just comparing so this is the output of the function generator running into this and then my 369 antenna is running into the back of this right here and this is just a wwv receiver and of course it gives me the option to receive it 2.5 5 10 15 and 20 mega cycles wherever it's most active since i'm comparing a 10 megahertz standard obviously i'm going to want it at 10 megahertz right now right so that's how this thing works so this is that thing that you've seen in my intros forever and never seen it work here it is the specific products model wwvc seldom heard seldom talk to boat seldom ever seen there you go there's one in action i've had many questions lately how well does your 369 antenna design really work well i'll give you an example of that right now and i'm not even done with this antenna yet it's only going to get better from this point when i'm completely done with this antenna i'll show you how it looks on a vna or a vector network analyzer and share the plans so what's going on here well i have a little radio that i recently restored in a video if you look on my videos list you can find the restoration of this little fleetwood 6 transistor radio this works about as good as it can so it received a very good alignment and restoration not long ago and by the way if you look in that videos list as well you'll also find the previous 369 antenna there you can see what that's about if you're new to this channel this is just two alligator clips attached to some coax and this runs up to my antenna switch and this directly connects to my 369 antenna so if you look at the 369 antenna video you'll see where the little loop is in the three wires come off that loop and go across the property that's directly attached to this lead right now there's no power no amplifiers no nothing antenna directly in right here so this is the little lead that i was just using on my function generator and this was attached to the specific products wwv receiver i've just removed this and again attached this to my antenna switch so it's a convenient piece of coax with some alligator clips on it and the radio itself isn't connected to anything as you can see all right so for those of you that are new to rf this will might look a little bit magic or some of you might think that this is trickery i assure you it's not and i'll explain what's happening as we're going along and i'll give you an example as well so i'll explain all of this this is just a little drawer of coils and inductors and chokes and everything so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to pull out a random we'll call them a coil all right so we'll call them coils i'll pull out a random coil here and what i'm going to do is i'm going to take that coil and i'm going to attach it to my antenna leads here that are you know let in from the 369 antenna so what i'll do is i'll just tune this down to the bottom end of the band so this is the very bottom and say we'll stop around here somewhere okay just see what happens okay i'll turn this on and as you can hear it's just noise right so this new lab is pretty much an rf dead zone all right there's a few stations that will come in if i go right to the top of the band you'll hear some stations but they're not that strong okay so nothing happening right and here's this radio okay so i'll just take a random coil this one's sticking out at me let's grab this one here all right so move this out of the way i'll move this down here so it's far away from this okay there's no connection no direct connection here at all [Applause] i'll connect the signal lead up now [Applause] look at that no connection no nothing i've just grabbed a random inductor and clipped it to my antenna leads there's no power no amplifiers no anything so from the wires directly into this [Applause] right [Applause] oh that's loud right [Applause] you can attach it over here you'll see that this is coupling [Applause] so what's happening here well you can kind of look at this the same kind of idea as your wireless cell phone charger right so you have a charger and then you take your cell phone and then you put your cell phone on the charger well there's a coil inside the inside the actual charger itself and then there's a coil inside your cell phone and what happens is you're when you put the cell phone on top of it it's coupling so the coil in the phone is coupling to the coil in the charger and then of course you have that transfer there and it allows your batteries to charge well this antenna is receiving so incredibly well that there's no power on this like your cell phone charger has to be plugged in and everything right to charge a battery right this is receiving so incredibly well that i can just take the antenna and attach it to this at this distance and it will couple to the antenna inside the radio and it's like this is attached to an antenna when really the coupling is way way over here now if you think that's impressive you should see what directly coupling this to a receiver does so i will have that in future videos when i'm doing my restorations i'll give you an example of that now again for those of you that are new to my channel i do radio restorations on this channel as well as all sorts of different types of electronic repairs and you know designs and all sorts of things so having a good antenna to demonstrate how well the radio works after a restoration is is you know definitely a needed thing right and again this new lab is an rf dead zone so i'm you know bringing in the signal into this right here no power no batteries no nothing just just directly connected right to those antenna wires so that gives you an example of how well that antenna works and it's not even done yet it's still going to get better so if that isn't neat my next demonstration will definitely probably lift an eyebrow or two i'll get that all set up and i'll be right back all right i think i have everything here for this demonstration i think you'll find this very interesting you might want to go refill that cup of coffee all right so what i'll do is i'll turn this on to show you that this is still attached to the antenna so grab this little coil here again okay so you can see this is still attached to the antenna all right so i can take these leads and short them okay all right i think this might even coupled into the radio with them shorted it does with the leads shorted it still doubles okay so what i'll do now is i'm going to take these leads and i'm going to put them across this little array right here there's four green leds i can add more by the way this is just four that i have here for the demonstration i have a little shotkey diode across here and there's a 0.1 micro fred capacitor here to show you that you know there's no dc on this or anything like that right so what i'll do is i'll take this lead and put it to this side of the capacitor right here and i'll put this one right here i'll just turn the light off and as you can see i have four leds glowing now there's nothing except the center conductor attached to those three wires there's no batteries no power no anything it's just connected to those three wires outside going across the property all right this has its entirely own ground system this is not attached to the facility's ground system at all this is completely isolated directly right up to that antenna as far as even using porcelain standoffs to bring the ground down to the ground rods in the ground so this has its entirely own grounding system there is no connection between this and anything else it's completely isolated from everything except itself all right so now i can go i can bypass that capacitor all right i can reverse the leads because we are dealing with rf right okay i can take this capacitor here and what i'm going to do is just put this capacitor this is 0.01 microfarad right here you can see that and i'll just put this across this diode right here and watch what happens to the leds they go out right so basically i'm just shorting the signal out with this capacitor right now now i can keep adding these things i can keep adding more elite in fact i'll put a few more in for you okay so i'll remove this okay i'll add another one and uh that one didn't have very straight legs on it that one and maybe one more i think i have them all connected here okay i'll bring the diode over to the end so now it's across another three of them and let's see what happens here there you go i can keep adding them as well i just keep going and going and going so i just had four on there just because four was fine right and again i'll use something to just extend this lead because it's uh plug this in here like so and like so so i'll just move that over here and again i can move this across this capacitor like that right now if i use my body across this diode you can see that i'm taking the signal off of it by doing this that's how well insulated that signal is all the way down here all the way to the lab from the antenna take this cap again and put it across the diode so basically i'm just putting it across this point right here and of course i'm just basically creating a short from lead to lead with this capacitor here okay so for those of you that are wondering if this capacitor is shorted or not you might think this is trickery which it absolutely isn't right it's open right so if i touch this right you can see that this is open i can go to the capacitor setting these are always a little shy i think these are about eight nano so i'm going to actually put this down because i'm acting as a there you go seven yeah i eat nano there we go it wasn't far off so there we go all right there's nothing special about the diode i'll go here to the diode setting as well so this is a rf diode so it's a shot key so people at 0.34 i think yeah 0.34 wow 0.340 right on so there we go all right so there you go the antenna is working extremely well and i'll get more into why this is happening as the antenna is done and explain a little bit more about this so this is what's on the antenna line i can light up all these leds right on the antenna line in fact let's take a look at the voltage here there you go just because i have the leads the other way so 7.2 right pretty neat you can see it's the meter is slightly loading it you can see the leds dim out a bit so it's actually would be higher than that the fact that they're actually dimming is i'm dragging this down with the meter so the internal resistance of the meter is causing that to happen it's actually kind of funny is uh little flash of the warning symbol here which is kind of interesting very interesting so there you go the 369 antenna works extremely well well i hope you enjoyed hanging out in the lab today we'll get more into what's happening here in the future um oh i'll just quickly drop the antenna because you might be interested in that grab another piece of cardboard here something that will show what's happening here relatively okay actually that came right off so i'll move this out of the way all right just disconnect this so in the 369 video you saw the actual box at the top right if you want you can call that the feed point and then you have we have the first line on the top which goes over to an insulator at the other pole over here right and then this runs to the pole we have the second line which runs out to about here there's an insulator here there's another piece of line here which runs to an insulator here into the pole and then the third line runs to here we have an insulator here because it's the shortest run and then we have a really long wire here again to this so keep in mind that not only do we have this one this one and this one connected but we actually have coupling to this one and this one and as well right so look at that as inductive coupling there so we have more than three lengths and i'll get more into that here in a little bit this is all in the plan on the bottom of the box if you look at the video you'll notice that there's a loop and then there's a blue wire that runs off that is the common here is where the coax connects of 75 ohm coax which runs all the way right to my switch right here in the lab so it's a piece of 75 on coax part of my horrible drawing and this comes out here so we have a center connector and then the barrel right down here well this here connects to a box which is my switch put this on here and then i have a bunch of different outlets on the switch here right and then this runs out to my bench and then i have my two alligator clips this runs to its completely own isolated ground there is no connection between any of this and anything else so this runs down down the actual pole and this goes into ground rods for ground rods at this point and they're not very far apart from each other this in no way shape or form this entire antenna system is completely isolated from the facility ground here okay so there's no connections it's completely own isolated grounding system and it's far away from the actual ground rod system for the facility itself and there's going to be more ground rods going in as well as part of what i'm doing here so that's what's happening there is zero connection between anything else this is completely isolated from everything right up to the switch and then the switch is isolated from everything the switch is screwed to a piece of wood in the back and then it runs out to these two leads right here so this runs to its own isolated ground system and this just directly connects right to these wires so in this box as i showed in the video there's just a wire that connects directly to here and it runs out to these wires here and then of course you know we have our our lengths of wire here right so if you want you to say you were going to put power through this right so this one would be driven and then this one would be driven and then this one would be driven and then this one here would be coupling because it's insulated right here and here and then this one would be coupling as well from here to here and that's the entire system and again that's you know what you see it's making this all happen like so so again hope you enjoyed and i'll talk more about this interesting antenna system very soon again i'm still working on it and um adding more things to it improving on what you see here so it already is receiving you know as i say it's receiving you know incredible right so there you go hope you enjoyed if you're enjoying my videos you can let me know by giving me a big thumbs up and hang around there'll be more videos like this coming in the near future we'll be taking a look at vacuum tube and solid state electronic devices alike so if you haven't subscribed now would be a good time to do that as well if you'd like to be notified as soon as i post a new video don't forget to tap that bell symbol if you're interested in taking your electronics knowledge to the next level and learning electronics in a very different and effective way and gaining access to many of my personal electronic inventions and designs you're definitely going to want to check out my ongoing electronics course on patreon i'll put the link just below the show more tab below the video's description and i'll also pin the link at the top of the comments section so if you click on the link it'll take you right there alright until next 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Channel: Mr Carlson's Lab

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Keywords: Mr Carlson's Antenna, 369 Antenna, Mr Carlson's Lab Antenna, Test Equipment, Restorations, Repairs, Fix electronics, design antennas, high performance antenna, design circuits, Mr Carlson's Inventions, repair circuits, amplifier repair, receiver repair, learn electronics, electronic restorations, How to repair electronics, How to restore electronics, Hang out with Mr Carlson

Id: dzePJ9781Fc

Length: 24min 22sec (1462 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/V3nt3n]

Is the rf power and the leds are really sensitive devices

[u/kaltazar]

This is only "free" energy in the sense he isn't paying for it, but it isn't "free" as in energy for nothing. Other than having a very well designed antenna, and I want to emphasize that antenna is impressive, this is the same concept as the old crystal radios. He also never claims it is "free energy."

[u/440Jack]

Here are the build videos:
High Performance Antenna Build [Part 1]
High Performance Antenna Build [Part 2]
High Performance Antenna Build [Part 3]