Gold Hound

They look good mate. But they may have an issue with jaring when digging rock because you used flat steel rather than curved steel. A flat pick head transfers the shock of the impact into the handle alot more than a cuved pick head dose. That is why nearly all pick heads have a curved profile, its not for looks its a functional necessity to eliminate jaring. I build all of my own picks too, because none of the commercially available ones can last over 2 months in our crew but we get around 6-8 months out of my home built ones. And out of the handle materials I found American hickory to be the best for our handles, it is light and very strong and has a straight grain. I tried various Aussie hardwood's but they are heavier and break alot more often. So I've now settled on the hickory.

I hate wires too mate I use a wirless transmitter and reciver for the 5k. And I use the wm12 on the 7k.

Gday Paul The ones I use are the PMX 680 sports model www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2wzd19SqZ8

Thanks Gerard Don't worry we have our fair share of goldfields covered in trash too! That's why I know how to use the CTX so well as I've got 1000's of hours on it now for gold, treasure and old coins in very different conditions. I live in NSW and the eastern gold fields had large populations in their heyday just like in the USA. I also travel..........A lot! Those Video's are all taken in the last 2 months of last year's season before we did that mission we did one into the NSW desert, very different terrain and geology to where we were in the vids. And before that we were in the eastern NSW gold fields different terrain and geology again.

Thanks Trent It will be an interesting season using the new beast cant wait to get into it!

Thanks for the comments guy's

The wm12 wireless module for the Zed is now available in Australia $330aud. Shouldn't be to long before you get the spare modules on your side of the pond now.

Thanks mateThey are sennheiser pmx 680 sports headphones simply the best in ear phones there is! Youll never use any others after you use them.

Thanks Vic The second vid should appear soon youtube is still doing something and it hasn't appeared yet. I would definitely try keep the missus happy Vic as the season is about to kick in to full swing!

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They do just amplify everything, some of the very expensive amps used in the music industry have a semiconductor in them to eliminate the back ground noise. But no amplifier or booster will just amplify targets they amplify everything, noise, signal, threshold.

I use a BZ booster on my sdc. When im using headphones in conjunction with a booster I put a volume control in line in between the booster and headphones. This allows you to eliminate the amp noise by turning the booster on quietly and then turn down the in line volume control until the fuzzy amp noise disappears, then turn up the booster volume to what ever volume you like. Once you get it right just tape the in line volume control so it dose not move then you only have to use the booster volume to control the volume and the noise is eliminated.

It allways opend on the last map but not your last cursor position like it dose now. I found it a big help as some of the specialist images I use cover a big area and it was a real pain to find where you were on the image without using dummy waypoints.

I purchased spare batterys from 'Miners Den Sydney' 2 days ago for $249aud. They also had spare cover's as well for $60. Should not be long until you get them on your side of the pond! I will rarely need to replace the coil cover as I siliconed a piece of 3mm lexan plastic in its place. Lexan is VERY abrasion resistant so it will easily last 1-3 seasons full time use, if I were to continue to use the minelab one's it would cost a pretty penny as they only last about 2-4 weeks depending on the ground type.

I agree with you 100% Vic ozi really dose try to keep his customers happy and up to date.Ozi can do most of what the expensive program's like 'esri's arc gis' program can do! And the bloke, I think his name is Dez is very helpful if you ever have any problems. If you downloaded the update most of the features I mentioned above will work automatically, you should notice straight away as it now remembers your last location and opens the map on it or the place on the last map you were working on.

Norvic Did you download the latest ozi update?

Go to the ozi site and look in the tutorials section on how to use your states government maps in digital format, you can buy them off the government and you just follow the instructions on the ozi site on how to convert them for use in ozi.

I make my own maps out of specialist satellite images, military topo's, satellite photos and findings from the field so can't comment on the ozi ones as I don't use or need them.

ozi just made an update for oziexplorer pc it has a few useful additions and fixed a couple of bugs. It now remembers your last position and map when you turn it off, and focuses in on the cursor better than before and has many other good changes. Download the update for free from their website.

I would prefer to be able to assign function's of my choosing to the gps buttons as I have never and will never use the inbuilt gps. While we are talking about firmware I would also like the following updates: -Modes! I would like to be able to create user modes with all of the settings saved under the mode like the ctx. And be able to assign them names, 10 programmable modes would be enough. And be able to use the exchange2 software to build or modify them. And it would be good if I could assign them to the gps or user buttons so I could toggle between 2x modes easily with just 1 button press. -Audio type, I would like to be able to change the audio curve to suit the conditions and task like on the gpx. -Audio smoothing, I would like numerical control of the audio smoothing like the stabilizer on the gpx. Say 1-20 range, 20 being high and 1 being off. -Ground balance reset, I would like to be able to just dump all of the ground balance info without loosing all of my settings. Or if they gave us modes when you did a reset your modes would remain unchanged. -Separate volume controls for wm12 speaker and headphones like on the ctx so when you plugin or unplug your headphones the gpz recognizes them and adjusts the volume to the appropriate setting that you have assigned for ether the speaker or headphones. All of these upgrades are easily deliverable, as they are just software changes. And these would make the detector much better to use and increase its performance in differing conditions.

I detected my biggest ever pice at over a meter close to one and a half side on to a mono.

I do not regard the null signal as an indicator of a possile signal but rather as a common signal that we are always chasing! A large percentage of the gold I find are these null signals. It is very important to have your settings right to hear these targets as they are the easiest to miss but quite oftern they are the bigger deeper targets. As far as the timings go I always run the most sensitive that the detector can handle for the ground type. And I can always get these target types in any timing.

Just about every large deep nugget I have found made that warbly sound! It is not unusual at all like he describes in the video, he is clearly a beginner. Gday flakmagnet I regularly find smaller deep targets that make the faint chirp you are talking about. And I find alot of deep larger nuggets that only null the threshold, we (goldhounds crew) call them a null signal. This is one of the main types of response I am concentrating on hearing. Particularly if I'm in deep ground gridding! That is why we run our detectors a lot noisyer than most as the extra threshold chatter can help amplify the null response when you know what you are doing.

The gold signal varys quite a bit from a blip that won't even give you a number to a to a solid thump of a signal that gives a definate target id number. This is what sorts out the inexperienced from the experienced when it comes to gold in the jar. I have found gold as small as .2g with the standard coil, but the signal was just a blip that repeated with no id number. Once you get use to the target trace and how it behaves with gold nuggets and how it behaves with junk it helps greatly with IDing targets for digging and junk.

Gday Starvin Good to see at least one member is putting them to good use! Did you notice how much better the target separation is in heavy trash with my modes compared to the standard one's? Did you have the target trace tuned on?