landstar tones??

[Wv-Az-Snowbird]

Got the wife a new landstar detector for christmas i have been testing it and can not seem to get all three tones???
a quarter = high, dime = high, a nickle is same low tone as iron.... all the reading i have done says nickle should be mid tone.. i have not heard mid tone yet on anything!!!!
on allmetal = low tone.. i have always had whites single tone detectors ...multiple tones on paper sound great but it would really take alot of adjusting for me!!..but my wife just starting should not have any problems ...if they are working correctly... anyone with a landstar might comment if they have this same issue....

THANKS

might say also the landstar works equally as well on depth, desc., an ID as my classic 5 ID which was kind of hard to swallow...

 

[BH-LandStar]

Your right...nickels make a low tone, and are hard to tell the difference between pull tabs and nickels...screw caps and zinc(new) pennies will give you a mid tone, and copper pennies, dimes, quarters, halves, and dollars, and large objects will give you a high tone. nickels will not give a mid tone...Other than that, to start, hunt with the sensitivity below 12 o'clock position, hunt in the DISC mode with the discrimination knob fully CCW (lowest setting), and the Ground Balance on Pre-Set...Dig ALL repeatable signals...that is all signals that give the same tone with multiple passes...only true way to tell pull tabs from nickels is that nickels tend to be a solid strong hit, where pull tabs tend to be a broken, or broken double ping. Once your comfortable with the sounds made for each target type, then you can start messing with the discrimination and notch modes, as well as hunting in the ALL-Metal mode with manual ground balance. I have never been able to hunt with the Sensitivity at 3 o'clock as the manual suggests. If I set it there, I will get tons of false signals that drive me wacky...the soil here in Syracuse, NY just has too many natural minerals in it that mess with the machine...Prolly why most hunters give up in this area...too hard to hunt, and not a lot of great finds to be had...Syracuse, like so many other cities has buried it's history to make way for "Progress"...So sad...

Happy Hunting,

BH-LandStar

 

[Wv-Az-Snowbird]

thanks BH-LANDSTAR..
I rechecked and a penny does give mid tone (WHEW!) so it must be OK...i will be helping wife with questions abt it and i knew nothing abt landstar...i will say i am impressed with its sensitivity..i am making a test bed with some masking iron and foil over and beside targets so i can evaluate how well it and my whites 5ID do on separation i will report back on how i do!!! that way i can also have her practice in a controlled environment so when she gets in the field she wont get flustered..i was going to stop by Cabalas in Phoenix today where i got the landstar and pick up a small loop but did not quite make it that far... it's abt 120 miles from here maybe next week!!!!
Thanks agn...

Wv-Az-Snowbird