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How does colder ground affect a MD

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dk dogs

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I live in Iowa and this is my first year with a MD. I was just wondering how a few inches of frost or snow might affect a MD? Does it have an affect on the signal and such? Might be a stupid question but I don't know..
Thanks
 
The digital screen readout works better in milder temps.
 
I did a little "beeping", no digging, and the detectors were saying DIG Here, GOLD !!!!! No meter,just sound. Several of the signals vanished in the gold range and were within an inch of the surface where the soccer kids and Moms would have parked...Ground frozen,no digging tool, also,, COLD.............But, you can bet your last Bippie,I was thinking that a quarter and someone breathing on the ground might dig something up..Even went by a spot where two men's rings were lost in an island...Really kicking my hind end that I didn't remember them when there was warmth and ground not frozen,,That is stupid with a capital S...And, with me chomping at the bit, you know this is going to be a cold Lonnngggg. Winter and a late Spring...I know my Tesoros work in the twenties.I had a Fisher 1265, that I sloshed in a lake in North Dakota one Winter......Got a silver ring. ..Recovery was an absolute mistake.Hand time in water was to scoop bottom ,see ring, pick up ring..And for the next half hour, my hand felt like it had been hit with a hammer,,,That is why I totally stay away from water and ice in the Winter........cordially Nad
 
i believe that temperature and moisture content does play a role in a detectors ability to detect a target
at least with my detector ,this has had a noticeable effect,cold damp ground seems to enhance target signals for my xlt
and a few inches of frost has had a very dramatic effect on quite a few digging trowels
these days when there is a few inches of frost i head for the woods where there is plenty of organic material to keep the frost
to a minimum
 
I live in Des Moines
 
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