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Unstable in Parks...Advice Please

DaytonaGold

DaytonaGold

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I've been trying to venture into parks, lots, etc. because frankly our beaches are hunted out until spring tourist season kicks in. The problem I always have is that every park or lot that I have attempted to detect leaves me scratching my head, it seems no matter what mode I use the low threshold "hum" will null out and the ctx becomes very instable, lots of eratic tones, gibberish if you will. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, I do not get this on the beaches as it is very stable there.

Can it be that every place I've detected besides the beach is really littered with that much trash??? I do a noise cancel and I've even tried a ground balance and still the same results, it's very frustrating to say the least because I do not want to be limited to just the beach. Any help is greatly appreciated...:)

thanks ya'll...HH !!!
 
That sounds like a setting or hardware issue...does it do that where the ground is clean of metal, and electrical interference? Maybe the sensitivity is too high?
after checking that I would factory reset or first maybe check all the connections...
 
Welcome to park hunting. Sounds normal to me. Go slow. Try to weed out the repeatable signals. Check your sensitivity too. Might be running a little hot.
 
I was starting to think this was normal too. I have the sensitivity on auto, do you think I should still make an adjustment? Maybe lowering it even more? Thank you
 
If the parks are still being used by the general public, you can bet your CTX it is loaded with trash. I have known people who would work a 10' X 10' square with a small coil for hours. It is very tedious and you have to go extremely slow isolating each target to ID it but the effort is often worth it. Most hunters, myself included, will avoid places like that and that is why it will often produce good finds, gold rings and jewelry too, but you have to dig a LOT of trash.
 
Larry (IL) said:
If the parks are still being used by the general public, you can bet your CTX it is loaded with trash. I have known people who would work a 10' X 10' square with a small coil for hours. It is very tedious and you have to go extremely slow isolating each target to ID it but the effort is often worth it. Most hunters, myself included, will avoid places like that and that is why it will often produce good finds, gold rings and jewelry too, but you have to dig a LOT of trash.
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So you avoid those places? A small coil seems in order for these places.
 
I just don't have the patience to hunt that slow, I would much rather hunt private property or farm fields. When I do hunt parks, I try to hunt hillsides or in the woods and ditches where there is less trash. Yes, a small coil is almost a necessity in some parks.
 
I am really loving the parks. Went to another one today I had not been to and 10 minutes in the hunt found my 4th ring in less than a couple weeks. The secret is the 6" coil. Expensive, but well worth it.
 
Yea, I hunt some old houses that have yards with lots and lots of iron and it can be tough picking out some targets, I just received the small coil today. So going to try it out tomorrow.
 
once i put the 6" coil on i haven't taken it off... seems to go as deep as the stock coil but is so great at target separation. but you have to be patient and not try to cover a lot of ground.
HH
 
hershey1 said:
Are you wearing shoes or boots with steel shanks or metal eyelets? Happened to me. HH :minelab:
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My kicks have small metal eyelets and I use another identical pair for the beach, I do not get eratic tones there, just the parks.
 
I don't know guys....Daytona Gold says that this is EVERY park and lot that he detects.... Speaking with regards to all the parks that I hunted over the years with Minelab's and the time I have with the CTX ( about 10 hours a week ) since early June until Mid December it sounds completely wrong for it to be acting as bad as it is. I hunt urban parks that are upwards of a hundred years old, so I would think they are similarly trashy if not worst. If it isn't one of the things I first mentioned I would venture to guess one of the following
1. Daytona is still learning to understand the machine
2. Their is an absolute blanket of trash EVERY place he goes
3. Soil conditions?

Daytona, Do you have the ability to post of video of the CTX's behavior?
 
in there anyone in your area with a ctx that you could get together with and compare behavior of detectors in the same spot?
 
GKMan said:
I don't know guys....Daytona Gold says that this is EVERY park and lot that he detects.... Speaking with regards to all the parks that I hunted over the years with Minelab's and the time I have with the CTX ( about 10 hours a week ) since early June until Mid December it sounds completely wrong for it to be acting as bad as it is. I hunt urban parks that are upwards of a hundred years old, so I would think they are similarly trashy if not worst. If it isn't one of the things I first mentioned I would venture to guess one of the following
1. Daytona is still learning to understand the machine
2. Their is an absolute blanket of trash EVERY place he goes
3. Soil conditions?

Daytona, Do you have the ability to post of video of the CTX's behavior?
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I do have a GoPro and I will see if I can get a vid up here soon, thanks for the suggestion. HH
 
EMI. Most of my parks have underground power lines, etc... As well as over head. I can walk a distance of 50 feet and go from erratic to purring like a kitten and back again. Only way to mitigate this is to keep a heavy often hand on the sensitivity within respect to the channel you are utilizing.

Randy
 
What happens when you use it in your own backyard? When you originally got the machine I would assume you ran it in your back or front yard. How did it do there then?

I hunt nothing but house and business demos, where there is a ton of trash but the machine works well. You say your background noise goes away completely, it 'nulls'? What happens in an open screen, no discrimination? If it works well on the beach and in saltwater, then I dont think there is anything wrong with the machine and there is some sort of 'other' programming issue. I would take it to a place I know has no underground power lines, no large EMF anywhere near, and then I would use the stock coin pattern and and toss out a few coins and check the results. If it does great on the beach, then I have to believe there is another 'operator' type issue with settings or patterns.
 
I've noticed the same thing...
It will totally null out, swing away from that spot it's fine..
Swing back over the spot where it nulled out it goes silent again..
It is like something in the ground is causing it..
I've had it happen in various conditions..
Really hasn't been a problem, just thought it was normal... Now I wonder..
 
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