Re: Retailers of LRL's
Carl-NC said:
What do the companies I listed produce?
Electronic sensing devices.
Some dealing with EM pulses for imaging as in the case of Burton and others with pure electromagnetics for
LOCAL, 'in loco' detection of metals. Some more professionally and exhibiting better circuitry as Geonics, Geometrics, Quantro for instance.
Notably, what do they NOT produce?
Long Range Locators in the level we discuss in this forum.
So your list is flawed and way incorrect.
In the case of Long Range Locators in the level we discuss in this forum, maybe because the cited manufacturers have an estabilished long time experience already with the devices they sell for 'in loco' sensing and their profits are adequate. Going in the LRL 'direction' would require for them another department, investment, R&D, etc. This costs money and usually takes many heads to decide.
OKM, for instance, deals and manufactures some similar devices the cited corps produce and yet they have 'long range locators' such as Bionic 01 and Bionic Alpha. One can locate a target from a vast distance and when over it use an imager for confirmation, spot the target, whatever...
I know of several THers who use this aproach.
And of course there are MD manufacurers in your list who just insist in ignoring LRL reality and keep developing the same toys for years for hobby detecting. Maybe due to pure ignorance on the aproach involved, blocked mind vision, incompetence, whatever. This is irrelevant anyway.
As a final input, I already cited here cases such as Garret's. When in 1984 Alonso from Mineoro visited Garret's factory and showed Charles Garret himself a working prototype of the DCH85, he was delighted. He got so happy when Alonso detected long range a gold watch in Garret Factory's backyard that he literally yelled, danced and ran around the factory premises showing everybody what he had in hands.
Later Damasio told me this same prototype was taken to Mel Fisher and used in the Atocha's gold location.
But this is another story...