Today at a very small beach I switched to channel 11 and maxed out the sensitivity to 30 just to see if it worked as I had heard, and I got a 01=06 signal and dug it up to find a .old .22 shell casing at 15" . Deepest small target I have ever dug. I seems that at greater depths the fe-co wanders a bit but the E Trac does hit it.I plan on using this setting more at neutral sand sites because it seems to go deep.
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Running channel 11 at max sensitivity
- Thread starter hydrodog
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. They always seem to hit about 06 Conductive in Nebraska too. E-TREC-Virginia
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That's pretty deep. I've found 22 cal CW bullet that took me forever to find with the pinpointer. It was so small I thought I would never find it.
The e trac when switched to channel 11 and maxed out on 30 on neutral soils can detect an item deeper than the FECO can register a number to it. I am not sure how much has been discussed here about it but whenever I can max the e trac out I always try channel 11. Channel 11 hits low conducters better in my opinion and I have found two gold rings using this setting and digging the low tones on neutral soil. The soil must be close to neutral or alot of falsing will occur. I also use black widow headphones to be able to hear small peeps when hunting deep.
HaroldILL.
Active member
That is funny as my ground is mild and almost always end up on 11 when I noise cancel. Also do you like the Black Widows? I was going to try them ,But they look thicker and bulky compared to my Killer Bees. I like stream lined headphones as much as possible.
Does anyone know why channel 11 is different from the others? Just curious as my usual grounds can't handle any where near max sens but I usually wind up in 9 or 6 after a noise cancel. Correct me if I'm wrong but the channels are just different frequency step intervals across the available band and then it functions on the three best. Wondering why it would do better.
gunwolf
Well-known member
well after a 3 hour hunt this morning using the channel 11 , with sens. at 28 I dug nothing deeper than 8"...but the ground was extremely dry! I may try this again when the ground is a little softer(wet).
I did manage 4 wheats, 1 IH, 2 1958 canadian pennies, and 1 silver washington. so I cannot say if it works better or not, I'm still out on this one.
I did manage 4 wheats, 1 IH, 2 1958 canadian pennies, and 1 silver washington. so I cannot say if it works better or not, I'm still out on this one.
I thought the purpose of the noise cancel was to allow the detector (in automatic) or the operator (in manual) to select the channel with the least interference from EMI or another detector. It would seem that the channel that gives you the least interference would allow you to have the greatest sensitivity and depth, at least from the standpoint of being able to discern a good signal from noise. So why would channel 11 be more special than any other channel?
LaDigger
Member
I saw a video where a guy with an Exp.II, used a frequency scanner to see what transmit freq. each channel used. If I remember right , channel one started around 14.4 , and went up in increments of .2 Khz for each channel , ending at 16.2, I believe, for channel 11. The higher freq is better for small targets and the lower channel freqs. would be better for depth in theory. Higher freq would have a harder time getting depth in mineralized soil than lower freq, and so forth. I cant find the video now , but it was on youtube I think. Also he was using a freq checker that looked kinda like a Fluke meter , that he held next to the coil , and it gave a digital display of the freq. as he changed the channel on the metal detector. I have not seen another one of those hand held freq checkers anywhere else , so , I don't know for sure, but it looked believable to me. Any way I have been trying channel eleven for my last few hunts and have got silver in places I thought were clean, but that really doesn't mean anything , because silver is where you find it, right ?
Before someone asks, I would say that the explorer transmits its 28 freq. within each one of these subsets of freq. Like for channel 1 , it would be 14.41, 14.43, 14.44, ect. Thats the way I understand it, but I could and might be wrong. If I am , don't beat me up too bad, because I don't care ,as long as it gets the good, hard to find targets, everyone else leaves behind.
Before someone asks, I would say that the explorer transmits its 28 freq. within each one of these subsets of freq. Like for channel 1 , it would be 14.41, 14.43, 14.44, ect. Thats the way I understand it, but I could and might be wrong. If I am , don't beat me up too bad, because I don't care ,as long as it gets the good, hard to find targets, everyone else leaves behind.
Looked around the net some more and this seems very interesting. Going to have to try switching through channels on some deeper targets and seeing what happens. One guy experimenting with it saw small changes on VDI's and saw deep targets disappear on certain channels. Seems to have a lot to do with soil and target types. Rumor is channel 4 may be better for gold while the higher channels do better for silver. Worth experimenting with for sure, thanks for bringing this up!
A guy by the name Digs_alot experimented alot with various channels and he has more gold than anybody else I have seen. It seems that lower channels hit the higher conducters better and higher channels hit lower conducters better. Earthmansurfer may enlighten us some on this subject,he is using the CTX now though.