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Peter,

A simple fix for every CTX owner is to use Smooth sound setting.  You'll probably keep it.

I can't understand normal sound.

This might save you a bit.

Mitchel

Nice find compared to anything.

Now you have a patch.  WTG

You say specimen?  How much quartz?  I don't see any.

Solid GOLD Nugget I'd say.  WTG

Mitchel

P.S.  Now on a bigger screen I see some 'quartz' ... 5% of the weight?  Well, didn't see the whole thing.

Good post.

Thank you very much.

Thanks Norm.  Merry Christmas to all.

The ICMJ said only sign up for one session.  Can we attend more?

Excellent, thank you.

My Keen's are pretty good after wearing a combat boot for a few years.  If I had it to do over again I would buy the hightop.

Garmin/7000/3030

Thanks for the report Fred.  It helps to know what is out there.

Azavsfan ... they say it gets easier ... that is what they say.

Gambler ... that is all I found my first year with the exception of lead.  You might be like me.  You didn't go with someone to their patch.  Ask to go with someone.

Tortuga ... you are right.  I still have an after Christmas trip planned.  I was supposed to be out there now but plans get changed.

LipCA ... was that a good year for ya?  (average, better, worse?)

boulder dash ... you are a pounder plus kind of guy.  Too many nuggets to keep track of.

hawkeye ... keep having fun.  I am.

I've found more gold on the beach than in the deserts and thousands of coins.  I just want more from the fields this coming year.

There are many other pounders here ... what say you?

This is primarily a gold detecting forum.  Most subjects and topics on Steve's forum are about gold and metal detectors that find it.  

How well is everyone doing with the finding part? (I know some don't want a fellow prospector to know.)  Did you have a 'good' year or a 'bad' year?

Please let your fellow nugget hunters here know your total weight and number of nuggets found.  (I want to motivate myself by knowing what is 'possible' and not being satisfied with what I have found.)

Last year I found about 1 oz from 7 nuggets.  (I don't have to prove this!) This was better than the year before.

Well here is something to add to the GB memory.

When you hit a target you swing it for several seconds/minutes in different directions.  This loads a very specific profile into memory.

Now you start digging the target and what do we do?  We lay the coil on the ground and dig.  It is not moving for several seconds/minutes.  We swing a little to see if the target is out of the hole.  Repeat as necessary ...

When you start hunting again after the target is the machine in a better or worse balance and memory than before you found the target?

Mitchel

Good for you Fred.  That is a helpful forum he has there.  I downloaded some of their beach programs and tried to use them here but they have more iron coins than we do.  The sounds confused me so I don't use that one here.

Once you have the files saved in XChange you take them off the 3030 and add them back any time you choose.

Now you can also get the gold programs for your 3030 from Gold Hound

http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/797-ctx-3030-on-gold-nuggets-tips-on-settings/

Has anyone been working on these issues?

I have come to this thread because I have a 3030 and a 7000.  My XChange for the 3030 will not 'see' the 7000.  Do I need to install it separately?

Has there been any work by Minelab on the import/export of data points?

I also have multiple computers and what about my android phone which could also show me where I have been and what I have found in XChange 2?

Mitchel

Merton,

I was in Redding this time last year for the first time.  It was not raining.  No gold but a nice trip.

I've got the detectors I need now (but tempted by the Gold Racer myself) so I need to go where no one else has gone before ... or at least where someone has left some gold.  This is a research season for me but I also have to have some good weather.

You are leaving tomorrow for 3 weeks?

Mitchel

Go get'em Merton!  Leave no prisoners.  Burned earth policy is best ... before you look for GOLD!

Watch that Paul tho ... he is special forces ... he may convince you to buy the Gold Racer.  (It's only money!)

Paul,

Go south young man.  No other human is going out where you are hunting for gold this time of year.

That is a good thing to know and a bad thing to do.  No one is there to help you as Chris said.

Come down to Arizona or wait until the spring.

Mitchel

Great job Lunk!

Good move JP.  Now, let's see ...

Training with Jonathan from April to October.

Sign me up!

Mitchel

That is neat stuff.

What year was he born?

Paul,

You are normally 'under the radar' so I'm sure you feel a bit uncomfortable right now.  You deserve the recognition.  Don't change now.

Congratulations.

Lu and Mitchel

WTG Paul.

Gambler,

I found a nice nugget in Downieville this year.  While we were there we were reading some of the stories.  One story said that a woman was sweeping her kitchen floor and saw some gold.  She dug it and found over 35 ounces!  That was when gold was selling in Downieville for about $12 per ounce.

Mitchel

Steve,

I think you are right.

Anyone with electronic 'scrap' should take it to an authorized recycling center and be paid by the pound for it.  They handle all the knocking the fingers off and board scrap.  They will even take all the old tubes with lead and other hazards.  It doesn't just go to China any more.

That is what I did with my computer scrap as a business for 10 years. 

Mitchel

Steve and Ray,

You have gone and done it again.  With your writing style and in-depth knowledge of many things electronic you make gold hunting sound easier with this new machine.  You make me want one!

A new machine is not a fix for me. (You still make me think it would make a difference.)  haha

I'm one of those people who is walking past gold.  I need to take my 7000 (Your 98% of the time detector) to a place where I can find it and stop reading more of your reviews which make me want to get a new 'thing!'

Ray is just like you.  Buy this and you'll be in tall clover.

Thank you both but stop tempting me.  We have enough!  (7000, 5000, 2300, 3030, SE Pro, E-Trac, GB Pro, White's 6000/DI Coinmaster) 

Mitchel