Joe Beechnut OBN

That's a worthy AQ hunt!! NIce 18k! My AQ is the same, I found when the water is rough I really have to work at getting it stable. Like today...Crazy day, I though I had switched the Delay but I had switched it to Mute and for 3 hours...After I seen and went to All metal and readjusted a few times it was silent. That's what I get for adjusting the settings by feel.. 😞

A little ring killer for sure, and a High K! Nice save Clive!! I'm so impressed with how the AQ can sniff out the smaller gold rings..at such great depths. 👍👍

I wonder if making the cable a perfect fit would help more...like on my excalibur. It comes out of the control pod and goes straight to the coil. May be something to test. And change the fitting to a 90 so it does not stick out so far.

For those that are having issues, make sure the connector is full seated. Almost has a snap in place..... feel as your turning the Lock Shell. Researching question and Off subject question....Is the Souriau connector for the coil the ..... UTS1JC142G1P ...or the UTS1JC103P or am I off on those..........Thank You Alexandrea and Willy..

Congrads on the surprise...👍 Something I have experienced, high tone on the excalibur and a black ring sometimes means rolled gold, or hand laid gold. AND I have dug gold as black as coal,..be gold..

Thats the New Model AQ I believe....dual Souriau connectors.....on the control pod, One Coil..One Headphone..looks different what I can see from the handle back..only black..Limited that area is white shaft showing, .

That is one great day out! WOW!!

WoW! What a Beautiful Diamond ring! Very Nice!

That's a Nice haul!! WOW!

That's a real beauty! Nice find!

I used the same but a 4 pin Souriau on my excalibur for a few years (2014-2016), worked fine but in time the nubs wore down on the male panel connector which I used for the endcap. See if I can find the picture. I never mentioned this since the AQ has the exact same. But I was changing coils regularly on the excalibur. I did try several others before, then settles on a 3M SS fittings and still in use today on one of my excals, My opinion hardwired is best for all around performance on coils. If for headphones, SS ONLY. M-12

Sorry to hear about your experience out, but it happens all of the time. I've heard many stories similar even with friends walking over to say hi and getting a signal right in there path and turning out to be a wooper.

Wow, That is some great work on all !! Well thought out and made. Over the years I think I tried just about every possible. I got a box full of old amps and the best was Doc's Treasure screamer. Never got around to making it fully submersible, I did speakers also. I ended up finding that using 50mm Audio Unlimited Piezo's with a super then membrane as the piezo plate with a very a thin piece of tube as the horn using dow111 as the protective covering gives me the very loudest audio you would need. The secret is, low restriction of the piezo. If used for diving it would have to be serviced after every hunt. Here are the speakers I did..Audiosears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHS84aRm_k And how I made them...Add to the video, I found doubling the Gortex material was the best for long life.

Not me, but let it be known Frank passed about 10 years ago and I was able to acquire some of his research on the Chesapeake Bay, Thanks to his daughter. She was in the process of selling the home in Glen Burnie and I got up the nerve to stop and say hi..and she was kind enough to give me a box of pictures, papers, notes and maps. I think Bob passed in the 90's if I remember correct. And Many Thanks to everyone for the kind words, Be Safe and stay Healthy! Good Luck also if you get a chance to hit the beach..💪

To be honest I am not sure, the problem lies.... it may work one place and not another. And how does one go about achieving full global testing of something like this......... Words from Eric Foster on the subject.. Eric Foster Splicing a coax does cause a problem, It exposes the central conductor to capacitive effects, and this is what is happening when the cable dips in and out of the sea. When using a short delay, this effect gets worse as it upsets the damping setting. At the point you are sampling, the sudden extra capacitance will give a slight change in the recovery response. Dipping the coil in the water only gives a short beep as the SAT cancels it out. You are OK if the join is always in the water - or always out of it.You can get rid of the effect by increasing the delay to 15 - 20us, but you will lose some sensitivity to small items.Wrapping metallic tape around the join can make matters worse, as the tape is ungrounded until it touches the water, and you can get a bigger capacitive change.The other problem with an unshielded splice, is that it forms a small one turn TX/RX coil that is in series with the main coil. If the spice is up against a metal shaft, it will generate a signal which will vary if there is relative movement.

I should teach them but unfortunately they seem to have other interest. Yes those books were classics...Those books started a metal detecting revolution in this area. Sad both have now passed .

Thanks Willy for sharing. Souriau connector for the head phones?

As crazy as it may sound...I can see someone putting the batteries in backwards...⚡ I've had one customers remove the larger O-ring I used on the excalibur endcap I sold him..and swap it out with the smaller stock O-Ring...Then installed the endcap before his island vacation......😬 disaster.

Welcome.... Not to bad, I still encounter a few who think it's funny but most are considerate once they see me Flagging with my scoop and sifter. On the water I can hear them coming a mile away too...SO I am very on what is going on around me..that I can hear anyway's. I see and .....sometimes feel a few strange things but its rare. The good...... the water is so murky whatever it is I would not see it until it's right there taking a bite out of my arm...👀

I agree Carolina...The Sournia, compostied made or a 300 dollar SS Military Spec.(shielded) fitting..both are going to make noise. Time your hunts with the tides....and the current conditions.

Carolina you are cleaning up buddy!

Thank You..! .And your right, never gets old.

All Metal hunting only Out yesterday, water was calm when I got there but by the time I was leaving white caps had started. Almost 4 hours, Not a lot of targets but seemed like the AQ was focused on all of the right ones. Never dug one piece of Iron which even I have a hard time believing. First gold came early in the hunt but the second gold ring was when the water started to changing. I got pounded several times by mild waves. Just big wide ones which really go over your head. Nothing like ocean waves where they rip your headphones off and take your scoop away....😳 And I am guessing some one is going to ask why did I not jump with the wave...Answer..I hunt with my eyes closed a good part of the time I am hunting.... not safe but I can focus on the audio fully.. Kind of funny, Rick had sent a email asking if AQ owners could post on Willy's question about the AQ coil and pinching the coil while the AQ is at full sensitivity to test it's shielding. I get to the beach. walk out to chest/waist deep and do the pinch test. AQ goes crazy when I pinched the coil..even my hand getting near it..I'm puzzled, maybe because my gloves are water soaked??.... ..until it hit me I had my lucky ring on, under the glove..🙄 Be out of commision a few days, grandsons visit before school starts. Maybe the last time I see them this year with the virus thing ....😞...they will be doing 2 day in and 3 days at home, online.

It depends on where I hunt. Of the 8o or so beach's each has a pattern of targets that can be special to that area..... From religious medallions, half dollars, tokens, size of the fishing weights, Big gold rings, dated rings, dated coins...bullets, nickels...and the list goes on...When someone tells me they hunted in the bay ..........I can almost guess the area they are hunting by all of there target digs. And that goes for the conditions of the targets they found, I know the lower part where I hunt coins can be really damaged as to the northern area .......the coins come out fairly clean.......... And same goes for beach's up the rivers that feed the bay...Pattern, pattern, pattern..SO my nickel to gold ring count can go either way.

That's a Good day out with a nice surprise! Me being a rookie at fresh drops I would have put those in the junk pile for sure.. Nice catch! And man I love that tester!