Hardware Hacking - Nicolas Collins

14 Nicolas Collins

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The length of wire used in the coil affects its sensitivity to different frequencies
(like the tuning dial on a radio.) Joe Banks (Disinformation) and other fans of
what is know as VLF (Very Low Frequency) radio make big coils by wrapping
yards of wire around big wooden crosses and then camp out on remote hilltops
like hermit Klansmen. Get far enough from civilization’s ubiquitous 60/50 hz
hum and you may be lucky enough to pick up the Aurora Borealis, “whistlers”
induced by meteorites self-immolating as they enter the earth’s atmosphere, the
pipping of GPS satellites, or top-secret submarine radio communication.

If you want to experiment, take a hundred feet of ordinary insulated wire and
wrap it around a wooden armature (nail 2 5’ piece of 2x2 together and notch the
ends to keep the wire from slipping off.) Solder one end of the wire to the tip of
a plug that fits into your amp or tape recorder, and solder the other end to the
sleeve. Plug in, turn on, drop out.