tippyhound
New member
In the past week I read a post on one of the forums about questionable iron readings. It involved getting good quarter or dime audio readings but questionable Fe/Co readings.
The poster advised checking the Quick Mask program on these signals. The Quick Mask was run with no discrimination and when checking the signal in question he advised that if the signal indicator was showing any where on the lower right side of the box not to dig as his experience proved those signals to be iron each and every time and if the indicator showed on the top right to middle of that box to dig those signals.
Now yesterday I ran into 4 different signals in a trashy park that had the purist cleanest high pitched quarter/ dime audio signals you ever heard. The FE numbers were really low 02 to 04 but the CO numbers read 46 to 47 bouncing back and forth. Now all these signals were 6"s plus in depth and when I checked the Quick Mask program I got a indicator reading in the lower right side of the box on each and every signal, so I didn't dig. In past years I owned a Fisher CZ-6 a two frequency detector that got great depth but was bad about giving good coin readings on small bits of iron and nails, and I dug more then my share of those nails.
Problem is that pretty clean audio signal and CO reading of 46/47 is haunting me. There is quite a bit of iron in this park but most of the trash is aluminum junk. I was running a pretty open discrimination pattern, using high trash setting in the Pro menu.
I would appreciate your opinion as to weather I should be checking those kind of signals. I know when in doubt I should always check but I am 65 yrs old and my knees don't work like they used to so getting up and down isn't as easy as it once was. Your experience and opinions would be much appreciated.
Thanks Rick
The poster advised checking the Quick Mask program on these signals. The Quick Mask was run with no discrimination and when checking the signal in question he advised that if the signal indicator was showing any where on the lower right side of the box not to dig as his experience proved those signals to be iron each and every time and if the indicator showed on the top right to middle of that box to dig those signals.
Now yesterday I ran into 4 different signals in a trashy park that had the purist cleanest high pitched quarter/ dime audio signals you ever heard. The FE numbers were really low 02 to 04 but the CO numbers read 46 to 47 bouncing back and forth. Now all these signals were 6"s plus in depth and when I checked the Quick Mask program I got a indicator reading in the lower right side of the box on each and every signal, so I didn't dig. In past years I owned a Fisher CZ-6 a two frequency detector that got great depth but was bad about giving good coin readings on small bits of iron and nails, and I dug more then my share of those nails.
Problem is that pretty clean audio signal and CO reading of 46/47 is haunting me. There is quite a bit of iron in this park but most of the trash is aluminum junk. I was running a pretty open discrimination pattern, using high trash setting in the Pro menu.
I would appreciate your opinion as to weather I should be checking those kind of signals. I know when in doubt I should always check but I am 65 yrs old and my knees don't work like they used to so getting up and down isn't as easy as it once was. Your experience and opinions would be much appreciated.
Thanks Rick