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I had been having some intermittant connection problems with my explorer-periscope-headphone hook-up. Kept wiggling cords and resoldering connections but couldn't seem to get it to be 100%. Today dead silence. The Grey Ghosts NDTs gave up the ghost, or at least the cord did. Went to Walmart and go some $20 Sonys. World of difference in how it sounds.
For the first couple of years I would switch between the GGs and the cheapy phones that came with the XS depending on the weather. The GGs were just too hot for summer use. The GGs are definitely not built for hi fidelity sound. Periscope sounds amazing with better phones. Finally the cheap stock phones gave out and I've stuck with the GGs ever since.
But.. These new Sony's really bring out the low tones but high pitched silver really seems diminished. Maybe my hearing is starting to go but I almost walked past a shallow Walker today. Might take some doing to retrain my ears for faint deep silver.
Anyways walked over a block and started doing some boulevards. This is a section with almost no grass and stuff was way shallow. Pretty much had to dig every signal, wheats and mercs less than an inch deep. Owner of the house came out and I got permission to do the yard. Got a 1938-S quarter quickly it was shallow but real faint. This was when I started to worry about the new headphone purchase.
Kept popping wheaties right and left, but had to walk on home to start up the grill. Thought I would run out while grilling and try for 50+ Wheaties, never filled a roll in a day. I didn't make it, but did manage 8 silver for the day, best I've done in a while.
Got a 1944-S Walker in very nice shape, 1938-S Washington, 1907 barber dime, 1919, 1935, and 44 mercs, and a 1945-S War nickel. Last hit before heading home was a nice silver sound. Dug up a quarter and saw it was a SLQ, it was dark and couldn't read the date but saw it was prominent so I figured I had one of the later recessed date types. Was suprised to get home and find that it was a 1917 Type I titty and all in probably about XF shape. My first Type I SLQ and a beauty to boot. Last year I dug a 1917-D Type II in equally good shape. But most of the rest of the SLQs I dig tend to be the worn flat variety.
And 32 wheaties.
There are miles more of boulevards to do in town. Some will be seeing road construction this year. Hope to do a before and after. I seem to have a real hard time getting deep in this soil when the grass is taller and the ground dry. Think it may be heavily mineralized sandy soil from the old river valley. This neighbor hood is predominantly early 1900s with a few older houses, should be way more indians, barbers and so forth but don't seem to get them here. Find plenty elsewhere, but some how either the ground is tougher or (unlikely) there aren't any older ones here.
Anybody else notice how small a shallow big silver hit can be sometimes? Any suggestions on headphones would be welcome also
Chris
I had been having some intermittant connection problems with my explorer-periscope-headphone hook-up. Kept wiggling cords and resoldering connections but couldn't seem to get it to be 100%. Today dead silence. The Grey Ghosts NDTs gave up the ghost, or at least the cord did. Went to Walmart and go some $20 Sonys. World of difference in how it sounds.
For the first couple of years I would switch between the GGs and the cheapy phones that came with the XS depending on the weather. The GGs were just too hot for summer use. The GGs are definitely not built for hi fidelity sound. Periscope sounds amazing with better phones. Finally the cheap stock phones gave out and I've stuck with the GGs ever since.
But.. These new Sony's really bring out the low tones but high pitched silver really seems diminished. Maybe my hearing is starting to go but I almost walked past a shallow Walker today. Might take some doing to retrain my ears for faint deep silver.
Anyways walked over a block and started doing some boulevards. This is a section with almost no grass and stuff was way shallow. Pretty much had to dig every signal, wheats and mercs less than an inch deep. Owner of the house came out and I got permission to do the yard. Got a 1938-S quarter quickly it was shallow but real faint. This was when I started to worry about the new headphone purchase.
Kept popping wheaties right and left, but had to walk on home to start up the grill. Thought I would run out while grilling and try for 50+ Wheaties, never filled a roll in a day. I didn't make it, but did manage 8 silver for the day, best I've done in a while.
Got a 1944-S Walker in very nice shape, 1938-S Washington, 1907 barber dime, 1919, 1935, and 44 mercs, and a 1945-S War nickel. Last hit before heading home was a nice silver sound. Dug up a quarter and saw it was a SLQ, it was dark and couldn't read the date but saw it was prominent so I figured I had one of the later recessed date types. Was suprised to get home and find that it was a 1917 Type I titty and all in probably about XF shape. My first Type I SLQ and a beauty to boot. Last year I dug a 1917-D Type II in equally good shape. But most of the rest of the SLQs I dig tend to be the worn flat variety.
And 32 wheaties.
There are miles more of boulevards to do in town. Some will be seeing road construction this year. Hope to do a before and after. I seem to have a real hard time getting deep in this soil when the grass is taller and the ground dry. Think it may be heavily mineralized sandy soil from the old river valley. This neighbor hood is predominantly early 1900s with a few older houses, should be way more indians, barbers and so forth but don't seem to get them here. Find plenty elsewhere, but some how either the ground is tougher or (unlikely) there aren't any older ones here.
Anybody else notice how small a shallow big silver hit can be sometimes? Any suggestions on headphones would be welcome also
Chris
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