WHISPERS

[dandan]

I've been swingin' an IDX PRO for 'bout 6 yrs. now and I've dug some nice stuff, (both old and new). My question is this; does the IDX Pro "whisper"? Are the chirps that I hear to be considered this or is that the 'tector trying to Disc. the yuck out? Ive never dug an old coin that I wasn't convinced was there and I wonder if I'm missing things. Thanks for any help!

 

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[EDDE]

daves comment made me think for a second here in illinois weve had a drought (up north) this i beleive is the confluiance with mars etc even talk to a few guy who fish local even the local fishing spots they frequent they said hadnt pruduced they way they used to...do the planets (full moon,waxing waining,etc) effect target/s

 

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[rvbvetter]

I've found 3 rings that I can recall at the moment with the ML in the year or so I've had it. 2 silver and 1 10k gold filled. I didn't give it much thought before, but none gave a double beep.
I've had double beeps on rings with my other past and present machines. The ones that it has happened to me were all fairly shallow. Less than 4 in. at least.
Maybe it's just a triat of ML not getting the double beep so much. I don't really know, it's just a thought. HH

 

[Monty]

All the gold rings I have found were double beeps, but not the Garrett bell tone. The sound was more like a nickel and the cursor jumped from a pull tab to a nickel and didn't lock up. The silver rings came in with a very loud bell tone and lit up like a silver coin. Just the difference in detectors I guess? Monty

 

[Marty-Graw]

i'm still learning (only been detecting about a minth and a half) i have a Bounty Hunter 505 and have found several wheats 3 junk rings 4 tax tokens and a lot of clad all in my yard.... no good sites yet. But y'all have gave me some good ideas about switching to all metal to pinpoint. my question is why would a really good signal with a definate pinpoint disapear after i remove a grass plug? ..... i check the plug ... nothing..... check the hole..... nothing.... this seems really strange to me thank you for any help or ideas

 

[rvbvetter]

I was going to say that your sensitivity might be set too high for the ground conditions, thus giving you false signals. But if it's still there in pinpoint, or all metal. Then a couple of possibilitys could be that when you cut your plug you could have shifted the target. Perhaps turned it on edge making it more difficult for your detector to see it, or moved it out of it's halo that it gets after being in the ground for sometime.. Try moving the soil around in the hole and see if the signal comes back.
Another thing could be that it was junk to begin with. And by cutting a plug you moved some of the interference (ground minerals) out of the way allowing your detector to be able to read it better, and then discriminating it out. HH

 

[Monty]

Rusted nails! They form a halo effect that can fool any detector, especially those in the lower end. Once you dig and break the halo the signal goes away if you have iron descriminated out. When this happens to me I usually find the nail in my dirt I remove from the hole. That's one cause and I suppose there are others? Monty

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

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[Monty]

Response closer to the original question.....? I don't guess I have ever heard a "whisper". Having a high frequency hearing loss, I miss a lot of sounds that most people hear. If I am using a detector with several tones I even get confused by them sometimes and wonder if I'm hearing what everybody else is. I've thought about something like a Walkers Game Ear to see if it helped. I know headphones help a lot but I don't recall ever hearing what is being described as a whisper. Monty

 

[hollowpointred]

monty, i cant say i have ever heard one either, and we both own the same two machines. i think our garretts are a little different than say a whites. i hear people mention faint signals but on our garretts all tones are the same volume no matter how deep. im guessing that our machines just work differently than some of the others. i guess

 

[EDDE]

FEEL MY PAIN!! ST.RT sniff sniff
maybe more so in beach/water saturated areas just talking to myself....