Wireless with sov gt

[Murphdasurf]

I hate wires. I have even given up on hip or shoulder bagging my sov and gone back to rod mounting. Even the little bit of loose coil cable dangling from a hip or shoulder bag bothered me. Anyone know of a cover for the front of the sov when rod mounting?

Now for the headphones. I bit the bullet and bought the logitech freepulse. 100 bucks. I was sceptical and figured I would probably have to return them especially considering the blue toothh wireless kellyco offers is not recommended/dos not work with the sov gt.

Much to my surprise they seem to work quite well although I have not used them in the field yet.

To me there seems to be no lag, even in pinpoint. Everything sounds the same to me other than a slight "punch" at the begining of a tone for lack of a better term that is not present with my corded phones. This was pretty much eliminated by turning the volume on the detector to minimum and volume on HPs to max. I also tested with a minimal battery charge for the HP unit so this may not even be present with fully charged batteries. May even be able to use this "punch" to an advantage as larger solid items produce this more than smaller items with holes in them like say a ring. Battery life on the unit by most all review contributors is six hours. Plenty enough for me. The transmitter will need an adapter but is vary small and clicked into my adapter firmly. A wire extension is provided so I guess the transmitter could be taped to the side of the control box if necessary.

The only draw back I can think of right now absent any field testing is that the unit will power off if no sound comes through the head phones for 15 minutes to save batteries. This means using an audible threshold at all times which is probably wise with a cordless unit anyway to be sure it is transmitting properly.

 

[adam in cal]

I personally am of the opinion that the best deal is a set of timber-wolf headphones , I hear ya that cords totally suck and can drive a person bonkers , but its something you learn to live /deal with ......I tried the hip mounting deal some time ago and it was great for awhile but I abandoned it due to the cord issue as you mentioned....I can deal with the headphone cord easy enough. As for the extra cord from the coil ,wrap it nice and its a non issue, you can always shorten the coil cable to the bare min ............anyhow , ...................good luck and please get back after a few hunts and let us know how it going ......If you don't try you will never know .....I hope you find something cool and it works great , BUT I AM SKEPTICAL........take care ...

 

[Murphdasurf]

I can certainly understand your skepticism. I am still not a hundred percent convinced on it myself. The true test will be the next time I can get out to the beach.

I did take it out back of the house which is difficult because of over head power lines and tons of trash but I did find that the "punch" I spoke of is a air test or surface target phenomenon. Buried targets sound off just as they would with my corded HPs. This is a relief because I found right off that I did not like the volume level when turning the detector all the way down and turning the HPs max.

How difficult is it to shorten the coil cable?

 

[Rick(ND)]

The Timberwolfs are the best headphones for the Sovereigns I feel as the tones are nice and can tell them easy compared to some of the other headphones.
A couple of years ago I tried to make some wireless headphones using what i was told was the best transmitter used for CD players to transmit the signal to a receiver (a radio). I used a Sony Walkman for my receiver and used my Timberwolfs on my Explorer as I needed the volume. The high tones were so so while the low tones were bad. I tried it on my Sovereign and the tones were just real bad and couldn't tell a nickle from a dime it was so bad. I tried different headphones and different transmitters and non worked for the Sovereign for me.
One of the things on the volume control on the Sovereign is it is for target volume and not threshold volume as it seems like it don't work when using it for threshold as it stays the same, but try it for a target and you will see with it set low the deeper target may not be heard. This is why it is recommended to set the volume as high as you can and then adjust your headphones to a comfortable level.

I will too be curious what Murph find out in actual hunting conditions as anything is possible, but I don't think I will ever change from my Timberwolfs as they have done me good with some great finds that were deep.

 

[adam in cal]

shortening the cable is a simple procedure provided you are proficent with a sodering gun, if your skills arent great then I sugest you do not try it yourself but rather have it done by an electronics GUY someplace ....... I should also add to make note of which color wires go to which number pin, this way you make sure it is correct.......do not just cut out a section in the middle and splice it back together , that is a Rube Goldberg way and its no good .....

 

[Murphdasurf]

Going to try my best to get out to the beach for a true field test today. Biggest problem here is I have nothing to compare these wireless HPs to but my low end HPs.

I am thinking these may do for the beach where the vast majority of targets get dug regardless of what tone they produce. The low squawk of a crown cap is still vary easy to identify and the only signal I ever ignore at the beach.

As for high end corded phones. Is there that much sound quality improvement. For example with my low end HPs I have thin men's 14k wedding band and several pieces of heavy foil/can slaw that produce what seems to be the exact same low tone when using the wireless and my cheap corded phones. Will high end HPs separate these tones well enough/improve sound quality to be confident in ignoring some of this trash? I understand that in the higher tone range aluminum/pull tabs will be difficult to separate out from potential gold but what about the lower tone range that these thin bands fall in. I don't seem to have problems with pull tab infestation in my area. The vast majority of junk targets I dig are masquerading in the low tone range in the form of some sort of heavy foil which I don't think is shreds of aluminum cans as they tend to produce the same tone as a pull tab.

If this is a iffy or impossible to accomplish even with high end headphones I will probably opt for the convenience of cordless since pretty much all my hunts are beach and just continue digging nearly every target.

 

[joecoin]

Murph,

If you have the Minelab bag, I think you can use that while shaft mounting the control box, there is a big velcro "door" in it.

I'll check mine tonight when I get home.