Question about quick mask

[DollarDigger]

I have read Andy's book several times and have a few hours on my ETrac. I see folks talk about the "see through capabilities" of quick mask but I don't just exactly understand it. Several times I have had "iffy signals" meaning some broken good and bad audio, FE #'s jumping all up and down the scale but normally more stable CO #'s. However, when I switch to quick mask with little to no discrimination, I just get a solid iron reading from all angles. So far I have just assumed it was conductive iron and moved on. I have also assumed, up to this point, that it would be self-evident when I get over a good, masked target and switch to quick mask that I would realize that a good target was there with iron. However, I also read folks saying that when you switch to quick mask with little or no disc. that the iron will most times dominate the machine and there will be no evidence of a good target.....that it takes a significate amount of disc. to bring out a weaker good signal near a stronger iron target.

Also question 2..... Is there an advantage to quick mask, if my detect PATTERN and quickmask PATTERN are the same? i.e. Does quick mask run with less filters or have some other super power or something? Thanks Brad

 

[tippyhound]

I have read Andy's book several times and have a few hours on my ETrac. I see folks talk about the "see through capabilities" of quick mask but I don't just exactly understand it. Several times I have had "iffy signals" meaning some broken good and bad audio, FE #'s jumping all up and down the scale but normally more stable CO #'s. However, when I switch to quick mask with little to no discrimination, I just get a solid iron reading from all angles. So far I have just assumed it was conductive iron and moved on. I have also assumed, up to this point, that it would be self-evident when I get over a good, masked target and switch to quick mask that I would realize that a good target was there with iron. However, I also read folks saying that when you switch to quick mask with little or no disc. that the iron will most times dominate the machine and there will be no evidence of a good target.....that it takes a significate amount of disc. to bring out a weaker good signal near a stronger iron target.

Also question 2..... Is there an advantage to quick mask, if my detect PATTERN and quickmask PATTERN are the same? i.e. Does quick mask run with less filters or have some other super power or something? Thanks Brad

I use Quick Mask a lot on iffy signals especially if the FE #'s are jumping all over the place and the CO #'s stay pretty consistent. I have found that type of signal to normally mean you have a iron target giving you a false signal. What I do is put my machine in Quick Mask mode (with a open screen "NO DISCRIMINATION" and slowly circle the target watching the target box inside the Quick Mask square. If the target box consistently stays in the lower right corner of that box you have a piece of iron and I walk away from it. If you can get a clean signal any where while cycling the target and the target box wants to stay in the general area of the type of target the CO #'s are indicating then by all means dig it. I have dug many coins and tokens using this method, and I love the Quick Mask function. It is the best back saver I've ever saw. My son loves it to as he uses a Fisher CZ-6 which if a nail is close to a good target it will tell him he has junk. Bad thing is he is always asking me to check targets for him.

Always use a Quick Mask with a open screen when checking iffy targets. There are no filters in use and that is what makes it work so well. You want to be able to see your target and what is around it with no interference. It takes a little practice but once you get the hang of it you'll always use it for a reference.

I have dug coins and tokens with nails, screws and pretty good size pieces of iron laying right across it and was still able to use the Quick Mask to seperate the good and bad targets. Hope this isn't to confusing for you.

Rick "IL"

 

[sugar]

i used to use quick mask alot when i first had my etrac but now i use two tone ferrous setting with most of line 1 discrimed out and no other discrim it is not noisy i run no threshold volume and the good targets come through loud and clear i am having a fantastic amount of finds on already hunted ground the etrac runs very stable with no falsing i am tone deaf and never thought i would hunt by just listening but i hardly ever look at numbers now as the etrac just tells you there is something there and it is always right yesterday i dug a zoomorphic snake with some lettering on and the day before a broken roman fibula it just works so well THANKYOU ETRAC HAPPY HUNTING ALL OF YOU