DFX question...tabs and trash or samll gold...telltale signs

[Diggitdaddy]

Hello, am a DFX user in Nebraska. Anyone know some good tricks or hints for distinguishing a good signal from a bad one on low ranges with the White DFX ? I have done tests with detector up on sawhorses with dozens of targets, listening to tones closely. Almost no difference between tabs and gold, signagraph reads good too. Old timers chime in !

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

IMHO:
I use the DFX and V3i, my two whites machines. The DFX is a good machine, it depends what you want. I personally dig every repeatable signal my coil goes over, this philosophy had yielded many old coins, jewelry and very interesting relics. With that said, I use the machine to indicated if there is metal in the ground. I have dug 1000's of Iffy signals and a large portion of them have been keepers; the rest well you know junk. Digging the Iffy Signals, scratchy and weak will surprise you many times. You can evaluate, (and should) from different angles to determine "size, roundness...etc."

Good Luck

 

[Diggitdaddy]

Thats great advice. I am doing that, and recently dug a 1903 V nickel that way. Yesterday my newly ordered White V3i arrived, and am dying to go out and use it today. Have really studied its 3 by 3 target ID system, the 3 frequency color bands and can already feel will do a lot less digging. This first month will run with the preset programs and dig all targets to verfiy an learn the target ID system, is that what you would recommend too ? Thanks for the reply !