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Old 03-24-2009, 11:11 PM
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A friend of mine has a dowsing detector which cost $2200.00 some time ago.
It works well for him and myself. All it consist of is a oscillator, freq. counter and inverter for the power supply. I put together another oscillator freq counter
combo. It works also though not a sensitive as his. Im still working on it but for now I can find my gold watch with it and with the oscillator turned off I get no indication as when it is on. Its really weired how ir works, hard to beleive.
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Old 03-24-2009, 11:31 PM
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A friend of mine has a dowsing detector which cost $2200.00 some time ago.
It works well for him and myself. All it consist of is a oscillator, freq. counter and inverter for the power supply. I put together another oscillator freq counter
combo. It works also though not a sensitive as his. Im still working on it but for now I can find my gold watch with it and with the oscillator turned off I get no indication as when it is on. Its really weired how ir works, hard to beleive.
Yes indeed...very hard to believe!

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Hi, Welcome to the forum. This venue is great because it allows us post videos. Maybe you could give us some visual representation of what you are doing.

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Old 03-26-2009, 12:56 PM
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Hi, Welcome to the forum. This venue is great because it allows us post videos. Maybe you could give us some visual representation of what you are doing.
Good idea making a video .
Ill have to dig up a camera . will post when I have the video. thanks again for the welcome.
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Old 05-06-2012, 01:25 PM
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Good idea making a video .
Ill have to dig up a camera . will post when I have the video. thanks again for the welcome.
Wow time does fly by. 3 yrs and no video. Id forgotten about this forum to be honest. Will try to follow up on my video. (still no video camera) This does work so Id better get on the ball to save face. Will up date when it is available.
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Old 05-06-2012, 08:52 PM
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First off it sounds like a BFO rig. Its not very good compared to modern designs and the only way I can think of why you'res isn't detecting with full power is that the detection oscillator circuit is poorly tuned and that the reference oscillator is tuned to a similar frequency as something that is electrically noisy. I may be completely wrong though.
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