Re: I'm going to build an LRL (seriously)
PuffDaddy, I already do underground locating equipment and get paid for it, so I'm not looking for a do-it-yourself LRL project. No time, and frankly no interest since I'm not even particularly good at dowsing. LRL's, other people do those, and you say you've got a good one.
If your concern is all about the time required to navigate the periphery of the site to triangulate, that can probably be accommodated. Time in the search area however, 15 minutes, that's what you said you needed, and it's a reasonable time frame for reasons I've already explained. It's what an LRL that works should be able to do.
Please keep in mind that El Paso is a desert environment with mostly low conductivity soils, and attempting to inject more than a fraction of a watt of power at VLF frequencies involves potentially lethal voltages. This is subject matter I know about, it's part of my job. Even in conductive soils...... egad, 300 watts.....

?? better that high school kids should make nitroglycerin in chemistry class. If it works for you, please take someone else's ounce of gold, my ounce isn't worth risking your life for especially with me standing there watching.
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Responding to Fenix:
fenixdigger said:
If someone accepts your offer and is not allowed to scan the field ahead of time, you got a fish, reel him in.
Fenix, you don't get it. It's not a bet. (Artie, it's not a bet! I hope you don't gamble, not even knowing what is or is not a bet!) It's not a deal where they pay me if they screw up. I do NOT want to reel in someone who can't do it, those we have too many of already! I'm interested in someone who
can do it, and that begins with someone who at least believes they can do it. If a person doesn't believe they can, my proposal is not for them. If someone doesn't believe they can do it, I agree, they can't do it.
El Paso is a long ways from just about anyplace else, so coming here for an ounce of gold puts a little skin in the game. In PuffDaddy's case, he's in Washington, and he may decide that the cost of coming here for an ounce of gold isn't worth it, a break-even proposition if he succeeds, making the risk all downside. Or, maybe he visits the southwest now and then and can roll into El Paso no big deal. Up to him to decide. But as far as I'm concerned, it's not about reasons why LRL's don't work. I'm not interested in hosting a field event in which an LRL doesn't work (how boring!), although I realize that fate could befall me anyhow.
--Toto