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Originally Posted by nelson
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No, I do not think the Palomar VLF converter will work like the gold gun.
I think the Palomar converter will work like a VLF receiver because this is what it is designed to do.
You can connect a speaker and listen for demodulated audio sounds from the Palomar converter.
If you want directional reception like a gold gun produces, then you need to build a gold gun.
You will then need to tune the gold gun to a VLF frequency that is being broadcast when you are searching for your buried metal.
If you look at the gold gun circuit diagram, you will see it is fairly simple with the antenna critically adjusted, and amplifier stages adjusted to optimize the directional response from the antenna.
You will see the gold gun is not designed for easy listening to commercial broadcasts or for decoding time signals.
The only function of the gold gun is to provide directional radio signal strength information to a person who is looking to locate buried metal.
We see the gold gun circuit is optimized for locating buried metal.
But I have not read any convincing reports that make me believe the gold gun can be used to successfully find buried metal.
Best wishes,
J_P