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Ok guys / girls ... I made a phonecall today, and am taking the day off work tomorrow to pick up my 'Hawkeye'! Man, I'm so excited! I'm like a little kid on Christmas eve ... Don't think I'll sleep tonight!
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charlie i use b1 & sabre II
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Ahhh ... wise choices Paul! I picked up the Hawkeye today, and will let you all know how I get on with it real soon!
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Hi Charlie
How about a short independant field test on it,I can put it up on my site for you,(saves me the job).
Good luck
Gary
How about a short independant field test on it,I can put it up on my site for you,(saves me the job).
Good luck
Gary
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The worms turned Gary. Just deleted through all my old e-mails and noticed I had three asking why we both had it in for Whites as we are the ONLY two people who did not admit the DFX is the finest detector on the market. Its a pity there can't be a little more criticism before hundreds part with their money as long as its constructive and can be justified.
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Watch this space! the club is off to a pretty lame site tomorrow, so I'm not expecting much to come up. However, I will be trying out the Hawkeye on some other areas next week, so I will post a brief field test as I go along! so far, I have only managed to conduct the 'In air' tests in my garden, as per instruction manual. The Hawkeye is behaving as it should, and I'm feeling pretty confident!
MORE SOON!
MORE SOON!
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The DFX? I used it for just under 2 years. Yes, I did find some good stuff but, NEVER at any depth that was not achieveable with my Tesoro SS2! that's the thing see ... With my DFX, it was non-stop iron chatter and falsing. It was a nightmare! I spent many a night on the DFX FORUM asking for advice, and to be fair to the good folks on that forum, they were always willing to give me advice. Trouble was, one persons advice always contradicted anothers! the American guys were saying sweep speed at 1, whereas the UK guys were saying somewhere around 10! same thing with other critical settings like AC Sens and Pre Amp Gain, Recovery Speed and so forth.
At the end of the day, I thing the DFX has the potential to be a great machine, but as I've being saying for months now, IT'S TOO CLEVER FOR IT'S OWN GOOD! there are just too many adjustments (40 or so) that you can get wrong and hurt the machines performance! I started off feeling very confident with it, but that soon changed, and I just ended up feeling like I was missing out on targets because I was constantly worried that I hadn't got 'this or that' adjustment set right for optimum performance on a given site.
So far, having only carried out 'in-air' tests, the Hawkeye' seems to be right on the money as far as iron rejection is concerned. That's something I cannot say about the DFX, which is why after about an hour on the fields at the back of my house, I walked home and got my SS2 out!
looks like the Hawkeye is cast in the same mould, but with the added bonus of a reliable target I.D. meter! I can't wait to get out on some of my good sites to make 'unbiased evaluations & comparisons' between the Hawkeye & the DFX. I can assure you all that these tests / comparisons will be totally honest, and if I think that the DFX kicks the Hawkeyes ass, I will say so. From what I've seen so far, I don't think there's much chance of that! MORE SOON!
At the end of the day, I thing the DFX has the potential to be a great machine, but as I've being saying for months now, IT'S TOO CLEVER FOR IT'S OWN GOOD! there are just too many adjustments (40 or so) that you can get wrong and hurt the machines performance! I started off feeling very confident with it, but that soon changed, and I just ended up feeling like I was missing out on targets because I was constantly worried that I hadn't got 'this or that' adjustment set right for optimum performance on a given site.
So far, having only carried out 'in-air' tests, the Hawkeye' seems to be right on the money as far as iron rejection is concerned. That's something I cannot say about the DFX, which is why after about an hour on the fields at the back of my house, I walked home and got my SS2 out!
looks like the Hawkeye is cast in the same mould, but with the added bonus of a reliable target I.D. meter! I can't wait to get out on some of my good sites to make 'unbiased evaluations & comparisons' between the Hawkeye & the DFX. I can assure you all that these tests / comparisons will be totally honest, and if I think that the DFX kicks the Hawkeyes ass, I will say so. From what I've seen so far, I don't think there's much chance of that! MORE SOON!
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If you were using Matt's and Jeffs settings,i'm suprised you were finding anything at all.YOu need to set your sweep speed at 1,acceppt iron down to -60 and set your recovery speed to 20 in the high iron sites.You need to load the relic program I have posted on the personal users settings page and actually use it.YOu also have to sweep slower when your in a site that's loaded with iron.As an example the relic program I have listed will give you 2 to 3 times the depth over the factory presets.DAve
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I worked through nine or ten of the 'best' U.S. and U.K. programmes and unfortunately none could deliver in my area. Drive 80 miles or so (or work the beaches) and things were far better. Eight inches on a large (1.25") copper coin was the maximum. Unfortunately the majority of coins are at 8 to 12 inches and are way smaller than 1.25"
To look at it a different way the Minelab Sovereign (minimum discrim.maximum sensitivity gave no response what so ever).
I have to agree with 'Techtalk' on the back of this months Treasure Hunting magazine...'Single,highly tuned low frequency better than multi-frequency' (though in my view they should have added for land use).
To look at it a different way the Minelab Sovereign (minimum discrim.maximum sensitivity gave no response what so ever).
I have to agree with 'Techtalk' on the back of this months Treasure Hunting magazine...'Single,highly tuned low frequency better than multi-frequency' (though in my view they should have added for land use).
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What you are advocating might be hot s**t settings where YOU ARE, but such settings over here in the UK would have me slashing my wrists after 30 minutes! now ... I'm not going to bad-mouth the DFX here or anywhere else but, my PERSONAL EXPERIENCE of it after nearly 2 years is: it just has TOO MANY adjustments that can be at the very least subjective, and at worst ambiguous! If it works FOR YOU, then that's fine, and I wish you every success with it. All I'm saying is, it didn't work for ME, no matter what programme adjustments I made. We could transpose this, and YOU might be saying; "that Hawkeye sucks"! But hey ...
from my experience of the Hawkeye today, It does not suck for me!
HH charlie(UK)
from my experience of the Hawkeye today, It does not suck for me!
HH charlie(UK)
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Sorry guys I know this is a Tesoro forum !
I cant honestly say why the DFX is not up to XLT depth and identification,it just diddnt work for me.One interesting think came to light recently a friend of mine met a well known US whites dealer over here on a UK dig,he was using an XLT,when he was asked why not a DFX he just grinned.I think we could pick fault with any machine on the market today,personally I dont think any of them offer true value for money,but we are stuck with paying high prices,now the Chinese are making good quality machines at the right price things may soon have to change.
I cant honestly say why the DFX is not up to XLT depth and identification,it just diddnt work for me.One interesting think came to light recently a friend of mine met a well known US whites dealer over here on a UK dig,he was using an XLT,when he was asked why not a DFX he just grinned.I think we could pick fault with any machine on the market today,personally I dont think any of them offer true value for money,but we are stuck with paying high prices,now the Chinese are making good quality machines at the right price things may soon have to change.