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Went to the elementary school across the street from my house that's given up tons of clad in the past to try some new settings. Have been running a 12 kHz program with reactivity at 3 and silencer at 0 especially near sidewalks where coins like to be on edge. The lower silencer settings will help pick a coin out of the trash, on edge, and/or next to pulltabs and foil if you swing a little slower I've found out...
12 KHz seems to separate and recover a shade better than an identical 8 kHz program - I read somewhere that higher operating frequencies recover faster than lower ones, and I'm starting to believe it!!! On the nights where the EMI is manageable I usually run the 12 kHz program, but normally I use the 8 kHz setting - no real change in depth between the two programs and the VDIs aren't too different to me. Managed to squeak a silver 1964 Rosie at 6" deep which was underneath a large iron nail, roughly 4" long, and this nail didn't affect the signal or VDI in an way - it's like it wasn't even there!!! Love this machine!
Anyone have any ideas on the age of the button???
Last night I ventured back to the fairgrounds for about three hours and searched the old horse track area. I used this program and was hunting deeper targets, which there is no shortage of in this place:
8 kHz
Full tones
Sens = 88
Reac =3
Silencer = 0
Audio Resp = 3
Overload = 1
TX = 2
Iron Vol = 0
Manual GB = 85
Ground notch = 85-90
Almost right off the bat I hit a 6" dateless Wheat and knew I was on the right track. At 6" the signal was comfortable, no doubt one to dig! Went on from there and got a slightly lower VDI tone - something like 73, but this one was faint although repeatable. Dug down 8" to find a zincoln
Continued on in this manner for a full hour - focusing on those faint repeatable mid-to-high tones and dug everything that repeated and was above "70" on the VDI. There is a plastic mesh that was laid over the ground when the bulldozer scraped up the old parking lot to prevent erosion, and the best way to get through it is with a Samson sharpshooter - but it's rough when trying to recover a target 6" or deeper. Found three more deep zincolns and a couple of high-relief Memorials ranging from 6-8", and finally got tired of digging recent pennies!
So I picked up and walked towards what would have been the first turn in the old track and decided to continue searching deep targets. Went on for 20 minutes - with no signals - and suddenly got a loud and clear "46" which turned out to be a 1929 Buffalo nickel at only 2" deep - my first dated Buffalo for the year! Stuck the shovel in the hole and decided to search a circular area 30 feet out from the buffalo to see what else I could find. Came upon a very faint signal and almost wrote it off as trash - but it repeated clearly without a VDI. Dropped reactivity to "2" and it came in a little better, still without a VDI though. At 9" down out popped a nice green 1941 Wheatie which made me feel a little better (not a Zincoln!) Not far from there I got a booming "86" which was the old RFD padlock.
Bottlecaps were few and far between, for once, and while using the silencer set at "0" they tend to come in a little stronger than usual. Only dug 3 or 4 caps this last trip, and I called them each time. I've noticed that using a lower silencer setting it's much easier to hook a faint signal and investigate as opposed to running it in "2" or "3" where apparently I've missed a few good, deeper targets. The learning curve on this detector is fairly steep - but the rewards are great once you can decipher the little squeaks and farts from the headphones. I've yet to dig a coin deeper than 9", but I also don't run reactivity below 3 most of the time - I'm so used to how the signals are so precise in this setting, and Reac at 2 or lower seems to "smear" the signal and makes it harder to pinpoint. Possibly on a return hunt I can run a 12 kHz program at Reac = 2 which may give a little better depth (especially on nickels) and less "signal smearing"
Thanks samandnoah for the 12 kHz advice! It really makes a difference in the trash!
12 KHz seems to separate and recover a shade better than an identical 8 kHz program - I read somewhere that higher operating frequencies recover faster than lower ones, and I'm starting to believe it!!! On the nights where the EMI is manageable I usually run the 12 kHz program, but normally I use the 8 kHz setting - no real change in depth between the two programs and the VDIs aren't too different to me. Managed to squeak a silver 1964 Rosie at 6" deep which was underneath a large iron nail, roughly 4" long, and this nail didn't affect the signal or VDI in an way - it's like it wasn't even there!!! Love this machine!
Anyone have any ideas on the age of the button???
Last night I ventured back to the fairgrounds for about three hours and searched the old horse track area. I used this program and was hunting deeper targets, which there is no shortage of in this place:
8 kHz
Full tones
Sens = 88
Reac =3
Silencer = 0
Audio Resp = 3
Overload = 1
TX = 2
Iron Vol = 0
Manual GB = 85
Ground notch = 85-90
Almost right off the bat I hit a 6" dateless Wheat and knew I was on the right track. At 6" the signal was comfortable, no doubt one to dig! Went on from there and got a slightly lower VDI tone - something like 73, but this one was faint although repeatable. Dug down 8" to find a zincoln
Continued on in this manner for a full hour - focusing on those faint repeatable mid-to-high tones and dug everything that repeated and was above "70" on the VDI. There is a plastic mesh that was laid over the ground when the bulldozer scraped up the old parking lot to prevent erosion, and the best way to get through it is with a Samson sharpshooter - but it's rough when trying to recover a target 6" or deeper. Found three more deep zincolns and a couple of high-relief Memorials ranging from 6-8", and finally got tired of digging recent pennies!
So I picked up and walked towards what would have been the first turn in the old track and decided to continue searching deep targets. Went on for 20 minutes - with no signals - and suddenly got a loud and clear "46" which turned out to be a 1929 Buffalo nickel at only 2" deep - my first dated Buffalo for the year! Stuck the shovel in the hole and decided to search a circular area 30 feet out from the buffalo to see what else I could find. Came upon a very faint signal and almost wrote it off as trash - but it repeated clearly without a VDI. Dropped reactivity to "2" and it came in a little better, still without a VDI though. At 9" down out popped a nice green 1941 Wheatie which made me feel a little better (not a Zincoln!) Not far from there I got a booming "86" which was the old RFD padlock.
Bottlecaps were few and far between, for once, and while using the silencer set at "0" they tend to come in a little stronger than usual. Only dug 3 or 4 caps this last trip, and I called them each time. I've noticed that using a lower silencer setting it's much easier to hook a faint signal and investigate as opposed to running it in "2" or "3" where apparently I've missed a few good, deeper targets. The learning curve on this detector is fairly steep - but the rewards are great once you can decipher the little squeaks and farts from the headphones. I've yet to dig a coin deeper than 9", but I also don't run reactivity below 3 most of the time - I'm so used to how the signals are so precise in this setting, and Reac at 2 or lower seems to "smear" the signal and makes it harder to pinpoint. Possibly on a return hunt I can run a 12 kHz program at Reac = 2 which may give a little better depth (especially on nickels) and less "signal smearing"
Thanks samandnoah for the 12 kHz advice! It really makes a difference in the trash!
