Jackpine Savage
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My main interest in trying out the Omega was to see just how good this detector equipped with the DD coil is at handling iron at the older sites I hunt. When the T2 was released I was impressed at it's ability to hunt iron and pick out co-located non-ferrous targets but I was a little put off that for best performance in iron it had to be run in single tone PF process with disc at 21. Reason being, at many of my sites using disc 21 resulted in a lot of the iron falsing as good which forced re-sweeping for proper ID. There was no tonal difference I could pick up on the iron falses to give a clue as to what they were thus all the resweeping. Upping the disc to 22 cut out much of this falsing but also reduced see-thru to some extent. Switch to 2 tone and many of the valid non-ferrous targets now read as iron. The only choice was to put up with the falsing or switch to 2 tone and miss the goodies, Bummer!! For the slow patient hunter (which I can be at times) this was no problem. So the T2, an amazing iron hunting ability but at the price of being somewhat wearing on the user at the settings required for best iron see-thru.
The Omega has 4 tone options and the first two, which the manual describes as being preferred by relic hunters have VCO (pitch and volume) audio. I found these to be my favorites for iron hunting. One tone with disc at 16 eliminates small iron and 2 tone gives a bass tone on accepted iron. Now here is the kicker, using 2 tone does not IMO miss many if any non-ferrous targets that are audible in single tone and the VCO audio, once accustomed to it conveys a lot of information about what is going on under the coil. The result is the ability to hunt iron without the audio fatigue of the T2's PF process and iron falsing is very much less of an issue.
When run hot with the sensitivity in the upper range above 70 the VCO becomes very talkative in heavy iron. It's not what I call chattery as there is valid information coming thru in the audio but it is a lot to process until you get used to it. I have a ways to go for sure to get the best out of what I believe it has to offer performance wise.
Finds wise it did not make every site I took it to seem "virgin" again. I did a short hunt at a homesite that has given up old coins and 3 Civil War store card tokens in the past using several different detectors. The area the tokens came from is very trashy and the T2 scored the last one found. The only find of note here in the short time I hunted was a 3/8" dia lead seal from around 6". Soon after that the caretaker of the property stopped by and we ended up talking about the early white settlers and Indian activity in the area. So much for testing!
At another site that has given up a small quantity of coins from ranging from the late 1800's to 1940's the Omega did very well. This is where a Restaurant/Roadhouse once stood and next to it a single room log cabin gas station which is still standing. It's one of my most "pounded" sites due to it being close to home. I take every new detector there and have used lots of different coil combinations also. In 3 short hours the take was 12 wheat pennies, an aluminum token, a mens tie clip and several other non-ferrous items and this was using the 3 tone mode. On a return trip using 2 tone disc 0, I added 6 more wheats to the take. If it were only a couple coins I could call it a fluke but 18 wheats and probably equal to the total previously taken from there made me a believer in the Omega!
HH Tom
The Omega has 4 tone options and the first two, which the manual describes as being preferred by relic hunters have VCO (pitch and volume) audio. I found these to be my favorites for iron hunting. One tone with disc at 16 eliminates small iron and 2 tone gives a bass tone on accepted iron. Now here is the kicker, using 2 tone does not IMO miss many if any non-ferrous targets that are audible in single tone and the VCO audio, once accustomed to it conveys a lot of information about what is going on under the coil. The result is the ability to hunt iron without the audio fatigue of the T2's PF process and iron falsing is very much less of an issue.
When run hot with the sensitivity in the upper range above 70 the VCO becomes very talkative in heavy iron. It's not what I call chattery as there is valid information coming thru in the audio but it is a lot to process until you get used to it. I have a ways to go for sure to get the best out of what I believe it has to offer performance wise.
Finds wise it did not make every site I took it to seem "virgin" again. I did a short hunt at a homesite that has given up old coins and 3 Civil War store card tokens in the past using several different detectors. The area the tokens came from is very trashy and the T2 scored the last one found. The only find of note here in the short time I hunted was a 3/8" dia lead seal from around 6". Soon after that the caretaker of the property stopped by and we ended up talking about the early white settlers and Indian activity in the area. So much for testing!
At another site that has given up a small quantity of coins from ranging from the late 1800's to 1940's the Omega did very well. This is where a Restaurant/Roadhouse once stood and next to it a single room log cabin gas station which is still standing. It's one of my most "pounded" sites due to it being close to home. I take every new detector there and have used lots of different coil combinations also. In 3 short hours the take was 12 wheat pennies, an aluminum token, a mens tie clip and several other non-ferrous items and this was using the 3 tone mode. On a return trip using 2 tone disc 0, I added 6 more wheats to the take. If it were only a couple coins I could call it a fluke but 18 wheats and probably equal to the total previously taken from there made me a believer in the Omega!
HH Tom
