New Technology is Old:
Through-The-Earth-Communication
Just for those who scoff at conspiracy theories and cover-ups the following reports are about something we all know and love called New Technology, but underground radio transmission is a hundred years old as we see left and below. This gives support to my ongoing research into the theory that there has been no new technology since the 1930’s.
innovation-america.org: April / May 2006 Volume 4 Number 2
Mine Fatalities Could be Reduced By Erica Sullivan
In light of recent mining tragedies, many mining companies are re-energizing their efforts to explore new technologies that provide wireless communication and tracking capabilities. One of the technologies these companies may soon be looking at is the Underground Radio, a novel device that would enable two-way communication through hundreds of feet of rock or earth. The Underground Radio was originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory by physicist David Reagor. The Underground Radio uses very low frequency (VLF) http://www.innovation-america.org/mine-fatalities-could-be-reduced
ELECTRICAL
EXPERIMENTER
January, 1918
Ground Telegraphy in War
H. GERNSBACK
bizjournals.com: New ‘underground radio’ technology improves emergency capabilities
Aug 2, 2006, 12:43pm MDT Updated Aug 2, 2006, 12:43pm. Los Alamos National Laboratory says Vital Alert Technologies Inc. has signed two exclusive license agreements with the lab for Underground Radio?, a technology that will provide two-way voice and text capability known as Through-The-Earth-Communication? for first responders, rescue and security teams, underground miners and the public in critical emergency situations.
Underground Radio, originally developed by LANL for the Department of Energy, is being commercialized by Vital Alert Technologies for use by emergency crews in urban centers and by the mining industry…”The new technology is a breakthrough in digital and wireless communications,” says Joe Miller, president and CEO of Vital Alert, in a news release. “As a pre- and post-emergency warning, evacuation and rescue communication system, it solves radio frequency failure problems and eliminates systems’ downtime complications in difficult environments such as subways, tunnels, skyscrapers and mines. The new technology will also greatly enhance the ability of mining companies to protect their workers.”… Underground Radio uses very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic radiation and digital audio compression technologies to carry voice and text data. The VLF signals also can transmit tracking and location data for radio users in case they are unable to respond.
http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2006/07/31/daily14.html
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/18682.php
Wiki: On-going developments based on initial research undertaken in Australia by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) after the 1994 mine accident and given further impetus by the investigations into the Sago Mine disaster the PED System is undergoing further development to provide two-way through-the-Earth communication capability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through-the-earth_mine_communications
James H Rogers
At Rex research.com: we find James H. ROGERS electrical experimenter and his patented Underground & Underwater Radio from around 1917 Static-free Reception & Transmission Underwater & Underground.
From the Electrical Experimenter magazine (March 1919), pp.787-789, 834, 835 ~ “America’s Greatest War Invention” written by H. Winfield Secor
An invention which has been termed the greatest American war achievement is the Rogers underground and sub-sea radio system. The Rogers system does away entirely with aerial wires, and it is only a mater of months now before all aerial wire systems the world over will be pulled down. Wonderful things have been accomplished by the new system, chief of which is the total elimination of static and the increase of the loudness of received signals, which is often as high as 5000 times the usual strength. Interference, too, is done away with almost entirely now. The Rogers invention is of tremendous importance and revolutionizes our previous ideas on wireless to an extent never dreamt of before. We urge every one interested in radio to read the accompanying authoritative article which discloses the full technical data on the new system for the first time in any periodical.
US Patent # 1,220,005 Wireless Signaling System (March 20,1917) James H. Rogers & Henry H. Lyon http://www.rexresearch.com/rogers/1rogers.htm#wx319
Note: the addition of the word digital, something also quite old but impractical in past times due to the need for complex transistor circuitry. All is explained on the transistor page.
Underground radio and Nikola Tesla
altered-states.net: The mind conditioned by Hertzian aerial radio concepts has trouble grasping the idea that signaling can take place without any above-surface antenna, totally through the ground. James Harris Rogers, taking a cue from Tesla, circa World War I, built a radio system in which both sending and receiving antennas were sunk completely into the ground or submerged in bodies of water. He found this system far more effective and far less vulnerable to interference than any aerial radio Signal strength has been said to be 5,000 times stronger
The military is on to this, as evidenced in the Navy’s ELF and by a U. S. Air Force project underway called Ground Wave Emergency Network. GWEN is a low-frequency communications system designed for used during a nuclear war. The network will have a cross-continent series of 600-foot diameter underground copper screens connected to 300-foot towers reminiscent of Tesla’s Wardenclyffe.
Among the advantages of the system is its invulnerability to the effects of the electric pulse sent out by nuclear blasts. Such a pulse fries at one stroke any and all solid-state electronics within its extensive range. (Strong electric vibrations from a Tesla coil or magnifying transmitter have a similar effect on solid state and will scramble or disable such circuitry temporarily or even dud it permanently.) It’s revealing that for last-ditch doomsday communications, the government reverts to Tesla’s grounded radio. http://altered-states.net/barry/tesla/
http://teslaradio.com/pages/wardenclyffe.htm
alixus 
Your page on Through The Earth communication is a reminder to me of experiments a neighborhood friend and I conducted when we were teenagers, about 50 years ago. We were both studying together to obtain our ham radio license and in that journey we experimented with all things electrical and dealing with communications. One of our successful experiments was Through The Earth communications, although we had no idea what to call it back then. We simply hammered pieces of pipe into the ground about two or three feet deep and about fifty feet apart. Wires from each ground probe then went to the output of an audio amplifier/radio/tape-recorder. As far as a hundred or more feet away a simple loudspeaker connected to two ground probes ten or twenty feet apart could hear the audio without needing any amplifier. This receiver was completely passive although the volume was quite low.
We further found that we could communicate with each other between our homes, several blocks away, with similar ground probe antennas and he using his guitar amplifier and me using my Voice of Music tape-recorder. We simply kept interchanging the ground probe connections between the amplifier’s inputs and outputs according to whether we wished to receive or send signals.
Now I see several patents for similar systems not much different than what we had devised on our own when we were young and curious.
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Hi Gary
It’s good to hear from you, thanks for the post.
You remind me of my school days back in the fifties when we used to do these things. I remember drawing a diagram of through the earth com’s. Just four ground rods and a resistor between each one. Never tried it out though, probably because I knew it would work.
I played around with some of the first transistors. Take a look at my “Transistor: Undeserved Nobel Prizes” page and let me know what you think. Always glad to get comments.
cadxx
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