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Has anyone tried using these headphones for land hunting in parks or what ever? Was told they really block out the outside noise and you can hear the feint deep targets clearly. Thanks
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Have reduced the price to $1800. This CTX is in great condition. This would be a great buy for someone wanting a CTX 3030. Thanks
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As everyone knows I have been loving the Tom D. settings on the Equinox. I have been finding a lot of great finds in spots I have pounded over the years. Yesterday I decided to take my CTX 3030 for a hunt and after about a hour or two of not finding much of anything I was sure missing my Equinox. I used to love using the CTX 3030. I thought I would never use a better detector for coin hunting. Si
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. If you see anything I need to change please let me know. Thanks My Equinox 800 settings for Silver and other high conductors. If you have the 600 just adjust what you can. Okay everyone the settings I have been using are a combination of settings suggested by 2 experts with the Equinox. Tom Dankowiski and Neal Jones. I have combined them into 1 program. This program can be used on iron and
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Tom d. what amazed them the most was they said just like I have witnessed there has been iron in the hole that all these silvers and other old coins are being pulled out of. They like most were trying to disc out the iron instead of opening the detector up to hear the iron that was mixed in with the non ferrous target. The F2-0 has been working great for me and everyone that has tried it. It'
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Started hunting this old park a few weeks back. Never hunted there before. Was told by several that have hunted there in the past that they stopped hunting there for lack of finding old coins anymore. So my brother and I have hunted there 3 times using the program Tom D. gave us and plus we started using F2-0. We have pulled 12 silvers and 28 wheats from this old park. This park has lots of trash
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Calabash, Since your soil is mild like mine could you please do a test using the following settings. Would love to see what you think. Park 1, 50 tones, recovery 2 or 3, bias F2-0, sens. 23-25, all metal, GB-0 and slow swing speed. Want to see depth and unmasking. I've been using F2-0 and I can really tell the iron from a non ferrous targets. These setting been working great in my iron and t
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I have a used CTX 3030 in like new condition with 3 coils. 6,11,and 17 inch. Also comes with 3 pairs of headphones. standard headphones, Sun Ray Pro headphones and Gray Ghost water headphones. 2 batteries, charger, car charger and a detector bag. Bought from a friend that had bought brand new and used it like 6 times. I used it 3 times and realized my shoulders and arms can't handle the weig
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Started hunting this old park a few weeks back. Never hunted there before. Was told by several that have hunted there in the past that they stopped hunting there for lack of finding old coins anymore. So my brother and I have hunted there 3 times using the program Tom D. gave us and plus we started using F2-0. We have pulled 12 silvers and 28 wheats from this old park. This park has lots of trash
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thanks Tom D. Your expert help has really helped me get the most out of my Equinox. I'm up to 115 silvers for this year. Since using your settings I feel my skill level has greatly improved. Being able to go back to my old hunted sites using what I have learned has rewarded me with many new finds. Thank you so much.
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Tom D. when I do a ground balance and the number come up lets say 20 or less is it okay to just run it at 0? Will it have much of a negative effect on hitting on targets by dropping it to 0? F2-0 seems to really be working great for me in the old parks I'm hunting. Hit a new one yesterday pulled 13 old coins. Lots of trash and iron.
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Took my Equinox 800 to a old park that I have never hunted. Was told not to waste my time that this park has been pounded. Started out hunting and first signal my brother got was a wheat about 6 inches down. Second good target was a Standing Liberty quarter 2 inches deep. I ended up finding a merq. dime at 6 inches right beside iron. Was getting a iron grunt and a high tone. When I put it in pin
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Tom D wrote
For the record...… a TRR of 1 can present greater
> depths in areas with sparse targets and low minera
> lization. BUT...… the drawback is: the audio does
> indeed sound elongated/smeared...… hard on/for the
> human ear.
Tom my question is would TRR of 2 be the best choice for me to use for hitting coins on edge in my iron and trashy parks when using F2-0? I hav
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Tom D. On the Equinox 800. Would a recovery speed of 1 or 2 hit a coin on edge better than recovery speed of 3 or 4 in my mild Indiana dirt? Thanks
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. The one thing I noticed on the Barber dime I hit that was straight up and down was it was thinner than a normal Barber dime. A normal Barber dime is like 1.0 mm thick. This Barber dime was .80 mm thick. And it was around 7 inches deep. Would I have been able to hit that dime better and deeper had it been normal thickness by 20%? What if it had been a silver quarter that is 1.5 mm thick. Ho
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thanks Tom D. for your answer. If a technology could be developed to see coins on edge better and deeper think of all the coins we coin hunters could find that are just setting there to be found.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. Question. I'm hunting a trashy and iron site lets say at a old park. The ground is very mild I'm looking for high conductors. We will use a silver dime for a example. Depending on the angle of the silver dime weather it be flat or straight up and down or at a 45 degree angle or anyplace in between using F2-0 how much of a tone difference vdi change can I expect to encounter? If
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
canslawhero, my setting were Park 1, 50 tones, recovery 3, bias F2-0, Sens 25 and All metal. Some what slow swing speed. The wheats came in in the low to mide 20's. Bottle caps hit 22 almost every time. The silver dime was a very high tone. Upper 20's to mid 30's. Seemed to jump around some as I tried to isolate it. Was in with some iron. All I can say is I could tell when I was hi
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Three of us decided to go to a old park we have been pounding with our Equinox's. This Park has lots of trash and iron. My brother and friend Mike hunted using F2 4 and F2 9. I went with F2 0. We hunted a area that has produced wheats and silvers. At the end of the hunt my brother had found 0 wheats 0 silver and my friend Mike found 1 wheat. I ended up with 5 wheats and 1 Barber dime. Did I
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. wrote (And..... this is only the tip-of-the-iceberg). Is there some other settings or suggestions you would care to share with us or are you talking about something new coming in the future?
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Fantastic finds. I to have been using Toms suggested settings and it is amazing the number of silvers and other old coins I am finding in the same as you old parks that many said are hunted out. I have so far taken my CTX to 3 sites that I have pounded with the Equinox and the finds have been very few. Just yesterday my brother and I rehunted a spot that we have pulled lots of silvers, wheats and
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Great job on the video. I to have been finding Park 1 works the best for my area. The only thing I use differently is my recovery speed I set at 2 or 3 on my Equinox 800. I am mainly a coin hunter. Thank you for doing this video
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Tom D. Is there a greater advantage in using a 6 inch coil on the CTX for unmasking targets vs the 11 inch coil compared to 6 inch coil vs 11 inch coil on the Equinox? If so could you guess about how much? Are we talking 25% to 50% advantage? And compared to using the 11 inch coil vs 17 inch coil on the CTX is there any advantage for coin size targets for depth? Will the 17 inch coil hit deeper a
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. You told us there is a 12% advantage in using a 6 inch coil vs 11 inch coil for unmasking targets on the Equinox. My question is do you know what the percentage is between the 6 inch coil vs standard coil on the CTX for unmasking targets? I did take the CTX to one of my parks and hunted a spot that me and my friends had pounded with the equinox. This spot had given up 6 silvers, 25 wheats
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
OK had a friend that wanted to sell his CTX for a Equinox. So I traded him one of mine. I have 3. So now I'm asking for a good program to use on the CTX so that I can do a Equinox vs CTX in all these old parks I have been hunting. I want a good program for finding silver and other old coins. Tom D. or anyone care to share with me a program that I can use to go over a spot so that my friends
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. let me ask you this question. Multi frequency vs single frequency on deep silver coins using the Equinox. If you were going to set the Equinox up to hunt lets say a old park, home site, school etc. and you knew the old silver was deep lets say 7-12 inches would you use a single frequency like say 5, 10, or 15 kHz's or would you use multi? If the answer is single than how would you set
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Tom D. I took the Equinox with the 6 inch coil to a spot that 3 of us hunted with the 11 inch coils. Wanted to see if we missed any coins. This spot has lots of iron and trash. Hunted for 2 hours and never found that first coin. So you are correct saying the 11 inch coil doesn't miss much compared to using the 6 inch coil. So now I feel confident knowing that when I hunt a spot using your se
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Abenson, Thank you for the response. Yes would like to see your video. I'm really hoping someone can do a video using the slower recovery speeds like Tom and Neil suggested to compare to my findings in my mild soil here in Indiana. Thanks
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Thank you Tom D. for the info. Would love to see someone make some videos using your settings on the Equinox using both the 11 and 6 inch coil. In all the videos I have seen no one uses the Equinox setup this way. They all use a fast recovery speed and fast swing. Thanks
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