Omega 10" coil and trash.

[jim tn]

I hit a couple of targets this morning that continues to reaffirm to me that the 10" elliptical coil does perform well in the trash.

My first good target this morning was located within about 4" or so of a 6" long piece of copper pipe. I kept getting high tone hits close together and the one was a good 84/85 and the other was 88/89. I was sure I knew what the 88/89 was, as it was a long target. The 84/85 from about 4" deep was a nice ornate sterling ring. The 88/89 was the copper pipe.

As it turned out, the last target I dug was a mid and high tone and numbers bounce of 50-54 and 82-84. I dug about a 5" deep plug and sticking out of the clod was a tab tail. Re-scanned the clod and got a hard high tone hit. That turned out to be a 79 Memorial cent and was on the other side of the clod, about 3" away from the tab tail and about 1" deeper.

Not to shabby a performance, IMHO. HH jim tn

 

[Monte]

YOU. Yes, it was good old Jim TN, just you, who made the correct decisions, not the coil and not the detector.

I hit a couple of targets this morning that continues to reaffirm to me that the 10" elliptical coil does perform well in the trash.

I give credit to the coil as well as the detector. The narrow scan width of the elliptical 10" concentric coil helps separate good and bad targets, somewhat, just like some of the credit goes to the detector and circuitry which processes such information.

My first good target this morning was located within about 4" or so of a 6" long piece of copper pipe. I kept getting high tone hits close together and the one was a good 84/85 and the other was 88/89. I was sure I knew what the 88/89 was, as it was a long target. The 84/85 from about 4" deep was a nice ornate sterling ring. The 88/89 was the copper pipe.

While an avid detectorist might be alerted to a potentially 'good target" about 4" from a possible trash target (a long-shaped object), many beginners or newcomers or just plain old lazy hobbyists might not discern the difference and could just ignore both signals. Maybe the sweep they make shows a broader spread of VDI numbers and that might suggest to them that it's not a nice-and-proper desired target.

A more devoted and avid detectorist, such a you, would be alert for partially masked good targets. Job well done.

As it turned out, the last target I dug was a mid and high tone and numbers bounce of 50-54 and 82-84. I dug about a 5" deep plug and sticking out of the clod was a tab tail. Re-scanned the clod and got a hard high tone hit. That turned out to be a 79 Memorial cent and was on the other side of the clod, about 3" away from the tab tail and about 1" deeper.

Once again, I'll acknowledge that the detector and coil combination can do a fine job of responding to and conveying a 'blend' of mixed-metals near each other.

But the savvy reader and shopper for a good detector and coil should make more of a metal note that it is the detectorist, like YOU, who is ultimately responsible of making the right judgement call and the needed target recovery.

Not to shabby a performance, IMHO. HH jim tn

Not shabby at all, it was great performance ... and the detector and coil didn't do too bad, either.

Monte

 

[jim tn]

Monte, thanks, you are a real charm. In a large part to you, I am really enjoying the Omega. Can't seem to put it down. HH jim tn

 

[Markmac]

well said Monte and Jim you rock with that Omega, Cograts and a job well done....Markmac