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Rife: Pad vs. Plasma Tube Instruments - Confused about this subject?

This article should set some things straight.


How did Dr. Rife's instruments work?

     In this article we will take a look at the way Dr. Rife's instruments worked. We will look at the evidence by quoting the sources such as Dr. Rife, John Crane, Dr. Couche, Dr. Lara and Bertrand L. Comparet, Rife's attorney in the 1938 Beam Ray Corporation trial, and later John Crane's attorney for Life Labs' trial in 1961. Hopefully anyone who reads this article will have a better understanding about Dr. Rife and the methods he used. Our goal is to try to give people information so that they can make a more informed decision. We have tried to explain in laymen's terms so that anyone can understand. We hope this will be helpful. 


What is a Ray tube and how does it work?

     Dr. Rife used a ray tube with his instruments. A ray tube was made out of glass, quartz or Pyrex and was filled with a noble gas or a mixture of noble gases. Dr. Rife used different mixtures but finally ended up using helium and this was because it was said to last longer in the tube before it would need to be re-gassed. The ray tube was connected to the instrument by two wires. These wires were connected to two metal bars that went into the glass tube and had round disks connected to the end of them. One disk was straight and the other one was on a 45 degree angle. This gave it a directional effect towards the patient. Dr. Rife stated that the ray tube was "a directional antenna". Because the scientific technology behind ray tubes had already been perfected, Rife worked with that technology. Bertrand L. Comparet, Rife's attorney, stated in an interview: "Now, the original instrument had a tube, like an X-ray tube. That was the way in which Rife developed it. You see, all the X-ray work necessarily was done with a beam projected from a tube. So, Rife worked on the same basis". Dr. Rife didn't need to invent this technology but only had to make some adjustments for it to work the way he wanted it to. 
     There are a few drawbacks or limitations to ray tubes that need to be understood. Most people don't understand these limitations, but when you start to work with engineers and the laws of physics, you soon find them out. First, ray tubes are terribly inefficient. Only about 5% of the energy that you put into a ray tube comes out. Dr. Rife's instrument built by Beam Ray Corporation of the 1930's and Life Labs of the 1950's put about 460 watts into the ray tube, but only about 20 watts came out of the tube. That is a loss of about 95% of the power that was put into it. Second, of the 20 watts that come out of the ray tube, you have to divide it by four (because of the laws of physics on signal loss) for every foot that you move away from the ray tube. So at one foot away from the ray tube you only have 5 watts. At two feet you only have 1.25 watts and at 3 feet you only have about 1/3 of a watt. This is important to understand because Rife and the doctors that used his equipment put the ray tube within a few inches of the patient's body. Because of the laws of physics this is the way it is. All the wishing in the world will not change this law. 
      Having built an AZ-58 ray tube instrument (a 1950's Rife instrument made by Life Labs) from schematics that are on Stan Truman's site, http://www.rife.org, under AZ-58 research information. This instrument is almost the same as the original 1930's Beam Ray Instrument found at http://www.scoon.co.uk/Electrotherapy/Rife/BeamRay/index.htm, except it doesn't have any harmonics in the carrier frequency and it uses square wave audio frequencies. We tested it for penetration and found that at about 32 inches from the body full penetration was lost. From the tests made it takes at least 1.25 watts to penetrate all the way through the body. Many ray tube instruments built today recommend that you stay from 3 to 6 feet away from the ray tube. These instruments only put about 125 to 250 watts into the ray tube. At 125 watts you only get 6 watts out of the ray tube and at one foot only 1.5 watts to the body. If one sits 3 to 6 feet away from the ray tube there will not be enough power to penetrate the body. Since Dr. Rife always tested his instruments for penetration, I believe he understood these limitations. Some people use a long cylinder ray tube that stands straight up. These put out in 360 degrees with no directional effect and are called omni-directional. This means that the 6 watts that come out of the ray tube are spread out in 360 degrees. One can see that there is not enough power penetrating the body to ever do any good. One should put a reflector around the tube so that it will become directional and be effective.


Is it necessary to use a ray tube to put out the frequencies? 

      It often amazes me how many people think unless it has a ray tube it is not Rife! We will now take a look at the evidence that a pad instrument works as well as a ray tube instrument. Rife said, "But the principle of this thing is basically built on a coordinative vibration. Just like one tuning fork pitched to the C. Another one here-you strike this one and this one vibrates." Dr. Lara asked, "What kind of vibration is it? Electromagnetic vibration" Rife answered, "we won't say magnetic we will say electronic frequency vibration. The same as put out on a broadcasting station for the radio. The same thing you know, only it's transmitted into a tube. And the tube acts as a partial directional antenna you see." (CD 11, track #4 of the Rife audio CDs) A broadcasting station uses a metal antenna; therefore, a metal antenna will work also. Metal antennas are more efficient than a ray tube. It takes less power to get the same output. When John Crane, one of Dr. Rife's business partners in the 1950's, came to understand this he eliminated the ray tube and used pads or hand cylinders to apply the frequencies. Comparet stated this in his interview: "Now, Crane said "Well now look, Rife himself admits that no matter how much tube and ray ,and so on, you have, you can't get any results unless you've got the right frequency. Therefore the real clue to the thing is the frequency and not the means by which you deliver it". Comparet also said, "Well, Crane originally was, with more modern techniques, duplicating the Rife machine, tube and all for early experiments. And, as I say, he came to the conclusion that you just weren't getting anything additional by the use of the tube. If you didn't get the frequency, you could run the rest of it indefinitely and nothing happened. So, what Crane did, he got an audio frequency generator. Now, you could make them up yourself by an awful lot of work, or you could buy a Heathkit audio frequency generator and get all the same results with a lot less time and effort. So he was using these Heathkit generators. Now, instead of a beam projected from a tube, a ray, he simply had two wires, I think they were aluminum knobs on the end of them, which would be used, they would be put on the body in such a position that the natural flow of the current from one to the other would go through the diseased area, and he got astonishing results." These pads or hand cylinders act just like an antenna when in contact with the body. But only if you have an RF carrier frequency. Without a RF carrier frequency the audio frequencies will only go through the connective tissue and not the cell. We will cover this later in this article. 
     Some have thought that it was the light from the ray tube that made it work. But the evidence doesn't seem to support that either because Dr. Couche, when he visited Rife's lab with some other men, said: "There was fifteen inches of concrete on the floor so as to stop any earthquake shocks from interfering with his work. And in his laboratory upon the ground floor he had a microscope with a slide on it that this group of people and myself looked at. And this was not stained, there was no killing of the bacteria on it. It was just a fresh culture of the colon bacillus…..Well we all went down under the stairs into the cellar right immediately under the microscope upon the floor above us and the Rife machine was down in underneath there under the culture in the cellar probably I suppose about ten feet away, eight or ten feet away. And he turned the machine on and gave it less than a half minute's frequency for the colon bacillus…..Then he turned the machine off and we all came upstairs and waited for ten or fifteen minutes. And presently he came back to his microscope and he said, 'well gentlemen come and look at the slide now.' Well to my astonishment the bacilli all had been killed and they were all stacked up on the slide. " (CD 8, track #16 of the Rife audio CDs) There is no possible way the light from the ray tube could have penetrated that fifteen inch concrete floor. It is obvious that the light didn't make any difference but that it was the frequencies that were broadcast through the ray tube. It is easy to see that there is more than one way to deliver the frequencies. With the poor efficiency of the ray tube, it could be easily replaced with a metal antenna which would broadcast like a ray tube as long as it was directional. A pad instrument comes in contact with the body and with an RF carrier it turns the body into an antenna and works on the same principle as a metal antenna or ray tube. People have been using pad instruments without an RF carrier for almost 45 years now and have had good results. But to work on Dr. Rife's principles an RF carrier frequency is necessary. In duplicating Rife's work, John Crane made changes, some good and some bad. We will discuss these changes later.


History of Rife's instruments and changes made

     There is some confusion about exactly what Dr. Rife did in the early years, from 1920 to about 1933. This is because very little information has survived. His lab notes detailing 26 conditions and their frequencies have been preserved. The earliest information we have shows that he used frequencies ranging from the audio range to just over 17 MHz. He used many different carrier frequencies at this time. People are beginning to experiment with these frequencies and are claiming very good results. 
The operation of the instrument that used audio frequencies built after 1934 by Philip Hoyland and Beam Ray Corporation of the 1930's as well as those built in the 1950's and early 1960's by John Crane and Life Labs are understood. We will be looking at these instruments and how they worked. Much of the information we currently have has come from the only known original 1930's Beam Ray instrument which has been repaired. Using an oscilloscope, Rife's original frequencies, which had been lost, were recovered. 
In order to follow the evolution of Rife technology, we will first examine the 1930's Beam Ray Corporations ray tube instrument and then the ray tube instrument and the pad instrument built by Life Labs in the 1950's.

1930's Beam Ray Corporation instrument

1) Used a ray tube.
2) Used a single 4.6 MHz sine wave carrier frequency.
3) Modulated sine wave audio frequencies onto the 4.6 MHz carrier frequency.
4) Input about 460 RF watts into the ray tube. Output about 20 RF watts out of the ray tube.

1950's Life Labs ray tube instrument

1) Used a ray tube.
2) Could change between 2.2 and 4.8 MHz sine wave carrier frequency.
3) Modulated square wave audio frequencies onto the sine wave carrier frequency. 
These audio frequencies were the 1930's frequencies used in the Beam Ray instrument lowered by a factor of 10 by John Crane.
4) Input about 460 RF watts into the ray tube. Output about 20 RF watts out of the ray tube.

1950's Life Labs pad instrument (without ray tube)

1) Used round disks that came in contact with the body. Later changed in the 1960's to hand cylinders or foot pads.
2) Had no RF carrier frequency.
3) Used the square wave frequencies lowered by John Crane.

     There has been a lot of controversy about whether Rife used audio frequencies in his early instruments. The discovery of the only known original 1930's Beam Ray instrument and the reading of its frequencies has gone a long way in ending this controversy. Philip Hoyland, who developed all of Rife's instruments from 1934 to 1938, built these instruments which used audio frequencies. In 1938, Philip Hoyland tried to gain control of Beam Ray Corporation and oust Rife. Dr. Rife had assigned all of his rights to the frequencies and the technology to the corporation. With him removed, Hoyland would have owned all of Rife's technology. In the trial transcripts a great deal of information about these instruments and the frequencies used was revealed. We will quote this trial and other sources to show that Rife did use audio frequencies from 1934 on. We believe that this information will prove to any reasonable mind that Rife did indeed use audio frequencies.
On CD 8, track #3 of the Rife audio CDs Dr. Couche, who was present at the 1934 clinic sponsored by Dr. Johnson and the University of Southern California where 16 out of 16 terminally ill cancer patients recovered, said this about the frequencies used on the patients: "They gave him a treatment of the Rife frequencies which are in the auditory band". Here Dr. Couche tells us that the frequencies used during the 1934 clinic were audio frequencies. 
In the 1938 Beam Ray trial Philip Hoyland tried to convince everyone that the instruments and the audio frequencies were his. He even admitted that he had changed the fundamental principles of the Beam Ray instruments by putting harmonics into the carrier frequency. By making this change, which was not that significant, he hoped to say that it was all his idea. His contradictions made him out to be the despicable character that he was. One important piece of information that came to light during the trial was that Rife said the audio frequencies came from him. Rife with the help of others including Lee DeForest built all his own machines until 1934. Dr. Johnson wanted portable instruments built because Rife's original instrument filled a whole room. At that time, Philip Hoyland was contracted to build these smaller instruments. When Hoyland was asked by Comparet, the attorney for Beam Ray, where he got the frequencies he said, 

Hoyland: "They were taken off the last machine that was built by Dr. Rife. I transferred them from one machine to another." 

At another point during the trial the transcript reads as follows:

Comperet: "That first machine that you built under your agreement with the University of Southern California was built by you under Rife's supervision?"

Hoyland: "That's the way the contract read."

Comperet: "Did you violate the contract?"

Hoyland: "I was left to build the machine my own way."

Comperet: "In June of 1935 was when you made an agreement with the (transcript missing words) medical research to build a Rife Ray machine, you did build it soon after that?"

Hoyland: "Yes."

Comperet: "You had an agreement with them that all work was to be done under Dr. Rife's direction?"

Hoyland: "That's what the contract called for."

Comperet: "Did you do this work without getting the frequencies from Dr. Rife?"

Hoyland: "I calibrated the machine according to the bacteria."

Comperet: "What specifically did you do that constituted this recalibration?"

Hoyland: "I used a standard oscillator against his machine to see what frequencies he was using."

Comperet: "He set his machine and you measured his frequencies?"

Hoyland: "Yes."

Comperet: "Did you make any memorandum of these particular frequencies?"

Hoyland: "Yes, I gave Dr. Johnson and Dr. Rife a list of them."

Later during the trial Dr. Rife was asked about where the frequencies came from:

Judge Kelly: "When you constructed this Beam Ray machine you had a dial representing the frequencies or harmonics?"

Rife: "We had many dials on the original machine."

Judge Kelly: "Is that the machine Mr. Hoyland got the frequencies from?"

Rife: "Yes, he took them off that old machine." 

Rife knew that the machines were built using harmonics but didn't stop the manufacture of them because they were effective as long as they were kept calibrated. 

Comperet: "Has the Plaintiff ever informed you that the machines that he designed and built for the Beam Ray were not operating on the same frequencies as your own?"

Rife: "They were supposed to be operating on the same…with harmonics."

     Comparet also in 1961 had a deposition taken from Rife for a court trial that involved Life Labs. In that deposition Dr. Rife stated, "Initially I worked with loose couplers to get an audio oscillation and then with the use of transmitters, I tried to balance the audio and modulate the audio on a carrier wave to transmit the audio energy but I found that both the audio and the audio transmitted through a tube as an antenna worked equally as well in a painless and harmless method to human tissue."
Also in an affidavit filed in the State of California court of appeals for the ninth circuit, Rife said, "I started this research in 1913 and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in finding a method to isolate and positively identify cancer and other types of virus and also to kill all types of bacteria, virus, fungi, and worms with safe audio frequencies from frequency instruments."
It is easy to see from the trial, Dr. Couche, Rife's statements and the recent analysis of the 1930's Beam Ray instrument (http://www.scoon.co.uk/Electrotherapy/Rife/BeamRay/Analysis/index.htm) that Rife used audio frequencies along with his earlier frequencies which were much higher.
The audio frequencies used in the Beam Ray instrument were found to be sine wave frequencies. Dr. Rife only used sine wave frequencies in all his instruments; even the carrier frequency was a sine wave.
     All of Rife's ray tube instruments used carrier frequencies. The Beam Ray instrument used one fixed carrier frequency. Audio frequencies will not broadcast; therefore, they were modulated upon the carrier frequency so that they would penetrate the body where they would devitalize microorganisms. In laymen's terms, modulation is piggy-backing one or more frequencies on another frequency. The frequencies travel together but still remain separate and distinct. Many instruments built today do not use a carrier frequency even though Dr. Rife's did. One of the important and fundamental principles of his instruments was the carrier frequency. If Rife could have removed the carrier frequencies from his instrument and gotten the same results, I believe he would have. As it is, Dr. Rife never removed the carrier frequency from any of his instruments. If a person wants to try and get the results that Rife had then a carrier frequency should be used. 
     Some people say that audio frequencies in a pad instrument without a carrier will only travel along the skin of the body and won't penetrate it. In scientific studies on Bioelectric Impedance Analysis in the body it has been shown that audio frequencies will enter the body but will only travel in the connective tissues around the cells. Also in these scientific studies it has been shown that it takes at least 1 megahertz to penetrate and go through a cell. This is why it is so important that a carrier frequency be used. A virus can enter a cell. Audio frequencies without the carrier will only work in the connective tissues but with a carrier frequency the audio frequencies can enter the cell where the virus is located. These kind of scientific studies and there importance were not understood by John Crane in the 1950's and 1960's. Rife's instruments always used a carrier of at least 2 megahertz or more. 
These are Rife's original sine wave audio frequencies that were used in the Beam Ray instrument for the various disease organisms. One would want to make sure that any instrument that they purchased could produce these frequencies and modulate them on a sine wave carrier frequency.
 
BX (carcinoma) - 21275
BY (sarcoma) - 20080
Treponema - 6600
Staphylococcus - 7270
Streptothrix - 7870
Tuberculosis (rod form) - 8300
Tuberculosis (virus) - 16000
B. Coli (filterable virus) - 17220
Typhoid Virus - 18620
Tetanus - 1200
Typhoid Fever (rod form) - 6900
Pneumonia - 7660
B. Coli (rod form) - 8020
Streptococcus - 8450
Worms - 2400

Life Labs 1950's and 1960's ray tube instruments

     In 1950 John Crane met Dr. Rife and eventually, the two of them and John Marsh formed a company called Life Labs. By 1953 they began rebuilding the earlier ray tube instrument from schematics supplied by Dr. Gruner. These schematics were not complete and it took a while to get a working ray tube instrument. One mistake Rife made was never making sure he had schematics for any of the instruments that he built or the instruments he had others build. Fortunately, Rife did keep records of all his frequencies. Dr. Rife said in the 1961 deposition that he gave these frequencies to John Crane in 1950.
     The ray tube instruments built by Life Labs were almost identical to those built by Beam Ray Corporation except that the Life Labs instruments had no harmonics in the carrier frequency. The Life Lab instrument is the instrument that I built. Some people have asked why this instrument is not built today and sold since we have the schematics and know how to build it. The reason is it will not pass FCC regulations. This is because the ray tube emits to much stray RF. Plus remember the parts are antique electronic parts and hard to get. Crane made a few positive changes with the advancement of electronics. He put into this instruments a variable capacitor on the output to the ray tube. This made it so he could tune the ray tube for greater output but it also made it possible to pick any carrier frequency between 2.2 and 4.8 MHz. Dr. Stafford, who used Life Labs ray tube instruments, used three different carriers; 2.4, 3.5 and 4.6 MHz in his work. When I talked to Dr. Stafford he told me that it didn't matter which one he used. He found that they all worked the same. 
     John Crane was almost totally in control of the company because he was putting up all the money. Rife was the director of research but Crane disregarded some of Rife's suggestions. Crane liked to have things done his way and did not listen to Rife on many occasions. At first he must have built the instruments the right way, but apparently by 1957 he had made some changes. Those who were around during this time have said that Rife would often shake his head and walk off. Crane, like Philip Hoyland, began to make changes thinking that he knew best. The first change he made to the ray tube instrument was instead of using sine wave audio frequencies he used square wave audio frequencies on a 50% duty cycle. Rife didn't like harmonics and since square waves produce a lot of harmonics, he would never have approved of this change. Rife liked a pure frequency without harmonics. Over the years, it appears that the square wave frequencies haven't negatively affected the effectiveness of the instruments. In fact, in many cases they seem to work better. Rife said that the organisms were killed by coordinative resonance. A sine wave has almost 100% resonance because it is on all the time. But a square wave at a 50% duty cycle is on for 50% of the time and off for 50% of the time. This means half the resonance. Crane should have used a 90% duty cycle because it would have given him more resonance. A 90% duty cycle means the frequencies would have been on for 90% of the time and off for only 10% of the time. 

     The next change Crane made concerned the frequencies themselves which was probably the worst thing he could have ever done. He divided the frequencies by 10 and used these lower frequencies in his instrument. It is believed the reason that he did this was to avoid government regulations that existed at that time but don't exist today. This change was discovered when the 1930's Beam Ray instrument was evaluated in early 2002. Crane never told anyone that he had lowered the frequencies. Taking the frequencies down by a factor of 10 means that the instrument was not running Rife's original frequencies. Dr. Rife's frequencies were tested under a microscope and in tissue before being used. Crane's frequencies worked in many instances; however, they never achieved the kind of results that the higher frequencies did on cancer in the 1930's instruments. People are just now beginning to use Rife's original higher sine wave frequencies and are reporting better results compared to Crane's frequencies. Below are Crane's frequencies.
 

BX (carcinoma) - 2127 or 2128 
BY (sarcoma) - 2008
Treponema - 660
Staphylococcus - 727
Streptothrix - 784
Tuberculosis (rod form) - 803
Tuberculosis (virus) - 1552
B. Coli (filterable virus) - 1552
Typhoid Virus - 1862
Tetanus - 120
Typhoid Fever (rod form) - 712
Pneumonia - 776
B. Coli (rod form) - 800
Streptococcus - 880
Gonorrhea - 712


Life Labs 1950's and 1960's pad instruments

     By 1957, John Crane began building instruments without a ray tube. Earlier in this article Comparet was quoted as saying, "Now, Crane said "Well now look, Rife himself admits that no matter how much tube and ray ,and so on, you have, you can't get any results unless you've got the right frequency. Therefore the real clue to the thing is the frequency and not the means by which you deliver it". Crane replaced the ray tube with a type of pad that they developed which came in contact with the body. From the documented information we have it was the high cost ($3500) of building ray tube instruments that caused him to look at doing things a different way. Also the ray tube was expensive to build and it could break very easily. He had many problems with them. I don't believe Rife ever had a reason to look at doing things differently. Crane did! He didn't have the kind of money to spend that Rife did. Necessity is the mother of invention! He used a Heathkit function generator to produce the frequencies. These Heathkit function generators had no built in carrier frequency on which to modulate the audio frequencies. Therefore, the carrier frequency was no longer used. Though Crane achieved great results with these instruments, he did not use a carrier frequency. What would have been the results if he had used Rife's original audio frequencies and a carrier frequency? From what we have previously discussed in this article, the carrier frequency was very important. Rife would never have approved of using an instrument without a carrier. The positive part of using a Heathkit function generator in this way was that they were inexpensive ($200) and a lot more people could afford one. For this we owe John Crane a measure of gratitude. Crane proved that the frequencies worked the same whether applied through a ray tube or pads. 
     We know that Rife was angry with Crane over some of his changes because he expressed it to Comparet during his 1961 deposition. Comparet said, "And I asked Rife, because I thought Rife would certainly say that the way Crane was working on it then was still using the Rife principal, but he indignantly denied it". At this time Crane was working on both the ray tube instrument and the pad instrument. Rife said that both instruments were not using his principles. 
These are the two significant changes that Crane made to the ray tube instrument. Number one: Sine wave changed to square wave. Number two: Lowered the frequencies by ten times. Just these two changes made it so Rife said it was not working on his principles. 
     The pad type instrument had four differences. Number one: No carrier frequency. Number two: Used the square wave frequencies. Number three: Used the lowered frequencies. Number four: No ray tube. Out of these four changes the removal of the ray tube was the least significant because as we quoted earlier "Rife himself admits that no matter how much tube and ray, and so on, you have, you can't get any results unless you've got the right frequency. Therefore the real clue to the thing is the frequency and not the means by which you deliver it". The other three changes most likely were the ones that angered Rife. However, Crane's innovation with his pad instrument did prove that the ray tube could be removed and still produce the same results. This made it possible for more people to have access to Rife's technology. Today all the frequencies in the audio range which Rife found to kill microorganisms can be produced by any function generator. In order to have a carrier frequency a second function generator will have to be obtained or you will have to purchase one that has a built in carrier frequency. Also you will have to have an oscilloscope to make sure the frequencies are properly modulated. 


Summary

     As we have researched Rife's technology and looked at the way his instruments worked it is obvious that there are operational specifications which need to be met in any instrument in order for it to work according to Rife's principles. First, there needs to be a balanced circuit that will allow the frequencies to be delivered properly. Second, there needs to be a carrier frequency, preferably within the range that Rife used. Third, it doesn't matter whether you use a ray tube, metal antenna or pads because they will all work. Fourth, the ray tube or antenna that is used needs to be directional and put close to the body the way Rife used his ray tube. The pads come in contact with the body so this is not a problem. Fifth, the instrument needs to be able to run Rife's original frequencies with the ability to use both sine and square wave frequencies modulated on a carrier frequency. Hopefully, by using Rife's original frequencies people will begin to see the results that Rife achieved. Only time will tell if this will be the case.

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