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SIdigger69
New member
Welcome to the forum and the CTX club. Best advice is to dig into the forum, there is tons of info on the CTX here. Good luck and enjoy the machine!
Jim Robertson
Well-known member
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MINELABBOB
New member
HI ED
pleanty of info on this forum. start from the top and keep reading!!!!!!!!
best of luck
minelabob
pleanty of info on this forum. start from the top and keep reading!!!!!!!!
best of luck
minelabob
MINELABBOB
New member
HI ED
most pull tabs are on the 12 line going-1215-1218-1222-1229-30 so rember your no#s 4-them. i leave them for last,and hunt 4-gold rings
the no#s you want are 12-13 1240 1242 1244 12 45 1247 some were there is a chart with fe-co no# were you find the good stuff. but my friend you must
dig and see what your CTX is tell u. but this will help a little also 1230s-37 zinc pennys. so have fun digging and you never know you may
find something un expected!!!!!!!!!!
minelabbob
most pull tabs are on the 12 line going-1215-1218-1222-1229-30 so rember your no#s 4-them. i leave them for last,and hunt 4-gold rings
the no#s you want are 12-13 1240 1242 1244 12 45 1247 some were there is a chart with fe-co no# were you find the good stuff. but my friend you must
dig and see what your CTX is tell u. but this will help a little also 1230s-37 zinc pennys. so have fun digging and you never know you may
find something un expected!!!!!!!!!!
minelabbob
Thank you all for the prompt replies, I have a lot to learn. I have been out 4 times one hour each and not found one coin since the first two pennies, But now I will only dig if I see the numbers you all mentioned and see if that helps. Someone helped me with sensitivity and I went from 4-5 inches average to 7 inches. Learning a title more everyday.
Hi and welcome. It will take a little time to setup the 3030 to what is right for YOU. Everyone is a little different. I have given my setup to two folks and both like it, but have made small changes to fit either the place they hunt or the style. If you are going to be doing a lot of parks you may want to hunt by depth rather than by target ID. Some of my best finds were cruddy signals, but when you have a soft tone 8" deep in an 1860's park, you have to dig it. The picture below is a sterling re-election pin for the McKinley campaign that rang up 14-27 at 8". Good luck and happy hunting!
Edit: Spelling mistakes.
Edit: Spelling mistakes.
Johnnyanglo
Active member
Do a Google search and read everything about the CTX on the forums and people's detecting pages. Then experiment outside in the field. Don't get locked into some pattern or mode that supposedly is the best or that you read everyone should be using.
Bury some coins and play with the settings - it won't break and you'll learn a lot. After you have about 100 hours on the machine go back and do another Goggle search and read everything again ... it will make much more sense at that point. Then go back out and experiment again. Rinse and repeat.
Bury some coins and play with the settings - it won't break and you'll learn a lot. After you have about 100 hours on the machine go back and do another Goggle search and read everything again ... it will make much more sense at that point. Then go back out and experiment again. Rinse and repeat.
Hello Ed,
Welcome to the site and to the detecting hobby.
If you are wanting some help in getting started with the CTX 3030 I would suggest downloading the 4-step learning search modes for the CTX 3030 that I posted on this site. They can be very helpful in learning how to identify good targets from bad. Especially the first step which is a very closed off search mode that picks up very little trash. Mostly iron or large aluminum. Still, it finds a large variety of good targets. Each learning step after that increases the type of targets the detector will find, both good and bad, and helps you to learn them step-by-step.
People have told me that the learning steps have made a night and day difference for them, or that they wanted to throw the machine away until they downloaded the learning steps. They were then happy with their purchase.
For some, new or experienced, trying to decipher the signals from the CTX can be difficult, frustrating, and aggravating, at first. Using the learning steps can greatly reduce the level of frustration. Those who start out using the steps may never realize how much easier the steps made it to learn the CTX, or the level of frustration they missed.
I know I'm kind of tooting my own horn about the learning steps, but those search programs were written just for the purpose you are asking about, learning to use the CTX. And, form the response's I have gotten, the steps can do just that for many people.
The programs are not intended to teach all the buttons and settings on the CTX. They are intended to make learning to separate good targets from bad easier, and to greatly reduce the frustration in the learning process.
To learn the buttons, setting, and functions of the CTX, read the manual a few times and keep it handy to refer to. Some people download the manual to an iPad or such so they can take it with them. As has been mentioned, buy Andy Sabisch's book 'The CTX 3030 Handbook.' He did a great job of explaining in detail all of the functions of the CTX. Use forums such as this one that have sections dedicated to the CTX 3030. Search for any questions you have or make a new post. People are glad to help. This site has some expert experts who are incredibly knowledgeable.
To get the learning search modes, sign into this forum and go to the 'Minelab CTX 3030 Detecting Forum.' Near the top of that forum you will find a post 'Search Modes for Learning the CTX 3030.' Click on that. In that post is a link to take you to the post where you can read about the learning/training search modes and instructions. (Seems like lots of steps to get there but it's not really.) Read the information about the steps and the instructions on how to download the search modes. You may even want to pring that stuff out. At the bottom of that post is a link 'Download' to click on and download the modes.
If you have any problems with downloading the modes, or getting them into the XChange2 program, feel free to Private Message me and I will help you get it done.
Happy Hunting,
Harry
Welcome to the site and to the detecting hobby.
If you are wanting some help in getting started with the CTX 3030 I would suggest downloading the 4-step learning search modes for the CTX 3030 that I posted on this site. They can be very helpful in learning how to identify good targets from bad. Especially the first step which is a very closed off search mode that picks up very little trash. Mostly iron or large aluminum. Still, it finds a large variety of good targets. Each learning step after that increases the type of targets the detector will find, both good and bad, and helps you to learn them step-by-step.
People have told me that the learning steps have made a night and day difference for them, or that they wanted to throw the machine away until they downloaded the learning steps. They were then happy with their purchase.
For some, new or experienced, trying to decipher the signals from the CTX can be difficult, frustrating, and aggravating, at first. Using the learning steps can greatly reduce the level of frustration. Those who start out using the steps may never realize how much easier the steps made it to learn the CTX, or the level of frustration they missed.
I know I'm kind of tooting my own horn about the learning steps, but those search programs were written just for the purpose you are asking about, learning to use the CTX. And, form the response's I have gotten, the steps can do just that for many people.
The programs are not intended to teach all the buttons and settings on the CTX. They are intended to make learning to separate good targets from bad easier, and to greatly reduce the frustration in the learning process.
To learn the buttons, setting, and functions of the CTX, read the manual a few times and keep it handy to refer to. Some people download the manual to an iPad or such so they can take it with them. As has been mentioned, buy Andy Sabisch's book 'The CTX 3030 Handbook.' He did a great job of explaining in detail all of the functions of the CTX. Use forums such as this one that have sections dedicated to the CTX 3030. Search for any questions you have or make a new post. People are glad to help. This site has some expert experts who are incredibly knowledgeable.
To get the learning search modes, sign into this forum and go to the 'Minelab CTX 3030 Detecting Forum.' Near the top of that forum you will find a post 'Search Modes for Learning the CTX 3030.' Click on that. In that post is a link to take you to the post where you can read about the learning/training search modes and instructions. (Seems like lots of steps to get there but it's not really.) Read the information about the steps and the instructions on how to download the search modes. You may even want to pring that stuff out. At the bottom of that post is a link 'Download' to click on and download the modes.
If you have any problems with downloading the modes, or getting them into the XChange2 program, feel free to Private Message me and I will help you get it done.
Happy Hunting,
Harry
Then I found Harry's programs...I still really don't know how to use the exchange or most of the bells and whistles of the machine, but you can find a lot of good, deep stuff just by turning it on and going out with it.I know that I will get a lot of criticism for saying that and not fully utilizing the many features of the machine, but if you use Harry's programs to learn the basics you will find the machine to be useable and end the frustration that it seems to bring to many...good luck and find something good
MINELABBOB
New member
TAKE SM STEPS
and dont take on to much in the begining set up 2-3 modes with diff. target sep. in each a have at it
try TTF OR COMBIND keep it simple until you have a good handle on that bad boy CTX.
and dont take on to much in the begining set up 2-3 modes with diff. target sep. in each a have at it
try TTF OR COMBIND keep it simple until you have a good handle on that bad boy CTX.