Omega, Day Three

[RLOH]

I went detecting to the county fairgrounds today. I can usually scare up a silver coin and couple of wheats in this place with my Etrac, but today that did not happen. I hunted for a couple of hours with the Etrac and found a dozen or so clad coins. I hunted until my bad elbow started hurting too bad. I debated whether to pack up and try another spot with the Minelab, but decided to try the Omega in this trash infested place. I get most of my silver and older coins from about 8 inches with the Etrac and I really didn't expect any deeper coins with the Omega in the trash. A couple of Omega gurus seem to do well with the one tone setting as they have said much information can come from just one tone. I have had single tone detectors that after hundreds of hours, I could tell a coin from a tab without moving the disc. It's hard to explain, but in the six or seven hours with the Omega, I have the tonal qualities figured out. I took the Omega to a section of the grounds where I have never found one silver coin or even a wheat penny. I had found a couple of memorial pennies that were three or four inches deep and I played around with digging deep 60's signals. All the 60's were pulltabs as I figured before I dug. I was sweeping very slow, just like I do with the Etrac to see if the Omega could find coins close to junk. I finally got one of those small quick signals that was right next to something big and junky. I worked the dd coil exactly like I would with the Etrac and I could get the small signal from only two directions. I could not pinpoint because of the big piece of trash so I dragged the coil towards me while creeping the coil. When the small signal dropped off, I dug about two inches back from the front of the coil(I haven't mastered that yet with the Omega, but with any dd coil, you can do this with practice) I stuck my probe in the hole which was about seven inches deep and the signal was on the side. I took out a big scoop so I would not damage the object(vdi of 84). I was figuring a clad dime, but was totallly shocked when I saw silver. Nothing great, but a 1939 mercury dime. I ended up finding a wheat penny that was almost from identical conditions. I think most of my initial problems were from being new to the detector. I have had so many detectors that I sometimes think that there is no learning curve, but I learned a lesson. I will wait until I have hunted three or four times before I judge a detector. After using the Omega three times, I have a very good feeling that this is one hot detector. I will go out on a limb and say that this might be the best detector for the money. All that power from 2and 1/2 pounds and one 9 volt battery. I am really liking it so far. R.L.

 

[Hombre]

Hi R.L.

I was curious about the big trash next to the 39 dime, what was it? Ferrous or non-ferrous. It sounds like a heck of detector, new or used?

Randy

 

[RLOH]

Randy, I was running the disc very low and it works well knocking out small rusty iron, but there was a large(three inch long) rusty nail about two or three inches away from the plug I dug. I am hardly an expert with the Omega, but with the 11 inch dd coil, it is as good as many detectors costing twice the price. I don't have the small coil for it, but I have no doubt it will be a killer in trash. It has a very fast recovery and in the limited time I have used it, it is finding coins as deep as my Etrac. Is it an Etrac? No, but it costs 40% of what an Etrac costs. Every time I have used it, I seem to find older, deep coins. Mine is new. All of the reviews said to get the 11 inch dd coil and that is the only coil I have used. I might take some flak for saying it, but I like it better than most of the 1000 dollar detectors out there. I am going to set my Etrac down for a couple of weeks and use the Omega exclusively, then I will see if it is justified to own a 1500 dollar detector. I am running out of hunting spots and it is getting extremely hard to squeeze silver coins out of the hard hunted spots I frequent. It is nice to know that the detector you are swinging is capable of finding deep, masked coins. So far I am real impressed with the Omega. R.L.

 

[sopg1155]

Hello Ray,I got my Omega out for the first time today and it seems like it is going to be
a great detector for the price.I have an Etrac too and the Omega seems like it might
give the ET a run for the money.I was able to get a good coin signal on a dime that
had 3 pieces of rusty wire in the same hole.The only thing I don't like about it ,is that
when I have it in the 4 tone mode the signal is not as loud as the other tones are on it.
Gary