Programming question (newbie)

[Anonymous]

I am fairly new but am learning fast. My question: I would like to program my explorer to only seek a musket ball, coat and cuff button. I would use this program only to locate old fort sites in my state (Fla). I have one place in particular I believe to be an old military road / bridge, unfortunately it is located in the middle of a 100 year old orange grove that has tons of shredded aluminum in the ground. We (five of us) tried hunting this area (my pre explorer days) and soon gave up after having to deal with so many shredded cans left by the fruit pickers. If this would work I would keep it as my

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Mike,
The only thing I can answer for you is the question about the varying signal due to placement in the ground. I have noticed that if I sweep over a silver quarter with the seach coil (variability=8, sounds=conduct, limits=max), it will sound different depending on its orientation. If it is laying flat, the signal will sound a tiny bit lower than if the quarter is vertical. If the quarter is at 45 degrees, a right hand swing will sound slightly different in pitch than the left hand swing sometimes.
Mike

 

[Anonymous]

Its possible to program it to pickup up only those items that read the same as those items, but shreded aluminum depending on size/shape can read anywhere, including in the same spots as the items your talking about..I would suggest the easiest way to locate a fort site if you know one is around, would be to run iron mask -14 or -13, listen to everything and when you hit a nulled area, that would be the place to start digging.. if there was a fort there will be lots of iron.. so search for the iron null