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A report from a user's point of view on the Goldquest SS.
An open letter to Mr. Foster and Bill Crabtree.
It does not take a Old Bird Hunter long to know he has found a excellent Bird Dog.
I am a staunch believe, in fact a cheerleader for the new type PI's that are being made,
however I have had my share of problems with a couple of 'other' brands. Since I was a
manufactures rep. for 23 years who worked with the most innovative engineer there is in
mechanical seals for pumps, I know that the 'Front Leading Edge' is many times the
'Front Bleeding Edge." Sirs, the Goldquest SS is a true winner.
I do not use and most likely will not use the unit for what it truly was designed for, I
am a water hunter, beach hunter in the South <IMG SRC="/forums/images/flag.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT="USA">. For these purposes it is working
excellent. I spend 6 months in Florida in the winter detecting 3 to 4 days of the week
and the other 6 months traveling over the US in our motor home and detecting wherever.
I took my new Goldquest SS to an area that is 'Tennessee Red Clay' and on top of that
red clay is a layer of 4" to 20" Kentucky Sand for a beach, I hunted the beach and the
red clay area where I have experience. I have owned two other PI units and one failed badly
in this area, it falsed the whole time as it saw the ground as a target, the other ran
OK but proved to be unrealiable built. The Goldquest SS in this "exact" same area ran
fine and at the 10uS. setting and the SAT in the slowest or most sens. setting...
NO FALSING-THRESHOLD WAS SMOOTH.
I had marked off a 10 foot square area (no sand) that has bottle caps all
under the ground where a bulldozer filled and leveled this area. People who sit in the
shade of some trees like this area. The Goldquest SS was easily sounding on the old
compression bottle caps deep under this ground. This is a true tough area to expect a
unit to have any depth and work without falsing.
I went out in the sand beach area and found 18 coins at various depths and was very
pleased as I really did not expect it to be a good coin machine...it is. I found one
very thin silver medallion down about 9" that susprised me. Deep targets are clearly
identified from shallow targets. The audio is very descriptive.
I found no gold items but did not expect to find them as this is a very, very worked
area at thisTennessee River County Park area. I was very surprised to find the coins I
did..they were all tarnished and each (except one) was lying on the red clay surface
below the sand, I have to admit I had missed them, along with many others, prior to this
time.
This area was an old farm house and barn that was there when I was a kid and that was 50
years ago. There is a lead water pipe that only a PI will hit, I followed it for yards.
Strong detector in depth.
Again in the Tennessee Red Clay this unit ran smooth with a smooth threshold, no rising
or falling in audio. I went out into the water where it is just some loose sand and all
red clay bottom and it was smooth running.
I have no doubts in my mind that this detector is one I will be keeping, but I have not
been to Florida yet and in the wet sand....I will follow up on that when I do... But if
it will work smooth here it will be a winner in Florida I believe.
One other thing. I did some air tests with it when I first received it and noticed the
radiated pattern was a bit deformed. I had followed the instructions and wrapped the
coil wire around the rod from the coil all the way up. I experimented by running the
coil wire straight up all the way to just under the "S" rod and the loop radiated
pattern rounded out fine... I am not a electrical trained person and cannot explain
this...I am a user/buyer and I really only want what works... I also have used a belt
and suspenders to mount my Goldquest SS on my chest. This way when digging or bending
over it is never in the way, photo is attached.
The only negative I have is when you change the delay setting the unit real gives a loud
2 to 3 second blast in audio that if you are like me and have a bit of a hearing problem
(to too many 105 and 155 Howitzer's fired in the Army) I keep the audio up...it is
really a shock when not prepared for it.
This letter is not meant to be a negative for other manufactures as I know
they were trying to manufacture fine equipment but it appears you Mr. Foster made that
goal.
Note: I will get rid of my Goldquest SS when you make a PI like this one that samples
100us/50uS and 10uS with 3 tones that signals the result of the sample Mr. Foster.
Please put me on your list that tells when this detector is developed.
As you can see I am delighted with my/your Goldquest SS.
Frank Hamill
Chattanooga, Tennessee
An open letter to Mr. Foster and Bill Crabtree.
It does not take a Old Bird Hunter long to know he has found a excellent Bird Dog.
I am a staunch believe, in fact a cheerleader for the new type PI's that are being made,
however I have had my share of problems with a couple of 'other' brands. Since I was a
manufactures rep. for 23 years who worked with the most innovative engineer there is in
mechanical seals for pumps, I know that the 'Front Leading Edge' is many times the
'Front Bleeding Edge." Sirs, the Goldquest SS is a true winner.
I do not use and most likely will not use the unit for what it truly was designed for, I
am a water hunter, beach hunter in the South <IMG SRC="/forums/images/flag.jpg" BORDER=0 ALT="USA">. For these purposes it is working
excellent. I spend 6 months in Florida in the winter detecting 3 to 4 days of the week
and the other 6 months traveling over the US in our motor home and detecting wherever.
I took my new Goldquest SS to an area that is 'Tennessee Red Clay' and on top of that
red clay is a layer of 4" to 20" Kentucky Sand for a beach, I hunted the beach and the
red clay area where I have experience. I have owned two other PI units and one failed badly
in this area, it falsed the whole time as it saw the ground as a target, the other ran
OK but proved to be unrealiable built. The Goldquest SS in this "exact" same area ran
fine and at the 10uS. setting and the SAT in the slowest or most sens. setting...
NO FALSING-THRESHOLD WAS SMOOTH.
I had marked off a 10 foot square area (no sand) that has bottle caps all
under the ground where a bulldozer filled and leveled this area. People who sit in the
shade of some trees like this area. The Goldquest SS was easily sounding on the old
compression bottle caps deep under this ground. This is a true tough area to expect a
unit to have any depth and work without falsing.
I went out in the sand beach area and found 18 coins at various depths and was very
pleased as I really did not expect it to be a good coin machine...it is. I found one
very thin silver medallion down about 9" that susprised me. Deep targets are clearly
identified from shallow targets. The audio is very descriptive.
I found no gold items but did not expect to find them as this is a very, very worked
area at thisTennessee River County Park area. I was very surprised to find the coins I
did..they were all tarnished and each (except one) was lying on the red clay surface
below the sand, I have to admit I had missed them, along with many others, prior to this
time.
This area was an old farm house and barn that was there when I was a kid and that was 50
years ago. There is a lead water pipe that only a PI will hit, I followed it for yards.
Strong detector in depth.
Again in the Tennessee Red Clay this unit ran smooth with a smooth threshold, no rising
or falling in audio. I went out into the water where it is just some loose sand and all
red clay bottom and it was smooth running.
I have no doubts in my mind that this detector is one I will be keeping, but I have not
been to Florida yet and in the wet sand....I will follow up on that when I do... But if
it will work smooth here it will be a winner in Florida I believe.
One other thing. I did some air tests with it when I first received it and noticed the
radiated pattern was a bit deformed. I had followed the instructions and wrapped the
coil wire around the rod from the coil all the way up. I experimented by running the
coil wire straight up all the way to just under the "S" rod and the loop radiated
pattern rounded out fine... I am not a electrical trained person and cannot explain
this...I am a user/buyer and I really only want what works... I also have used a belt
and suspenders to mount my Goldquest SS on my chest. This way when digging or bending
over it is never in the way, photo is attached.
The only negative I have is when you change the delay setting the unit real gives a loud
2 to 3 second blast in audio that if you are like me and have a bit of a hearing problem
(to too many 105 and 155 Howitzer's fired in the Army) I keep the audio up...it is
really a shock when not prepared for it.
This letter is not meant to be a negative for other manufactures as I know
they were trying to manufacture fine equipment but it appears you Mr. Foster made that
goal.
Note: I will get rid of my Goldquest SS when you make a PI like this one that samples
100us/50uS and 10uS with 3 tones that signals the result of the sample Mr. Foster.
Please put me on your list that tells when this detector is developed.
As you can see I am delighted with my/your Goldquest SS.
Frank Hamill
Chattanooga, Tennessee