This site is for sharing information on the construction and use of my system. Site started August 2002. I will be posting more information and wavs from the receiver. This information is free.

This is the official site for information on my system, also known as Frank's Box, or a Ghost box. Simply another method of supplying "raw" audio that spirits and other entities can use to form voices. Raw audio is a sound source that contains bits of human speech, music and noise. Another convenient source of raw audio is a radio with it's tuning swept across the entire band, AM, FM, or shortwave. The sweep can be random, linear, or even done by hand.

In 2000 I tried the old white noise method of obtaining EVP, and it worked! After a while of using this, listening to the recordings with the volume turned up load made my ears ring too much, so I started looking for other methods on the web. I quickly found EVPmaker. This program functions by taking a wave file of human speech, chopping it up, and playing it back randomly, while recording the results. It works extremely well. I did have one "problem". I was getting messages relayed from spirits that seemingly could not use the computer method. I was wondering what else I could use in the summer of 2002, and the idea of the box, or a voltage tuned radio swept with a random voltage, popped into my mind, practically fully formed. I had used these voltage tunable radio modules removed form older digital car stereos as AM dx receivers or for listening to distant AM broadcast stations. For this reason, I think the box idea was just my own subconscious mind providing a solution to a problem. There is however a box component that was inspired by telepathic "guidance" from out side. That is the echo chamber, as I was instructed to use a box for the audio.

In the last few years it was discovered that other radios could be used, in fact many digital radios are in fact analog radio using voltage tuning with varactor diodes. It was discovered by members of the group EVP-ITC that other sweep modes could be used, such as linear, and manual sweep. Another researcher discovered how to "hack" various radio shack radios producing instant boxes. Paranormal Systems also began producing their Mini Box, a version of the Ghost box. The results were the boxes becoming available, and well known rapidly.

I continued trying to make a home made radio, as Radio Shack has discontinued the ones used for the hacks, and what I was using as a tuner module. In June 2009 I tried the MK 484, TRF chip, a very simple radio with a very small foot print. This radio works very well and is much less noisy than the superhetrodyne (modern receiver) used in previous designs. While there is a limited number of MK484 chips available, there is a replacement, the TA7642.