Surely, all of you, our dear readers, have heard the saying “That everything is known by comparison.” So, here you go. Yesterday, I was once again convinced by a very clear and illustrative example that a cop with good and experienced friends brings not only positive emotions but also specific knowledge on mastering a complex metal detector.
How did it all start? Probably because, until recently, I used my XP ORX in the so-called “quiet” settings. Now, I don’t like it when, in pursuit of maximum detection depth, users turn up the MD settings to such a point that the device constantly buzzes, beeps and crackles. I like silence. And if I miss something in a plowed field, it doesn’t matter. After the next plowing it will all come out and will still be mine)))
And then recently, something prompted me to check in a spring meadow how the “orc” would work with maximum depth settings. This is when the response speed and frequency in the coil are at a minimum. I tried it, and when the coins began to be dug up from a depth greater than a standard fiskar bayonet, I really liked it.
Why, when my friends came to me over the weekend to dig for coins in the old grass, I decided that my finest hour had come and I would now outwit everyone and surpass them in terms of results.
We went out to dig in the field at the ocarina of one large and ancient village. In such places there are always coins and other ancient finds. And there, the field hasn’t been plowed since the collapse of the USSR. Due to their extreme remoteness, those places are not particularly explored by fellow diggers. Yes, yes, there are still such places, but look for yourself where it is.
We arrived at the field, friends with Deus, me with ORX, got ready, connected and went. Meanwhile, I took and set the deepest settings to search for coins. The frequency per coil is 4 KHz and the response speed is 1. I go and dig for signals.
About an hour later I meet one of my comrades. As always, in such cases, we share what we have and how. I have one coin of 20 kopecks. Ah, comrade, three imperials and two councils!!! Now I have to think, why would this be so??? However, I chalked it all up to randomness. Another hour later, another reconciliation of results. I still have the same twenty kopecks and two pieces of crosses. And my friend has six imperial coins and three Soviets.
This is where I started to feel uneasy. Was there something wrong here and did I do something wrong??? I began to think, perhaps, most likely, I was too clever with the settings. I asked a friend a question, and he replied that he always walks around the field with the settings at first speed. What is wrong with me then?
I will not go into details of my conclusions and construction of logical chains. Because it took me about ten minutes to understand what exactly I was doing wrong. But it turned out that the speed at which I was swinging the reel was the issue.
My comrades, they and the Deus, have been digging for 7 years, or even more. That’s why their coil wiring is smooth and slower than mine. Whereas I spent 5 years with the Fisher F-70, and that device has its own nuance, like on ICQ, the faster you wave the coil, the greater the detection depth. So I got used to walking swinging a metal detector from shoulder to hip at the speed of a scythe in a hayfield. And so it turned out that at that speed of swinging the XP ORX coil at maximum depth settings, it simply did not have time to process the signals. Why did I miss them?
In the meantime, we got into the car and drove from that field to another place. There, on the outskirts of a modern village, last year, my friend and I found a place where the village stood in the 18th century. So my friend and I thoroughly combed through that village last year, however, we decided this year to make sure that maybe there was something left there. It turned out that there was a lot of stuff left there. A full-fledged cop with three instruments was enough for two days.
So, at that place, having already taken into account the understanding about the speed of movement of the reel during deep tuning, I not only dug up a lot of coins, but also, in general, caught up with my comrades in the number of finds per day.
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