Good/bad locating times

[Mike(Mont)]

12:00 noon, but I guess 12:00 midnight might even be better

[Mike(Mont)]

In years past in Summer I just gave up locating. I would go out about 8:00 in the morning (bad time) and stay indoors during the afternoon hours (good locating time) then go out in the evening (again bad time). I can imagine other people had the same experience and many probably gave up trying and believed that locators “can’t possibly work”. Very early around daybreak is the best.

[Mike(Mont)]

I was watching a video they guy said 12:00 was a good time. My take here is that is about the time it starts to get good.

I forgot to mention the video was talking about new users have the best chance for success at this time. My experience late afternoon conditions start to fade.

[folharin]

I had better results in the afternoon with cloudy skies

[Mike(Mont)]

For what it’s worth, I was out with the L-rods and frequency generator yesterday morning and not doing too well. A thunderstorm blew through mid-afternoon and afterwards I went out again and the rods were responding much better.

So my theory is the convection cleans the stale air. I have known very good conditions occur after a cold front passes through and the sky is half-filled with cumulus clouds and fresh air. Stale, muggy air is just not good locating conditions. I could see big cities might have very few good days.

[Geo]

Esteban was say that best time is at afternoom.
Here at Greece i found that was better at morning.
Problem is that we go for T.H when we have free time without to looking what time is it.

[Dubulumach]

Esteban was say that best time is at afternoom.
Here at Greece i found that was better at morning.
Problem is that we go for T.H when we have free time without to looking what time is it.

Hello dear Geo !


How do you do ?


Regards

[Geo]

Hello Dragan, how are u???
I am fine, just finished my jobs at farm. Now i can begin again to "play" with lrls.
I have many projects to check .. adjust and make them workable..
Is at your plan any visit at Greece???

Regards

[Mike(Mont)]

Just thought I better share this. I just read the potential gradient is strongest at 7PM London time--no matter where you are on the planet. It is NOT a local phenomena. At 7PM London time is the greatest lightning activity over the whole earth. Like 100 strikes per second. So that is the time to avoid if you can. Of course not every day is going to be exactly the same, this the average.

[Mike(Mont)]

A strong electrical field perturbs the protons and inhibits them from aligning, so they don't resonate as strongly. I suggest there is a seasonal effect--more powerful problem in Summer months and/or maximum solar cycle. I should say it is the magnetic field of the electrons taht perturbs the protons. Maybe I'm wrong here, but seems if you wait long enough more of the protons will align and the element will resonate stronger. Of course we're talking about the net field. When a sloar flare hits, it disrupts the protons. Sometimes multiple solar flares tend to "catch up" with the one in front so it makes even more powerful disruption. This stuff is nothing new. Dell WInders had this in his literature from the late 1980's. BTW, sorry about my typo's. I can't edit these easily since my laptop crashed.

[Mike(Mont)]

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html

[Mike(Mont)]

Another book that discusses this subject is "Psychical Physics" by S. W. Tromp. It's old, printed in 1949. If you read that link I posted you see dirt in the air robs the small ions so the air has mostly the large, slow ions and this means lower conductivity and higher potential gradient. In reality, there is no nice perfect sine wave curve on the graph. It bounces all over the place but the twenty year average is a smooth curve. SO there is no guarantee that a certain time is going to have good locating conditions.LIke I said, after a cold front passes through the air is much cleaner which means more conductive. That's a big factor. You know the dirty stale air in big cities, very poor conditions most days. As for afternoons, the convection activity is highest as around 2 PM. This the natural air cleaning, as whatever air rises there is fresh air that falls back the earth. When the sky is half-full of cumulus clouds that's a good time if not too windy. Around here, even a day after a cold front passes through the convection is good and the air is fresh.

[Mike(Mont)]

Here's a little lightning trivia. If you see lightning hit a tree, stay away from it! It can hold a charge of up to a million volts for up to 24 hours!

[Mike(Mont)]

You can see from the article air conductivity is not quite what you might think. The small, "fast" ions only travel 1 cm per second. But over a large area the air charge is dissapated enogh so the potential gradient is lowered. So a lower PG means the electrons in the molecules do not perturb the protons as much so the protons are able to align and this means the element has a stronger resonance. People talk about using ions to detect. I don't think this is an accurrate description of what is happenning. You've probably seen the drawing of a guy holding a locator rod and the ions are moving from the treasure to the rod. That's not what is happenning.

[Mike(Mont)]

Magnetic resonance very similar to WiTricity or Meyl's work. Like the article says, air is a very poor conductor.