Same signal, different items

bugbitingme · May 28, 2010

The penny showed penny or dime at 2", the foil showed penny or dime at 8".

Treasure $ Trekkies · May 28, 2010

I was thinking ,that must be Georgia red clay. Well at least you found something :headbang:

zaxfire69 · May 28, 2010

Is that the image of a person in that last picture?

bazinga · May 28, 2010

BH FTW!

SkyPirate · May 28, 2010

What do you expect for a Radio Shack detector? :dontknow:

fathead · May 28, 2010

The foil looks like it could be a piece of copper flashing.

Jeep · May 28, 2010

it happens but what was the tone?

you should have got a low and broken tone with that foil. Are you using headphones?

Anyday digging is a good day, nice penny :icon_thumright:

digginer · May 28, 2010

nothing wrong w/RADIO SHACK DETECTORS.USED ONE FOR YRS.WORE OUT THE COMPUTER BOARD (OR WHATEVER ITS CALLED) DONT UNDERESTIMATE THEM.--------------ANY ONE ON HERE??

ynpto804 · May 28, 2010

Yeah, I have to say nice penny as well. Shame on anyone for putting down someone for what their using. Thanks for posting

rydiggaahh · May 29, 2010

yeah not so cool to insult someones dectector. i would say that the experience of the user is more important than how much you spend on equipment.

Deepdiger60 · May 29, 2010

Good find a penny found is a penny earned, i get wacko signals sometimes on my DFX depends on a lot of different conditions i find if the soil is very moist my MD is very accurate in ID depth and pinpoint when the soil starts to dry out get dusty it can give me false readings on deep targets and that is exactly what happened to me this morning i dug 5 wheat,s each one showed a +90 to +91 and even sounded like silver each being 6 inches deep or a little more the very dark soil was dry !!! then i get a +24 it shows nickle and i dig a 1800,s copper D buckle :icon_scratch:

go figure Good luck Dd60

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

zaxfire69 said:
Is that the image of a person in that last picture?

No, it is just kind of iridiscent and multicolored. Very thin also.

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

Treasure $ Trekkies said:
I was thinking ,that must be Georgia red clay. Well at least you found something

Yep, a shallow soil, then clay. I also found two dimes and a quarter that were ID'd correctly. Should have taken pictures when dug, but by that time the camera was in the truck and I didn't want to walk back and get it. I just found it odd. The penny had a high pitch beep and so did the foil. I was using disc with all knobs at 12:00. Actually, ground balance was closer to 1:00.

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

SkyPirate said:
What do you expect for a Radio Shack detector?

I expect to have a lot of fun with it. :headbang:

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

fathead said:
The foil looks like it could be a piece of copper flashing.

It is paper thin and the reflection probably makes it look that way, but definetly is foil. Copper that size would have been better than a penny and of more use. :laughing9:

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

Jeep said:
it happens but what was the tone?

you should have got a low and broken tone with that foil. Are you using headphones?

Anyday digging is a good day, nice penny

I don't have head phones, but the sounds from both were a high pitch beep in disc. Really thought I was going to get silver with the foil that deep. One of the dimes I got was a 66 at 4", so I am getting close.

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

digginer said:
nothing wrong w/RADIO SHACK DETECTORS.USED ONE FOR YRS.WORE OUT THE COMPUTER BOARD (OR WHATEVER ITS CALLED) DONT UNDERESTIMATE THEM.--------------ANY ONE ON HERE??

A friend loaned the detector to me. He bought it 10 years ago and used it one time. It is the same as a Bounty Hunter Landstar. I didn't want to spend hundreds of dollars and then find this wasn't as much fun as I thought it might be.

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

ynpto804 said:
Yeah, I have to say nice penny as well. Shame on anyone for putting down someone for what their using. Thanks for posting

Thanks. I have found people like that have self image problems, I will pray for him.

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

rydiggaahh said:
yeah not so cool to insult someones dectector. i would say that the experience of the user is more important than how much you spend on equipment.

I agree. Each time I go back to the stadium, I use a little different setting. I had new batteries and was using a setting a member suggested. I had been turning the detector off while digging and resetting each time. This time I left it on and it seemed a lot more stable. I think there is probably a difference as the soil changes too. The closer I get to the field, I find a thicker layer of gravel just below the surface.

bugbitingme · May 29, 2010

Deepdiger60 said:
Good find a penny found is a penny earned, i get wacko signals sometimes on my DFX depends on a lot of different conditions i find if the soil is very moist my MD is very accurate in ID depth and pinpoint when the soil starts to dry out get dusty it can give me false readings on deep targets and that is exactly what happened to me this morning i dug 5 wheat,s each one showed a +90 to +91 and even sounded like silver each being 6 inches deep or a little more the very dark soil was dry !!! then i get a +24 it shows nickle and i dig a 1800,s copper D buckle go figure Good luck Dd60

Those are great finds, no matter what the signal is. I know some detect in all metal mode and dig everything. I did that a couple of times and found a lot of junk and several coins. I believe it takes a lot of experience to do that and ignore some of the signals. You have to know your machine a lot better than I know this one.