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Originally Posted by Jim
But, are you going to be allowed to post your results online? Has the manufacturer lifted restrictions on what you are allowed, or not allowed to report? This is where it gets confusing
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Hi Jim,
I thought I already made a lengthy explanation of what I agreed to. I will repeat myself only one more time. This will be a super-long post so you can bookmark it to come back and use it for reference any time you forget what my answer is. I will not be repeating the same answers to your questions again:
I agreed to make sure the Examiner I have is functioning correctly before I release public test results. I consider this to be a reasonable request from any manufacturer of equipment who sends out a sample to be tested. In addition to what I agreed to with the manufacturer, I decided I do not want to waste time testing a defective piece of equipment. So I also have an interest in making sure this Examiner is working the same as any other Examiner that is sent out and reported to be working correctly. Once I feel confident I have a properly working Examiner, then I will make my website address public so the public testing can begin. At that time you will be able to read my preliminary test results along with tests that may be performed afterwards without any restrictions from the manufacturer or anyone else.
I made a few preliminary tests before I even took out a camera, and found I did not see the response I expected based on the instructions. I did get some intermittent response. When I checked with the manufacturer, I was told that I cannot rely on tests that are made on raised floors, because the Examiner depends on the user standing on solid ground in order for it to work. I made some other preliminary tests only to determine if it was functioning correctly. These were not scientific tests. But I did take photos of what I saw when others also tried it. We still found intermittent results in the non-scientific outdoor tests away from electrical interference. After spending a lot of time tweaking and adjusting different things in several sessions which were not recorded, it appears that the best we found so far is intermittent success observing the antenna point to the target. This leads me to believe the Examiner is damaged or is in need of an adjustment before it can be deemed to be functioning properly.
The adjustment procedure is going to require that we make some tweaks to a small trimmer cap that is said to be very difficult to set to the exact position for good performance. I was told that it must be moved by a "hair at a time" until I find the setting that works, and to be careful once I find that setting because if I lose it, I may not be able to easily find it again. For each "hair movement", I will also need to adjust the sensitivity and antenna position after entering some specific sequences of calculator buttons. Then walk past a target placed on the ground and make observations of what I see happening with the antenna.
This procedure must be repeated each time the trimmer cap is moved another "hair movement". You can imagine it takes some time to do all this, and my free time is limited, so it will not happen as quickly as some people may hope.
During this tweaking process to find the best position of the trimmer cap, I will not be making videos for everyone to see what happens after each "hair movement" of the trimmer cap. I really don't have time for that. And these are not actual tests of the Examiner, they are an adjustment procedure that shows nothing of scientific significance to prove anything about the Examiner. However I have nothing to hide about the procedure or what results any settings of the trimmer cap will result in or not result in. If you consider it important to document the process of making adjustments to the trimmer cap to see where the best response is, then I am inviting you to come and run the video camera while we try to tune it for good performance. This may take awhile, but if you get bored holding the camera, I will let you make the "hair movement" adjustments while I hold the camera. You can submit all the videos you get to youtube and make any comments to go along with them you like. But I will not be posting videos of this procedure on my web page.
I did take some photos at a preliminary test that showed only intermittent performance. My electronic journal accounts of the preliminary tests will be fully disclosed whether they show success or failure, and whether they are known to be made on a non-functioning Examiner or a functioning Examiner. I will not remove any data from test sessions that have been entered into my electonic journal. But I will make it known that they are preliminary tests which are non-scientific tests made only for the purpose of determining if the Examiner is functioning correctly. And I will make it known what we find out about the whether the Examiner is functioning correctly at the time of the preliminary tests.
After the preliminary testing and adjustments are done to find the best settings we can find for the Examiner, a determination will be made to decide whether this Examiner is functioning as it is supposed to function, or if it needs to be returned for a replacement. When the time comes that we know we have an Examiner in hand that functions correctly, then I will make the web address of my website public for anyone to see, and the public test program will begin. When I make my website address public, you will see the electronic journal reports I made along with any non-scientific data that was noted during these preliminary tests. There are no preliminary tests that will be deleted from the journal. But you may want to pay more close attention to the public testing that follows. This is where the real tests will be done by others who may be LRL enthusiasts as well as skeptics, or even dowsers.
If your urgency for me to show all the test data is so you can post content from my website on TNet like you did from Geotech, you can forget it. I won't tolerate people hot-linking or stealing content from any of my websites without going through me first. Not you and not TNet.
Best wishes,
J_P