THE DISCOVERY
other test. If there was indeed radio frequency (RF) running
through my circuit I should be able to block it with the right snap-
on choke. It did block. I thought of a third test. If this was truly a
resonance phenomenon I should be able to add a capacitance to
this circuit and see the resonance destroyed. Then add an
inductance and see the resonance return. It did just that. I made
graphs of the relationship between capacitance and inductance.
They were entirely reproducible.
Then why couldn't I see the RF on my RF oscilloscope?
Probably because it was high frequency energy, not high energy
frequency, and I didn't know how to amplify it above the back-
ground noise level. It was nevertheless not convincing. Yet much
too tantalizing to ignore.
I thought of yet a fourth test. If I was really producing RF
radiation that could be channeled through a circuit, I should be
able to interfere with it by adding another RF radiation from an
outside source. I added a frequency from my frequency generator,
first at 1,000 Hz. Now there was no resonance. It interfered. Did
this mean that my body was not producing radiation at 1,000 Hz?
Or was my 1,000 Hz radiation being matched and canceled? I
raised the frequency gradually, from 1,000 to 10,000 to 100,000
to 1,000,000 Hz. There was no resonance anywhere, and I
couldn't draw any conclusions. It was 5 o'clock on Sunday
afternoon. Quitting time. But one last look at my generator
reminded me that it could reach 2,000,000 Hz and I was just at
1,000,000. One more quick experiment wouldn't take much time.
I cranked it to 1,800,000 Hz. And now a resonance screamed out!
Was I “hearing things?” No more interference. I did it over and
over. Why was it resonating now and not before? Had I arrived
at my body's own bandwidth (transmission range), and this was
the reason it no longer interfered?
I found the lowest frequency that resonated to be 1,562,000
Hz. All frequencies that I checked (about 2,000) from there up