The Advantage Of "dialing It In"

[ColonelDan]

I was hunting at the beach yesterday and did my usual "dial it in" routine...adjusting F2, Recovery and Sensitivity using my test sticks to optimize my EQX 800 performance for that particular beach.

As I hunted, I got a strong tone of a high conductor and started to dig and dig and dig. I couldn't see or find the target but I knew it was still there...somewhere...the EQX said it was!

I finally narrowed it down to a certain pile of sand from the ever growing hole. Still couldn't see it but it was there among the brown sand...somewhere. Finally resorted to my Pro-Find 35 pinpointer. It rang up nicely but I still couldn't see this high conductor! I started to test small hand fulls at a time and finally...finally I saw a minuscule piece of wire on the edge of my hand. Could this be what all the fuss was about? YES. I measured the depth of the hole with the Pro- Find 35 and saw that it was approximately 8 inches!

I brought the wire home specifically to post this story about the importance of adjusting your detector to meet the conditions. When we change beaches, I "dialed in" my EQX again for that new beach and had to change the settings from that first beach where my EQX sniffed out that piece of wire. Conditions change and so must your settings....one size DOES NOT FIT ALL.

[Mark Gillespie]

Absolutely True..................

[FloridaSon]

On 5/19/2020 at 7:00 AM, ColonelDan said:

"my usual "dial it in" routine...adjusting F2, Recovery and Sensitivity using my test sticks to optimize my EQX 800 performance for that particular beach."

Hi Colonel Dan,

Want to turn this into a tutorial?

Do you dial it in for a certain conductor? Or is it to prevent certain conductors from sounding off as much?

Thanks for you articles! 

[ColonelDan]

10 hours ago, FloridaSon said:

Hi Colonel Dan,

Want to turn this into a tutorial?

Do you dial it in for a certain conductor? Or is it to prevent certain conductors from sounding off as much?

Thanks for you articles! 

FS,  Don't know that you need a tutorial from me 😁 but I use my test sticks (seen below) to optimize the EQX performance for the particular beach I'm on at the moment.

The first thing I do is a noise cancel.  I then bury the 10K ring and ferrous bolt at approximately 7-8 inches and adjust the recovery, sensitivity and F2 to a point which gives me the strongest signal on the ring with the least interference as well as the best separation between the bolt and gold ring.

It's my assumption...and experience...that the strongest signal on the mid conductive gold will also be optimal for high conductors.  Ergo, I don't see the need to test silver as well as the gold for that beach.  I've also found that the optimal setting on one beach won't necessarily be optimal for another beach even if the second beach is close to the first one.  Beach conditions can change within a few hundred yards....i.e. mineralization and composition just as an example.

Testing only takes a few moments but it pays off...at least for me in that I go forward with more confidence that my EQX will be better prepared to sniff out the goodies.

Again, and as I always say, that's just the view from my foxhole...

 

10 hours ago, FloridaSon said:

 

 

[FloridaSon]

Outstanding, makes it very clear to me. There are so many adjustments possible on the NOX, it helps when they are pared down to the ones that work in your foxhole. Applying this information to my beaches will allow me to test my specific dialing in method. Always looking for fine tuning tips and this is one I will definitely use. Like the stick testors too. 

Best regards!

This is a local low tide beach yesterday but too much lightning to try it.