There is only one test that can prove to me that an LRL work.
I take it and go out to a field that I have never been before and I try to locate anything metallic using the different options in search available in this LRL.
When there is a signal I find the exact spot and then I use my VLF and then my pulse detector if there is not possible to detect anything at the first place while using the VLF.
If the metal discovered is the metal I was looking for using the LRL then the result is satisfactory.
Of course it might be a metal out there and I might not have any indication for it but then I move to another place and try to locate something there.May be this sounds for most of you a funny thing to do but I will try to explain why I do it this way.
The chances that there is something metallic out in any a field are really great so if an LRL works then it should be able to pick up something.
To see and to prove to yourself that always there is something out there is very easy.Just take your VLF go anywhere and start walking around.
In the other hand if the LRL in test shows nothing in a place then there are two posibilities:
1.There is nothing there which is utopia(doesn't make sense) and
2.There is something there and our LRL doesnt work or it cannot pick it up.
So no signal at all for any of the metals that the LRL was build to search then this LRL in test is more likely(for me definately) that doesn't work.
Picking up a signal that finally proves a target then it works.As simple as that.Of course some can be better in one metal than another but then we go to a different story and other parameters must be taken in account making things complicated.
I believe that people in our hobby want a simple effective way of testing an LRL and in real conditions where everybody can do it and whith no one knowing what or where something is hidden or any other info like size or weigh of the metal in search.
Of course somebody can say that an LRL can pick only some of the targets around and may be is true but then this is enough to say that this LRL is working and I think you agree whith that.Which one and how can prove that it is nothing more hidden somewhere else? There is only one way. You have to have the perfect LRL!
Hidding metalls for testing is not proper testing for LRLs except if they are there for long time.How long?
Well don't do it for me.Because again we have to take other parameters in account and this is a mistake.
For Pulse detectors may be you can do it for VLFs don't.
An LRL works only when it gives you a find that you unearthed it yourself and you had no idea at all that something like that was in the area or in the exact spot that you found it.
Any other attempt in testing LRLs must also have as I said above other parameters taking into account and there are so many of them that we know nothing for sure yet so I think we are better off when we don't touch them.
Of course certain things can be checked in certain ways but then we are driving ourselves inside the Bermouda triangle loosing our mision which should be answered whith a YES or NO.
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