questions about hunting in the surf!

[dmnz]

hi guys

I have done really well with the atx in the water in the last 6 months, albeit normally in calm seas, snorkelling etc. I normally, rightly or wrongly have the detector reset to defaults, add discrim to 3 or 4, sensitivity on 9 or 10 and are fine. If you bump the coil, you will have noise etc, but that is common. Run threshold on 7 or 8 for a steady hum with grey ghost headphones. Focus on the high-lows for GOLD!

Yesterday went into the water, and there was quite a few waves, surf - and using my standard settings above was the 'her haw' noises each time a wave passed.

My question - what are you settings for this?

Do you ground balance before getting into the water against the salt water and sand? I never really do this as it kills depth I understand?

If you Ground bal - High Lows....may become low - highs!????

How do you get the most stable machine in the surf line?

 

[shelton7522]

Good question, maybe the issue is coil wave bumping, or little debris with wave surf....

 

[dmnz]

nope - definitely the salt water causing the her-haw sound - just wondering if people use the ground balance effectively or just discrim out the salt

 

[SoCalBeachScanner]

nope - definitely the salt water causing the her-haw sound - just wondering if people use the ground balance effectively or just discrim out the salt

Hi dmnz,

When I detect beaches or areas of beaches that have high mineralization, I have to ground balance to quiet down the Hee-Haw.

I never use discrimination and run 10-13 sensitivity depending on how deep I want to scoop.

 

[diaoul22]

Hello , i run the beach between 11 and 13 sensivity, i prefere pulse delay (atx discri .....) between 2 and 3 because ground balancing yes he s quite, but loose a lot of deep ! don t !
I see when i run at 0 discri, i ve to set sensi at 10 because more 10 salt+water+mineralisation give a litlle hi/low impossible to be concentrate for the deeper sounds target. So i find a lot of pieces of air pin (easy to know whit the double sound but..) aluminium small pieces, i think big rings do not affest by the disc betxeen 2+3

with a hard or black sand no problem hes born for this, that s where we need this tool but in the yellow soft sand ....not for him drifts everytime, so sensi down between 8 and 10, in this kind of yellow soft sand my ctx is more better.


Important the choice about ground tracking...he make for you the ground balancing ! prefere run at speed "1" when i m looking for a pocket, and when i m in a good area i put "5" stop speed tracking the difference is awesome be sure

For me at the beach...When i start i hold pin point button, level sound at 4, thresold 7, discri 2+3, sensibility start at 11, ground tracking 1, let s go !

 

[dmnz]

Fantastic thanks for the response - I have used discrim around 3 or 4 mostly - and have not used ground bal. Next time the beach is sanded in, and lack of targets I will run a test with both methods (ground bal versus disc rim).

I am yet to try ground tracking - so need to look into that!