First Run

[Razorback]

Took the E-Trac to the beach this morning for its first outing. Did a little testing in the park the night before. Arrived 7am... by 9am it was already 30c and getting busy so we went to be closer to beer and air conditioning lol. But here is the result of a very amaturish and disorganised 2 hours of learning and fun. The most positive parts were haring the amount of blanking.... which in some places was extreme... digging/finding and identifying all but 2 targets (which just seemed to disapear) and having a good play with the beach mode and the manual variations from Andrew's book. Enjoying it a lot.

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Going earlier tomorrow morning and anticipate doing better with the new skills and a better digging tool (saucepan full of holes lol)

*footnote*

After taking the mickey out of ourselves for the 5c coin. We went and looked it up, turns out its about the 3rd rarest mint and worth a lot more than 5c, in fact up to $8 for u/c .... so we are even happier than we already were.

 

[Don in South Jersey]

I wish I could get out but is just too cold. Good luck in your next hunt...

 

[Razorback]

Second Day. The rings are both just stainless steel we think. Still pretty happy to come away with 2 rings on the second try!

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[david.di]

You can tell Carona Extra is just as popular over there like it is over here, on many of the Perth,West. Aussie beaches....

It's always about the fun in finding stuff on a beach for me....though eventually you may or may not realize that it's a bottle cap that the Etrac is sensing and you'll eventually not even bother to dig them......unless you like collecting bottle caps or it gets desperate enough, due to a lack of targets at times, that almost ANYTHING that sounds "good"......can possibly be worth digging...........

Etrac RULES

david di

 

[moseng]

Welcome to the E-Trac crowd! Glad to see you are having fun... and in the sun!!

 

[Alimo88]

Razorback. where in Perth are you? Did you get the etrac new or from the quokka? or Gumtree. see if the rings have hall marks on the inside. I but they are silver

 

[david.di]

Razorback is'nt in Perth. He's in Adelaide.

 

[david.di]

the recommended mode file that goes with it and maybe do a couple of mods to suit your detecting requirements. Or leave it just as it is.You can decide what you choose so that it suits your needs.

I found it to work great for finding Aussie and many other foreign coins and a large variety of jewelry, in general when searching in the many soil types that I detect in.

Start here:

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,894336,894336#msg-894336

or download them from the bottom of this page, use Etrac Xchange on your pc, to download and install them on your Etrac. Don't try and open them on your pc, as as that wont work.

Just send them into a directory , say created on your desktop and then you'll find them easily when you engage Etrac Xchange to place them into the Etrac.

I found it to be quite a good all purpose pattern and mode that helps you to make a fairly positive id of a majority of junk targets if you want to limit the amount of discrimination.

I use it for inland sites and on the beach with many different coils.

david di

 

[gibsondan]

Congrats on the $8 nickel! That's the way you learn. Just get out there and hunt. You'll be an expert in no time.

 

[gregliss]

Nice finds, don't think your going to have any trouble learning with the etrac.

I've not been on the beach myself, but couple things I've picked up from this forum you might want to keep in mind: Make sure you have soil type set to "difficult" on the beach, I've read that it can be unstable in the other setting. And I've read that you should remove the skid plate on the beach otherwise sand builds up and causing faulsing.

Damn good start mate!

edit: The above pattern is awesome, I use it 99% of the time very good for deep coins. Open screen with two tone ferrous would work well on the beach, worth trying. Cheers

 

[Razorback]

Thaks for the support. Right now it is certianly a case of digging every target in order to learn. We found we could guess te last 3 or 4 bottle caps with accuracy so I agree that a few more outings and we will be walking over them, they are quite a distinctive tone once you get used to them.

I think the highlight of the second run was the 20c coin. It was the first genuine coin with some size we had heard (apart from testing) and it was like no other signal we got all morning. It was tight and compact and loud, you couldnt mistake it for anything we had heard before and I called it as a good sized coin before we dug it. So its all coming along nicely Cheers.

Yup in Adelaide and for interests sake that all came from an area of about 100 yards x 25 yards done with no real plan. There is a couple of cafe's and a pub, its just near the Henley Beach jetty and well trafficked . We are pretty certain if we went over it again we would no doubt keep finding things.

And note the condom wrapper centre top.... eeeww lol

 

[Razorback]

Thanks for the tips Greg, we were actually wondering about that with the sand on the coil, because your right it does build up and we were shaking it off now and then to try and ensure it wasnt causing problems.

We are using the pattern from Andrew's book after trying the minlab beach mode, we think Andrews is better as there was less chatter (ground type set to diff) and the signals were a lot clearer than with the minelab mode. I would still like to play more with reducing the awesome volume of the background hum without lowering signals though... but its all testing.