huntsman53
Gold Member
I often wonder why a Metal Detector Manufacturer has not yet packaged VLF and PI Technology into one Metal Detector and when they will finally do so! With the leaps and bounds in Electronics, Computer and Processor technology, surely a Metal Detector Manufacturing Company will realize that this is the next step in the evolution of Metal Detectors. Many of us have both VLF and PI Metal Detectors in our' arsenal of tools for metal detecting and who would not want a metal detector that incorporated both technologies into one Metal Detector which could be accessed by the simple flip of a switch or turn of a knob??!! I am certain that such a Metal Detector could be produced and any conflicts internally with the electronics, computer (if it has such technology), processor and coil along with externally with the signal can be overcome. Can you just imagine what such a Metal Detector could do for you, no matter what you are searching for or where??!! In the mid-1990's while working for the National Weather Service and attending a training course and seminar on the WSR-88D Doppler Weather Radar, I asked why they had not incorporated Precipitation Mode and Clear Air Mode into the sweeps and processing of a complete scan (one scan) of the atmosphere by the radar. You see, back then the WSR-88D Radar made one complete sweep of the atmosphere in Precipitation Mode (to detect drizzle or other rainfall, super moist clouds, thunderstorms, severe weather, high winds and more) and then did a complete sweep in Clear Air Mode to detect things in the atmosphere that do not usually show up in Precipitation Mode (i.e. Temperature Discontinuities, Dry Lines, Gust Fronts or Outflow Boundaries and frozen precipitation such as Snow and Hail) before processing the information for display to our' Computer Screens for us to analyze. This took way too long for the radar and it's processors to accomplish and thus, some severe weather events developed and were gone or ended by the time we ever saw them for analyzing. At the time, the powers that be, stated that it was not possible to incorporate both Modes into only one complete scan of the atmosphere. Well, around the early to mid-2000's, they accomplished it and due to advances in Computer and Processor technologies, they were able to increase the processing speeds to nearly half of the time it took before. Today, advances are still being made with these technologies and the processing times for a complete scan of the atmosphere by the radar and the information to get to Computer Screens is even much faster. So, I ask, when is a Metal Detector Manufacturing Company going to package VLF and PI Technology into one Metal Detector??
Frank
Frank
Last edited:
Upvote
0