Dual Frequency: What the Genny4 Actually Sends
The Genny4 sends two frequencies at once. What each one is for, why the higher one jumps gaps, and when dual frequency helps or misleads you.
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2026-08-05
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0:00Gen 4 series. Now, they actually send out two frequencies. Okay? So, that Genny is kicking out 33 kHz and 131 kHz simultaneously. And when you put your CAT on Genny mode, um the best way to describe it is when you've got it turned up quite high, you'll often hear both frequencies. And then when you turn it down, you hear whichever one's coming through the best. If you guys have been using CAT4 on Genny mode, you you might have noticed that sometimes you hear different noises, different tones, and it's all to do with these these simultaneous dual frequencies. What the 131 kHz allows us to do is because it's high frequency, it
0:35jumps gaps. So, some of you might have seen little tricks where you can wrap it around the pole and things like that. If anybody's seen that before, you seen that before, guys? Wrapping it around. So, it's quite a new technique this and and the industry kind of went a bit mad with it. But I will say that on a metal column, it's better to connect. Okay. Is anyone else's screen frozen? Rachel, if you can hear me and your screen's frozen, try reconnecting. Is everybody else still still there? Okay. So, so just to summarize guys, yes, wrapping it around works, but if you have got a metal column,
1:07connect on. I tend to use wraparound techniques more for like concrete columns and stuff like that. And even then, sometimes you might struggle. Okay, so that's how we actually hook up to a column. We're hooked up here and we've got our pin in. Now, I want to ask you a question, guys. It's always very interesting asking this question on training courses. Where do you put the earth? So, we've hooked up to the column. Where do we put this? How far away does it go? What angle does it go at? Does it actually matter? Do we just stick it in the ground? Give me some thoughts on the Earth, guys. And and I
1:37said, the reason it's interesting is when I ask this question, I I get loads of different answers. There doesn't seem to be any consistency um on where this goes. What's your thoughts on it? So what what I want to just while you're answering that guys, what I want to talk to you about actually is there kind of is no correct position as such, but what I think we're missing um a lot out there is is understanding of what effect it has. Okay. It does different things depending on where you put it and we need to take these into consideration when we're when we're hooking up. Yeah. I think you're