Brad Plohman

Here's mine. Other's may have had a different experience...

Thanks for the review, it looks like Sammy approves! I'll just ad that Steve G is teaming up with RCDIGS to bring us a model that screws right into Steve's Deus 2 shaft. He just posted it on his FB page, check it out. It looks like it will be available in L, R, & Straight options plus have the ability to run the antenna wire through the remote holder.

I like that even better, I'll give that a try, thanks.

This won’t be a concern to many, however something I wanted to make my fellow D2 water hunters aware of. I typically don’t use my remote’s speaker but wanted to do a little testing with it this fall, and it didn’t work. If you put your ear right up to it and turned the volume right up, you could just faintly hear it. I do use the red plug so I tried blowing on it to try and reset it, as outlined in the manual, but to no avail. I ended up sending it in for repair and the diagnosis was iron/black sand jamming up the speaker. I almost exclusively hunt fresh water and my remote is submerged probably 75% of the time. I’ve never considered the beaches I hunt to be high in black sand but you do see it on occasion and if you find something magnetic or have magnets in your scoop, they will be covered in black ‘filings’ over time. Much of the time the beaches I hunt are a clay sand mix and often I have to break it up by hand so that typically puts my remote in close proximity to the sediment cloud. I’ve been trying to think of the best way to prevent this. It might mean using a floating sifter more often, but even then there’s a large sediment cloud in the water. What I’m going to try (picture) is a piece of waterproof tape across the grill of the speaker blocking off all but two holes on the top and two holes on the bottom (some are dummy holes). That should greatly reduce the water exchange to that compartment. I don’t want to block off the entire grill because water will find a way to get in and won’t drain out. Another thought was a ‘decoy’ magnet mounted near the speaker grill? Does anyone have any other ideas?

I do mostly fresh water for gold rings and my go to is General, Pitch Tones, Reactivity 2, Audio Response 5, with a notch from the point of discrimination to 28. I listen for those smooth, full target responses. Every beach is a little different so I adjust accordingly. I've found lots of small gold rings using that notch but if you want the micro gold you may want to skip the notch. Good luck!

I gave it a try when I was out hunting and I feel like it probably was actually High Square. It was hard for me to tell for sure though because you can't just toggle back and forth with one button press to compare. Thanks for documenting it Chase.

Got yourself a ripper there, congrats! Nice high K color.

Looks sharp, but I'll probably pass. I'm not sure if it's trying to solve a problem that isn't there? I find the 9" coil swings pretty nice in the water, even with the coil mount not centered. One thing I really like about the 9" coil is that it fits nicely down the hole left by my 720i. That lets me get a better read on a deep target to know whether to keep digging or move on. This cover looks like it adds 1" - 1.5" of diameter to the coil which might hamper hole work. I wonder if it seals to the coil any better than the stock cover to keep sediment from between the coil and cover?

Yes they do, CPT. I just have to do a little shuffling around in the audio menu to get there. At least it says High Square, very hard to audibly tell if it actually is High Square with all the EMI in my garage. I'm going out for a hunt tonight so maybe I'll try it out in the wild.

Yes, I had some GGA's plugged in while I did it.

Yes, I understand Square is supposed to be the only audio for the bonephone output, but what I'm saying is if I change the output source from bonephones to one of the others, then select High Square, then go back to the bonephone output, it stays in High Square and that's the only audio you are able to select,...no Square.

Here's an audio glitch I noticed with v1.1; When I select the bone phone output, only Square audio available. Now if I go into options and select the wired phone or wireless output, all three audio options become available. If I select High Square, then go back to the bonephone output, the High Square audio is there and is the only audio available. No Square. I go into options again and select the wired phone or wireless output, all three audio options are there again. If I select PWM, then go back to the bonephone output, it changes to Square and that is the only audio available.

My clock still isn't functioning correctly with either V1.0 or V1.1. It seems to work ok for a day or two then goes out by a lot. Being this was a well known issue, and it wasn't addressed in the recent update(s), makes me wonder if it's more than a software issue?

Update. The WS6 drained down overnight and shut off by morning. I recharged it during the day and when I got home I turned on my remote first, selected the wireless phone option and got the message to hold down the (-) on the WS6. I held it down for a good 8-10 seconds until it indicated it was successfully paired, and it then operated correctly as slave. It turns off and on with the remote now and functions as it should. I'm not sure exactly what I did to cause it to lock up but it appears to be resolved.

Hmm,...so this was after updating to V1.0 as well? I assumed the same as you, that it meant the power/- button on the WS6