Question on signals??

[M.L. Hinds]

I was using smart screen while detecting. I found a merc. and a silver rosey, bunch of clad, and a live 50 cal. round. I had a couple weird signals but didn't dig them and now I am wondering?? These signals had a high pitch like silver but instead of top right they were bottom right????? I know! I know! I should have dug one but didn't has anyone had this before and if so what did it turn out to be??

 

[Joe of South Jersey]

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[jimb]

Hello
I have seen my EX11 do that also. I will sweep over the high pitched tone and before it picks up anything else I would lift the coil up in the air. Just high enough so it did not pick any thing up and then pause with it, ABout 1 to 2 seconds later the cross hairs would then jump back up in the silver range to where the high pitched beep should be? I wonder if having deep on causes this? Its like it is behind in the signals and hits the low tone first but then the high pitched signal is stronger so that rings out while the low tone is still marked on the screen. Could be a rusty nail also. An old ax head rang up the top right this week for me. I thought they were made of iron? Thats just my trial and error experiance in dealing with that situation. More stuff to find and more knowledge to learn.

jimb WI

 

[SnowCampRick]

I would guess bottle cap if along the lower right side.

If you are in conductive tones every thing up and down the right hand side could be a high tone.

I switch to Ferrous tones to check some targets then every thing
along the top is a high tone.

If its a high tone in both modes it is silver.

Rick

 

[Frank in NH]

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[Rick(ND)]

In ferrous tones everything that is on the right hand side of the screen will be high pitched as it is less ferrous while everything that reads on the left side of the screen will be low pitched. Now if you were running conductive tones than everything that is highly conductive will be high pitched no mater how much ferrous it has and low conductive will be low pitched. What I like to run the ferrous tones as that rusty nail which will read high conductive and are high ferrous would give a high tone if I run conductivity, but in ferrous they read low tones and easy to tell. Now with this a rusty bottle cap will read on the far right side and in ferrous tone it give a high pitched too like a good coin will, but easy to tell as the cross hairs are on the bottom and a couple of quick passes over the target and you know it is not a coin and a rusty bottle cap as the cross hairs are on the bottom. Now even trying to notch them out or disc them out some will come though and give you a signal, but you will see they are on the very bottom of the screen.
In either ferrous tones or conductivity your copper coins and silver will read high pitched and easy to tell. In conductivity your nails will also read high tones and can confuse many as the cross hairs are on the top of the screen and may bounce around a bit, so you have to dig them to be sure. Now on ferrous the rusty nails now will be low tones and easy to tell,but now your rusty bottle caps that read on the far right will read high tones, but find that going over them a few times and the cross hairs stay on the very bottom of the screen I know even if it is high tone it is not a good coin. You will also see in ferrous that when you get a high tone in ferrous and the cross hairs are half way down you will dig rusty tin cans in most cases.
If you were running ferrous tones than those signals you passed up that were on the bottom right were more than likely rusty bottle caps and you didn't miss anything good.