What a Great Forum!!

[Djay-Mo]

Hello everyone.
Knowing that I would purchase an Etrac sometime this year I have followed this forum very closely since January,finally got the Etrac the 1st of July.
I have been a member of numerous hunting and fishing forums and I must say that this Etrac Forum has the best bunch of guys I've seen, always willing to help, comment or try to answer questions.
Nebtrac,Ray-Mo,Goesforever,FooserPaul,the list just could go on and on.Just amazing finds from all you guys.
I'll be honest,I have really struggled with my Etrac and at times wanted to blame my machine because it was from Malaysia,but its not the machine and its not the programs I am using,its my locations and me.This machine finds stuff thats deeper than what I want to dig,so I know it will get better.
Just one thing thats bothering me.I made a new test garden in March. I buried a smooth faced barber quarter at 10 inchs and a barber dime that I had gouged beyond recognition at 8 inchs.Found both way back in the 80s.I couldn't get a hit on either till the big rains we had a couple of weeks ago,but only in conductive can I hear them.2 tone ferrous will not pick either one. I have been using 2 tone ferrous all summer and its driving me crazy as to why ferrous won't work,and I have tried everything, even sensitivity maxed.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Djay

 

[gregliss]

For me I find that iron often will faulse across the top of the screen. I have the screen open with a small strip across the top that I took/borrowed from Andy's Coin program. This cleans up the audio an encredible amount and a bit easier to make the dig decision, but I guess that comes at a cost of possibly masking a target near that odd peice of iron that faulses high on the screen. Works a teat for me, however I only use it in iron patches and prefer Conductive - multi in nearly all other situations.

Another word of warning with 2-tone Ferrous: I consider it a mode not suitable for the real deep coins and this is why. It's change over line for a low tone is only on the FE17 line, if your after deepies very often you will get FE numbers lower on the screen than this, I've have had countless as low as FE24 on very deep coins, others on the forum as low as FE28 (The "FE shift" I call it). So if I was running 2-T Ferrous I would have not dug one of them, got a low tone and kept walking. Running 4 tone ferrous would combat this FE shift if you considered digging the top three tones and only ignored the bottom tone. This effectively makes your "cut-off" at FE 30 allowing for the FE Shift on the deep ones, and is roughly where most people run there iron mask in conductive anyway, except minus the discrimination so possibly a little more depth.

Some stuff for you to try:

1st - are you using discrimination in 2 tone , it should be mostly clear. at a minimum you should get a low tone, especially if you can get it in conductive - multi.

2nd - Above is a quote from a post I did earlier today, you could try some of the logic here.

If you get nothing on an open screen in 2-T frerrous on auto +3 and the sensitivity runs low, it could just be that your soil conditions in your test bed are difficult and therefore restricting depth.

Good luck