I don't have a lot of time in yet with the Omega, maybe a dozen hours, but the challenge is fun trying to learn it. Having so many hours in with the F 75, F 75 LTD and a while back with the T 2, the Omega does take some getting used to. I have been running mostly with no disc. d3 tones and sen. quite a bit at 99...when I could. At the higher sen. setting(s), 85 or so and up, is the constant beep, beep, beep, normal. It will tell you when some target is under the coil, but then the beep goes on. I have tried all three coils and really do like the 10" cencentric. I do have concerns about depth, having not dug a coin deeper then 6." And, at 5 and 6," the tone is pretty weak. I also miss the high tone that nickels, tabs and small can slaw give. I am used to digging quite a few nickels. 3" deep nickels do lock on 56 good, but 57 has been small can slaw, so far. No silver with the Omega, yet, but somewhat in fairness to the Omega, about half of my time with it was devoted to hunting a site that has yielded me well over 400 silver coins since June 06, when I retired, and I have pounded it with the 2 F detectors. The Omega on this site did sniff out a watch. It has some sort of design and writing on the face, but due to moisture under the face, I can't tell what the design is or what the writing says. I also dug, of all things, the part of a watch that has the 1-12 numbers on it and it says Rolex, bellini quartz. I couldn't see the Rolex until I got home. I remember, however, where I dug it and the next time I am on the site, I am going to dig all signals around the spot, just to see. All in all, I have dug $3.00 + in clad, 2 wheats and a fairly heavy heart shaped metal. HH jim tn
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Playing with the Omega 8000
- Thread starter jim tn
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First, "Thank You" for including the settings you used. As for the "Beep .. Beep .. Beep" noises with a too-high Sensitivity setting, that happens with some models, to include the Omega. I slowly reduce the Sensitivity with the coil in the operating position and stop just at the point where I am relatively stable. I don't mind a little noise, but if it's constant then you can miss targets and get a bit annoyed all at the same time.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I most often search with NO Discrimination and rely on d2 or d4 audio tones. That way I can better hear most ferrous junk. If a site is way littered with small iron, such as nails, I only use enough to knock out the more common trash, and with the Omega that's most often a Discriminate setting from 17 to maybe 20.
If a site is rather target-free I will also opt to search in the Auto-Tune All Metal mode with a slight Threshold setting (Sensitivity).
Back to the audio tones. I know that most Indian Head cents 'read' similar to a modern Zinc Cent, sometimes a little lower, and if I am in a site with Indian Head potential, I recover such responses. Otherwise, I am generally after higher-conductive coins (when coin hunting) and I'll recover ALL high-tone responses. Also, because I like the d4 tone option, that puts the Zinc cents, Screw Caps, some Pull Tabs, and Foil all in the sale audio just above the low bass 'Iron' ID tone. I then glace at the display. Usually, I just listen for and recover the High Tone and the "Goose Tone" (I call it) that the d4 audio provides for the US 5
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I most often search with NO Discrimination and rely on d2 or d4 audio tones. That way I can better hear most ferrous junk. If a site is way littered with small iron, such as nails, I only use enough to knock out the more common trash, and with the Omega that's most often a Discriminate setting from 17 to maybe 20.
If a site is rather target-free I will also opt to search in the Auto-Tune All Metal mode with a slight Threshold setting (Sensitivity).
Back to the audio tones. I know that most Indian Head cents 'read' similar to a modern Zinc Cent, sometimes a little lower, and if I am in a site with Indian Head potential, I recover such responses. Otherwise, I am generally after higher-conductive coins (when coin hunting) and I'll recover ALL high-tone responses. Also, because I like the d4 tone option, that puts the Zinc cents, Screw Caps, some Pull Tabs, and Foil all in the sale audio just above the low bass 'Iron' ID tone. I then glace at the display. Usually, I just listen for and recover the High Tone and the "Goose Tone" (I call it) that the d4 audio provides for the US 5
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
The 11DD rocks
Yes, for some people and some applications, I think the 11+" DD coil does fine ... however. For me and some I know, when hunting some sites we find the 11" DD to do well on deeper targets, such as 4" or more, but the audio can get quite "busy" if hunting some high-target sites with shallow finds. it's just the nature of many tightly-wound DD coils and there's a lot of multiple hits on shallow targets that can become annoying.Low-Boy/LCPM said:
I prefer the 5" for the older sites I hunt that have a lot of targets, especially iron, because it picks in and around junk much better. Open fields and similar sites where I don't encounter too many surface/shallow targets I like to use the 11" DD coil. For many daily "urban coin hunting" needs, the 10" concentric is quieter and works very well. The 11" "rocks" for some in the right hunting environments. For me, at least.
Monte
Hi Jim,
Hope you're enjoying the Omega. I use d2 most of the time...our coins in Aust. dont fit in all that well with the multiple tones, but it hasn't affected the detectors ability to find good targets...d2 also gives a quick indication as to depth of target. I seldom use sensitivity above 80, still get good depth round where I live, and no falsing. I alternate mostly between the 10" Conc. and the 11" DD coils...both do a very good job and the Conc. enables me to identify bottle caps a bit easier, so if I'm hunting in a place with heaps of bottle caps I use the 10" coil. For the wide open spaces, the 11" coil is fantastic, and still good in most other places. Of course, as Monte pointed out, the 5" DD is great for those places which have been picked (almost) clean. Of course, no-one ever gets it all, and that small coil can bring up some surprises. Good luck with it, and hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy mine.
Hope you're enjoying the Omega. I use d2 most of the time...our coins in Aust. dont fit in all that well with the multiple tones, but it hasn't affected the detectors ability to find good targets...d2 also gives a quick indication as to depth of target. I seldom use sensitivity above 80, still get good depth round where I live, and no falsing. I alternate mostly between the 10" Conc. and the 11" DD coils...both do a very good job and the Conc. enables me to identify bottle caps a bit easier, so if I'm hunting in a place with heaps of bottle caps I use the 10" coil. For the wide open spaces, the 11" coil is fantastic, and still good in most other places. Of course, as Monte pointed out, the 5" DD is great for those places which have been picked (almost) clean. Of course, no-one ever gets it all, and that small coil can bring up some surprises. Good luck with it, and hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy mine.
I am still playing with it, but my biggest concern at this point still is its seemingly lack of depth. I didn't expect it to match my LTD, but I do need to be able to dig 7 and 8" with it and presently, the 4-6" targets I've dug are so faint, that I wonder if I could tell if it went over coin size targets any deeper. I did dig a padlock at about 7" this morning, but even that was very faint. Anyway, will continue to play with it, but am going to take my LTD on my up coming trip, instead of the Omega. HH jim tn
Jim before it got so dry I found silver dimes 8" Quarters 10" with the 11"DD coil, BUT now that its drier than the dessert it want lock on to a 6" target I don't even use it now,I use my sovereign, when you get enough moisture in the ground you should like it a lot more I love mine
but it sucks in dry ground. (7.
is why.to hear the weak signals I use Ipod ear buds, they are really loud some people don't like them, I have the volume adjustable kind from Wal-mart $29.95, and I will say that's the way it is in my part of TN. HH 
but it sucks in dry ground. (7.
is why.to hear the weak signals I use Ipod ear buds, they are really loud some people don't like them, I have the volume adjustable kind from Wal-mart $29.95, and I will say that's the way it is in my part of TN. HH Jim I've been playing with my Omega as well. I haven't seen the beep, beep, beep issue, and I run it hot (99 sensitivity is locked into place 
I've been running the disc at 30, but will lower it a bit to Nasa Tom's specs to increase unmasking. I'm not sure which tone option is the best yet, but I tend to gravitate to 4 tones.
I have a little spot that I've pounded, and pulled a lot of Barbers, Indian heads, early wheatbacks, V nickles, buffalos, SLQ, mercs, etc from and though I had it pretty well cleaned out. I took the Omega there a couple of days ago to see if it would eek out one more keeper my CZ70 & LTD missed. It did good, in the course of about 45 minutes of hunting, I found a silver plated bracelet charm, a Victorian buckle, 1920, 1927 & 1942 wheatbacks, and a 1906 Indian. All the wheats and the IH were deep too, 7-8". Although there may well be, I'm not sure there's anything there deeper then that (I never got anything deeper then that with my CZ70 or LTD there though).
HH,
Brian
I've been running the disc at 30, but will lower it a bit to Nasa Tom's specs to increase unmasking. I'm not sure which tone option is the best yet, but I tend to gravitate to 4 tones. I have a little spot that I've pounded, and pulled a lot of Barbers, Indian heads, early wheatbacks, V nickles, buffalos, SLQ, mercs, etc from and though I had it pretty well cleaned out. I took the Omega there a couple of days ago to see if it would eek out one more keeper my CZ70 & LTD missed. It did good, in the course of about 45 minutes of hunting, I found a silver plated bracelet charm, a Victorian buckle, 1920, 1927 & 1942 wheatbacks, and a 1906 Indian. All the wheats and the IH were deep too, 7-8". Although there may well be, I'm not sure there's anything there deeper then that (I never got anything deeper then that with my CZ70 or LTD there though).
HH,
Brian