Ground Balance the Vaq

[holey dollar]

Hi Guys, hope all is going ok for you all,
Read one of Monte's posts regards Ground Balance, in short are we better off doing the GB on Earth(bare soil).
I have thought about this in the past, if you scrape the scrub away, leaves, etc etc etc it does make a difference to the Ground Balance to go to bare Earth.
But my thoughts are I'm hunting the area say in a wood Etc, would i not be better ground balance the Vaq to what I'm hunting in leaves and all ???.
Monte if you read this hope you can point me in the right direction,
Many Thanks
Dave, Holey Dollar.

 

[Monte]

[size=medium]for the ground you're hunting. By "ground" we refer to the mineralization of the area, and that doesn't include leaves, twigs, pine cones, weeds, and other vegetation sources.

However, when you get to a site you want to hunt, the most important thing to do is make sure you have a "FUNCTIONAL" ground balance. That can be done by balancing to the surrounding ground to make sure you haven't adjusted it over a metal target, etc.

Once you find a target, recover it and check the spot for any other metal, then you'll have some native dirt to double check your GB setting. At that point, it is important to make sure the GB adjustment is not too negative (which can produce falsing in the motion Discriminate mode) or too positive (which can have a negative effect on depth of detection and other concerns due to adjusting for too much bias to the ground.

Monte

Questions? Shoot me an E-mail to: MonteVB@comcast.net[/size]

 

[holey dollar]

Monte
Thanks for your help,

All the best Dave/ Holey Dollar.