Omega 8000

[pitcher]

Went detecting today with my Omega 8000, 11" coil , Sens. 89, Discm. 1, hunted a school built in 1950, not an old place but close to home.
Found alot of new coins, one small silver ring but I get alot of high tones that ID at 99? even notched out foil but still hit alot of them, dug some of them mostly foil or iron.
Is there anyway to notch the 99 out, never found anything but trash under that nimber.

Thanks

 

[MarkCZ]

Went detecting today with my Omega 8000, 11" coil , Sens. 89, Discm. 1, hunted a school built in 1950, not an old place but close to home.
Found alot of new coins, one small silver ring but I get alot of high tones that ID at 99? even notched out foil but still hit alot of them, dug some of them mostly foil or iron.
Is there anyway to notch the 99 out, never found anything but trash under that nimber.

Thanks

You didn't say how deep your finds were coming out of the ground?
But if the area hadn't never been filled I would say that the stuff was less that 5" to 6" inches. If so in that case you could have backed off the sensitivity to the 65 range and probably lost those 99 ID problems and maybe even much of the foil problems.
When running that high of sensitivity the machine really gets SENSITIVE! so it gets pretty jumpy.
Also notching out foil doesn't the detector ignores ALL foil! most larger pieces of it will act more like can slaw.

The Omega is pretty darn hot at lower sensitivity settings like 65 and this setting will also keep you below the detectors electronic noise range, lessen some of those hits on iron.
My Omega hits my 8" coin garden with the 11" DD coil and a sensitivity setting of 65-69.

So, once you somewhat date an area, drag out a few targets you can get a feel for the depth of the good stuff, when you get to that stage then just run the sensitivity at a good range for that area, which will be in many times a much lower setting. Doing this will give much better stability. Now if your hunting an area where things are deeper then you may have to crank things up.

Mark

 

[pitcher]

Thanks Mark,

The targets I dug were anywhere from 3" to 7" and I think your right I do need to turn the sensitivity down some, went back to the same school today and hunted for a few hours, the school was built in the 50s but there was an old high school west of it built in 1910.
Ive been hunting this place for 15 years atleast with alot of different detectors and have found some good stuff, my best find there with the Omega was buffalo nickel 1929 maybe 5" down, this place gets hunted alot but its far from being hunted out.
I went to this school and the old high school before they took it down and no fill dirt has been added but this place has been used for years and its full of trash and iron like most public places are.
Im learning the 99 ID numbers pretty fast, most are junk but they sure sound, now if I can just get past the old rusted beer caps, Ive tryed a few things Ive read on the forums but so its not working, there hitting anywhere from 89 to 82 high tone, Ive tryed lfting the coil during the swing but they still ID good and sound good so thats my next things to work on.

Thanks.

Pitcher

 

[jim tn]

Also, keep your eye on the feo meter. Rusty things like caps will usually spike the meter. My 10" concentric also seems to id them better then the 11" dd. Some small tics, grunts and breaking up tones. Good luck. HH jim tn

 

[Ed in SoDak]

To help ID iron like bottlecaps, pump the coil up and down like doing the old manual ground balance. On many detectors I've tried, it takes false high tones back down to where they belong in the iron range.

-Ed

 

[Monte]

I've mentioned elsewhere, maybe an e-mail, I don't recall, that with my Omega I can often get a '99' but using a few extra sweeps I also get readings in the '40's' to alert me that the target is quit probably small foil.

More often than not this is correct. I got my Omega in March of 2010 and in April I found a1922 Peace Dollar. Not bad when it only took a month to find such a target and answer my qquestion of how high the VDI read-out might be. I have NEVER found a good target that also gave me a consistent '99' reading. The second silver dollar I detected with the Omega also gave me a similar '94' VDI reading as the first one.

Now, those blasted Bottle Caps, the old crimp-on types, can sure be annoying. They wll often produce a high VDI, somewhere in the 1

 

[Elton]

DD versus Concentric. The 10" concentric will eliminate many of the rusted Bottle pop off caps.

 

[pitcher]

Thanks Monte,

Ive been working with the Omega that I got from you, Thanks by the way, great detector, and Im learning some of the ins and outs of it.
Im not using the 11"DD coil that much now, hunting a real trashy place but I know there are still good targets there, been using the 5" DD coil and learning how to pick through the trash.
As you know I havent had the Omega very long and winter here is just getting over so I havent put many hours on it yet but I feel Im doing ok, My silver ring count is up to 6 now along with alot of clad coins and a few older coins so Im starting to get the hang of it, the Omega is a big change from last detector but with my shoulder being how it is I dont think I will ever swing a detector that weights more.
A big thanks to Bart at Big Boy Hobbies for sending me out a great pair of Gray Ghost head phones, got them today and cant wait to try them out.

Pitcher

 

[MarkCZ]

DD versus Concentric. The 10" concentric will eliminate many of the rusted Bottle pop off caps.

I dropped using the 10" because the 11" DD ID's coins at depth so much better, but I've not had the detector in a super trashy area yet either.

Mark