L-rod technique and tips

[Mike(Mont)]

Sorry for jumping around but some more on cell phone magnetometer. I could be wrong but I think it is more accurate to measure your magnetic field using your cell phone than relying on government estimates. But it is important to calibrate your cell phone magnetic sensor by moving it around in a figure 8 pattern. https://youtu.be/J_cZnPcW-Yw?si=IGaCrahtm2__mRMZ

[Mike(Mont)]

Check your test target to see if the line is right on it. Otherwise if the line is left of your test target lower the frequency 1Hz at a time, and if the line is to the right of your test target increase the frequency 1Hz at a time. Or you can go more than 1Hz if you like.

[Mike(Mont)]

Tip #42: Rod grip. This not my grip.I saw it on one of Tim Williams YouTube videos LRLMAN. I really like it. I feel like I am holding a wine glass instead of a shovel handle. Very sensitive. You see the little finger is opposite the rod handle. This way I can hold the rods closer to my solar plexus and down near my belt line. It took me not long to get adjusted to it. You should be using this grip.

[Mike(Mont)]

Tip #42: Rod grip. This not my grip.I saw it on one of Tim Williams YouTube videos LRLMAN. I really like it. I feel like I am holding a wine glass instead of a shovel handle. Very sensitive. You see the little finger is opposite the rod handle. This way I can hold the rods closer to my solar plexus and down near my belt line. It took me not long to get adjusted to it. You should be using this grip.

The beauty of this grip is it only requires a light amount of pressure to hold the rod. It is easy to hold the balance and therefore you exert very little influence on the rods. It took me a few hours to get super comfortable. Well worth the time. I bet many people who never learned to use the rods would be able to do so with this grip. It just makes for a natural balance and the rods respond so nicely.

[Mike(Mont)]

Tip #43: My memory is failing so excuse me if I already posted this. Residual lines. If you are in your practice area or wherever, if you pick up you test target but leave the generator running the line will stay there until you turn the generator off for a few minutes. Some generators have a feature to eliminate residual lines. but most do not have that feature. And if the old line is there, it is difficult to find a new line. So turn it off for at least three minutes. One locator I had said wait fifteen minutes.

[Mike(Mont)]

Tip #44: One rod or two? I went several years with two rods then I went to one rod, then back to two, now I am leaning towards one rod again. Two rods can be confusing and very easy to fixate on them (bad). With one rod I have a free hand I hold down so my arm is maybe thirty degrees off my leg. I open my palm/fingers a bit sort of like holding your hand to warm it in front of a fire but more aimed towards the lower part of my leg. I must be feeling my aura, with what they call a "recording hand". When I walk through a signal line I can feel an electrical sensation much better than if I am holding another rod. Sometimes the one rod doesn't even move but I feel the electrical "ionic buzz" as I call it and I am alerted to recheck that again. I don’t know but sometime when I am tired I just get psyched out using two rods. Other times they work great. I try to get a distraction and the recording hand works for that purpose.

If I am doing a sweep I aim my free palm towards the search area,

[Mike(Mont)]

I got an L-rod from Tim Williams LRLMAN.com a while back. I have been using the GDI Telerods which I really like because they are so smooth. I tried Tim?s rod and I about gave up on it?I had it set up like he uses in his YouTube videos (YouTube channel ?LRLMAN?) with the heavy end extended out I think five sections. So last night the rod came alive after I changed it to extending the last four thin sections and holding it a bit differently as in the photo. Glad I stuck with it. It is working great! Having trouble with the photo.I give up, can?t get it right. Notice the rod is slightly bent down at the pivot point. This way the rod handle is tilted back towards me and it makes for more sensitivity. The rod length is retracted. I measured what I like is just short of 13 inches or 32.7 cm. This length is much more responsive for me.

[Mike(Mont)]

Try this

[Mike(Mont)]

The bottom end of the handle wedges into a crease on my palm and it binds up, so I ground down the end into a pencil point to prevent the binding. This was after this photo was taken.

[Mike(Mont)]

When you hold the L-rods level you cannot tell any difference between a weakened target field and a full-strength field. Adjust the rod angle by moving your wrists only. Best to test conditions with a test target to see how far down you can angle the rods. Once you find that angle for those conditions stay with it and don't be adjusting it as you search. Rod movement is subtle so you will need to practice until you can get a response with the rods at a lowered angle. Besides keeping your conscious mind out of it, this is the main thing skill you need to acquire. So if you are just searching with level rods you are only fooling youself and wasting time.

[Mike(Mont)]

I know I mentioned this but some days you can get a better L-rod response if you ground yourself--sometimes every pass, for 20-30 seconds I press three fingers into the dirt/ground and let the rod tips touch the ground. No question I get better/more response. SOme companies make a grounding strap that sticks to the bottom of your shoe and routes up to inside the shoe without modifying your shoe. I kinda worry about lightning storms, sounds very dangerous. ANd those straps are not cheap---like over $20 and I imagine they wear out fast. Same with those heal strap types. Long time ago I just wrapped some wire around my shoe then attached it to my ankle. I never noticed much difference, maybe need both shoes. Around here we have quartz sand and when you walk on it it makes a piezo effect you can hear on a vlf receiver. My theory is the air electric charge depends on it's potential gradient. High potential gradient means low air conductivity so the electric charge in the air cannot dissapate and there is a build-up of electic charge in the air that overpowers the LRL signal. All this depends on the amount of cosmic waves that hit earth and create ions. WIthout the fast/small ions the air conductivity suffers. Another cause is air pollution. Tiny dust particles catch the fast ions. Anyway, some days are better than others and grounding won't help much. but other days it is important so best to just do it always. Your body is a capacitor so it can carry a charge and it takes a while to bleed off because your skin had quite a bit of resistance.

[Mike(Mont)]

If conditions are weak and the rods don't cross completely sometimes conditions will improve in a few minutes. Also, a distant target will take long to develop a strong signal line. The strong signal lines are when the rod(s) hit you in the chest. I mentioned this before--breathe. Recall how you are supposed to exhale when you fire a gun, it reduces tension/stress.

[Mike(Mont)]

Here’s a cheapo frequency generator with air antenna. Don’t know how well it works but probably worth it. This one is from eBay but I’m sure they are widely available. Also saw a plastic case for it. You will also need L-rod(s). If nothing else you can practice and see if you can get it to work for you instead of paying thousands$$$. Also I think you can situate the antenna aimed upwards for 360 coverage or aim it at the suspected area for more directional. There are various options—this one is for 0.01 Hz. Probably easy to modify it to allow ground probes.

[Mike(Mont)]

Also you will need a 5 volt battery to make it portable. I use one of those cellphone power bank chargers. They are cheap on ebay like $10. You will have to buy a cable or splice your own so you have a 5.5mm on one end and a USB on the other end. I cut the 5.5mm off the power supply that comes with it and found a USB cable to splice it to. But certainly they sell ready-made cables for this.

[Mike(Mont)]

ebay item # 313578860202 ebay item # 186653746743 Here are a couple of examples. You need to do your own shopping, these are just suggestions as to the type of equipment.