I am posting this message with a heavy heart.
On frequent trips to various central victorian gold fields with a friend led to a large amount WTF :mad, i am CURRENTLY swinging a gpx 5000 with a nf 12"mono, my friend swings a 2100 with a coiltek 14"dd................the amount of gold the 2100 has hit is to put it bluntly "outright fricking amazing" yet the 5000 is YET to pop its Au cherry.I have scores of lead and some very impressive shotgun pellet finds at some very impressive depths,but the gold is not to be found.......ENTER TEST PHASE 1........ my friend pulled a 0.8gram piece from some old workings a week ago so we went out to that location to see if more was to be had,the 0.8 piece was placed inside a small plastic bottle and layed on some noisy ground and the test begun.....the 2100 was producing a CLEAR signal roughly 4-5" above the bottle,however the 5000 made no signal at all,we then moved to some quiet ground and repeated the test the exact result was had the 5000 still would not locate the gold.We then removed the 0.8 piece and placed it directly on the 2100 coil to a booming sound but alas.... a whisper quiet 5000 was all that was to be heard, some quick swings over the top of rubbish told us that the 5000 was turned on and then the 0.8 piece placed back over the coil with some tuning on the 5000 led to a very faint signal that was EXTREMELY difficult to hear.
TEST PHASE 2.....My mighty 1.1gram piece... (that was gained form my previous detector a gp3000 running a 24x12 coil) was placed over the 12"mono and recieved a signal at no greater then 2-2.5" above the coil..............REALLY.........WTF........I have spent up to 4 hours running different settings including all of the factory presets still to no joy.
I then proceeded to explain all of this to my darling wife...who... in her great wisdom sat there...looked at me as if i was speaking in a language from a second solar system,stood up gave me a hug and said "honey...... tell someone who gives a s#@t " and then walked of to tend her horses.
So i did.........and i have.
cheers fellow prospectors.......dwt out!
On frequent trips to various central victorian gold fields with a friend led to a large amount WTF :mad, i am CURRENTLY swinging a gpx 5000 with a nf 12"mono, my friend swings a 2100 with a coiltek 14"dd................the amount of gold the 2100 has hit is to put it bluntly "outright fricking amazing" yet the 5000 is YET to pop its Au cherry.I have scores of lead and some very impressive shotgun pellet finds at some very impressive depths,but the gold is not to be found.......ENTER TEST PHASE 1........ my friend pulled a 0.8gram piece from some old workings a week ago so we went out to that location to see if more was to be had,the 0.8 piece was placed inside a small plastic bottle and layed on some noisy ground and the test begun.....the 2100 was producing a CLEAR signal roughly 4-5" above the bottle,however the 5000 made no signal at all,we then moved to some quiet ground and repeated the test the exact result was had the 5000 still would not locate the gold.We then removed the 0.8 piece and placed it directly on the 2100 coil to a booming sound but alas.... a whisper quiet 5000 was all that was to be heard, some quick swings over the top of rubbish told us that the 5000 was turned on and then the 0.8 piece placed back over the coil with some tuning on the 5000 led to a very faint signal that was EXTREMELY difficult to hear.
TEST PHASE 2.....My mighty 1.1gram piece... (that was gained form my previous detector a gp3000 running a 24x12 coil) was placed over the 12"mono and recieved a signal at no greater then 2-2.5" above the coil..............REALLY.........WTF........I have spent up to 4 hours running different settings including all of the factory presets still to no joy.
I then proceeded to explain all of this to my darling wife...who... in her great wisdom sat there...looked at me as if i was speaking in a language from a second solar system,stood up gave me a hug and said "honey...... tell someone who gives a s#@t " and then walked of to tend her horses.
So i did.........and i have.
cheers fellow prospectors.......dwt out!
