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Re: F75SE Falsing at 3 and 4 tone - 11 years ago
Thanks for your reply Gman. This happens when my senitivity is alreay at 99. If I can run Dp mode at the location without EMI interference, I will, but for reasons of my example here, let's say that I am in Sens 99, Disc 1, Notch 1 (will notch even GO down to zero?), Tones @2F Mode: DE Successfully Groung Grabbed at 59 after repeated attempts just to make sure. I am sweeping happily aby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: All metal/motion Vs disc mode - 11 years ago
Let me ask a question concerning using all -metal mode as a deep coinseeker in a sholl plyground that has been picked to death. This school has been around since before the Civil War and Gen Grant even commandeered the school as a hospital after Shiloh's battle. My goal is to target the deep objects while disregarding the top 3 to 4 inch that has been picked to death. What do I listen for aby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
F75SE Falsing at 3 and 4 tone - 11 years ago
I noticed today while hunting in a trashy area that I cannot hunt with 3H or 3 or 4 tones without excessive falsing!! And this is with absolutely NO emi issue. I was hunting in a disc of 3 and a sensitivity of 99 in DE mode. It would start the EMI chatter in DP mode. But in 2F tones it wouldn't false. But if I clicked it up to 3 or 3H I would hear an internal hun or threshold commence. Thenby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: A question about ground balancing the F75SE - 11 years ago
Okay Gman. I will do that. Today, wsell, in a couple of hours, I have a lady coming to day-sit with Momma so that I can go to an old homesite that really SHOULD produce a silver coin or two. Of course, like every other place I have, it is blanketed with square nails and other iron junk , such as the points of old hoprse drawn hay mowers. Horseshoes. Etc. But I will perform that experiment whenby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: where is the link for this? - 11 years ago
Tony from Tidewater Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks I don't know where this information is posted, or if it's even posted, but I'm betting that it is posted somewhere. I'm sorrry that I can't help you with a link. i found the materila in the literature that was enclosed in my F75SE. Tom includes alot more good info in theby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Just re-read: F-75 Peak Performance by NasaTom - 11 years ago
It was included in the literature that came inside the F75SE carton!!! A question: when you say MONOTONE do you mean 1 or 1F ??????? I plan on using this setting real soon. Thanks. kevinby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: A question about ground balancing the F75SE - 11 years ago
I tried the NasaTom technique with great results. I then went to my test garden with the settings all in default mode, and was amazed that even my deepest target (a mercury dime) at 9 inches was detected. The defauly sensitvity is 60!!! Man, I am happy with this unit. It's not near as chattery as my last F75SE even at higher sensitivity. It is SOME, but not as much as my last one. Anyway, tby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: A question about ground balancing the F75SE - 11 years ago
Yes i did and thanks. I am going to detect in my yard today, and an old homeplace in town, if my aunt will come by and sit with Momma. I am carring a notepad to jot down questions. I always forget the questions if I don't right them down right when they occur in my mind. I look forward to the phone session. I want to be properly prepared. I wil email this week when I am ready bearing in miby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: A question about ground balancing the F75SE - 11 years ago
NASA-Tom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pull the trigger in the air.................. > lower the coil to the > ground....................... sweep the coil > ....until you find a 'cold' spot (no > targets)......... then let go of the pinpoint > trigger. Use THIS spot to FastGrab (pushing the > trigger forward.....holding itby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: A question about ground balancing the F75SE - 11 years ago
For some reason, I cannot ground balance my machine until it gets quiet when pumping up and down. I have yet to ground balance this machine to where the noise fades away. It either gets louder as I approach the ground, or as I pump away from the gound, but never quiet. Other than that, the machine seems to be working fine. I pulled a couple of wheaties out of a site that I had worked over with thby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
A question about ground balancing the F75SE - 11 years ago
Or any machine really. In the places that I hunt, I cannot find a single patch of ground without some metal. When I pump the coil of my F75SE it never quietens down but continues to make a louded hum as I approach the ground with each pump. And it seems that it is around 50 or thereabouts. Is there a number that I can manually ground balance that will be close. This question will surely reveal juby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: I just bought a new F75SE w/ extra 5" coil - 11 years ago
Well, I got my F75SE unboxed and put together with 11 inch coil and headed to a nail infested old homeplace out in the country that I had already scanned with the AT Pro. Found several good keepers including two wheaties, and a Herbert Hoover Engineer token. Also, an old boot heel tap. A couple of harmornica reeds. I'm hitting it with the 5 inch coil tomorrow. I have high hopes. The at proby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: I just bought a new F75SE w/ extra 5" coil - 11 years ago
No problem. I'm not worried about the hi-jack. In fact I will hi jack my own thread and say something about the E Trac. I had one for three months. In all the sites that I tried to hunt with it, I found very little. My sites are so full of square nails that, even in two tone ferrous, I could here the machine go silent for moment, until I quit swinging the coil. I learned to swing it SLOW toby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: I just bought a new F75SE w/ extra 5" coil - 11 years ago
Thanks to the guys who replied to my topic. I'll say one more thing before the thread gets sidetracked to another subject. I remember on my last F75SE that it was exceptionally deep with the 5 inch coil. And in the places I hunt, where tagets are 3 to 6 inches and mingled with alot of iron nails and other iron objects, the 5 in coiled F75 should REALLY bring new life to these area that I hunby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I just bought a new F75SE w/ extra 5" coil - 11 years ago
This is my second one. I had one last spring. I wasn't really impressed with that one. I am presently using a Garrett AT Pro. Also my second one of these and I will say that THIS AT Pro, in my test garden, is a much deeper unit then my first AT Pro. I am hoping that I accidentally get a hot F75SE. My test garden is waitin on it. My AT pro hits soundly on a barber quarter at 8 inches, a Meby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Used the F75 LTD at Civil War water hole camp. - 11 years ago
VERY good video Steve!!! I could sit and watch hours of you detecting and digging those old campsites. I live in Savannah TN which is 9 miles from Shiloh. Grant and the Union army occupied this town before and after the battle of Shiloh. I have stumbled across a few campsites here in town. It added a new dimension to my detecting obsession. I keep mine plaqued according to location for future reby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Masking and dirty sounds - 11 years ago
I made the dreadful mistake of selling my G2 a couple of weeks ago. I tried making an Omega 8000 fill the G2's shoes. I like the Omega. It's a capable machine. But I missed my G2 so much that I called Bart and ordered a new one. Taking it out to an an old steamboat landing on the Tennessee river early in the morning. The G2 is just a pure joy to use.by Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Kevin......Re: T2 LTD normal parameter info w/ U.S. dime - 11 years ago
NASA-Tom Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Although the VDI is quite jumpy............my T2 > (standard model) will just barely detect a 10" > deep dime (in Florida dirt). This is with optimal > settings. Thank you Tom. I ordered your inland instructional DVD a couple of months ago and I was really helped by it!!!! It opened my eyes to alot thby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Kevin......Re: T2 LTD normal parameter info w/ U.S. dime - 11 years ago
Okay, thanks TerraDigger. I'll give them a call Monday.by Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
T2 LTD normal parameter info w/ U.S. dime - 11 years ago
I just read a post by TerraDigger where he said he talked to John Gardiner of First Texas and that John gave him the "normal parameter info" using a U.S. dime when air testing for depth. He failed to mention what the normal parameter was. Does anyone know the depth that the T2 LTD should air test a dime when functioning properly? Seems like I might have read that it was 12 inches fby Kevin B - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
