Dog Emitting RF?

One thing I failed to mention is that I just had to touch the dog, there didn't have to be motion. I can see if I'm rubbing the fur that a static charge would be built up but if my hand is stationary wrt to the dog then how does that create a static charge?

You should send a notice to the dog's manufacturer saying that he is in violation of FCC Part 15.

There may be an exception of the dog was sold only for use in commercial and/or industrial situations.

Tim.

there was a signal null like when you stop in a null and get noise on your FM radio in the car, you pull up 1 foot and you are out of the null. If you move the baby monitor transmitter or receiver one foot the noise will also probably stop. By chance, your position and the dog created a signal null.

Mark

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Does your bed have metal box springs, that might be acting as an antenna to the microwaves being emitted from the stealth black helicopter hovering over your neighborhood, charging up your body capacitance, which then gets discharged through the dog?

Great, now both I and my dog have to sleep with our tin foil hats on!

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Sounds like static electricity causing effects similar to lightning noise in an AM radio

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martin

Hello Mark,

That's most likely. To test it James could place a large metal pail where his lab usually sits and then "pet" the pail. Should cause a similar effect. Of course, his dog will be very puzzled about petting a pail. If I was that lab I'd bark at it ;-)

Regards, Joerg

What a pity you didn't include a hyphen in the title.

Dog-emitting RF would have been even more fun to explain. [Thinks: Radio 3 broadcasting a Bark recital?]

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Everybody knows that a dog emits an Asynchronous Redundant Fractal Format Signal (ARFFS).

(best i could do this time of day)

I think the folllowing ruff explanation may help you collar the problem :

"The Barkhausen criteria states that for a positive feedback system, oscillation will occur when the loop gain (product of forward gain and feedback gain) has a phase shift of zero (180 degrees for negative feedback systems) and a magnitude of unity. Genital licking should not be consdered as feedback, but rather as a loopback activity. "

Rob

Hi there,

Static, dog, fur, cat in the follow-up -- Makes me think about static electricity... How about air humidity at that time, is it summer "over there", with dry air, and your dog's fur charging up as he moves? Just a thought...

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Probably simple, it's a static "brush" discharge,

We acquired two cats (sisters) a while back,"Buffy" and "Sparky" My wife declared that "Sparky" was a daft name for a cat, so she became "Missy" But as soon as the dry weather set in, we discovered why she was called "Sparky" She is a menace to go near! and I have heard crackling on the radio when brushing her. Funnily enough "Buffy" does not display the problem.

Barry Lennox

This is rather going to add to your puzzle rather than solve it.

I grew up in the a mountainous countryside in central Greece where thunderstorms and lightning is relatively common. Two of the rules for protection in case of thunderstorms were

1. Do not seek shelter under a tree.
2. Keep your dog away.

I've always thought of (2) as a local superstition. Your experience makes it rather more puzzling.

All I can suggest is that you tentatively replace your dog with a cat and see what happens -:) If your "experimental setup" is suitable for a reproducible experiment, you may finally resolve this superstition.

cheers,

Euthymios Kappos

No, it's because the lightning and thunder will scare them, and they could panic and run away.

Cheers! Rich