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Space weather sound receiver

Vlf Whistler
Vlf-3 Kit

This very low frequency radio reciever kit is sold by Nasa's Inspire project - a group based around the study radio atmospheric phenomena, aka whistlers. These pulses occur in a frequency range audible to us humans (1 to 30 kHz) - and they sound quite mysterious an interesting. Listen to some samples - Spaceweathersounds.com

VLF-3 kit on Flickr

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Posted by: bbot on May 16, 2008 at 9:50 AM

Presumably you're talking about the radio frequency when you say "frequency range audible to us humans", not the audio frequency.

Posted by: ryan on May 16, 2008 at 9:57 AM

Just begging.....

Wow.. that is just begging to be bent.

Posted by: Collin Cunningham on May 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM

yup!

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