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Thanks for posting this yet anonther time Rick
I wish you and everyone on this forum ; "En Gledelig Jul og Et Riktig Godt Nytt Aar"
or in a colourfull translation ; " A Joyful Yule and A Real Good New Year"
Take care and happy hunting
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As a dedicated small coil user I would go for the OoR....
- three tones
- low to med disc
- tracking on
- optimal sens dep. on thrash E.M.I. and mineralization
- move slow and swing slow....
- listen for variations in the fringe of the sound signal....
Good luck and happy Racing!
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Hi there diggwr27 and thank you for some great reports on the R.R.
- There is no real trouble with 82 .... if you go back some years in time when the gras was greener and we had
the segmented meter on the Qucksilver to guide us - lots of good stuff were packed together in those
pictographic sectors.
The real job was in decoding the sound signal, - single tone and short or longer more b
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Junk and Disorderly
You read me correctly, but for most of our detecting nowadays Eva and I will use the 14khz MXT with Jimmy Sierra`s Hotfoot coil -
small yet big enough - 2 1/4" x 9 1/4"
This combo works well,- it is ultralight, sharp cutting and with ok depth for our type of hunting and in our type of soil.
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Hi there ghound
Here is a tip to clear out some mist...
We started out in -94 with a Fisher 1210 and a 8" coil with some sort of success. When gearing up via F 1266 and 1236 to the Quicksilver
we trimmed down the size of the coil to 5" and got a really versatile detector with good depth and superb separating abilities in our type of soil
and our type of man made thrash .
Here
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Hey there
- why not go for an old winner,- Eva and I used the CZ 6 with the small "hockey puck" the 5" coil, with great success.
Simultanously transmitting 5 and 15 khz sniffed out small 1 - and 2 skilling silver coins both from pasture and woodland.
The two pulltab segments reported most of the thin silvers both on ground and in ground between man made iron
in a fairly stabl
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A big thank you, Rick and Keith, for sharing these stories from our common past with us.
If you all are ready for some more reading, here comes a link with a little more background facts
about the celebration of the norwegian Jul or Jol, or if you prefer Yule.
So with this i wish you all "En Gledelig Jol Og Et Godt Nytt År"
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-if something seems to good to be true - experience has teached me to bring in some good old scepticism.
Jimmy Siierra made some special coils way back,- one of them was named the Hot Foot and meant for Whites
Mxt and V3.
My old and battered tector has still got the HF coil mounted - greyer and more scratchy now,- but it's still HOT......
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hey there
I think the main reason for the 10.5 coil hitting better on coins on edge is in the coil construction.
The transmitting coil is a concentric one,but if you look at the receiving one you will find a tight elliptic concentric
doing the analysing work. Very Fisherlike and very rare......
Due to the amount of man made iron here in Norway I have barely tried this coil, but may
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Steve and Keith,thanks a lot for enlightening my day..........(4*c and light drizzle )
-when you mentioned the Tesoro Keith you made me spin back along Memory Lane
to the early Quicksilver days and those very special three ways silver/iron "please pick me up"signals
-they still linger in my ears...........
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thanks for the answer Steve
-my follow up question goes like this ; when comparing MXT and CoRe which are the better considering the fact that both are
iron carpet "pickers" with small coils......
We us the slim lightweight Hotfoot for shallow hunting and the Shooter for deeper objects as this seem to work fine for our type
of hunting here in Norway.
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hi there Steve
-appreciate very much your comments and tips on detectors while wondering ,are you going to part with your trusty old MXT?
My wife and I use ours as the main workhorse both for on-ground and in-ground hunting with some sort of success...
Still unable to part with the 6a and the XS I think maybe the Noktas seem to have something going with the way
they have pushed performance
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- very interesting comments on this topic...for my part I still regret that I sold my Compass Coin Scanner and my Sovereign,
but a new and sturdy friend has taken their place,- namely a ten year old MXT. However, I still think that the best and most
reliable detector you will ever need is the one that is located between your ears.
So happy hunting to you all ,and remember to take out your ol
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hi there
to overcome the problem you can mount the control box upside - down under the armrest on the S-rod...... it works great for me..
sort of "Quicksilvering your CZ - the Sovereign Way"
-no trouble with cable twisting and you get good balance and ergonomics too
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Indeed "Incredible" is the right word for this remarkable discovery,
the work of the ancient silversmiths is really on par with - or even exceeds, the work of modern ones....really stunning!
thanks for sharing this with us Denari.
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hey there
Correct me if I am wrong,but I have come to the conclusion that the power of the Quicksilvers have
in some ways been underestimated or undercommunicated.
Firstly the fact that it is a real double frequency detector capable of defining objects correctly down
to max depth - second that it has expanded low end capabilities which in turn has resulted in
rather "compacted"
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Just to illustrate this subject i will pick two coins at random from the line of mintlords here in my homeland Norway.
King Christian the Fifth who reigned Norway-Denmark through the years 1670-1699 had a wide span of denominations
in his coins.
The real high cond. being the big 4 speciedaler (4 dollar) measuring 40mm.across and weighing a total of 115.6 grams.
Its tiny low cond. little broth
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Sorry for the time gap -- well Tom I partly agree with you ,but remember that this last test was stricly an in-house air test
to check if weight had any influence on the VDI.results.
--I feel there is still something strange or odd about the low- 69-73,and the high section 77-83 (in surface conditions)
The fact that the F- brethren are both high speed analysing units that are tuned to be &qu
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----having checked with Norges Bank the central bank of Norway, I have come to the conclusion that some of
the trouble with the varying id.numbers lies within the coin itself.
The nominal weight is allowed to vary around a middlepoint of 3.6 grams...
This fact triggered me to a little test....
From a batch of twenty coins ,I picked two,-- one weighing apr.3.55 and one with a weight of 3.65
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Tom
I know this seems strange-and just to explain things a little bit more....
The results for the F-brothers are seemingly equal,-when surface hunting there is little diffeference in the vdi.numbers
I have tried the 5"DD with much the same results..
The 50 ore or half-crown is really the troublemaker,-the higher values are locking normally with only small variations in the the vdi.num
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-when surface hunting for modern coinage I have experienced some rather odd vdi readings....
-just to show you I will use a common norwegian small coin as the test object..
50 ore ,- produced from 1996 onwards..
metal content: 100% copper
weight: 3.60 grams
dia.: 18.50 mm
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hallo there..
....stay put! -you have got a "Special" do not sell that to get an "Average"
-have just remounted the cz control box to get better balance and less less weight to swing,- and wow the quicksilver
is one great machine...
I swopped my first edition F75 for an F70 just to be able to raise sens from low to medium and it works well here in my
ground around Oslo.
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Hey there handy friends...
Here are two tips for long rainy summer evenings....
No 1 ---some time ago I converted our old CZ6a from the flimsy chest/-hip mounted model to a sturdy "Minelab Sovereign"
inspired Q.S.Ltd Edition.
With the control house now mounted upside-down on the underside of the stem-just below the detector stand I get good ergonomics and
optimal balance when t
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-in between grass stuble,alu.thrash,cinders and small to big lumps of iron a tiny,tiny coin suddenly popped up..
1 Skilling 1779 King Christian VII
weight: 0.77 grams
size apr. 15 mm diam.
thickness: apr. 1/2 mm
silver content: 0.14grams 18.7%
soil characteristics: grassland on old seabed, sandy greyish clay wiyh sandy spots,- pebbles and bigger stones mixed in as well.
stubble he
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hey there Gambler
Your words about being physicallly challenged and not physicallly disabled pushed me into thinking around
the possibilities that are built into the word "problem".
The problem only represent a problem when you are unable to solve it......
Only by challenging trouble are you able to find a solution.
Thanks again for good words and a good tip for the days to come.
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hey there guys..
-the Whites MXT is one underrated beast, but for the folks that master it it`s more of a wolf in sheeps clothing.
I feel the trick to get the most from the machine is to use DD coils instead of the standard concentrics.
Here in Norway and in my type of ground the Eclipse shooter coil stays on most of the time and with great success,
only once in a while I switch to the superl
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hello there...
-Stay by your coil, and learn as much as you can from the way it talks to you in heavy iron thrash --try to use low disc,
and try to avoid using notch. Power down to sens 29 or even lower -- the see through ability of the F is still working nicely
even at low revs. I have both coils,- but the elliptic stays glued on for 95% of the total searching time ------- another tip
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Tom... can you "share" a light on this one..
many years ago members of the detecting society here in Norway attended a tour to
a farm wth history streching back to the Viking Age.
The farm houses were located on top of a rather steep hill with fields streching out to the south and to the east. The type of soil mostly found here comes from
eroded mineral-free chalkish stone.
My d
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While trudging along the Old Post Road to my daily work this morn,I had about a quarter of an hour to consider what to do in the White Cold Time of the year.
My thermometer read -20`celsius,when I started out,so it is really a Fimbul-like
winter here in Thule.(Up in the valley of Foll it was just a little bit colder
-45`c).....well so much for the cold....
My first tip now is to check out y
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