Single tone or multi tone

[Coinseeker 78]

I am at a quandary with which tone to use when hunting for coins. I have the F70 and love it. I am constantly trying different settings to learn the effect that they produce. I have owned the f70 for several months and use the sensitivity set at 80 where possible and the disc at 0 the sounds at 4 with the speed at DE and the threshold as high as possible after adjusting the HZ setting to quiet the EMI to where it is bearably audible, With these settings I have found a lot of silver and good artifacts. However, after reading Toms article about setting your disc at 6 and sounds at one I went out in my yard and picked up a lot of good mono sounds that seem to be ones to dig after circling the target and getting consistent readings on the VDI readings. I have dug over a hundred holes or more in this fairly large yard and have just about given up on finding any more valuable items. Is there an advantage to using the 6 and one settings over the 4 sound settings that would help me to find more coins. I know I can try it and find out for myself but wonder what your take on this is. Thanks in advance.

 

[ez4sure]

well theres no exact awnser, the nice thing about your f70 is it can be set alot of different ways depending on the area your hunting. i had one for two years and used 3 tones with the disc from 6 to 20 most of the time but in areas with little trash all metal or at mode is a little deeper its also the best mode for beach hunting. but running 1+ tones in iron and trash infested areas will unmask some targets but it can be hard on the brain. sounds like your doing good with your f70 so far i would keep playing around with differrent settings now and then but use what works best for you. also you should get the 5 inch coil for trashy areas it will pick out good targets that the bigger coils will miss. the more ya dig the more you learn hh

 

[jim tn]

I do like multi tones for old coin hunting and set my F 75 LTD up near how you do. The high tones on nickels and older coins alert me to check those hits more carefully. Sounds like you have been doing fine with your present set up. Tom's 6 and 1 is mainly for badly iron infested spots I believe.HH jim tn

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

I am a huge fan of 2 tone myself.

 

[hershey1]

I'm with Bart on 2 tones. But I mostly relic hunt and use the bp mode. If I coin hunted with my F-75 and used 3 or 4 tone I would have to run the Disc. up to keep down the racket. O disc and 4 tones what a man/woman. HH

 

[ramer]

I wish I could make suggestions to you. I have about 80 hours on my F75se and I can honestly say I have not found a single target that I would not have found with some of my cheaper detectors. I've tried a lot of various settings hoping to turn it into a magic machine but no such luck yet. I know it is telling me things but I've yet to learn its language. Another guy says he is able to dig clad and silver in monotone even when the target is maksed and the VDI reads iron. Go figure. Have no idea how he does it or IF he can actually do it. I don't know if I should be encouraged or discouraged from reading such posts.

 

[zeekeys]

Gadzooks guys... I tried running 6 dis and 1 tone. That is a lot of noise. It didn't take to long before I bumped it up the dis to 21 and left 1 tone. It ran very quiet. I run sens@70 -75. I noticed not a lot of false sounds. I moved along pretty good and picked up 64 coins. I am going to run same settings today. I have been using Sens@60 -70, Tones 3H, and Dis@20, and Thres@-3 mostly. This seems to work for picking up some good coin amounts in the parks here. I am out here to have fun and listening to a lot of noise kind of gets to me and it is no longer fun. About getting used to a detector. It seems that 100 hours just doesn't cut it for me. It takes me at least 2 summers of use to get to understand the detector fairly good. That is me. Just a thought. I also run factory settings for a long time. I don't go looking for gold or deep silver. I just dig coins. It is more fun and an easy way for me to get to know the detector. Thanks for reading.... Happy Trails.....Z