How hood ornaments work
A hood ornament never made a car go faster, but if it was on a sports care it might have convinced the driver to press the pedal toward the metal a little harder. The action was between the ears, and it may have sent the car over a cliff.
An antenna on an LRL never made it locate anything, but if a fellow was convinced that he couldn't dowse and putting an antenna on a dowsing rod convinced him he could swingy the thingy after all, it would definitely improve his chances of swinging the swingy thingy. Therefore more likely been swinging the swingy thingy at some point during an attempt to recover something valuable. It may have been the site research and the metal detector and the actual shovel that produced the recovery, but if a fellow paid a whole schittload of money for the swingy thingy, he's gonna credit the swingy thingy. That's not speculation, that's what we see actually posted here in the forums by LRL fans. [What makes it funnier is all the alleged "locates" where nothing was actually recovered because it was too deep or on someone else's property or was imaginary micron gold blah blah blah, a sort of story you rarely hear told by people who use equipment that actually works.]
If an antenna actually participates in a target location process, the device involved is not called an "LRL". Devices that actually do long range locating electronically have been around for about 100 years and nobody ever calls them "LRL's" because they're not fraudulent. Nobody disputes whether they work, the only arguments are over how well they work under what conditions. This argument is missing in the world of LRL's because every manufacturer thereof in the business knows the damn thing is a fraud and they do not want attention drawn to the fact that direct comparisons between the frauds have nothing to do with equipment performance, only of the details of the fraud itself.
If you don't regard coat-hangers as good quality dowsing rods, for US$100 you can get just about as nice a dowsing rod as a person could want. Google "Blue Book", they've got a nice compact unit. Intelligent, honest, and well-informed people can disagree whether dowsing can produce results better than random chance, but when it comes to the matter of whether LRL manufacturers are selling stuff that they themselves know is fraudulent, the verdict is in: read their advertisement!
--Dave J.
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