Got in a good nearly five hour hunt today, trying to get a leg up on the white stuff that is in the forecast for tomorrow. Hit a spot that had yielded me clad and 2 or 3 silvers in the past, but always was a tough emi spot. This morning was no exception. Right off, the LTD began chattering like a flock of starving blackbirds. This morning I decided rather then lower sen. and raise disc. that I would work with the "frequency shift" and see if I could quiet the LTD down enough this way. After working my way to frequency 6, the LTD became quiet as a mouse. I was able to run sen. 85, disc. 4, b p mode and 3h tones. G B was 63-66 throughout the hunt. Besides some clad and other curios, I recovered 3 silver coins, a 34 Washington quarter, 58d Rosie and a 43p war nickel. And kind of as a bonus, a sterling Medic Alert bracelet. Near the end of the hunt, I got a bouncy quarter reading, mostly 80-84 with the occasional 90 thrown in. I dug about a 4" deep clod and spotted a clad quarter on edge in the clod. Plucked the quarter, re-scanned the clod and got another high tone hit. Broke the clod open and recovered 4 more quarters and 2 clad dimes. I started moving dirt back into the hole and remembered the 90 reading??? so re-scanned the hole. Got another good high tone hit with the again 90 reading. Dug down another 3 or so inches and saw part of a chain and medal in the clod. The person that lost the alert medal was allergic to iodine dye. O.K., now if the white stuff will just stay up in yankee land. HH jim tn