Faint signals

[jspeedy]

I was at the local park with the Deus but unfortunately the ground was still frozen solid so I just practiced. I had two separate signals (different locations) that were faint and repeatable until the signal disappeared. One had a solid 91 and the other a 94 repeatable and as I said, the signals just vanished. I used pinpoint, for both spots, which then gave me a signal. One of the pinpointed targets (94) was an inch or so off from the original hit and the other (91) was dead on. That all being said, (poorly I suppose) any thoughts?

 

[parkgt]

What frequencies did you check them with. Did you change to 4 hKz to see if they stayed the same or dropped?

 

[jspeedy]

I was using a deep coin program 8KHz when I hit the targets, I then switched to a high trash at 12KHz and heard nothing.

 

[parkgt]

At 8 kHz those were probably not coins. If 4 kHz would hit them with the numbers staying high it would confirm junk like bottle tops. If the numbers dropped appropriately for the frequency they might be worth digging when you can.

Were all your 12 kHz setting except notch the same as the 8 kHz settings or were some changed that could be effecting depth? Smaller targets are usually reported to respond well to the higher frequency, with 4kHz hitting hard on the high conductives like silver.

 

[newuser]

Just curious, were you in manual or tracking for ground balance. You said the signals vanished, I know when I'm in tracking GB if I keep swinging over a target it will vanish.

 

[jspeedy]

The 8KHz program was set with a 1 reactivity and the 12KHz was set with a 3 reactivity, both were manual GB. The ground reading varied slightly from 86-90.

 

[parkgt]

The increase in reactivity to 3 on the 12 kHz program may have (probably) resulted in a loss of depth and may account for the signal loss when you switched.

 

[jspeedy]

The signals were initially lost whilst using the 8KHz program, I switched to the 12KHz just to check if a signal could be found (and none was).