What is the CTX Equivalent? :shrug:

[MAK]

After viewing Dirtfishing's video on the E-TRAC I see that he is digging high FE/CO combinations. I pass on high FE targets all day with good CO numbers. Am I missing something? How should we read these on the CTX as mine have good tone but the target trace falls in the lower right corner and is usually blue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNDMjw5lKw&list=UUMDvKM43RgKLu71i-D24AAg&index=1&feature=plcp

I posted this same question earlier today and it has disappeared some how.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Those are good ferrous numbers mixed with iron numbers. The high tones are not from the high ferrous numbers but from good coin range numbers.Often the good ferrous numbers were down to 1 or close to it on the deeper targets.If he had went slower and took the time the E-Trac would have locked onto the near 12 or lower ferrous numbers as the good target was isolated from the iron/trash.The E-Trac is much slower processor wise than the CTX and takes a lot longer to update ID numbers.

I run the CTX in TTF "two tone ferrous" when relic hunting in carpets of old square nails and it does great.The CTX does not drop the ferrous numbers down to 1 or their abouts like the E-Trac does on good deep targets . They stay closer too the 12 line in my experience and when they drop too 1 it has been iron for me.

 

[DirtyDeedsDugDirtDeep]

That 'junk' he's showing looks a lot like old roofing slate pieces to me.

 

[MAK]

What I am curous about is if you would dig a 35-42 on a CTX as DIrtfishing has done with his E-TRAC (and still had a good target).

 

[Ray-Mo.]

The 35-42 and other high ferrous numbers were low tones and falses or iron. The machine just did not update the id numbers part of the time to show the lower ferrous numbers in the 1-16 range that gave the high tones on the coins and led him to dig them.
I have many hundreds of hours and have recovered thousands of coins with over 500 of them being silver with the E-Trac and never dug any true 35-42 numbers that were coins.If you listen in the video you will here the intermittent low tones and they are in conjunction the high ferrous numbers.

 

[jimzilla]

Ray Mo is totally correct. The poster in the video doesnt give the detector enough time to adjust to the target. If he went around the entire signal like a clock then Im sure somewhere in that 12 position clock, he would get a decent target ID

 

[MAK]

So to clarify then, he was digging signals based on the tone alone and not the FE/CO readings - and on the CTX a high FE and diggable CO is definitely just that - a high ferrous signal.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Yes Bill who I have had the pleasure of hunting with a few times was going mostly by tone and yes it has been my experience that generally the high ferrous numbers will be iron on the CTX if you are running a program with some disc. On a wide open screen you may get a few coins with nails mixed that could give a high ferrous number.

 

[MAK]

Will the coins show at all on the target trace in your example?