overloads

[sparkie]

G,day everyone.I am very new to detecting(I,ve had my XT70 for just 2 weeks), and really appreciate all the help and advice the you people provide via the forum. The couple of sites visited so far hold a lot of trash,but have managed to find some interesting stuff including two 1941 dated complete 303 rounds.I am getting lots of overload signals,which I have tried to dig but for some reason found nothing.Is it possible to reduce the overload signal and so convert them to something readable ?.
Thanks again .

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Sounds like you have given yourself a tough gig to start with Sparkie!
If you can, try and hunt somewhere easier, just so that you can get familiar with your machine first i.e a beach or around some play equipment. In the long run, it will reduce your learning frustrations.
If you are hell bent on this particular site though, you are going to need to do some experimenting. When you get the overload signals, try and note, which notch that they appear in. Eliminate these notches. If this doesn't help, the only 3 things that you can do, is lower you sensitivity, try and raise your coil off the ground a bit or try and hunt the spot with the small coil.
But like I said in my opening comments, this particular site, is probably one of the worst spots that you could pick to learn the hobby in and will lead to considerable frustration! So if you could be patient with yourself for a bit, try and learn in an easier environment. The site that you described won't be going anywhere, and has probably not seen too much detector action, due to it being such a tough spot to detect. So take consolation, that somebody else will not hunt it out on you in the mean time.
Good luck with the hobby, and keep those questions coming.
Mick Evans.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

If you absolutely must hunt this spot and do so by notching out undesirable targets, just remember, don't try and pinpoint a desirable target using the pinpoint button, as this will now pick up all metal targets in the ground. Just watch where the coil is when you hear the target, or lift the coil off the ground far enough (less than 6 inches) off the ground so that the target will give off a narrow signal in the middle of the coil (thereby giving you a fairly close proximity of where the target is).
Mick Evans.

 

[sparkie]

Thanks for the advice Mick.It does look like I've jumped in at the deep end,but the site is close to where i live, and as usual ,it seemed like a good idea at the time.I will try other places and experiment around home with a treasure and junk garden before returning there .From your experience,if something like corrugated iron lay in the ground for many years and rusted away to nothing,would the residue still give a signal.possibly accounting for overloads that when dug reveal nothing.
Sparkie.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

It's possible. It could also be possible, that being a large item. your coil is able to pick it up a lot deeper than say a coin.(So raising the coil and hunting won't work in this situation.) A $2 coin can be heard to a maxamin depth of about 8 inches with the standard coil were as a piece of corrigated iron can be picked up 4 feet away!
Good luck with the hobby. Just remember that you are learning a new skill, so be kind to yourself and enjoy and the knowledge will come soon enough. You are on the right track by practicing at home, where you can see what is going on. It will shorten up your learning quite a bit. So will asking questions.
Mick Evans.