if you think about it, every time you hit the noise cancel button it samples the clearest channel of the 11 available. Now if the coil is on the ground and you hit noise cancel, it will sample those 11 channels on the ground and pick the clearest one, at that time. The last time the coil was in the air, those results are ignored, I mean the machine doesn't know that last time you NC'd in the air and now this time you are now NC'ing on the ground. It doesn't know that now it should start blending the results of the two different noise cancels. See what I mean? It is just going to pick the clearest channel out of the 11 sampled during your very last noise cancel only; whether that was while your coil was in the air, on the ground, or on the moon. So, if that's what Sandy said, that one should noise cancel in the air and then again on the ground, that part wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.
I for one have always thought that it would make better sense to noise cancel with the coil in the position you hunted in (close to the ground), because I just haven't found many coins in the air lately but I know where I can find a three cent piece if I can just get this damn thing to stop nulling the iron out in this guys floor boards
All metal all the time: especially in Bob's truck
But seriously, that double noise cancel doesn't make any sense, and here is why: if you noise canceled in Georgia looking for gold under a cell phone tower (resulting in say channel 6) and the next time you noise canceled was in Des Moines next to a farmers electric cattle fence and the clearest channel came up on 9 at that moment, if the machine blended those two different results (6 and 9), it would be way off kilter and worthless. My money would be on that machine choosing channel 9 in Des Moines because that was the clearest channel at that time and if you drove back to Georgia to that same spot again you were at originally when this trip started and the clearest channel was again 6, then that is what the machine would use regardless of the last time it was noise canceled, or where, or the previous result.
In heavy iron, I have even tried to noise cancel with the coil over the iron with the coil on the ground, I don't know if it worked better or not because I still found targets, I don't know if I were on a different channel if I would I have missed those targets. I just thought, if I am looking for coins next to and in between iron then the clearest channel while being influenced by that same iron should be my best bet. It seemed to work, but again, how the heck do you really know? I guess a guy without a life and a whole lot of time on his hands like JW
(that was a joke by the way) could presumably hover over a target changing channels manually to see if one worked better then the others. I only tease JW because in his paper I read the other week he mentioned exactly that happening, so that point may have some actual weight to it.
Let me know what you guys think.