Here’s a new video from a recent live call featuring Eric Dollard, Adrian Marsh PhD, Hakasays, and several callers asking questions. We covered a lot of ground in this discussion – from the live earth signal reception system now streaming at epdlabs.org to the novel audio amplifier project, the legendary “Glom Locker” full of vintage surplus parts, and some fascinating observations about what’s happening with solar activity and earth signals.
Earth Signal Reception – Now Live
One of the main topics Eric covered was the seismic streaming system that’s now live. This is the culmination of over $300,000 and 10 years of infrastructure development at the EPD Laboratories facility in Nevada.
The system uses a 4,800 ft antenna section (about 5/6 of a mile) running from pole 26 to pole 49, with transmission lines going to a shack at pole 54. That’s over a mile of wire total, with two conductors – so basically double that length when you add it all up.
What you’re hearing when you tune in are the electrical signals between the ionosphere and the interior of the earth (about 5 miles underneath your feet, as Eric explains). The pops and clicks are lightning strikes. But the really interesting part is when those strikes start to make pitches – chirps and squeaks at very high frequencies that are responses to the lightning creating standing wave situations in the earth.
Eric explained that when things start getting stressed inside the earth, those pitches drop down in frequency and sound more like “breaking beer bottles” and chirping noises. You also get frequency sweeps which are waves propagating through the magnetic field of the earth. The more coherent and musical the sounds become, the more likelihood there may be seismic activity brewing – though as Eric notes, it’s more complicated than that simple correlation.
The system intercepts the electrostatic displacement current between the ionosphere and the interior of the earth through a mutual capacitance configuration. It’s a remarkable setup.
Listen live at: epdlabs.org/seismic-streaming/
Note: you may need to set “original sound for musicians” in your audio settings because the pops and clicks can get filtered out otherwise as “interference.”
The “Glom Locker”
We also showed some footage of the famous Glom Locker – an intermodal shipping container filled with thousands of rare vacuum tubes, cases of capacitors, and all kinds of vintage surplus parts. Much of this was acquired by Steve Hills (the director of EPD Laboratories Inc) over decades in the surplus business, along with contributions from Mark McKay.
My friend Jari Karvonen spent about a week helping organize some of this during a recent trip, but we really only scratched the surface. The importance of this collection cannot be overstated – as Eric pointed out, modern components simply don’t work like the old stuff. Brand new electrolytic capacitors from top name brands had so much effective series resistance they weren’t even functioning as capacitors. The new stuff just doesn’t cut it.
When you’re building one-of-a-kind equipment like the Navy TBM transmitter setup or the earth signal amplifiers, you have to glean eBay for the last of the real components from the 50s and earlier. It’s actually cheaper in the long run, and you know it’s going to work.
The Novel Audio Amplifier Project
Eric has been developing a completely novel audio amplifier design that’s unlike anything else in the audio world. This isn’t a voltage gain amplifier like virtually everything else on the market (including all solid state amplifiers). Instead, the transformers themselves amplify – the tubes just add power.
The design extends the original Macintosh concept of equal loading in the cathode and anode with bifilar winding, taking it to multi-stage transformer configurations that are also multi-stage amplifiers. The transformers are coupled with the vacuum tubes into something like a traveling wave amplifier.
The development path goes from small triodes to 6AS7G tubes (which have high transconductance but people use them as voltage amplifiers and get nowhere), then to the Western Electric 300 type triode, and finally to the 811 and 812 power triodes for a 300 watt per channel final version.
The commercial version will be based on a Western Electric 143A theater amplifier design – we found one on eBay from Japan for $27,000, which gives you an idea of what the authentic units go for. This design uses currently available tubes like the 6SN7 and 6550.
The key innovation is focusing on eliminating intermodulation distortion rather than just harmonic distortion. As Eric explained, it’s intermodulation distortion that creates phantom signals – beat frequencies between higher frequencies that don’t actually have any real existence. That’s especially critical when amplifying earth signals where you don’t want artifacts.
Custom transformers and chokes are currently being engineered by a well-known company to go on the prototype panels I cut while I was down there. Once we have a working proof of concept, the goal is to produce a limited edition of maybe 10 rack-mount units to raise funds, then potentially set up an audio company to bring a commercial version to market.
And here’s the kicker – there won’t be a single component made in China in the whole thing. All vintage quality parts sourced from eBay.
Observations on Solar Activity and Earth Signals
One of the more sobering parts of the discussion was Eric’s observations about what’s happening with solar and earth electrical activity. Steve McGreevy and others who have monitored these signals for decades have reported that the earth just seems to be getting quieter and quieter. The solar cycles have been getting weaker and weaker, and quite possibly the next solar minimum will be the biggest dip we’ve seen since this stuff has been recorded.
Even when the earth got hit by a significant coronal mass ejection recently, nothing showed up on the antenna – normally around midnight it would go into “complete war” during such an event. So the whole sun/earth electrical system seems to be in some kind of declining phase. As Eric noted, this could be a sine wave 25,000 years in length – about one aeon. It’s happened before during things like the dark ages grand minimum.
This makes the work of capturing and recording these signals now even more important – so we have historical data for when activity eventually picks back up.
What’s Needed to Continue This Work
Eric was candid about the funding situation. About $50,000 has been used up getting to what you see here, and significant donations haven’t come in for quite a while. The next big expenses include:
- Another NV Energy power connection at the mine: $15,000
- Contractor to put up toll entrance cable on the right of way: $14,000
- Labor costs for specialized workers to advance the projects
The donations are what keep the motor running – whether it’s big contributions like the $10,000 someone donated to buy the 5 miles of brand new copper wire, or smaller amounts that add up over time.
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ESTC 2026 – Meet Eric in Person
Speaking of Eric Dollard – the 13th Annual Energy Science & Technology Conference is happening June 24-28, 2026 here in Spokane, Washington. Eric is scheduled to present on “The Alexanderson Ariel & Bolinas Alexanderson Antenna” and “Gangrene Energy” (with live demo).
This is your chance to meet Eric in person, ask questions, and experience live demonstrations you won’t see anywhere else.
Only 19 in-person seats remain out of 55 total. And here’s the thing – this is the same weekend as Hoopfest (the world’s largest 3-on-3 basketball tournament), so hotels are already filling up.
Super Early Bird pricing of $347 (save $100) ends February 28th.
Other highlights include:
- Adrian Marsh PhD presenting on “The coMra Effect” and “A Foundation for Esoteric Science”
- Hakasays demonstrating “Tesla’s Extra Coils”
- Justin Miller’s status report on the EPD Long Line Facility
- Davy Oneness on gravity wave detectors and John Bedini’s B.A.S.E. processor
- Carmen Miller presenting a 2-phase AC motor allegedly built by Tesla himself
- 23+ presentations total with 11+ live demonstrations
Get all the details and tickets at: emediapress.com/energy-science-and-technology-conference/
Explore Eric Dollard’s Work
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