Mike Hillis
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Some of you might find this interesting.
For those of you that are not familiar with the GoldStrike, every target has a two tone response. In Disc mode the response is LowLow or LowHigh. A LowLow tone means target acquired, but it is below the Disc setting. A LowHigh response means target acquired and it is above the Disc setting. I was looking for a way to give my GoldStrike a more 'normal' discrimination response, a way to remove the low tone and only hear high tone responses. After some research I came across one of these....
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As you can see it is a battery powered graphic equalizer. The GoldStrike's low tone is 500 Hertz and this would let me lower the 500 Hertz low tone, basically giving me a single tone response. After I bought this I got busy and never actually bought the adapters and cabling to try it out.
First Texas has always had a little difficulty in getting the modulated audio responses right on the high tones and I was out with the F5 suffering through that this past Sunday and I was wondering what to do about it when I remembered I still had this graphic equalizer! That would be just the ticket for increasing the audio volume of the modulated high tones! That was enough to motivate me to get on with the project so yesterday I ordered the cabling parts I'll need to put this into play.
The equalizer requires mono inputs and outputs so I ordered a couple of 1/4" female stereo to 1/4" mono male adapters and a 6' stereo male cable. The graphic equalizer is too heavy to mount on the detector itself so I'll need to belt mount it. Patch the detector to the equalizer input through the mono adapter and plug the headphones into the equalizer output through another mono adapter. If I like how it actually works (if I even get it working) then I'll customize the cabling appropriately. Maybe even see about getting something better tuned to detector frequencies.
Just thought I share and see what folks thought about it.
HH
Mike
For those of you that are not familiar with the GoldStrike, every target has a two tone response. In Disc mode the response is LowLow or LowHigh. A LowLow tone means target acquired, but it is below the Disc setting. A LowHigh response means target acquired and it is above the Disc setting. I was looking for a way to give my GoldStrike a more 'normal' discrimination response, a way to remove the low tone and only hear high tone responses. After some research I came across one of these....
[attachment 333653 DSCF0554.jpg] [attachment 333654 DSCF0555.jpg] [attachment 333655 DSCF0556.jpg]
As you can see it is a battery powered graphic equalizer. The GoldStrike's low tone is 500 Hertz and this would let me lower the 500 Hertz low tone, basically giving me a single tone response. After I bought this I got busy and never actually bought the adapters and cabling to try it out.
First Texas has always had a little difficulty in getting the modulated audio responses right on the high tones and I was out with the F5 suffering through that this past Sunday and I was wondering what to do about it when I remembered I still had this graphic equalizer! That would be just the ticket for increasing the audio volume of the modulated high tones! That was enough to motivate me to get on with the project so yesterday I ordered the cabling parts I'll need to put this into play.
The equalizer requires mono inputs and outputs so I ordered a couple of 1/4" female stereo to 1/4" mono male adapters and a 6' stereo male cable. The graphic equalizer is too heavy to mount on the detector itself so I'll need to belt mount it. Patch the detector to the equalizer input through the mono adapter and plug the headphones into the equalizer output through another mono adapter. If I like how it actually works (if I even get it working) then I'll customize the cabling appropriately. Maybe even see about getting something better tuned to detector frequencies.
Just thought I share and see what folks thought about it.
HH
Mike
