Am getting more comfortable with the LTD

[tvr]

Took the LTD to the school yard today for just shy of two hours. I normally consider anything over a dollar at this location a good result and I welcome the exercise. Jewelry is always a happy bonus.

No jewelry today but $3.96 was not bad. Only worked a small area because the LTD was uncovering so many targets. Ran 3H tones for about half the time and 4 tone the rest. Disc 0, Sensitivity 55. GB settled at 67. BP mode.

I am finding this detector in BP mode kind of impressive once I got it a little quiet. Will need to play some in CL.

Cheers,
tvr

 

[Cal_Cobra]

TVR just curious but between the 3H and 4 tone option, which did you like best and why?

Thanks,
Brian

PS - My new F75 LTD arrived this evening, I'm looking forward to hitting the dirt with it.

 

[tvr]

Brian,
So far I tend to like the 3H in trashy areas because I am very used to that mode from using the CZ6a and the CZ20. I can see a lot of merit in the 4 tone. I just don't have my head around 4 tone yet for dig no-dig decissions. I have to really slow down the hunt and swing several times over targets so I can process the tone and ID information in 4 tone where as I am much quicker deciding with 3H, or even straight 3 tone. I am going to work with 4 tone more and retrain myself. 2 tone is also very interesting.
tvr

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

I use 2 tone for relic hunting with trash love it and mono for relic with iron.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

If you invoke the four tone mode and a disc of 0 you are now hunting with a F75LTDCZ3D really it is the high tone and the next lower tone that NASA TOM designed for hunting and finding old coins...like the relic tone on the CZ70 two detectors in one

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I remember Dandowoski saying the 4 tone was similar to the CZ3D/CZ70 4 tone setup. I've been using 3H (nickels moved to high tones) on my F70 & F5, and have been pretty happy with it. I've tried the 4 tone and it was OK too, but I thought the 3 tone option gave you less noise to listen too along with the aid of the VID #'s to help you decide to dig or not to dig. I've also used the 2F tone on the F70 when in thick iron and I thought it did well too, but couldn't really see using it for coin shooting a park or such (well unless it was infested with iron). I picked up a nice sterling silver pocket watch back a couple of weeks ago in an iron infested Nevada ghost town using the 2F tone option on my F70.

I guess I don't understand the purpose of 1 tone, I mean everything will give a single tone, so your eyes will be glued to the display. It seems like you might as well run all metal and get smoother operation, still using 1 tone. I guess the thought behind one tone is to dig anything metal, iron or not

I took the F75 LTD on its maiden voyage this afternoon for about five hours. I lucked out, the first target I dug was a nice sterling silver ring (been on a bit of a ring roll lately, this makes my 6th silver ring, along with one gold ring in the past 6 weeks or so) No old coins, but I found some neat relic type goodies in an old spot, along with the ring and the usual clad in another spot. I was able to run the bP mode at 75 sensitivity with the first half of iron disc'd out and it ran super stable (that says a lot as this park is EMI central), and it seems to be going pretty deep (would've loved to find a 10" barber dime or such to be certain

I think I'm going to like using the LTD, luckily it's very similar in operation to the F70 which I have a LOT of time on, but a lot more feature rich and definitely deeper. I haven't tried the CL mode yet, but bP mode is looking good. When I switched between bP and DE modes, bP was hands down far better sounding on targets.

hh,
Brian