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Not doing anything wrong that I know of the tone is clear and the vid is solid using a whites classic id 99 out of 100 times the vid is right on
Jim, naturally no one who reads the instructions, and goes out to detect, thinks they are doing anything "wrong". I mean afterall, no one considers themselves a dummy, right? So it's natural to dismiss what I've said, and insist you're doing nothing wrong. And that it must therefore be the machine.
Consider the following true story. It's only an example, so DON'T GET LOST IN THE EXAMPLE:
A guy in my area got a 6000 Di pro many years ago. He'd never used a detector before, but considered himself quite learned, smart, adaptable, able to read instructions,..... and generally one to catch on fast. Thus knowing no one in his area that detects, he took it out of the box, assembled it, read the instructions. He heads out to the nearest camp-ground picnic spot. Afterall "how hard can it be?". But try as he may, he kept experiencing "disappearing signals". So he read the instructions again, from start to finish. Tries it out with targets/coins thrown down on the ground in his driveway. Hmmm, appears to be working now. So he heads back out the next day to the picnic camp ground. BUT AGAIN "disappearing signals" He'd hear a good coin signal, pegging on penny/dime, or quarter or whatever. But when he went to try to retrieve it and isolate it to dig, it would disappear! So again he reads the instructions. To no avail. naturally he figured the machine must be broken. So he sent it in to Whites Co. "for repairs".
~10 days later, he gets it back in the mail. He heads out to the campground again. BUT AGAIN disappearing signals. He was ready to pull his hair out, assuming this detector and Whites co. were a big rip-off. So he got on the phone, called up to San Rafael Whites West coast rep. He complains to them about the un-resolved un-fixed machine repair. They listen to his symptons, and Jimmy Sierra himself tells the guy: "you must be operating it wrong". This got the guy upset, because he took this to be a sort of insult: As if he didn't have the intelligence or presence of mind to figure out common printed instructions. He assured San Rafael people that: he
HAD read the instructions (many times thankyou), and that he WASN'T doing anything wrong, and hence it MUST be the machine.
Along about this time, it just so happened one day, that the guy was driving down the road in the country near his home (about 45 min. from my town). He spotted me and a friend working a field along-side a country road (where a stage stop had been). He pulled over, and started talking to us. He asked if we/I knew anything about the 6000 Di pro, and if so, did I have time to check out the machine, and/or show him how to use it. We exchanged phone #'s. About a week later, I met up with this fellow at an appointed spot. He explained the on-going problem. We exchanged flagged signals, and I watched what/how he detected. Within 15 seconds, I saw the problem: Whenever this fellow would be walking along, and hear a signal, he did the instinctive thing: He "slowed to to listen to it". Or "slowed down to isolate it". But then, ... presto, it would "disappear". I explained to him that he had a motion machine. And that meant that in order to get depth, you had to be swinging it (at least in disc. mode anyhow). Ie.: the faster you swing, the deeper you go, with that particular type Whites. So that effectively, he'd only been able to get coins 1 or 2" deep or less. Anything deeper, and he'd have the phenomenom of "disappearing signals". Because .... when "slowing down", he'd loose all depth, and the signal would "disappear". Right away the "lights went on" in his head. And he began to see that the machine wasn't broken afterall. He had indeed been operating it wrong.
But the funny thing was, when I asked him: "
Hey Steve, I thought you said you read the instructions through carefully several times. Didn't you see where it explicately said "motion required" ??". To which he answered that ... yes, he'd seen that part. But he merely thought it meant that you must swing the coil from side to side as you move. And he had even thought: "gee, that's a silly instruction. HOW ELSE is someone supposed to progress through the field and get any detecting done, if they're not moving along, swinging, to begin with ? Doh! I mean duh, did the instructions really think someone was going to stand there stationary with the coil sitting motion-less on the ground??". So you see, that NO AMOUNT of printed instructions can convey things like that. They simply have to be seen, shown.
Same with things like "sounds". No amount of printed instructions can convey sound. It would be like me asking you to "describe the sound of C major in printed text". You can't do it. It has to be heard.
hence I say again: If you have someone around local, who's proficient (preferably with your same machine), then hook up, go out, flag signals, and compare. Get him to pull out his headphone jack. Listen to what he's listening to and trying to isolate. See how he swings/criss-crosses. See how he retrieves, etc.... I know you think all such things can be gleaned from printed instructions, but .... sometimes no, that doesn't fully explain things.
