IDXMonster
Elite Member
The temps have been in the mid teens over night here,upper 20’s lower 30’s for a daytime high(at best). The ground is starting to lock up,around my specific hunting area it’s frozen about 3-4 down. Because I’m a fatass,I can still punch my shovel through and dig a respectable hole. Here’s the thing....
Last weekend,I did very well,4 silver dimes one day. The ground was JUST starting to get hard on top. Yesterday the ground was frozen about 2-3” down,corralled another 4 silver dimes(3 Seated in 2 hunts....WOOT!) Today I figured I’d keep a good thing going and it was BIZARRE! I never touched the settings,and this is a property that has no EMI or problems other than its extremely polluted with square nails and trash from fair goers. Yep,it’s a fairground,if you didn’t catch that....and it turned into the Twilight Zone.
I could NOT get a good repeatable signal on ANYTHING it seemed. My one and only Indian today was a solid repeater,but the 2 wheats that I dug at 5-6” we’re struggling to make a response. It’s as though the machine was running on 1/2 power,like I had the Sensitivity at Auto MINUS 3. I’ve done this long enough that I know when I am going to have a day like this,and I knew it 5 minutes into the hunt. I’ve been reading about radio waves and magnetic waves and how they propagate through different mediums....and that ice crystals can,in certain conditions,have a negative refractory impact on them(they don’t all go where they are supposed to because they’re getting partially scattered,much like a prism would do). I did NOT try manually setting a different noise cancel channel to see if a slight freq shift would perk it up any but I did raise the Sensitivity to what I’d deem to be “unreasonable levels” and it quickly became,well...unreasonable. I was using the stock coil BTW...yesterday and last week I was using the 17” coil. The only other thing I can think is that by using the 17” coil,it’s field is more “diluted” and is not picking up the tiny bits of iron,rust,broken nails and micro-shredded metallic junk because it is unable to,thus giving it an ADVANTAGE in the trash. Counterintuitive I know,but I can’t offer a different explanation than one of the two above.
I know for a FACT that each and every one of us had experienced this in different ways,but Im more focused on the “frozen ground” aspect,and if my “scattered waves” theory holds any water...or ice.
Last weekend,I did very well,4 silver dimes one day. The ground was JUST starting to get hard on top. Yesterday the ground was frozen about 2-3” down,corralled another 4 silver dimes(3 Seated in 2 hunts....WOOT!) Today I figured I’d keep a good thing going and it was BIZARRE! I never touched the settings,and this is a property that has no EMI or problems other than its extremely polluted with square nails and trash from fair goers. Yep,it’s a fairground,if you didn’t catch that....and it turned into the Twilight Zone.
I could NOT get a good repeatable signal on ANYTHING it seemed. My one and only Indian today was a solid repeater,but the 2 wheats that I dug at 5-6” we’re struggling to make a response. It’s as though the machine was running on 1/2 power,like I had the Sensitivity at Auto MINUS 3. I’ve done this long enough that I know when I am going to have a day like this,and I knew it 5 minutes into the hunt. I’ve been reading about radio waves and magnetic waves and how they propagate through different mediums....and that ice crystals can,in certain conditions,have a negative refractory impact on them(they don’t all go where they are supposed to because they’re getting partially scattered,much like a prism would do). I did NOT try manually setting a different noise cancel channel to see if a slight freq shift would perk it up any but I did raise the Sensitivity to what I’d deem to be “unreasonable levels” and it quickly became,well...unreasonable. I was using the stock coil BTW...yesterday and last week I was using the 17” coil. The only other thing I can think is that by using the 17” coil,it’s field is more “diluted” and is not picking up the tiny bits of iron,rust,broken nails and micro-shredded metallic junk because it is unable to,thus giving it an ADVANTAGE in the trash. Counterintuitive I know,but I can’t offer a different explanation than one of the two above.
I know for a FACT that each and every one of us had experienced this in different ways,but Im more focused on the “frozen ground” aspect,and if my “scattered waves” theory holds any water...or ice.