Hello to everyone,
I'm a long time lurker, first time poster, who has learnt a huge amount from reading posts on this forum over the years, a special thanks to Old Longhair and Digger for all the help you have indirectly given me.
I primarily use either the Coiltek Digger coil, or the 10.5 DD in 7.5 kHz for my search of coins and silver, my sites are quite highly mineralised, ground balance readings normally ranging from the mid 30's right down to single digits.
I like to know where every target is, so I use a custom discrimination setting with everything accepted.
The Digger coil I often find too small and time consuming to search my sites thoroughly, but love it's pinpointing abilities and target separation (it's easily my favourite coil) and I find the 10.5 DD is too big, heavy and cumbersome to use in general, and very much so when used for hours on end.
I also have the Minelab 10x5 elliptical 18.75kHz, but it's high frequency I find too sensitive for searching parks and fields, great if you want to find every tiny bit of aluminium foil, but very annoying to operate, not very good on silver, and not waterproof.
What I really want is a waterproof Coiltek 10x5 elliptical DD in 3 kHz (or even 7.5kHz) similar to what's available for the CTX, E-Trac, Explorer etc.
I have spoken to Trevor at Coiltek who said there are no current plans to make such a coil, but it's certainly possible.
Am I the only one who would jump at the opportunity to purchase such a coil ?
I'm told the X-terra 705 is still Minelab's best selling detector, at least here in Australia, so surely there would still be a market for such an item.
I'm hoping a show of interest here might just get something going, I know it's a long shot, but thought I'd give it a try !
I'm a long time lurker, first time poster, who has learnt a huge amount from reading posts on this forum over the years, a special thanks to Old Longhair and Digger for all the help you have indirectly given me.
I primarily use either the Coiltek Digger coil, or the 10.5 DD in 7.5 kHz for my search of coins and silver, my sites are quite highly mineralised, ground balance readings normally ranging from the mid 30's right down to single digits.
I like to know where every target is, so I use a custom discrimination setting with everything accepted.
The Digger coil I often find too small and time consuming to search my sites thoroughly, but love it's pinpointing abilities and target separation (it's easily my favourite coil) and I find the 10.5 DD is too big, heavy and cumbersome to use in general, and very much so when used for hours on end.
I also have the Minelab 10x5 elliptical 18.75kHz, but it's high frequency I find too sensitive for searching parks and fields, great if you want to find every tiny bit of aluminium foil, but very annoying to operate, not very good on silver, and not waterproof.
What I really want is a waterproof Coiltek 10x5 elliptical DD in 3 kHz (or even 7.5kHz) similar to what's available for the CTX, E-Trac, Explorer etc.
I have spoken to Trevor at Coiltek who said there are no current plans to make such a coil, but it's certainly possible.
Am I the only one who would jump at the opportunity to purchase such a coil ?
I'm told the X-terra 705 is still Minelab's best selling detector, at least here in Australia, so surely there would still be a market for such an item.
I'm hoping a show of interest here might just get something going, I know it's a long shot, but thought I'd give it a try !
