Dowsing now

[dowser]

I started running into frequency problems years back, when I was using my Omni-range Lrl.
After a while the Frequencies generated became less Dowsable.
If I tested the frequency number generated with a multi-meter, the number read was the number generated, as all generators do.
Everything was the same, the machine was and is fine, but the Dowsing signal is gone, almost gone, but too weak to use, like the past.
So, what has changed? If the frequencies and generators didn't change.
It has to be frequency interfearance at the quantum space time connection, what else can it be? Nothing else fits.
Lack of resonation, because of interference, means lack of Molecular quantum connection, makes for bad Dowsing..
We are Dowsing things right next to us, not distances away. So the frequency interfearance isn't in the distances.. It's at our side..
No different from when I Dowse the Sun at night, crossing below the earth.
I can Dowse the Sun through our planet to a clock, like it's right next to me.
Dowsing it before during and after midnight, as if it's a ball rolling at my feet.
It's not distant away, everything we signal is right next to us..

 

[dowser]

I taught this person how to turn his phone into a LRL, because the country he lives in doesn't have Amazon, nor any way to order a signal generator..
Even the phones generated frequency, got to week to enhance or resonate..

 

[WEF_Insect_Burger]

You're missing my point. I'm not talking about physics or the scientific method (though both would be great arguments), I'm talking about simple actual results. There is a grand total of one person on these forums who I have seen post actual results of dowsing. Maybe he has a skill, or maybe he got lucky. Either way -- he got an actual real result. That's what I'm questioning here -- whether all this chatter about how dowsing works (or fails to) has produced any real hold-it-in-your-hand results. I don't need to know or care how it works, only whether it does. The things I call pseudo-science are what dowsers are doing to pretend to understand how it works -- they are the ones pulling up nonsense like quantum drains, frequencies, NMR averaging, and other such things. They throw out all these terms to make it sound like there is scientific basis and proof for this, when there just isn't. It's disingenuous. If dowsing works for you -- great! Do it! Find something! If if doesn't work, maybe before spending your life researching what you might be doing wrong, first consider the possibility that it just doesn't work, at least for you.

I get you, there are little to zero postings of finds from dowsers on here, only empty claims + endless theories 100% - truth in that statement, ive been trying to get these theoretical internet forum dowsers to do some practical dowsing in the real word, but they arent biting, its become the echo chamber theory-factory of excuses giving birth to exponentially more theories. In the mental asylum that exists as internet forums in 2026, everyone can speak freely, so this is what we've got, lots of claims, nonsense, disinformation, skeptics, real information will be very rare in this noise.

The so called dowsers arent even dowsing, anyone saying even the most basic steps of dowsing will be ridiculed by the guru dowsers, the last thing the gurus of dowsing want is anyone picking up some rods.

Im a proponent of basic dowsing experiments, and some of the most difficult or rigorous ones, and i stand by my opinion anyone
can do it, because ive done the experiments with lots of people, to determine if this is a special ability as dowsers commonly claim.
Its not a special ability, any kid with 5 minutes of training in dowsing protocol will outperform the wizards and gurus of internet dowsing.

As for the NMR frequency stuff i dont know much about, im not that advanced and did not verify it for myself, i can only conclude that the poster confirms he cant bend metals with his mind as per his posts, as there is some self-limiting beliefs and nothing will convince him he can bend metals without exerting physical force. Again any ordinary kid will bend metals in the palm of his hand in less than 5 minutes when instructed correctly like its nothing, demonstrating nobody is too special.

Problems start when the theories + excuses pile up, with no scientific basis of any kind, we have claims of special DNA from the 'master race' of chosen ones who require obedience to their jealous ghost entity, you see where im going, we are officially there where dowsing abilities are not even special skills anymore, it now supposedly requires you to be of the same chosen DNA as the infamous science teacher from the island.

Thats why i say those who are really curious about dowsing, find proper dowsers, and experiment yourself, it costs less than $1.

 

[DizzyDigger]

In the mental asylum that exists as internet forums in 2026, everyone can speak freely, so this is what we've got, lots of claims, nonsense, disinformation, skeptics, real information will be very rare in this noise.

You've written quite a bit of verbiage regarding who you believe can dowse, and who
can't, or is faking it all. So far, not a shred of evidence to back up a single claim, yet
you still feel confident enough in your knowledge and abilities to disparage others efforts.

If you can't provide some verifiable proof of your own knowledge and experience,
then you're words are empty, and you're no better than any another pebble in the
great gravel pit of life. Please, share with us what you have garnered from the "real
information" that you have..and it's not about "bending metals", it's about finding
them.

 

[dowser]

I get you, there are little to zero postings of finds from dowsers on here, only empty claims + endless theories 100% - truth in that statement, ive been trying to get these theoretical internet forum dowsers to do some practical dowsing in the real word, but they arent biting, its become the echo chamber theory-factory of excuses giving birth to exponentially more theories. In the mental asylum that exists as internet forums in 2026, everyone can speak freely, so this is what we've got, lots of claims, nonsense, disinformation, skeptics, real information will be very rare in this noise.

The so called dowsers arent even dowsing, anyone saying even the most basic steps of dowsing will be ridiculed by the guru dowsers, the last thing the gurus of dowsing want is anyone picking up some rods.

Im a proponent of basic dowsing experiments, and some of the most difficult or rigorous ones, and i stand by my opinion anyone
can do it, because ive done the experiments with lots of people, to determine if this is a special ability as dowsers commonly claim.
Its not a special ability, any kid with 5 minutes of training in dowsing protocol will outperform the wizards and gurus of internet dowsing.

As for the NMR frequency stuff i dont know much about, im not that advanced and did not verify it for myself, i can only conclude that the poster confirms he cant bend metals with his mind as per his posts, as there is some self-limiting beliefs and nothing will convince him he can bend metals without exerting physical force. Again any ordinary kid will bend metals in the palm of his hand in less than 5 minutes when instructed correctly like its nothing, demonstrating nobody is too special.

Problems start when the theories + excuses pile up, with no scientific basis of any kind, we have claims of special DNA from the 'master race' of chosen ones who require obedience to their jealous ghost entity, you see where im going, we are officially there where dowsing abilities are not even special skills anymore, it now supposedly requires you to be of the same chosen DNA as the infamous science teacher from the island.

Thats why i say those who are really curious about dowsing, find proper dowsers, and experiment yourself, it costs less than $1.

If Comedians can put up with it, so can I..

 

[signal_line]

Yes, Tim Williams has helped me many times with dowsing research and went out of his way to help me build one of his devices for plotting metal detector hits. His EFNMR software was my first experience in calculating dowser frequencies for individual elements for given magnetic field strengths (but he never revealed how he calculated frequencies for compounds, so I invented my own method, which is what I tentatively am calling "averaging"). His using wave lengths to calculate frequencies makes sense to me, but I already have methods of deriving frequencies (I prefer sweeping through sound wave frequencies on my PC, so I can just sit at the table until I get a reaction; the whole process takes less than 15 minutes). Even if you get a frequency for a "fresh" target, it probably does not work to pinpoint an "aged" target (something in the ground for several years), and the only proof is to dig every target, which I do. An "aged" target essentially projects a detectable "magnetic image" or "copy" of itself, so that the real target nearby becomes undetectable (every time you dig the "false target", it jumps to a new location, but it virtually never goes to the real location); I suppose most dowsers don't know this, because they get discouraged and give up too soon. The biggest mistake dowsers make is not marking their buried practice targets to the very inch, because you won't realize if it moves a few inches or several feet. Only by knowing exactly where a target should be can you have a chance of find out why you missed. Tim's ring theory reminds me of what my predecessor called "auras", which is a circle of energy around a target whose radius gives the approximate depth.

I did some work measuring target size. I put out two different sized targets nearby each other. The signal line will hit between the two but closer to the bigger target depending on the size ratio. Sort of like a balance scale—the signal line is right at the fulcrum point.

I know Bob Fitzgerald’s equipment have a TRN Target Reflection Nullifier. The real target is in a northerly direction from the reflection.

I have found there are many nodes along the signal line. Much like the rings Abbe Mermet discussed. So it’s possible people are hitting in the outer rings and not checking to see if there are more further down the line. If you see my photo by my name there are many magnetic lines and polarities around a target. Nobody has ever commented about this.

 

[Carl-NC]

Officially anything which violates the laws of physics is "not demonstrable to work", and the scientists and parrots will repeat that like bots for all eternity, believing their scriptures are the final proof.

It's obvious that you don't understand how science works, or you do and your sole purpose is to discredit it. In science there are no scriptures, everything is fluid and open to new evidence. But that is the barrier: evidence. Not just your "personal evidence," but evidence that can be seen by anyone, anywhere. That's where dowsing (and spoon bending) fail.

I'm talking about simple actual results.

It is true that, in treasure hunting, dowsing seems to have a pretty miserable track record. I particularly look at the hoards found in British farm fields, where non-disclosure is not an option. The overwhelmingly successful methods are metal detecting and plowing (blind luck). Dowsing doesn't seem to even register.

Compare that to groundwater dowsing, where dowsers seem to successfully find groundwater with decent reliability. The question is, why do dowsers have broad success with finding groundwater, but little success in finding buried treasure? The answer is key to understanding how dowsing works.

 

[Merlin-Midas]

I spent a lot of time Dowsing and testing Frequencies.
My little DDS frequency generators don't get to Ghz.
I didn't want to buy an expensive generator to Dowse higher Frequencies, Ghz and above, but I was searching for a stronger frequency, and higher cycles was a place to look.
So I did something never know to everyone else.
I instruct my phone to generate any frequency I want, as many numbers as I can type, my phone can generate.
If you down load a frequency app, they don't generate resonating Frequencies, they sound good but don't Dowse, I don't know why.
But our cell phones are computers, and you can override the running frequency, if you know how..
I don't like dialing up any unknown number, some are up in the illegal ranges.
I haven't yet discovered a stronger frequency than others of the type in elements.
Meaning my Hz Gold Frequencies are the same strength as my Mhz Gold Frequencies..
The difference I have seen is using a Master key frequency in the background of any other test.
My main choice is 13.5 khz, or 13,500 Hz, whichever you run.
Has anyone found a stronger than average frequency number?

According to Hieronymus, Eloptic energy has no attenuation, so it seems the strength of the dowsing response relative to frequency has to do with how precise the frequency matches the target, more than how high the frequency or amplitude is. For example, if you keep doubling a known frequency (to find new harmonics), the dowser response tends to fluctuate between stronger, weaker, stronger, weaker, and so on, which seems to suggest the test frequency is converging and diverging with the best frequency. If you want to bring your frequencies into the Terahertz range, then convert it to colors of light, which is what I do with my medical applications (for very effective results). I also found I can modify the energy states of targets with combinations of specific colors of light, which is another way of simulating a "false target" (forcing it to give a false location, even when you are looking right at it). You can use the audio out on a cellphone (positive and negative clips) with a Frequency Generator App, or you can use the speaker as a resonator, but the polarity of the speaker magnet (as well as the material of the casing) may sometimes require you to put the cellphone facing up or down. Another little trick is to save the frequency on your PC as a wave file, convert it to an mp3, then play it on a little mp3 player and loop it (this is good for when you want a very small FG for treasure hunting incognito).

 

[Merlin-Midas]

I did some work measuring target size. I put out two different sized targets nearby each other. The signal line will hit between the two but closer to the bigger target depending on the size ratio. Sort of like a balance scale—the signal line is right at the fulcrum point.

I know Bob Fitzgerald’s equipment have a TRN Target Reflection Nullifier. The real target is in a northerly direction from the reflection.

I have found there are many nodes along the signal line. Much like the rings Abbe Mermet discussed. So it’s possible people are hitting in the outer rings and not checking to see if there are more further down the line. If you see my photo by my name there are many magnetic lines and polarities around a target. Nobody has ever commented about this.

I was wondering about your profile pic. Several years ago, I did extensive testing on frequencies for gold relative to target size using photos of things ranging from a small piece of gold to King Tut's sarcophagus to a giant Buddha in Thialand (project unfinished), and I discovered a frequency we used for "Black Sand" (which has microscopic gold in it) did not work for 1 ounce gold, but it worked for King Tut's sarcophagus, so it seems there is a fluctuation for a given frequency relative to various sizes of targets (hit, miss, hit, etc), which might be exploited to determine size of targets. To me the most likely way to determine size of a target is by triangulation (use the edges of the target and the distance/depth to determine size from different directions). For example, if a target is 1 foot wide from all directions, then apparently it is about 1 cubit foot.

 

[dowser]

It might be a tough concept for some Dowsers to actually Dowse.
A test was proposed a while back to Dowse a golf ball.
I grabbed my rods got some Golf balls and Dowsed, not knowing what the results would be, I did it, did anyone else try?
Questions are better answered with results and were.

 

[Merlin-Midas]

It might be a tough concept for some Dowsers to actually Dowse.
A test was proposed a while back to Dowse a golf ball.
I grabbed my rods got some Golf balls and Dowsed, not knowing what the results would be, I did it, did anyone else try?
Questions are better answered with results and were.

My first dowsing lesson came from a friend with a $700 L-Rod with cartridges for gold and silver (it basically looked like a GT200). She put in the silver cartridge and told me how to hold it and move my feet (at the time, I had no clue what I was doing). After I got a reaction pointing toward a group of kids to my left, she asked them if anyone had any silver, and this girl took off and held up a big hunkin' silver belt with several links (this was before I met my predecessor, who had a different style of dowsing, a more aggressive version: basically, being impatient, he found by doubling his pace, it double the reaction, but it seems to waste more energy). So years later, I decided to follow up on her equipment. There was a story done by the BBC about this device (resembling a GT200), which was over priced and sold to several militaries for detecting explosives. My predecessor had visited the FBI at Quantico, where he met David Windell Holmes. While there, he derived dowsing frequencies for samples of Semtex and Cocaine, then he did a blind test demo in front of several high ranking generals and officials. Years later, I found out that every car uses explosives to launch the airbags, so I asked my predecessor to dowse walking past several cars in a row using his Semtex frequency, and to his surprise he got a reaction for explosives at each steering wheel (then I let him in on the test and explained about the airbags). So if the operators using the GT200 in Iraq were able to detect explosives, then they should have gotten a reaction for every car that had an airbag (which makes me suspect error on the operators part, not being real dowsers). As I was saying, I bought a "Gopher" (The Amazing Golf Ball Finder) which strikingly resembled the GT200, but I got it for only $15 (as opposed to $700 or $36,000, as I said, overpriced); I could do just as well with a coathanger. The Gopher is probably constructed with some kind of electrical "hardcopy" of a golf ball. The problem I had with the device was the material was what I call a "blocker", so I had to cancel out that material before I could get it to work for me (I suspect it would work just fine for a right-hander, but I am magnetically left-handed). Concerning detecting golf balls (or anything else), there are basically 3 ways: 1) mental dowsing (which I avoid), 2) frequency for a golf ball, 3) sample of a golf ball placed somewhere on an L-Rod, such as on the tip (nothing special is needed, just a sample).

 

[signal_line]

My first dowsing lesson came from a friend with a $700 L-Rod with cartridges for gold and silver (it basically looked like a GT200). She put in the silver cartridge and told me how to hold it and move my feet (at the time, I had no clue what I was doing). After I got a reaction pointing toward a group of kids to my left, she asked them if anyone had any silver, and this girl took off and held up a big hunkin' silver belt with several links (this was before I met my predecessor, who had a different style of dowsing, a more aggressive version: basically, being impatient, he found by doubling his pace, it double the reaction, but it seems to waste more energy). So years later, I decided to follow up on her equipment. There was a story done by the BBC about this device (resembling a GT200), which was over priced and sold to several militaries for detecting explosives. My predecessor had visited the FBI at Quantico, where he met David Windell Holmes. While there, he derived dowsing frequencies for samples of Semtex and Cocaine, then he did a blind test demo in front of several high ranking generals and officials. Years later, I found out that every car uses explosives to launch the airbags, so I asked my predecessor to dowse walking past several cars in a row using his Semtex frequency, and to his surprise he got a reaction for explosives at each steering wheel (then I let him in on the test and explained about the airbags). So if the operators using the GT200 in Iraq were able to detect explosives, then they should have gotten a reaction for every car that had an airbag (which makes me suspect error on the operators part, not being real dowsers). As I was saying, I bought a "Gopher" (The Amazing Golf Ball Finder) which strikingly resembled the GT200, but I got it for only $15 (as opposed to $700 or $36,000, as I said, overpriced); I could do just as well with a coathanger. The Gopher is probably constructed with some kind of electrical "hardcopy" of a golf ball. The problem I had with the device was the material was what I call a "blocker", so I had to cancel out that material before I could get it to work for me (I suspect it would work just fine for a right-hander, but I am magnetically left-handed). Concerning detecting golf balls (or anything else), there are basically 3 ways: 1) mental dowsing (which I avoid), 2) frequency for a golf ball, 3) sample of a golf ball placed somewhere on an L-Rod, such as on the tip (nothing special is needed, just a sample).

I can’t remember the details but I think they had a piece of photocopier paper inside that was embedded with a frequency. Sorry I can’t recall the details. I had one similar think I bought it from kellyco, it wasn’t for golf balls. I was at some dowsing group they had hid some dollar bills and I found one under some leaves.

 

[dowser]

The reason I post these Dowsing threads, is in hopes I'll get usable information and suggestions, as I try to figure the Dowsing signal out.
Thanks to other Dowsers posting, I have learned things, I might not have thought off.
We might be different in ways, but none of us are delusional, at least I'm not.
I am currently running a Dowsing test right now.
Those that are paying attention to my posts, would have seen my near last comment saying.
I'll just wait till my Dowsing power recharges, or something along those lines.
Thanks to Merlin post, the thought of Dowsing is an expenditure of Dowsing energy, I myself call Chi, possibly needing recharge.
So, for this Dowsing test and observation, is running on here, not in observations..
I won't pick up and Dowse with the rods for one Month. Started a week ago..
Will the signal be stronger than when I put them away?, and might I have recharged, I'll see.
It sounds crazy, but the stuff I come across is all to crazy to believe..
My Dowsing test is, no Dowsing, who'd a thunk.

 

[robertk]

The question is, why do dowsers have broad success with finding groundwater, but little success in finding buried treasure?

Well if you dig deep enough just about anywhere, you'll hit ground water. For water, the earth is a target-rich environment.

 

[Carl-NC]

Well if you dig deep enough just about anywhere, you'll hit ground water. For water, the earth is a target-rich environment.

At least a non-dowser gets it.

 

[Merlin-Midas]

Well if you dig deep enough just about anywhere, you'll hit ground water. For water, the earth is a target-rich environment.

From what I have read about professional water dowsers, they can determine from their reactions, not only the location, but the depth and strength of the water, so that when they drill the well, it is not reached until the predicted depth (which is more than coincidence). Since an underground stream is linear, the depth readings are the distance from parallel lines (where as a single target is a circle or aura of energy around it, whose radius gives the approximate depth). My hypothesis as to why water targets are easier to find than solitary objects is the water is "living" or moving, which might prevent it from polarizing and giving it a false location). My current hypothesis on "false targets" (a false location of a real target) is either the target has polarized or the ground above it has polarized, or both. If you bury a target and disturb the ground above it (which is typical), then you depolarize the ground, which eliminates the "false target", allowing the dowser to detect it where it is, as if above ground (however, after a few years, the ground above will polarize or magnetize, causing the target to only be detected elsewhere). According to Abbe Mermet, the energy giving the false target constantly moves and sometimes it moves over the real target, which is when a dowser just happens to find it (otherwise, the misses are "indefinite"), so I am in the process of determining the limitations of this energy, which I have been mapping out for many years. I have at least two ways of instantly creating a "false target", so that is the first step in solving this problem. John London helped me alot with solving this problem, and he also had a background in electronics, like myself.

 

[Merlin-Midas]

The reason I post these Dowsing threads, is in hopes I'll get usable information and suggestions, as I try to figure the Dowsing signal out.
Thanks to other Dowsers posting, I have learned things, I might not have thought off.
We might be different in ways, but none of us are delusional, at least I'm not.
I am currently running a Dowsing test right now.
Those that are paying attention to my posts, would have seen my near last comment saying.
I'll just wait till my Dowsing power recharges, or something along those lines.
Thanks to Merlin post, the thought of Dowsing is an expenditure of Dowsing energy, I myself call Chi, possibly needing recharge.
So, for this Dowsing test and observation, is running on here, not in observations..
I won't pick up and Dowse with the rods for one Month. Started a week ago..
Will the signal be stronger than when I put them away?, and might I have recharged, I'll see.
It sounds crazy, but the stuff I come across is all to crazy to believe..
My Dowsing test is, no Dowsing, who'd a thunk.

While cleaning my room and organizing piles of dowser notes, I came across my book, "The Diving Rod" by John Mullins, a whole successful family of water dowsers (I got it, because my mother was a Mullins, who could also dowse). I decided to read a few pages and came across this: "The father of the lad stated that, when he was a boy he possessed the same power, but entirely lost it when he was 16 years of age" (page 20). In my opinion, there may have been astronomical interference for an epoch, and he never bothered to try years later, or there was another factor, such as a shift in everyday clothing, which caused interference. Chi energy definitely plays a part (that is why my predecessor required recharging after a couple of hours of intense dowsing, but he would be fine the next day). As he got older, the dowsing time diminished, which seems to agree with the involvement of Chi energy (or life force). In Chi Gung, you learn to recycle energy and clear blockages. You can detect acupuncture points (where they place needles) by holding the ground terminal of a ohm meter in one hand and probing near the corners of the finger nails with the positive probe in the other hand. Normal skin gives 3 to 4 mega-ohms, but pressure points will drop to around 100,000 ohms (if the resistance is off, then it indicates a health problem). According to Dr. Voll, in Germany, his device could use these pressure points to determine an illness, as well as, a potential cure, by placing it on the skin in a glass jar (glass being a conductor of Eloptic energy), which normalized the reading.

 

[dowser]

While cleaning my room and organizing piles of dowser notes, I came across my book, "The Diving Rod" by John Mullins, a whole successful family of water dowsers (I got it, because my mother was a Mullins, who could also dowse). I decided to read a few pages and came across this: "The father of the lad stated that, when he was a boy he possessed the same power, but entirely lost it when he was 16 years of age" (page 20). In my opinion, there may have been astronomical interference for an epoch, and he never bothered to try years later, or there was another factor, such as a shift in everyday clothing, which caused interference. Chi energy definitely plays a part (that is why my predecessor required recharging after a couple of hours of intense dowsing, but he would be fine the next day). As he got older, the dowsing time diminished, which seems to agree with the involvement of Chi energy (or life force). In Chi Gung, you learn to recycle energy and clear blockages. You can detect acupuncture points (where they place needles) by holding the ground terminal of a ohm meter in one hand and probing near the corners of the finger nails with the positive probe in the other hand. Normal skin gives 3 to 4 mega-ohms, but pressure points will drop to around 100,000 ohms (if the resistance is off, then it indicates a health problem). According to Dr. Voll, in Germany, his device could use these pressure points to determine an illness, as well as, a potential cure, by placing it on the skin in a glass jar (glass being a conductor of Eloptic energy), which normalized the reading.

I understand what your saying, and I am currently testing the theory. But!
If my Dowsing power/chi or whatever it is has been used up, that doesn't explain the lack of new or any other Dowsers.
Shouldn't there be new Dowsers full of energy posting on here, like the past?
I'm leaning more towards interfearance at the beginning of resonation..

 

[dowser]

Historical lore, good enough for me..

 

[Merlin-Midas]

I understand what your saying, and I am currently testing the theory. But!
If my Dowsing power/chi or whatever it is has been used up, that doesn't explain the lack of new or any other Dowsers.
Shouldn't there be new Dowsers full of energy posting on here, like the past?
I'm leaning more towards interfearance at the beginning of resonation..

After several years of research to find out who can and cannot dowse, DNA was the only consistent correlation. My predecessor was always able to use the L-Rod (he had both High Priest Levitical Y-DNA and X-DNA), but I was only able to use it for a few months or so at a time (I only have the Levitical X-DNA), so perhaps there were times when both of our X-DNA "turned off", then presumably his Y-DNA, which I lacked, was "turned on" (assuming the trait for dowsing is on the sex chromosomes), because dowsers ALWAYS have some combination of Levitical DNA, which I discovered by dowsing dowsers and matching their DNA to known Levites (since only Levites have guardian angels, the easiest and fastest way to check is to dowse a person for the frequency 888 Hz). Being right-handed or left-handed "magnetically" also plays a part. The "interference" or the dowsing device failing to respond seems to be some shift in the energy moving the device in a direction that it was not designed to move (due to some astronomical or geological shift), so the solution in this case is to keep trying different dowsing devices until you get a response (for example: L-Rod, Pendulum, Bobber, etc.). You can also experiment with different types of breathing, switching hands, facing different directions, stationary vs moving forward or backward vs spinning, different clothing (if in doubt, remove all clothing), addition of resistors/magnets/capacitors/inductors, addition of blockers, etc. Sometimes shifting the frequecy a little off does the trick (like an offset); if you sweep through frequencies, until you get a response, then you don't have to know the offset. Sometimes grounding yourself to the ground with a wire (or placing a piece of steel on your head) helps counter solar flares. I used to think my dowsing was gone for several months, but then I realized it was intermittent, requiring me to constantly change dowsing technique, sometimes every few minutes, which is very frustrating, especially if I have several hours of experiments planned. Even though my predecessor could always use the L-Rod (unless exhausted), he did have prolonged periods of time, when the pendulum would not work. Chi energy or vital force is probably what moves the dowsing device, but as long as you are alive, then you still have Chi, which stores in the navel area like a battery and circulates throughout the whole body.