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Title: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 08, 2009, 04:39:50 PM
Hai all.

Not sure if anyone has attacked this one. I am an amateur radio enthusiast, I have 2 callsigns, 2E1JJM and M3JJM - you can look this up with the RSGB and with Ofcom - the UK's governmental body for communications.

It occured to me that a while ago I was trying something nicknamed "moonbounce" - also known as EME or earth to moon to earth communications. Effectively, a ham radio user has a very directional form of an antenna, normally a Yagi beam that produces a very directional and efficient emission, aims it rather accurately at the moon using various calculations, and can then gauge roughly where the signal will arrive on earth after bouncing off the moon. Most importantly, there is a time delay in this which is quite measurable, and the curvature of the earth plays a part in this.

In my case I was using a standard standard Cushcraft Yagi beam on the 6 metre wavelength band, aka 50MHz. With a low discharge of power, 50 watts to be specific on my 2E1JJM callsign, I successfully achieved bounce from southern england to another user in russia, more specifically leningrad with the callsign RN3LLP (this corresponds to central russia). Now I know the rough distance that my transmissions took due to the time lag bouncing off the moon - and these only agree with a slight curve of the earth's face. On top of that, my communications would not have got so far on such a large wavelength transmission with relatively minimal power if the earth was flat.

On top of this, ham radio users using much larger wavelengths, like the 40m and 17m bands, know roughly how far their signal will go due to their emissions (depending on their antenna) being a proportionate resonate distance of their wavelength that can be targetted with specific angles using directional antennas at the top layers of the atmosphere (F2 layer specifically) and then reflect off the atmosphere. Using this method, one can work out how far a single atmospheric reflection will take a signal back down to sea level depending on time of day (the atmosphere rises and sinks with sunlight exposure due to temperature fluctuations); and crucially how long it will take, using speed of light calculations. This certainly confirms a round earth.

On top of this point I've just made, the nail in the coffin supplied by ham radio, is that depending on the conditions, the quality of the antenna, and how the weather is doing round the world, it is actually possible on the very very long wavelength bands (160m and 80m for example), to bounce a signal off the F2 layer, and then to the earth again, and back upto the F2, several times, to the point where a signal will circumnavigate the globe, and providing one gets their power adjustments just right, once can receive their own signal a second or two later after initial transmission. I have in fact witnessed my father doing this (his radio license allows more power, G0WKL is his callsign), on a completely omnidirectional HF dipole (proving that you don't even need my specifications to do it) made by cushcraft (an R8, available here http://www.wsplc.com/acatalog/CUSHCRAFT_HF_Vertical_Antennas.html) with about 190W of power on the 40m band.

Let me re-iterate. Directional Electromagnetic radition that circumnavigates the earth, is NOT possible on a dual flat plane of reflection; let alone omnidirectional. It would be emitted to into space. A dual spherical plane of reflection (i.e. RE) is the only way without using ridiculous reflection repeater arrays positioned at incredibly lucky points along your "ice wall", to produce the effect I have described above. Goto any Ham radio forum and ask if HF circumnavigation is possible and if anyone has experienced it. No end of people have - I am not the only one. The ham radio community is so small, that NASA or any of your government agencies wouldn't even consider ploughing the tens of billions required to reproduce this effect on a flat plane; it would be impossible to recreate successfully for every user without someone seeing something weird like 500m tall resonant reflectors for each wavelength (we're talking nearly millions of combinations here with the various angles) on the edge of your ice wall, or as we call it, Antarctica.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 09, 2009, 04:25:31 AM
Your assumptions are wrong, before we tackle your actual message, here are some things to think about, julian.

It was found that "the strength of radio reception was nearly doubled with the passing of the moon from overhead to underneath the observer ... It does not appear reasonable that the relatively small gravitational tide in the earth's atmosphere, which changes the barometric pressure by less than half of one percent, could account for a sufficient change in altitude of the ionized layer to produce such marked changes in the intensity of reception."

The lifting of the ionosphere generally results in better radio reception, and the small tidal action by the moon when overhead should improve reception a little, not impair it; in any event, the moon cannot have a marked effect on the ionosphere without being itself a charged body. But if the moon is charged, it cannot behave in its motion as though the gravitational force alone acts between it and the earth.

Unaccounted for fluctuations in the lunar mean motion were calculated from the records of lunar eclipses of many centuries and from modern observations. These fluctuations were studied by S. Newcomb, who wrote: "I regard these fluctuations as the most enigmatic phenomenon presented by the celestial motions, being so difficult to account for by the action of any known causes, that we cannot but suspect them to arise from some action in nature hitherto unknown." They are not explainable by the forces of gravitation which emanate from the sun and the planets.

The barometric pressure, julian, also tells us that things are not as they seem on this Earth.

The weight of the atmosphere is constantly changing as the changing barometric pressure indicates. Low pressure areas are not necessarily encircled by high pressure belts. The semidiurnal changes in barometric pressure are not explainable by the mechanistic principles of gravitation and the heat effect of solar radiation. The cause of these variations is unknown.

"It has been known now for two and a half centuries, that there are more or less daily variations in the height of the barometer, culminating in two maxima and two minima during the course of 24 hours. Since Dr. Beal's discovery (1664-65), the same observation has been made and puzzled over at every station at which pressure records were kept and studied, but without success in finding for it the complete physical explanation. In speaking of the diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the barometer, Lord Rayleigh says: "The relative magnitude of the latter [semidiurnal variations], as observed at most parts of the earth?s surface, is still a mystery, all the attempted explanations being illusory.""

One maximum is at 10 a.m., the other at 10 p.m.; the two minima are at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.

The lowest pressure is near the equator, in the belt of the doldrums. Yet the troposphere is highest at the equator, being on the average about 18 km. high there; it is lower in the moderate latitudes, and only 6 km. high above the ground at the poles.

Now, julian, you must take into account the existence of the Heavenly Dome, which separates the Sun/Moon/Planets/Stars orbits from our atmosphere:

On the Heavenly Dome subject:

http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/ftrad.html

http://www.infidelguy.com/heaven_sky.htm

http://www.peterwallace.org/essays/flatearth.htm

http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/ThreeTieredUniverse.htm

The existence of this Dome explains all your concerns expressed in your message...

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 09, 2009, 06:14:13 AM
It was found that "the strength of radio reception was nearly doubled with the passing of the moon from overhead to underneath the observer ... It does not appear reasonable that the relatively small gravitational tide in the earth's atmosphere, which changes the barometric pressure by less than half of one percent, could account for a sufficient change in altitude of the ionized layer to produce such marked changes in the intensity of reception."

Air pressure and thus F2 layer height alteration has no effect on EME. The majority of EME communications use UHF, 22Ghz and so on, and the wavelength of these signals is too short to be reflected by the F2, the only plausible change would be some refraction, however as you have cited yourself, the change would be minute.

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The lifting of the ionosphere generally results in better radio reception, and the small tidal action by the moon when overhead should improve reception a little, not impair it; in any event, the moon cannot have a marked effect on the ionosphere without being itself a charged body. But if the moon is charged, it cannot behave in its motion as though the gravitational force alone acts between it and the earth.

I don't disagree with this and never said anything to insinuate otherwise.

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Unaccounted for fluctuations in the lunar mean motion were calculated from the records of lunar eclipses of many centuries and from modern observations. These fluctuations were studied by S. Newcomb, who wrote: "I regard these fluctuations as the most enigmatic phenomenon presented by the celestial motions, being so difficult to account for by the action of any known causes, that we cannot but suspect them to arise from some action in nature hitherto unknown." They are not explainable by the forces of gravitation which emanate from the sun and the planets.

Again, while I'm not sure I totally agree with this - I am not insinuating otherwise. The effect I am describing has virtually nothing to do with this.

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The barometric pressure, julian, also tells us that things are not as they seem on this Earth.

The weight of the atmosphere is constantly changing as the changing barometric pressure indicates. Low pressure areas are not necessarily encircled by high pressure belts. The semidiurnal changes in barometric pressure are not explainable by the mechanistic principles of gravitation and the heat effect of solar radiation. The cause of these variations is unknown.

Yes, the cause is known. Sunspots. That's what HF communications are going through an exceptionally unique period of propagation at the minute as we are at the low of the sunspot cycle (which is 11 years long). During these 11 years, HF propagation declines and increases proportionately to the sunspot cycle. My father being a radio ham for nearly 50 years, and myself for 10, we have both witnessed this widely accepted explanation for the linear and predictable variation in EM propagation. You can't disprove this one.

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"It has been known now for two and a half centuries, that there are more or less daily variations in the height of the barometer, culminating in two maxima and two minima during the course of 24 hours. Since Dr. Beal's discovery (1664-65), the same observation has been made and puzzled over at every station at which pressure records were kept and studied, but without success in finding for it the complete physical explanation. In speaking of the diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the barometer, Lord Rayleigh says: "The relative magnitude of the latter [semidiurnal variations], as observed at most parts of the earth?s surface, is still a mystery, all the attempted explanations being illusory.""

One maximum is at 10 a.m., the other at 10 p.m.; the two minima are at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.

This is another fact that you are twisting. These two times of day are well known - and they occur around the time of sunrise and sunset, where the suns heating effect on the earth changes the F2 layer's height and density. The maxima you are talking about are known in the ham community as grey propagation times. It lasts for about 30 minutes each time and gives rise to exceptional propagation on mid wavelength bands such as 6m, allowing normally VHF signals to act as HF signals. Hence it's nicknamed the crossover band. They are not fixed, and their time changes around the world depending on longitude and time of year. There are plenty of sources on the internet which can tell you when these periods will be and where, well in advance of them occuring. They are always right. How else would someone in the UK talk to someone in the US on the 6m band? Jeez.

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The lowest pressure is near the equator, in the belt of the doldrums. Yet the troposphere is highest at the equator, being on the average about 18 km. high there; it is lower in the moderate latitudes, and only 6 km. high above the ground at the poles.

Now, julian, you must take into account the existence of the Heavenly Dome, which separates the Sun/Moon/Planets/Stars orbits from our atmosphere:

On the Heavenly Dome subject:

http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/ftrad.html

http://www.infidelguy.com/heaven_sky.htm

http://www.peterwallace.org/essays/flatearth.htm

http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/ThreeTieredUniverse.htm

The existence of this Dome explains all your concerns expressed in your message...



I'm not even going to dignify that with a response, apart from that MYTH is not submissable evidence. On top of that, it does not resolve the issue of directional transmissions circumnavigating a flat earth. It's just not possible.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on June 09, 2009, 06:19:16 AM
You quote Immanual Velikovsky (a scholar at best not a scientist), that used to use the bible and such other works of fiction in his "scientific" works. None of his conclusions are backed by actual fact or proof, more conjecture and fiction.

Julian makes some very good points which proove the spheroid earth which you cannot contridict by merely copying and pasting some rubbish published 70 years ago by a fiction writer.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 09, 2009, 06:53:21 AM
Velikovsky had five university degrees under his belt, and was Einstein's best friend, in fact there were roommates at Princeton.

In 1955, after Einstein's death, there was a single book open on his desk: Worlds in Collision, which he admired greatly.

Velikovsky quotes the scientific facts which cannot be accounted for in the round earth theory.

julian, the radiation pressure over those spots IS LOWEST on the surface of the Sun, about 1/10000 of the atmospheric pressure on Earth; at this time, scientists do not know what causes the relation between the sunspots and weather pattern changes on Earth. If it is not due to radiation, what other cause could there be? This question is answered only in the correct model of the flat earth, which does include the black sun, which gives off energy/aether to the visible sun.

You wrote: This is another fact that you are twisting. These two times of day are well known - and they occur around the time of sunrise and sunset, where the suns heating effect on the earth changes the F2 layer's height and density.

Exactly, but the other way around.

Here is the quote I presented to you:

"It has been known now for two and a half centuries, that there are more or less daily variations in the height of the barometer, culminating in two maxima and two minima during the course of 24 hours. Since Dr. Beal's discovery (1664-65), the same observation has been made and puzzled over at every station at which pressure records were kept and studied, but without success in finding for it the complete physical explanation. In speaking of the diurnal and semidiurnal variations of the barometer, Lord Rayleigh says: "The relative magnitude of the latter [semidiurnal variations], as observed at most parts of the earth?s surface, is still a mystery, all the attempted explanations being illusory.""

One maximum is at 10 a.m., the other at 10 p.m.; the two minima are at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.

Read carefully.

The Dome is substantial evidence, once I prove to you the earth is flat, as I have done in my pictures, taken all over the Lake Ontario, English Channel, and Strait of Gibraltar. Please read the Nasa Fake Space Program to see how nobody has been able to ascend beyond 15 km.

E/M circumnavigation on a flat earth was done and proved by none other than Nikola Tesla, please read the Tunguska 1908 explosion thread; a ball lightning produced in Tesla's laboratory in New York exploded over the river Tunguska on the opposite side of the flat earth.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on June 09, 2009, 07:09:23 AM
E/M circumnavigation on a flat earth was done and proved by none other than Nikola Tesla, please read the Tunguska 1908 explosion thread; a ball lightning produced in Tesla's laboratory in New York exploded over the river Tunguska on the opposite side of the flat earth.

The otherside of the flat earth? You mean the dark side?
Oh no wait you are mixing his spherical world with your flat world!

You seem to love Einstein yet many of his works prove the spherical shape of the earth and disprove many of the arguments for the flat world. Velikovsky only had one degree in medical science?
Where is your source of info?

I believe that you have no concept of science and I also have discredited your source.
Please give a good reason for this 'heavenly dome', and what it is?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 09, 2009, 07:25:13 AM
danwood, you are new here. There is no underside. Velikovsky had 5 scientific degrees.

My theory of the flat earth can be found here:

http://theflatearthsociety.net/forum/index.php?board=7.0

As for Einstein:

http://theflatearthsociety.net/forum/index.php?topic=601.0

Your high school bull session message needs lots of improvement...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on June 09, 2009, 07:41:44 AM
You cannot cite these forums.
And you did say the opposite side of the earth, indicating your dark energy side instead of russia.
BTW Tesla was a bit of a crackpot who did do some really good work in electromagnetism.

I mean a real source of information, something that is respected in the scientific community.
I am educated in physical sciences and have a degree, this is probably more than you could dream of.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 09, 2009, 08:43:14 AM
One maximum is at 10 a.m., the other at 10 p.m.; the two minima are at 4 a.m. and 4 p.m.

And I just told you, that's not true. Go out and buy an HF transceiver and test that out for yourself; you'll be bitterly disappointed.

Edit: Just to clarify what I mean, as I don't think it's got through your skull, go here: http://www.spacew.com/www/realtime.php

And a quote from that page:

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The area between the two lines (shaded a lighter shade than the night-time sector) is known as the grayline and has special significance to radio communicators. Signals which travel inside the grayline region often experience significant improvements in propagation because of the loss of ionization in the D-region as the Sun sets. However, because the higher F-regions of the ionosphere remain strongly ionized for longer periods of time, signals with higher frequencies are able to travel to greater distances with less attenuation when they are within the grayline.  

This maxima, CHANGES with the pitch of the earth's axis as it rotates the sun throughout the year, it is not a fixed time, so cut the crap with your 10am 10pm because it ISN'T TRUE. That website is maintained by a private company, who are individuals and have programmed that realtime projection using their independent measurements: http://www.spacew.com/AboutUs.html ...there is nothing conspiracy bound there!

As for this Velikovsky - look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky

One concrete degree in medicine and other paths of study all within the medical field bar a bit of maths at a Russian college (surprisingly famous for their space travel by the way), mostly relevant to psychotherapy and psychiatry. Hardly EM Physics.

Utter tripe you are talking and you'll have to eat it once you try it rather than reading from a book written by a Russian crackpot, that has very dubious interpretations of the pasts events. Even in his own "Worlds in Collision" book, he states that the EARTH ROTATES. On top of that, he suggested that Venus had got close enough to earth and exchanged atmospheric gas, and then somehow the two planetary bodies separated and ended up in their current orbit! What! Chances are, Einstein read it because he found it so funny.

I'll give you another one - I live near a company that builds satellites independently. Zero funding from the government - and I've seen these things in clean rooms with my own eyes. The technology in them is REAL, I have seen it with my own eyes. They have no government funding, only what they get for privately selling satellites, and that is not enough money to actually mock the 15 or 20 odd pieces they have put into orbit, and then construct the things, and then on top of that, get a profit to make faking it all slightly worthwhile.

As for the Tunguska Event, Tesla's experiment was performed during one of robert peary's expeditions to the north pole right? Yeah Peary didn't leave NY till 6 days after the Tunguska Event. That ain't proof that EM circumnavigation is possible - it is only a crackpot theory to try and explain the event.

The heavenly dome doesn't explain how one could transmit a highly directional signal, aimed within .5 of a degree, and then receive it at the exact opposite angle on a secondary antenna moments later. If your heavenly dome theory is even plausible, the signal would actually bounce right back at you before it could come from behind you, meaning it could and would be received on the primary transmission antenna first. I will try and reproduce this effect next time the conditions are right - I doubt it's going to work though....
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 09, 2009, 08:54:40 AM
I am an amateur radio enthusiast, I have 2 callsigns, 2E1JJM and M3JJM - you can look this up with the RSGB and with Ofcom - the UK's governmental body for communications.

Thankyou for your cooperation. A NASA snatch squad has been sent to your address. Enjoy Gitmo sucker!

"NASA snatch squad"?

LOL.

(We've all seen "Capricorn One", haven't we?)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 09, 2009, 08:57:37 AM
Your high school bull session message needs lots of improvement...

"Bull" as in bull-shit?

You just can't avoid getting personal and derogatory, can you?

Your patronising attitude towards other people does not enhance your academic standing (speaking as a professional academic).

Editted to correct grammar.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 09, 2009, 09:07:44 AM
On top of this point I've just made, the nail in the coffin supplied by ham radio, is that depending on the conditions, the quality of the antenna, and how the weather is doing round the world, it is actually possible on the very very long wavelength bands (160m and 80m for example), to bounce a signal off the F2 layer, and then to the earth again, and back upto the F2, several times, to the point where a signal will circumnavigate the globe, and providing one gets their power adjustments just right, once can receive their own signal a second or two later after initial transmission.

Wow - that is amazingly cool.

(If you are an A1 nerd like me, that is!)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 09, 2009, 09:20:04 AM
On top of this point I've just made, the nail in the coffin supplied by ham radio, is that depending on the conditions, the quality of the antenna, and how the weather is doing round the world, it is actually possible on the very very long wavelength bands (160m and 80m for example), to bounce a signal off the F2 layer, and then to the earth again, and back upto the F2, several times, to the point where a signal will circumnavigate the globe, and providing one gets their power adjustments just right, once can receive their own signal a second or two later after initial transmission.

Wow - that is amazingly cool.

(If you are an A1 nerd like me, that is!)

Yeah, it is pretty cool when it happens :) - I'll admit it's a rare occurrence, only happened twice or three times to me, but I know plenty of people who regularly do it by accident on long DX missions to get contact with really elusive and rare callsigns.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 09, 2009, 04:32:08 PM
Love it how no FE believers can put a plausible argument against what I have said above. I totally win. Buddhism would do you lot good, learn to appreciate the world given to you, rather than arguing with every factual physical assignment presented to you.

It's disgusting that you all devote your lives to a theory that is obscure and ultimately has little gain if it was actually correct. Collectively, I see a negative way of life between you that merely encourages misanthropic tendencies. If this ever actually takes off, do you know what it will do to society? Particularly to people that have very fragile and easily influenced minds? It's a shameful existence.


If any FE's live in the southern half of the UK, I would love to meet up for dinner, I will pay, just for the interest I have in meeting someone that genuinely believes this stuff, and to have a good hearty debate about it over a good Bordeaux.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 10, 2009, 04:48:46 AM
Love it how no FE believers can put a plausible argument against what I have said above.

OK, so I'll have a go then (I am a Round Earther):

Your signal isn't travelling around a round Earth - it is travelling to The Great Ice Wall at the edge of the flat Earth and simply reflecting off the very high mountains back to you (we know that the mountains are very high, at least 100 km, becuase they have to stop the whole of the atmo-plane from diffusding off into space over the egde.)

It's disgusting that you all devote your lives to a theory that is obscure and ultimately has little gain if it was actually correct.

I think that the theory has excellent academic merit - but only as an exercise in getting people to think for themselves rather than just accepting what they read in school text books as fact.

this ever actually takes off, do you know what it will do to society? Particularly to people that have very fragile and easily influenced minds? It's a shameful existence.

It would encourage people to think for themselves which is no bad thing?

If any FE's live in the southern half of the UK, I would love to meet up for dinner, I will pay, just for the interest I have in meeting someone that genuinely believes this stuff, and to have a good hearty debate about it over a good Bordeaux.

Can I change my affiliation if there is free wine on offer?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 10, 2009, 05:43:43 AM
Thinking for yourself is fixing your toilet rather than getting a plumber in to do it. FE theory merely reduces trust and faith in humanity.

As for bouncing off the ice mountains - not true as the signal would be receivable by the transmission antenna rather than the secondary antenna oppositely polarised to receive the signal coming from behind you - in my experiment, this is not possible.

As for changing allegiance for free wine - you sell out :P
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 10, 2009, 06:51:05 AM
Thinking for yourself is fixing your toilet rather than getting a plumber in to do it.

In which case I fail as a free thinker!

FE theory merely reduces trust and faith in humanity.

At its very worst I agree - the way that Flat Earthers tend to dismiss all Round-Earth evidence as a fabrication ("if I haven't seen it myself then it's not true" = the core of Zeteticism) does, indeed, erode the value of humanity's common purpose.

As for bouncing off the ice mountains - not true as the signal would be receivable by the transmission antenna rather than the secondary antenna oppositely polarised to receive the signal coming from behind you - in my experiment, this is not possible.

My ship is well and truly sunk, then!

So: are there any more (genuine) Flat-Earth objections to this Round-Earth evidence?

Edit: Zeteicism -> Zeteticism
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 11, 2009, 07:00:15 AM
The heavenly dome doesn't explain how one could transmit a highly directional signal, aimed within .5 of a degree, and then receive it at the exact opposite angle on a secondary antenna moments later. If your heavenly dome theory is even plausible, the signal would actually bounce right back at you before it could come from behind you, meaning it could and would be received on the primary transmission antenna first. I will try and reproduce this effect next time the conditions are right - I doubt it's going to work though....

Love it how no FE believers can put a plausible argument against what I have said above. I totally win.

I am boucing this (two days later) to see if any Flat Earthers can explain how you can send a radio signal off into The World, flat or otherwise, and then receive it again a few seconds later from the opposite direction (i.e right behind you).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 11, 2009, 03:59:22 PM
I told you, millions of reflectors at every angle along the ice wall that CANNOT BE SEEN! Invisible! And it was $2 cheaper than going into space, so then NASA and the rest of the world leaders thought hey - why bother going to ALL the trouble of going to space. $2 can buy us an extra doughnut or three. And then when their system doesn't quite work...the global leaders will think, ah well, the ham radio enthusiast will assume the conditions aren't good enough.

Oh but don't forget that the signal is reflected several times so it arrives behind you....at a decent amplitude still as well!!! It's all very clever, and no-one can quite explain it because the theory hasn't been developed yet, but trust me it is true I promise..!

 ;D ;D ;D

Looks like I might have genuinely added to FE theory....oops. I'll clarify for a second...I am joking, seriously. But am I?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: kingkool on June 11, 2009, 11:16:14 PM
Julian, welcome to the forum. I am posting for the first time, I have tried to avoid the forums and have preferred to mainly discuss FE/RE theory among other scholars. These forums, as with most internet forums, tend to be filled with extremely juvenile conversatoins. However, your question rises above the rather basic intellectual capacity demonstrated by typical round earthers.

The explanation to your question is not explained by reflections fro mthe ice shelf, as this would result in reverse polarity and ultimately destructive intereference of the EM radiation. Rather, the explanation is from the curvature of the atmosphere. The earth itself has a flat surface, in 3 dimensions ressembling to the shape of a thin cylinder, however the atmosphere retains curvature due to the meniscus affect. Without getting into the intense mathematical complexities which are neccessary to fully describe the phenomenon, the basis can be easily explained due to difference in cohesion between the bulk gas molecules vs cohesion of the gas/earth interface (which occurs at the edge of the earth, or the ice shelf). The cohesive forces within the molecules are stronger than the adhesive forces between the atmosphere and the ice shelf, causing the gaseous atmosphere to assume a convex shape.

A similar affect can be seen in everyday life. If you fill a glass with water, the top of the water will form a concave meniscus. if you fill the glass with mercury, the liquid will show a convex meniscus (the latter being analogous to the atmosphere/ice shelf interface). In the case of the flat earth, the raised ice shelf which encircles the surface of the earth acts as the  "walls" which interact with the atmosphere. Thus, while the earth is still flat, the atmosphere maintains a concave curvature.

An alternative, less accepted theory is due to the temperature gradient between the ice shelf and the bulk land. The cold temperatures from the ice shelves cause gas particles at the edge of the earth to have a colder average temperature than those in the center, creating a temperature gradient in the atmosphere. The Maxwell-Boltzmann relations dictate that the temperature gradient will result in a corresponding convex meniscus of the atmosphere (think of it this way: hot gas rises, cool gas falls. The gas over the ice shelf is cold, as you move away from the ice shelf the gas in the atmosphere heats up and rises, creating a convex lens).

Thus, while the earth is flat the atmosphere is not. This is a fact overlooked by many round earthers who are quick to dismiss FE facts because they dont have the capacity to evaluate the complexities of advanced scientific theory.  If the appropriate complex Euler wave equation is satisfied. reflection from the curved atmosphere will cause EM radiation to encircle the earth and ultimately return 'behind' the point of transmission .
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 12, 2009, 01:57:36 AM
reflection from the curved atmosphere will cause EM radiation to encircle the earth and ultimately return 'behind' the point of transmission .

Could you provide us with a quick diagram of the path that the radio waves take, please?

I am unsure if you are suggesting that they actually pass underneath the Flat Earth or not.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 12, 2009, 02:29:21 AM
The Maxwell-Boltzmann relations dictate that the temperature gradient will result in a corresponding convex meniscus of the atmosphere

A thought arises:

The Arctic, which lies at the very centre of the Flat Earth, is also very cold ...

So how does this affect the shape of your proposed atmo-planic / atmo-spheric "meniscus"?

And how does that, in turn, affect the propagation (motion) of our circum-navigating radio waves?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 12, 2009, 02:37:59 AM
Julian, welcome to the forum. I am posting for the first time, I have tried to avoid the forums and have preferred to mainly discuss FE/RE theory among other scholars. These forums, as with most internet forums, tend to be filled with extremely juvenile conversatoins. However, your question rises above the rather basic intellectual capacity demonstrated by typical round earthers.

The explanation to your question is not explained by reflections fro mthe ice shelf, as this would result in reverse polarity and ultimately destructive intereference of the EM radiation. Rather, the explanation is from the curvature of the atmosphere. The earth itself has a flat surface, in 3 dimensions ressembling to the shape of a thin cylinder, however the atmosphere retains curvature due to the meniscus affect. Without getting into the intense mathematical complexities which are neccessary to fully describe the phenomenon, the basis can be easily explained due to difference in cohesion between the bulk gas molecules vs cohesion of the gas/earth interface (which occurs at the edge of the earth, or the ice shelf). The cohesive forces within the molecules are stronger than the adhesive forces between the atmosphere and the ice shelf, causing the gaseous atmosphere to assume a convex shape.

A similar affect can be seen in everyday life. If you fill a glass with water, the top of the water will form a concave meniscus. if you fill the glass with mercury, the liquid will show a convex meniscus (the latter being analogous to the atmosphere/ice shelf interface). In the case of the flat earth, the raised ice shelf which encircles the surface of the earth acts as the  "walls" which interact with the atmosphere. Thus, while the earth is still flat, the atmosphere maintains a concave curvature.

An alternative, less accepted theory is due to the temperature gradient between the ice shelf and the bulk land. The cold temperatures from the ice shelves cause gas particles at the edge of the earth to have a colder average temperature than those in the center, creating a temperature gradient in the atmosphere. The Maxwell-Boltzmann relations dictate that the temperature gradient will result in a corresponding convex meniscus of the atmosphere (think of it this way: hot gas rises, cool gas falls. The gas over the ice shelf is cold, as you move away from the ice shelf the gas in the atmosphere heats up and rises, creating a convex lens).

Thus, while the earth is flat the atmosphere is not. This is a fact overlooked by many round earthers who are quick to dismiss FE facts because they dont have the capacity to evaluate the complexities of advanced scientific theory.  If the appropriate complex Euler wave equation is satisfied. reflection from the curved atmosphere will cause EM radiation to encircle the earth and ultimately return 'behind' the point of transmission .

I'll nip at your second theory initially. Maxwell-Boltzman distribution can pretty much only be applied to molecular bodies. EM waves (yes I know about wave particle duality but the frequency isn't high enough here to get consistent proof that it could be treated as a particle) won't react in the same way. I would expect potentially different refraction angles due to temperature changes, which would be accounted for by M-B distribution, but not to a massive change that you are suggesting. Finally, it is WIDELY accepted that MB returns incorrect values when the ionosphere is specifically involved - whether you were talking about gases this high up, I'm not sure, even so, the EM wave would still have to act more like a particle if you don't mean ionosphere heights - which as you know, it can't.

As for the first theory - yes I know full well that reflections from the ice shelf are pretty much impossible, chances are anyway, amplitude would be so low at this point due to the incidence densities that it would be unlikely that destructive interference would be gained in the first place - but yes I agree, should it get this far, the latter would effectively end the signal.

Now I am going to assume you are correct with your theory for why the atmosphere is convex, as in my theory it is also, so for my side of the debate, this has little effect (just so you know, I did actually think the FE atmosphere was convex anyway, but it didn't occur to me to think why.). Where I think your argument is flawed however, is your application of Euler's Wave Equation....I'm fairly certain it cannot be derived correctly for electromagnetic waves as there is no way to model the medium, and I also can't think of a circumstance with an EM wave that would have a rational boundary condition. Hence the equation you are actually looking for...is the Electromagnetic Wave Equation, which is similar, (second order partial differential equation etc), but it's derived from Maxwell's equations funnily enough, and describes how an EM wave travels through a medium or vacuum...which as I'm sure you will agree, is vitally important to describing this phenomenon properly, due to the variations of the layers in the ionosphere; and its application holds firm for my argument as well.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on June 12, 2009, 03:06:54 AM
Julian, welcome to the forum. I am posting for the first time, I have tried to avoid the forums and have preferred to mainly discuss FE/RE theory among other scholars. These forums, as with most internet forums, tend to be filled with extremely juvenile conversatoins. However, your question rises above the rather basic intellectual capacity demonstrated by typical round earthers.

The explanation to your question is not explained by reflections fro mthe ice shelf, as this would result in reverse polarity and ultimately destructive intereference of the EM radiation. Rather, the explanation is from the curvature of the atmosphere. The earth itself has a flat surface, in 3 dimensions ressembling to the shape of a thin cylinder, however the atmosphere retains curvature due to the meniscus affect. Without getting into the intense mathematical complexities which are neccessary to fully describe the phenomenon, the basis can be easily explained due to difference in cohesion between the bulk gas molecules vs cohesion of the gas/earth interface (which occurs at the edge of the earth, or the ice shelf). The cohesive forces within the molecules are stronger than the adhesive forces between the atmosphere and the ice shelf, causing the gaseous atmosphere to assume a convex shape.

A similar affect can be seen in everyday life. If you fill a glass with water, the top of the water will form a concave meniscus. if you fill the glass with mercury, the liquid will show a convex meniscus (the latter being analogous to the atmosphere/ice shelf interface). In the case of the flat earth, the raised ice shelf which encircles the surface of the earth acts as the  "walls" which interact with the atmosphere. Thus, while the earth is still flat, the atmosphere maintains a concave curvature.

An alternative, less accepted theory is due to the temperature gradient between the ice shelf and the bulk land. The cold temperatures from the ice shelves cause gas particles at the edge of the earth to have a colder average temperature than those in the center, creating a temperature gradient in the atmosphere. The Maxwell-Boltzmann relations dictate that the temperature gradient will result in a corresponding convex meniscus of the atmosphere (think of it this way: hot gas rises, cool gas falls. The gas over the ice shelf is cold, as you move away from the ice shelf the gas in the atmosphere heats up and rises, creating a convex lens).

Thus, while the earth is flat the atmosphere is not. This is a fact overlooked by many round earthers who are quick to dismiss FE facts because they dont have the capacity to evaluate the complexities of advanced scientific theory.  If the appropriate complex Euler wave equation is satisfied. reflection from the curved atmosphere will cause EM radiation to encircle the earth and ultimately return 'behind' the point of transmission .

Meniscus effect isn't possible with a gas. Attractive forces between particles have been overcome by the kinetic energy of the particles which is why it is a gas. Fluid mechanics can describe a viscous effect approaching a wall but the viscosity for gases and the thickness of the atmosphere would make this a pointless exercise. Escape velocity is achieved by helium gas as gravity does not sufficiently affect the lightweight particles.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 12, 2009, 04:15:42 AM
Now I am going to assume you are correct with your theory for why the atmosphere is convex, as in my theory it is also, so for my side of the debate, this has little effect (just so you know, I did actually think the FE atmosphere was convex anyway, but it didn't occur to me to think why.). Where I think your argument is flawed however, is your application of Euler's Wave Equation....I'm fairly certain it cannot be derived correctly for electromagnetic waves as there is no way to model the medium, and I also can't think of a circumstance with an EM wave that would have a rational boundary condition. Hence the equation you are actually looking for...is the Electromagnetic Wave Equation, which is similar, (second order partial differential equation etc), but it's derived from Maxwell's equations funnily enough, and describes how an EM wave travels through a medium or vacuum...which as I'm sure you will agree, is vitally important to describing this phenomenon properly, due to the variations of the layers in the ionosphere; and its application holds firm for my argument as well.

Maxwell's Equations are, indeed, fundamental to modern EM theory - we had to learn how to derive them from first priniples for my Applied Physics B.Sc.

Serious, serious maths, and quite easily the hardest module exam that I ever took - I still come out in a cold sweat at their mere mention ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 12, 2009, 04:24:57 AM
So kingkool, you've just been owned by 3 people with an understanding of complex physics...I think so far that makes this thread RE: 2 v FE: 0. (RE: 3 if you include moonbounce)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 12, 2009, 05:07:35 AM

julian, the radiation pressure over those spots IS LOWEST on the surface of the Sun, about 1/10000 of the atmospheric pressure on Earth; at this time, scientists do not know what causes the relation between the sunspots and weather pattern changes on Earth. If it is not due to radiation, what other cause could there be? This question is answered only in the correct model of the flat earth, which does include the black sun, which gives off energy/aether to the visible sun.

To summarise you are saying "Scientists don't know what causes the relationship between sunspots and weather patterns, so is could "only" be down to a Flat Earth".

PSEUDOSCIENCE ALERT !!!

13. Pseudoscience argues from ignorance, an elementary fallacy.
Many pseudoscientists base their claims on incompleteness of information about nature, rather than on what is known at present. But no claim can possibly be supported by lack of information. The fact that people don't recognize what they see in the sky means only that they don't recognize what they saw. This fact is not evidence that flying saucers are from outer space. The statement "Science cannot explain" is common in pseudoscience literature. In many cases, science has no interest in the supposed phenomena because there is no evidence it exists; in other cases, the scientific explanation is well known and well established, but the pseudoscientist doesn't know this or deliberately ignores it to create mystery.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 12, 2009, 05:08:51 AM
julian, when it comes to atmospheric science, you are out of your league here...please do your homework before posting...

What I wrote IS TRUE...

The diurnal pressure variation has been recorded for hundreds of years now...as you should know...my friend...

Let us take as an example Taiwan. Surface pressure measurements in Taiwan (at 25?N) are least around 4am and (especially) 4 pm Local Standard Time, and most around (especially) 10am, and 10pm LST.

Do you understand these things Julian? And then why the crap from your last message...

The CAUSE of this variation is unknown, although it is described officially as being caused by waves in the upper atmosphere.

Therefore, julian, your comments are a trademark of the fact that you have in fact NOT STUDIED this things, mabye at all...

Now, here is the paradox: The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.

Velikovsky was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century; notwithstanding the crackpot comments made by "scientists".

Please read Worlds in Collision carefully, you will discover the 1000+ references which prove that the Earth stopped from its axial rotation several times in the past; this could have happened only in a flat earth system, that is, the stars/sun changing the orbit above the earth; had the Earth stopped from the axial rotation, it would have crashed into the void, cosmic space immediately, not being able to restart its rotation.

Your superficial comments on this subject show that you have never studied the past catastrophism theories, and do not understand, for example, the cause of the extinction of the mammoths.

The first e/m signal to reach above the flat earth and back, was sent by none other than Nikola Tesla in 1883.

It is perfectly explainable, if we take into account the aether layer which lies beneath the Dome.

Your research on the Tunguska explosion is deplorable, julian; how could you bring Peary into the equation? That explosion had nothing to do with Peary's trips to the NP, please study before posting here.

Here is the best proof of the fact that the surface of the Earth is flat, and that e/m signals can be sent above it:

Tunguska, 1908, Siberia, June 30, 7:14 am

The famous explosion, seen all the way to London, Antwerp, Stockholm and Irkutsk was caused by the ball lightning experiments of Nikola Tesla, see:

http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/starting%20pages.htm
http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/teslaweapons.htm

Here is what the particle accelerator (actually, vortex accelerator) laboratory looked like, built in 1899, by Nikola Tesla:

http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/fig6.gif
http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/fig10.jpg

The inhabitants of Central Siberia saw the fall and explosion of the ball lightning over an area with a radius of 600-1000 km.

The explosion took place at approximately 6 kilometers above the river Tunguska...with no crater found...

(http://static.icr.org/i/research/papers/sa/sa-r05a.jpg)

NOW THE PROOF THAT NOT ONLY THE EXPLOSION WAS SEEN FROM IRKUTSK, BUT ALSO THE TRAJECTORY OF THE BALL LIGHTNING:

The first report of the explosion was in the Irkutsk paper dated July 2, 1908, published two days after the explosion:
...the peasants saw a body shining very brightly (too bright for the naked eye) with a bluish-white light.... The body was in the form of 'a pipe', i.e. cylindrical. The sky was cloudless, except that low down on the horizon, in the direction in which this glowing body was observed, a small dark cloud was noticed. It was hot and dry and when the shining body approached the ground (which was covered with forest at this point) it seemed to be pulverized, and in its place a loud crash, not like thunder, but as if from the fall of large stones or from gunfire was heard. All the buildings shook and at the same time a forked tongue of flames broke through the cloud.
All the inhabitants of the village ran out into the street in panic. The old women wept, everyone thought that the end of the world was approaching...

THE VISUAL OBSTACLE FROM TUNGUSKA TO IRKUTSK (455 METERS IN ALTITUDE) IS ACTUALLY 67.5 KILOMETERS!!!

ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE ANYTHING ON A ROUND EARTH.

NOW LET US INCREASE THE DISTANCE TO 7000 KILOMETERS.

The proof that the explosion was observed, immediately, in London, Antwerp, and Stockholm:

Some people saw massive, silvery clouds and brilliant, colored sunsets on the horizon, whereas others witnessed luminescent skies at night?Londoners, for instance, could plainly read newsprint at midnight without artificial lights.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-tunguska-mystery-100-years-later

On the night of 30 June and 1 July, the sky throughout Europe was strangely bright. Throughout the United Kingdom, over 3000 miles from the point of impact, it was possible to play cricket and read newspapers by the glow from the night sky.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/148819-Tunguska-the-Horns-of-the-Moon-and-Evolution

In London on the night of June 30th the air-glow illuminates the northern quadrant of the heavens so brightly that the Times can be read at midnight. In Antwerp the glare of what looks like a huge bonfire rises twenty degrees above the northern horizon, and the sweep second hands of stopwatches are clearly visible at one a.m. In Stockholm, photographers find they can take pictures out of doors without need of cumbersome flash apparatus at any time of night from June 30th to July 3rd.

MORE NEWSPAPERS ACCOUNTS FROM LONDON:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_tunguska02.htm

http://www.nuforc.org/GNTungus.html

A woman north of London wrote the London Times that on midnight of July 1st the sky glowed so brightly it was possible to read large print inside her house. A meteorological observer in England recounted on the nights of June 30th and July 1st:
A strong orange yellow light became visible in the north and northeast... causing an undue prolongation of twilight lasting to daybreak on July 1st...There was a complete absence of scintillation or flickering, and no tendency for the formation of streamers, or a luminous arch, characteristic of auroral phenomena... Twilight on both of these night was prolonged to daybreak, and there was no real darkness.(33)
The report that most closely ties these strange cosmic happenings with Tesla?s power transmission scheme is that while the sky was aglow with this eerie light it was possible to clearly see ships at sea for miles in the middle of the night.(

?To the Editor of the Times.?
?Sir,--Struck with the unusual brightness of the heavens, the band of golfers staying here strolled towards the links at 11 o?clock last evening in order that they might obtain an uninterrupted view of the phenomenon. Looking northwards across the sea they found that the sky had the appearance of a dying sunset of exquisite beauty. This not only lasted but actually grew both in extent and intensity till 2:30 this morning, when driving clouds from the East obliterated the gorgeous colouring. I myself was aroused from sleep at 1:15, and so strong was the light at this hour that I could read a book by it in my chamber quite comfortably. At 1:45 the whole sky, N. and N.-E., was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their matutinal song. No doubt others will have noticed this phenomenon, but as Brancaster holds an almost unique position in facing north to the sea, we who are staying here had the best possible view of it.
Yours faithfully,
Holcombe Ingleby.
Dormy House Club, Brancaster, July 1? (1908 )

?TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.?
?Sir,--I should be interested in hearing whether others of your readers observed the strange light in the sky which was seen here last night by my sister and myself. I do not know when it first appeared; we saw it between 12 o?clock (midnight) and 12:15 a.m. It was in the northeast and of a bright flame-colour like the light of sunrise or sunset. The sky, for some distance above the light, which appeared to be on the horizon, was blue as in the daytime, with bands of light cloud of a pinkish colour floating across it at intervals. Only the brightest stars could be seen in any part of the sky, though it was an almost cloudless night. It was possible to read large print indoors, and the hands of the clock in my room were quite distinct. An hour later, at about 1:30 a.m., the room was quite light, as if it had been day; the light in the sky was then more dispersed and was a fainter yellow. The whole effect was that of a night in Norway at about this time of year. I am in the habit of watching the sky, and have noticed the amount of light indoors at different hours of the night several times in the last fortnight. I have never at any time seen anything the least like this in England, and it would be interesting if any one would explain the cause of so unusual a sight.
Yours faithfully,
Katharine Stephen.
Godmanchester, Huntingdon, July 1.?

The visual obstacle between London and Tungusk IS OVER 9000 KILOMETERS IN HEIGHT! THE EXPLOSION AT TUNGUSKA PROVES CLEARLY THAT THERE IS NO CURVATURE OVER A DISTANCE OF AT LEAST 7000 KILOMETERS IN DISTANCE.

ON A ROUND EARTH, BETWEEN TUNGUSKA AND LONDON YOU WOULD HAVE 1000 HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS STACKED ONE ON TOP OF ANOTHER TO HAVE A VISUAL OBSTACLE OF 9000 KM, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS?

YOU WOULD NOT SEE ANYTHING FROM AN EXPLOSION THAT TOOK PLACE AT AN ALTITUDE OF 6-8 KM, IF YOU WERE IN LONDON, MINUTES AFTER THE EXPLOSION, ON A ROUND EARTH; ONLY ON A FLAT EARTH IS THAT POSSIBLE.



Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 12, 2009, 05:09:37 AM
The explanation to your question is not explained by reflections fro mthe ice shelf, as this would result in reverse polarity and ultimately destructive intereference of the EM radiation. Rather, the explanation is from the curvature of the atmosphere. The earth itself has a flat surface, in 3 dimensions ressembling to the shape of a thin cylinder, however the atmosphere retains curvature due to the meniscus affect. Without getting into the intense mathematical complexities which are neccessary to fully describe the phenomenon, the basis can be easily explained due to difference in cohesion between the bulk gas molecules vs cohesion of the gas/earth interface (which occurs at the edge of the earth, or the ice shelf). The cohesive forces within the molecules are stronger than the adhesive forces between the atmosphere and the ice shelf, causing the gaseous atmosphere to assume a convex shape.

To summarise you are saying "Gasses (including the atmosphere) exhibit the meniscus effect".

PSEUDOSCIENCE ALERT !!!

1. Pseudoscience displays an indifference to facts.
Instead of bothering to consult reference works or investigating directly, its advocates simply spout bogus "facts" where needed. These fictions are often central to the pseudoscientist's argument and conclusions. Moreover, pseudoscientists rarely revise. The first edition of a pseudoscience book is almost always the last, even though the book remains in print for decades or even centuries. Even books with obvious mistakes, errors, and misprints on every page may be reprinted as is, over and over. Compare this to science textbooks that see a new edition every few years because of the rapid accumulation of new facts and insights.

The meniscus effect is caused by capillary action, a phenomenon only associated with liquids.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 12, 2009, 05:12:47 AM

julian, the radiation pressure over those spots IS LOWEST on the surface of the Sun, about 1/10000 of the atmospheric pressure on Earth; at this time, scientists do not know what causes the relation between the sunspots and weather pattern changes on Earth. If it is not due to radiation, what other cause could there be? This question is answered only in the correct model of the flat earth, which does include the black sun, which gives off energy/aether to the visible sun.

To summarise you are saying "Scientists don't know what causes the relationship between sunspots and weather patterns, so is could "only" be down to a Flat Earth".

PSEUDOSCIENCE ALERT !!!


squirter, we can find a junior forum for you, if needed...

Impossibility of a round Sun shape:

The atmospheric pressure of the sun, instead of being 27.47 times greater than the atmospheric pressure of the earth (as expected because of the gravitational pull of the large solar mass), is much smaller: the pressure there varies according to the layers of the atmosphere from one-tenth to one-thousandth of the barometric pressure on the earth;(13) at the base of the reversing layer the pressure is 0.005 of the atmospheric pressure at sea level on the earth;(14) in the sunspots, the pressure drops to one ten-thousandth of the pressure on the earth.

The pressure of light is sometimes referred to as to explain the low atmospheric pressure on the sun. At the surface of the sun, the pressure of light must be 2.75 milligrams per square centimeter; a cubic centimeter of one gram weight at the surface of the earth would weigh 27.47 grams at the surface of the sun. Thus the attraction by the solar mass is 10,000 times greater than the repulsion of the solar light. Recourse is taken to the supposition that if the pull and the pressure are calculated for very small masses, the pressure exceeds the pull, one acting in proportion to the surface, the other in proportion to the volume.(15) But if this is so, why is the lowest pressure of the solar atmosphere observed over the sunspots where the light pressure is least?

12. Because of its swift rotation, the gaseous sun should have the latitudinal axis greater than the longitudinal, but it does not have it. The sun is one million times larger than the earth, and its day is but twenty-six times longer than the terrestrial day; the swiftness of its rotation at its equator is over 125 km. per minute; at the poles, the velocity approaches zero. Yet the solar disk is not oval but round: the majority of observers even find a small excess in the longitudinal axis of the sun.(16) The planets act in the same manner as the rotation of the sun, imposing a latitudinal pull on the luminary.

Gravitation that acts in all directions equally leaves unexplained the spherical shape of the sun. As we saw in the preceding section, the gases of the solar atmosphere are not under a strong pressure, but under a very weak one. Therefore, the computation, according to which the ellipsoidity of the sun, that is lacking, should be slight, is not correct either. Since the gases are under a very low gravitational pressure, the centrifugal force of rotation must have formed quite a flat sun.

Near the polar regions of the sun, streamers of the corona are observed, which prolong still more the axial length of the sun.

13. If planets and satellites were once molten masses, as cosmological theories assume, they would not have been able to obtain a spherical form, especially those which do not rotate, as Mercury or the moon (with respect to its primary).

You see, squirter, this undermines immediately your heliocentric system...that is why I brought it up...

Here is a short version of the Faint Young Sun Paradox:

Supposedly the Sun has been a main-sequence star since its formation about 4.6 billion years ago. This time represents about half the assumed ten-billion-year main-sequence lifetime of the Sun, so the Sun should have used about half its energy store. This means that about half the hydrogen in the core of the Sun has been used up and replaced by helium. This change in chemical composition changes the structure of the core. The overall structure of the Sun would have to change as well, so that today, the Sun should be nearly 40% brighter than it was 4.6 billion years ago.

This obviously has consequences for the temperatures of the planets. It is generally believed that even small fluctuations in the Sun's luminosity would have devastating consequences on Earth's climate. A 40% change in solar luminosity should have produced dramatic climatic changes.

According to evolution, about four billion years ago when life supposedly first arose on Earth, the temperature had to have been close to what the temperature is today. But if that were the case, the subsequent increase in the Sun's luminosity would have made Earth far too hot for life today. One could naively suggest that Earth began cooler than it is today and has been slowly warming with time. But this is not an option because geologists note that Earth's rock record insists that Earth's average temperature has not varied much over the past four billion years, and biologists require a nearly constant average temperature for the development and evolution of life. This problem is called the early faint Sun paradox.

Evolution proposes that the early atmosphere contained a greater amount of greenhouse gases (such as methane) than today. This would have produced average temperatures close to those today, even with a much fainter Sun. As the Sun gradually increased in luminosity, Earth's atmosphere is supposed to have evolved along with it, so that the amount of greenhouse gases have slowly decreased to compensate for the increasing solar luminosity.

The precise tuning of this alleged co-evolution is nothing short of miraculous. The mechanism driving this would have to be a complex system of negative feedbacks working very gradually, though it is not at all clear how such feedbacks could occur. At any point, a slight positive feedback would have completely disrupted the system, with catastrophic consequences similar to those of Venus or Mars. For instance, the current makeup of Earth's atmosphere is in a non-equilibrium state that is maintained by the widespread diversity of life. There is no evolutionary imperative that this be the case: it is just the way it is. Thus the incredibly unlikely origin and evolution of life had to be accompanied by the evolution of Earth's atmosphere in concert with the Sun.

The implausibility of such a process has caused Lovelock to propose his Gaia hypothesis. According to this, the biosphere (consisting of Earth's oceans, atmosphere, crust, and all living things) constitutes a sort of super organism that has evolved. Life has developed in such a way that the atmosphere has been altered to protect it in the face of increasing solar luminosity. Lovelock's hypothesis has not been generally accepted, largely because of the spiritual implications. Indeed, it does seem to lead to a mystical sort of view.


If billions of years were true, the sun would have been much fainter in the past. However, there is no evidence that the sun was fainter at any time in the earth's history. Astronomers call this the faint young sun paradox.

Evolutionists and long-agers believe that life appeared on the earth about 3.8 billion years ago. But if that timescale were true, the sun would be 25% brighter today than it was back then. This implies that the earth would have been frozen at an average temperature of -3 C. However, most paleontologists believe that, if anything, the earth was warmer in the past. The only way around this is to make arbitrary and unrealistic assumptions of a far greater greenhouse effect at that time than exists today, with about 1,000 times more CO2 in the atmosphere than there is today.

The physical principles that cause the early faint Sun paradox are well established, so astrophysicists are confident that the effect is real. Consequently, evolutionists have a choice of two explanations as to how Earth has maintained nearly constant temperature in spite of a steadily increasing influx of energy. In the first alternative, one can believe that through undirected change, the atmosphere has evolved to counteract heating. At best this means that the atmosphere has evolved through a series of states of unstable equilibrium or even non-equilibrium. Individual living organisms do something akin to this, driven by complex instructions encoded into DNA. Death is a process in which the complex chemical reactions of life ceases and cells rapidly approach chemical equilibrium. Short of some guiding intelligence or design, a similar process for the atmosphere seems incredibly improbable. Any sort of symbioses or true feedback with the Sun is entirely out of the question. On the other hand, one can believe that some sort of life force has directed the atmosphere's evolution through this ordeal. Most find the teleological or spiritual implications of this unpalatable, though there is a trend in this direction in physics.

A much higher concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere has been suggested to maintain a proper temperature. This is an inferrence supported by no geological evidence whatsoever. Studies of iron carbonates by Rye et al. conclusively show that Earth had at most 20 percent the required amount of CO2. We have evidence that Mars also had temperatures suitable for liquid in its distant past. It is unlikely that CO2 would custom-heat both planets.

http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences10.html

Conditions on the very early earth that permit the appearance and early evolution of life seem to be achievable without invoking too many improbabilities. As the sun then became hotter, however, we have a problem; if the greenhouse atmosphere is maintained for too long, as the sun brightens, a runaway greenhouse effect may result from positive feedback, creating a Venus-like situation and rendering the earth uninhabitable. A compensating negative feedback is required.

Some geochemical feedback may be possible, but it appears unlikely to be sufficient. Living organisms, too, started converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and organic matter, substantially decreasing the greenhouse effect as soon as photosynthesis got going. There is, however, no obvious reason for this process to keep exactly in step with the sun's increasing luminosity. It may be that we have simply been lucky, but as an explanation that is not entirely satisfactory. If the tuning did need to be very precise, Faulkner would have a point in calling it 'miraculous'.


As a result of a fainter Sun, the temperature on ancient Earth should have been some 25 C lower than today. Such a low temperature should have kept large parts of Earth frozen until about one to two billion years ago. The case for Mars is even more extreme due to its greater distance from the Sun. Yet there is compelling geologic evidence suggesting that liquid water was abundant on both planets three to four billion years ago.

Earth's oldest rocks, which are found in northern Canada and in the southwestern part of Greenland, date back nearly four billion years to the early Archean eon. Within these ancient rock samples are rounded 'pebbles' that appear to be sedimentary, laid down in a liquid-water environment. Rocks as old as 3.2 billion years exhibit mud cracks, ripple marks, and microfossil algae. All of these pieces of evidence indicate that early Earth must have had an abundant supply of liquid water in the form of lakes or oceans.

This apparent contradiction, between the icehouse that one would expect based upon stellar evolution models and the geologic evidence for copious amounts of liquid water, has become known as the 'faint young sun paradox.'

A supersite which shows the errors in radiodating with uranium/iron carbonates made by S. Mojzsis in investigating the faint young sun paradox:

http://documents.scribd.com/docs/ngh6ixb0w80lwvvqkxo.pdf

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 12, 2009, 05:42:33 AM

squirter, we can find a junior forum for you, if needed...

Impossibility of a round Sun shape:

The atmospheric pressure of the sun, instead of being 27.47 times greater than the atmospheric pressure of the earth (as expected because of the gravitational pull of the large solar mass), is much smaller: the pressure there varies according to the layers of the
...
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences10.html
... 
http://documents.scribd.com/docs/ngh6ixb0w80lwvvqkxo.pdf
...

PSEUDOSCIENCE ALERT !!!

Your spoutings are relating to "Creationist" sources or the sun being a binary star 14,000 years ago.

2. Pseudoscience "research" is invariably sloppy.
Pseudoscientists clip newspaper reports, collect hearsay, cite other pseudoscience books, and pore over ancient religious or mythological works. They rarely or never make an independent investigation to check their sources.


Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 12, 2009, 05:48:37 AM

squirter, we can find a junior forum for you, if needed...

Impossibility of a round Sun shape:

The atmospheric pressure of the sun, instead of being 27.47 times greater than the atmospheric pressure of the earth (as expected because of the gravitational pull of the large solar mass), is much smaller: the pressure there varies according to the layers of the
...
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences10.html
... 
http://documents.scribd.com/docs/ngh6ixb0w80lwvvqkxo.pdf
...

PSEUDOSCIENCE ALERT !!!

Your spoutings are relating to "Creationist" sources or the sun being a binary star 14,000 years ago.

2. Pseudoscience "research" is invariably sloppy.
Pseudoscientists clip newspaper reports, collect hearsay, cite other pseudoscience books, and pore over ancient religious or mythological works. They rarely or never make an independent investigation to check their sources.


PSEUDOSQUIRT**** ALERT!

Your spoutings relating to my message are quotes taken out of context, which have nothing to do with my original posting.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 12, 2009, 06:15:09 AM
PSEUDOSQUIRTFUCK ALERT!

Your spoutings relating to my message are quotes taken out of context, which have nothing to do with my original posting.

There is a perfectly reasonable context here:

Moon Squirter is comparing your behaviour and scientific methodology to those displayed by "pseudoscientists" - people who think that they are being scientific, but who do not, in fact, act in a sufficiently rational or logical way.

The implication appears to be that you demonstrate typical "pseudoscintific" behaviour, and that your conclusions are, therefrore, suspect.

Moon Squirter is making a perfectly valid point, therefore, in my opinion because all scientists are judged by their methodology all of the time.

I must also say that your tendency to resort to making patronising and negative personal remarks about your debating opponents also does little to enhance your reputation.

And the way that you always bring up Tunguska when it has no relevance to the point under debate is also rather annoying.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on June 12, 2009, 06:16:53 AM
levee it seems you just copy and paste information to support your position but you lack sufficient knowledge to judge if that information is credible or not. it's evident that you have no significant education in the sciences because you are unable to judge fact from fiction. you may have strong religious convictions but we aren't arguing religion here, or we aren't supposed to be.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 12, 2009, 06:29:22 AM
squirt is not making a perfectly valid point, because squirt has no idea what is being debated, this to start with.

3Tesla, at the present time, you are not in a position to judge anybody; you simply lack the hundreds of books or the thousands of links to keep up with me in any debate. I have thoroughly destroyed your every conceivable crackpot argument, there on the .net site and here; you have a laughable high school level of scientific understanding, not to mention an even weaker knowledge of history.

Tunguska is relevant each and every time; from a distance of 1000 km, the inhabitans of Irkutsk saw the actual explosion which took place 1000 km away. Are you dumb or just pretending to be so? How can this not be relevant? A ball lightning signal sent to the other side of the world (flat earth model) from the person which originally in 1883 sent the first e/m signal around and above the flat earth disk.

If you have nothing better to say, please shut the faq up. Thank you.

dyno, so far you are showing everybody to be a nice but very superficial person, from the pictures you thought would shake the world, to your comments here. At the present time, you are not able to even write two paragraphs from any of my messages; if I offer copy&paste, you can be sure it is the very best pertainable information there is. In fact, because of my sufficient knowledge, I have posted more than any other participant here: I challenge even an amateur like yourself to find any mistakes:

http://theflatearthsociety.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=d2c65ef03a85a350377db65b5e8ebfb0&board=7.0

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 12, 2009, 07:05:15 AM
But it does; our friend julian must understand that the surface of the earth is actually flat; the explosion observed from a distance of 1000 km, or from London, or from Stockholm (instantly or a few minutes later) could thus be seen only a flat earth.

Nikola Tesla actually sent the first e/m signal above the flat earth, using the aether layer described in his experiments, which is being used today (by julian) to do the same thing.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 12, 2009, 07:10:12 AM
3Tesla, at the present time, you are not in a position to judge anybody; you simply lack the hundreds of books or the thousands of links to keep up with me in any debate. I have thoroughly destroyed your every conceivable crackpot argument, there on the .net site and here;

Your arrogance is, and always has been, obnoxious to me in the extreme.

you have a laughable high school level of scientific understanding,

As it happens, I have a Ph.D. in medical physics, a first class homours B.Sc. in applied physics, grade A A-Levels in maths, physics and chemistry and grade A O-Levels in geology, biology and physical science.

What scientific qualifications do you have?

not to mention an even weaker knowledge of history.

Actually I have quite a good general knowledge of history (mostly European) and a very good understanding of the famous Tunguska incident.

But how is that relevant to a debate about radio-wave propagation around The World?

If you have nothing better to say, please shut the faq up. Thank you.

More arrogant rudeness - you appear to lack the grace, humility, politness, respect and self-control needed to engage in rational scientific debate.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 12, 2009, 07:32:32 AM
3Tesla, you are the one who started the name calling not me, if you remember...I have put up with your amateurish (notwithstanding your titles) approach long enough...you are ignoring all the photographs which clearly show there is no curvature...

killabee, trolling is the name of your game, not mine. If you do not know this much, that the Tunguska event was caused by Tesla, then you have no place being here; please research the Tunguska matter, it could not have been a meteorite, nuclear device, comet or anything else known by science; please research the eyewitness accounts of the ball lightning, from the sailors in the Indian Ocean, to the inhabitants next to Lake Baikal.

That event was very well described in the newspapers of the time; which things you do not understand? I am presenting the actual quotes from the newspapers:

The first report of the explosion was in the Irkutsk paper dated July 2, 1908, published two days after the explosion:
...the peasants saw a body shining very brightly (too bright for the naked eye) with a bluish-white light.... The body was in the form of 'a pipe', i.e. cylindrical. The sky was cloudless, except that low down on the horizon, in the direction in which this glowing body was observed, a small dark cloud was noticed. It was hot and dry and when the shining body approached the ground (which was covered with forest at this point) it seemed to be pulverized, and in its place a loud crash, not like thunder, but as if from the fall of large stones or from gunfire was heard. All the buildings shook and at the same time a forked tongue of flames broke through the cloud.
All the inhabitants of the village ran out into the street in panic. The old women wept, everyone thought that the end of the world was approaching...

The visual obstacle between Irkutsk and Tunguska is over 67 kilometers.

MORE NEWSPAPERS ACCOUNTS FROM LONDON:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_tunguska02.htm

http://www.nuforc.org/GNTungus.html

A woman north of London wrote the London Times that on midnight of July 1st the sky glowed so brightly it was possible to read large print inside her house. A meteorological observer in England recounted on the nights of June 30th and July 1st:
A strong orange yellow light became visible in the north and northeast... causing an undue prolongation of twilight lasting to daybreak on July 1st...There was a complete absence of scintillation or flickering, and no tendency for the formation of streamers, or a luminous arch, characteristic of auroral phenomena... Twilight on both of these night was prolonged to daybreak, and there was no real darkness.(33)
The report that most closely ties these strange cosmic happenings with Tesla?s power transmission scheme is that while the sky was aglow with this eerie light it was possible to clearly see ships at sea for miles in the middle of the night.(

?To the Editor of the Times.?
?Sir,--Struck with the unusual brightness of the heavens, the band of golfers staying here strolled towards the links at 11 o?clock last evening in order that they might obtain an uninterrupted view of the phenomenon. Looking northwards across the sea they found that the sky had the appearance of a dying sunset of exquisite beauty. This not only lasted but actually grew both in extent and intensity till 2:30 this morning, when driving clouds from the East obliterated the gorgeous colouring. I myself was aroused from sleep at 1:15, and so strong was the light at this hour that I could read a book by it in my chamber quite comfortably. At 1:45 the whole sky, N. and N.-E., was a delicate salmon pink, and the birds began their matutinal song. No doubt others will have noticed this phenomenon, but as Brancaster holds an almost unique position in facing north to the sea, we who are staying here had the best possible view of it.
Yours faithfully,
Holcombe Ingleby.
Dormy House Club, Brancaster, July 1? (1908 )

?TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.?
?Sir,--I should be interested in hearing whether others of your readers observed the strange light in the sky which was seen here last night by my sister and myself. I do not know when it first appeared; we saw it between 12 o?clock (midnight) and 12:15 a.m. It was in the northeast and of a bright flame-colour like the light of sunrise or sunset. The sky, for some distance above the light, which appeared to be on the horizon, was blue as in the daytime, with bands of light cloud of a pinkish colour floating across it at intervals. Only the brightest stars could be seen in any part of the sky, though it was an almost cloudless night. It was possible to read large print indoors, and the hands of the clock in my room were quite distinct. An hour later, at about 1:30 a.m., the room was quite light, as if it had been day; the light in the sky was then more dispersed and was a fainter yellow. The whole effect was that of a night in Norway at about this time of year. I am in the habit of watching the sky, and have noticed the amount of light indoors at different hours of the night several times in the last fortnight. I have never at any time seen anything the least like this in England, and it would be interesting if any one would explain the cause of so unusual a sight.
Yours faithfully,
Katharine Stephen.
Godmanchester, Huntingdon, July 1.?

The visual obstacle between London and Tungusk IS OVER 9000 KILOMETERS IN HEIGHT! THE EXPLOSION AT TUNGUSKA PROVES CLEARLY THAT THERE IS NO CURVATURE OVER A DISTANCE OF AT LEAST 7000 KILOMETERS IN DISTANCE.

Now, look at your last messages kb, who is actually trolling, me or you?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 12, 2009, 07:37:51 AM
But it does; our friend julian must understand that the surface of the earth is actually flat; the explosion observed from a distance of 1000 km, or from London, or from Stockholm (instantly or a few minutes later) could thus be seen only a flat earth.

PSEUDOSCIENCE ALERT (again)!

14. Pseudoscience argues from alleged exceptions, errors, anomalies, strange events,
and suspect claims?rather than from well-established regularities of nature.

e.g. For the "Tunguska Event", how do we know the light in Europe was caused by one explosion and not other fragments of an "asteriod?"  Has anything ever happened like it since?  The H-Bomb tests: They produced lots of photons but didn't illuminate half the world.

...and...

2. Pseudoscience "research" is invariably sloppy.
Pseudoscientists clip newspaper reports, collect hearsay, cite other pseudoscience books, and pore over ancient religious or mythological works. They rarely or never make an independent investigation to check their sources.

MMMmm, yes.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 12, 2009, 07:44:37 AM
3Tesla, you are the one who started the name calling not me, if you remember...

Please show me any quotation where I have called you names, and I will show you an earlier one from you where you do the reverse.

I have put up with your amateurish (notwithstanding your titles) approach long enough...

Amateurish?

I forget to mention that I have about 13 years continuous post-doctoral experience in the field of cancer research, and I have co-authored dozens of papers in that time which makes me a professional, i.e. paid, not amateur, scientist.

you are ignoring all the photographs which clearly show there is no curvature...

If you want me to comment on your photographs I will - they look faked to me.

And you are ignoring the photographs at sea level and altitude which have clearly shown ships disappearing behind the horizon.

Edit:- here is the link to the "sinking ship" photos:

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.0

I note that you are active in that thread, but you choose not to reference the photo's in this thread (you just post your own photo's).

Such selectivity is not good academic practice.

The visual obstacle between London and Tungusk IS OVER 9000 KILOMETERS IN HEIGHT! THE EXPLOSION AT TUNGUSKA PROVES CLEARLY THAT THERE IS NO CURVATURE OVER A DISTANCE OF AT LEAST 7000 KILOMETERS IN DISTANCE.

Typing in capitals ...

Again ...

HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BE TOLD THAT THIS IS SHOUTING !!!!!

(If you want to emphasise text, please use itallics, underlining or both like a reasonable person.)

You are acting like a fanatic in that you appear to let your emotions cloud your rational judgement.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: NTheGreat on June 12, 2009, 08:35:38 AM
A little point I'll like to bring up.

A strong orange yellow light became visible in the north and northeast...

Quote
At 1:45 the whole sky, N. and N.-E., was a delicate salmon pink

Quote
It was in the northeast and of a bright flame-colour like the light of sunrise or sunset. The sky, for some distance above the light, which appeared to be on the horizon, was blue as in the daytime . . . the light in the sky was then more dispersed and was a fainter yellow.

There's various lights coming from different directions and of different colours. Are you suggesting that they all are the same source?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 12, 2009, 10:27:58 AM
julian, when it comes to atmospheric science, you are out of your league here...please do your homework before posting...

What I wrote IS TRUE...

The diurnal pressure variation has been recorded for hundreds of years now...as you should know...my friend...

Let us take as an example Taiwan. Surface pressure measurements in Taiwan (at 25?N) are least around 4am and (especially) 4 pm Local Standard Time, and most around (especially) 10am, and 10pm LST.

Do you understand these things Julian? And then why the crap from your last message...

The CAUSE of this variation is unknown, although it is described officially as being caused by waves in the upper atmosphere.

Therefore, julian, your comments are a trademark of the fact that you have in fact NOT STUDIED this things, mabye at all...

Now, here is the paradox: The heating effect of the sun can explain neither the time when the maxima appear nor the time of the minima of these semidiurnal variations. If the pressure becomes lower without the air becoming lighter through a lateral expansion due to heat, this must mean that the same mass of air gravitates with changing force at different hours.

Velikovsky was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century; notwithstanding the crackpot comments made by "scientists".

Please read Worlds in Collision carefully, you will discover the 1000+ references which prove that the Earth stopped from its axial rotation several times in the past; this could have happened only in a flat earth system, that is, the stars/sun changing the orbit above the earth; had the Earth stopped from the axial rotation, it would have crashed into the void, cosmic space immediately, not being able to restart its rotation.

Your superficial comments on this subject show that you have never studied the past catastrophism theories, and do not understand, for example, the cause of the extinction of the mammoths.

The first e/m signal to reach above the flat earth and back, was sent by none other than Nikola Tesla in 1883.

It is perfectly explainable, if we take into account the aether layer which lies beneath the Dome.

Your research on the Tunguska explosion is deplorable, julian; how could you bring Peary into the equation? That explosion had nothing to do with Peary's trips to the NP, please study before posting here.

Here is the best proof of the fact that the surface of the Earth is flat, and that e/m signals can be sent above it:





Minutes after the explosion? You ever heard of the speed of light? IF (and that's a very big if), the earth is flat, the width of it and the speed of light would assure this "explosion" that tesla "caused" would be seen (according to human perception) instantaneously. Automatic fail right there. On top of that, lightning balls, in their definitive sense are existent for microseconds, maybe milliseconds if you are lucky. That doesn't really account for how this stretched out for 3 hours with physical impact left on the earth or ozone layer that is not comparable to an electro-magnetic explosion, more an electrial explosion. never mind the lack of effect on the atmosphere for something supposedly many times the size of the Hiroshima bomb.

Quite frankly, I think the typed out letters you have found on the internet aren't a credible source. Plenty of people get convinced they have been abducted by aliens, and psychologically speaking, these people will actually have memories of it. Entirely fabricated of course. It's a very common phenomenon of the mind, and one under which this falls I think. Also, all the information I can find on Tesla and his wardenclyffe emitter has some very very wild suggestions...one of which that it can produce 100 billion watts of electricity? Most of tesla's work on this is available to scientists as most of the burnings happened before this work was started - if that idea was even a quarter true, the world's energy problems would be solved in an instant. I have to point out to you, Tesla did some brilliant work yes - but much of his activity was regarded eccentric, unjustified, and quite often outright lies.

And yes, dinural pressure has been recorded for centuries, not that radio enthusiasts give two hoots about it because it affects them in no way whatsoever. I will say it again, your maxima and minima are not what I am talking about, and certainly not what give way to increased radio propagation at certain times of the day (which change!).

I refuse to believe World's in Collision can actually be passed off as a valid scientific document. Numerous people have informed you that Velikovsky had no formal qualifications in Physics, Mathematics, applied fields of either, Astrophysics and so on. He was a psychotherapist at heart, and his work on such books could be an experiment by him to see if anyone would believe him (just to throw in a possibility for you).

His concept in which Venus drifted so close to the Earth's atmosphere at which point both were actually mixed relies (dubiously) on RE physics. FE physics with the earth accelerating upwards constantly would render that theory impossible, and more importantly the end of the theory, in which Venus and Earth manage to split, is also impossible with dark energy. Also bear in mind the way he describes the event, importantly involves that venus is a similar size (and shape!) - to my knowledge FE denies this. So you celebrate a "scientist" that has many theories that solely rely on the earth being spherical...? I'm not quite sure what else to say on that one.

Plus, doesn't bendy light or whatever you call it account for why people can see something so far away?

Still, this thread has moved beyond the relevance of Tunguska - I will happily continue it in another thread, but this is more about radio propogation and the transmission of information, not a possible electrical/electromagnetic explosion. (which by the way would probably leave residual magnetism in local metallic deposits, which aren't there, if it was created in the way suggested.)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: kingkool on June 12, 2009, 12:26:15 PM
Julian, I am at work, I will respond more this evening (renting time on the particle accelerator is expensive and there is quite a waiting list, I don't have time to mess around during the day).

I was not applying maxwell-boltzman relationships to EM waves, I was applying it to the gaseous particles in the atmosphere as an explanation of why the temperature gradient causes a convex atmosphere. It is certainly applicable in this sense. The gaseous atmosphere over the cold center (the arctic circle) is not affected the same way because the altitude is much lower and the area is much smaller, hence it doesnt have nearly the same magnitude of affect on the atmosphere near the ice shelf.

As far as Euler's wave equations, there are certainly rational boundary conditions: The electromagnetic wave must start and end (in phase) while going around the circumfurence of a circle. It is like a string tied in a circle, only a very limited set of EM vibrations are possible without causing destructive intereference. Add in the reflections and the math gets extremely complicated very quickly. As to the person who said meniscus is not possible with a gas: with an ideal gas, it is not. However, after you get beyond Physics II you learn that gasses are not ideal, there is certainly attraction between the gas particles and the gas/ice shelf interface. It is the reason why the atmosphere exists (instead of just floating into space). REAL gas particlse (not ideal gas particles) show quite a bit of interaction. These are just quick responses while my neutrino experiment is running, let me know if you ahve any other questions and I will get ot them when I finish work.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on June 12, 2009, 03:43:07 PM
kingkool, would you mind providing the maths involved in the reflection process at an convex atmosphere? i'm not interested in the convexity itself as that is widely accepted in fet and imo quite an elegant solution, only the reflection itself. thanks in advance  :)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 12, 2009, 04:21:26 PM
(renting time on the particle accelerator is expensive and there is quite a waiting list, I don't have time to mess around during the day).

These are just quick responses while my neutrino experiment is running, let me know if you ahve any other questions and I will get ot them when I finish work.

lol, and lol. I don't believe that for a minute. And which particle accelerator are you working with? What university do you work for?

Well alright maybe I got your argument slightly confused...but it still stands that Maxwell Boltzman equations don't work with the ionosphere. Still, it's irrelevant of how the atmosphere is spherized, as in both models, FE still doesn't explain how you don't receive the signal from in front of you before you receive it behind you in directional wavelength adjusted circumstances.

Aaaaand hence why Eulers wave equations aren't used for EM waves....there is no way to model the medium in which they travel. I said rational boundary conditions are very difficult to obtain with an EM wave, and virtually impossible when several reflections are involved...hence they would be irrational boundary conditions. The few situations that they can provided accurately, would not be real world. Concurrently, modelling each reflection and refraction individually with EM wave equations is far more accurate. And even if you did want to goto the hassle of Eulering it up on your waves, it still doesn't explain why you don't receive the signal in front of you first on a FE.

As izmih says - no-one is really arguing about convexity as it is important to both models and thus rather irrelevant on how it is achieved. It's the reflection paths that don't make sense in FE.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 13, 2009, 03:32:56 AM
However, after you get beyond Physics II you learn that gasses are not ideal, there is certainly attraction between the gas particles and the gas/ice shelf interface. It is the reason why the atmosphere exists (instead of just floating into space).

I thought that The Earth keeps its atmosphere because of gravitational attraction.

Or am I being stupid/naive?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 13, 2009, 04:34:48 PM
However, after you get beyond Physics II you learn that gasses are not ideal, there is certainly attraction between the gas particles and the gas/ice shelf interface. It is the reason why the atmosphere exists (instead of just floating into space).

I thought that The Earth keeps its atmosphere because of gravitational attraction.

Or am I being stupid/naive?

If you were a FE'er, then yeah, you are so stupid and naive.

But as a RE'er, nah, you're fine. Gravity = win.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 14, 2009, 02:44:27 AM
However, after you get beyond Physics II you learn that gasses are not ideal, there is certainly attraction between the gas particles and the gas/ice shelf interface. It is the reason why the atmosphere exists (instead of just floating into space).

I thought that The Earth keeps its atmosphere because of gravitational attraction.

Or am I being stupid/naive?

If you were an FE'er, then yeah, you are so stupid and naive.

But as a RE'er, nah, you're fine. Gravity = win.

There was a clue in my question - I called it an atmo-sphere, not an atmo-plane.

Edit: move my text out of the quote.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 14, 2009, 03:24:26 AM
lol....i wonder if that means FE'rs cannot use the word atmosphere? Even if their dome is concave, it's only half a sphere so not strictly a sphere is it?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 14, 2009, 07:51:55 AM
Let us now return to the subject discussed here.

Radio waves can propagate above the flat earth just as easily as they could around a spherical earth. In the flat earth model, we also have an invisible layer of charged particles which serves as a medium for those signals.

In 1883, Nikola Tesla put forward the theory of electric signal propagation to the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia) and to the National Electric Light Association (St. Louis). This problem was analyzed by Thompson and Webster, and in 1886, and further studied by Corum and Aidinejad in The Transient Propagation of ELF Pulses in the Earth Ionosphere Cavity, which confirmed Tesla's experimental data.

Also, on a flat earth, we have the Schumann cavity resonances, that is, the space between the surface of the flat Earth and the conductive ionosphere (acting as a closed waveguide). Just above the ionosphere we have the first Dome, as is well known in our flat earth theory now.

An electrical signal will circumnavigate above a flat earth, just as easily as it could around a spherical earth.

Therefore, julian, your hypotheses investigated in the opening message, are just not true; our flat earth model includes all these details.

Now, the facts presented here in the FAQ are not all true, you have to be careful about that; my messages include the correct theory, so far.


Here is the complete demonstration for you julian, that the Earth is completely stationary; that is, the cloud trajectories prove clearly that friction coupled with inertia could not possibly explain the round earth atmosphere model:

http://theflatearthsociety.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=d8643bb13f66e50d4e9bee543b374e62&topic=535.0

You mentioned (or somebody else) the Maxwell field equations; well, all of you have not done your homework, IN FACT THOSE EQUATIONS WERE MODIFIED FROM THEIR ORIGINAL 1861 FORM, Tesla was the first to discover this, and actually recovered the true equations (even though he did not use the field concept).

http://www.cheniere.org/books/aids/ch4.htm

http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1773

http://www.indopedia.org/Talk:Maxwell's_equations.html

http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&thold=-1&mode=flat&order=0&sid=1835

http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/050402.htm

http://www.enterprisemission.com/hyper2.html

http://www.angelfire.com/oz/cv/scalarweapons.html

'... Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curving of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies, and producing the opposite effects, straightening out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible - But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.'
'My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.' ? Nikola Tesla

Tesla's aether is in fact a medium, 'a perfect fluid' that wets everything in which are immersed 'independent carriers'. It behaves as a solid to light (high frequency) and is transparent to matter, while it's effects can be felt through inertia. Tesla demonstrated how this aether could be 'polarized' and made 'rigid' through a particular high frequency alternator and single terminal coil (ex. 1892 lecture in London) and 2 metal plates which he 'suspended' in the air making the space between them rigid 'privately' on one another (ed. the tesla effect). In 1894, Tesla invented a special bulb (which was the ultimate result of his research in vacuum tubes; the unipolar 'targetless' bulb) which augmented this technology to create 'tubes of force' which could be used for motive power (what Tesla later cited as 'veritable ropes of air').

Abstract.
Maxwell's 1864 paper 'A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field' abandons the theory of molecular vortices that was a central feature of his 1861 paper 'On Physical Lines of Force'. Even after writing part I of his 1861 paper, Maxwell realized that a purely hydrodynamical approach to electromagnetic theory is insufficient, and so he introduced electrical particles and gradually shifted over to a more dynamical approach. This article investigates whether or not any physics was lost as a result of Maxwell abandoning his theory of molecular vortices. The focus of attention is centred on equation (5) of his 1861 paper, as this equation contains components that can be demonstrated to simultaneously represent both the Coriolis force and the Lorentz force, therefore implying that the Lorentz force is a kind of Coriolis force. Since a rotating frame of reference is needed for a Coriolis force, it follows that the Lorentz force must depend entirely on the rotating aethereal substance within Maxwell's vortex cells. The conclusion is that Maxwell made a serious error when he abandoned his theory of molecular vortices, and that the physical explanation for the Lorentz force was lost as a result.
The Coriolis Force in Maxwell's Equations
(A comparative study of Maxwell?s 1864 paper 'A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field' and his 1861 paper 'On Physical Lines of Force')
www.wbabin.net/science/tombe4.pdf

http://www.cheniere.org/books/aids/ch4.htm

http://www.teslatech.info/ttstore/articles/york/esv1n4.htm

http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/pdf/15.2_meyl.pdf


Scalar waves were originally detected by a Scottish mathematical genius called James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) He linked electricity and magnetism and laid the foundation for modern physics, but unfortunately the very fine scalar waves (which he included in his research) were deliberately left out of his work by the 3 men, including Heinrich Hertz, who laid down the laws taught for physics as a discipline at colleges. They dismissed Maxwell's scalar waves or potentials as 'mystical' because they were physically unmanifest and only existed in the 'ethers' and so were determined to be too ineffectual for further study. These enigmatic (but more powerful than even microwaves when harnessed and concentrated into a beam) scalar waves may have been forgotten except that Nicola Tesla accidentally rediscovered them. He'd originally worked with Thomas Edison who discovered direct current, but Tesla discovered alternating current. The two men disagreed and eventually parted ways and Tesla later experimented using the research of the German Heinrich Hertz, who was proving the existence of electromagnetic waves. Tesla found, while experimenting with violently abrupt direct current electrical charges, that a new form of energy (scalar) came through.

By 1904, Tesla had developed transmitters to harness scalar energy from one transmitter to another, undetectably bypassing time and space. He could just materialize it from one place to another through hyperspace, without the use of wires, it was just sucked right out of the space-time/vacuum and into a transmitter and into a beam which could be targeted to another transmitter. Unfortunately he got no financial support for replacing electricity, which used wires and therefore earned money, and to this day, this is the reason why scalar energy is still not acknowledged in mainstream physics. Tesla, even though he discovered more for mankind in science than many others, is still not credited in science books for his discovery of scalar waves, a source of 'free-energy' obtainable as a limitless source of power that costs nothing. Other inventors have sporadically rediscovered 'free-energy' but have come to harm or have been silenced by the sum of millions of dollars hush money, a small sum compared to the sale of electricity, oil, gas and a myriad of other energy producers which would then be rendered worthless. Money hungry big business has harshly crushed any opposition to their own riches, generated by multiple obsolete earth polluting fossil fuels.

http://www.angelfire.com/oz/cv/scalarweapons.html

Therefore, my friends, you have been caught with your pants down, AGAIN!

Let us now get back to the other messages.

julian, you do not understand what is going on.

The actual explosion was seen from 1000 km distance, the visual obstacle in the path is 67.5 kilometers!

Those newspaper accounts are THE REAL ONES; they appeared on July 1 and 2 in the Times, so stop the complaining.

What should have been a very local phenomenon, was seen instantly or minutes later on the other half of the globe (given your model), absolutely impossible given the curvature and the visual obstacle (over 9000 kilometers between London and Tunguska).

Please read Worlds in Collision, where you will discover over 1000 bibliographical references which will prove to you that the Earth stopped from its axial rotation several times in the past. Notwithstanding the comments made by the scientific establishment, you will find that Velikovsky was truly one of the geniuses of the 20th century:

http://www.varchive.org/

Please research the ball lightning physics much more carefully; you might start with Tesla's own experiments, he was able to produce such ball lightning very easily using the aether; your comments show that you have not studied this matter at all.

Now julian and 3Tesla, here are some photographs for you to watch carefully:

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg718436#msg718436

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716538#msg716538

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716522#msg716522

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716502#msg716502 (especially this, 55 km without ANY CURVATURE)



Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 14, 2009, 08:37:04 AM
Let us now return to the subject discussed here.

Ha, ha, ha - like you never go off topic (!)

An electrical signal will circumnavigate above a flat earth, just as easily as it could around a spherical earth.

Please show us a diagram of the path that the radio waves will take, as your idea sounds fantastical (i.e. unbelieveble) to me.

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716502#msg716502 (especially this, 55 km without ANY CURVATURE)

Normally I would just criticise you for going off-topic again ...

But this time I will engage.

If The Earth is truly flat, then any body of water (in the picture it is a lake, I think) will also be perfectly flat.

So if you take a picture from lake level - zero elevation/height - then you will not be able to see the lake in the picture at all as it is flat and the camera will be pointing straight across its surface - see the diagram below.

Now the picture you link to as an *awful* lot of lake at the bottom which indicates to me that it was taken at quite a high elevation/height.

And if the picture *was* taken at a high elevation, then the line-of-sight would go over the curved hump of the lake (as predicted by Round Earth Theory) and see the shoreline opposite.

So you have just posted a link to a photograph which does not support your ideas - that you can see the opposite shore-line from lake level because the lake is flat - because the experimental conditions are wrong.

Is this an honest mistake on your part (we all make them) ...

Or were you trying to mislead us deliberately?

(http://i41.tinypic.com/2ign2om.gif)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 14, 2009, 08:49:25 AM
3Tesla, I just hope, for the sake of your pacients, that your research in the medical field is much better than the BS you posted in the last message: is this what you are trying to do, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit? It doesn't work with me...

We will increase the distance to 55 kilometers, Hamilton - Toronto lakeshore west condominiums.

At that distance, there would be a 59 meter curvature, with an visual obstacle of 195 meters, given the position taken by the photographers right there on the beach (2 meters altitude).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487755017/

Looking from the beach in Hamilton across Lake Ontario towards Toronto

Can you read 3Tesla? If so, we are now on the Hamilton Beach, looking at the Toronto lakeshore west condominiums:

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/487755017_a114c05e50.jpg?v=0)

No 59 meter curvature, no 195 meter visual obstacle, cut the crap.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487726854/in/photostream/

Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontario Beach in Hamilton

There is also a picture of the author right there on the beach...in that photo album...

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/487726854_181aa457da.jpg?v=0)

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS DR. 1/3TESLA?

DO YOU?

On a round earth, from that beach, you would see a mountain of water, a visual obstacle of 195 meters, nothing but sky from the other side.




Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 14, 2009, 09:13:31 AM
3Tesla, I just hope, for the sake of your pacients, that your research in the medical field is much better than the BS you posted in the last message: is this what you are trying to do, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit? It doesn't work with me...

Levee - do your brazen rudeness and over-weening arrogance know no limits?

Can you read 3Tesla? If so, we are now on the Hamilton Beach, looking at the Toronto lakeshore west condominiums:

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/487755017_a114c05e50.jpg?v=0)

Yes, I can read very well, thank you ...

But the real question here is: are you capable of rational and critical thinking?

That picture clearly has far too much lake showing at the bottom to have been taken at the level of the lake (zero elevation/height) - as my diagram shows quite clearly.

That photo was clearly taken at a substantial height above the lake and so it cannot be used to substantiate your claims.

So your agument is, in my opinion, the only "BS" around here.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 14, 2009, 09:29:03 AM
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS DR. 1/3TESLA?

DO YOU?

Typing in capitals again?

For the dozenth time: THAT IS EQUIVALENT TO SHOUTING!

In a world of Flat Earth "True Believers" ...

(A very small world, it must be said) ...

You are clearly the most fanatical zealot of all!

I did like your "1/3 Tesla" insult though - that made me smile ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 14, 2009, 09:40:24 AM
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/487755017_a114c05e50.jpg?v=0)

No 59 meter curvature, no 195 meter visual obstacle, cut the crap.

Your evidence is refuted by these pictures:

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.0

Would you care to comment on this disagreement?

Edit: these pictures also show significant water when taken at sea level, so perhaps your photo's were taken lower down than I first thought. (But the depth of field appears to have foreground waves out of focus which yours don't.)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 14, 2009, 10:02:48 AM
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/487755017_a114c05e50.jpg?v=0)

No 59 meter curvature, no 195 meter visual obstacle, cut the crap.

This important point has just occured to me:

Why have you not shown pictures of the shoreline taken at elevation too?

Without this information - what is known in science as a "control", I think - we cannot judge if the shoreline looks different if you climb higher.

Without that information we have no way of judging if we can see the *real* shoreline in the lake-level photos.

In short your science is flawed, I am afraid - unlike the ship photos referenced above [1] where we have both sea-level *and* elevated photos which are clearly different.

1. Edit: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.0
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 14, 2009, 05:58:45 PM
Let us now return to the subject discussed here.

In the flat earth model, we also have an invisible layer of charged particles which serves as a medium for those signals.

Please call it it's technical term, the ionosphere.

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In 1883, Nikola Tesla put forward the theory of electric signal propagation to the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia) and to the National Electric Light Association (St. Louis). This problem was analyzed by Thompson and Webster, and in 1886, and further studied by Corum and Aidinejad in The Transient Propagation of ELF Pulses in the Earth Ionosphere Cavity, which confirmed Tesla's experimental data.

Irrelevant. What are you trying to say? Tesla confirmed that radio is real? No shit.

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Also, on a flat earth, we have the Schumann cavity resonances, that is, the space between the surface of the flat Earth and the conductive ionosphere (acting as a closed waveguide). Just above the ionosphere we have the first Dome, as is well known in our flat earth theory now.
Irrelevant. Edit: Just to prove how Schumann resonance is irrelevant, firstly, it's experienced only in the ELF bands, I'm talking about HF bands, BIG difference. Secondly, Schumann resonance is normally applicable when excitation has occured...it's generally accepted this is caused by lightning. Directional circumnavigational propagation is normally only possible in very good weather conditions, i.e. sunny, hot and clear. The initial propagation simply will not be strong enough otherwise.

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An electrical signal will circumnavigate above a flat earth, just as easily as it could around a spherical earth.

Therefore, julian, your hypotheses investigated in the opening message, are just not true; our flat earth model includes all these details.

Now, the facts presented here in the FAQ are not all true, you have to be careful about that; my messages include the correct theory, so far.

You've still yet to prove to me how a directional long wavelength signal can arrive behind you after you transmit it. My hypothesis isn't false. I've experienced it myself. Don't call me a liar when you cannot prove that I am lying. Show me the path in diagrammatic form, with relevant mathematics, then I will concede.

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Here is the complete demonstration for you julian, that the Earth is completely stationary; that is, the cloud trajectories prove clearly that friction coupled with inertia could not possibly explain the round earth atmosphere model:

http://theflatearthsociety.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=d8643bb13f66e50d4e9bee543b374e62&topic=535.0
You cannot cite this forum. Ever heard of pseudo-science? Give me academic references/citations directly in your posts, and I will believe you.

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You mentioned (or somebody else) the Maxwell field equations; well, all of you have not done your homework, IN FACT THOSE EQUATIONS WERE MODIFIED FROM THEIR ORIGINAL 1861 FORM, Tesla was the first to discover this, and actually recovered the true equations (even though he did not use the field concept).

Irrelevant of who initially derived them, their meaning stands true. Pointless diversion from their accepted name means nothing - the issues highlighted using said equations, no matter who they were initially developed by, still take precedence.

*snipped your links to save space*

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'... Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing curving of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces must react on the bodies, and producing the opposite effects, straightening out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent, it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible - But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.'
'My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.' ? Nikola Tesla

Tesla's aether is in fact a medium, 'a perfect fluid' that wets everything in which are immersed 'independent carriers'. It behaves as a solid to light (high frequency) and is transparent to matter, while it's effects can be felt through inertia. Tesla demonstrated how this aether could be 'polarized' and made 'rigid' through a particular high frequency alternator and single terminal coil (ex. 1892 lecture in London) and 2 metal plates which he 'suspended' in the air making the space between them rigid 'privately' on one another (ed. the tesla effect). In 1894, Tesla invented a special bulb (which was the ultimate result of his research in vacuum tubes; the unipolar 'targetless' bulb) which augmented this technology to create 'tubes of force' which could be used for motive power (what Tesla later cited as 'veritable ropes of air').

Abstract.
Maxwell's 1864 paper 'A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field' abandons the theory of molecular vortices that was a central feature of his 1861 paper 'On Physical Lines of Force'. Even after writing part I of his 1861 paper, Maxwell realized that a purely hydrodynamical approach to electromagnetic theory is insufficient, and so he introduced electrical particles and gradually shifted over to a more dynamical approach. This article investigates whether or not any physics was lost as a result of Maxwell abandoning his theory of molecular vortices. The focus of attention is centred on equation (5) of his 1861 paper, as this equation contains components that can be demonstrated to simultaneously represent both the Coriolis force and the Lorentz force, therefore implying that the Lorentz force is a kind of Coriolis force. Since a rotating frame of reference is needed for a Coriolis force, it follows that the Lorentz force must depend entirely on the rotating aethereal substance within Maxwell's vortex cells. The conclusion is that Maxwell made a serious error when he abandoned his theory of molecular vortices, and that the physical explanation for the Lorentz force was lost as a result.
The Coriolis Force in Maxwell's Equations
(A comparative study of Maxwell?s 1864 paper 'A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field' and his 1861 paper 'On Physical Lines of Force')
Highly irrelevant to directional circumnavigational propagation. i.e. I don't care about Tesla's dubious theories, nor do many others of the scientific community. If the majority of what you have mentioned above were genuine statements that could be reproduced, humanity would be beyond the state that it currently is. A "special bulb"? A "tube of force"? Come on...time to take a reality check. Tesla was a genius, but equally nuts and everyone realises that. If any of this could be recreated, mankind would be several steps ahead than it is now.

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Scalar waves were originally detected by a Scottish mathematical genius called James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) He linked electricity and magnetism and laid the foundation for modern physics, but unfortunately the very fine scalar waves (which he included in his research) were deliberately left out of his work by the 3 men, including Heinrich Hertz, who laid down the laws taught for physics as a discipline at colleges. They dismissed Maxwell's scalar waves or potentials as 'mystical' because they were physically unmanifest and only existed in the 'ethers' and so were determined to be too ineffectual for further study. These enigmatic (but more powerful than even microwaves when harnessed and concentrated into a beam) scalar waves may have been forgotten except that Nicola Tesla accidentally rediscovered them. He'd originally worked with Thomas Edison who discovered direct current, but Tesla discovered alternating current. The two men disagreed and eventually parted ways and Tesla later experimented using the research of the German Heinrich Hertz, who was proving the existence of electromagnetic waves. Tesla found, while experimenting with violently abrupt direct current electrical charges, that a new form of energy (scalar) came through.

By 1904, Tesla had developed transmitters to harness scalar energy from one transmitter to another, undetectably bypassing time and space. He could just materialize it from one place to another through hyperspace, without the use of wires, it was just sucked right out of the space-time/vacuum and into a transmitter and into a beam which could be targeted to another transmitter. Unfortunately he got no financial support for replacing electricity, which used wires and therefore earned money, and to this day, this is the reason why scalar energy is still not acknowledged in mainstream physics. Tesla, even though he discovered more for mankind in science than many others, is still not credited in science books for his discovery of scalar waves, a source of 'free-energy' obtainable as a limitless source of power that costs nothing. Other inventors have sporadically rediscovered 'free-energy' but have come to harm or have been silenced by the sum of millions of dollars hush money, a small sum compared to the sale of electricity, oil, gas and a myriad of other energy producers which would then be rendered worthless. Money hungry big business has harshly crushed any opposition to their own riches, generated by multiple obsolete earth polluting fossil fuels.

http://www.angelfire.com/oz/cv/scalarweapons.html

Have to  be honest, not sure how scalar measurements come into this. And a "new form of energy"? Are you serious? Show me a transceiver for this kind of energy and I'll go along with it. I'm talking diagrams. You can't just "name" a new form of energy....I don't want to drag you down or anything but that's one of the strangest things I've ever heard? Really....I'm dumbfounded by the possibility....you'd be a millionaire merely from the scientific publication if you can prove it, and would have phD's pouring out of your ears.....

And angelfire.com ? Not a credible source. Start again.

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julian, you do not understand what is going on.

The actual explosion was seen from 1000 km distance, the visual obstacle in the path is 67.5 kilometers!

Those newspaper accounts are THE REAL ONES; they appeared on July 1 and 2 in the Times, so stop the complaining.

What should have been a very local phenomenon, was seen instantly or minutes later on the other half of the globe (given your model), absolutely impossible given the curvature and the visual obstacle (over 9000 kilometers between London and Tunguska).

Please read Worlds in Collision, where you will discover over 1000 bibliographical references which will prove to you that the Earth stopped from its axial rotation several times in the past. Notwithstanding the comments made by the scientific establishment, you will find that Velikovsky was truly one of the geniuses of the 20th century:

http://www.varchive.org/

Please research the ball lightning physics much more carefully; you might start with Tesla's own experiments, he was able to produce such ball lightning very easily using the aether; your comments show that you have not studied this matter at all.

I know enough about lightning physics to KNOW (YEAH I AM SHOUTING AT YOU NOW, SO PACK IT IN AS I AM SICK OF YOU RIDICULOUS CAPITALS, AS IS EVERYONE ELSE) that it isn't relevant to the topic of this thread. I will happily talk about tunguska in another thread, but from the point of view of the primary topic here, it is trollop and tripe. Please stop bringing it up because I don't want to cloud the very linear and recordable EM physics and maths in this thread with dubious creations of tesla. And Velikovsky was full of shit. How could the Earth and Venus mix atmospheres with no physical damage? RE physics is crucial to his model, with FE it is even more impossible. Give it up, he is a headcase.

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Now julian and 3Tesla, here are some photographs for you to watch carefully:

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg718436#msg718436

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716538#msg716538

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716522#msg716522

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.msg716502#msg716502 (especially this, 55 km without ANY CURVATURE)


Stop citing this forum - it's scientifically incorrect. Again, ever heard of pseudo-science?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 14, 2009, 06:12:57 PM
for the sake of your pacients

Need I say anything else? That isn't a typo, that's a concious choice to use a "c" instead of a "t". Both very far away from each other on a keyboard. I am using true flat earther arguments here to prove that levee is not intelligent.   ::)

I'm going to get castigated for this, but only because i'm a round-earther!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 15, 2009, 01:34:04 AM
Tesla was a genius, but equally nuts and everyone realises that.

That's the best, or rather most entertaining, kind of scientist!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 15, 2009, 01:59:13 AM
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/487755017_a114c05e50.jpg?v=0)

No 59 meter curvature, no 195 meter visual obstacle, cut the crap.

Here is a link to another Toronto-across-the-lake photo that clearly shows that you *can't* see the shoreline from that distance (because there is a "hump" of water in the way):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario#Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_from_LO.JPG

So who's right?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 15, 2009, 02:05:59 AM
Here is a link to another Toronto-across-the-lake photo that clearly shows that you *can't* see the shoreline from that distance (because there is a "hump" of water in the way):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario#Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_from_LO.JPG

So who's right?

How close was the camera to the surface of the water? How high were those waves? Was the tide in?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 15, 2009, 02:09:44 AM
Here is a link to another Toronto-across-the-lake photo that clearly shows that you *can't* see the shoreline from that distance (because there is a "hump" of water in the way):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario#Images

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_from_LO.JPG

So who's right?

How close was the camera to the surface of the water? How high were those waves? Was the tide in?

What was the true elevation at which Levee's photos were taken?

How do we know that they weren't really taken on a boat sat near the Toronto shoreline?

Edit: can we agree that lake photos prove nothing and return to the OP, please?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 15, 2009, 02:14:42 AM
What was the true elevation at which Levee's photos were taken?

I don't know. I'm not Levee, neither am I the photogorapher.

I'm asking you to describe the nature of the photos you presented as evidence. So how about it?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 15, 2009, 02:30:28 AM
What was the true elevation at which Levee's photos were taken?

I don't know. I'm not Levee, neither am I the photogorapher.

I'm asking you to describe the nature of the photos you presented as evidence. So how about it?

I have not given adequate details of the second-hand photos which I have referenced ...

In the same way that Levee has not given adequate details of the second-hand photos which he has referenced.

From which I reasonably conclude that second-hand lake photos are not suitable evidence.

"So how about that?"

Now: please return to the OP.

And where is that maths that I asked you for re star-trails?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 15, 2009, 02:50:29 AM
I'm asking you to describe the nature of the photos you presented as evidence. So how about it?

So you instictively attack the admissability of my evidence because in am a Round Earther ...

But you do not draw into question the admissability of Levee's evidence because he is a Flat Earther?

Do I detect a significant bias in your motives?

If so, then I think that you lack the necessary fairness and critical reasoning skills to engage in grown-up scientific debate.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 15, 2009, 05:32:47 AM
I have not given adequate details of the second-hand photos which I have referenced ...

In the same way that Levee has not given adequate details of the second-hand photos which he has referenced.

From which I reasonably conclude that second-hand lake photos are not suitable evidence.

No evidence then. Got it.

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So you instictively attack the admissability of my evidence because in am a Round Earther ...

But you do not draw into question the admissability of Levee's evidence because he is a Flat Earther?

Do I detect a significant bias in your motives?

If so, then I think that you lack the necessary fairness and critical reasoning skills to engage in grown-up scientific debate.

I've looked at the pictures Levee presented. The caption in the picture album labels the picture as "Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton." I don't know of many 194 foot high beaches.

In that photo album there's also a picture of the photographer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754961/in/photostream/) standing right there on the Lake Ontraio Beach, dated at the same time as the other picture. He's obviously not standing on a giant 200 foot sand dune.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 15, 2009, 10:25:47 AM
I've looked at the pictures Levee presented. The caption in the picture album labels the picture as "Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton." I don't know of many 194 foot high beaches.

The photographer could be lying - he could have really taken the photos from a boat half way across the lake.

Or he could have photoshopped them - the same way that NASA do with all their space pictures.

For all we know he is part of some grand Flat Earth Conspiracy and cannot be trusted.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 17, 2009, 06:54:17 AM
mulian jartin let me completely destroy your mediocre, half-assed beliefs in the round earth system. Your snicker at the actual scientific data quoted by me, tells everybody that you have a very immature approach to science, the complete defeat of your arguments should serve you as a lesson...

(mulian, I speak several languages; in one of them, pacient = patient, how come you did not notice the fact that the explosion from Tunguska was seen from 1000 km distance?)

You are assuming a round shape; I will prove to you the shape of the surface is 100% flat, therefore my electrical signal model is correct, as I have described it.

GRIMSBY - TORONTO, 53 KM, 55 METER CURVATURE

Highest point of reference in the village, 45 meters (Beamer Falls Conservation Area).

In order to see the complete details from Toronto shoreline, you must ascend all the way to 220 meters.

If we go inland, 2 kilometers, we will ascend to about 170 meters; in order to see the complete details, we must ascend further to 237 meters.

NOW, THE COMPLETE DETAILS FROM TWO ZOOM PHOTOGRAPHS:

Normal day with no mirage
http://www.weatherandsky.com/Mirages/Mirages.html

(http://www.weatherandsky.com/Mirages/Toronto1.jpg)

(http://www.weatherandsky.com/Mirages/Toronto2.jpg)

Smaller format:

(http://gal.neogen.ro/galleries/socialro/d6/9d/673e7b52_0010000368417_00_600.jpg)

(http://gal.neogen.ro/galleries/socialro/d6/9d/673e74d0_0010000368416_00_600.jpg)

Original photos with no zoom:

(http://www.weatherandsky.com/Mirages/TorontoDay.jpg)
(http://www.weatherandsky.com/Mirages/TorontoNight.jpg)

In the zoom taken at nighttime, the complete details, even the lights from the small island in front of Toronto, details which could be seen only if we would ascend to 220 meters in Grimsby (place photographs were taken), or to 237 meters 2 km further inland.

In the zoom taken at daytime, we can see even the small 2-4 story buildings next to the shoreline, absolutely impossible on a round earth from 53 km distance; there is no point of reference in Grimsby of a height of 220 meters.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: NTheGreat on June 17, 2009, 07:56:48 AM
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If we go inland, 2 kilometers, we will ascend to about 170 meters; in order to see the complete details, we must ascend further to 237 meters.

A few quick calculations show that the height of the hill of water at 170 meters a couple of kilometres back from Grimsby is about 3 meters. You should easily be able to see 2-4 storey buildings over that.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on June 17, 2009, 08:23:18 AM
Your calculations were too quick; you should see nothing under 5.56 meters. In the zoom taken at nighttime we can see EVERYTHING, even the light from the small island in front of Toronto; and in the original (without zoom) photo in daytime, we can see every detail with no curvature whatsoever. 170 meters is a height which we will find 2 km inland, in Grimsby, the actual place the photographs were taken, we can ascend just to about 45 meters.

If you still have doubts, let me remove them right now:

Port Credit - Toronto, 14.5 km, 4 meters curvature, absolutely nonexistent, there isn't one centimeter/one inch of curvature over this distance:


(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2300/2410587891_e9bbe99452_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2012/1571369829_dada8e886e_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2889142212_de5f408540_b.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/253/454343806_8776df8b25_o.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3276/2549368657_8150a4dbaa_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/2379255560_d357df6305_o.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2740770461_5063085e20_o.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2336833000_3079d5112b_b.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/253/454343806_8776df8b25_o.jpg)

Let us increase the distance to 33.6 km, zero curvature (supposed to be 22 meters), Oakville - Toronto:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2586347950_98fc26bfb8_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 17, 2009, 08:43:26 AM
Has anyone got any decent diagrams or calculations to show how a radio signal can br transmitted in one direction then received again by the sender after a couple of seconds from 180 degrees behind?

(Remember the OP?)

Please don't just say that it bounces around on the atmospheric meniscus ...

Give us a decent diagram to illustrate your point - because I'd like to see hoe the signal moves at the bottom edges (where the Flat earth meets the edge of the atmosphere to make a semi-circle).

Thanks!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: NTheGreat on June 17, 2009, 09:44:08 AM
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you should see nothing under 5.56 meters. In the zoom taken at nighttime we can see EVERYTHING, even the light from the small island in front of Toronto; and in the original (without zoom) photo in daytime, we can see every detail with no curvature whatsoever.

Are you saying that that's no lights on the island more than 6 meters above the surface of the water? I can't even tell that the lights are those of the island, but so be it.


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Port Credit - Toronto, 14.5 km, 4 meters curvature, absolutely nonexistent, there isn't one centimeter/one inch of curvature over this distance:

I wouldn't say the image is of a sufficient resolution to determine individual centimetres. As I haven't seen what the coast of Toronto looks like right down to the water's edge, I can's say if that's the whole of the coast, although it seems unlikely that it would be made of what looks like tree tops.


3 Tesla also has a good point, one of the earlier questions of the topic has been overlooked.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 17, 2009, 04:01:33 PM
I don't know why you feel the need to reverse my name levee - just call me jules, that's fine.

Yeah I don't care about sea levels or whatever - that isn't the point of this thread. Go and talk about it in the relevant threads, how about here: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=22317.0

All you have been able to do is relate to dubious tesla EM theory that has no relevance to circumnavigational em propagation.

I want to know, how one can transmit a signal directionally in one plane, and then seconds to under a second later, receive said signal in the opposite plane behind oneself, BEFORE it is received again in front of oneself?

Stop citing sinking ship crap, with toronto appearing here and there. Put it in the appropriate thread. Here, is not the place.

Stop calling me half arsed, I know what I'm talking about. You are citing theorems that apply to either wildly different circumstances (ELF waves for example), and nothing (meniscus for example) that applies to HF waves. Give it up. It's annoying, and if anything, you are being childish. Answer the question directly:

How one can transmit a signal directionally in one plane, and then seconds to under a second later, receive said signal in the opposite plane behind oneself, BEFORE it is received again in front of oneself?

I've done it, as have countless others. Put some real maths down as opposed to pictures of Canada. I can go on flickr.com for that stuff.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 19, 2009, 03:14:31 AM
How one can transmit a signal directionally in one plane, and then seconds to under a second later, receive said signal in the opposite plane behind oneself, BEFORE it is received again in front of oneself?

Still no diagrams illustaring how this can happen on a Flat Earth, I see.

Julian Martin:

Could you knock up a quick Round-Earth diagram to increase the pressure?

Am I right in thinking that the radio signal bounces from ionosphere to earth to ionosphere to earth all the way around?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 07:14:01 AM
I've looked at the pictures Levee presented. The caption in the picture album labels the picture as "Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton." I don't know of many 194 foot high beaches.

The photographer could be lying - he could have really taken the photos from a boat half way across the lake.

Or he could have photoshopped them - the same way that NASA do with all their space pictures.

For all we know he is part of some grand Flat Earth Conspiracy and cannot be trusted.

So no explanation for the picture then?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 19, 2009, 07:38:40 AM
I've looked at the pictures Levee presented. The caption in the picture album labels the picture as "Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton." I don't know of many 194 foot high beaches.

The photographer could be lying - he could have really taken the photos from a boat half way across the lake.

Or he could have photoshopped them - the same way that NASA do with all their space pictures.

For all we know he is part of some grand Flat Earth Conspiracy and cannot be trusted.

So no explanation for the picture then?

So no explanation for circular star-trails, then?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 19, 2009, 10:10:16 AM
I've looked at the pictures Levee presented. The caption in the picture album labels the picture as "Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton." I don't know of many 194 foot high beaches.

The photographer could be lying - he could have really taken the photos from a boat half way across the lake.

Or he could have photoshopped them - the same way that NASA do with all their space pictures.

For all we know he is part of some grand Flat Earth Conspiracy and cannot be trusted.

So no explanation documentation for the picture then?

Fixed.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 10:38:43 AM
The photographer does document the picture. In that photo album there's also a picture of the photographer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754961/in/photostream/) standing right there on the Lake Ontraio Beach, dated at the same time as the other picture. He's obviously not standing on a giant 200 foot sand dune.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 19, 2009, 11:15:44 AM
The photographer does document the picture. In that photo album there's also a picture of the photographer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754961/in/photostream/) standing right there on the Lake Ontraio Beach, dated at the same time as the other picture. He's obviously not standing on a giant 200 foot sand dune.
Look what is on that same beach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lakeland_Bistro.JPG
It looks like it would give you a great vantage point to photograph Toronto, with the higher elevation and all. I would be surprised if he didn't go up there for the photograph. No need for a 200 foot sand dune.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 19, 2009, 01:24:43 PM
The photographer does document the picture. In that photo album there's also a picture of the photographer (http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754961/in/photostream/) standing right there on the Lake Ontraio Beach, dated at the same time as the other picture. He's obviously not standing on a giant 200 foot sand dune.

Where does it say that the photo in question was taken from that precise location?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 01:56:58 PM
Where does it say that the photo in question was taken from that precise location?

Read the caption of the image in question: http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487726854/in/photostream/

"Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton."

I've underlined the pertinent part of the image's description.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 19, 2009, 02:00:29 PM
Where does it say that the photo in question was taken from that precise location?

Read the caption of the image in question: http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487726854/in/photostream/

"Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton."


And there happens to be a tower with a balcony on that beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 02:01:59 PM
And there happens to be a tower with a balcony on that beach.

That little tower clearly isn't on any beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 19, 2009, 02:07:28 PM
And there happens to be a tower with a balcony on that beach.

That little tower clearly isn't on any beach.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=Lakeland+Bistro+hamilton,+ontario&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=2730876588235768871&li=lmd
Nice try.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 19, 2009, 02:09:08 PM
And there happens to be a tower with a balcony on that beach.

That little tower clearly isn't on any beach.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=Lakeland+Bistro+hamilton,+ontario&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=2730876588235768871&li=lmd
Nice try.

Is Tom bending the truth as well as bending light, now?

:-)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 02:11:57 PM
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=Lakeland+Bistro+hamilton,+ontario&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=2730876588235768871&li=lmd
Nice try.

180 Van Wagner's Beach Rd isn't on a beach.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/if8s5l.png)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on June 19, 2009, 02:18:38 PM
Did you take the picture, Tom?  Can you personally verify it's authenticity?

No?  A caption on a photo found on the internet must be considered proof, isn't that right scientist Tom?

And another topic is successfully derailed by scientist Tom. 

Now, about those Ham radio waves...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 19, 2009, 02:19:03 PM
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=Lakeland+Bistro+hamilton,+ontario&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&cid=2730876588235768871&li=lmd
Nice try.

Van Wagner's Beach Rd isn't on a beach.

(http://i44.tinypic.com/if8s5l.png)

No, but it *is* close enough to the beach that the photographer could have used it to take his/her pictures ...

As well you know!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 19, 2009, 02:22:14 PM
Van Wagner's Beach Rd isn't on a beach.
A building between a road and a beach is still considered "on the beach". Hotels "on the beach" are still considered "on the beach" even though there is a road which leads to the hotel. What address would you expect a building on the beach to have? Now you are trying to divert everyone's attention to the meaning of "on the beach". However, it is reasonable to expect that someone taking a photo from the tower which is somewhere between Van Wagner's Beach Rd and Lake Ontario would say the photo is "from Lake Ontraio Beach". You can even tell from the photo you linked to the man is standing on the trail which borders the tower you can clearly see in the satellite photograph, or what you would believe to be an aerial photograph.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 02:23:16 PM
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No, but it *is* close enough to the beach that the photographer could have used it to take his/her pictures ...

As well you know!

Fortunately the photographer tells us that he took the picture on the beach and includes pictures of himself and his friend standing on the beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 19, 2009, 02:27:23 PM
Fortunately the photographer tells us that he took the picture on the beach and includes pictures of himself and his friend standing on the beach.
The tower is on the beach in that it borders the beach. In the other photo, he was standing on a paved trail which is between the tower and the beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 19, 2009, 02:37:04 PM
Please look at the photo gallery. "On the beach" clearly means "on the beach" and not "up on a tower".

Here's the album in its sequential order. The captions are left in tact. All pictures were taken on the same day:


A Seagull Takes Flight at Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/184/487754749_a6c282fcd6.jpg?v=0)

A Bistro at Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/487726608_a910588573.jpg?v=0)

Hutches Fish & Chips and Ice Cream at Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/487726636_2368c3c4b8.jpg?v=0)

Driftwood at Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/171/487754893_0a02f095ed.jpg?v=0)

Me (Rick) at Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/487754937_75efb49377.jpg?v=0)

David at Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/487754961_42ea536ec0.jpg?v=0)

Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/487726854_181aa457da.jpg?v=0)

Looking from the beach in Hamilton across Lake Ontario towards Toronto

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/487755017_a114c05e50.jpg?v=0)

Lake Ontraio Beach

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/487726916_4c8054411a.jpg?v=0)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 19, 2009, 02:47:09 PM
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No, but it *is* close enough to the beach that the photographer could have used it to take his/her pictures ...

As well you know!

Fortunately the photographer tells us that he took the picture on the beach and includes pictures of himself and his friend standing on the beach.

Unless the photographer was lying, of course!

If NASA's photos of The Earth from The Moon are fake as you say ...

Then these photos of Toronto could be fake too.

And let's face it - photoshopping a skyline with a flat base onto a lake with a flat top is so easy a five year-old could do it.

Edit - as already suggested:

nice photoshop skills leveee
try using real evidence instead of bullshit.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 19, 2009, 03:01:13 PM
Where does it say that the photo in question was taken from that precise location?

Read the caption of the image in question: http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487726854/in/photostream/

"Looking Across Lake Ontario at Toronto from Lake Ontraio Beach in Hamilton."

I've underlined the pertinent part of the image's description.

Tom, here's another photo that was taken at Lake Ontario Beach by the same photographer.  Was it taken at precisely the same location as the one in question?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754623/
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 19, 2009, 08:15:20 PM
The lot of you, round earth and flat earth alike:

You arguments are not successfully progressing the OP of this thread....please cut it out.

I want to talk about circumnavigational propagation and suchlike....many of the previous posts have not enticed debate on such subjects.

Tom Bishop, I am going to point the finger at you. You seem to continually want to mislead this thread from a topic that has serious repercussions for FE and RE skeptics alike. Please would you desist and take your dubious methods elsewhere?

I don't care for them in serious discussion.

And yes, 3 tesla, I can very easily knock up an image to display the propagation I mean. And yes, ionospheric reflection is what I am talking about. In the HF band.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 20, 2009, 12:52:50 AM
You arguments are not successfully progressing the OP of this thread....please cut it out.

Please don't take it personally - it's a common "debate" tactic around here.

If you do a search for "Toronto" you will find plenty of threads that Levee, et al. have tried to derail with their dubious lake-view pictures.

(Or "Tunguska" - another of Levee's favourite defelction tactics.)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 20, 2009, 10:37:28 AM
levee,

1. stop swearing - not necessary
2. you don't mean centrifugal - if you had studied any post high school physics you would know the word you are looking for is centripetal.
3. your whole post is off topic.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 20, 2009, 11:48:26 AM
levee,

1. stop swearing - not necessary
2. you don't mean centrifugal - if you had studied any post high school physics you would know the word you are looking for is centripetal.
3. your whole post is off topic.


Also, by "tangential force" I think levee actually means "radial force".
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 20, 2009, 11:55:38 AM
Tom, here's another photo that was taken at Lake Ontario Beach by the same photographer.  Was it taken at precisely the same location as the one in question?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754623/

Sorry, but that's still on the beach. Plenty of grass types grow in sand. Turf, for example.

Quote
If you do a search for "Toronto" you will find plenty of threads that Levee, et al. have tried to derail with their dubious lake-view pictures.

It's not dubious. When there is no explanation for how there is no curvature in the view across Lake Ontario, it's crystal clear that the RE model is incorrect.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 20, 2009, 12:14:07 PM
Tom, here's another photo that was taken at Lake Ontario Beach by the same photographer.  Was it taken at precisely the same location as the one in question?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487754623/

Sorry, but that's still on the beach. Plenty of grass types grow in sand. Turf, for example.

Yes Tom, I know that the picture was on the beach.  However, Lake Ontario has lots of beach.  Miles of beach.  That wasn't what I was asking.  I was asking if all of those pictures in that photographer's fliker page were taken from the exact same spot on Lake Ontario beach?

Quote
Quote
If you do a search for "Toronto" you will find plenty of threads that Levee, et al. have tried to derail with their dubious lake-view pictures.

It's not dubious. When there is no explanation for how there is no curvature in the view across Lake Ontario, it's crystal clear that the RE model is wrong.

Yes, it is dubious.  There is no verifiable documentation stating exactly where (location and elevation) those pictures were taken.  Forgive us if we seem a bit skeptical of Levee's claim of "no curvature visible" when we can't determine how much curvature should be visible.

BTW, as has been mentioned before, those photos are off topic anyways.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 20, 2009, 12:25:12 PM
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Yes Tom, I know that the picture was on the beach.  However, Lake Ontario has lots of beach.  Miles of beach.  That wasn't what I was asking.  I was asking if all of those pictures in that photographer's fliker page were taken from the exact same spot on Lake Ontario beach?

Please see my previous post on the subject: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29694.msg724809#msg724809

The author's photo album shows the pictures in chronological order as he and his friend walk along the beach. Each image is captioned "from the beach," indicating that the pictures were taken from the beach.

The author doesn't ascend any towers in the plaza. He is walking along a beach.

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Yes, it is dubious.  There is no verifiable documentation stating exactly where (location and elevation) those pictures were taken.

Actually, there is documentation. The captions of the images clearly say that they were taken from the beach. We know exactly where the images were taken. They were taken FROM THE BEACH.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 20, 2009, 01:39:53 PM
They were taken FROM THE BEACH.

OK, that narrows it down to about a 3 mile stretch.  WHERE on the beach were those pictures taken?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 20, 2009, 01:50:22 PM
OK, that narrows it down to about a 3 mile stretch.  WHERE on the beach were those pictures taken?

It doesn't matter. The beach is at or just above sea level.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 20, 2009, 01:59:23 PM
OK, that narrows it down to about a 3 mile stretch.  WHERE on the beach were those pictures taken?

It doesn't matter. The beach is at or just above sea level.
Except there are things on the beach, such as that tower, which would give the photographer a much better view.
(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/5153/toweri.jpg)
The tower borders the trail which the next photograph was taken from. You can't deny the possibility that the photographer took that photo from a higher elevation, then still considered the photo to have been taken from Lake Ontario Beach when writing the caption. That was just one example of how the photographer could have used higher elevation for that photo. This means we can't determine what elevation the photo was taken from.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 20, 2009, 02:08:36 PM
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The tower borders the trail which the next photograph was taken from. You can't deny the possibility that the photographer took that photo from a higher elevation, then still considered the photo to have been taken from Lake Ontario Beach when writing the caption. That was just one example of how the photographer could have used higher elevation for that photo. This means we can't determine what elevation the photo was taken from.

There are probably plenty of four story buildings next to that beach. No one climbs a building in a plaza, takes a picture, and says that they took it "from a beach". Not to mention, I've never heard of a 200 foot tall four story building.

The order of the photos are as follows: a picture of some driftwood at the water's edge, a picture of the photographer, a picture of the photographers friend, a picture of Toronto, and finally another picture of the ocean splashing at the water's edge. Obviously the photographer never climbed any towers in that sequence.

All pictures are captioned as taken "from the beach". Therefore they are "from the beach". No leaps of logic necessary.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 20, 2009, 02:14:36 PM
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The tower borders the trail which the next photograph was taken from. You can't deny the possibility that the photographer took that photo from a higher elevation, then still considered the photo to have been taken from Lake Ontario Beach when writing the caption. That was just one example of how the photographer could have used higher elevation for that photo. This means we can't determine what elevation the photo was taken from.

There are probably plenty of four story buildings next to that beach. No one climbs a building in a plaza, takes a picture, and says that they took it "from a beach". Not to mention, I've never seen a 200 foot tall four story building.

The order of the photos are as follows: a picture of some driftwood at the water's edge, a picture of the photographer, a picture of the photographers friend, a picture of Toronto, and finally another picture at the water's edge. Obviously he never climbed any towers in that sequence.

All pictures are captioned as taken "from the beach". Therefore they are "from the beach". No leaps of logic involved.

Tom, unless you were there, you don't know the order in which those pictures were taken.  You only know the order in which they were posted.  You also don't know where exactly those pictures were taken, other than "from the beach".
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 20, 2009, 02:19:29 PM
Tom, unless you were there, you don't know the order in which those pictures were taken.  You only know the order in which they were posted.  You also don't know where exactly those pictures were taken, other than "from the beach".

I do know where the photos were taken. They were taken from the beach. Exactly as the photographer informs us himself in his own words. He would know because he was there.

If you think that they were taken from the Sears Tower or wherever, the burden is on you to demonstrate that. Until then they were taken from the beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 20, 2009, 02:29:32 PM
Tom, unless you were there, you don't know the order in which those pictures were taken.  You only know the order in which they were posted.  You also don't know where exactly those pictures were taken, other than "from the beach".

I do know where the photos were taken. They were taken from the beach. Exactly as the photographer informs us himself in his own words. He would know because he was there.

If you think that they were taken on the Sears Tower or wherever, the burden is on you to demonstrate that. Until then they were taken from the beach.

Get out of this thread unless you have something useful about radio transmissions to contribute. At the minute, I am classing you as a spammer.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 03:02:51 AM
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If you do a search for "Toronto" you will find plenty of threads that Levee, et al. have tried to derail with their dubious lake-view pictures.

It's not dubious. When there is no explanation for how there is no curvature in the view across Lake Ontario, it's crystal clear that the RE model is incorrect.

They are dubious for two very good reasons which you obstinately refuse to acknowledge:

1. The photogrpaher lied about where the photos were really taken from

2. The photos were faked using Photoshop, or some such (very easy, as the interface is a straight line)

Debating with you is like arguing with an eight year-old boy.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 05:40:28 AM
They are dubious for two very good reasons which you obstinately refuse to acknowledge:

1. The photogrpaher lied about where the photos were really taken from

2. The photos were faked using Photoshop, or some such (very easy, as the interface is a straight line)

Debating with you is like arguing with an eight year-old boy.

Actually the photographer does tell us where the photos were taken from. It's right there in the caption of every photograph. They were taken from Lake Ontario Beach.

If you believe that they were taken from the Barad-dur Tower, the burden is on you to demonstrate those contentions. Until then the photos were taken exactly as described. They were taken from the Lake Ontario Beach.

You can find reference to the photograph's location in the captions provided by the photographer. You will find that they were taken from the beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 06:25:31 AM
Actually the photographer does tell us where the photos were taken from. It's right there in the caption of every photograph. They were taken from Lake Ontario Beach.

If you believe that they were taken from the Barad-dur Tower or wherever, the burden is on you to demonstrate those contentions. Until then the photos were taken exactly as described. They were taken from the Lake Ontario Beach.

So when NASA says "look - here is a photo of The Earth that one of our astronauts took from The Moon" ...

And you say that the photo is faked ...

Then "the burden is on you to demonstrate those contentions. Until then the photos were taken exactly as described."

Therefore until you can do that I am forced to believe NASA when they say they have flown men to The Moon.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 06:34:31 AM
Maybe you could say "it's an elaborate beach hoax" if the beach photographer had a well documented history of deception and outright hoaxing like NASA does. However, he does not.

So the burden's still on you to demonstrate your contentions.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 06:50:12 AM
Maybe you could say "it's an elaborate beach hoax" if the beach photographer had a well documented history of deception and outright hoaxing like NASA does. However, he does not.

The fact that s/he has never lied before does not prove that s/he is telling the truth on this occasion.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 07:06:05 AM
The fact that s/he has never lied before does not prove that s/he is telling the truth on this occasion.

Sure it does. The fact that the photographer has not been shown to be untrustworthy, and has never been shown to be untrustworthy, demonstrates that there is no reason to doubt him now.

The burden is on you to show that the photographer is untrustworthy. Until then the photographs were taken exactly as depicted and described: from the beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 07:15:23 AM
The fact that s/he has never lied before does not prove that s/he is telling the truth on this occasion.

Sure it does. The fact that the photographer has not been shown to be untrustworthy before, and has never been shown to be untrustworthy, demonstrates that there is no reason to doubt him now.

All liars have to start lying sometime.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 21, 2009, 08:19:22 AM
Tom, unless you were there, you don't know the order in which those pictures were taken.  You only know the order in which they were posted.  You also don't know where exactly those pictures were taken, other than "from the beach".

I do know where the photos were taken. They were taken from the beach. Exactly as the photographer informs us himself in his own words. He would know because he was there.

If you think that they were taken from the Sears Tower or wherever, the burden is on you to demonstrate that. Until then they were taken from the beach.

Tom, notice the lack of foreground reference points.  Unless that beach is about 3 square feet, it's impossible to know exactly where he was on that beach when he took that picture.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 08:36:38 AM
Tom, notice the lack of foreground reference points.  Unless that beach is about 3 square feet, it's impossible to know exactly where he was on that beach when he took that picture.

Sure we do. He's right there next to Hutches Fish & Chips and Ice Cream shop.

Please read the descriptions on the photographs (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29694.msg724809#msg724809). The photographs of Toronto were taken right there from the Lake Ontario Beach. The photographer is taking the pictures from the beach.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 08:56:06 AM
The photograph of Toronto was taken right there from the Lake Ontario Beach. The photographer is taking the pictures from the beach.

And then they put the full Toronto sky-line on afterwards with Photoshop?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 09:27:35 AM
And then they put the full Toronto sky-line on afterwards with Photoshop?

Clearly not, since the full Toronto sky-line is already visible.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 09:40:53 AM
And then they put the full Toronto sky-line on afterwards with Photoshop?

Clearly not, since the full Toronto sky-line is already visible.

It's only visible because it has been pasted on top!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 10:19:09 AM
The burden of proof remains on you to demonstrate those outlandish contentions.

Until then, the earth is flat.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 10:51:27 AM
Until then, the earth is flat.

When I look at the night sky it is clearly and obviously spherical therefore The Earth cannot be flat.

Therefore any photographs which suggest that it is flat must be fake.

I will believe my senses over your Photoshopped pictures any day.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 11:06:14 AM
When I look at the night sky it is clearly and obviously spherical therefore The Earth cannot be flat.

Therefore any photographs which suggest that it is flat must be fake.

I will believe my senses over your Photoshopped pictures any day.

The sky is not the earth. A night sky which surrounds you says nothing about the shape of the earth, only that the night sky surrounds you.

Direct evidence of the earth's shape can be readily seen in direct experimentation with the material world to see whether it truly curves in the manner predicted by Round Earth Theory. As we can see from the Ontario beach, it does not.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: cdenley on June 21, 2009, 11:17:31 AM
The sky is not the earth. A night sky which surrounds you says nothing about the shape of the earth, only that the night sky surrounds you.

Direct evidence of the earth's shape can be readily seen in direct experimentation with the material world to see whether it really curves in the manner predicted by Round Earth Theory. As we can see from the Toronto beach, it does not.
Except that was not a controlled experiment using the scientific method, so it must be ignored. Remember that was the reason you decided to ignore astronomy and star-trails. You are using a photograph taken "from the beach" as documented evidence that the earth is flat, while there are photographs taken with a controlled variable (elevation) which clearly indicate otherwise in a thread that is actually relevant.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 11:21:16 AM
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Except that was not a controlled experiment using the scientific method, so it must be ignored. Remember that was the reason you decided to ignore astronomy and star-trails. You are using a photograph taken "from the beach" as documented evidence that the earth is flat, while there are photographs taken under controlled conditions (elevation) which clearly indicate otherwise in a thread that is actually relevant.

Th elevation in the Ontario images is provided. The photographer is taking the image right from the beach. And the Lake Ontario Beach clearly doesn't ascend to 200 feet in altitude.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:22:55 PM
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Except that was not a controlled experiment using the scientific method, so it must be ignored. Remember that was the reason you decided to ignore astronomy and star-trails. You are using a photograph taken "from the beach" as documented evidence that the earth is flat, while there are photographs taken under controlled conditions (elevation) which clearly indicate otherwise in a thread that is actually relevant.

Th elevation in the Ontario images is provided. The photographer is taking the image right from the beach. And the Lake Ontario Beach clearly doesn't ascend to 200 feet in altitude.

"Cdenley" is perfectly right in that there is no control experiment here - there is no photograph taken at elevation for comparison.

(A fact that I pointed out to Levee last week.)

We have no way of telling from photographs taken at a single elvation what Toronto truly looks like at the lake level.

For all we know Toronto could sit atop a 500 foot cliff which is being obscured by the "mound of water" that a Round Earth predicts.

Please stop pretending that these photos are evidence of anything, because as scientific experiments go it is utterly shit(e).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 12:28:10 PM
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For all we know Toronto could sit atop a 500 foot cliff which is being obscured by the "mound of water" that a Round Earth predicts.

Then it's a good thing that it doesn't.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:34:36 PM
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For all we know Toronto could sit atop a 500 foot cliff which is being obscured by the "mound of water" that a Round Earth predicts.

Then it's a good thing that it doesn't.

But you can't prove that because you don't have any photos taken from higher than beach-level.

The experiment is flawed and not worthy of further discussion.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:39:47 PM
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For all we know Toronto could sit atop a 500 foot cliff which is being obscured by the "mound of water" that a Round Earth predicts.

Then it's a good thing that it doesn't.

But you can't prove that because you don't have any photos taken from higher than beach-level.

The experiment is flawed and not worthy of further discussion.

As has been said, your disdain for astronomy - where no control over experimental variables can be exercised - combined with your promotion of this this experiment - where no control over experimental variables has been exercised - betrays an astounding level of hypocrisy and unfairness.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 12:40:33 PM
But you can't prove that because you don't have any photos taken from higher than beach-level.

The experiment is flawed and not worthy of further discussion.

Toronto doesn't sit on a 500 foot high cliff. Your lame arguments only do to demonstrate the undeniable flatness of the earth.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:43:30 PM
The sky is not the earth. A night sky which surrounds you says nothing about the shape of the earth, only that the night sky surrounds you.

When I look at the night sky in the UK the stars rotate in a sphere around a star that is due north.

When I go to the USA and I look at the night sky the stars also rotate in a sphere around a star that is due north.

That can only make sense if the Earth is a sphere too.

My senses and my intelligence don't lie.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 12:43:38 PM
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As has been said, your disdain for astronomy - where no control over experimental variables can be exercised - combined with your promotion of this this experiment - where no control over experimental variables has been exercised - betrays an astounding level of hypocrisy and unfairness

Actually in this case, as with all curvature experiments, the variables can be studied and controlled. Toronto is directly accessible. We can know how far away it is and whether the city sits up on a 500 foot cliff.

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With the stars one cannot go out to stars to see how far away they are.

When I look at the night sky in the UK the stars rotate in a sphere around a star that is due north.

When I go to the USA and I look at the night sky the stars also rotate in a sphere around a star that is due north.

That can only make sense if the Earth is a sphere too.

My senses and my intelligence don't lie.

Spinning star systems say nothing about the shape of the earth, only that spinning star systems exist.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:44:17 PM
Toronto doesn't sit on a 500 foot high cliff.

Prove it!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:45:59 PM
We can know how far away it is

How do you know this?

You guys don't even have a proper bloody Flat Earth map!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:47:35 PM
Spinning star systems say nothing about the shape of the earth, only that spinning star systems exist.

Actually they say an awful lot ...

If you have an intellect that is sufficiently astute, powerful and flexible enough to think in 3D.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 12:52:33 PM
Toronto doesn't sit on a 500 foot high cliff.

Prove it!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Beach.JPG

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Toronto_Beach.JPG/800px-Toronto_Beach.JPG)

Do you see any 500 foot cliffs on this beach? I don't.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 12:57:20 PM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Beach.JPG

As you have said so often:

Wikipedia is not a valid reference work.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 12:58:00 PM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Beach.JPG

As you have said so often:

Wikipedia is not a valid reference work.

Here are some more photos of the Toronto coast. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=beach&sll=43.62191,-79.375877&sspn=0.103141,0.244446&ie=UTF8&radius=6.12&rq=1&lci=com.panoramio.all&ll=43.635827,-79.38755&spn=0.103118,0.374908&z=12) Please show me where you see some 500 foot cliffs.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 01:00:20 PM
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Beach.JPG

As you have said so often:

Wikipedia is not a valid reference work.

Here are some more photos of the Toronto coast. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=beach&sll=43.62191,-79.375877&sspn=0.103141,0.244446&ie=UTF8&radius=6.12&rq=1&lci=com.panoramio.all&ll=43.635827,-79.38755&spn=0.103118,0.374908&z=12) Please tell me where you see some 500 foot cliffs.

Oh man - everyone knows that Google Maps is part of the Flat Earth Conspiracy!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 01:04:36 PM
Oh man - everyone knows that Google Maps is part of the Flat Earth Conspiracy!

Would that be the Toronto cliff conspiracy, or the international curvature-chopping photoshop conspiracy?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 21, 2009, 01:06:25 PM
Oh man - everyone knows that Google Maps is part of the Flat Earth Conspiracy!

Would that be the Toronto cliff conspiracy, or the international curvature-chopping photoshop conspiracy?

Making fun of it doesn't mean it isn't true!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 21, 2009, 01:06:45 PM
http://www.toronto.ca/waterfront/tour/scarborough_bluffs.htm
(http://www.toronto.ca/waterfront/images/bluffs2_400.jpg)
Scarborough Bluffs just outside Toronto.  Maybe not 500 feet, but not lake level either.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 01:20:00 PM
http://www.toronto.ca/waterfront/tour/scarborough_bluffs.htm
Scarborough Bluffs just outside Toronto.  Maybe not 500 feet, but not lake level either.

Sorry, but those little bluffs are pointing westwards are quite a bit away from the city. The photographer in the Hamilton images is taking a picture of Toronto from the South.

Also, there are no or few buildings on top of those bluffs.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on June 21, 2009, 01:35:02 PM
Also, there are no or few buildings on top of those bluffs.

I think that the residents of Scarborough might beg to differ (it's mostly residential, if I recall).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 21, 2009, 01:47:57 PM
Spinning star systems say nothing about the shape of the earth, only that spinning star systems exist.

Sorry to be off topic here, but I must protest.

The Devil's in the detail (as ever).  It's the way the stars spin (as a "dome", not a plane) that can tell us about the shape of the earth.  -Far more compelling than a view out of a window.

The FE "bendy light" defence is testament to the power of this evidence.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 02:04:50 PM
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Sorry to be off topic here, but I must protest.

The Devil's in the detail (as ever).  It's the way the stars spin (as a "dome", not a plane) that can tell us about the shape of the earth.  -Far more compelling than a view out of a window.

Stars ascending from one horizon, passing overhead, and then descending to the other does nothing to demonstrate that the earth is a globe.

Flocks of birds and airplanes also do that.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 21, 2009, 02:27:43 PM
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Sorry to be off topic here, but I must protest.

The Devil's in the detail (as ever).  It's the way the stars spin (as a "dome", not a plane) that can tell us about the shape of the earth.  -Far more compelling than a view out of a window.

Stars ascending from one horizon, passing overhead, and then descending to the other does nothing to demonstrate that the earth is a globe.

Flocks of birds and airplanes also do that.

Tom, I'm not going to post on this again because it's OT.

You are wrong, because birds and aircraft generally do NOT pass overhead with a constant angular velocity (e.g. degrees per second) in the sky.  Because birds and aircraft tend to fly at a constant altitude (like the FE stars), their angular velocity decreases as it gets closer to the horizon.

Stars DO have a constant angular velocity (irrespective of their position in the sky).  Any astral tracking platform is designed with this in mind.  Stars do this at any position on the globe, which is a strong reason for a spherical earth.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 02:40:58 PM
Quote from: Moon squirter link=topic=29694.msg726453#msg726453
Tom, I'm not going to post on this again because it's OT.

You are wrong, because birds and aircraft generally do NOT pass overhead with a constant angular velocity (e.g. degrees per second) in the sky.  Because birds and aircraft tend to fly at a constant altitude (like the FE stars), their angular velocity decreases as it gets closer to the horizon.

Stars DO have a constant angular velocity (irrespective of their position in the sky).  Any astral tracking platform is designed with this in mind.  Stars do this at any position on the globe, which is a strong reason for a spherical earth.

Angular velocity becomes more constant the higher the altitude the body is. The higher the body, the longer it will take to reach the horizon. A body at a higher altitude is making a broader perspective line into the horizon.

For example, it will take much longer for a jet airplane to reach the horizon than a flock of birds. This is because it's approaching the horizon at a broader angle.

The stars are at such an altitude that they are making the broadest angle possible into the horizon: 45 degrees.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 21, 2009, 03:11:37 PM
Angular velocity becomes more constant the higher the altitude the body is. The higher the body, the longer it will take to reach the horizon. A body at a higher altitude is making a broader perspective line into the horizon.

For example, it will take much longer for a jet airplane to reach the horizon than a flock of birds. This is because it's approaching the horizon at a broader angle.

The stars are at such an altitude that they are making the broadest angle possible into the horizon: 45 degrees.

Damn.  I was at least expecting Bending Light or Gears.  Instead I've got "human perspective" for my troubles.  -Unfortunately perspective lines are linear.  The astral dome (and its movement) is spherical.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 21, 2009, 04:37:17 PM
Guys please...

can this discussion go into another thread? It is seriously off topic, by a LONG way. I've hinted quite a few times now. I want someone to contribute to the debate on circumnavigational radio propagation.

I realise most of you are just posting in protest to Tom Bishop's posts which is fair game I admit but here isn't the place. Tom Bishop is ignoring all this...please go elsewhere, you aren't wanted here unless you have something useful. I don't give a shit about Toronto. Just go the fuck away you stupid little man.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 04:41:33 PM
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Damn.  I was at least expecting Bending Light or Gears.  Instead I've got "human perspective" for my troubles.  -Unfortunately perspective lines are linear.  The astral dome (and its movement) is spherical.

No one sees a spherical "dome". Over the course of the night some stars one one side of the horizon are ascending and some stars on the other side of the horizon are descending.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 21, 2009, 05:07:28 PM
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Damn.  I was at least expecting Bending Light or Gears.  Instead I've got "human perspective" for my troubles.  -Unfortunately perspective lines are linear.  The astral dome (and its movement) is spherical.

No one sees a spherical "dome". Over the course of the night some stars one one side of the horizon are ascending and some stars on the other side of the horizon are descending.

Are you blind?

Take this shit to another thread you ignorant tool.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 21, 2009, 05:17:53 PM
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I think that the residents of Scarborough might beg to differ (it's mostly residential, if I recall).

The scene in the Toronto picture isn't the residential neighborhoods of Scarborough, so the matter is immaterial.

Quote from: julianmartin link=topic=29694.msg726573#msg726573
Are you blind?

Take this shit to another thread you ignorant tool.

No one is obligated to discuss your topic. If you want to talk about radio signals or whatever, talk to your parent or guardian about it.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on June 21, 2009, 06:11:00 PM
Ah the sweet fairness of debate that is FET.
This is why I bagged out the mods.

You know they only reason they are running offtopic is because they don't have answers to your questions julian. This is actually as close as you will ever get to admission that they can't argue their case. It's what happens in all threads where FE loses ground.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 21, 2009, 10:39:00 PM
No one is obligated to discuss your topic. If you want to talk about radio signals or whatever, talk to your parent or guardian about it.

Well common courtesy on the internet has always held that threads on forums should stay on topic; this forum has no reason why it shouldn't adhere to that. You have your own topic, there are threads elsewhere which are more relevant. It's just good manners Tom.

As for talking to my parent or guardian about radio signals? You can suck my dong and call me winston just for being a smart arse. Go give yourself a reacharound while your head is still up your arse and then come back with straightforward arguments that don't just play devils advocate for shits and giggles. You're infantile and annoying Tom, if you were a round earther, I'd probably switch my beliefs just to avoid being grouped in with a person like you.

Now please, back ON TOPIC.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 22, 2009, 02:05:09 AM
No one is obligated to discuss your topic. If you want to talk about radio signals or whatever, talk to your parent or guardian about it.

What a t*ss*r / w*nk*r / *rs*h*l* / m*r*n you are, Tom Bishop!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 22, 2009, 02:06:43 AM
You're infantile and annoying Tom, if you were a round earther, I'd probably switch my beliefs just to avoid being grouped in with a person like you.

'Infantile'?

Great word!

I've only ever called him jeuvenille before, but you're right - he's far worse than that!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 22, 2009, 02:11:47 AM
Guys please...

can this discussion go into another thread? It is seriously off topic, by a LONG way. I've hinted quite a few times now. I want someone to contribute to the debate on circumnavigational radio propagation.

I believe that I have challenged the Flat Earthers to come up with some diagrams to illustrate their proposed Flat-Earth wave paths ...

Because at present I find their ideas incredible / unbelievable.

(Compared to your simple, earth-to-ionosphere-and-back-again-all-around-the-globe model.)


Beyond that, I am unable to contribute further I'm afraid because they are being evasive and trying to avoid proper scrutiny of their theories.

As you say they are all infantile pr*cks who are only interested in winning arguments for the pathetic sake of it - they have no real desire to acquire real knowledge, it's just a stupid game for them.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 22, 2009, 02:58:54 AM
No no no I know, I'd just rather wait with no posts to prove that FE doesn't have an answer than have to wade through lots of stuff about toronto that ultimately I don't care about...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 23, 2009, 03:17:07 AM
No no no I know, I'd just rather wait with no posts to prove that FE doesn't have an answer than have to wade through lots of stuff about toronto that ultimately I don't care about...

So come on Flat Earthers:

Show (with diagrams) how this guy's radio signals can come back to him from behind.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 23, 2009, 03:45:33 AM
I've long resigned myself to not getting an answer on this one.

A serious win for Round Earth in my opinion.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on June 23, 2009, 03:53:51 AM
perhaps you need to mimic their technique in order to elicit a response.
start spamming all of their threads with your question on radio signals.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 23, 2009, 05:38:36 AM
perhaps you need to mimic their technique in order to elicit a response.
start spamming all of their threads with your question on radio signals.

"When in Rome", and all that!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 24, 2009, 12:36:42 PM
No no no I know, I'd just rather wait with no posts to prove that FE doesn't have an answer than have to wade through lots of stuff about toronto that ultimately I don't care about...

So come on Flat Earthers:

Show (with diagrams) how this guy's radio signals can come back to him from behind.

Still no proper explanation from the Flat Earthers?

Are you all conceding defeat?

(Admitting that the only way this can happen is if The World is a globe?)

Are you just going to stay silent and hope that this thread falls off page one like you did with my star-trails thread?

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29590.0
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 25, 2009, 01:36:39 AM
I'm on the edge of my seat waiting....!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 25, 2009, 02:06:49 AM
So come on Flat Earthers:

Show (with diagrams) how this guy's radio signals can come back to him from behind.

They don't.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 25, 2009, 03:11:32 AM
So come on Flat Earthers:

Show (with diagrams) how this guy's radio signals can come back to him from behind.

They don't.

So julianmartin is lying, but Lady Blount (flat Bedford Level pictures *) was telling the truth?

Edit 2: how do you know who to believe?

* Edit 1 - add reference:

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29840.msg728707#msg728707
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 25, 2009, 10:09:19 AM
So julianmartin is lying, but Lady Blount (flat Bedford Level pictures *) was telling the truth?

I'm not saying he's lying. He's just wrong. Here's what he said:

"Let me re-iterate. Directional Electromagnetic radition that circumnavigates the earth, is NOT possible on a dual flat plane of reflection; let alone omnidirectional. It would be emitted to into space."

This is obviously wrong, because it is freely admitted that Ham Radio and AM signals are not traveling in a straight line, but bounce between the ionosphere and the ground like rubber balls to reach far off destinations.

If this is happening at all directions and angles, obviously some of it will be reflected back when it hits the side of an angled hillside.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on June 25, 2009, 11:12:13 AM
...it is freely admitted that Ham Radio and AM signals are not traveling in a straight line, but bounce between the ionosphere and the ground like rubber balls to reach far off destinations.

If this is happening at all directions and angles, obviously some of it will be reflected back when it hits the side of an angled hillside.

And then somehow magically re-appear from behind...?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 25, 2009, 11:16:04 AM
...it is freely admitted that Ham Radio and AM signals are not traveling in a straight line, but bounce between the ionosphere and the ground like rubber balls to reach far off destinations.

If this is happening at all directions and angles, obviously some of it will be reflected back when it hits the side of an angled hillside.

And then somehow magically re-appear from behind...?

It's being reflected by two angled hillsides?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 26, 2009, 12:17:55 AM
...it is freely admitted that Ham Radio and AM signals are not traveling in a straight line, but bounce between the ionosphere and the ground like rubber balls to reach far off destinations.

If this is happening at all directions and angles, obviously some of it will be reflected back when it hits the side of an angled hillside.

And then somehow magically re-appear from behind...?

It's being reflected by two angled hillsides?

This is the kind of lame, unscientific and trite shallow-thinking that gives FET a bad name.

"Light bends upwards" (sunsets on the horizon), "light bends sideways" (sunrise and sunset bearings wrong), "it reflects off a hill-side" (trans-global radio waves), "dark energy holds the atmosphere in" (why we don't lose our air), "reflections off crystals in The Ice Wall" (Antarctic midnight sun), etc.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 26, 2009, 03:19:37 AM
So julianmartin is lying, but Lady Blount (flat Bedford Level pictures *) was telling the truth?

I'm not saying he's lying. He's just wrong. Here's what he said:

"Let me re-iterate. Directional Electromagnetic radition that circumnavigates the earth, is NOT possible on a dual flat plane of reflection; let alone omnidirectional. It would be emitted to into space."

This is obviously wrong, because it is freely admitted that Ham Radio and AM signals are not traveling in a straight line, but bounce between the ionosphere and the ground like rubber balls to reach far off destinations.

If this is happening at all directions and angles, obviously some of it will be reflected back when it hits the side of an angled hillside.

Let me re-explain that sentence, in doing so I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt Tom that you slightly misunderstood what I said.

It is possible to emit a signal in a very concentrated beam that is entirely directional using the correct antenna (example, Yagi Beam. My beam antenna is a Hex Beam, one of these: http://www.hexbeam.com/ (just so you don't think I'm dicking you around)), and can only be received by people in the immediate path of transmission; and that stays true for many thousands of miles. Now on top of that, after an appropriate amount of time (which varies), one's signal can be received by oneself by an antenna that is oppositely arranged to the original transmission antenna. Now let me break it down further. The signal is entirely focused in the horizontal plane, we have already covered that. In the vertical plane...guess what, it's the same thing!! A nice pretty picture below shows EXACTLY what happens:

(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1363/ionobounce.png)

So the reflects can continue all around the globe. It is HIGHLY important in this theory that the waves are directional. What changes their direction are the various reflections. And bear in mind, only their vertical plane direction is changing, not their horizontal.

Now I mentioned it working with omnidirectional antennas too. In some circumstances the same thing can happen where part of the emitted signal reaches the ionosphere (pretty much all of it will, but at that height it is greatly dispersed), gets a good bit of propagation, bounces down to earth like the rest of the signal but perhaps a lot further, and by chance travels through atmosphere much more suitable for signal strength preservation, then the process is identical to what I have listed above.

Another sidepoint here - in roundearth, pretty much all long range communications (post 2000 miles I would say) that rely on HF signals, bounce off the ionosphere to get to their destination. From a round earth perspective, this is how radio signals get over the problem of the round earth and it otherwise being in the way for shorter wavelength signals.

I will have to modify the statement that on a flat earth, the signals would go into space. Ionospheric reflection depends wholly on angle of incidence. With a flat earth, this is probably going to be 90 degrees or thereabouts at the base of the atmosphere. The LIKELIHOOD is that it will be able to escape the ionosphere. Using appropriately adjusted transmissions, it's possible to ensure an HF signal to leave the atmosphere without being hindered too much. I know you will argue with this, but it's common knowledge that NASA use HF to talk to the ISS and their shuttles while in space.

Now it is possible on a flat earth, that the signal might not escape the atmosphere. In which case, this will happen:

(http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2553/radio2.png)

Now it's difficult to say exactly what would happen at the base of the atmosphere in flat earth. Which is why I say it's likely it will escape to space. There would need to be some pretty interesting reflections to stop it doing so, possibly off your ice wall. But either way, however it happens, on a flat earth, the signal would ALWAYS be received in front of you rather than behind. And apologies for the poor pictures but you get the idea.

Hope that explains it better for you Tom.

I win again.

Edit:

Also in that flat earth picture, the angles of incidence due to the shape of your atmosphere would probably mean the majority of the signal would be lost to space before it could get to you.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 26, 2009, 05:08:19 AM
This is the kind of lame, unscientific and trite shallow-thinking that gives FET a bad name.

"Light bends upwards" (sunsets on the horizon), "light bends sideways" (sunrise and sunset bearings wrong), "it reflects off a hill-side" (trans-global radio waves), "dark energy holds the atmosphere in" (why we don't lose our air), "reflections off crystals in The Ice Wall" (Antarctic midnight sun), etc.

You forgot "light bends downwards".

WTF ?!?!?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 26, 2009, 05:25:26 AM
You forgot "light bends downwards".

WTF ?!?!?

as the earth is covered with an atmosphere of many miles in depth, the density of which gradually increases downwards to the surface, all the rays of light except those which are vertical, as they enter the upper stratum of air are arrested in their course of diffusion, and by Snell's Law bent downwards towards the earth;

I am utterly dumb-founded!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on June 26, 2009, 09:04:46 AM

I am utterly dumb-founded!

It's a pretty big club.  Pretty much anyone who's read a Tom Bishop post has joined.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 26, 2009, 10:54:55 AM
"Light bends upwards" (sunsets on the horizon), "light bends sideways" (sunrise and sunset bearings wrong), "it reflects off a hill-side" (trans-global radio waves), "dark energy holds the atmosphere in" (why we don't lose our air), "reflections off crystals in The Ice Wall" (Antarctic midnight sun), etc.

You forgot "light bends downwards".

I forgot another "Tom Bishop special":

"The atmosphere magnifies The Sun" (why a relatively close Sun doesn't shrink as it moves towards the horizon)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on June 26, 2009, 06:41:52 PM
You forgot "light bends downwards".

WTF ?!?!?

as the earth is covered with an atmosphere of many miles in depth, the density of which gradually increases downwards to the surface, all the rays of light except those which are vertical, as they enter the upper stratum of air are arrested in their course of diffusion, and by Snell's Law bent downwards towards the earth;

I believe this theory is falling out of favor among FEs. Watch for it's selected use.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 28, 2009, 01:00:46 PM
So still waiting for your diagrams Flat Earth boys...! I've given you clear paths on the RE model. Only customary that it's your turn... ;)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 29, 2009, 01:49:36 AM
So still waiting for your diagrams Flat Earth boys...! I've given you clear paths on the RE model. Only customary that it's your turn... ;)

As I.B.M. manuals used to say:

This page has been left deliberately blank ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Skeptek on June 29, 2009, 04:04:07 PM
Tom is one odd critter, that's for sure.  I just cannot figure that guy out.

But, I too would love to hear and/or see an explanation of how an RF signal could circumnavigate a flat Earth.

Doesn't Tom have some magic system of parabolic dishes mounted all along the ice wall?  Come on, Tom!  Don't leave us hangin'!  How about any other FE'er?

What about Moonbounce?  Have we gotten and FE explanation for all of that?  My eyes rolled up into my head so far that I could no longer read after I saw Tom rape Snell's law, so I could not get through this entire thread.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 29, 2009, 04:18:57 PM
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But either way, however it happens, on a flat earth, the signal would ALWAYS be received in front of you rather than behind. And apologies for the poor pictures but you get the idea.

When you broadcast a wave which can bounce of both the Ionosphere and the ground, it's obviously going to be scattered in every possible direction at the first ricochet and then be scattered in every possible direction on the second ricochet. It doesn't take much to imagine a scenario where the photons are bouncing a few times off angled surfaces and being reflected back towards the antenna, even coming from another direction from which it was sent.

How can you tell which way the photons are coming, or what path they are taking?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 30, 2009, 01:35:48 AM
Quote
But either way, however it happens, on a flat earth, the signal would ALWAYS be received in front of you rather than behind. And apologies for the poor pictures but you get the idea.

When you broadcast a wave which can bounce of both the Ionosphere and the ground, it's obviously going to be scattered in every possible direction at the first ricochet and then be scattered in every possible direction on the second ricochet. It doesn't take much to imagine a scenario where the photons are bouncing a few times off angled surfaces and being reflected back towards the antenna, even coming from another direction from which it was sent.

The scenario you describe would involve the signal coming back to you from a seemingly random direction dependent upon local topography ...

But Julian Martin has described a phenomenon where the signal always come back to you from behind you (a bearing of 180 degrees from the path the signal went out from).

So your explanation is, frankly, not adequate (you appear to be clutching at straws).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on June 30, 2009, 01:57:18 AM
When you broadcast a wave which can bounce of both the Ionosphere and the ground, it's obviously going to be scattered in every possible direction

Obviously, but not convincingly, I'm afraid.   If (as you say) the waves are scattered in every possible direction, then they're not going to be in any single direction.  So your later statement that:

photons are bouncing a few times off angled surfaces and being reflected back towards the antenna, even coming from another direction from which it was sent.

...contradicts the first, as you are now talking about waves travelling in specific directions.

It's not a coherent argument.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 30, 2009, 02:49:51 AM
Quote
But either way, however it happens, on a flat earth, the signal would ALWAYS be received in front of you rather than behind. And apologies for the poor pictures but you get the idea.

When you broadcast a wave which can bounce of both the Ionosphere and the ground, it's obviously going to be scattered in every possible direction at the first ricochet and then be scattered in every possible direction on the second ricochet. It doesn't take much to imagine a scenario where the photons are bouncing a few times off angled surfaces and being reflected back towards the antenna, even coming from another direction from which it was sent.

How can you tell which way the photons are coming, or what path they are taking?


Man alive you are a tool sometimes Tom, I have to say.

And what do you mean "it's obviously going to be scattered in every possible direction at the first ricochet" ?

Firstly, ricochets are a property of solid objects. I'm talking about a reflection tom. Of EM waves that have a single phase length of upto 80-100 metres.

Secondly, it's "obviously" going to be scattered is it? What is obvious about that? If what you are saying is right, pretty much all longwave radio communication theory to this day is entirely flawed. I wouldn't be able to have a directional antenna in the first place - as all signals would have this erratic reflection behaviour. The entire ham radio community experiences otherwise I'm afraid. Go out and buy a radio and a Yagi beam and test out your theory yourself before you try to modify basic EM theory.

Thirdly, buy a book on radio communications before you argue with statements like that.

Fourthly, I WANT DIAGRAMS!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 30, 2009, 03:52:12 AM
Fourthly, I WANT DIAGRAMS!

So do I (please)!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 30, 2009, 06:07:17 AM

How can you tell which way the photons are coming, or what path they are taking?


Forgot to answer this Tom.

You can use a Bellini-Tosi direction finder device.

See here: http://leeds1.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1676641&history=true&StyleSheetView=all
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Skeptek on June 30, 2009, 11:08:34 AM

How can you tell which way the photons are coming, or what path they are taking?

This is a perfect example of "talking out one's ass", as is so common with FE'ers.  Tom has demonstrated that he really does not have a grasp of even the most basic concepts in this thread, and yet he presumes to be some kind of expert who is qualified to contradict accepted science in this field.  Staggering.

Anyone who has lost their way in an airplane and followed a directional radio signal, or observed zoologists use a directional antenna to track a tagged animal understands these basic ideas.  Or is "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" in on NASA's conspiracy?  They are tried and proven over the decades by tens of thousands of pilots and other radio operators.  The fact that anyone is willing to even suggest this information isn't accurate shows them to be completely out of touch with reality, Tom.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Skeptek on June 30, 2009, 11:13:31 AM
... It doesn't take much to imagine a scenario where the photons are bouncing a few times off angled surfaces and being reflected back towards the antenna, even coming from another direction from which it was sent.

How can you tell which way the photons are coming, or what path they are taking?

Since when is something that is easy to imagine scientific?

It doesn't take much to imagine a group of people who are so desperate for attention that they are willing to trade their dignity to get it.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 30, 2009, 12:12:59 PM
Sorry, but a signal which is bouncing off of the atmosphere and ground like rubber balls in a bucket is not going to be traveling in one direction. The direction is defendant on the angle of the surface it is reflected from. Obviously some are going to return to the source.

I have seen no evidence that the waves are traveling around a globe earth. There are a plethora of other paths it can be taking to return to the observer.

Nor has evidence been presented that the signals are only received exactly 180 degrees behind the observer and none other.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 30, 2009, 12:48:11 PM
Nor has evidence been presented that the signals are only received exactly 180 degrees behind the observer and none other.

The evidence before us is Julian Martin's first-hand account of repeatable experiences that he has actually had with his own equipment.

This is in contrast to your assertion that:

All that is known at present is that the coast of Antarctica stretches out into a seemingly perpetual  expanse of ice and snow.

Which appears to be based on nothing but your own opinion:

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29967.msg733899#msg733899

Edit: so who is being more scientific here - you or Julian Martin?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 30, 2009, 12:53:52 PM
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The evidence before us is Julian Martin's first-hand account of repeatable experiences that he has actually had with his own equipment.

What equipment would that be? Ham radio antennas can pick up signals from many different directions.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on June 30, 2009, 01:07:18 PM
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The evidence before us is Julian Martin's first-hand account of repeatable experiences that he has actually had with his own equipment.

What equipment would that be? Ham radio antennas can pick up signals from many different directions.

Julian Martin has already answered this question:


How can you tell which way the photons are coming, or what path they are taking?


Forgot to answer this Tom.

You can use a Bellini-Tosi direction finder device.

See here: http://leeds1.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1676641&history=true&StyleSheetView=all

Are you even reading his posts properly?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Skeptek on June 30, 2009, 01:12:10 PM
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The evidence before us is Julian Martin's first-hand account of repeatable experiences that he has actually had with his own equipment.

What equipment would that be? Ham radio antennas can pick up signals from many different directions.

The question has been asked and answered already.  Are you seriously saying that you don't understand how a directional antenna works?  How about every satellite dish you have ever seen?  Or every large, outdoor TV antenna ever made?  Any DirectTV or Dish Network customer who has had their dish bumped a tenth of a degree and lost their signal can attest to this.

Anyone can detect the direction of a common Wi-Fi signal with a paper plate wrapped in tin-foil positioned behind the antenna as a focusing reflector.

Why is this so mysterious for you?  I contend that it isn't and you are just trying to digress the discussion like you always do.  I think grasping at straws has degraded into Number 9 on the "Tools of The Debate Impostor" (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29812.msg720984#msg720984) list.  Can anyone confirm?

Edited for preciseness, and added that "JulianMartin" is my new hero!  Sorry, Tesla.

Jules, (may I call you Jules too?)

Kudos!  You have - in short time and few posts - nailed FET to the wall in what I can only describe as a brilliant and elegant display of scientific expertise and debate prowess.  This thread stands as a monument to the true dichotomy between pseudoscience and reality, in a field of false idols and rubbish heaps.

If any FE'er were to best you, it would assuredly convince me that the Earth is as flat as the top of Tom's head.

I am proud to know you, Sir.


.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on June 30, 2009, 01:24:08 PM
I doubt Mr Bishop has satellite TV at home. However I am sure that he has a compelling theory to say why all satellite TV dishes point upwards towards particular points in the sky.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Skeptek on June 30, 2009, 02:58:47 PM
... I am sure that he has a compelling theory to say why all satellite TV dishes point upwards towards particular points in the sky.

Irrelevant and immaterial.  My post demonstrates how the direction of an incoming signal can be accurately determined with simple, common and well understood equipment, regardless of where that signal originates (from satellites in orbit or from NASA's Nazi-Penguin-Ice-Wall-Sniper-operated pirate TV stations).

That's why I like this one so much.  Tom's best argument is to ignorantly deny the basic principals of RF transmission; ones that anyone can easily verify with the simplest of equipment.  His remarks fly in the face of common sense and shows that there is simply no room in FET for what JulianMartin has put forth.  I doubt that anyone but Tom has enough self-loathing to invite ridicule by disputing such axioms, and other FE'ers are indeed staying away from this thread like the plague.  Tesla's star trails thread (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29590.0) went a similar way, and it remains standing (as of this post) as a confirmed failure of FET to withstand scientific scrutiny.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on June 30, 2009, 03:42:35 PM
The question has been asked and answered already.  Are you seriously saying that you don't understand how a directional antenna works?  How about every satellite dish you have ever seen?  Or every large, outdoor TV antenna ever made?  Any DirectTV or Dish Network customer who has had their dish bumped a tenth of a degree and lost their signal can attest to this.

Anyone can detect the direction of a common Wi-Fi signal with a paper plate wrapped in tin-foil positioned behind the antenna as a focusing reflector.

Why is this so mysterious for you?  I contend that it isn't and you are just trying to digress the discussion like you always do.  I think grasping at straws has degraded into Number 9 on the "Tools of The Debate Impostor" (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=29812.msg720984#msg720984) list.  Can anyone confirm?

Edited for preciseness, and added that "JulianMartin" is my new hero!  Sorry, Tesla.

Jules, (may I call you Jules too?)

Kudos!  You have - in short time and few posts - nailed FET to the wall in what I can only describe as a brilliant and elegant display of scientific expertise and debate prowess.  This thread stands as a monument to the true dichotomy between pseudoscience and reality, in a field of false idols and rubbish heaps.

If any FE'er were to best you, it would assuredly convince me that the Earth is as flat as the top of Tom's head.

I am proud to know you, Sir.

Ha! Yes yes call me jules. Well glad you have enjoyed my posts so much!

Well well well Tom. Where do I start?

With a Yagi beam, it's top down emission pattern looks like this:

http://hfradio.org/ace-hf/Fig06A_10-m_OptiBeam_Yagi_3-stack_Antenna_at_28.4_MHz.jpg

You can clearly see the greatest level of gain is achieved at 0 degrees. That's proof of a directional antenna. You can have a receiving antenna in the same form that has a higher gain for signals in the target direction. Using a squelch control on a transceiver, it's easy to cut out all the crap and wait for the signal you want to be received.

Factor in the wavelength of the signals we are talking about. 80m for example. That's pretty big. Thus, you would need a substantially large object of the right material and at the right angle to deflect the entirely of a signal backwards. A mountain range for example might just be able to do it if the signal is on a single path. That's one reason why this phenomena isn't a continual occurrence and isn't a simple thing to recreate at any time. An example of this is that it's easier for me to get this effect by transmitting south from the UK to say, South Africa. In that path, there are few mountain ranges etc.

To an extent Tom, you are right in that there will be alterations every time the signal has a deflection. But given the amount of power that is used to transmit to get this effect, these deflections and slight alterations are seriously insignificant. Think of the signal as a tube, bouncing up and down. Every time the tube bounces, a splinter of the tube flies off in a slightly different direction, but in comparison with the whole tube, they are tiny, and would never attain the propagation to give the described effect. On top of that these "splinters" would have to have the same thing happen to them several times before it could come from behind oneself. If you really want to get nitty gritty, the alterations in angular propagation after a deflection could actually assist in preserving the signal. See this pretty picture that I drew:
(http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9271/roundearth.jpg)
As you can see, varying deflections could well help avoid obstacles.

You say there are a plethora of other paths - please could you illustrate these as I have been taking the time to do so for you.

Obviously I have only spoken about one plane of deflection alterations. In the other, yes, it is possible that it can change direction. But not a hope in hell of the entire signal taking 90 degree bends or suchlike which is what I guess you are aiming towards in your statements. This effect that I describe doesn't demand that the signal be received 180 degrees opposite to the angle of transmission to prove the concept, but the plausible variation which I would estimate to only be a maximum of + or - 5 to 8 degrees are completely explainable by obstacles in the path of the signal as you have so kindly suggested. More often than not, it is received directly behind oneself though.

Just for completeness, this image shows the other plane of signal propagation from a Yagi Beam antenna:

http://hfradio.org/ace-hf/Fig06B_10-m_OptiBeam_Yagi_3-stack_Antenna_at_28.4_MHz.jpg

As you can see the varying angles in vertical propagation give 2 clear paths for the signal to take, one of which will inevitably get further round the earth as it will (mainly by luck) hit less interfering surfaces, and thus have better propagation.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 30, 2009, 06:54:40 PM
Julian Martin has already answered this question:

You mean this?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=Bellini-Tosi+direction+finder+device
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Skeptek on June 30, 2009, 07:38:45 PM
Julian Martin has already answered this question:

You mean this?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=Bellini-Tosi+direction+finder+device
Hey, Tom.  Don't read my posts.  Don't you do it!  Don't read the words in any post that answer your question, just ask dopey questions that prolong the pain.

...and the beat goes on...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 30, 2009, 11:12:14 PM
Hey, Tom.  Don't read my posts.  Don't you do it!  Don't read the words in any post that answer your question, just ask dopey questions that prolong the pain.

...and the beat goes on...

Bellini-Tosi antenna's aren't satellite dishes, they're metal structures.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on June 30, 2009, 11:36:38 PM
Hey, Tom.  Don't read my posts.  Don't you do it!  Don't read the words in any post that answer your question, just ask dopey questions that prolong the pain.

...and the beat goes on...

Bellini-Tosi antenna's aren't satellite dishes, they're metal structures.

You can't have a metal structure that is a satellite dish?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 30, 2009, 11:45:57 PM
You can't have a metal structure that is a satellite dish?

If it's an Eiffel Tower of metal it's just an antenna. There's nothing unidirectional about it.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 01, 2009, 12:17:48 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is a satellite dish?

If it's an Eiffel Tower of metal it's just an antenna. There's nothing unidirectional about it.

You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 01, 2009, 12:56:12 AM
Hey, Tom.  Don't read my posts.  Don't you do it!  Don't read the words in any post that answer your question, just ask dopey questions that prolong the pain.

...and the beat goes on...

Bellini-Tosi antenna's aren't satellite dishes, they're metal structures.

Yet again Tom drags the debate down to the level of an obstinate six year-old ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 01, 2009, 01:27:42 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?

Not if photons can hit the detector omnidirectionally.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 01, 2009, 01:30:22 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?

Not if photons can hit the detector omnidirectionally.

But if the photons are unidirectional?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 01, 2009, 02:15:06 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?

Not if photons can hit the detector omnidirectionally.

Tom, what you linked to is indeed a Bellini-Tosi device.

I don't see what you are trying to say though - are you doubting that it works? I think those countless pictures of the thing on naval ships says something...! Just because it doesn't look how you expected it to, doesn't mean it won't work. If I remember rightly, the antenna has to be spun round by a motor, once each arm of the antenna is tuned to the right frequency, the relative amplitude can be measured on each arm using a rather standard signal strength meter, which while spinning obviously goes up and down as it goes past the source signal. Using a bit of pretty basic maths involving the motors RPM, it's pretty easy to work out within 5 degrees or so where a signal is coming from. Using more complex meters and calculations with a BT device that has arm lengths that are closer to a factor of the signal wavelength will only increase the accuracy considerably.

I think you should look up a bit on radio direction finding Tom.

This PDF explains many basics and the various ways: http://www.rdfproducts.com/wn001_apl_01.pdf

Bear in mind tom, Bellini-Tosi devices are just one of many many different ways of direction finding. I named it because it's one of the simpler ones and has been about since the days of Marconi ruling the roost in RF tech. There are other much much more complicated ones that I don't know enough about to vouch for, but no doubt work very well.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 01, 2009, 02:27:00 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?

Not if photons can hit the detector omnidirectionally.

That isn't strictly true tom. The way antennas receive directionally is using antenna theory to increase the gain of signals from a particular direction, thus making signals from that direction more powerful and easier to receive. Signals received from other directions on said antenna will have little to no gain, often a negative gain is induced, reducing the signals penetration into the receiver network.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 01, 2009, 02:29:33 AM
Hey, Tom.  Don't read my posts.  Don't you do it!  Don't read the words in any post that answer your question, just ask dopey questions that prolong the pain.

...and the beat goes on...

Bellini-Tosi antenna's aren't satellite dishes, they're metal structures.


....of a calculated size and impedance. They aren't as basic as "metal structures".

I could go on picking out bits of your posts all day Tom.

Please read my posts fully and answer or debate the more serious issues rather than small sidepoints which simply relate to your (understandable) lack of knowledge and (not so understandable) doubt in RF theory. I don't expect you to be a professor of RF, but I do expect some common sense Tom.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 01, 2009, 02:42:06 AM
Metal antennas can receive photons omnidirectionally, from all sides. A photon can hit any point on the metallic surface from many different angles.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 01, 2009, 03:35:18 AM
Metal antennas can receive photons omnidirectionally, from all sides. A photon can hit any point on the metallic surface from many different angles.

So how do you explain the highly directional nature of the equipment that JM is describing?

If it was truly omnidirectional, then received signal strength would not change as you rotated the antenna.

(And radio-wave direction finding could not work when we know it can.)

I am unsure as to whether you are dispalying a true lack of understanding here ....

Or if you are just stubbornly refusing to admit that you are wrong.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 01, 2009, 04:50:38 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?

Not if photons can hit the detector omnidirectionally.


What, other than metal would be a good substance to use?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 01, 2009, 05:07:55 AM
You can't have a metal structure that is unidirectional?

Not if photons can hit the detector omnidirectionally.

Metal antennas can receive photons omnidirectionally, from all sides. A photon can hit any point on the metallic surface from many different angles.



Can someone clarify for me please - are these contradictory statements? They look like it. I'm getting confused now . . .
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 01, 2009, 05:49:31 AM
Metal antennas can receive photons omnidirectionally, from all sides. A photon can hit any point on the metallic surface from many different angles.

And thus I refer you to my previous post:

Quote from: julianmartin

That isn't strictly true tom. The way antennas receive directionally is using antenna theory to increase the gain of signals from a particular direction, thus making signals from that direction more powerful and easier to receive. Signals received from other directions on said antenna will have little to no gain, often a negative gain is induced, reducing the signals penetration into the receiver network.


Yes, antennas will receive from all directions. However DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS, are arranged in such a way that the signals from the intended direction will receive a gain boost, making them easier to receive and separate from background noise and other erroneous signals. On top of that, a squelch function (which I again have already described), can be used to distinct the signals which will be inevitably stronger from the desired direction than anything else received.

Is that clear enough for you Tom?

Edit Squat, I don't think they are contradictory statements - he's alluding to the same final point which is explained and eliminated twice already (both above this edit)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 01, 2009, 05:50:30 AM
"JulianMartin" is my new hero!  Sorry, Tesla.

No worries, old chap.

This is, indeed, a very nice piece of Round Earth evidence which FET is, at present, unable to refute.

But then, so was the sun-rise and sun-set bearings on The Equinox evidence, but Flat Earthers just said that "light bends horizontally" and left it at that.

And so was the Antarctic Midnight Sun evidence, but Flat Earthers just said that an image of The Sun "bounced around crystals in The Ice Wall" and left it at that.

And so was the Southern Celestial Pole always due south evidence, but Flat Earthers just ignored that one because "astronomy is only an observational science".

Tom is doing the same here with the "radio waves bounce off hill-sides".

For him that is an adequate refutation of the evidence.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 01, 2009, 05:57:37 AM
"JulianMartin" is my new hero!  Sorry, Tesla.

No worries, old chap.

This is, indeed, a very nice piece of Round Earth evidence which FET is, at present, unable to refute.

But then, so was the sun-rise and sun-set bearings on The Equinox evidence, but Flat Earthers just said that "light bends horizontally" and left it at that.

And so was the Antarctic Midnight Sun evidence, but Flat Earthers just said that an image of The Sun "bounced around crystals in The Ice Wall" and left it at that.

And so was the Southern Celestial Pole always due south evidence, but Flat Earthers just ignored that one because "astronomy is only an observational science".

Tom is doing the same here with the "radio waves bounce off hill-sides".

For him that is an adequate refutation of the evidence.

Don't forget your 'Star Trails'. I've just finished reading it - excellent stuff.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 01, 2009, 06:02:06 AM
"JulianMartin" is my new hero!  Sorry, Tesla.

No worries, old chap.

This is, indeed, a very nice piece of Round Earth evidence which FET is, at present, unable to refute.

But then, so was the sun-rise and sun-set bearings on The Equinox evidence, but Flat Earthers just said that "light bends horizontally" and left it at that.

And so was the Antarctic Midnight Sun evidence, but Flat Earthers just said that an image of The Sun "bounced around crystals in The Ice Wall" and left it at that.

And so was the Southern Celestial Pole always due south evidence, but Flat Earthers just ignored that one because "astronomy is only an observational science".

Tom is doing the same here with the "radio waves bounce off hill-sides".

For him that is an adequate refutation of the evidence.

Don't forget your 'Star Trails'. I've just finished reading it - excellent stuff.

You are most kind to say so!

The "Southern Celestial Pole always due south evidence" was part of that thread, as I recall.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 02, 2009, 03:25:57 AM
And thus Tom finally gives up when he realises Rowbotham did nothing on EM physics and he's run out of arguments.

Again, game, set and match to Julian. Read it and weep flat earthers!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 02, 2009, 04:08:21 AM
And thus Tom finally gives up when he realises Rowbotham did nothing on EM physics and he's run out of arguments.

Again, game, set and match to Julian. Read it and weep flat earthers!

Perhaps "light bends" vertically and horizontally when necessary to support a Flat Earth ...

Should be modified to "light bends in circles" too when necessary to support a Flat Earth ?

Clearly there exist above The Flat Earth small pockets or vortices of space-time-energy which are capable of bending radio waves around in a circle so that they come up on you from behind.

Quite simple really ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 03, 2009, 02:10:46 AM
Still no adequate Flat-Earth explanation of this phenomenon?

(Not even a single diagram?)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 03, 2009, 12:10:21 PM
And thus Tom finally gives up when he realises Rowbotham did nothing on EM physics and he's run out of arguments.

Again, game, set and match to Julian. Read it and weep flat earthers!

Perhaps "light bends" vertically and horizontally when necessary to support a Flat Earth ...

Should be modified to "light bends in circles" too when necessary to support a Flat Earth ?

Clearly there exist above The Flat Earth small pockets or vortices of space-time-energy which are capable of bending radio waves around in a circle so that they come up on you from behind.

Quite simple really ...

Actually...if we go with that one for a minute - unfortunately the light bending theory probably wouldn't apply to lower frequency radiation like mentioned - we already know that reflections and directioning varies massively between HF and VHF alone - let alone getting upto light frequencies, so "bending" radio waves can be pretty easily ignored. Unless someone gets out giant magnets and puts them everywhere!

Yeah I think this one has pretty much killed FET in one blow. I'm surprised the more serious Flat Earthers0 (i.e. not trolls like Tom Bishop haven't even attempted to suggested anything; and levee has all but disappeared by the look of it.

On top of that, I have chosen to not even mention the issues with Moonbounce...!!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 03, 2009, 12:39:04 PM
And thus Tom finally gives up when he realises Rowbotham did nothing on EM physics and he's run out of arguments.

Again, game, set and match to Julian. Read it and weep flat earthers!

Perhaps "light bends" vertically and horizontally when necessary to support a Flat Earth ...

Should be modified to "light bends in circles" too when necessary to support a Flat Earth ?

Clearly there exist above The Flat Earth small pockets or vortices of space-time-energy which are capable of bending radio waves around in a circle so that they come up on you from behind.

Quite simple really ...

Actually...if we go with that one for a minute - unfortunately the light bending theory probably wouldn't apply to lower frequency radiation like mentioned - we already know that reflections and directioning varies massively between HF and VHF alone - let alone getting upto light frequencies, so "bending" radio waves can be pretty easily ignored. Unless someone gets out giant magnets and puts them everywhere!

"Blue bends best" after all!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on July 04, 2009, 12:46:22 AM
Still no adequate Flat-Earth explanation of this phenomenon?

(Not even a single diagram?)

I have a very nice diagram:

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04/14/article-1015271-00E61B8B00000578-787_468x354_popup.jpg)

It shows a nice round earth and all the shit that us humans have left there.
(this has no relevance to the thread just thought it was nice)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 05, 2009, 02:46:40 AM
Quote
This is, indeed, a very nice piece of Round Earth evidence which FET is, at present, unable to refute.

Refute what? It hasn't been demonstrated that the photons were coming from one and only one direction and angle, or the path those photons took to hit the metal surface of that omnidirectional antenna.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 05, 2009, 03:11:00 AM
Quote
This is, indeed, a very nice piece of Round Earth evidence which FET is, at present, unable to refute.

Refute what? It hasn't been demonstrated that the photons were coming from one and only one direction and angle, or the path those photons took to hit the metal surface of that omnidirectional antenna.

..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 05, 2009, 03:13:02 AM
..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".

If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 05, 2009, 03:15:34 AM
..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".

If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".
So you don't believe satellite dishes are directional? They are pieces of metal.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 05, 2009, 04:22:12 AM
So you don't believe satellite dishes are directional? They are pieces of metal.

Bellini-Tosi antennas aren't satellite dishes.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 05, 2009, 04:35:57 AM
..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".

If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".

What other substances, other than metal can be used to make an antenna? Can they be made completely  without metal?

Serious question by the way.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on July 05, 2009, 05:04:45 AM
So you don't believe satellite dishes are directional? They are pieces of metal.

Bellini-Tosi antennas aren't satellite dishes.

Bishop you can make a directional antenna by detecting the direction of the signal you want and RF jam the rest of the antenna. A friend of mine did it as his final year project for his degree in which he got a first.
You obviously don't understand basic RF theory and should shut up.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 05, 2009, 05:06:11 AM
So you don't believe satellite dishes are directional? They are pieces of metal.

Bellini-Tosi antennas aren't satellite dishes.
I didn't say they were. You said
..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".

If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".

Your only qualification was that it was made of metal. Would you like to clarify your position?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on July 05, 2009, 05:53:51 AM
Also Household TV antennas act like directional antennas and they are made of metal.

Tom bishop is beaten again!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 05, 2009, 07:27:03 AM
Also Household TV antennas act like directional antennas and they are made of metal.

Tom bishop is beaten again!

You say act like - the just are directional antennas.

If you want to be pedantic tom, all antennas are omnidirectional to a degree. However depending on how an antenna is constructed (not what it is constructed of), they can be very very poor signal conductors from some directions and very very good signal conductors in another direction. A TV antenna is a good example of this - signals received from behind it and to it's sides are reduced in gain considerably to the point where said signals are so weak they are unusuable.

I never said Bellini-Tosi devices weren't omnidirectional - in fact being omnidirectional is pretty crucial to their function. Please reread my post which explains their function and what they are used for as you've lost the plot a bit here.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 05, 2009, 07:29:18 AM
..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".

If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".

RE-READ my post troll before you make stupid assertions like that.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 05, 2009, 07:54:01 AM
..what is it that you don't understand about directional antennas? Why are you ignoring information julianmartin posted about gain and signal strength? It seems analogous to sticking your fingers in your ears going "lalalalalala i can't hear you".

If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".

RE-READ my post troll before you make stupid assertions like that.

Tom appears to be refusing to admit that he - the non-expert in this debate - is wrong in a most childish manner.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on July 06, 2009, 03:21:53 PM
Thanks, Julianmartin!  Another excellent thread to which the FErs have failed to offer even a slightly rational response.  The funniest part of this thread is Levee's apparent inability to recognize that FE theory and Velikovsky's theories are mutually exclusive.  They could both easily be wrong (and in fact are), but there is no way they could both be true (though that has nothing to do with the subject of your OP, of course).  The fact that he seems so totally oblivious to that so obvious truth makes even Robosteve and Tom Bishop seem rational by comparison to Levee.  That is a remarkable achievement!  I laughed out loud when I saw his attempt to support Velikovsky despite believing so firmly in FE, which even Velikovsky would find every bit as ridiculous as you and I do!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on July 06, 2009, 03:38:42 PM
[Tom appears to be refusing to admit that he - the non-expert in this debate - is wrong in a most childish manner.
[/quote]

I'm sure you've noticed, as I have, that Tom seems to be constitutionally incapable of admitting to being wrong on any point--no matter how trivial or wildly off the mark.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 07, 2009, 01:30:23 AM
If the antenna is omnidirectional and composed of a solid metallic surface it obviously cannot tell which angle a photon is hitting it from.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 07, 2009, 02:10:24 AM
If the antenna is omnidirectional and composed of a solid metallic surface it obviously cannot tell which angle a photon is hitting it from.

what do you think defines omnidirectional? as i already said, by your logic, a parabolic satellite dish is omnidirectional.
you don't really understand do you?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 07, 2009, 02:33:28 AM
what do you think defines omnidirectional?

If a photon can hit the receiver from multiple angles and directions, the antenna is omnidirectional.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 07, 2009, 02:46:09 AM
what do you think defines omnidirectional?

If a photon can hit the receiver from multiple angles and directions, the antenna is omnidirectional.

Yes, but there are collosal differences in "gain" (the degree to which a signal is amplified") at different angles of incidence ...

And it is this that makes a "directional" antenna effectively directional (not omni-directional).

As has been explained to you clearly on several occasions.

I do not know if you are too dumb to grasp this, or if you are being willfully obtuse - either way debating with you has become pointless.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on July 07, 2009, 02:50:06 AM
what do you think defines omnidirectional?

If a photon can hit the receiver from multiple angles and directions, the antenna is omnidirectional.

If an antenna can receive a photon hitting a receiver from multiple angles and directions, the antenna is omnidirectional.

If the photon hits the antenna but the gain a reduced from certain angles, then it is not omnidirectional.  For example, a TV (Yagi) antenna is a metallic directional antenna, because the gain is highest in one direction (within tolerances).

(http://www.tvradio.co.uk/images/Analogue%20TV%20aerial-large.jpg)

EDIT: Tesla as given a better explanation.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 07, 2009, 03:14:24 AM
EDIT: Tesla as given a better explanation.

Two heads are always better than one (so thanks)!

Shall we agree not to try and explain this to Tom anymore?

"Do not feed the trolls!", and all that?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on July 07, 2009, 03:37:47 AM
EDIT: Tesla as given a better explanation.

Two heads are always better than one (so thanks)!

Shall we agree not to try and explain this to Tom anymore?

"Do not feed the trolls!", and all that?

Sometimes I do think Tom is genuinely perplexed.  However I guess you're right.  I don't think directional aerials can be spelled out any simpler.

BTW I do think Tom is for real (i.e. I'm a Tom-Bishoper).  I just wish someone would make a documentation.  For example "When Louis Theroux Met TomB".
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 07, 2009, 04:09:41 AM
EDIT: Tesla as given a better explanation.

Two heads are always better than one (so thanks)!

Shall we agree not to try and explain this to Tom anymore?

"Do not feed the trolls!", and all that?

Sometimes I do think Tom is genuinely perplexed.  However I guess you're right.  I don't think directional aerials can be spelled out any simpler.

BTW I do think Tom is for real (i.e. I'm a Tom-Bishoper).  I just wish someone would make a documentation.  For example "When Louis Theroux Met TomB".


That's a great idea!

Flat Earthers are just the sort of people he likes in his shows.

You should write to him and suggest it!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 07, 2009, 03:35:53 PM
it's quite pointless to try to understand antennas by looking at photons hitting it.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 08, 2009, 02:27:19 AM
it's quite pointless to try to understand antennas by looking at photons hitting it.

It's all about waves, right?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 08, 2009, 10:24:51 AM
exactly. or let's put it that way: it's easier with waves. if you do it correctly you should get the same results with photons. but the mess starts right at the beginning then: who would guess that photons can be (and always are) polarized?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 08, 2009, 04:32:14 PM
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Yes, but there are collosal differences in "gain" (the degree to which a signal is amplified") at different angles of incidence ...

But the antenna cannot tell precisely which direction the photons are coming from since it's all one solid piece of metal.

If an antenna can receive a photon hitting a receiver from multiple angles and directions, the antenna is omnidirectional.

If the photon hits the antenna but the gain a reduced from certain angles, then it is not omnidirectional.  For example, a TV (Yagi) antenna is a metallic directional antenna, because the gain is highest in one direction (within tolerances).

(http://www.tvradio.co.uk/images/Analogue%20TV%20aerial-large.jpg)

EDIT: Tesla as given a better explanation.

Sorry, but no.

When photons hit that antenna a greater "gain" would be received if it hit it from the side where there is greater surface area. If it hit the antenna straight on, there would be less surface area to hit. So with plenty of surface area on either side, top and bottom, how would that metal antenna tell us which direction the photons are coming from?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 09, 2009, 02:43:51 AM
Sorry, but no.

Sorry, but yes?

Really Tom - it's time to give up.

You clearly no almost nothing about R.F. technology, and you are just making yourself look incredibly stubborn/stupid.

(Something which does nothing at all to enhance your reputation, or the validity of your other arguments herein.)

Julianmartin has hours of experience of ham radio 'in the field' and I have hours of experience in university physics labs with R.F. amd microwave (both E.M.) equipment.

If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 09, 2009, 04:16:16 AM
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If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Not if it's a solid piece of bare metal is isn't.

Quote
If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Please tell me again how the metal antenna pictured above knows which direction the photons are hitting it from.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 09, 2009, 04:28:07 AM
Quote
If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Not if it's a solid piece of bare metal is isn't.

Quote
If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Please tell me again how the metal antenna pictured above knows which direction the photons are hitting it from.

Just for the record, you don't believe that directional antennas exist, correct?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 09, 2009, 05:07:50 AM
Satellite dishes are directional. The antenna pictured above is not directional.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 09, 2009, 05:11:27 AM
Satellite dishes are directional.



Why should satellite dishes need to be directional?   ???
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 09, 2009, 06:11:45 AM
If the antenna exists as a piece of metal, it's obviously not "directional".

RE-READ my post troll before you make stupid assertions like that.

Tom appears to be refusing to admit that he - the non-expert in this debate - is wrong in a most childish manner.

I do not know if you are too dumb to grasp this, or if you are being willfully obtuse - either way debating with you has become pointless.

Shall we agree not to try and explain this to Tom anymore?

"Do not feed the trolls!", and all that?

Really Tom - it's time to give up.

You clearly no almost nothing about R.F. technology, and you are just making yourself look incredibly stubborn/stupid.

Sorry Tom ...

Your stubborn stupidity is evident to all, and I will not engage with you in this debate any further.

Edit: and as nobody can come up with a reasonable Flat-Earth explanation for trans-global radio wave propagation, I must conclude that The Earth is as sphere.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 09, 2009, 06:34:24 AM
Quote
If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Not if it's a solid piece of bare metal is isn't.

Quote
If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Please tell me again how the metal antenna pictured above knows which direction the photons are hitting it from.

As EM waves hit an antenna, an alternating current is induced in the antenna.  If, like the antenna shown above, the antenna has many "branches" (for the lack of me knowing the proper term), then the EM waves hitting those branches will induces many alternating currents.  Depending on the angle of incidence at which the EM waves hit the branches, the synchronization of those induced alternating currents may be affected causing either constructive or destructive interference to occur.

Does that help, Tom?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 09, 2009, 06:41:03 AM
Does that help, Tom?

He will be either unbale or unwilling to understand this no matter how often, differently, clearly or creatively we explain this to him.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 09, 2009, 06:41:21 AM
As EM waves hit an antenna, an alternating current is induced in the antenna.  If, like the antenna shown above, the antenna has many "branches" (for the lack of me knowing the proper term), then the EM waves hitting those branches will induces many alternating currents.  Depending on the angle of incidence at which the EM waves hit the branches, the synchronization of those induced alternating currents may be affected causing either constructive or destructive interference to occur.

Does that help, Tom?

It's one solid metal structure connected to a receiver. The little "branches" aren't going to tell the receiver anything, since it's part of a conductive metal structure.

Since it's all interconnected as one conductive metal structure the antenna doesn't "know" whether the photons are hitting one branch or another.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 09, 2009, 06:43:42 AM
Why should satellite dishes need to be directional Tom?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 09, 2009, 06:50:33 AM
He will be either unbale or unwilling to understand this no matter how often, differently, clearly or creatively we explain this to him.

You haven't "explained" anything. You're children grasping at straws, thinking that it's possible to find the direction of an AM or HAM radio signal. If you knew the first thing about HAM and AM you would know that it's a field which bounces many millions of times between the ground and ionosphere. The photons aren't coming from any specific direction, it's all around you.

Ever heard of the number stations? It's an AM broadcast of women repeating seemingly numbers in monotone for hours on end (thought to be spy communications). They've been broadcasted on regular intervals for over forty years. They're of great interest and are widely studied. However, as much as hobbiests and researchers try, no one can find the location of the number signals because it's impossible to locate the source of an AM signal. AM is a field which bounces between the ionosphere and the ground in many many directions.

Only FM and other directional signals might be locatable.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 09, 2009, 06:51:07 AM
Why should satellite dishes need to be directional Tom?

Try pointing your satellite dish at the ground and see what kind of reception you get.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 09, 2009, 06:52:51 AM
Why should satellite dishes need to be directional Tom?

Try pointing your satellite dish at the ground and see what kind of reception you get.

Why will pointing it at the sky be any better?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 09, 2009, 07:00:03 AM
... the antenna has many "branches" (for the lack of me knowing the proper term), ...

dipoles

apart from that good explanation.

photons can't hit anything, they are absorbed. photons are only absorbed by the antenna if the antenna is able to absorb energy carried by the associated em wave in form of said photons. if the wavelenght or polarisation or angle of incident is wrong the electrons in the antenna can't couple with the electric field component of the wave and there will be no energy transfer so no photons will be absorbed.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 09, 2009, 07:11:38 AM
You haven't "explained" anything.

No: you haven't understood anything.

You're children grasping at straws

No: you are a child with his fingers in his ears shouting "Na! Na! Na! Na! Na! I can't hear you!"
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Lord Wilmore on July 09, 2009, 07:13:42 AM
Guys, let's make sure this doesn't start slipping into personal attacks.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 09, 2009, 07:22:57 AM
You haven't "explained" anything.

No: you haven't understood anything.

You're children grasping at straws

No: you are a child with his fingers in his ears shouting "Na! Na! Na! Na! Na! I can't hear you!"

If you knew how HAM and AM actually worked you wouldn't be mumbling on about this deluding "directional antenna" nonsense.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 09, 2009, 08:17:19 AM
Tom, for the sake of argument, let's take a step backwards from all this talk of photons hitting metal, and the mechanics of RF antennas.

The point is, it's been demonstrated time and time again, in the real world that it works.  By millions of people.  When the location of a transmitter is known, let's say, a television transmitter, it's well known that adding a rooftop antenna if you're in a fringe reception area along with a motor for rotating the antenna, will allow you to improve your reception by "aiming" the antenna in the direction of the transmitter.  I have experienced this myself, while attempting to receive broadcasts of football games that used to be 'blacked out' locally, but I could often receive them from distant cities not affected by blackout rules by aiming my directional antenna towards a distant transmitter.  The difference in signal was more than just a little noticable, it was the difference between a viewable braodcast, or none at all.

If, as you say, these types of antenna are not in the least directional, what then accounts for this observed behavior?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 09, 2009, 08:18:09 AM
If you knew how HAM and AM actually worked you wouldn't be mumbling on about this deluding "directional antenna" nonsense.

Tom, are you a HAM radio operator?  Do you have any personal experience in the field of radio broadcasting?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 09, 2009, 01:16:31 PM

Ever heard of the number stations? It's an AM broadcast of women repeating seemingly numbers in monotone for hours on end (thought to be spy communications). They've been broadcasted on regular intervals for over forty years. They're of great interest and are widely studied. However, as much as hobbiests and researchers try, no one can find the location of the number signals because it's impossible to locate the source of an AM signal. AM is a field which bounces between the ionosphere and the ground in many many directions.

Another case of Tom not telling the whole story.  Numbers stations have been located, and by the very same methods we've been talking about.  Some come from inside the US, others from around the world including Cuba and the former USSR.  They're generally thought to be coded transmissions meant for government agents, or spies if you prefer.  They're not illegal, and finding the source is not very useful, so countries don't generally bother.  Anyone with the proper equipment can find the location of the transmitters, as they're quite powerful, but then what?  What would any of us gain by knowing the transmission is coming from say, Cuba, China, Germany, or the US?  It's not like anyone's going to go into China and drop bombs on a transmitter.  It's common knowledge among governments that these transmitters and their encoded broadcasts exist.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Moon squirter on July 09, 2009, 01:18:26 PM
I can't believe this directional antenna argument is still going.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on July 09, 2009, 04:41:13 PM
Tom, for the sake of argument, let's take a step backwards from all this talk of photons hitting metal, and the mechanics of RF antennas.

The point is, it's been demonstrated time and time again, in the real world that it works.  By millions of people.  When the location of a transmitter is known, let's say, a television transmitter, it's well known that adding a rooftop antenna if you're in a fringe reception area along with a motor for rotating the antenna, will allow you to improve your reception by "aiming" the antenna in the direction of the transmitter.  I have experienced this myself, while attempting to receive broadcasts of football games that used to be 'blacked out' locally, but I could often receive them from distant cities not affected by blackout rules by aiming my directional antenna towards a distant transmitter.  The difference in signal was more than just a little noticable, it was the difference between a viewable braodcast, or none at all.

If, as you say, these types of antenna are not in the least directional, what then accounts for this observed behavior?


Equinox is certainly correct about this, Tom.  And it doesn't even require a rooftop antenna to demonstrate that.  If you are a true zetetic as you claim, you would actually try it out for yourself instead of merely flatly denying what can be easily demonstrated with even some simple indoor antennas, as I and many others have.  The direction you aim the antenna can indeed make the difference between getting good reception and poor reception or even none at all.  For you to continue to stubbornly deny this, only casts serious doubt on your rationality or honesty or both.  The truth is that it is actually quite difficult to design a high gain antenna that is is not at least somewhat directional.  If my understanding is correct, the only truly omnidirectional antenna design is a simple, vertically oriented, monopole antenna, like those commonly used for car radios (you ham radio enthusiasts such as JulianMartin, please correct me if I am wrong about that).  And even a monopole antenna like that would get very poor or no reception at all from a broadcast signal coming from directly above or below it.

I'm sure that the only reason you are so stubborn about conceding this point is that such a concession seriously, if not fatally, damages the credibility of FET, to which you have such a high, purely emotional commitment.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 10, 2009, 02:16:56 AM
I think we should be seeking responses from other FE's. TB doesn't understand and apparently lacks the capacity to.
Robosteve, Dogplatter, Neeman etc. What are your opinions?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 10, 2009, 02:12:51 PM
TB doesn't understand and apparently lacks the capacity to.

Or the desire to ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 12, 2009, 04:15:55 PM
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If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Not if it's a solid piece of bare metal is isn't.

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If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?

Please tell me again how the metal antenna pictured above knows which direction the photons are hitting it from.


Hey guys - sorry for my delay in addition to this thread - my housemate got banned for abusing some flat-earthers and our IP got banned so I cannot participate easily.


As for Tom Bishop:

FOR FUCKS SAKE!!


Tom, many people have alluded to the technology I have been speaking of in the posts I have made.

It seems you think Yagi beams, or any other directional beams that rely on amplificational or "gain" technology are beyond you. Yet these designs have been used for many years to improve the strength of signals that from a dipole transmission perspective, are well out of reach.

You are having ago because you cannot understand how an antenna can "tell" that photons are being absorbed in the right direction. Sorry to break it to you, antennas aren't sentient beings. No-one asked them to "tell" when they know what is going on. All that was asked of yagi arranged antennas or otherwise, was to perform like ordinary pieces of metal, arranged like they are, in accordances with very ordinary known physics.

End of story Tom, stop being a Troll, and stop being a dick.


On top of this, in extraordinary circumstances, CIRCUMNAVIGATIONAL PROPAGATION, DOESN'T REQUIRE DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS. That's right. The first time I ever experienced this, was with a Cushcraft R8. A thoroughly OMNIDIRECTIONAL antenna. It's more easily reproducible with directional propagators, but it doesn't require it.

End of story guys - there is nothing more to this argument. Physics wins, and thus round earth.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 12:49:40 AM
There's nothing "directional" about HAM and AM signals. Those signals bounce off the environment and ionosphere many millions of times in many different directions. It's a field signal. It's not a directional signal like FM and conventional radar are. It's impossible to gauge a direction for HAM and AM because the signals are coming from ALL DIRECTIONS.

Please educate yourself.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Jack on July 13, 2009, 01:19:30 AM
julianmartin, I'm gonna give you a week to cool yourself down.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 13, 2009, 01:53:51 AM
julianmartin, I'm gonna give you a week to cool yourself down.

Please bear in mind that Tom is goading him into losing his temper by being obstinate in his refusal to acknowledge opinions other than his own.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 13, 2009, 04:07:33 AM
JulianMartin, your contributions have been valuable so don't be disheartened. I believe it is widely acknowledged that this is another weakness in the FE argument.
Tom is a king of trolls so you will never receive recognition from him. Take heart that no other FEr has tried to argue you.

If you want to make yourself feel better, go and read some posts from a year or two ago and watch him getting owned.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 13, 2009, 06:34:24 AM
There's nothing "directional" about HAM and AM signals. Those signals bounce off the environment and ionosphere many millions of times in many different directions. It's a field signal. It's not a directional signal like FM and conventional radar are. It's impossible to gauge a direction for HAM and AM because the signals are coming from ALL DIRECTIONS.

Please educate yourself.

Tom, if a radio signal is bouncing around many millions of times in many different directions, then why is it not garbled into random noise?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 13, 2009, 08:06:50 AM
@ mods...Seems there are two sets rules governing proper posting behavior here.  Levee has been far more direct in his posts than anything Julian has done, with no "cooling off" period, and he's a mod!  Shouldn't mods be held to a higher standard?  Not to mention the simple fact that Tom has set new standards for being thickheaded here.  No small feat in these parts.

@ Julian.  Hope you're reading this. Personally just wanted to add, nice thread.  You showed more restraint than most would have, under the circumstances.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 13, 2009, 08:36:40 AM
There's nothing "directional" about HAM and AM signals. Those signals bounce off the environment and ionosphere many millions of times in many different directions. It's a field signal. It's not a directional signal like FM and conventional radar are. It's impossible to gauge a direction for HAM and AM because the signals are coming from ALL DIRECTIONS.

Please educate yourself.

This is simply not true Tom, and you know it.  It is you who needs an education here.  People are able to hone in on the location of HAM and AM signal transmitters with the proper equiopment all the time..
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 13, 2009, 08:43:01 AM
But Tom, if you want to go on showing ignorance on this, by all means, do so.  It's entertaining to say the least.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 10:07:53 AM
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Tom, if a radio signal is bouncing around many millions of times in many different directions, then why is it not garbled into random noise?

A lot of it is random noise. AM is notorious for having significantly more static and distortion than FM. That's because, unlike a directional FM signal, the signals are bouncing all over the place as a field signal. The advantages of AM over FM are longer range (thousands of miles) but lesser quality. It also takes a lot more power to run an AM broadcaster than an FM one.

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This is simply not true Tom, and you know it.  It is you who needs an education here.  People are able to hone in on the location of HAM and AM signal transmitters with the proper equiopment all the time..

Please show us an example then. A statement is not an example.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 13, 2009, 10:44:45 AM
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Tom, if a radio signal is bouncing around many millions of times in many different directions, then why is it not garbled into random noise?

A lot of it is random noise. AM is notorious for having significantly more static and distortion than FE. That's because, unlike a directional FM signal, the signals are bouncing all over the place as a field signal. The advantages of AM over FM are longer range (thousands of miles) but lesser quality. It also takes a lot more power to run an AM broadcaster than an FM one.

I'm sorry Tom, but what makes FM more directional than AM?  Also, you do realize that many HAM radio operators use FM equipment, right?
Quote from: http://vk1od.net/FM/FM.htm
Frequency modulation (FM) is widely applied in Amateur Radio for voice, telegraphy and data modulation. This article gives an overview of the theory of FM, its application, and applied test and measurement techniques.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 12:24:40 PM
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I'm sorry Tom, but what makes FM more directional than AM?

FM signals are directional and cannot bounce off of the environment or ionosphere. AM signals can bounce off the environment and ionosphere, which means that they can bounce their way to far off destinations.

The only problem with AM is the quality, distortion, and static. That's why most of the music stations are on FM.

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Also, you do realize that many HAM radio operators use FM equipment, right?

HAM is an AM broadcast, not FM.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 13, 2009, 01:03:34 PM
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I'm sorry Tom, but what makes FM more directional than AM?

FM signals are directional and cannot bounce off of the environment or ionosphere. AM signals can bounce off the environment and ionosphere, which means that they can bounce their way to far off destinations.

The only problem with AM is the quality, distortion, and static. That's why most of the music stations are on FM.

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Also, you do realize that many HAM radio operators use FM equipment, right?

HAM is an AM broadcast, not FM.

And you know this because you're a HAM radio operator, right Tom?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 01:06:17 PM
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And you know this because you're a HAM radio operator, right Tom?

I've used HAM. It's common knowledge that it uses an AM band.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 13, 2009, 01:15:29 PM
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And you know this because you're a HAM radio operator, right Tom?

I've used HAM. It's common knowledge that it uses an AM band.

Then you should also know that HAM radio uses a variety of frequencies, not all of which are in the AM band.  And just because a signal is in the AM band does not mean that its frequency can't be modulated (FM in an AM band  :o).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 01:20:09 PM
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Then you should also know that HAM radio uses a variety of frequencies, not all of which are in the AM band.

HAM radio operators primarily use AM because AM can bounce off the environment to reach far off destinations. While different bands may be possible with various equipment, AM is the most widely used (and is the primary band on any HAM equipment) for its distance capabilities.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 13, 2009, 01:48:12 PM
Please show us an example then. A statement is not an example.

Julian gave examples, and has personal experience with this, but you simply said "No" and played dumb.  (nice job, by the way).

Also, do you mind if I use your quote above?  You know the one, it's right there...
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Please show us an example then. A statement is not an example.

It may come in quite handy responding to many of your posts.  You're quite the master of posting statements as though they are automatically some sort of truth.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 02:26:20 PM
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It may come in quite handy responding to many of your posts.  You're quite the master of posting statements as though they are automatically some sort of truth.

The field properties of AM is truth.

No one did any experiment o determine the direction of an AM radio wave. And no one can, because the waves are coming from the surrounding environment, not the broadcasting antenna.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 13, 2009, 03:13:56 PM
when talking about field properties, could you post some maths on the different behaviour of am and fm em-waves concerning reflection ?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 13, 2009, 03:45:05 PM
This thread has descended into farce ...

No really: the bishop will turn up at any moment and find the vicar without his trousers on!

(I have been in this play, by the waw: it was "I'll Get My Man".)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 13, 2009, 03:50:28 PM
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Then you should also know that HAM radio uses a variety of frequencies, not all of which are in the AM band.

HAM radio operators primarily use AM because AM can bounce off the environment to reach far off destinations. While different bands may be possible with various equipment, AM is the most widely used (and is the primary band on any HAM equipment) for its distance capabilities.

Is the bounce a property of the wavelength or the modulation?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on July 13, 2009, 06:01:29 PM
Kee it up Tom!  Your incredible obstinancy in refusing to acknowledging your ignorance of radio wave propogation and refusing to educate yourself about how it really works only further damages the credibility of both yourself and FET.  Most things that interfere with radio wave propogation affect the amplitude of the signal, not its frequency, and this is the main reason why FM signals tend to be inherently clearer and more nearly distortion free than AM signals.  The directionality of radio signals and their ability to bounce off the ionsphere depends on the frequency and wavelength of the broadcast signal, not on how it is modulated.

As I said, though, keep up the good work!  The more you continue to display your wilful ignorance in this thread, the more you weaken your credibility and that of FET!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 13, 2009, 07:07:01 PM
Is the bounce a property of the wavelength or the modulation?

What does it matter?

All that matters is that AM waves bounce off of the environment and atmosphere, attacking an antenna from many different sides.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 14, 2009, 03:09:26 AM
All that matters is that AM waves bounce off of the environment and atmosphere, attacking an antenna from many different sides.

"Attacking"?

That is an unbelievably unscientific word to use!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 14, 2009, 03:29:19 AM
Is the bounce a property of the wavelength or the modulation?

What does it matter?


Answering a question with a question just demonstrates that you are inept.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: dyno on July 14, 2009, 03:59:25 AM
Why are you people still arguing with TB? You should be pursuing other members that have the ability to see your point of view.
Dogplatter(maybe)
Neeman
Ski
Username I think
to name a few.(sorry about forgetting your new names)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 07:31:36 AM
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Why are you people still arguing with TB? You should be pursuing other members that have the ability to see your point of view.

If your point of view is unsupported fantasy, no I don't want to see it.

When you have some evidence to support your ideas, let me know so we can continue this discussion.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 14, 2009, 07:35:44 AM
Why are you people still arguing with TB?

Because, as previously suggested, his pig-headed ignorance is discrediting FET by association?

Edit:

Kee it up Tom!  Your incredible obstinancy in refusing to acknowledging your ignorance of radio wave propogation and refusing to educate yourself about how it really works only further damages the credibility of both yourself and FET. 

As I said, though, keep up the good work!  The more you continue to display your wilful ignorance in this thread, the more you weaken your credibility and that of FET!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EnigmaZV on July 14, 2009, 09:34:00 AM
All that matters is that AM waves bounce off of the environment and atmosphere, attacking an antenna from many different sides.

So any EM wave that has its amplitude modulated will bounce off the environment and any part of the atmosphere and cannot be directional, and any EM waves that do not modulate their amplitude don't suffer from this problem and can be directional?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 11:15:46 AM
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Because, as previously suggested, his pig-headed ignorance is discrediting FET by association?

Pig-headedness is asking you to support your ideas with evidence now?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 14, 2009, 11:34:15 AM
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Because, as previously suggested, his pig-headed ignorance is discrediting FET by association?

Pig-headedness is asking you to support your ideas with evidence of your own now?


Answering a question with a question just demonstrates that you are inept.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 14, 2009, 03:30:58 PM
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Also, you do realize that many HAM radio operators use FM equipment, right?
HAM is an AM broadcast, not FM.

Are you nuts? Ham (not HAM) is not specifically restricted to amplitude modulation.

"Ham Radio" is just a nick name for the Amateur Radio enthusiast hobby - you could call it douche radio if you really wanted.

Radio amateurs use all kinds of modulation, FM or AM are the two major ones. There are vast modifications to the way AM works in the way of LSB and SSB (both variants of SSB), and then in addition, tremendously different methods of transmitting such as DSB-SC, ISB, PM, FM and the one that completely breaks the entirety of your last 10 posts or so in this thread: CW, or continuous wave. A little thing also known as Morse Code.

I would hazard a guess that the signals julianmartin was receiving after circumnavigational propagation were in CW - a distinct "echo" is heard, making the morse very very difficult to distinguish and comprehend what is being said. This is by far the most common recurrence of circumnavigational propagation, and also the easiest to detect, merely by ear.

The idea that you believe AM signals are not directional but FM signals are only prove that you have no grasp of the way radio works, let alone the various kinds of emitters.

Put it this way, a directional beam, a Yagi antenna if you will (which julianmartin very kindly posted emission diagrams for earlier in the thread, I suggest you look at them), will have no trouble at all emitting FM, AM, PSK, PSK32, CW, Packet, SSTV, DSB-SC, even AME, which is amplitude modulation equivalent. The emission pattern will be exactly the same for all of them.

The reason FM doesn't propagate so well over long distances, is that the information is held in frequency fluctuations Tom, which means only certain parts of the signal will be reflected proplery in the ionozied layer of the ozone (which as pointed out before by julianmartin, is the F2 layer in this case), different aspects of said signal will either penetrate further or less far and thus be reflected to different points on the earth. AM doesn't suffer this issue - however if a harmonic modulation is happening, one can occasionally hear "waves" of signal strength being repeated in the received signal - however this is a sidepoint which considering your demonstrations of your knowledge so far - I doubt you will understand.

On another note - you are going on about how no-one has done any work regarding how the direction of AM signals can be detected. The Bellini-Tosi device has been cited many times - this is just one (relatively crude) example of a signal detector. I suggest Tom, you look up some of Marconi's work regarding signal detection - he was a pioneer in this field, and developed many methods that crush your strange preconceptions.

I shall be listening out for julianmartin on the air.

As for the people passing on congrats to JM for the thread - I have no doubt he is reading this.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 14, 2009, 03:37:16 PM
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Also, you do realize that many HAM radio operators use FM equipment, right?
HAM is an AM broadcast, not FM.

Are you nuts? Ham (not HAM) is not specifically restricted to amplitude modulation.

"Ham Radio" is just a nick name for the Amateur Radio enthusiast hobby - you could call it douche radio if you really wanted.

Perhaps Tom thinks that HAM stands for Hobby AM radio, or something that implies AM radio.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 14, 2009, 03:48:31 PM
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Because, as previously suggested, his pig-headed ignorance is discrediting FET by association?

Pig-headedness is asking you to support your ideas with evidence now?

No - pig-headedness is stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the expert opinion and evidence which is presented to you.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 04:02:16 PM
No - pig-headedness is stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the expert opinion and evidence which is presented to you.

If you guys were experts then you would know that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and is in no way considered 'directional'.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EnigmaZV on July 14, 2009, 04:10:12 PM
If you guys were experts then you would know that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and is in no way considered 'directional'.

So any EM wave that has its amplitude modulated will bounce off the environment and any part of the atmosphere and cannot be directional, and any EM waves that do not modulate their amplitude don't suffer from this problem and can be directional?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 04:18:10 PM
EM waves do not all behave in the same way. Please go back to school.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 14, 2009, 04:25:51 PM
No - pig-headedness is stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the expert opinion and evidence which is presented to you.

If you guys were experts then you would know that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and is in no way considered 'directional'.

There is no difference in emission path between a FM signal an an AM signal. Reflection path perhaps - but in that case, FM signals could be considered less directional due to wavelength fluctuations.

Please provide proof that discredits beam antenna emission diagrams (clearly directional) - available all over the internet.

I think you are missing something very crucial here Tom. If you want to be pedantic, all emitters are omnidirectional. However in certain directions, said emission will be transmitted with many times more power than other directions, giving the effect of a directional signal. Just because signals (AND NOT AM SPECIFICALLY, get that stupid preconception out of your head, because it simply is not true) bounce off the environment, doesn't mean their direction is not predictable. Take a mirror, and fire some light at it - exactly the same concept.

If a signal has more power - a general assumption is that it will continue further in its original projected direction; this is common knowledge.

And actually - EM waves do behave in fairly consistent ways in the case studies that have been suggested. FM would modify the reflection properties slightly but this is easily accounted for.

And stop ignoring my posts Tom.

1 massive thing that breaks all your arguments, CW tom, continuous wave. Considered the most directional of them all. C friggin W. Look it up.

Again, stop ignoring my posts.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 04:57:20 PM
EM waves do not all behave in the same way. Please go back to school.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 14, 2009, 07:12:42 PM
EM waves do not all behave in the same way. Please go back to school.

Yes Tom, that's what we're trying to explain to you.  AM refers to the modulation of a wave, not the frequency.  The way that EM waves behave depend more on their frequency than their modulation.  What part of that is so hard for you to understand?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: marchello12 on July 14, 2009, 07:54:41 PM
to the original poster: you said there was time lag - doesn't that prove that Moon is much farther than 3000 miles?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 08:38:34 PM
Yes Tom, that's what we're trying to explain to you.  AM refers to the modulation of a wave, not the frequency.  The way that EM waves behave depend more on their frequency than their modulation.  What part of that is so hard for you to understand?

What does that have to do with anything? AM waves bounce off the surrounding environment and FM waves do not. That's all we need to know.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 14, 2009, 08:54:12 PM
Yes Tom, that's what we're trying to explain to you.  AM refers to the modulation of a wave, not the frequency.  The way that EM waves behave depend more on their frequency than their modulation.  What part of that is so hard for you to understand?

What does that have to do with anything? AM waves bounce off the surrounding environment and FM waves do not. That's all we need to know.

Maybe that's all you need to know, but a Ham radio operator needs to know a lot more than that.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 09:00:05 PM
Maybe that's all you need to know, but a Ham radio operator needs to know a lot more than that.

HAM radio operators are typically amateurs (hence the AM), and don't "need" to know anything. The cause of the AM bounce is immaterial to the discussion and more in the theoretical realm. All that matters is that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and that FM is not. AM signals come from many directions and can bounce their way to great distances while FM signals cannot.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 14, 2009, 09:07:41 PM
Maybe that's all you need to know, but a Ham radio operator needs to know a lot more than that.

HAM radio operators are typically amateurs (hence the AM), and don't "need" to know anything. The cause of the AM bounce is immaterial to the discussion and more in the theoretical realm. All that matters is that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and that FM is not. AM signals come from many directions and can bounce their way to great distances while FM signals cannot.

What does the modulation technique have to do with a signal's ability to bounce?  What about unmodulated signals (continuous wave)?  Can those signals bounce?  What about RADAR signals?  They seem to bounce quite nicely.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: marchello12 on July 14, 2009, 10:33:57 PM
to the original poster: you said there was time lag - doesn't that prove that Moon is much farther than 3000 miles?

so... yes or no?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 14, 2009, 10:43:46 PM
What does the modulation technique have to do with a signal's ability to bounce?  What about unmodulated signals (continuous wave)?  Can those signals bounce?  What about RADAR signals?  They seem to bounce quite nicely.

Sorry, but how does that pertain to the discussion again? It doesn't matter how they are able to bounce, all that matters is that they bounce. No one really knows  for certain why certain types of EM waves bounce and others do not.

As far as RADAR goes, some types of radar bounce and other types do not. Conventional RADAR is directional and does not bounce. Over the Horizon (OTH) RADAR does bounce, and can reach great distances, but is typically much less accurate due to all the distortion.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 15, 2009, 01:18:45 AM
to the original poster: you said there was time lag - doesn't that prove that Moon is much farther than 3000 miles?

so... yes or no?

The original poster is currently banned - but in answer to your question, yes, it does prove that.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 15, 2009, 01:19:45 AM
Yes Tom, that's what we're trying to explain to you.  AM refers to the modulation of a wave, not the frequency.  The way that EM waves behave depend more on their frequency than their modulation.  What part of that is so hard for you to understand?

What does that have to do with anything? AM waves bounce off the surrounding environment and FM waves do not. That's all we need to know.

That is a total lie. AM waves will bounce just as much as FM waves; however FM reflection paths might be slightly different.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 15, 2009, 01:26:05 AM
EM waves do not all behave in the same way. Please go back to school.

Your childish rudeness amplifies your childish stupidity and stubbornness.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 15, 2009, 01:27:29 AM
Maybe that's all you need to know, but a Ham radio operator needs to know a lot more than that.

HAM radio operators are typically amateurs (hence the AM), and don't "need" to know anything. The cause of the AM bounce is immaterial to the discussion and more in the theoretical realm. All that matters is that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and that FM is not. AM signals come from many directions and can bounce their way to great distances while FM signals cannot.

Tom, I've already explained to you why amplitude modulation is sometimes used for DX transmissions. The explanation as to why FM ISN'T used is more important: because FM has frequency fluctuations (i'm starting to think you don't understand what FM is), different parts of the signal will penetrate further or less far into the ionosphere, meaning different parts will get reflected in different directions, hence to the receiver, all they hear is garbled crap. The other modes (not solely FM!) stay on the same frequency so will have more predictable and consistent emission paths.

Please consider that these waves being spoken about have a wavelength of upto 160 metres. That nullifies your argument about environmental obstacles - except possibly mountain ranges and sky scrapers, which is one reason why circumnavigational propagation isn't 100% reproducible.

You still haven't approached the topic of Continuous Wave transmissions, by far one of the most commonly used methods on the HF bands by amateur radio operators, and most definitely not amplitude modulated in any way shape or form. In fact it's a pretty bare signal - there is nothing added or removed.

Go here tom:

http://www.nevadaradio.co.uk/acatalog/FT-DX9000D_large2_web.jpg

I use that radio. Look at the second column to the left from the main frequency dial. That shows 7 different modes on that radio alone. Funnily enough, straight plain AM is not top of the list. Shock horror! Tom's wrong again!

And please, STOP IGNORING MY POSTS, give thought out answers to each of my points, then maybe I will believe you.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 15, 2009, 03:04:51 AM
to the original poster: you said there was time lag - doesn't that prove that Moon is much farther than 3000 miles?

so... yes or no?

The original poster is currently banned - but in answer to your question, yes, it does prove that.

Flat Earthers would say that the longer-than-expected time lag is caused by the spped of light slowing down in the "aether" near The Moon (above the atmo-plane) ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 15, 2009, 03:13:53 AM

And please, STOP IGNORING MY POSTS, give thought out answers to each of my points, then maybe I will believe you.


If Tom Bishop is ignoring your posts it is because he can't answer you. You should take it as a compliment.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 15, 2009, 04:59:24 AM
What does the modulation technique have to do with a signal's ability to bounce?  What about unmodulated signals (continuous wave)?  Can those signals bounce?  What about RADAR signals?  They seem to bounce quite nicely.

Sorry, but how does that pertain to the discussion again? It doesn't matter how they are able to bounce, all that matters is that they bounce. No one really knows  for certain why certain types of EM waves bounce and others do not.

Actually, we do know why certain EM waves differently.  Here's a hint.  It has to do with frequency and wavelength.

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As far as RADAR goes, some types of radar bounce and other types do not. Conventional RADAR is directional and does not bounce. Over the Horizon (OTH) RADAR does bounce, and can reach great distances, but is typically much less accurate due to all the distortion.

The whole principle of RADAR is that the signal bounces off of a target and is returned to the RADAR unit.  The fact that conventional RADAR waves bounce quite nicely is why it's quite useless at low altitude (too many random reflections off the the ground), hence the development of Doppler RADAR.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 15, 2009, 05:31:18 AM
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Actually, we do know why certain EM waves differently.  Here's a hint.  It has to do with frequency and wavelength.

Sure. We can tell what frequency and wavelength it takes for photons to bounce, but why do they bounce at certain frequencies and wavelengths and no other? That's something no one can say and is oft wondered.

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The whole principle of RADAR is that the signal bounces off of a target and is returned to the RADAR unit.  The fact that conventional RADAR waves bounce quite nicely is why it's quite useless at low altitude (too many random reflections off the the ground), hence the development of Doppler RADAR.

Nikola Tesla, the father of RADAR, didn't even really know how it worked on a fundamental level. He described RADAR as exploratory radio waves which were sensitive to metallic structures. Years later after conventional (directional) RADAR became established Over the Horizon RADAR took it one step further by finding a frequency/wavelength which was sensitive to not only metallic structures, but to the ground and ionosphere as well.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 15, 2009, 05:41:47 AM
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Actually, we do know why certain EM waves differently.  Here's a hint.  It has to do with frequency and wavelength.

Sure. We can tell what frequency and wavelength it takes for photons to bounce, but why do they bounce at certain frequencies and wavelengths and no other? That's something no one can say and is oft wondered.

There are loads of reasons that impact reflection point. Harmonic resonance is one. Ionization of the atmosphere. Composition of the atmosphere. Composition of incidence surface, some surfaces are able to absorb. Magnetic inductance of incidence surface. Height of the atmosphere - I could go on.

Oft wondered my ass - you REALLY don't know what you are talking about at all.

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The whole principle of RADAR is that the signal bounces off of a target and is returned to the RADAR unit.  The fact that conventional RADAR waves bounce quite nicely is why it's quite useless at low altitude (too many random reflections off the the ground), hence the development of Doppler RADAR.

Nikola Tesla, the father of RADAR, didn't even really know how it worked on a fundamental level. He described RADAR as exploratory radio waves which were sensitive to metallic structures. Years later after conventional (directional) RADAR became established Over the Horizon RADAR took it one step further by finding a frequency/wavelength which was sensitive to not only metallic structures, but to the ground and ionosphere as well.

The "father" of Radar is Christian Huelsmeyer - he even had patents to parts of the original technology.

Radar is not really important to this topic as it's performed on different frequencies.

You still haven't cited why other modes of transmission such as Phase Modulation or Continuous wave have exactly the same properties as an Amplitude Modulated transmission - according to your logic, they should have different reflection properties, which they do not.

An EM wave in the HF band is an EM wave in the HF band - it is no more complicated than that.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 15, 2009, 11:00:02 AM
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Actually, we do know why certain EM waves differently.  Here's a hint.  It has to do with frequency and wavelength.

Sure. We can tell what frequency and wavelength it takes for photons to bounce, but why do they bounce at certain frequencies and wavelengths and no other? That's something no one can say and is oft wondered.

if the frequency of an incoming em wave matches a resonance of a certain material it is absorbed. no parts of the wave will be reflected in that case. the resonance frequencies depend on the atomic structure of the material and are understood quite well.
if the em wave frequency doesn't match a resonance the wave will be reflected to a certain extend.

i guess that for an fm wave only parts with the "wrong" frequency would be absorbed, the rest of the wave would be reflected. that might destroy any carried information but there should be enough of the signal left to just detect the wave.

(edited for typos & clarification)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: equinox on July 15, 2009, 01:02:02 PM
Wow...  Tom, if ever there was any question of whether you posted crap just for the sake of stirring things up with no real content, you've answered that here.  Go Tom, go!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Lord Wilmore on July 15, 2009, 03:00:31 PM
Wow...  Tom, if ever there was any question of whether you posted crap just for the sake of stirring things up with no real content, you've answered that here.  Go Tom, go!

Please refrain from this kind of low-content posting in D&D. Thank you.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on July 17, 2009, 02:06:22 AM
Maybe that's all you need to know, but a Ham radio operator needs to know a lot more than that.

HAM radio operators are typically amateurs (hence the AM), and don't "need" to know anything. The cause of the AM bounce is immaterial to the discussion and more in the theoretical realm. All that matters is that AM is a field signal which bounces off the environment and that FM is not. AM signals come from many directions and can bounce their way to great distances while FM signals cannot.

I think you must know better than that, Tom.  "Amateur"  simply means that they don't do it to make a living.  Dedicated, talented amateurs are often as knowledgeable and skillful, sometimes even more so, than some of the highest paid, most renowned professionals.  In fact, it is not all that uncommon that highly paid professionals  turn out to be total charlatans.  HAM radio operators as a group are among the most respected and admired of all amateurs for their skill and knowledge, and have contributed greatly to both the design of radio equipment (including antenna design) and to what we know about radiowave propogation, not to mention their invaluable assistance in re-establishing communication during and after natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.  You owe all HAM radio operators an apology!  They certainly do "need" to know a great deal just to qualify for a HAM operator's license.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 17, 2009, 03:56:38 AM
You owe all HAM radio operators an apology!  They certainly do "need" to know a great deal just to qualify for a HAM operator's license.

Tom can be very patronising and dismissive.

He once said that everyone in the southern hemisphere lived in backward countries and were, therefore, incapable of making scientific observations about the night sky (ignoring the fact that there are several high-powered astronomical telescopes south of the equator and countless universities too).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 17, 2009, 12:38:47 PM
I think you must know better than that, Tom.  "Amateur"  simply means that they don't do it to make a living.  Dedicated, talented amateurs are often as knowledgeable and skillful, sometimes even more so, than some of the highest paid, most renowned professionals.  In fact, it is not all that uncommon that highly paid professionals  turn out to be total charlatans.  HAM radio operators as a group are among the most respected and admired of all amateurs for their skill and knowledge, and have contributed greatly to both the design of radio equipment (including antenna design) and to what we know about radiowave propogation, not to mention their invaluable assistance in re-establishing communication during and after natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.  You owe all HAM radio operators an apology!  They certainly do "need" to know a great deal just to qualify for a HAM operator's license.

There is much truth in this - I can confirm that studying for my license was hard work. It actually ended up being my footing into electronic engineering - that's how complex it is.

The poster who made a point regarding resonance has done a very good job - this is a point that has been brushed over and not had much attention paid to it. Along with CW and PM, resonance destroys Toms very confusing arguments, mainly comprised of pseudo-science.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 17, 2009, 12:43:38 PM
The poster who made a point regarding resonance has done a very good job - this is a point that has been brushed over and not had much attention paid to it. Along with CW and PM, resonance destroys Toms very confusing arguments, mainly comprised of pseudo-science.

So am I right in thinking that we are left again with good evidence that radio signals can "come up behind you" - a phenomenaon which has not, as yet, been explained for a flat earth (not even one decent diagram).
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 17, 2009, 12:44:37 PM
So am I right in thinking that we are left again with good evidence that radio signals can "come up behind you"

What good evidence would that be?

Radio waves don't bounce off of the ionosphere during the day, so I don't see how it's possible to get a signal to bounce all the way "around" the earth through the day side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM_band
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question1.htm
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 17, 2009, 01:06:46 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave

as this effect is frequency dependant we can just use a frequency of about 10MHz to get a good mixture of day and night propagation
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 17, 2009, 01:29:31 PM
What good evidence would that be?

JulianMartin's first-hand testimony - I fail to see how any evidence can be any better.

Edit: just as good as your "restoration" telescope experiments across the bay.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 17, 2009, 01:34:41 PM
So am I right in thinking that we are left again with good evidence that radio signals can "come up behind you"
Radio waves don't bounce off of the ionosphere during the day, so I don't see how it's possible to get a signal to bounce all the way "around" the earth through the day side.

And what philistine told you radio waves don't bounce of the ionosphere during the day? And why have you waited until now to pull this rather game changing "fact" out on the deck?

Just to clarify to anyone that has some genuine non-trolling interest - this is not true. Categorically not true.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on July 17, 2009, 02:01:15 PM
Don't worry, I know very little about radio waves but I have learnt enough in this thread to know that Tom Bishop, and any other supposed FE believer have no FE argument in this case. I am quite confident that what has been explained in this thread knocks FET for 6.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 17, 2009, 02:19:31 PM
I am quite confident that what has been explained in this thread knocks FET for 6.

Or a home run if you're on the other side of "The Pond"?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Maxus on July 19, 2009, 08:10:39 AM
So, anyone is going to answer?
If no, it will be justified to say that no one on this forum is believing in FE because of scientific proofs.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Maxus on July 19, 2009, 09:14:25 AM
A bit. I thought that someone would felt himself being insulted with SOMEONE SAYING THAT FET IS PSEUDOSCIENCE so he will try to say sth about that proof ;) (i'm really worried about correctness of my grammar  ::) )
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on July 19, 2009, 12:03:56 PM
A bit. I thought that someone would felt himself being insulted with SOMEONE SAYING THAT FET IS PSEUDOSCIENCE so he will try to say sth about that proof ;) (i'm really worried about correctness of my grammar  ::) )

Level-headed and logical people would not feel bad regarding someone's insults about FET being pseudoscience or not. It just shows me the naivety and ignorance of the person uttering those words.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Maxus on July 19, 2009, 02:04:13 PM
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Level-headed and logical people would not feel bad regarding someone's insults about FET being pseudoscience or not. It just shows me the naivety and ignorance of the person uttering those words.
So i don't think that all people believing FET are Level-headed and logical :p
And now, seriously - many people which are usually thinking logical, are somoetimes feeling insulted when someone says that they are wrong. EDIT: Also, there are other causes. If someone would say that RET is false and they have some proof, i would pay some attention. I'm was expecting this behaviour form community.
And, still i have no response. There is proof that FET is wrong. Still believing?
EDIT.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on July 19, 2009, 02:13:19 PM
So i don't think that all people believing FET are Level-headed and logical :p

All the people? Who do you think believes the Earth is flat?

And, still i have no response. There is proof that FET is wrong. Still believing?

More accurately, there is evidence and reason to believe that it is less likely that the flat Earth idea is unlikely. Still believing what?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Maxus on July 19, 2009, 02:41:56 PM
Really - Or these sentences are illogical, or i don't know english language enough, thus preventing me from understanding highly ironical(or not) language. I'll manage to understand then and then i'll answer them.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: shiversaint on July 19, 2009, 03:42:07 PM
Not really sure what Maxus or the moderator divito are arguing about - let alone what they are contributing to this thread. Maxus has gone way off topic and divito has only condoned it.

Given that the original poster got banned for a week for something far more minor - I think it's about time you two take your handbag argument elsewhere and allow this debate to progress.

To refresh - currently, FET has so far failed to explain how circumnavigational propagation (irrelevant of transmission mode) is possible on a disc shape earth.

We all eagerly await a plausible hypothesis - without the double standard moderator interaction in between please.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 20, 2009, 03:15:04 PM
There's nothing "directional" about HAM and AM signals. Those signals bounce off the environment and ionosphere many millions of times in many different directions. It's a field signal. It's not a directional signal like FM and conventional radar are. It's impossible to gauge a direction for HAM and AM because the signals are coming from ALL DIRECTIONS.

Please educate yourself.

I'm back Tom.

FM is no more directional than AM. Probably less so in fact.

About time you educate yourself matey.

HAM or "Ham" as most people call it, is not a kind of signal or modulation or anything. It's a nickname for a hobby.

RADAR, ironically, probably isn't that directional in first transmission. The reflection of RADAR, proves that any EM wave can be very directional if concentrated in the right way.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 21, 2009, 12:35:16 PM
There's nothing "directional" about HAM and AM signals. Those signals bounce off the environment and ionosphere many millions of times in many different directions. It's a field signal. It's not a directional signal like FM and conventional radar are. It's impossible to gauge a direction for HAM and AM because the signals are coming from ALL DIRECTIONS.

Please educate yourself.

I'm back Tom.

Welcome back, dude!

(Low content post, yes; but sincere and community-minded.)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 22, 2009, 05:26:23 AM
I'm back Tom.

Have you received an adequate Flat-Earth explanation for your "trans-global" radio wave propagation yet?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 22, 2009, 06:04:01 AM
Of course not.  :)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: 3 Tesla on July 22, 2009, 06:07:38 AM
Of course not.  :)

:-)

I only asked as a simple way of "bumping" the thread (it had "sunk" onto page two) ...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: danwood on July 22, 2009, 06:44:25 AM
Of course not.  :)

Hey julian welcome back.

Interesting point about the radar.
If radio waves were not directional radar would not work, or maybe tom can explain this with the conspiracy theory and maybe radar does not exist after all.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 22, 2009, 07:35:35 AM
Radio waves don't bounce off of the ionosphere during the day, so I don't see how it's possible to get a signal to bounce all the way "around" the earth through the day side.

I missed this corker!!! HA! I would like to see evidence of this please Tom.

Or you can just accepted that that was an outright lie that is the polar opposite of the truth.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 22, 2009, 07:38:16 AM
Radio waves don't bounce off of the ionosphere during the day, so I don't see how it's possible to get a signal to bounce all the way "around" the earth through the day side.

I missed this corker!!! HA! I would like to see evidence of this please Tom.

Or you can just accepted that that was an outright lie that is the polar opposite of the truth.

As I recall, Tom referenced an article about some shortwave radio stations coming in better at night than during the day because of the slightly different properties of the ionosphere during the course of the day. 
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 22, 2009, 07:42:49 AM
As I recall, Tom referenced an article about some shortwave radio stations coming in better at night than during the day because of the slightly different properties of the ionosphere during the course of the day.  

The FCC even mandates that AM radio stations turn down their power considerably at night or cease operations completely. During the day AM radio stations operate by limited "groundwave" and can reach an audience only in their local vicinity. At night the signals bounce off the ionosphere and can reach vast distances.

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/daytime.html
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 22, 2009, 08:15:52 AM
As I recall, Tom referenced an article about some shortwave radio stations coming in better at night than during the day because of the slightly different properties of the ionosphere during the course of the day.  

The FCC even mandates that AM radio stations turn down their power considerably at night or cease operations completely. During the day AM radio stations operate by limited "groundwave" and can reach an audience only in their local vicinity. At night the signals bounce off the ionosphere and can reach vast distances.

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/bickel/daytime.html

Just as an FYI Tom, ham radio operators are not restricted to the AM band.
(http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/USbands.gif)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 22, 2009, 08:17:21 AM
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Just as an FYI Tom, ham radio operators are not restricted to the AM band.

Sure, but other bands don't bounce off the ionosphere during the day either. The ionosphere only manifests its reflective properties at night.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 22, 2009, 08:19:59 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave

as this effect is frequency dependant we can just use a frequency of about 10MHz to get a good mixture of day and night propagation

the part "other considerations" might be useful
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 22, 2009, 08:28:27 AM
Except that HAM radio operators don't use 10MHz signals. See markjo's image above.

(http://i26.tinypic.com/9h8hur.gif)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 22, 2009, 08:32:11 AM
yes, all i wanted to point out is that the quoted statement isn't generally true:


Sure, but other bands don't bounce off the ionosphere during the day either. The ionosphere only manifests its reflective properties at night.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on July 22, 2009, 08:35:47 AM
Except that HAM radio operators don't use 10MHz signals. See markjo's image above.

Look again, Tom.  10Mhz is the 30 meter band.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on July 22, 2009, 08:39:36 AM
How far are those 10MHz signals traveling during the day? All the Wikipage says is "Frequencies above 10 MHz (wavelengths shorter than 30 meters) typically propagate most efficiently during the day."
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: iznih on July 22, 2009, 08:58:16 AM
http://www.ece.vt.edu/swe/lwa/memo/lwa0134.pdf

that sums it up pretty good
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 22, 2009, 03:33:48 PM
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Just as an FYI Tom, ham radio operators are not restricted to the AM band.

Sure, but other bands don't bounce off the ionosphere during the day either. The ionosphere only manifests its reflective properties at night.

Lie.

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Except that HAM radio operators don't use 10MHz signals. See markjo's image above.

Lie.

The FCC even mandates that AM radio stations turn down their power considerably at night or cease operations completely. During the day AM radio stations operate by limited "groundwave" and can reach an audience only in their local vicinity. At night the signals bounce off the ionosphere and can reach vast distances.

Actually the best propagation period is dawn or dusk. Hence the "gray" zone. I have referenced this earlier in the thread.

Night time propagation CAN be higher. It is not a clear cut yes or no as to whether it will always be higher though. It has far more contributing factors than night or day.

Stop lying Tom.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on July 22, 2009, 10:18:33 PM
Julianmartin, I want to add my "welcome back" to those who have also posted that sentiment.  What I like most about this thread is Tom's utter inability to respond without pounding yet another nail into the coffin of his credibility.  I hope both you and Tom keep it up, at least for awhile longer!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on July 22, 2009, 10:31:17 PM
Thankyou all for all the welcomes - it is most appreciated.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 02, 2009, 02:32:02 PM
I'm still waiting for a serious attempt to debate the evidence I have presented. If it cannot be given, I am waiting for an acceptance that this is a hole in the FE model that is inexplicable?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on August 02, 2009, 02:47:16 PM
I'm still waiting for a serious attempt to debate the evidence I have presented. If it cannot be given, I am waiting for an acceptance that this is a hole in the FE model that is inexplicable?

It's a hole jm. It was all a bit technical for someone like me but you have made your argument well and with no real counter to that argument the FE believers should admit defeat on this issue.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Rational U.S. Viking on August 02, 2009, 08:37:30 PM
I'm still waiting for a serious attempt to debate the evidence I have presented. If it cannot be given, I am waiting for an acceptance that this is a hole in the FE model that is inexplicable?

It's a hole jm. It was all a bit technical for someone like me but you have made your argument well and with no real counter to that argument the FE believers should admit defeat on this issue.

I agree, and it is far from the first time this has happened.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 12, 2009, 03:40:35 AM
Come on TomBot I'm getting bored not having you to debate with!!

Still looking at least one FE proponent to be a man and say "Yep, you win, this is a problem in the FET.".

It's called swallowing your pride...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on August 12, 2009, 05:24:14 PM
I'm still waiting for a serious attempt to debate the evidence I have presented.

What evidence did you present showing that you sent a signal all the way around a globe earth?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on August 12, 2009, 06:43:40 PM
Welcome back Tom, we've missed you.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 13, 2009, 04:31:02 AM
A classic response Tom - I couldn't have asked for anything better!


Well the signal I sent in one direction - came back at me from the polar opposite direction it was transmitted in...funny one that eh?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on August 13, 2009, 12:22:35 PM
A classic response Tom - I couldn't have asked for anything better!


Well the signal I sent in one direction - came back at me from the polar opposite direction it was transmitted in...funny one that eh?

So where's the evidence?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: zork on August 13, 2009, 01:45:08 PM
A classic response Tom - I couldn't have asked for anything better!


Well the signal I sent in one direction - came back at me from the polar opposite direction it was transmitted in...funny one that eh?

So where's the evidence?
It's his personal experience. He sent straight beam in one direction and it came back exactly from opposite side. If you deny personal experiments and experiences(although they are very zetetic) then there is always question about the flat earth evidence. Where is it.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 13, 2009, 03:09:20 PM
A classic response Tom - I couldn't have asked for anything better!


Well the signal I sent in one direction - came back at me from the polar opposite direction it was transmitted in...funny one that eh?

So where's the evidence?

I invite you to come over to my house Tom - I'll lay on a good dinner and a decent wine for your visit, and I will show you the phenomena myself; there's no better evidence than first hand experience Tom!

Otherwise Tom - buy me an emission counter and I will prove it to you that way.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on August 13, 2009, 06:55:32 PM
So no evidence to present then?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on August 13, 2009, 07:52:21 PM
So no evidence to present then?
So I guess that you aren't interested in a free dinner either.  Protip for you Tom.  Sometimes you need to go where the evidence is.  In this case, julianmartin's place.  Then again, it could be a conspiracy trap, so...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Tom Bishop on August 13, 2009, 09:35:37 PM
So no evidence to present then?
So I guess that you aren't interested in a free dinner either.  Protip for you Tom.  Sometimes you need to go where the evidence is.  In this case, julianmartin's place.  Then again, it could be a conspiracy trap, so...

I still don't see any evidence that any of this ever occurred, or that he even owns this special equipment.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Pete on August 13, 2009, 09:49:16 PM
So no evidence to present then?
So I guess that you aren't interested in a free dinner either.  Protip for you Tom.  Sometimes you need to go where the evidence is.  In this case, julianmartin's place.  Then again, it could be a conspiracy trap, so...

I still don't see any evidence that any of this ever occurred, or that he even owns this special equipment.

Do you have any real points to make? Besides attacking other people's credibility?  ::)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on August 14, 2009, 06:48:02 AM
So no evidence to present then?
So I guess that you aren't interested in a free dinner either.  Protip for you Tom.  Sometimes you need to go where the evidence is.  In this case, julianmartin's place.  Then again, it could be a conspiracy trap, so...

I still don't see any evidence that any of this ever occurred, or that he even owns this special equipment.

And I don't see any real evidence that you ever performed your Monterey Bay observations either.  What's your point?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 15, 2009, 05:50:37 AM
So no evidence to present then?
So I guess that you aren't interested in a free dinner either.  Protip for you Tom.  Sometimes you need to go where the evidence is.  In this case, julianmartin's place.  Then again, it could be a conspiracy trap, so...

I still don't see any evidence that any of this ever occurred, or that he even owns this special equipment.

Well there aren't really many ways to record it apart from experience, only really a spectrograph from a 360 degree spectrometer - how you expect me to buy one I have no clue...

I shall scout the internet and try and rustle something up.

A little bit of faith would be good here Tombot - I'm not lying...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 16, 2009, 02:00:55 AM
Okay I could use an SWR meter, which I do have, to prove signal of considerable strength is being received from behind me, and the timings that it occurs. However it is virtually impossible without me using an obscure data mode like SSTV which doesn't work well on HF to prove that it is the same signal without someone being here to listen to it themselves really. I could send recordings but the accusations would be "they are both the same sound file"....

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on August 16, 2009, 03:20:36 AM
Okay I could use an SWR meter, which I do have, to prove signal of considerable strength is being received from behind me, and the timings that it occurs. However it is virtually impossible without me using an obscure data mode like SSTV which doesn't work well on HF to prove that it is the same signal without someone being here to listen to it themselves really. I could send recordings but the accusations would be "they are both the same sound file"....



They have no argument julianmartin, Tom Bishop is just being obnoxious because he cannot argue the main point anymore.  You need no evidence for the troll, just put up a post saying FE impossible and lock the thread.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on August 16, 2009, 05:07:09 AM
They have no argument julianmartin, Tom Bishop is just being obnoxious because he cannot argue the main point anymore.  You need no evidence for the troll, just put up a post saying FE impossible and lock the thread.

Impossible? Tsk tsk. I'm afraid not.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 16, 2009, 11:18:09 AM
They have no argument julianmartin, Tom Bishop is just being obnoxious because he cannot argue the main point anymore.  You need no evidence for the troll, just put up a post saying FE impossible and lock the thread.

I see your point Squat; but ultimately I am more interested in a reasoned debate to continue, or for a main FE proponent to agree that the phenomena is inexplicable. Your solution isn't a satisfactory one from my point of view - FE effectively wins if I do that as it then just  "goes away" and everyone forgets about the idea.

Impossible? Tsk tsk. I'm afraid not.

Not sure what you are suggesting is not impossible - FE as a whole or my given phenomena working in FE? If the latter, would you care to elaborate?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on August 16, 2009, 11:54:05 AM
Not sure what you are suggesting is not impossible - FE as a whole or my given phenomena working in FE? If the latter, would you care to elaborate?

Nothing is impossible, thus both.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: KatiePipkin on August 16, 2009, 01:39:09 PM
you are ignoring all the photographs which clearly show there is no curvature...

No flatter is allowed to cite any form of photographic evidence whatsoever, as this would be hypocritical, since they claim photographic evidence for a round earth is all faked. You can't have it both ways.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on August 16, 2009, 02:51:24 PM
No flatter is allowed to cite any form of photographic evidence whatsoever, as this would be hypocritical, since they claim photographic evidence for a round earth is all faked. You can't have it both ways.

Exactly. Plus, anyone who forms conclusions from images isn't too bright to begin with.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 17, 2009, 07:20:26 AM
Not sure what you are suggesting is not impossible - FE as a whole or my given phenomena working in FE? If the latter, would you care to elaborate?

Nothing is impossible, thus both.

Right and playing devils advocate has what place in serious debate and discussion? I know people who have been banned for less informative posts than yours in this very forum. Double standards alert.

GTFO of my thread if you aren't contributing.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on August 17, 2009, 10:33:53 AM
Right and playing devils advocate has what place in serious debate and discussion?

Depends. I personally gain satisfaction from showcasing poor logic and incorrect assumptions/facts.

I know people who have been banned for less informative posts than yours in this very forum.

I very much doubt that.

GTFO of my thread if you aren't contributing.

I did contribute, and unfortunately there hasn't been a sufficient reply to it.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Squat on August 17, 2009, 11:10:25 AM

Nothing is impossible, thus both.

Nonsense, many things are impossible.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Pete on August 17, 2009, 05:54:17 PM

Nothing is impossible, thus both.

Nonsense, many things are impossible.



Perpetual motion machines or otherwise violating the second law of thermodynamics, for example.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on August 17, 2009, 07:12:21 PM

Nothing is impossible, thus both.

Nonsense, many things are impossible.



Perpetual motion machines or otherwise violating the second law of thermodynamics, for example.

Putting your pants on over your head, for another.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 18, 2009, 03:34:33 AM
Depends. I personally gain satisfaction from showcasing poor logic and incorrect assumptions/facts.

And saying nothing is impossible doesn't classify as poor logic?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: divito the truthist on August 18, 2009, 05:50:26 AM
And saying nothing is impossible doesn't classify as poor logic?

No. Thinking there are impossibilities is naive and fallacious.

Perpetual motion machines or otherwise violating the second law of thermodynamics, for example.

Should check out Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: markjo on August 18, 2009, 06:33:01 AM
And saying nothing is impossible doesn't classify as poor logic?

No. Thinking there are impossibilities is naive and fallacious.

Like having the FE accelerate to a velocity faster than the speed of light?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on August 18, 2009, 07:51:22 AM
And saying nothing is impossible doesn't classify as poor logic?

No. Thinking there are impossibilities is naive and fallacious.

Perpetual motion machines or otherwise violating the second law of thermodynamics, for example.

Should check out Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku.

Michio Kaku is a theoretical Physicist. Theoretical being the important word there - until you can prove perpetual motion is possible, it still lies in the box called impossible. It cannot be done.

Now...get back on topic maybe?

RF propagation? Know anything about that? Didin't think so....
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: ERTW on December 07, 2009, 04:18:33 AM
Okay I could use an SWR meter, which I do have, to prove signal of considerable strength is being received from behind me, and the timings that it occurs. However it is virtually impossible without me using an obscure data mode like SSTV which doesn't work well on HF to prove that it is the same signal without someone being here to listen to it themselves really. I could send recordings but the accusations would be "they are both the same sound file"....



It would be interesting for you to send a recording regardless. At least you would have evidence to show, and FE'ers can move from saying "you have no evidence" to "your evidence is faked", and then "your evidence is too expensive and/or time consuming to reproduce". I am trying this same approach with the solar neutrino threads, lets see how far it gets me...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: OptimusPrime on December 14, 2009, 01:03:28 AM
Ok, for a fellow HAM I will go ahead and expose myself here as I really enjoy these discussions:
KB0RQB here and 73s by the way...
For those in the USA you can look that up on the ARRL website for easier lookup than the FCC. Both are perfectly unique and indisputable sources for identification, and if you'd like I can provide proof of my own identity as well.

If anyone would like, I'd be happy to discuss in detail the following, but I won't bore you with details unless requested. I will just state that it is indeed factual, and again state I can back it up with plenty of whatever proofs and demonstrations if you would like. Radio is rather fun.

I think a very simple example, which may have been provided here already (I skipped to the end sorry - getting tired), is atmospheric bounce, as it does not just travel in a straight line - it bounces multiple times off of the atmosphere, from your station - up, then down to the ground, then back up again, down again, and so on - until it comes back around ... when conditions are ideal. This works really well around 8 and 10 meters.

Now then, the major kicker here is the following:

I'm in Missouri, USA. Say I point My Antenna towards California right? Well, not only might I make a contact in say... New Jersey, I may also make a contact in China, then Turkey, then Spain or Portugal, THEN New Jersey, etc.

Now the problem with all that is that kind of radio propagation is only going to happen line of sight. It doesn't matter what kind of magnetic or bouncy medium you try to come up with - the amount of time it takes to come back to you - at the frequencies being used - only allows for a straight line - with a travel distance between the Earth, atmosphere, and known wavelength.

So basically, an entirely Flat Earth, especially one that has no option for an underside - no possibility for reflection or deflection around it's "sides" to continue around it with the land masses laid out in a straight line as seen on a world map: it can't happen.

I've tried to work it out in some sort of FE and will continue to give it a shot, but off the vuff - I just don't see it.

Take care all,
- Optimus
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: julianmartin on May 13, 2010, 04:51:13 PM
73s Optimus, nice to see another Ham here. M3JJM and 2E1JJM are my callsigns.

I still think circumnavigational propagation is impossible to explain on a flat earth. I'd love to see the angles of the "edge" and whether they change with the sun's position and so on. Could make for some pretty interesting calculations.

I still defy any FE proponent to explain how circumnavigational propagation is plausible or possible. Even though I can do it every day...
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Space Tourist on May 13, 2010, 10:24:31 PM


The Dome is substantial evidence, once I prove to you the earth is flat, as I have done in my pictures, taken all over the Lake Ontario, English Channel, and Strait of Gibraltar. Please read the Nasa Fake Space Program to see how nobody has been able to ascend beyond 15 km.



15k he says really
i how about some Spanish students that did 20 miles with a balloon and a cell phone
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/kids-send-a-cam/
20 miles = 32.18688 kilometers
thats twice as high
and there is SS1 that did 41 miles with uncut live video

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: CONCERNED on February 03, 2018, 10:15:39 AM
Hai all.

Not sure if anyone has attacked this one. I am an amateur radio enthusiast, I have 2 callsigns, 2E1JJM and M3JJM - you can look this up with the RSGB and with Ofcom - the UK's governmental body for communications.

It occured to me that a while ago I was trying something nicknamed "moonbounce" - also known as EME or earth to moon to earth communications. Effectively, a ham radio user has a very directional form of an antenna, normally a Yagi beam that produces a very directional and efficient emission, aims it rather accurately at the moon using various calculations, and can then gauge roughly where the signal will arrive on earth after bouncing off the moon. Most importantly, there is a time delay in this which is quite measurable, and the curvature of the earth plays a part in this.

In my case I was using a standard standard Cushcraft Yagi beam on the 6 metre wavelength band, aka 50MHz. With a low discharge of power, 50 watts to be specific on my 2E1JJM callsign, I successfully achieved bounce from southern england to another user in russia, more specifically leningrad with the callsign RN3LLP (this corresponds to central russia). Now I know the rough distance that my transmissions took due to the time lag bouncing off the moon - and these only agree with a slight curve of the earth's face. On top of that, my communications would not have got so far on such a large wavelength transmission with relatively minimal power if the earth was flat.

On top of this, ham radio users using much larger wavelengths, like the 40m and 17m bands, know roughly how far their signal will go due to their emissions (depending on their antenna) being a proportionate resonate distance of their wavelength that can be targetted with specific angles using directional antennas at the top layers of the atmosphere (F2 layer specifically) and then reflect off the atmosphere. Using this method, one can work out how far a single atmospheric reflection will take a signal back down to sea level depending on time of day (the atmosphere rises and sinks with sunlight exposure due to temperature fluctuations); and crucially how long it will take, using speed of light calculations. This certainly confirms a round earth.

On top of this point I've just made, the nail in the coffin supplied by ham radio, is that depending on the conditions, the quality of the antenna, and how the weather is doing round the world, it is actually possible on the very very long wavelength bands (160m and 80m for example), to bounce a signal off the F2 layer, and then to the earth again, and back upto the F2, several times, to the point where a signal will circumnavigate the globe, and providing one gets their power adjustments just right, once can receive their own signal a second or two later after initial transmission. I have in fact witnessed my father doing this (his radio license allows more power, G0WKL is his callsign), on a completely omnidirectional HF dipole (proving that you don't even need my specifications to do it) made by cushcraft (an R8, available here http://www.wsplc.com/acatalog/CUSHCRAFT_HF_Vertical_Antennas.html) with about 190W of power on the 40m band.

Let me re-iterate. Directional Electromagnetic radition that circumnavigates the earth, is NOT possible on a dual flat plane of reflection; let alone omnidirectional. It would be emitted to into space. A dual spherical plane of reflection (i.e. RE) is the only way without using ridiculous reflection repeater arrays positioned at incredibly lucky points along your "ice wall", to produce the effect I have described above. Goto any Ham radio forum and ask if HF circumnavigation is possible and if anyone has experienced it. No end of people have - I am not the only one. The ham radio community is so small, that NASA or any of your government agencies wouldn't even consider ploughing the tens of billions required to reproduce this effect on a flat plane; it would be impossible to recreate successfully for every user without someone seeing something weird like 500m tall resonant reflectors for each wavelength (we're talking nearly millions of combinations here with the various angles) on the edge of your ice wall, or as we call it, Antarctica.

I tried to read many of the posts in this thread. As a newbie to this forum I read a lot of descent into very complicated explanations of this and that. Seems to avoid the elephants in the room so to speak.

The real questions for me regarding radio communication as a former broadcast engineer in AM, FM and TV transmission (also former VE3HWZ amateur) are:

1. If the moon is 3K miles or so above us why do reflections from the moon take exactly the amount
of time to arrive back to earth as predicted by the commonly accepted astro-physics model.
(simple arithmetic from that delay gives you the distance by the way)

2.  Why do radio signals pointed at the dome not reflect back off the dome? And with that what the heck is it made of if radio waves don't reflect off it but rockets do?

Honest answers to those simple questions would help make a case for FE.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 03, 2018, 11:09:03 AM
This thread from nine years ago is a classic.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: CONCERNED on February 03, 2018, 11:43:53 AM
This thread from nine years ago is a classic.

Yes it is.  It occurred to me a day or two ago that my early history with amateur radio introduced to me to moon bounce guys back in the 1970s.  These are independent "nerd" types that play with this stuff for their own amusement. No conspiracy or hidden agenda. Just the challenge of building the radio station to do the job. (which I identify with)  :)

It requires explanation within the FE model.
I cannot think of a way.

Related to the moon bounce question is my personal experience of installing TV downlinking antennas and rack equipment and then assisting the operators to find the correct satellite to get the programs that we  were going to record or broadcast.  Our little station in Canada was late to this technology so there were about 12 or so satellites up there in the mid 1980s.  They were all lined up so that once you got the dish at the right angle for your latitude they all fell in a line... almost like they were in a geostationary orbit.

This activity replaced the way we did it in the 1970s  and mid 1980s where the courier arrived everyday and dropped off a stack of film reels (movies) and video tapes (syndicated TV shows to our shipping door.  We aired them and then they were forwarded on to the next TV station down the highway.   

What changed that caused a commercial money making enterprise to stop paying for
courier fees of *50 ..100lbs of stuff every day?  Just askin' ...

*2" wide 15" reels of video tape are very heavy.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 03, 2018, 11:54:40 AM
It requires explanation within the FE model.
I cannot think of a way.


Original set of Maxwell's equations:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1918701#msg1918701 (five consecutive messages)

Structure of the potential: Whittaker scalar waves

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1994059#msg1994059 (four consecutive messages)

During the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the Westinghouse exhibit set up by Tesla was visited by Hermann von Helmholtz, the first director of the Physico-Technical Institute of Berlin and one of the leading scientists of his time. When Tesla "asked the celebrated physicist for an expression of opinion on the feasibility of the [transmission] scheme. He stated unhesitatingly that it was practicable." In 1897, Lord Kelvin visited New York and stopped at the Tesla laboratory where Tesla "entertained him with demonstrations in support of my wireless theory."

Suddenly [Kelvin] remarked with evident astonishment: 'Then you are not making use of Hertz waves?'

'Certainly not', I replied, 'these are radiations.' ... I can never forget the magic change that came over the illustrious philosopher the moment he freed himself from that erroneous impression. The skeptic who would not believe was suddenly transformed into the warmest of supporters. He parted from me not only thoroughly convinced of the scientific soundness of the idea but strongly exprest his confidence in its success."


Whittaker proved mathematically the existence of the hidden substructure of the potential of the e/m/g (electrogravitational) waves.

A scalar wave is a bidirectional longitudinal wave = a non-Hertzian wave.

A Hertzian wave is just a ripple in the sea of ether.

Ether = subquark strings = telluric currents

A telluric current is a transversal wave, through which flow/propagate longitudinal waves.

A non-Hertzian wave is just such a longitudinal wave, propagating through the transversal wave.

This is true wireless.

Tesla used exclusively non-Hertzian waves, and none of the Hertzian waves.

The speed of a radio wave is completely and absolutely linked to the density of aether in the atmosphere.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: robintex on February 03, 2018, 12:19:13 PM
Hai all.

Not sure if anyone has attacked this one. I am an amateur radio enthusiast, I have 2 callsigns, 2E1JJM and M3JJM - you can look this up with the RSGB and with Ofcom - the UK's governmental body for communications.

It occured to me that a while ago I was trying something nicknamed "moonbounce" - also known as EME or earth to moon to earth communications. Effectively, a ham radio user has a very directional form of an antenna, normally a Yagi beam that produces a very directional and efficient emission, aims it rather accurately at the moon using various calculations, and can then gauge roughly where the signal will arrive on earth after bouncing off the moon. Most importantly, there is a time delay in this which is quite measurable, and the curvature of the earth plays a part in this.

In my case I was using a standard standard Cushcraft Yagi beam on the 6 metre wavelength band, aka 50MHz. With a low discharge of power, 50 watts to be specific on my 2E1JJM callsign, I successfully achieved bounce from southern england to another user in russia, more specifically leningrad with the callsign RN3LLP (this corresponds to central russia). Now I know the rough distance that my transmissions took due to the time lag bouncing off the moon - and these only agree with a slight curve of the earth's face. On top of that, my communications would not have got so far on such a large wavelength transmission with relatively minimal power if the earth was flat.

On top of this, ham radio users using much larger wavelengths, like the 40m and 17m bands, know roughly how far their signal will go due to their emissions (depending on their antenna) being a proportionate resonate distance of their wavelength that can be targetted with specific angles using directional antennas at the top layers of the atmosphere (F2 layer specifically) and then reflect off the atmosphere. Using this method, one can work out how far a single atmospheric reflection will take a signal back down to sea level depending on time of day (the atmosphere rises and sinks with sunlight exposure due to temperature fluctuations); and crucially how long it will take, using speed of light calculations. This certainly confirms a round earth.

On top of this point I've just made, the nail in the coffin supplied by ham radio, is that depending on the conditions, the quality of the antenna, and how the weather is doing round the world, it is actually possible on the very very long wavelength bands (160m and 80m for example), to bounce a signal off the F2 layer, and then to the earth again, and back upto the F2, several times, to the point where a signal will circumnavigate the globe, and providing one gets their power adjustments just right, once can receive their own signal a second or two later after initial transmission. I have in fact witnessed my father doing this (his radio license allows more power, G0WKL is his callsign), on a completely omnidirectional HF dipole (proving that you don't even need my specifications to do it) made by cushcraft (an R8, available here http://www.wsplc.com/acatalog/CUSHCRAFT_HF_Vertical_Antennas.html) with about 190W of power on the 40m band.

Let me re-iterate. Directional Electromagnetic radition that circumnavigates the earth, is NOT possible on a dual flat plane of reflection; let alone omnidirectional. It would be emitted to into space. A dual spherical plane of reflection (i.e. RE) is the only way without using ridiculous reflection repeater arrays positioned at incredibly lucky points along your "ice wall", to produce the effect I have described above. Goto any Ham radio forum and ask if HF circumnavigation is possible and if anyone has experienced it. No end of people have - I am not the only one. The ham radio community is so small, that NASA or any of your government agencies wouldn't even consider ploughing the tens of billions required to reproduce this effect on a flat plane; it would be impossible to recreate successfully for every user without someone seeing something weird like 500m tall resonant reflectors for each wavelength (we're talking nearly millions of combinations here with the various angles) on the edge of your ice wall, or as we call it, Antarctica.

I tried to read many of the posts in this thread. As a newbie to this forum I read a lot of descent into very complicated explanations of this and that. Seems to avoid the elephants in the room so to speak.

The real questions for me regarding radio communication as a former broadcast engineer in AM, FM and TV transmission (also former VE3HWZ amateur) are:

1. If the moon is 3K miles or so above us why do reflections from the moon take exactly the amount
of time to arrive back to earth as predicted by the commonly accepted astro-physics model.
(simple arithmetic from that delay gives you the distance by the way)

2.  Why do radio signals pointed at the dome not reflect back off the dome? And with that what the heck is it made of if radio waves don't reflect off it but rockets do?

Honest answers to those simple questions would help make a case for FE.

I am the guilty party who is responsible for some of the moon bounce forum. I am a licensed amateur radio operator, a retired FAA electronics technician who was in radio communications, radar and computer systems and served in the U.S. Navy as an ET2 (Electronic Technician, 2nd Class Petty Officer) on radio and radar shipboard equipment.

The answer to all of those questions is simply the amateur radio measurements are based on known facts and the  flat earth notions are based on ideas with no evidence to back them up.
(1) The 3K distance is based on flat earth. The earth is a globe.
(2) There is no dome. The earth is a globe.

If you will go back on that earlier forum, you will find photos of the equipment used, the methods used , and the mathemarics used in computing the distance from the earth to the moon.
Much of flat earth is based on the writings of Samuel Birley Rowbotham in the 19 Century.
Who would you trust, 21st Century ham radio operators or Mr.Rowbotham ?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 03, 2018, 12:24:19 PM
Much of flat earth is based on the writings of Samuel Birley Rowbotham in the 19 Century.

All of my FE theory is not based at all on any of Rowbotham's writings.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sokarul on February 03, 2018, 01:39:34 PM
It requires explanation within the FE model.
I cannot think of a way.


Original set of Maxwell's equations:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1918701#msg1918701 (five consecutive messages)

Structure of the potential: Whittaker scalar waves

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1994059#msg1994059 (four consecutive messages)

During the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the Westinghouse exhibit set up by Tesla was visited by Hermann von Helmholtz, the first director of the Physico-Technical Institute of Berlin and one of the leading scientists of his time. When Tesla "asked the celebrated physicist for an expression of opinion on the feasibility of the [transmission] scheme. He stated unhesitatingly that it was practicable." In 1897, Lord Kelvin visited New York and stopped at the Tesla laboratory where Tesla "entertained him with demonstrations in support of my wireless theory."

Suddenly [Kelvin] remarked with evident astonishment: 'Then you are not making use of Hertz waves?'

'Certainly not', I replied, 'these are radiations.' ... I can never forget the magic change that came over the illustrious philosopher the moment he freed himself from that erroneous impression. The skeptic who would not believe was suddenly transformed into the warmest of supporters. He parted from me not only thoroughly convinced of the scientific soundness of the idea but strongly exprest his confidence in its success."


Whittaker proved mathematically the existence of the hidden substructure of the potential of the e/m/g (electrogravitational) waves.

A scalar wave is a bidirectional longitudinal wave = a non-Hertzian wave.

A Hertzian wave is just a ripple in the sea of ether.

Ether = subquark strings = telluric currents

A telluric current is a transversal wave, through which flow/propagate longitudinal waves.

A non-Hertzian wave is just such a longitudinal wave, propagating through the transversal wave.

This is true wireless.

Tesla used exclusively non-Hertzian waves, and none of the Hertzian waves.

The speed of a radio wave is completely and absolutely linked to the density of aether in the atmosphere.
Where is your Nobel Prize?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: CONCERNED on February 03, 2018, 01:58:02 PM
"Whittaker proved mathematically the existence of the hidden substructure of the potential of the e/m/g (electrogravitational) waves." 

So what. I don't use those things.

"A scalar wave is a bidirectional longitudinal wave = a non-Hertzian wave."
Perhaps but how do I create them?

"A Hertzian wave is just a ripple in the sea of ether."
That may be, but they work real well for communication. 
Try your cell phone sometime and let me know how it works out.

"Ether = subquark strings = telluric currents"
I really don't care. We are talking about real world technology that works in specific reproducible ways.
(by the way stealing vocabulary from string theory doesn't help you.  It has not made one accurate prediction about reality to date as I understand.)

"A telluric current is a transversal wave, through which flow/propagate longitudinal waves."
How is it generated please.  Describe the circuit or whatever it takes to make them.

"A non-Hertzian wave is just such a longitudinal wave, propagating through the transversal wave."
I would love to have a receiver that picks them up.  Where can I learn how to make one?

"This is true wireless."
But for us mortals "un-true" wireless is how I send voice and data across distances.

"Tesla used exclusively non-Hertzian waves, and none of the Hertzian waves."
Which Nikola Telsa invention generated these waves? A Tesla coil?  I can see the EM spectra from a Tesla coil.  I don't know how to pickup non-herzian waves until you give me a device or the plans how to make one.

"The speed of a radio wave is completely and absolutely linked to the density of aether in the atmosphere."
OK.  But when we measure them it's really damned fast. Like about 300,000Km per sec and it doesn't seem to vary much.  Real world stuff please.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: ER22 on February 03, 2018, 04:50:30 PM
Instead of everyone in the FE sitting around,
Doing nothing but spouting stuff.

EME or moon bounce is a real thing.
It can tell you how far away the moon is.

Surely, since there are so many FEs
One of them must know a ham radio operator.

Get them to bounce a signal off your
3,000 mile away moon and see what happens.

Course, if the results don't agree with your "theory"
It's all garbage anyway.

Earth still round though.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Lonegranger on February 04, 2018, 02:05:00 AM
Instead of everyone in the FE sitting around,
Doing nothing but spouting stuff.

EME or moon bounce is a real thing.
It can tell you how far away the moon is.

Surely, since there are so many FEs
One of them must know a ham radio operator.

Get them to bounce a signal off your
3,000 mile away moon and see what happens.

Course, if the results don't agree with your "theory"
It's all garbage anyway.

Earth still round though.

I’m not sure if there are any FE ham radio operators on this forum, though there are plenty of FE hams around, that not right John?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: DavidOrJohn on February 04, 2018, 02:46:46 AM
This completely disproves FET and DET in a way that can be done by anyone.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 04, 2018, 11:00:39 PM
OK.  But when we measure them it's really damned fast. Like about 300,000Km per sec and it doesn't seem to vary much.  Real world stuff please.

In the lab, yes.

If you are directing a radio signal to the Moon, you are going to have to deal with the huge density of both the ether and the aether fields, which will markedly change the speed of light and the distance traveled by that radio signal.

A Tesla bifilar coil uses double torsion to access the field of ether.

Tesla specified several times how to inject signals directly into the potential (subquark strings/non-Hertzian waves), look for these specifications.

You might also want to check out the original form of the Maxwell equations, which were modified by Heaviside and Lorentz in order to eliminate any possibility of accessing the non-Hertzian waves.

"Maxwell’s second wave postulation was that of a transverse electromagnetic wave that exhibited a rapid alternation of electric fields along a fixed axis that radiated away from its point of origin at the speed of light and was detectable at great distances. Maxwell had more faith in the existence of this type of wave and encouraged experimenters to look in this direction. It was the discovery of this type of wave that Hertz had laid claim to, but Tesla was meticulous and fastidious in replicating Hertz’s experimental parameters and he could not obtain the results claimed by Hertz.

Tesla discovered a fundamental flaw in Hertz’s experiment: Hertz had failed to take into account he presence of air in his experiments. Hertz had mistakenly identified electrostatic inductions or electrified shockwaves as true electromagnetic waves. Tesla was saddened to bring this news to the distinguished academician, but felt scientific honesty was paramount if progress was to be achieved. Tesla visited Hertz in Germany and personally demonstrated the experimental error to him. Hertz agreed with Tesla and had planned to withdraw his claim, but reputations, political agendas, national pride, and above all, powerful financial interests, intervened in that decision and set the stage for a major rift in the ‘accepted’ theories that soon became transformed into the fundamental “laws” of the electric sciences that have held sway in industry and the halls of academia to the present day."

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EvolvedMantisShrimp on February 04, 2018, 11:07:16 PM
OK.  But when we measure them it's really damned fast. Like about 300,000Km per sec and it doesn't seem to vary much.  Real world stuff please.

In the lab, yes.

If you are directing a radio signal to the Moon, you are going to have to deal with the huge density of both the ether and the aether fields, which will markedly change the speed of light and the distance traveled by that radio signal.

A Tesla bifilar coil uses double torsion to access the field of ether.

Tesla specified several times how to inject signals directly into the potential (subquark strings/non-Hertzian waves), look for these specifications.

You might also want to check out the original form of the Maxwell equations, which were modified by Heaviside and Lorentz in order to eliminate any possibility of accessing the non-Hertzian waves.

"Maxwell’s second wave postulation was that of a transverse electromagnetic wave that exhibited a rapid alternation of electric fields along a fixed axis that radiated away from its point of origin at the speed of light and was detectable at great distances. Maxwell had more faith in the existence of this type of wave and encouraged experimenters to look in this direction. It was the discovery of this type of wave that Hertz had laid claim to, but Tesla was meticulous and fastidious in replicating Hertz’s experimental parameters and he could not obtain the results claimed by Hertz.

Tesla discovered a fundamental flaw in Hertz’s experiment: Hertz had failed to take into account he presence of air in his experiments. Hertz had mistakenly identified electrostatic inductions or electrified shockwaves as true electromagnetic waves. Tesla was saddened to bring this news to the distinguished academician, but felt scientific honesty was paramount if progress was to be achieved. Tesla visited Hertz in Germany and personally demonstrated the experimental error to him. Hertz agreed with Tesla and had planned to withdraw his claim, but reputations, political agendas, national pride, and above all, powerful financial interests, intervened in that decision and set the stage for a major rift in the ‘accepted’ theories that soon became transformed into the fundamental “laws” of the electric sciences that have held sway in industry and the halls of academia to the present day."

So what is the velocity of light through so-called aether?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Cartog on February 04, 2018, 11:11:09 PM
Ham radio won't help.  Ham radio uses shortwave frequencies -- these bounce off the ionosphere to come back to earth, which is the whole point of shortwave and ham radio.  What you need is ultra-high frequency radio that goes through the ionosphere to reach outer space.  It is ultra-high freq that is used to communicate with the moon landings and the space station and satellites.  Shortwave, by design, won't punch through the ionosphere to get there.  Not so many people have ultra-high freq equipment; it's expensive and since it doesn't bounce off the ionosphere, about the only thing it's good for is outer space.

But with ultra-high frequency equipment several observatories and labs were and still are able to make use of the retroflectors set up by the astronauts on the moon.  These are very precisely made, and very precisely positioned, parabolic reflectors designed that any laser or maser beam from earth that hits them will be reflected back to the exact spot on earth from which it was sent.  These retroflectors have been used to precisely measure the moon's distance from earth. 
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 05, 2018, 01:09:07 AM
The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.

And retroreflectors are not needed in any case.

National Geographic Vol. 130 No. 6 December 1966

'The Lasers Bright Magic' by Thomas Meloy

Page 876
"Four years ago (1962) a ruby laser considerably smaller than those now available, shot a series of pulses at the Moon. The beams illuminated a spot less than two miles in diameter, and were reflected back to Earth with enough strength to be measured by ultra sensitive electronic equipment."

Here is the Aharonov-Bohm effect for light (photons):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263850559_Aharonov-Bohm_effect_for_light_in_a_moving_medium
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: JackBlack on February 05, 2018, 02:26:56 AM
If you are directing a radio signal to the Moon, you are going to have to deal with the huge density of both the ether and the aether fields, which will markedly change the speed of light and the distance traveled by that radio signal.
Neither of which you have shown to exist, and neither of which you have shown to effect light in any way.
Regardless, if something like this was there, you would expect massively varying results as the position of the moon changes and between different ground stations, but you don't.

Hertz agreed with Tesla and had planned to withdraw his claim, but reputations, political agendas, national pride, and above all, powerful financial interests, intervened in that decision and set the stage for a major rift in the ‘accepted’ theories that soon became transformed into the fundamental “laws” of the electric sciences that have held sway in industry and the halls of academia to the present day."
And Tesla just magically decided to stay quiet?
This sounds like a load of delusional crap.

The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
And they are just magically in the right place at the right time?

And that should make the moon appear even closer.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: rabinoz on February 05, 2018, 04:08:03 AM
The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
Balderdash!

Quote from: sandokhan
And retroreflectors are not needed in any case.
Really? The early laser measurements used 50 ns laser pulse length and a distance uncertainty of about 15 m. See below for after the retroreflectors were installed.

Quote from: sandokhan
National Geographic Vol. 130 No. 6 December 1966

'The Lasers Bright Magic' by Thomas Meloy

Page 876
"Four years ago (1962) a ruby laser considerably smaller than those now available, shot a series of pulses at the Moon. The beams illuminated a spot less than two miles in diameter, and were reflected back to Earth with enough strength to be measured by ultra sensitive electronic equipment."
Mr Sandokhan, so often you post only half the story, hoping nobody will look further, well just look:
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Yes, the first laser pulse reflected from the moon was in 1962, but if you look into it, you will find a dramatic improvement in accuracy since the corner reflectors were installed.

You can read a bit about it in:
Reminescenses of Early Work at MIT and ESRIN 1963-1974 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004ESASP.561....3F)
But these early experiments needed very high power and comparatively long pulse lengths (around 1 ms in the 1962 MIT case), so could not achieve very high accuracy. I could not find much of the accuracy of this one, bit a later one (still without corner reflectors) described in (http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/69D/jresv69Dn12p1681_A1b.pdf)
Quote from: A. Orszag, Ecole Poly technique, Paris
On page 1687: 3 .1. Accuracy of Distance Measurement
This accuracy is limited by several factors:
(a) The duration of the pulse emitted by the laser, that is, about 50 nsec. This time interval corresponds to an uncertainty of 15 m in the distance.

From: Moon Distance Measurement by Laser (http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/69D/jresv69Dn12p1681_A1b.pdf)

And have a look at:
Quote from: Brad Acker
HISTORY-TECH             May 9, 2015
Today in History: Laser travelled through space and bounced off Moon for first time, 1962
On May 9, 1962 — 53 years ago today and about 2 years after the first laser was invented — for the first time in history a laser travelled through space and laser pulses were bounced off the Moon and used to determine the most accurate measurement of distance between the Earth and the Moon to that date.This historical first was conducted by Louis D. Smullin and Giorgio Flocco as part of project “Luna See” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From: Brad Acker, HISTORY-TECH, May 9, 2015 (https://plus.google.com/+BradAcker/posts/W5BSSe1Ra7b)


The later measurements with the corner reflectors have achieved millimeter accuracy, enough to determine that the Moon is spiraling away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 cm per year - a figure unexpectedly high.

This is the improvement in precision of measurement from the first retro-reflectors:
Quote
In the early days one of the biggest challenges was discerning returning photons from "stray" photons. MLRS would fire 1014 or 1015 photons to the moon and only about 10 or so returned to the photodetector, so being able to verify them was absolutely essential. "We devised a four-filter system," says Peter Shelus, senior research scientist at UT-Austin's Center for Space Research and member of the MLRS team. "First, we opened the detector to the sky just before we thought the photons were due back - about 2.5 seconds later. Second, we used a pinhole aperture only a few arc seconds in diameter to look at a very small part of the surface of the moon. The third filter was spectral -- we fired red light from the ruby laser or green from neodymium and looked for those wavelengths coming back in. The fourth filter was mathematical to neutralize noise in the photodetector."
(http://spie.org//Images/Graphics/Newsroom/Imported-2009/LLR/Fig4-chart.jpg)
Figure 4.
Increasingly the trend at LLR stations has been toward narrower laser pulses and greater accuracy (Fig. 4). Today satellite laser ranging stations such as RGO (UK) and Graz (Austria) are favoring super-short pulse kiloHertz lasers. Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser Ranging Operation (APOLLO), the most advanced LLR station in the world, uses a 3.5-meter telescope and 532 nm Nd:YAG laser (100 ps pulse duration, 115 mJ/pulse, 20 Hz). "We routinely achieve 1-mm precision with a 7-picosecond round-trip travel-time error," indicates Tom Murphy, director of APOLLO and associate professor of physics at University of California, San Diego. "Our APD array is a working prototype from MIT's Lincoln Labs in a 4x4 format with 30-µm diameters on 100-µm centers. Photon detection efficiency is about 50 percent."
From: Lunar laser ranging: 40 years of high-level science (http://spie.org/newsroom/12-09-laser-ranging)

So sure, laser moon distance measurements were made as early as 1962, but there has been a dramatic improvement in accuracy since corner reflectors were installed.
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Yes, from: 
The lunar reflectors are certainly there and make a massive differenc to the precision of the measurement.




Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 05, 2018, 04:36:33 AM
No problem at all.

The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.

Here is an experiment performed by Dr. Daniel Gezari (CalTech) which poses a huge problem for the laser interferometry theory.

Dr. Daniel Gezari emitted a pulse of photons from a point on earth, bounced those photons off a reflector on the moon, and then recorded the photons’ arrival time at that same point on earth.

https://arxiv.org/vc/arxiv/papers/0912/0912.3934v1.pdf

(https://s23.postimg.org/tsesthw5n/sa5.jpg)

One needs both the orbital and rotational Sagnac to calculate the correct timing, there is no way around that.

The lunar laser ranging experiment is an astronomical version of the Sagnac experiment.

However, G. Sagnac used the fringe-shift method to measure indirectly light travel time;
while Dr. Daniel Gezari uses clocks to measure directly light travel time in both directions.

Shooting light to the moon has to do with the behavior of light like GPS.

The arrival time of light to a receptor is influenced by the motion of
the receptor relative to the earth: this is the basic discovery of G. Sagnac.

This fact has to be incorporated into the lunar laser ranging calculations.

Here is a basic reference which confirms this fact:

Ring-laser tests of fundamental physics and geophysics, G.E. Steadman, 1997, pg 15


Motion of the Earth-Moon system in orbit around the Sun would average out in a two-way measurement, and only appear as a small (∼3 m/s) second-order residual.

Because of the two-way averaging, the orbital Sagnac effect registered is smaller than usual, however it is not 1/365 of the rotational Sagnac effect, in fact even in the diluted form permitted by the two-way averaging calculation, it represents a significant percentage of the rotational Sagnac effect.


THE SMALL (~3M/S) SECOND ORDER RESIDUAL IS THE ORBITAL SAGNAC.


For instance, the Earth’s full 30 km/s orbital velocity along the line-of-sight would produce a second-order residual velocity of only ~3 m/s, so we cannot preclude the possibility that some part of the 8.4 m /s difference between co and c measured here is a real second-order residual due to motion of the Earth-Moon system relative to an absolute frame.

THE 8.4 M/S DIFFERENCE IS THE ROTATIONAL SAGNAC.


Dr. Daniel Gezari:


For instance, the Earth’s full 30 km/s orbital velocity along the line-of-sight would produce a second-order residual velocity of only ~3 m/s, so we cannot preclude the possibility that some part of the 8.4 m /s difference


3/8.4 = 0.357

1/365 = 0.00274

0.357/0.00274 = 130.3


Moreover, Dr. Gezari found something as extraordinary: the speed of light is a variable.

Abstract: The speed of laser light pulses launched from Earth and returned by a retro-reflector on the Moon was calculated from precision round-trip time-of-flight measurements and modeled distances. The measured speed of light (c) in the moving observers rest frame was found to exceed the canonical value c = 299,792,458 m/s by 200±10 m/s, just the speed of the observatory along the line-of-sight due to the rotation of the Earth during the measurements. This result is a first-order violation of local Lorentz invariance; the speed of light seems to depend on the motion of the observer after all, as in classical wave theory, which implies that a preferred reference frame exists for the propagation of light. However, the present experiment cannot identify the physical system to which such a preferred frame might be tied.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: CONCERNED on February 05, 2018, 06:38:36 AM
Ham radio won't help.  Ham radio uses shortwave frequencies -- these bounce off the ionosphere to come back to earth, which is the whole point of shortwave and ham radio.  What you need is ultra-high frequency radio that goes through the ionosphere to reach outer space.  It is ultra-high freq that is used to communicate with the moon landings and the space station and satellites.  Shortwave, by design, won't punch through the ionosphere to get there.  Not so many people have ultra-high freq equipment; it's expensive and since it doesn't bounce off the ionosphere, about the only thing it's good for is outer space.

But with ultra-high frequency equipment several observatories and labs were and still are able to make use of the retroflectors set up by the astronauts on the moon.  These are very precisely made, and very precisely positioned, parabolic reflectors designed that any laser or maser beam from earth that hits them will be reflected back to the exact spot on earth from which it was sent.  These retroflectors have been used to precisely measure the moon's distance from earth.

For clarity here I have to say that Ham radio operators in the USA and Canada are license to use frequencies from long wave to medium wave to short wave to Very high freq (VHF) to Ultra high freq. (UHF) to microwaves.

See this chart please;  http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Band%20Chart%20-%2011X17%20Color.pdf

And there are people experimenting in the entire range. 

Many moon bounce rigs are using UHF or microwave frequencies so they can make high gain antennas that are not too big but some moon bounce has been done in the 2Metre VHF band.


Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: CONCERNED on February 05, 2018, 06:59:09 AM
<big SNIP>

Abstract: The speed of laser light pulses launched from Earth and returned by a retro-reflector on the Moon was calculated from precision round-trip time-of-flight measurements and modeled distances. The measured speed of light (c) in the moving observers rest frame was found to exceed the canonical value c = 299,792,458 m/s  by 200m/s +/-10% just the speed of the observatory along the line-of-sight due to the rotation of the Earth during the measurements. This result is a first-order violation of local Lorentz invariance; the speed of light seems to depend on the motion of the observer after all, as in classical wave theory, which implies that a preferred reference frame exists for the propagation of light. However, the present experiment cannot identify the physical system to which such a preferred frame might be tied.
[/quote]

That low error is an engineers dream!

And the question remains:

How far away is the moon based on numerous moon bounce communications by ordinary technicians running equipment in their basements who hear reflections of their own signal in their radios a second or two after they send the transmission?

If the moon is not really 3000 miles above the earth then what does that say for the rest of our
FE ideas.  (they are not theories yet because they have no equations to define them so they are ideas)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on February 05, 2018, 09:01:20 AM
The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
Ha!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EvolvedMantisShrimp on February 05, 2018, 09:15:33 AM
The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
Ha!

So he is saying that the moon is even further away then.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: robintex on February 05, 2018, 09:18:39 AM
<big SNIP>

Abstract: The speed of laser light pulses launched from Earth and returned by a retro-reflector on the Moon was calculated from precision round-trip time-of-flight measurements and modeled distances. The measured speed of light (c) in the moving observers rest frame was found to exceed the canonical value c = 299,792,458 m/s  by 200m/s +/-10% just the speed of the observatory along the line-of-sight due to the rotation of the Earth during the measurements. This result is a first-order violation of local Lorentz invariance; the speed of light seems to depend on the motion of the observer after all, as in classical wave theory, which implies that a preferred reference frame exists for the propagation of light. However, the present experiment cannot identify the physical system to which such a preferred frame might be tied.

That low error is an engineers dream!

And the question remains:

How far away is the moon based on numerous moon bounce communications by ordinary technicians running equipment in their basements who hear reflections of their own signal in their radios a second or two after they send the transmission?

If the moon is not really 3000 miles above the earth then what does that say for the rest of our
FE ideas.  (they are not theories yet because they have no equations to define them so they are ideas)
[/quote]

A common figure on "Moon Bounce" is approximately 2.5 seconds for the time a signal is transmitted from the earth  to the moon, bounces off the moon, and is received back on the earth. The "one way time" for the signal to either reach the moon or sent back to earth or half that of the total time, or approximately 1.275 seconds. This times the speed of radio waves (186,000 miles per second) gives the distance at 238,150 miles, well within the  criteria for the criteria for the known distances from the earth to the moon.Since the moon's orbit is not perfect, the distances vary from 225,623 miles to 252,088 miles. Average is 238,855 miles.
For more information, see "Earth Moon Earth" (EME).
Or the American Radio Relay League, (   arrl.com )
 
The flat earth idea (not a theory, of course) were made visually from various latitudes , presuming the earth was flat.
This has all been discussed in previous forums.
The earth is known to be a globe and not a flat disc, any way.
Is this website really just a "spoof" ???
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: robintex on February 05, 2018, 09:27:47 AM
The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
Ha!

So he is saying that the moon is even further away then.

This is incorrect. The retro-reflectors were placed on the moon's surface by astronauts on previous moon landings. They have been used by astronomical observatories for more precise measurements, using laser beams,  such as at the McDonald Observatory, to name one.(Another good source to check for more information)

If you have been on this website for any length of time , you get used to sandokhan's copy pasta, double talk, gobbledegook, etc.
LOL. Just disregard it as an attempt to derail a subject. LOL.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EvolvedMantisShrimp on February 05, 2018, 09:56:42 AM
The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
Ha!

So he is saying that the moon is even further away then.

This is incorrect. The retro-reflectors were placed on the moon's surface by astronauts on previous moon landings. They have been used by astronomical observatories for more precise measurements, using laser beams,  such as at the McDonald Observatory, to name one.(Another good source to check for more information)

If you have been on this website for any length of time , you get used to sandokhan's copy pasta, double talk, gobbledegook, etc.
LOL. Just disregard it as an attempt to derail a subject. LOL.

Hehehe. I know they are on the moon. But I found his claim that they were between the Earth and the Moon to be amusing because it doesn't shorten the distance to the moon. It actually lengthens it.

Fun fact: there is only one stable orbital point that would keep a satellite positioned exactly between the Earth and the Moon: the L1 Lagrange point.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 05, 2018, 10:16:52 AM
Fun fact: there is only one stable orbital point that would keep a satellite positioned exactly between the Earth and the Moon: the L1 Lagrange point.

Not if you are using the Biefeld-Brown effect.

Then, ANY orbit below the dome will suffice, or any stable stationary position in the atmosphere can be attained.

Thomas Townsend Brown:

You have asked several questions which I shall try to answer. The experiments in vacuum were conducted at "Societe Nationale de Construction Aeronautique" in Paris in 1955-56, in the Bahnson Laboratories, Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1957-58 and at the "General Electric Space Center" at King of Prussia, Penna, in 1959.

In the Paris test miniature saucer type airfoils were operated in a vaccum exceeding 10-6mm Hg. Bursts of thrust (towards the positive) were observed every time there was a vaccum spark within the large bell jar.

These vacuum sparks represented momentary ionization, principally of the metal ions in the electrode material.

The DC potential used ranged from 70kV to 220kV.

Condensers of various types, air dielectric and barium titanate were assembled on a rotary support to eliminate the electrostatic effect of chamber walls and observations were made of the rate of rotation. Intense acceleration was always observed during the vacuum spark (which, incidentally, illuminated the entire interior of the vacuum chamber). Barium Titanate dielectrique always exceeded air dielectric in total thrust. The results which were most significant from the standpoint of the Biefeld-Brown effect was that thrust continued, even when there was no vacuum spark, causing the rotor to accelerate in the negative to positive direction to the point where voltage had to be reduced or the experiment discontinued because of the danger that the rotor would fly apart.

In short, it appears there is strong evidence that Biefeld-Brown effect does exist in the negative to positive direction in a vacuum of at least 10-6 Torr. The residual thrust is several orders of magnitude larger than the remaining ambient ionization can account for.

In subsequent years, from 1930 to 1955, critical experiments were performed at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.; the Randall-Morgan Laboratory of Physics, University of Penna., Philadelphia; at a field station in Zanesvill, Ohio, and two field stations in Southern California, of the torque was measured continuously day and night for many years. Large magnitude variations were consistenly observed under carefully
controlled conditions of constant voltage, temperature, under oil, in magnetic and electrostatic shields, not only underground but at various elevations. These variations, recorded automatically on tape, were statistically processed and several significant facts were revealed.

There were pronounced correlations with mean solar time, sideral time and lunar hour angle. This seemed to prove beyond a doubt that the thrust of "gravitors" varied with time in a way that related to solar and lunar tides and sideral correlation of unknown origin. These automatic records, acquired in so many different locations over such a long period of time, appear to indicate that the electrogravitic coupling is subject to an extraterrestrial factor, possibly related to the universal gravitational potential or some other (as yet) unidentified cosmic variable.

The experiments performed in Paris several years later, proved that ion wind was not entirely responsible for the observed motion and proved quite conclusively that the apparatus would indeed operate in high vacuum.

Later these effects were confirmed in a laboratory at Winston-Salem, N.C., especially constructed for this purpose. Again continuous force was observed when the ionization in the medium surrounding the apparatus was virtually nil. In reviewing my letter of April 5th, I notice, in the drawing which I attached, that I specified the power supply to be 50kV. Actually, I should have indicated that it was 50 to 250kV DC for the reason that the experiments were conducted throughout that entire range. The higher the voltage, the greater was the force observed. It appeared that, in these rough tests, that the increase in force was approximately linear with voltage. In vaccum the same test was carried on with a canopy electrode approximately 6" in diameter, with substantial force being displayed at 150 kV DC.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sokarul on February 05, 2018, 10:20:15 AM
The Biefeld-Brown effect moves air. See the Ionic Breeze Air Purifier. If it works off ether, why does it affect air?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EvolvedMantisShrimp on February 05, 2018, 10:30:25 AM
Fun fact: there is only one stable orbital point that would keep a satellite positioned exactly between the Earth and the Moon: the L1 Lagrange point.

Not if you are using the Biefeld-Brown effect.

Then, ANY orbit below the dome will suffice, or any stable stationary position in the atmosphere can be attained.

Thomas Townsend Brown:

You have asked several questions which I shall try to answer. The experiments in vacuum were conducted at "Societe Nationale de Construction Aeronautique" in Paris in 1955-56, in the Bahnson Laboratories, Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1957-58 and at the "General Electric Space Center" at King of Prussia, Penna, in 1959.

In the Paris test miniature saucer type airfoils were operated in a vaccum exceeding 10-6mm Hg. Bursts of thrust (towards the positive) were observed every time there was a vaccum spark within the large bell jar.

These vacuum sparks represented momentary ionization, principally of the metal ions in the electrode material.

The DC potential used ranged from 70kV to 220kV.

Condensers of various types, air dielectric and barium titanate were assembled on a rotary support to eliminate the electrostatic effect of chamber walls and observations were made of the rate of rotation. Intense acceleration was always observed during the vacuum spark (which, incidentally, illuminated the entire interior of the vacuum chamber). Barium Titanate dielectrique always exceeded air dielectric in total thrust. The results which were most significant from the standpoint of the Biefeld-Brown effect was that thrust continued, even when there was no vacuum spark, causing the rotor to accelerate in the negative to positive direction to the point where voltage had to be reduced or the experiment discontinued because of the danger that the rotor would fly apart.

In short, it appears there is strong evidence that Biefeld-Brown effect does exist in the negative to positive direction in a vacuum of at least 10-6 Torr. The residual thrust is several orders of magnitude larger than the remaining ambient ionization can account for.

In subsequent years, from 1930 to 1955, critical experiments were performed at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.; the Randall-Morgan Laboratory of Physics, University of Penna., Philadelphia; at a field station in Zanesvill, Ohio, and two field stations in Southern California, of the torque was measured continuously day and night for many years. Large magnitude variations were consistenly observed under carefully
controlled conditions of constant voltage, temperature, under oil, in magnetic and electrostatic shields, not only underground but at various elevations. These variations, recorded automatically on tape, were statistically processed and several significant facts were revealed.

There were pronounced correlations with mean solar time, sideral time and lunar hour angle. This seemed to prove beyond a doubt that the thrust of "gravitors" varied with time in a way that related to solar and lunar tides and sideral correlation of unknown origin. These automatic records, acquired in so many different locations over such a long period of time, appear to indicate that the electrogravitic coupling is subject to an extraterrestrial factor, possibly related to the universal gravitational potential or some other (as yet) unidentified cosmic variable.

The experiments performed in Paris several years later, proved that ion wind was not entirely responsible for the observed motion and proved quite conclusively that the apparatus would indeed operate in high vacuum.

Later these effects were confirmed in a laboratory at Winston-Salem, N.C., especially constructed for this purpose. Again continuous force was observed when the ionization in the medium surrounding the apparatus was virtually nil. In reviewing my letter of April 5th, I notice, in the drawing which I attached, that I specified the power supply to be 50kV. Actually, I should have indicated that it was 50 to 250kV DC for the reason that the experiments were conducted throughout that entire range. The higher the voltage, the greater was the force observed. It appeared that, in these rough tests, that the increase in force was approximately linear with voltage. In vaccum the same test was carried on with a canopy electrode approximately 6" in diameter, with substantial force being displayed at 150 kV DC.

Dome. Lol.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 05, 2018, 10:40:23 AM
None other than your idol, I. Newton made it very clear that he believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES at work: terrestrial gravity and planetary/stellar gravity. One is a force of pressure, the other one a force of rotation.

As such, you need some kind of barrier/shield between the two: that is the dome.

Here is Newton himself telling that terrestrial gravity is due to the pressure of ether:

Here is a letter from Newton to Halley, describing how he had independently arrived at the inverse square law using his aether hypothesis, to which he refers as the 'descending spirit':

....Now if this spirit descends from above with uniform velocity, its density and consequently its force will be reciprocally proportional to the square of its distance from the centre. But if it descended with accelerated motion, its density will everywhere diminish as much as the velocity increases, and so its force (according to the hypothesis) will be the same as before, that is still reciprocally as the square of its distance from the centre'



I. Newton dismisses the law of attractive gravity as pure insanity:

A letter to Bentley: “That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.”


Newton believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES AT WORK:

1. Terrestrial gravity

2. Planetary/stellar gravity

Newton still thought that the planets and Sun were kept apart by 'some secret principle of unsociableness in the ethers of their vortices,' and that gravity was due to a circulating ether.

Isaac Newton speculated that gravity was caused by a flow of ether, or space, into celestial bodies. He discussed this theory in letters to Oldenburg, Halley, and Boyle.


Ionic

Ion wind/excess ions/heavy ions cannot be responsible for the Biefeld-Brown effect:

(https://s1.postimg.org/4p74pzl0xb/bb1.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1no02xq6zz/bb2.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1yatw3n7kv/bb3.jpg)

The calculations indicate that ionic wind is at least three orders of magnitude too small to explain the magnitude of the observed force on the capacitor (in open air experiments).
In the Paris test miniature saucer type airfoils were operated in a vaccum exceeding 10-6mm Hg. Bursts of thrust (towards the positive) were observed every time there was a vaccum spark within the large bell jar.

VIDEO: BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT, balancing a condenser on a beam balance

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/elghatv1.htm (includes three videos of the experiment)

(http://jnaudin.free.fr/images/elghatab.jpg)
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: EvolvedMantisShrimp on February 05, 2018, 10:58:42 AM
None other than your idol, I. Newton made it very clear that he believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES at work: terrestrial gravity and planetary/stellar gravity. One is a force of pressure, the other one a force of rotation.

As such, you need some kind of barrier/shield between the two: that is the dome.

Here is Newton himself telling that terrestrial gravity is due to the pressure of ether:

Here is a letter from Newton to Halley, describing how he had independently arrived at the inverse square law using his aether hypothesis, to which he refers as the 'descending spirit':

....Now if this spirit descends from above with uniform velocity, its density and consequently its force will be reciprocally proportional to the square of its distance from the centre. But if it descended with accelerated motion, its density will everywhere diminish as much as the velocity increases, and so its force (according to the hypothesis) will be the same as before, that is still reciprocally as the square of its distance from the centre'



I. Newton dismisses the law of attractive gravity as pure insanity:

A letter to Bentley: “That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.”


Newton believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES AT WORK:

1. Terrestrial gravity

2. Planetary/stellar gravity

Newton still thought that the planets and Sun were kept apart by 'some secret principle of unsociableness in the ethers of their vortices,' and that gravity was due to a circulating ether.

Isaac Newton speculated that gravity was caused by a flow of ether, or space, into celestial bodies. He discussed this theory in letters to Oldenburg, Halley, and Boyle.


Ionic

Ion wind/excess ions/heavy ions cannot be responsible for the Biefeld-Brown effect:

(https://s1.postimg.org/4p74pzl0xb/bb1.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1no02xq6zz/bb2.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1yatw3n7kv/bb3.jpg)

The calculations indicate that ionic wind is at least three orders of magnitude too small to explain the magnitude of the observed force on the capacitor (in open air experiments).
In the Paris test miniature saucer type airfoils were operated in a vaccum exceeding 10-6mm Hg. Bursts of thrust (towards the positive) were observed every time there was a vaccum spark within the large bell jar.

VIDEO: BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT, balancing a condenser on a beam balance

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/elghatv1.htm (includes three videos of the experiment)

(http://jnaudin.free.fr/images/elghatab.jpg)

Isaac Newton also dabbled in alchemy and bible prophesy.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Badxtoss on February 05, 2018, 11:06:37 AM
It requires explanation within the FE model.
I cannot think of a way.


Original set of Maxwell's equations:

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1918701#msg1918701 (five consecutive messages)

Structure of the potential: Whittaker scalar waves

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1994059#msg1994059 (four consecutive messages)

During the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the Westinghouse exhibit set up by Tesla was visited by Hermann von Helmholtz, the first director of the Physico-Technical Institute of Berlin and one of the leading scientists of his time. When Tesla "asked the celebrated physicist for an expression of opinion on the feasibility of the [transmission] scheme. He stated unhesitatingly that it was practicable." In 1897, Lord Kelvin visited New York and stopped at the Tesla laboratory where Tesla "entertained him with demonstrations in support of my wireless theory."

Suddenly [Kelvin] remarked with evident astonishment: 'Then you are not making use of Hertz waves?'

'Certainly not', I replied, 'these are radiations.' ... I can never forget the magic change that came over the illustrious philosopher the moment he freed himself from that erroneous impression. The skeptic who would not believe was suddenly transformed into the warmest of supporters. He parted from me not only thoroughly convinced of the scientific soundness of the idea but strongly exprest his confidence in its success."


Whittaker proved mathematically the existence of the hidden substructure of the potential of the e/m/g (electrogravitational) waves.

A scalar wave is a bidirectional longitudinal wave = a non-Hertzian wave.

A Hertzian wave is just a ripple in the sea of ether.

Ether = subquark strings = telluric currents

A telluric current is a transversal wave, through which flow/propagate longitudinal waves.

A non-Hertzian wave is just such a longitudinal wave, propagating through the transversal wave.

This is true wireless.

Tesla used exclusively non-Hertzian waves, and none of the Hertzian waves.

The speed of a radio wave is completely and absolutely linked to the density of aether in the atmosphere.
I have hand it to you sandy, that was almost a relevant and coherent post that kind of addressed the question.
Are you saying the timing of the radio waves being bounced off the moon match what RE would expect because they are slowed down by a denser ether?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on February 05, 2018, 11:16:25 AM
None other than your idol, I. Newton made it very clear that he believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES at work
Where, exactly, did he make this "very clear"?  And even if he did, so what?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sandokhan on February 05, 2018, 11:38:56 AM
Are you saying the timing of the radio waves being bounced off the moon match what FE would expect because they are slowed down by a denser ether?

The Aharonov-Bohm effect proved that vector fields are caused by the potential.

None of the RE would expect for an electron, or a neutron, or a photon, to undergo a phase shift in the absence of any forces.

Yet it happens.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263850559_Aharonov-Bohm_effect_for_light_in_a_moving_medium


Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Badxtoss on February 05, 2018, 12:09:52 PM
Are you saying the timing of the radio waves being bounced off the moon match what FE would expect because they are slowed down by a denser ether?

The Aharonov-Bohm effect proved that vector fields are caused by the potential.

None of the RE would expect for an electron, or a neutron, or a photon, to undergo a phase shift in the absence of any forces.

Yet it happens.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263850559_Aharonov-Bohm_effect_for_light_in_a_moving_medium
Sorry but was that a yes or a no?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: JackBlack on February 05, 2018, 01:21:02 PM
No problem at all.
That's right. No problem at all. Now stop lying and pretending there is.


The "retroreflectors" are simply very small satellites (which use the Biefeld-Brown effect to travel above the surface of the Earth) which orbit in front the Moon in order to reflect the laser beams.
Which would require them to be magically int he right spot at the right time to intercept all the signals and would make it appear much closer.
This also prevents a huge problem for you because as you pointed out, it was done before the retro-reflectors were installed. Was that by other satellites?

I'm skipping over your copy pasted crap as you clearly have no idea what you are talking about as it is just incoherent fragments.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: rabinoz on February 05, 2018, 04:37:48 PM
Are you saying the timing of the radio waves being bounced off the moon match what FE would expect because they are slowed down by a denser ether?
The Aharonov-Bohm effect proved that vector fields are caused by the potential.
None of the RE would expect for an electron, or a neutron, or a photon, to undergo a phase shift in the absence of any forces.
Yet it happens.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263850559_Aharonov-Bohm_effect_for_light_in_a_moving_medium
Please show just where in that paper it proves that your aether slows light, radar and radio frequencies down by a factor of over 25,000.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: robintex on February 05, 2018, 06:04:32 PM
Are you saying the timing of the radio waves being bounced off the moon match what FE would expect because they are slowed down by a denser ether?
The Aharonov-Bohm effect proved that vector fields are caused by the potential.
None of the RE would expect for an electron, or a neutron, or a photon, to undergo a phase shift in the absence of any forces.
Yet it happens.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263850559_Aharonov-Bohm_effect_for_light_in_a_moving_medium
Please show just where in that paper it proves that your aether slows light, radar and radio frequencies down by a factor of over 25,000.
One of the replies on that old Moon Bounce thread said something to the effect that "Radio waves slow down on the way to the moon."
I suppose, since if they slow down and therefor would take longer and I suppose this is  the flat earth answer why the hams get 238,150 miles instead of 3,000 miles. I suppose this is  true of the laser beams, too, and why the astronomical observatories get about the same results as the amateur radio operators.

I think some flat earthers should go to McDonald (not the Big Mac place, but the place with the big telescopes on top of Mount Locke)
They might learn something......No!......I don't believe they'd believe anything those evil, satanics, satan worshippers at McDonald would just tell them a bunch of lies such as the world is a globe.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: rabinoz on February 05, 2018, 06:32:30 PM
Are you saying the timing of the radio waves being bounced off the moon match what FE would expect because they are slowed down by a denser ether?
The Aharonov-Bohm effect proved that vector fields are caused by the potential.
None of the RE would expect for an electron, or a neutron, or a photon, to undergo a phase shift in the absence of any forces.
Yet it happens.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263850559_Aharonov-Bohm_effect_for_light_in_a_moving_medium
Please show just where in that paper it proves that your aether slows light, radar and radio frequencies down by a factor of over 25,000.
One of the replies on that old Moon Bounce thread said something to the effect that "Radio waves slow down on the way to the moon."
I suppose, since if they slow down and therefor would take longer and I suppose this is  the flat earth answer why the hams get 238,150 miles instead of 3,000 miles. I suppose this is  true of the laser beams, too, and why the astronomical observatories get about the same results as the amateur radio operators.

I think some flat earthers should go to McDonald (not the Big Mac place, but the place with the big telescopes on top of Mount Locke)
They might learn something......No!......I don't believe they'd believe anything those evil, satanics, satan worshippers at McDonald would just tell them a bunch of lies such as the world is a globe.
What's this "3,000 miles"? As far as I can gather Sandokhan thinks that the sun and moon are 12 to 15 km high.
It would seem as though aircraft might have to dodge them!

I've never heard of a collision yet, but seriously, there is a flat-earth video claiming a plane was seen flying out of the sun!
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: robintex on February 05, 2018, 08:38:49 PM
I am awaiting a report from the Texas Aggies team. They should be able to give us some accurate figures from their landing on the sun and their survey of the sun. Of course they will be doing this during the night by moon light.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sokarul on February 06, 2018, 05:39:26 PM
None other than your idol, I. Newton made it very clear that he believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES at work: terrestrial gravity and planetary/stellar gravity. One is a force of pressure, the other one a force of rotation.

As such, you need some kind of barrier/shield between the two: that is the dome.

Here is Newton himself telling that terrestrial gravity is due to the pressure of ether:

Here is a letter from Newton to Halley, describing how he had independently arrived at the inverse square law using his aether hypothesis, to which he refers as the 'descending spirit':

....Now if this spirit descends from above with uniform velocity, its density and consequently its force will be reciprocally proportional to the square of its distance from the centre. But if it descended with accelerated motion, its density will everywhere diminish as much as the velocity increases, and so its force (according to the hypothesis) will be the same as before, that is still reciprocally as the square of its distance from the centre'



I. Newton dismisses the law of attractive gravity as pure insanity:

A letter to Bentley: “That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.”


Newton believed that there are TWO GRAVITATIONAL FORCES AT WORK:

1. Terrestrial gravity

2. Planetary/stellar gravity

Newton still thought that the planets and Sun were kept apart by 'some secret principle of unsociableness in the ethers of their vortices,' and that gravity was due to a circulating ether.

Isaac Newton speculated that gravity was caused by a flow of ether, or space, into celestial bodies. He discussed this theory in letters to Oldenburg, Halley, and Boyle.


Ionic

Ion wind/excess ions/heavy ions cannot be responsible for the Biefeld-Brown effect:

(https://s1.postimg.org/4p74pzl0xb/bb1.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1no02xq6zz/bb2.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1yatw3n7kv/bb3.jpg)

The calculations indicate that ionic wind is at least three orders of magnitude too small to explain the magnitude of the observed force on the capacitor (in open air experiments).
In the Paris test miniature saucer type airfoils were operated in a vaccum exceeding 10-6mm Hg. Bursts of thrust (towards the positive) were observed every time there was a vaccum spark within the large bell jar.

VIDEO: BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT, balancing a condenser on a beam balance

http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/elghatv1.htm (includes three videos of the experiment)

(http://jnaudin.free.fr/images/elghatab.jpg)
Do you actually know anything about thrust? Why would you look at one atom or electron? It's a combination of all of them. Please note this before you claim air cannot be responsible.


Edit: How can you be so dumb? You parade around thinking you are so smart and then you use the force from one atom? Do that to spacex's rocket. OMGZOR they can't work.

Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sokarul on February 07, 2018, 09:54:31 AM
Figure it out yet?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: sokarul on February 09, 2018, 08:35:03 AM
If I’m wrong I’m wrong. Still waiting.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: rabinoz on February 09, 2018, 05:14:21 PM
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Ionic

Ion wind/excess ions/heavy ions cannot be responsible for the Biefeld-Brown effect:

(https://s1.postimg.org/4p74pzl0xb/bb1.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1no02xq6zz/bb2.jpg)
(https://s1.postimg.org/1yatw3n7kv/bb3.jpg)

The calculations indicate that ionic wind is at least three orders of magnitude too small to explain the magnitude of the observed force on the capacitor (in open air experiments).
In the Paris test miniature saucer type airfoils were operated in a vaccum exceeding 10-6mm Hg. Bursts of thrust (towards the positive) were observed every time there was a vaccum spark within the large bell jar.

If you really believe that the Biefeld-Brown effect is genuine, but not being exploited, Why don't get off your backside and make a fortune exploiting it yourself?

If you really believe that Nikola Tesla's Device to Harness Cosmic Energ. is genuine, but not being exploited, Why don't get off your backside and make a fortune exploiting it yourself?

Yes I know, SandyBot is all talk and no action.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Idkimstupid on July 07, 2019, 12:53:28 AM
Am I the only one that sees it this way , if light slows by any significant amount , no antenna built on earth will work in space, c/f=lambda ,as basic as this is, this is how you build an antenna , so if you change c, then f and lambda will also change and would not work on the specified frequency, the VSWR would become high, and the antenna wouldn’t resonate at its designed fundamental frequency, now as the telemetry track on the satellite shows the VSWR is within spec, and the antenna does transmit on the frequency it was designed for then c has not changed by any significant amount.
 Ergo c is 299792458m/sec, the metre is 1/c and the frequency of the transmitter is on the specified frequency + or - 0.5ppm. Then the moon is where it should be,384,400km on average. Or approx as was recorded on my last contact 1272ms each way from ground to moon and back.
 Where is this 3000mile /5000km distance that you speak of?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: rabinoz on July 07, 2019, 03:22:32 AM
Ergo c is 299792458m/sec, the metre is 1/c and the frequency of the transmitter is on the specified frequency + or - 0.5ppm. Then the moon is where it should be, 384,400km on average. Or approx as was recorded on my last contact 1272ms each way from ground to moon and back.
Where is this 3000mile/5000km distance that you speak of?
The Flat Earth excuse for the 2.5 sec plus round trip for the moon bounce pales into insignificance compared to the time for radar echoes from Venus.

Here is a reply to the then Site Garbage Collector (AKA Custodial Engineer ;D) on this topic:
SpJunk, you assume that radio signals travel the same speed all the time because that is what you were told to believe.  You never consider that perhaps RF signals may slow down while traveling through the aetheric whirlpool, making the moon much closer.
So radar signals are slowed down so much by it takes 2.5 secs for a 10,000 km round trip to you moon! Wow, that's a bit slow, but,

Take a gander at:
Quote
To See the Unseen, - Chapter Two - Fickle Venus
On 10 March 1961, a month before inferior conjunction, the Goldstone radars were pointed at Venus. The first signals completed the round-trip of 113 million kilometers in about six and a half minutes. During the 68 seconds of electronic signal integration time, 1 of 7 recording styluses on Goldstein's instrument deviated significantly from its zero level and remained at the new level.
From: SP-4218 To See the Unseen, Chapter Two - Fickle Venus (http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4218/ch2.htm), full document: SP-4218 To See the Unseen. (http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4218/sp4218.htm)

Now we know that even on the Flat Earth model, Venus at its closest approach to must be considerably closer to Earth that the sun. After all, we regularly get transits of Venus across the sun.

But a radar signal from Earth to Venus and back, even when not at conjunction took about six and a half minutes.

You are surely not going to claim that your "Aetheric Whirlpool" is slowing radar signals so much that it takes 6 1/2 minutes for them to travel less than 10,000 km.
That is completely and utterly ridiculous, so please come up with a plausible explanation - one that even YOU can believe!
They just ignore contrary evidence and carry on as usual.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: robintex on July 07, 2019, 08:23:24 AM
Sandokhan , are you saying ham radio operators are all liars in finding the moon is  238,150 miles from the earth ?
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: Idkimstupid on January 08, 2020, 03:34:45 AM
Re ham radio uses HF waves ,amateur radio enthusiasts use any frequency from 1.8MHz through 25GHz, earth or space we communicate
 The speed of light,if it changes by any significant amount no antenna on or off the earth would resonate at its fundamental frequency,try building an antenna.
Title: Re: Ham Radio and Moonbounce
Post by: JackBlack on January 08, 2020, 01:38:59 PM
Re ham radio uses HF waves ,amateur radio enthusiasts use any frequency from 1.8MHz through 25GHz, earth or space we communicate
 The speed of light,if it changes by any significant amount no antenna on or off the earth would resonate at its fundamental frequency,try building an antenna.
The issue is where the speed of light changes.
If it is constant on Earth, but then changes a few dozen km's above Earth, due to a different medium, then that will have no effect on your antennae on Earth.
It would only be a problem for space based antenna, which sandy would claim don't exist.