kittlitz
Active member
Our club hunted a large park area yesterday, and I could not get my Tejon to settle down. The behavior was the same as I experienced in certain parts of the beach when hunting in Hawaii, but this time I couldn't find an area where it wouldn't happen. The symptoms are as follows:
o Machine was very chattery, especially during the normal swing motion but even when it was held still.
o The threshold would not go silent, even at the minimum (fully counter-clockwise) position. At most, the tone pitch would lower frequency a bit.
o Reducing sensitivity to minimum made no difference.
o Primary discrimination was set to about Foil.
o If I held the machine out straight in front of me, so that the shaft was parallel to ground, the chatter stopped.
o I was using the 8" concentric coil; whereas in Hawaii I'd been using the 8x11" RSD. So the problem doesn't appear to be coil-dependent.
Needless to say, this was a frustrating hunt. With the threshold not behaving correctly, I couldn't really ground balance.
I tried the machine in the backyard when I got home, and it was fine; threshold behaved normally, very little chatter, etc. So the problem seems at least partly environmental. The only (weak) theory I have is that there was a very tall transmission tower about a mile away from the park but.. that seems like a longshot. As far as i know, no one else in the club had similar issues. I'm not sure how many Tesoros were being used, but at least one guy had a DeLeon and had no EMI problems.
If anyone has experienced something similar, or has an idea what's going on, please let me know.
Thanks,
-Ken
o Machine was very chattery, especially during the normal swing motion but even when it was held still.
o The threshold would not go silent, even at the minimum (fully counter-clockwise) position. At most, the tone pitch would lower frequency a bit.
o Reducing sensitivity to minimum made no difference.
o Primary discrimination was set to about Foil.
o If I held the machine out straight in front of me, so that the shaft was parallel to ground, the chatter stopped.
o I was using the 8" concentric coil; whereas in Hawaii I'd been using the 8x11" RSD. So the problem doesn't appear to be coil-dependent.
Needless to say, this was a frustrating hunt. With the threshold not behaving correctly, I couldn't really ground balance.
I tried the machine in the backyard when I got home, and it was fine; threshold behaved normally, very little chatter, etc. So the problem seems at least partly environmental. The only (weak) theory I have is that there was a very tall transmission tower about a mile away from the park but.. that seems like a longshot. As far as i know, no one else in the club had similar issues. I'm not sure how many Tesoros were being used, but at least one guy had a DeLeon and had no EMI problems.
If anyone has experienced something similar, or has an idea what's going on, please let me know.
Thanks,
-Ken