Looking for what all my detectors may have left behind...

[Doug[Manila]]

hunting old sites that Iv'e worked with my other detectors (tesoro, minelabs)...there should be much more musketballs, buttons, buckles, old spanish coppers and US silver where I do my hunting but I am not finding any more than the usual with the F75 - no sudden highly productive site from the use of the F75...hopefully this is more due to user skill rather than detector hype

Am having interference problems with my F75 at my spanish sites. How can I tell if its due to ground power lines or aerial? And is the solution the same? - frequency change? lower sens?
I say it is interference as this is true even when I switch to the small coil...also 50 feet away I can hunt no problem with the stock coil.

Also we have heavy mineralization .3 to 1 on TID and GB of 88-92. A lot of my sites are next to sea shoreline so a combination of mineralization and salts are coming into play. Add modern trash and you all get a good picture of what I have to put the F75 through.
So far I've not found anyone on the forum with soil problems like mine .. welcome any helpful comments either thru this forum or PM.

Nope don't want to move to another site as this is where all the good finds are!

My other settings: Disc 0, Sens 30-40. DE mode. I have also tried all metal mode as I've heard it is less susceptible to interference.

 

[jmaryt]

your ground is heavily mineralized,and your only solution may be to move to different areas!..you can try a reset,as this may help!

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[Streak!]

the F75 in all motion all metal handles heavily mineralized soils pretty well. It will punch though better than disc mode, and is actually pretty quiet in a lot of spots. I'd try a pretty low sens setting and work my way up from there to as high a setting as the site will allow. One thing you REALLY need to do is find a little area in the problem site...............bury a KNOWN target......and do a bit of fooling around to see what you can do to enhance the response of that target in THAT area. Sometimes its just a matter of hearing how the target sounds in that particular soil. It may not sound like it does elsewhere.......but that doesnt mean it isnt recoverable. Thats what a LOT of beepers do in hot Virginia soil. The detectors are picking the targets up..but they sound nothing like what they do in good soil..so they dont dig em. Scan the planted target.and fiddle a bit with the GB settings. LOTS of time you can help enhance target response by going a lot more negative on the Gb than you normally would. Try different mode and settings.....and you'll likely come up with a diggable signal. Like I said...it may not the the signal your used to.....but it may be a signal you can learn to recognize, and therefore recover the target. hope you get it sorted out!!! Streak!

 

[jimmyk]

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