Minelab CTX 3030 Beach Prospecting Presets

[Shelton]

Minelab CTX3030 beach hunting presets by Gary Drayton (factory beach mode preset)
 

1. Rocky Areas on the Beach and water

• Pattern 1
• Pattern 2 in cross reference with Pattern 1 for checking
• Target Trace
• Target Separation Low Trash or High Trash
• Recovery Deep OFF
• Recovery Fast ON
• Seawater ON on lower parts of beach
• Sensitivity manual
• In water try dig only low and high tones
   

1. Rough Surf Hunting

• Recover Deep OFF
• Seawater ON
• Target Separation – Low Trash
• Volume Gain – few numbers down to cut false signals
• Sensitivity  Auto
   

1. Deep Water Hunting

• Pattern 2
• Seawater ON
• Sensitivity Manual to MAX or AUTO +3 (rolling surf) until threshold becomes unstable
• Volume Gain 24 for flat surf Volume MAX
• Recovery Deep ON
• Recovery Fast OFF
• Target Separation – Low Trash
   

1. Shallow Water

• Seawater ON
• Sensitivity AUTO or manual to first unstable at fully submerged section try to wait few minutes to stabilize temperatures
• Volume Gain 22-24
• Recovery Deep OFF
• Recovery Fast OFF
• Target Separation – High Trash
  
   

1. Eroded Beaches

• Pattern 1
• Sensitivity Manual try to crank up to maximum
• Target Separation – High Trash
• Volume Gain 24
• Recovery Deep OFF
   

1. Wet Sanding
   
   Hard packed sand

• Seawater ON
• Pattern 2 or Relic Search Mode
• Sensitivity Manual
• Recovery Fast OFF
• Recovery Deep ON
• Target Separation – choose to conditions

Soft sand

• Pattern 2
• Sensitivity Manual or Auto +3
• Recovery Fast ON or OFF (dependent on the amount of targets)
• Recovery Deep ON (for soft sand on lower beach)
• Recovery Deep ON
• Target Separation – choose to conditions
   

1. Dry Sanding

• Pattern 1
• Target Separation – High Trash
• Recovery Fast ON
• Recovery Deep OFF
   

1. Shipwreck Beaches

• Pattern 2
• Sensitivity Manual
• Recovery Deep ON
• Target Separation – Low Trash or High Trash – conditions
• Volume Gain 24
• 4 CO Tones
• Target Trace ON
   

1. Tourist Beaches

• Pattern 1
• Sensitivity Manual or Auto
• Recovery Deep OFF
• Recovery Fast ON
• Target Separation – High Trash
• 4 CO Tones
• Target Trace
   

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Shelton, thanks for posting those. The CTX 3030 is one of my favorite metal detectors and one I am going to be using a lot more in the future. Those settings will come in very handy.

Gary Drayton is "the man" when it comes to beach detecting with the CTX 3030 and Excalibur. He has an incredible blog at http://hardcoretreasurehunting.blogspot.com and sells some of the best books on the subject on his website at http://www.garydrayton.com I own a couple myself and highly recommend his books for anyone wanting to go to the next level in beach detecting.

[Shelton]

On 8/24/2014 at 10:02 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

Shelton, thanks for posting those. The CTX 3030 is one of my favorite metal detectors and one I am going to be using a lot more in the future. Those settings will come in very handy.

Gary Drayton is "the man" when it comes to beach detecting with the CTX 3030 and Excalibur. He has an incredible blog at http://hardcoretreasurehunting.blogspot.com and sell some of the best books on the subject on his website at http://www.garydrayton.com I own a couple myself and highly recommend his books for anyone wanting to go to the next level in beach detecting.

 

Yes Gary D. is my idol, too

[Borja]

Thanks for the configurations, I'll try them on my next outing.

[erikscan]

Thanks for the settings