Archie, so you admit that the LRL-MFD's presently on the market represent no threat to metal detector manufacturers. In fact if you're doodlebugging for treasure, you need a metal detector to actually do a retrieval, something that the overwhelming majority of metal detectorists do without having doodlebugged first. To their advantage.
Regarding future LRL-MFD's, the evidence is already in that the tinkerers who post on this forum don't know squat about electronics or physics. And worse yet, they don't want to learn anything, they regard fantasy as a perfectly acceptable shortcut substitute for knowledge and understanding. So stuff that works ain't gonna come from there. .......The people who post here who do have expertise in those areas don't seem to be working on such stuff (i.e. of an L-rod nature), for the simple reason that it's a dead end. Long range locating of the future, in order to work, will have to be engineered according to scientific principles just like other geophysical equipment. Anything that begins with an L-rod isn't geophysical equipment.
The company I work for has been in the long range locating equipment business for nearly 80 years, and the guy who started the business got the idea from radio direction finding, another line of equipment the company was involved with up until the 1960's. None of this had or does have anything to do with L-rods. Some guys on utility crews also use ordinary L-rods (to my knowledge NEVER "LRL's") for dowsing apparently with some effectiveness, but it's no threat to the genuine electronic locating stuff, just another tool in the toolbox of limited usefulness (some would say no usefulness but I don't say that).
The notion that metal detector companies are afraid of LRL's is completely delusional, a pure fantasy. There is no evidence whatsoever on which to base such a theory: all the evidence, 100% of it, refutes such a theory. Nobody on this forum has ever presented any credible piece of evidence on which to base such a theory.
It gets funnier. According to that same delusion, the LRL people who are striking fear into the hearts of the metal detector manufacturers, are...... guess who...... Archie, Fenix, and Art! Oh yeah, and Hung, he's gonna shut up the bigmouths by blinding 'em with flashbulbs.
Can you imagine anyone reading this forum getting the idea that those four guys are really onto something big? Not exactly intellectual heavyweights! They can't even remember from one day to the next what their story is supposed to be! But, at least they've got loyalty. And thus do they "receive their reward".
--Toto
