BBsGal
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It's been an interesting week so far just getting acquainted with the ctx 3030, and I had an "aha" moment yesterday on how patterns = discrimination, and also on using the tones as cues to dig... and am starting to make sense of the vid numbers. Yay! When I first turned this machine on and tried it out I was completely lost, so progress feels pretty good.
Also found my first "older" coin yesterday, a '56 wheatie with it at about 6" deep, kinda neat for just learning it and playing around. This was at one of my regularly hunted permission sites and I've been over that same area dozens of times, so now I'm wondering what else I've missed!
Boy, I gotta say it's so very different from any of our other detectors, and it's also kinda heavy for me but hopefully if I keep going my swinging arm will get stronger I've looked at various harness/sling setups but they all seem to have real drawbacks, so I'm still pondering that whole situation.
I did go ahead and order rechargeable batteries for the thing since it came without any battery pack, and I had to get the AA holder for the thing which is working fine but eating a lot of alkaline batteries.
So the things I wonder about from other CTX owners is this... should I invest the $$ in the little coil for trashy areas (most of my hunting is in this type of situation), and what other accessories do you feel are indispensable to running this detector?
The other thing... This one also (from estate sale) came without the wireless audio module and no headphones. At the price for the module plus headphones, and having had pain issues with headphones in the past (my Garrett's just about kill me and haven't found a set yet that don't hurt) is it worth the $$ to go wireless? Or does anyone use ear buds with it instead of full headphones and how is that working?
I think that's about all I have for questions so far, I'm sure I'll have more as I go along.
Also found my first "older" coin yesterday, a '56 wheatie with it at about 6" deep, kinda neat for just learning it and playing around. This was at one of my regularly hunted permission sites and I've been over that same area dozens of times, so now I'm wondering what else I've missed!
Boy, I gotta say it's so very different from any of our other detectors, and it's also kinda heavy for me but hopefully if I keep going my swinging arm will get stronger I've looked at various harness/sling setups but they all seem to have real drawbacks, so I'm still pondering that whole situation.
I did go ahead and order rechargeable batteries for the thing since it came without any battery pack, and I had to get the AA holder for the thing which is working fine but eating a lot of alkaline batteries.
So the things I wonder about from other CTX owners is this... should I invest the $$ in the little coil for trashy areas (most of my hunting is in this type of situation), and what other accessories do you feel are indispensable to running this detector?
The other thing... This one also (from estate sale) came without the wireless audio module and no headphones. At the price for the module plus headphones, and having had pain issues with headphones in the past (my Garrett's just about kill me and haven't found a set yet that don't hurt) is it worth the $$ to go wireless? Or does anyone use ear buds with it instead of full headphones and how is that working?
I think that's about all I have for questions so far, I'm sure I'll have more as I go along.