Please Read This...Speaking of Radios....Hey, Let's Convert Them to Spirit/Ghost Boxes.....The ADE-651 Should Shame Us All....There is no Excuse for the ADE-651....

DT200X

PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS (I think knowing about the ADE-651 is important).  Thank you.

OK, I just finished a post on radios and the folks who listen to Coast-to-Coast AM. 

I think I mentioned that I purchased a few small radios over the last week. They were all analog, you know the old timey radios that have a scale showing the frequencies, and you twist the knob and then fine-tune for the best sound and reception.

There’s really nothing wrong with these types of radios. There's more to a good radio than the tuning mechanism. However, the digital radio shown here is easier to tune as the digital readout shows the stations. The small analog radios have such a short scale that the stations are sort of jammed up to each other.

So, over the past couple of days I've been researching small digital radios. Well, doing searches and such. Anyway, I will soon get to the good part. Before I do, I need to quote. 

Let's see, it's 2014. We've made so many advances in all areas... medicine, technology, science, there are truly almost miracles that doctors do every day. OK, have we as humans advanced the same? Nope, I don't think we have.

"A CBS News 2009 study showed that nearly half of Americans say they believe in ghosts, or that the dead can return in certain places and situations. That poll also revealed that 78 percent of Americans believe in life after death."

OK, where am I going here? (As a note, many years ago, I worked on radios and nav aids on airplanes. Does that mean I know some radio stuff today? Not really, though I do remember a little theory and can sort of understand a radio schematic.) Over the last several days I've run across articles that showed how to modify these small radios…I mean get into the guts of them and add stuff and change stuff…made my eyes glaze over. No way would I ever try that even though many, many years ago I would dig into the innards of extremely complicated radios. What they were doing was in essence hopping-up their radios to enhance the sound, selectivity, and so on. So, yes, I was aware that people modified these tiny radios.

OK, honest. This is the good part.

On YouTube I did a search for the above radio, the Sangean DT200V. And, what did I see, How to hack the DT200V. Thought I’d hit the jackpot or what-have-you. Hack means to change, ostensibly for the better. I thought wow, a video; maybe I’ll be able to understand this.

A young lady had a great easy-to-follow video for the hack. Yep, she took the radio apart, counted to the #4 pin and cut it off. Put the radio back together, turned it on, and hit a button and the digital display that shows the frequencies started spinning. It didn't stop…… didn't lock on to a frequency, it just spun. What the heck?

Folks, she’d just converted this well-reviewed radio into a Ghost or Spirit Box. Yes, it’s now supposed to be able to hear any spirits or ghosts who happen to be around………..

Mercy.

This from Amazon…yes, Amazon. You can buy Spirit Boxes ready to go. You don't even have to cut off pin #4. 

“The P-SB7 is a miniature sized Spirit Box the size of a iPhone 5 about - but thicker. The P-SB7 has been widely used in various paranormal TV Shows with remarkable results. Zack on Ghost Adventures was first with using it on TV and ususally (sic) just calls it the SB7.

Spirit/Ghost Finder

Product Features

·        P-SB7 FM - created with intent of hearing voices from the departed in real time

·        The P-SB7 utilizes a milli-second adjustable Forward or Reverse frequency "sweep" technique coupled with a proprietary high frequency synthetic noise or "white noise" distributed between frequency steps.

·        FM frequency sweep which includes an additional 119 new frequencies from 76MHz to 87.9MHz

·        Used with great success by professional paranormal researchers”

Do any of you folks remember the ADE-651? The bomb detector that didn't work, that governments spent millions of dollars on and that caused the deaths of soldiers who relied on the so-called detector?

As I best understand it, the idea came from what I assume was a gag gift, a golf ball finder. Yes, it was a dowsing device. A plastic box with an antenna. And, the box was empty. It was a joke! A gag!

Golf ball finder......

This is what Jim McCormick sold to no telling how many governments. I did a couple of YouTube segments on him and this so-called bomb detector. I’ll spare you my link.

So, here we have a young lady and many like her who are hacking radios so that they can detect ghosts and spirits. And, yes, many of us will laugh at her and her pals.

And, then we have governments who spent millions…and, yes, I mean millions of dollars on the ADE-651s which are in essence an empty plastic box with an antenna…yes, and they caused the deaths of soldiers.

ADE-651

To some extent, I can understand the young lady modifying her radio so that it will detect ghosts and spirits. But, how could we ever excuse the many governments who spent millions of dollars on an empty plastic box.

McCormick is now in a British prison. Can’t remember the sentence, though I’m thinking ten years. 

The so-called entertainment industry should be taken to task for all the bullshit programs about ghost hunters, psychics, and so on. Sadly, many of us think that if it's on TV or in print, Gosh, it's gotta be true. A perfect example is Montel Williams having Sylvia Browne on his program every week. Of course it helps if we want to believe. Folks, when trying decide if something is true, please, look for evidence. Yes, actual honest-to-gosh evidence. Not what the TV is saying or your neighbor. EVIDENCE. Remember, just because we can't explain something doesn't mean it's supernatural.