TX Boost or No Boost?

[Neil in West Jersey]

I have not yet found much need for the TX Boost. It always seems a bit much for the V3 in the area that I have been detecting. This is a developed area, and I am wondering if it will be more useful when I get back to my remote sites that I hit last year with my DFX?

Are you using your TX Boost? How is it affecting your RX Gains?

 

[Rob (IL)]

Same situation as yours Neil. I'll see when I get home to my remote sites, I definitly don't need it in trash or the parks I'm hunting in Texas. As Larry says stated it is hard to use most places in Illinois.

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[Rob (IL)]

Here's what Carl had posted,
I use TX boost in 2 situations:
1) Mild ground where I can generally run the RX gain up to 15, AND where there are very few targets. That is, a hunted out area where I really want to punch deeper.
2) Where RF noise is limiting the RX gain I can run. In this case, TX boost can be switched on and I should be able to maintain the same RX gain as when it is off. Carl

 

[ramases]

For me (in the UK) I seem to have a choice when using either the sock or 6X10 coil: Rx at 12 to 15 with Tx OFF or Rx of 3 to 4 with Tx ON - (inland). On a dry beach I can sometimes get Rx of 12 to 15 and Tx ON (same coils).

 

[Larry (IL)]

If you have to reduce the RX Gain that much, I would doubt if you are gaining much Neil, and you are running your batteries down a lot faster too. I can't use the Boost in my ground.

 

[BHNugget]

I havent really played with the TX boost yet,but have a question about it.Ive heard similar statements to the ones above,but why is the TX boost affecting the RX so much since TX is boosting the signal out from the coil and RX is the recieve signal,so to speak? Wouldnt reducing the discrimination slightly with TX on be better than reducing the RX?

 

[nw1886]

I've been able to use the TX a couple times and it does ad depth that shouldn't be passed up. Open farmland and old sports fields seem to handle it pretty well here in Puget Sound but...this area's mineralization is so mixed that if it is not in those situations, rarely gets used.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Small bits of iron, can slaw, minerals and anything else metallic are all targets and when the voltage on the TX is tripled, you will get all of those target signals right back to the RX side resulting in overload if there is too much for the V3 to handle. This results in a lot of noise or overload and the RX has to be reduced.