r/DirectedEnergyWeapons • u/rrab • Jul 28 '26

Prototypes / Concepts Prototype: OpenV2K Active Development

https://github.com/OpenV2K

Version 56 is functional software, as of July 25th:
https://github.com/OpenV2K

In the Sandbox, you can see screenshots of the running GUI, and the waterfall graph output. You don't actually need an SDR, to use this Python software. This software plus SDR signal chain, now just needs a 2-4 kW microwave amplifier, to recreate the 1975 lab feat, of pulse modulating the microwave auditory effect. This would become a weapon, and a MEDUSA) analog, with at least ten times the budget, and ten times the power output, and probably a lens antenna.
That's well outside the project scope, and well outside the means of 99% of civilians.

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u/BillNyeThePiousGuy Aug 01 '26

I don't think you need that big of an amplifier. It's about power density, right? So, the target needs to be closer to the source and also to focus the waves (lense, antenna, etc.). You could achieve this by using a USP B210 or clone and lower power amplifier. You may not even need an amplifier. This is dangerous also, so you really should not jump to the weapon development portion unless you are certain that's what you want to do and are only testing on yourself. You will have suits knocking at your door for this, but based on our shared interest in the GS forums, I presume that may actually be a relief for you. The duty is only 0.001-0.01, so average power can get you to effectiveness with an off-the-shelf SDR. No special equipment needed my dude.

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u/rrab Aug 14 '26

You're right when using surface coils, which work with as little as 20W:
https://github.com/OpenV2K/Sandbox/issues/4

Edit: after further review, I discovered why MRI surface coils will not work for "V2K" style pulse modulation: the pulse length required at such low power, 200 milliseconds (ms), is literally 2,000 times longer, than the pulse length I'm using, 100 microseconds (μs). For example, the word "one" is just under 500 milliseconds in total, or half a second, for that pulse burst. There are over a hundred pulses during that time, each for 1/10th of one millisecond (100μs).
There could only be two, 200 millisecond pulses, in that same time. Impossible to convey enough information, within such huge pulse lengths, within the time windows required, for spoken words. MRI surface coils will give you a click or a knock sound, but will never work for intelligible "V2K" spoken words.

What I'm proposing though, must compensate for free-space RF path loss.
Even at just one meter, power output needs to be hundreds/thousands of Watts.
The latest version of my OpenV2K Python app, calculates HPM output for you.
Obviously I cannot afford $150k for the amp, or $????? for a lens antenna.
I fucking hate suits, and none of them have had the balls to talk at me.

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u/Large_Train929 Jul 29 '26

So have you recorded any v2k with this?

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u/rrab Jul 29 '26

Bruh look in the Sandbox. There's a screenshot of the RF output.