[meteorite-list] RE: Microwave my meteorites?

Tue Apr 12 01:07:11 EDT 2005

That's cool! I've done many of those experiments. In fact, I built a HERF 
gun (a sort of microwave ray gun) out of microwave oven parts, some scrap 
metal and duct tape. It worked really well. I could fire a beam of 
microwaves that could fry a remote control, make a CD go up in sparks and 
light a flourescent light bulb from 7 feet away without wires. Just for the 
hell of it I put my hand in the beam and it felt warm but suddenly I felt a 
burning pain on the side of my middle finger where a large blood vessel runs 
and pulled my hand out of the beam. I won't do that again. :-S

I noticed when filming it that everytime I placed something metal into the 
beam, the camera would go fuzzy from the backscattered microwaves. This is 
what gave me the idea of sending a microwave beam into the ground and 
checking for backscattering to find meteorites. If you were to use a short 
wavelength and send it down by means of a bunch of waveguides all lying 
parrallel to eachother in a big grid and pointing downwards, you'd have a 
wide but strait beam and the whole apparatus could be put on wheels and 
pulled behind a vehicle. If each waveguide had a detector in it to detect 
the backscattering then you could figure out how big the object was by the 
number of waveguides that detect backscattering.

I just got my letter of acceptance from the college I applied to and it's 
for an electronics engineering course so maybe when I'm done it I can build 
this bad boy!!

Cheers all
Graham
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Graham Christensen
voltage at telus.net
http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
msn messenger: majorvoltage at hotmail.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: harlan trammell
To: dragonsoup at msn.com ; dfreeman at fascination.com
Cc: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com ; voltage at telus.net
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] RE: Microwave my meteorites?

sounds cool- http://margo.student.utwente.nl/el/microwave/

i will be gradually switching over to yahoo mail (it has 100 FREE megs of 
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>From: "Maria Haas" <dragonsoup at msn.com> >To: dfreeman at fascination.com >CC: 
>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, voltage at telus.net >Subject: 
>[meteorite-list] RE: Microwave my meteorites? >Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 
>11:21:13 -0400 > >Hi Guys, > >I just know that the acres of farm fields I 
>have access to has >meteorites just waiting for a meteorite 
>detector/detectress, and an >able-bodied shoveler/shoveltress and I would 
>love to put together >plans to be that such person someday. I'm not sure 
>I'm ever going to >be a 10' hole-digger but I can aspire to 3' for a nice 
>prize found >in my very own strewnfield (yes, I'll find one). After I find 
>a >strewnfield then I'll consider 10' but only with digging equipment. > 
> >Does Whites still put out such a detector? (I could look on their >website 
>but don't know exactly what to look for.) Does your neighbor >get used 
>model$? How about display model$? We have to consider light >weight if that 
>is a possiblity. I know I'm getting way ahead of >myself but I want to be 
>ready! > >As it happens, Arizona Keith is the same person I was discussing 
>GPR >with and have been leaving him to recuperate quietly. I have trouble 
> >recuperating quietly...can you tell? No jokes please ;) (...unless 
> >they're really funny) > >No snow here in SE Michigan (right now), >Maria > 
> > >>From: David Freeman <dfreeman at fascination.com> >>To: JKGwilliam 
><h3chondrite at cox.net> >>CC: Maria Haas <dragonsoup at msn.com>, 
> >>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, voltage at telus.net >>Subject: 
>Microwave my meteorites? >>Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:52:03 -0600 >> >>Dear 
>Maria; >>My neighbor is a white's detector salesman and a few years back he 
> >>went to Odessa and hunted the field briefly in the 99 degree heat. >>His 
>guide was none other than James Williams, Rocks from Space page >>136. 
> >>Ron used the top of the line two piece deep penetrating unit >>White's 
>had out at the time. The plan was to search 3-10 feet deep >>for items that 
>the regular detector crowd had missed. Between the >>heat and the pipelines 
>in the area The deep seeking unit did not >>produce any meteorites in the 
>four hours of searching. Ron did >>find some real nice odessa's in Mr. 
>Williams collection though. Ron >>felt with a better weather condition that 
>he would have done much >>better but noted that Odessa is an old oil boom 
>town and there is a >>great deal of metal around. Digging 10 foot holes for 
>pipe thread >>protectors would not be productive so maybe the area would 
>have to >>be a bit more primitive to have the deep penetrating radar be 
>more >>successful. >>No snow in my part of the rockies, >>Dave F >> 
> >>JKGwilliam wrote: >> >>>Maria, >>>One of our list members, Keith Vazquez, 
>has been using GPR for >>>many years and has used it to try and locate 
>meteorites. Keith is >>>currently recovering from some surgery and might be 
>off his oats >>>for a while but I'm sure he'd be happy to post some info 
>and >>>stories to the list. >>> >>>Best, >>>John Gwilliam >>> >>>At 05:33 
>AM 4/11/2005, Maria Haas wrote: >>> >>>>I have lightly discussed with 
>another listmember about using GPR >>>>(Ground Penetrating Radar). Perhaps 
>someone could offer some info >>>>on how beneficial that is in the field. 
> >>>> >>>>Kind Regards, >>>>Maria >>> >>> >>> 
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