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Back to the drained lake today. First off, I had connectivity issues. Hardly any issue with the mi6 connecting. In a 5 hour hunt it only failed to connect 3 or four times. The issue was when I turned it off. My coil wouldn’t connect back up immediately like it should. At the beginning of the hunt I noticed silence for a few seconds when I turned off the mi6. Then it got worse to the point that the coil wouldn’t connect at all. The remote was showing that the battery was completely drained but I started the hunt with it fully charged. I had to go to Options>pairing for coils and then scroll to the 9” coil. (I only have two coils). Once I did that the coil paired back up. A few more instances of this and then I couldn’t get it to pair at all. So I turned the remote off and when turned back on I still had to pair the coil back up after turning the mi6 off. Now, the coil didn’t unpair every time I turned the mi6 off. But enough that I turned the remote off again. Once I turned it back on I hunted for at least another hour turning the mi6 on and off multiple times and the coil came back on as soon as the mi6 was turned just like it should. I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe @F350Platinum can chime in on this as I think he had a similar issue with the coil disconnecting when he turned the mi6 off. Anyways it was still a good time out even with the connectivity issues. I got a ‘64 rosie, ‘44 merc, 1936 buffalo nickel, 17 wheats, three rings, one marked 925, one that looks like silver but unmarked, and a junker. Also got a pendant that I think is silver too. Ended up with $6.11 in clad.

Sh!t happens. I’ve done the same thing and ended up having to use the speaker. I guess after some time you sort of get used to the sounds coming out of the speaker, but those sounds will never be as interpretative as what comes out of the headphones. At least you got out and had some finds!

I’m sorry, I meant deep hc mode. Which is what I was using. Just edited the post.

I believe deep hc mode uses 14khz max.

Yes, an old swimming spot on a 30 acre lake. Today on this spot is a tikki bar at water level with an upstairs deck and docks floating on pontoons for the lifeguards. Before the modern building there was a two story bath house with a high dive. There’s old pics of it in the dining hall where we eat lunch. People would sit on the second floor railing which hung out over the water. Lots of nails from when they tore the original structure down. That’s the cause of the machine gun iron tones.

The lake where I work is half drained and it was such a nice day here that I hit the swimming area after work. I wasn’t expecting to find much because I’ve hit this area multiple times on two other occasions when the lake was lowered. Since the ground in this area is really wet I decided to use General P1. I think I only changed it to 3 tones and kept all the other settings stock. I was hitting a few coins and got 2 or 3 wheaties. After I covered the most of the area, I decided to try Deep HC. Another program, along with relic that I rarely use. I left it mostly stock but switched to 3 tones and adjusted the reactivity to 2.5 or 3, can’t remember. But as soon as I started in using deep hc, the ground was lit up with lots of high tones, and lots of iron tones. I started digging those high tones and was getting coin after coin. I sometimes switched back to general P1 just to see how I could have missed this nice high (tone 3 set to 82 and up, had both programs set the same) that I was getting from deep hc. It was a weak, awful sounding signal that was giving all three tones. That’s why I didn’t dig them while in P1. Anyways, I hit a 64 rosie and then maybe 5’ away I got a nice high tones bouncing in the upper 90s. Out comes a walker half. Then after putting it in my pocket I start swinging and maybe 2 or 3 feet away I get an identical tone bouncing in the upper 90s. I said to myself “no f****** way! Out comes another walker! This is a first, digging two halfs in a row. And another first of two halfs in one hunt. Not long after that I got the merc. To be.fair to P1, I don’t think I hit that area where the halfs were while I was in P1. It was closer to the water and my shoes were starting to sink in the mud. However, I did go back over the exact same area that I hit while in P1 and deep hc was getting coin after coin. So, ended up with: 1937 half 1941 half 1964 dime 1928 dime 7 wheaties $3.99 in clad two lures a belt buckle lip stick case a hot wax stamp a key and some type of what I think is a wildlfe or bird tag. Oh, almost forgot, in all that digging and I used my pinpointer on every signal I dug, it failed to connect only twice

I only used the relic program. I need practice with relic and want to learn more about so that’s all I used.

Thanks for the update! I got out yesterday for about an hour on a field we have where I work. Mostly I wanted to see if the mi6 connectivity issue was fixed with V4.1. I probably turned the pinpointer on approximately 15 times in that hour and it hooked up every single time. Not the best test, I know, but encouraging none the less.

For those like me who rarely, if ever, use the relic mode and want to know what it’s all about. Because if you’ve ever tried it or the goldfield mode you’ll come to realize very quickly that they are very different from the other programs like sensitive ft or general. I tend to use programs 2/3 and general (1) most of the time. But F350 has brought the relic mode to my attention with all his great finds and has piqued my interest in it. I found an old video by Gary on the relic mode that really helped me understand what it’s all about. Hopefully this video can help those like myself who have been in the dark on using relic. My apologies for the thread drift F350.

Bob, what’s exactly happening with your coil? Is it when you turn the pinpointer off that the coil disconnects?

Nice buttons! Did the coil shut down again? I’ve never had that issue with 2.0, just the issue with the pinpointer not connecting about 10% of the time.

I updated last night. Had some issues updating the wsaii headphones, no issue with remote. I was using windows 11 and tried 4 or 5 times with no luck then read where one of our other members was having this problem and he tried an older computer with windows 10. I finally fired up my old windows 10 laptop and the headphones updated perfectly. Now, do I buy the wsaiist stereo headphones along with the hf coil? Or do I just buy the stereo headphones or just the coil? I’m leaning towards both but will try my existing setup with V4.1 first and see if I like it better than V2.0. If they did indeed fix the connectivity issue with the pinpointer and everything else works about the same I’ll keep 4.1. On every hunt my pinpointer would have at least a few issues with the pinpointer not connecting on the first try. I got to where I’m used to that happening, but it would be really nice if it connected every time I turned it on instead of having to turn it off and back on again (sometimes multiple times) to get it to connect.

Thanks for the encouraging news, Jeff!

I may have to upgrade (now that it seems it’s an actual upgrade🤣) to V4.1!

Congrats! Never heard of the “L” version. I’m having a hard time finding it in that last pic.