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That's a beauty, congrats on the gold ring, well done!

Great looking beach and a great haul as well, well done! That's interesting about the Audio Response settings. I'm also finding that running AR higher on my hot dirt is chatty as well. I usually run it at 4 since the last update and it's much quieter and still a little hot on shallow targets so I may experiment with AR at 3 this week.

Great hunt, Geologyhound, it looks like you got your D2 dialed in, well done!

I think @Carolina and @F350Platinum run the WS6 Master on the beach. I'm sure they can answer any questions you may have.

Nice run in the rain, Kaolin! Congrats on the coins and bling and for being hagless! 😉

There's a part of town I've been hunting that has some older artifacts and everytime I go there I drive by an elementary school that was built in 1953. Since I'm usually looking for much older stuff, I never really payed much attention to this school. Well a few days ago I noticed some workers there and they were scraping off an area of the playground with a small excavator. I figured they were changing out some pipes or something and saw that they were dumping the dirt in the parking lot while they continued to scrape a fairly wide area about six inches down. Well that's probably worth checking out, I thought as I drove home that afternoon, and figured I could check it out on the way home the next evening. They were still working hard at it when I drove by the next afternoon, but when I came back by a little after 6:00pm, the workers, and more importantly, the dirt pile were gone. Well, I missed that opportunity I thought, but I decided to check out the scraped area anyway. I had the D2 with the 11" coil still on from some earlier detecting so I figured a quick run might turn up a silver coin or something old from the scraped area. I started swingin on the excavator path going in and out of the scrape and started pulling quite a few older ring pulls. At one point I pulled what looked like a foil milk bottle top that was folded in half and threw it in the trash pouch. A little after getting into the scrape and finding more ring pulls, I hit a '71 copper memorial penny. That could be a good sign or so I thought. I did manage to hit a deep dime, but it turned out to be a 1970. After 3 or 4 passes on the scraped area, I decided to explore the path to the parking lot where they had dumped the dirt from the scrape. I noticed a section of side walk that had also been pulled out and found a 1968 quarter and a 1973 Dog Permit tag from Ventura County, California. When I reached the area of the dump pile, I could tell it had been mostly small gravel with some dirt mixed in and there was a much smaller pile of wood chips still there, which I assume had been on top of the gravel. It had only a few foil targets in it, but the area where the gravel dirt had been dumped started giving up some good targets and a few surprises. One surprise was a small brass skeleton key, and a small brass ID bracelet (without the chain). The other was what I thought was a very encrusted, but high ringing zinc penney, only to find after cleaning it was a 1935 wheat penny! Oh, and the folded foil milk bottle topper that I almost threw out with the other trash fooled me too. I unfolded it and saw "Gold Circle Coin" imprinted on it and thought well maybe it was a gold foil candy coin wrapper. That's when I noticed the phrase, "For the Prevention of Disease" on it and thought what does that mean.... Oooooh.... then I remembered that was commonly imprinted on condom containers in the 40s and 50s. I had never heard of Gold Circle Coin condoms before but I looked them up... there's even one in the Smithsonian Institute, LOL! So I ended up with some older clad coins, copper pennies from 1960 to 1975, a 1935 Wheatie, a brass ID bracelet piece, a skeleton key, a 1973 dog tag, a few mystery items, and a 1950s era condom wrapper. You just never know what will turn up at school! 😎 Mystery item: Another mystery item: And the trash:

I think you nailed it, strick. The hold up with the 10x5" coil is probably making the D2 FMF processor circuit board fit in the elliptical coil. I remember your coil Xrays of the origirnal Deus 9" and 10x5" coils and there is quite a difference inside.

Wow, did the GGAs work with the High Sqr audio, Brad?

I look at it this way, XP has been working on the 2-box rig for a while. If that is finally off of their plate, surely a 10x5" D2 coil would be the next thing and also a very easy build for them. They already have the formfactor from the D1. It doesn't have to be waterproof (although that would be preferable) and we all know they will sell a ton of 10x5 coils. I think they know all this. 😎

Here is what the rain/dust cover looks like on the WS6 headphones. I haven't used these in the rain so I can't vouch for how rainproof it is. I use mine as a WS6 Master and I did get the cover to fit over the WS6 and the rubber shaft mount too.

There are a couple of solutions offered in this thread: I use the one suggested by @F350Platinum and it works for me.

At this point, I wouldn't rule anything out for the Deus II ecosystem. There is a lot of potential there. 😎

If there's too much intereference in the apartment, and there probably will be specially if other people live in the building, you may want to consider getting a Snake Cam, also known as an Endoscope or Borescope. They are tiny cameras with lights on a long flexible wire that are relatively cheap which can be poked through a tiny hole to look around under the floor. Some even work on a cell phone. Even if you can get a metal detector to work in there, it could help you verify signals before you pull up flooring.

Maybe it's a ground penetrating radar program! 😏 Actually after rewatching the teaser, it seems even more like a 2 box unit, but perhaps it will work with your existing coil with a 1 box attachment. 🤔 Could this have been why the updates were cranking out more power? 😉

I bet you guys are right about the two-box setup. Well for those who wanted to go deeper, that would do it, but who wants to dig 4 foot deep holes? You cache and horde hunters may be getting your wish! 😎

I was hunting down by a river today and those blood suckers swarmed me! I think I took out about a half dozen of them before I had to make a hasty retreat. Next time I go down there, I'm going to send a cow in there first to keep them lil' suckers busy before I go in. 🦟🪓🤨

That's a little Black Hills Beauty, congrats on an awesome find, well done!

I'm sorry, Colonel, you're right. I forgot I was on the duplicate settings in the General program when I was lowering Disc below zero. It's hard to keep good notes when I'm trying to beat a target into submission. 😏 Also for some reason I thought you had the 9" coil. Well that's just one more reason to go back and test again. 😉

Very interesting results, F350! I was using the 9" coil because that's what the Colonel uses and I wanted to recreate his circumstances as best I could. Maybe what I was experiencing was the coil edge phenomenon as well that hit on the quarter just enough without hitting the tent peg. One thing I have noticed is the 9" coil runs noticeably hotter at Senitivity 95 than the 11" coil, so maybe that is allowing better coil edge detection. When I use the 11", I bump the sensitivity to 96 or 97 to get that same edge detect factor, which is great for locating targets a few inches away from the end of my sweep. I'm going to try to get a longer time out to test all this more carefully and use both the 9" and 11" coils and different programs and settings to see if we can derive some more repeatable common data to help us all decipher some of the mysteries and anomalies of the D2. Any others, especially beach hunters, who want to test this would be very welcomed to help. Anything we can find out conclusively helps us all. The D2 is a powerful and highly customizable machine and, with the more advanced user control we've been given in this latest update, I think we will figure all this out eventually. Onward and upward! 😎

Great hunt and congrats on the silver ring!

Wow, great finds! It looks like that area is a hot spot for disposing weapons! 😉

Okay Colonel, I got a chance to slip out and test the masking scenario today. Let me preface as saying my soil is mineralized and sandy in my back yard and has dried out some since it hasn't rained since early yesterday and was sunny today. It's about 6 bars on the Ground Level Mineralization Strength meter. My ground balance varied from 87-89, but with Ground Tracking on, it settled in the 87 zone. This is not exactly scientific testing but I approached it with a mind set to see if I could make the D2 unmask the clad quarter in your program. I was able to get it to unmask with the various land programs, but not with all of them. Granted I didn't spend too much effort adjusting the land programs, just basic hunting tweaks I would normally make to see which programs could hit the quarter. I set up for the test with your listed settings: Base Program = Beach Sensitive, Max Freq = 40, Disc = 0.0, Notch = Off, Sensitivity = 95, Silencer = 0, B.Caps = 0, Reactivity = 0, Audio Response = 7, Iron Volume = 7, Tone = Pitch, Threshold = 0, Audio = High Sqr, Audio Filter = 0, FE TID = On (I forgot to turn that off from the factory default setting), Ground Tracking = On, Ground Stability = 2, Salt Sens = 7, Magnetic Ground = Reject. This was the orientation of the quarter and tent peg in the ground with the quarter and tent peg in an East-West relationship: I tried all the various settings and combinations as you did to unmask the quarter with no success. Pitch tones was giving me a high false tone on the tent peg but low VDI number, probably because I forgot to turn FE TID off. I raised the Disc up to 10 with no change, I began lowering it back down to zero with not much change in audio or TID, but when I lowered the DIsc below zero, the audio on the spike began to change and break up a bit and there was an occasional higher number (56- 85) flashing sporatically and the non-ferrous bar showed response as well. This would only show up on the Southern and sometimes the Northern end of a 360 swing rotation. It was also more pronounced if I did a rapid wiggle off of or onto the location of the quarter. When centered on the quarter, the tent spike would dominate the tonal response and TID. Here is an unexpected result. I was going to raise and lower the Reactivity to see how that might affect the signals when I acidentally lowered the Iron Volume instead and, for some unknown reason, the lower the Iron Volume went the higher non-ferrous numbers appeared on the TID while doing a 360 sweep. With Iron Volume from 3-0, I was able to tell there was a good enough non-ferrous target there to dig near the tent peg. When I set the Reactivity from 1.5-2.5, it improved the response even more with the lower Iron Volume settings. I don't know how that happened, but I would have dug those signals knowing there was something near the peg. You might give that a try to see if it makes any difference on your turf and beaches, but it worked for me. BTW, I was using the 9" coil in this test. I hope that helps in some small way.

It's funny, but one of our members found about 50 wheat pennies and only a couple of dimes! He might have been running a Penny Slayer program. 😏 BTW, I forgot to mention, the D2 gave me my first 1st Place spot in a club hunt for the most dimes found. So thank you XP!

That's just awesome, PI-Man! Good on you, brother, you are another shining example of all that's good in this hobby, well done indeed! 😎

Dang, Jeff, that's an awesome haul, well done! I guestimated you got close to 200 targets in that hunt, so that's 1 target every minute! That's more than impressive, sir. I carry a nickel and a dime with me to check IDs before I hunt too for the same reasons you mentioned and it works great. 😎