Powerful electromagnetic pulse on South Beach, Fl.

[scaupus]

Made my first beach run Monday morning with a sovereign xs-2 pro i bought on ebay. I thought it was defective when i started getting random, screaming false reads. Then I noticed they were not random, but occurred every 31 seconds or so, and I figured it's not the machine, it's something in the environment . My Ace 250 couldn't pick it up. When I got home, the sovereign was acting normally again.

I'm guessing somebody, military, the navy likely, is doing some exercises or testing out there. Anyone else, maybe using a multi-frequency machine, notice anything like this on a beach?

 

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[OBN]

excal does this, when a died battery is coming.......not sure if the sov xs2 is the same....mine has not got that much use yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Siob6rZfc

 

[Killer Angel]

We have a beach in AC that is really tough on Sov Gt's. EMI make's hunting unpleasant if not impossible. Affects only the Sov GT and no other machines. 1/4 mile north or south and the Sov GT behaves as it should and retains it's rank atop the beach bling finder leader board.

Take it to another beach and see how it does.

 

[Bum Luck]

The archeologists are jamming our frequencies!

 

[Terry Soloman]

We get a lot of EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) from Air Force F-16s over the gold fields out in the Weaver Mountains of Arizona, that dives our Minelab PI machines nutz! Welcome to high-end electronics!

Made my first beach run Monday morning with a sovereign xs-2 pro i bought on ebay. I thought it was defective when i started getting random, screaming false reads. Then I noticed they were not random, but occurred every 31 seconds or so, and I figured it's not the machine, it's something in the environment . My Ace 250 couldn't pick it up. When I got home, the sovereign was acting normally again.

I'm guessing somebody, military, the navy likely, is doing some exercises or testing out there. Anyone else, maybe using a multi-frequency machine, notice anything like this on a beach?

 

[JoeSWFla]

My XS Sov. does the low battery scream also. That would be my first guess.
Good luck and HH Joe.

 

[kaptainkosmic]

Didn't notice the emp but I did see a large mushroom shaped cloud in that direction. Maybe they're related?

Steve :-)

 

[Terry Soloman]

Didn't notice the emp but I did see a large mushroom shaped cloud in that direction. Maybe they're related?

Steve :-)

LOL!

 

[scaupus]

oops...my bad. I took another look at the manual, on the last page, it says this beep every 30 seconds indicates low battery.

 

[GOLD1960]

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