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2. ADE 651 - Wikipedia

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   The FBI has repeatedly issued alerts about dowsing rod devices being used as explosive detectors. It has described the Quadro Tracker, as "a fraud" and told all agencies to immediately cease using it. Another alert issued in 1999 told agencies: "Warning. Do not use bogus explosives detection devices."

3. Alpha 6 (device) - Wikipedia

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   The Alpha 6 is a fake "molecular detector" which, according to its manufacturer, can detect various substances from a distance, including explosives and drugs. The device has come under scrutiny following revelations about two similar devices, the ADE 651, which has become the focus of a fraud investigation in the United Kingdom, [1] and the GT200, which tests have determined to perform no ...

4. Dowsing - Wikipedia

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   A Y-shaped twig or rod, or two L-shaped ones, called dowsing rods or divining rods are normally used, and the motion of these are said to reveal the location of the target material. The motion of such dowsing devices is commonly attributed to random movement, or to the ideomotor phenomenon , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] a psychological response where a ...

5. Outlawed anti-drone radio jammers are being marketed on ... - AOL

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   Several online retailers and drone technology companies are marketing the sale of radio frequency jammers as drone deterrence or privacy tools, sidestepping federal laws that prohibit such devices ...

6. Explosive detection - Wikipedia

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   A number of fake dowsing rod-style detection devices have been widely used in Iraq and Thailand, notably the ADE 651 and GT200, where they have been reported to have failed to detect bombs that have killed hundreds of people and injured thousands more.

7. Long-range locator - Wikipedia

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   Many such devices contain non-functional circuitry or naively constructed approximations of radio transmitters. A few do have functional circuitry, putting out a weak signal with a function generator or a simple timer circuit, but are still largely useless in comparison with a coil-based metal detector; others have been found to contain intentionally obfuscated or completely superfluous ...

8. GT200 - Wikipedia

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   According to the promotional material, if the device is used correctly, it "can detect substance(s) through walls, (even lead-lined and metal ones), water, (fresh and salted), fresh and frozen food, (fish, fruit, tea, coffee, ice), vacuum flask, containers, petrol and diesel fuel and even buried in the earth" and can detect narcotics for up to ...

9. Category:Dowsing - Wikipedia

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   Fraudulent detection devices (8 P) Pages in category "Dowsing" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.