beach program question

[Downdeep]

I was at Cape May, NJ for a week and only got to hunt for an hour.

Anyway, the little I did get to hunt, I found that using the salt beach program everything and I mean EVERYTHING came up with the blue frequency high in analyze. I was hunting damp sand some but mostly dry with the factory program settings other than adjusting volumes etc to my liking. Quarters, dimes, copper pennies, pull tabs, bottle caps...all looked the same with analyze. Only difference was the vdi readings. Quarters were coming up 91/92, bottle caps in the high 80's, pennies (copper and zinc both) came up in low to mid 80's. Frustrating to say the least. As I was only there for a short time, I didn't think to try standard coin and jewelry programming to see what changed. Back at the beach house, I did some air testing with the beach program and had the same results while c/j showed everything correctly. Is it just possible the salt compensation wasn't necessary and was causing problems?

 

[Exploreman]

I had the same problem with my Vision, I was told that the early Visions had a calibration problem.

Now I have a Spectra V3 and the coins ID correctly but all of them read the strongest in the 22.5 freq.in the beach program weather in the wet sand or the dry. If I get a 83 in the dry sand and switch to the Hi Pro, it will pinpoint the strongest in the 2.5 freq.,then switch back to the beach program,it pinpoints strongest in the 22.5 freq.
I was wondering if any other beach hunters are experiencing the same thing because this makes it impossible for me to guess the type of metal I have detected.

 

[lytle78]

Is it the same when you air test using the Beach Program?

 

[Exploreman]

Hi Rick,

I just read your question and went outside to air test the beach program and it read correctly on all the different coins showing the correct freq for each coin in the Pinpoint and Analise mode. Now why don't it read correctly at the beach where it is supposed to help us decide what targets we want to dig ? I hope this problem can be fixed. My location is in south NJ

Ed

 

[Downdeep]

Exploreman, I was hunting the bayside at Cape May. Didn't hunt the real beach though.

 

[Exploreman]

I usually hunt Wildwood,because you don't need beach tags.

 

[Steve Howard]

Carl is at the Salt Beach right now looking into this. He has been to the beach several times this week. It is 107 here today and 70 at the beach, so I'm thinking...I should join him! At least I could help bring back some fresh real salt/sand.

A number of users have found the 9.5 loop provides superior performance on some salt water beaches. Others are having good results with the 10 DD.

Preliminarily... at least part of the issue appears to be the 10 DD doesn't always see enough salt to properly rule it out.

Carl will get to the bottom of it soon and let us all know.

Sincerely
Howard

 

[Downdeep]

Now that is service! Wish I was there to help troubleshoot the problem

 

[Exploreman]

I hope he can solve the problem of it showing the wrong freq.when pinpointing,always showing 22.5 as the strongest for all types of metal.
I am using the V rated 9.5 coil and it is still showing quarters strongest at 22.5 freq.
Ed

 

[Steve Howard]

Ed

I'm getting a lot of targets that appropriately read stronger at the low to mid frequency's with the "V" 950. Does it read the quarter strongest at 22.5 in the air?

Where are you located?

What exactly is the code on your loop ear?

Howard

 

[Jason in TN]

The Salt makes the V do this on the 22.5. I feel you are getting a strong reading from the salt on this feq so it will always be the highest in the wet sand. Mine reads right in the dry sand. I feel this is not a problem though as you should dig any thing that is not Iron in the wet salt sand or you will be leaving some jewlery behind. I now have about 40+ hours of beach hunting in and have about 6 gold rings to show for it. Just my thoughts.

Jason

 

[Exploreman]

Howard

I tried the air test just now and it reads the quarter correctly at the 2.5 freq being the strongest. Tonight at the beach all targets are strongest at 22.5. I even tried Hi-Pro with salt compensate turned on and the quarters were the strongest at 22.5 as were the rest of the targets.

The code on the 9.5 loop is V3 0019. The V-rated super 12 coil does the same thing,everything strongest at 22.5

I am at a campground in Cape May, NJ. I hunt most of the South Jersey beaches,mostly Wildwood,NJ. I am getting good depth in the wet and dry sand and the vdi numbers are correct .

Ed

 

[ronsimo]

I have been using the super 12 here in Port Aransas, TX and have been having the same problem. The blue is always the strongest signal regardless of what I am digging. All coins are registering at a VDI much lower than the do in non salt conditions, although the audio signal registers higher than aluminum. I am using the salt beach program. Any thoughts?