Extending Pickup Head Cable

[EL NINO77]

I agree with the manual pinpointer ... it's light and compact ...

[K4PI Mike]

In regard to extending the cable between the pickup head and the circuitry, I was able to accomplish my goal.  I wanted to use what I had on hand and not buy a pin pointer.  I did extend the cable an extra 16 ft.  A friend  gave me one of the DIN connectors I needed, male,  and I had a female.  Got some CAT 5 cable from another friend and wired it all up. It is very possible CAT 5 would not have been needed and just any 4 conductor cable would have worked.   I would never recommend this for any serious searching but all I needed was a "yes metal/no metal" indication and it certainly did work for that.  It was on a 16 ft pole and I was able to discover the problem with an antenna that I had at 100 ft.  Standing at the 100 ft position and reaching out 16 ft to the problem as with just the pickup heed, I wound say was real easy, but it was doable.  I had the control head with me.  Mike

[Steve Herschbach]

Thank you for reporting back. Not everyone does that, and this is some rare and fascinating information. Glad it worked for you, and thanks again!