CTX 3030 Target Separation... more than a random choice

The CTX 3030 incorporates four different Target Separation options... Low Trash, High Trash, Ferrous-Coin and Ground-Coin. Selecting the proper Target Separation option will allow you to optimize the signal processing of your CTX 3030, to best match your site.

Low Trash Target Separation should be used in areas with low to moderate levels of mineralization and minimal amounts of metallic trash. When passing over multiple targets in “Low Trash”, the CTX 3030 will respond to the target providing the strongest target signal, possibly masking a smaller adjacent target. Therefore, it is not recommended to use “Low Trash” in areas with a high concentration of metallic targets. In areas with lesser amounts of metallic trash, “Low Trash” allows the CTX 3030 user to create a very narrow discrimination pattern, based on accepting only the target property values you wish to hear.

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Target Signal Analysis Part 2: The three cons

When learning your detector's personality someone invariably chimes in with the, "you have to dig it all comment". The implied fear is that by using sound/display to selectively dig targets you may walk over the find of a lifetime. Thus I would like to address this ever present warning about "digging it all". I like to look at the three cons:

The first con is context: It is simply where are your hunting and what are the conditions? Are you at the beach where digging it all is relatively easy and signals can be few and far between? Are you detecting in a lake that is very trashy with countless bits of foil and metal? Are you in a park where there are pieces of can slaw from cans that have been run over by lawn mowers. Also part of Context is when you are hunting? Is it a beach cut near a known wreck site after a big storm? Or is it a small creek site you have discovered way off the tracks that has never been detected? Context is everything!

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