I've just got a smart phone myself in the last couple of weeks and although I've looked at some of the apps I'm not at the stage where I can see myself ever using them beyond messing around with them whist I sit in a traffic jam.

The ghost box things are tempting though. I was in the dismissive camp when they first came out, but I've watched from the sidelines and they have begun to pique my interest.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

If anything I am having fun playing with the cell phone apps that are out there. Some do come in handy in the field.

I use to cart a car load of equipment around with me but I soon realised that most of my time was spent setting up, maintaining and dismantling the equipment, leaving little time for in the field investigation itself.

Then, post investigation, all those hours of film, photographs and audio to go through (I confess that I still have hours of tapes to review from investigations I undertook years ago).

A couple of years ago I had an epithany - extreme investigations!

Now I arm myself with just a pen and a notebook (paper), along with an audio recording device and little else. Yes. I usually have a digital SLR and camcorder to hand as well, but these are for mainly location shots and to record certain things.

I've now started to get the enjoyment in investigation back.

Kind Regards

Baruc.

I've never tried dowsing rods, but I'd like to.

My thoughts are that since this low tech, low budget device has been around for centuries and has been proven effective for searching for water sources, perhaps there is something to it. One of my coworkers paid hundreds of dollars to an engineer who was unable to locate water on the property he was wanting to build a house on. He talked with the neighbors and some of the old timers suggested he use the witching method. Now my coworker is an educated man who scoffed at the idea until he ran out of options. Finally, he tried it and it worked! He located water and has commenced building. Just one story I know, but nonetheless, as COL Klink says, "verrrry interrrresting".

Please share your experiences if you have tried them and/ or your opinions on whether or not they are a bunch of hooey.

We used ghost radar down at the covered bridge with the Dr. and Mrs. Obvious and got some very eery responses with both it and the dowsing rods.

We also had it running when we were down at one of the witness trees and got some words that could have been accurate (blood, resting).

Overall, I think that it is too subjective. It's so easy to remember and "count" the words that apply while dismissing and "discount" those words that don't.

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Seems like the thermal inclusion is lacking, using the ultrasonics to fill in the blanks of thermal data. My only issue with this is that if it is thermal that you are after, the i3 just released from FLIR is a fully functional imager (with about the lowest resolution that I would ever try). Still it is a lot better than a histogram. 1100 is the current price, and I expect it will not be long at all before they are sub 1k used. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if new imagers break the 1k price barrier this year.

If Chappel would release an ultrasonic only version (at a savings, that price is just nuts) I would have no problem seeing it as a good instrument for paranormal use.

The GA episode was the Stanley Hotel ep.

The low resolution is a problem. While I do find the ultrasonic component an interesting idea, until I see a unit with sufficient resolution to show you what you are looking at, this unit's price just disqualifies it in my book. for 1100 right now you can get a FLIR i3. Not the best, but far better than this.

regards,

Andy

Andy

Though I may not have the techno-savy you do ... what I did read I would have to agree ... at best this would be inconclusive .. But technology ideas have to begin somewhere .. hopefully this will be improved and enhanced ... hopefully.

The low resolution is a problem. While I do find the ultrasonic component an interesting idea, until I see a unit with sufficient resolution to show you what you are looking at, this unit's price just disqualifies it in my book. for 1100 right now you can get a FLIR i3. Not the best, but far better than this.

regards,

Andy

Here is a good PDF that explains THERMASOUND

Ok, I think I kinda get it. So it has nothing to do with sound? (Did I mention I'm technologically challenged?)