Mick in Dubbo
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I've been hearing a bit about listening to signal strength lately, so I decided to pay attention to it when I went hunting yesterday.
After seeing off the family for another trip to Sydney (sure wish I could have gone) I broke down the Ace to it's smallest package, so that it would fit into my back pack and headed off to my son's school for an afternoon of detecting.I was able to obtain permission to hunt there over the next 2 weeks, during the school holidays.
After reassembling the Ace, I hunted in the bark chipped play area for most of the afternoon. It is 3-400 square metres in size.
When hunting, I generally ignore most narrow signals, because I have assumed them to be junk; at least on the mid to higher end of discrimination anyway. I was quite surprised at just how many of them turned out to be coins. Either smaller diameter, or they were standing on edge! One particular signal was hitting higher, but I was also only about 6 inches away from a solid chain (using the large coil) I had a bit of trouble isolating it, but it was definitely a short repeatable beep. After manoeuvring the coil around a bit, I was finally able to pinpoint it, and upped popped a $1 coin. In all I pulled up 3 coins standing on edge, but because they tend to give a short signal, I've always walked over them. lesson learned.
A couple of other interesting events that took place in the hunt is, that I a $2 coin show up 3 notches below where it should have,which is very unusual and had a few 20 cent pieces show up in the same notch as a $2 coin, not so unusual. Also, while hunting around some poles, in one situation in particular (sensitivity set at 2 notches) I was getting a signal that I wasn't sure if it was the pole or a target near it. To figure it out, I hit pinpoint and maneuvered the coil away from the pole to try and isolate the target. I had a little difficulty in doing this , but finally succeeded and up popped a five cent piece. Rechecking the spot, I felt that there was still another target there, so applying the same technique I pulled up another five cent piece. Checking the spot again, out popped my favourite design of a fifty cent piece. It has a picture of a Koala, Cockatoo and Wombat on it. these 3 three coins were only a couple of inches apart.
In all, the total of coins for the day, was 113 for $62.84 face value. Surprisingly, I only dug up about a dozen non coin targets including a sinker. This has been the single highest one day hunt with the Ace, but it still wouldn't rate as highly as finding a real old coin though. I guess that day will come.
Mick Evans.
After seeing off the family for another trip to Sydney (sure wish I could have gone) I broke down the Ace to it's smallest package, so that it would fit into my back pack and headed off to my son's school for an afternoon of detecting.I was able to obtain permission to hunt there over the next 2 weeks, during the school holidays.
After reassembling the Ace, I hunted in the bark chipped play area for most of the afternoon. It is 3-400 square metres in size.
When hunting, I generally ignore most narrow signals, because I have assumed them to be junk; at least on the mid to higher end of discrimination anyway. I was quite surprised at just how many of them turned out to be coins. Either smaller diameter, or they were standing on edge! One particular signal was hitting higher, but I was also only about 6 inches away from a solid chain (using the large coil) I had a bit of trouble isolating it, but it was definitely a short repeatable beep. After manoeuvring the coil around a bit, I was finally able to pinpoint it, and upped popped a $1 coin. In all I pulled up 3 coins standing on edge, but because they tend to give a short signal, I've always walked over them. lesson learned.
A couple of other interesting events that took place in the hunt is, that I a $2 coin show up 3 notches below where it should have,which is very unusual and had a few 20 cent pieces show up in the same notch as a $2 coin, not so unusual. Also, while hunting around some poles, in one situation in particular (sensitivity set at 2 notches) I was getting a signal that I wasn't sure if it was the pole or a target near it. To figure it out, I hit pinpoint and maneuvered the coil away from the pole to try and isolate the target. I had a little difficulty in doing this , but finally succeeded and up popped a five cent piece. Rechecking the spot, I felt that there was still another target there, so applying the same technique I pulled up another five cent piece. Checking the spot again, out popped my favourite design of a fifty cent piece. It has a picture of a Koala, Cockatoo and Wombat on it. these 3 three coins were only a couple of inches apart.
In all, the total of coins for the day, was 113 for $62.84 face value. Surprisingly, I only dug up about a dozen non coin targets including a sinker. This has been the single highest one day hunt with the Ace, but it still wouldn't rate as highly as finding a real old coin though. I guess that day will come.
Mick Evans.
It looks like you have "Mastered" the ACE 