Defeating HDTV converter box mind control.

By Marklar
12.160 MHz
March, 04, 2009

To defeat the new HDTV digital converter box you essentially need to create an RF shield around it. How do I know? Well, I have an associate’s degree in electronics and 16 years of experience in the field of electronics manufacturing. If an electrical or electronics engineer tells you I got something wrong in all of this, listen to them because I know what I’m talking about but they know it better.

So, back to that RF shield. More precisely we’ll be talking about building an extremely simple Faraday cage around your HDTV converter box here. This is a fancy way of saying a grounded metal box around the converter box. The more conductive the metal is the better so copper would be great but thin sheet steal would work fine as well. Aluminum would not be good but better than nothing. A plastic box with a ferrous coating would work as well with no need for grounding but this is a bit on the prohibitively expensive side for many. Ferrous = some kind of ferrite (a type of iron that absorbs magnetic field energy).

So, the grounded metal box acts like a radio antenna turning the magnetic field that is being generated to an electrical energy that is harmlessly shunted (channeled) to ground via the ground wire effectively killing it. So the box has to be connected by a wire to that third prong hole on an outlet. This is Earth ground. In a home your copper plumbing pipe makes an excellent Earth ground as well.

I haven't seen one of the new converter boxes personally but I assume there is an infrared receiver window on it for the remote. You'd have to leave a hole in the box for the remote control to operate as well as a hole to run the cabling through it but there won't be enough signal leaking out of such holes to do any damage.

In the field, electronics can be made undetectable by military detection equipment (at least 80% of it) in this way as well. Just drive a 2 or 3 foot chunk of copper plumber’s pipe, or a copper rod into the literal ground and solder your ground wire to that for your Earth ground. This technique won't work for a broadcasting CB or shortwave radios of course but you'd be defeating the whole point of the device anyway. My opinion is listen, never broadcast except in an emergency and go OLD school using runners/couriers as a pony express of sorts. If you live in an area under control of friendly forces you can relax a bit but radio silence is always prudent when unnecessary.

This advice for masking “in the field” electronics is only relevant when in a rural area or truly out in “the sticks” where a radio signal of any kind is a distinct beacon. In the city or even a suburban area a piece of electronics equipment is already somewhat masked from detection by virtue of being “lost in the crowd.” A piece of electronics equipment powered and operating in the middle of a forest, however, is like painting a bull’s eye on your forehead.

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Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on October 14, 2009 at 9:13am: Truth is that my apartment does not have any HDTV's here in the apartment. I got one in the bedroom that is a 27 inch 80's TV and a Magnavox TV from the 90's. The one in the kitchen was made in 1988. As I am typing this none of them are turned on or have a V-Chip or bullcrap in them. The TV I had a V-Chip did not last since 1997 it got thrown in the dumpster.

Comment by WTRH-AM-AE on October 14, 2009 at 9:09am: We should call this Hypnotic Deception Television better get the old TV's back. Cause Hypnotic Deception Television is not true high definition!!

Comment by Jeff on May 11, 2009 at 4:44pm: With a high speed internet connection there's simply no need to pay for cable. ANY movie can be downloaded and watched, rewound, watched again, burned or discarded. Almost every TV show can also be watched. We bought a really nice wide screen HD digital television and disconnected the cable several months later because we just never turned it on and even on the rare occasions we did turn it on it was to watch movies I can download for free on the internet. Why pay for cable?

Comment by Zensaber on May 11, 2009 at 3:57pm: I am pretty sure it is just a converter. This is my opinion and you are entitled to your own.

Comment by truth on May 11, 2009 at 3:43pm: Ok, you called names, and made assumptions.
So what do you have to offer this site or even this discussion?
Do you offer us anything besides your opinions ?
How about some evidence or FACTS to back up your bold assertions.

Comment by rick astley on May 11, 2009 at 3:28pm: Oh wow, people actually believe this shit? Yes, the government is trying to control your minds through cable boxes. It absolutely blows my mind to read shit like this, you give real conspiracy theorists a bad name. Don't you guys step back for a minute to realize how stupid your thought process is? You'll believe any conspiracy theory someone writes on the internet, YOU'RE the brainwashed ones.

Comment by Marklar on March 5, 2009 at 2:25am: I doubt the converter acts as the reciever but it may. In that case you would just need to make sure antenna is outside. This is in relation to the article just previous to this one on my blog. That information is unverified but generally feasible in concept.

Comment by Marklar on March 4, 2009 at 10:33pm: "Eight more days til Halloween...Halloween...Halloween...Eight more days til Halloween...Sil...ver...Shamrock..."

Comment by ProphecyofBorg on March 4, 2009 at 9:30pm: Wait a minute...........I've been brainwashed!!!!

Comment by ProphecyofBorg on March 4, 2009 at 9:29pm: Wait just a minute! I love TV. It makes me happy with all the crime, hate, devastation, disasters and all the depressing news.