Explorer sweep signal help ?

[grumpy]

Hi Guys:
Sorry but guess its my day to get back up on my box and hollar.
I have my next question. The Ex II and me have been getting along quite better now thanks muchly to Erickk. It is sometimes much easier to learn form someone direct like that.
My question today is sweeping over targets with the machine when I get a good tone one direction and it will not or will not consistantly repeat. In other words going like left to right I get a tone and then none coming back over it but Im trying to use a good even consistant and flat sweep, so I dont think it is me but who knows. Is this considered a junk target, falsing or what?? I usually dont dig them because I cant find them unless I switch to pinpoint and look for it. I will add nearly always when I get a good signal both ways or usually both ways it is a good target.
Thanks for all the help
Grumpy "gettin better but aint there yet!"

 

[Steve(MS)]

It could be falsing, junk or a good target. Another thing is where these signals are located on the screen and the type hunting you are doing and how trashy the area you are hunting will determine how many of these to investigate. If you have found some deeper good items at this sight and these one way signals are deep according to the depth meter they may be worth digging to see what they are. The shallow ones are more likely to be trash.

 

[Mike Hillis]

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[PULLTABBY]

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[grumpy]

Ok Folks let me get back and correct myself here and see if the replys are still the same.
When Im going along steady sweeping and flat coil on the ground no signals are happening and all of a sudden I get a hit, could be in the middle of the swing or anywhere from edge to edge, but when I make the return pass it is not a repeatable signal it never comes back even when I move around and go very slow over and over the general area like it disappeared or was never there. I can turn on the pinpoint and find it usually but no other way. I am assuming it is junk or falsing but not sure. I have not thought to check the depth of the signal when it happens, will do that in the future.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Grumpy

 

[Steve(MS)]

That sounds like off the coil edge signals. The high gain detectors will do that, in fact even if they are not considered high gain will do that in some ground conditions. I call them chirps but I use high sensitivity, high gain and audio 1 so I am used to that. I can recognize that they are iron signals most of the time without slowing down, they have silence just before and after the signal. Now when I am in very trashy areas, I will slow down and sometimes double, triple check them looking for a similar sounding brief good target. One other false signal that I sometimes have trouble with is 2 close together nails, one on one side of the coil and one on the other side. If I am looking for deepies, I have to check some of those at different angles to determine if it is trash or a good signal trying to hide. Hope this helps,
Steve(MS)