While doing a two transceiver Nerfball method search, the balls (with the transmitting transceivers inside) ended up coming to rest within 2 meters of each other. If there are more then 4 buried victims, there is a secondary search feature, that you can switch to that cuts the reception range of the S1 down for doing a 5 meter micro-strip search method. The S1 can search for 4 buried transceivers at one time. Once you've flagged on the pinpointed transceiver, the S1 will then lock on to the next closest transmitting transceiver. So, I can't really say that I think the S1 prioritizes to other digital transceivers first. But, this afternoon in 10 practice search's the S1 did pulled me to a transmitting Tracker twice, while the transmitting transceivers where laid out in line facing me, about 5 meters apart. I can't exactly say that the S1 prioritizes to another digital transceiver first instead of a analog transceiver. I have tried all sort of mixes of digital and analog transmitting transceivers in my search's. The flagging feature worked like a charm with both digital and analog transmitting transceivers. The "flagging feature," is where after pinpointing the first found transceiver, you can "flag it as found," and then eliminate that transceivers signal, and start searching for the next transmitting transceiver.
I really wanted to see strait away how well the "flagging feature" worked. When I went out to do my first practice search, I started out with two transmitting transceivers about 3-4 meters apart. And then they wonder what their transceiver is telling them.).
When I first got ahold of the S1, I sat down a read the manual ( I often have folks show up at avy courses who have never sat down and actually read their transceiver manual.
But, I have found a few little quirks with the S1, but they are usually caused by user error or lack of proper transceiver technique. I'll just say it up front, I am very impressed with the performance of the S1 transceiver. Most of these search's have been multiple transceiver search's. I have done about 35 transceiver practice search's with it. I used it daily on a two week trip in Canada. I have been using it for the last three and half weeks. A little over three weeks ago, I got my hands on one of the new production Ortovox S1 transceivers.
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