I am trying to understand what my AT Pro is saying:help:

[396nova]

I am hunting an old farm. As anyone that has hunted a site like this knows, it is littered with iron, and every kind of trash imaginable. I have pulled 3 Wheat's (54-44-42), and some clad to date. I run my AT Pro in Pro mode Custom, disc @ 35, and sensitivity @ 4-5 bars. While swing the coil I get TID #`s from 40 to 75, with low and mid tones. I will hear a high tone, but not necessarily get a high TID # to go with the tone. After I pinpoint the high tone, I can get the tone to repeat, and sometimes a high TID # to go with the high tone, but the high TID # usually won`t be displayed or repeat. Those were the readings I got when I found the Wheat`s. My question, Should I dig on a repeatable high tone, and not be concerned that I don`t always have a matching high TID # to go with the tone?

 

[quarterhorse]

Anytime in doubt I dig that suka out............ the key is repeatable high tone............if your getting alot of high tones at the end of you swing.....ya might want to slow the SPM's (swings per minute) down a bit........ The audio on the Pro is capable of going deeper than the Visual Display .......so at some point it becomes a beep and dig machine.

HH
QH

 

[Johnny Cache]

I find that deep old wheaties can sometimes sound pretty odd, and bounce around a lot from the 60's to the 80's. You said that yo will get a somewhat repeatable high tone, but not a number to match it...what do you dig up when you get this signal? I would say dig many targets and things will start to make sense. I am getting things figured out slowly, and sometimes I'm amazed at what comes out of the hole. I run Pro mode, 35 iron disc, Iron Audio off, and max sensitivity, and nothing notched out.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Dig those iffy signals.....it costs you nothing!

 

[GoGoGopher]

The manual and the training videos BOTH tell you to dig ALL repeatable deep signals even if there is no TID #s shown...as long as you can get a repeatable signal...dig that puppy!!!

HH,

 

[widebody]

[size=large]Johnny Cache hit the nail. the best way to learn your machines language is dig and see what caused the noise. and gopher is right in that garrett touches on that in their videos.

HH[/size]

 

[yellerstang]

Make written notes if you have to, but study the VDI numbers and how they correspond to what you find. If you do this, a pattern will develop. For now, I would dig anything that isnt giving you an iron signal, so dig it all above 40 and see what you find.

For me, with my AT, I have found that MOST of the iffy signals are just junk, BUT, once in awhile the junk is either a clad coin, or a coin that has been in the ground a very long time.

Best advice, everyone says dig, and I agree.

 

[396nova]

Thanks for all the help. After I made the post, it occurred to me to do the obvious, read the manual again. And right there on page 20, last paragraph, my answer. I guess it was a case of C[size=x-small]an`t[/size]R[size=x-small]emeber[/size]S[size=x-small]uff[/size] in my advanced years. I have been digging all repeatable high tones, after sweeping from all angles. Sometimes I am rewarded (Wheat`s), most times not (BIG TRASH), but I don`t want to miss anything good. Yesterday at the old farm, I worked a 25' by 5'area. I pulled 2 pennies (1942 and 1979), and 5.5# of trash, in about 3 hours. I dug some deeeeeeeeeeeep holes!!!!!!!!!!!!! They say it don`t come easy, and the are right. When in doubt, dig it out, or risk missing something special. Thanks again.