DIGGER27
In Memory Of
Man I am lazy.
On 2/27/11 I went for a hunt with my Vaq and the thing kept cutting out.
I was concerned, it wasn't even a year old at that point.
I came to find out that it was my Killer B's that had the problem, not the Vaq.
I have that warranty but I just didn't have time to send them back right then and I just got a decent cheap pair to use and put the repair process on the back burner.
I really never got around to sending them in, plus hunting in the summer Ala. heat the phones I was using were comfortable so I just forgot about it.
I seemed to find some great things with the Vaq, my F2, my Compadre and for the last year my F70 using low end phones, but every once in awhile I wondered what those better phones could do in the rare cases I came across a site with old and deep targets which doesn't happen often but could in my much better Kansas soil.
A few months ago I even contacted Skiwhiz and asked about him doing the repair because he is a great guy and I would not mind throwing him a few bucks to professionally do the fix even though I do have that lifetime warranty.
I didn't think the repair was all that big of a deal, probably a cord problem, not something technical with the headset itself.
Well I didn't do that immediately either.
Like I said...I am really lazy.
I would probaly be elected the president of the local chapter of procrastinators anonymous club...if we could ever get enough people together for an actual meeting.
So two days ago I was cleaning out some stuff in an extra bedroom and came across my B's.
What the heck, I am pretty handy and I just got it in me to see if I could easily and quickly find the problem and fix it.
Guess what, I did.
There were two broken wires down close to the Jack...a little cutting, a little splicing, a bunch of carefully wrapped electrical tape and they are back in action like they were brand new.
One day I will get a new jack and use some solder and shrink tubing and make it all look more professional but yesterday I took them out on a hunt with the F70 and I am one happy camper.
I don't want to start a big drama thing here about the advantage of top quality phones vs, cheaper stuff, there have been plenty of opinions and threads about that posted here over the years already.
I have always had the opinion that there is a difference and if you can afford it going with top quality equipment can never hurt.
As I said, I seem to have done pretty well without them, but most of the time I hunt for shallow stuff and not the deep stuff and got pretty good at differentiating signals no matter what phones I used.
However, on yesterday's hunt I realized something else.
It is not only the top notch sound, tones and frequency response that I get, but it is also the quiet setting that might give me an advantage in future hunts since these things do such a great job of blocking out most of if not all the ambient sound around me.
I knew this before but I just forgot about it, yesterday's hunt brought it back.
One thing I noticed was that with my sense pretty high past 90 and my disc set low when swinging over iron, the kind that throws off false high tones but doesn't always drop into iron so I could hear the iron grunt, not only can I tell this is iron because of the jumpy numbers and behavior but past 90 sense on the top end Fishers the manual says you could get some extra circuit hum.
I have heard it before using other phones from time to time, but in these cases just as I got that kind of signal I heard that fleeting hum almost every time.
Didn't ever hear this hum on good signals like coins so this little discovery could save me a bit of time in future hunts and spending less time messing with bad targets might give me could give me more time digging a few better target signals...even a few more signals dug could produce some nice surprises.
As far as I am concerned this is a volume business...he who digs the most targets ends up with the most prizes.
Utilizing methods to up your percentages of digging better targets over bad ones can only increase your odds if just by a little.
So anywhoo, hunting with the F70 just got different and hopefully even better, and I gotta go out hunting with the Vaq again and also listen to my Compadre tones sometime in the near future.
Maybe even get the F2 out of mothballs just to give a listen.
The F70, great phones again, choose a couple of good sites...look out world, nothing can stop me now!
On 2/27/11 I went for a hunt with my Vaq and the thing kept cutting out.
I was concerned, it wasn't even a year old at that point.
I came to find out that it was my Killer B's that had the problem, not the Vaq.
I have that warranty but I just didn't have time to send them back right then and I just got a decent cheap pair to use and put the repair process on the back burner.
I really never got around to sending them in, plus hunting in the summer Ala. heat the phones I was using were comfortable so I just forgot about it.
I seemed to find some great things with the Vaq, my F2, my Compadre and for the last year my F70 using low end phones, but every once in awhile I wondered what those better phones could do in the rare cases I came across a site with old and deep targets which doesn't happen often but could in my much better Kansas soil.
A few months ago I even contacted Skiwhiz and asked about him doing the repair because he is a great guy and I would not mind throwing him a few bucks to professionally do the fix even though I do have that lifetime warranty.
I didn't think the repair was all that big of a deal, probably a cord problem, not something technical with the headset itself.
Well I didn't do that immediately either.
Like I said...I am really lazy.
I would probaly be elected the president of the local chapter of procrastinators anonymous club...if we could ever get enough people together for an actual meeting.
So two days ago I was cleaning out some stuff in an extra bedroom and came across my B's.
What the heck, I am pretty handy and I just got it in me to see if I could easily and quickly find the problem and fix it.
Guess what, I did.
There were two broken wires down close to the Jack...a little cutting, a little splicing, a bunch of carefully wrapped electrical tape and they are back in action like they were brand new.
One day I will get a new jack and use some solder and shrink tubing and make it all look more professional but yesterday I took them out on a hunt with the F70 and I am one happy camper.
I don't want to start a big drama thing here about the advantage of top quality phones vs, cheaper stuff, there have been plenty of opinions and threads about that posted here over the years already.
I have always had the opinion that there is a difference and if you can afford it going with top quality equipment can never hurt.
As I said, I seem to have done pretty well without them, but most of the time I hunt for shallow stuff and not the deep stuff and got pretty good at differentiating signals no matter what phones I used.
However, on yesterday's hunt I realized something else.
It is not only the top notch sound, tones and frequency response that I get, but it is also the quiet setting that might give me an advantage in future hunts since these things do such a great job of blocking out most of if not all the ambient sound around me.
I knew this before but I just forgot about it, yesterday's hunt brought it back.
One thing I noticed was that with my sense pretty high past 90 and my disc set low when swinging over iron, the kind that throws off false high tones but doesn't always drop into iron so I could hear the iron grunt, not only can I tell this is iron because of the jumpy numbers and behavior but past 90 sense on the top end Fishers the manual says you could get some extra circuit hum.
I have heard it before using other phones from time to time, but in these cases just as I got that kind of signal I heard that fleeting hum almost every time.
Didn't ever hear this hum on good signals like coins so this little discovery could save me a bit of time in future hunts and spending less time messing with bad targets might give me could give me more time digging a few better target signals...even a few more signals dug could produce some nice surprises.
As far as I am concerned this is a volume business...he who digs the most targets ends up with the most prizes.
Utilizing methods to up your percentages of digging better targets over bad ones can only increase your odds if just by a little.
So anywhoo, hunting with the F70 just got different and hopefully even better, and I gotta go out hunting with the Vaq again and also listen to my Compadre tones sometime in the near future.
Maybe even get the F2 out of mothballs just to give a listen.
The F70, great phones again, choose a couple of good sites...look out world, nothing can stop me now!
