IN
THE
FIELD
STANCE
Stand with your arm extended in front of your body. Don’t bend or stoop; stand in a comfortable position. Hold the unit so that the search coil is about
SWEEP
Standing in the search position, swing the search coil gently from side to side, slightly overlapping each sweep as you move forward. Keep your search coil approximately
the ground as you search. Raising it during the sweep , or at the ends of your sweep, can cause false readings. Move slowly; hurrying will cause you
to miss targets.
Most desireable objects will respond with a repeatable tone. When discriminating, iron and foil objects generally do not respond. False signals can be caused by trashy ground, electrical interference, or by large irregular trash objects. These signals are easily recognized by their often broken or
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