mono man

hi all i have just created a web page for my club here in OZ have a look and see the GOLD some of the members have found in the club info link under photos hope you like it http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/smdc/web/index.html

well as this post has been up for 4 day and no replys its either that members dont have this unit or no one likes this unit so i went out and purchased a garretts ace 250 ill see how i go with this brand of detector thanks MM

hi all can anyone give me some insight into the whites prizmIV im looking at purchasing one any info would be helpful i will be using it onthe beach sand only and for coins and jewellery thanks MM

thanks for the reply it will be used in parks and on the beach for coins and jewellery ect ect thanks MM

hi all can anyone give me some insight into the whites prizmIV im looking at purchasing one any info would be helpful thanks MM

hi guys this was found in the victorian gold country of australiakgkj.bmp they claim to have found hundreds of thousands of dollars of gold also claim it came from a reef

if you are going to do a lot of walking with new boots dont forget the bandaids

g'day montanagold you say you are running the same settings as the nuggetfinder and the second hand coiltek coil is noisy i would say it could be the coil the only way to fix this problem in the future is to buy new for the $$$$ you saved on the used coil that may not come with a warranty so now you have to pay for it to be repaired or purchase a new one ps try your mates coil and then you will know if your coil is faulty

hi has anyone come across this coil yet this topic my have all ready been posted

thanks bob&nuggethunting it will b e a couple of weeks before i make my purchase i have heard no negitive or positive feed back on the new goldstalker maybe its still early so im leaning toward the round 14" thanks

hi guys im in the market for a coil its a choice between the coiltek round 14" or the 14" eliptical im running a 4000 what are others useing on there 4000/4500 thanks

well kris i dont know about old sheila"s but one person has stood up to be a man with an apology

no im a club member of his ggeee copy n pasting in no way was i trying to take credit for his settingsi started off on the wrong foot as a new member of this site he relayed them to us at our agm and if you read his post on the other forum some ot the members tried the settings on an outing and they found 1 @21g [email protected] 1@3g thats not to say they would"nt have found them in any other settings

hi jp these are not my settings as some people have miss read my original post

hi ric whats wrong with sharing information and tips to get the best out of your machine i thought thats what a forum is all about i know bogene and ill be talking with him in the next couple of weeks and if he has a problem with me sharing his settings and tips then im sure he will let me know as i staterd before this happend to someone else not me

hi flak if you read the post properly you will see that i staterd it happened to a club member not me

just a bit more on the settings i posted eariler -- the above settings(if they proove to be the best for the 4000) a rethink on tuning. Now for my latest information. I belong to a detecting club in Vic and last week on Wednesday we had our monthly meeting. At the meeting I presented my views and handed in a print out of my settings. The club monthly campout was last weekend and, due to a prior arrangement, I was not able to attend. One operator on my settings heard a target and called an operator with a 4500 across to listen. The 4500 operator heard the signal but suggested it may be ground noise. He was asked to retune to the new settings and according to the finder" his eyes lit up" when he reheard the new signal. He then went back to his own settings and retested to get the same original result and then came back to my settings. The Result. "You have convinced me" he said and now he uses the new settings all the time.(by the way he has had over 15 years experience) I stand open to correction as I was not there but I'm advised that every member who has a detector that can be tuned to these new settings is now using them. Evidently one member found a 22.1 gm and another found a 5.5 gm amongst his 5 or 6 others.( That is all the infomation I have managed to get as to what was found -- although I'm told that the normal amount of trash was still found although found a lot easier) It's been so long since I managed to get out for a swing that I think I'm suffering from withdrawl symptons, and whats more its so cold today it would freeze the b-lls off a brass monkey. Evidently it's snowing in Ballarat today. I wouild like to hear from anyone who has tried with both the threshold totally off or down at about 9 o'clock where the threshold just vanishes.(if I have mine at the 9 o'clock level the enhancer brings back a very smooth melow threshold type sound with the enhaccer set at about 10 o,clock) However, reading inbetween the lines above, it would appear that if the threshold is totally off then you can't bring back any threshold sound.

here are the settings hope you can all try them and see how you go for those of you that like threshold you may not like these settings as you will think the machine is not on good luck give me some feed bak thanks . My settings were as follows - AFTER I HAD TURNED OUT THE THRESHOLD AND TURNED UP THE GAIN AND TURNED ON THE SUPERSOUND. Front Panel:- Search Mode - Deep Soil/Timings - Sensitive Ground Balance - Tracking Coil/ RX - Mono Back Panel. Volume - 40 Tone - 36 Signal - 20 Tracking - Medium GB Type - Gen Sensitive - Smooth Iron Reject - Off Manual Tune - 164 (This was selected by the autotune button and I did not change it during the trip). Audio - Deep Gain - 15 Motion - Medium Response - Normal. If you read my original post again you will see that I only detuned the threshold to try to get the gain up. Also I switched the Supersound enhancer OFF when I was taking the threshold out -- then increased the Gain from & to 15 and Tthen brought the Supersound back which gave me the soft hum I was talking about. The supersoun button was at about 10 o'clock when I had switched it back on. I feel that you must have the enhancer switched off so that you know when the threshold is silent before you switch the enhancer back on. I hope this works for you and that you find a heap of gold. Keep smiling - keep swinging - and good luck.

hi guys this happend to a club member here in OZ On monday night (2/6/0 I returned from a trip to W A where I set my GPX 4000 totally differently to my normal settings. I had a ball and enjoyed detecting more than ever before – that is until things went wrong (more about that later) I use the 4000 equipped with a 17†elliptical mono (Nuggetfinder – one of the original fiberglass models) and a Supersound enhancer (to give my 74year old ears a bit of help) During the trip I never had to change to a DD coil as the Nuggetfinder purred along beautifully on all the different types of ground I detected. In the past I have never been able to get the gain on my machine above 7 or 8 at the utmost before the threshold became so unstable that I was unable to distinguish small variations or subtle targets. Minelab say that one should run the gain as high as possible, so with that in mind I decided to try to run without threshold to see if I could increase the gain Firstly I switched off the enhancer and bit by bit reduced the threshold until it vanished. At this stage it was replaced with a faint â€BIPâ€. I continued to reduce the threshold until this “BIP†had disappeared and the machine was totally quiet. I then increased the gain from 7 to 15(maximum) and the machine remained quiet. I then switched on the Supersound and increased the volume setting to about 10 o’clock. The machine now gave a very stable soft hum which I could not decide if it was the unheard threshold being enhanced or the hum of the electronics in the control box. However let me assure you that the sound was so stable, sweet and smooth that it was a pleasure to listen to. Detecting with this setting I started to find smaller gold nuggets at far greater depth than I have ever found before. We were in small gold country which was evidenced by the fact that none of the operators found any large nuggets (at one stage there were 12 of us). You can turn the enhancer volume up to maximum, which further enhances the sound of the targets, but then you must reduce the volume setting on the back panel of the control box or you will blow your ears apart if you pass over a discharged .22 casing. Initially there were 12 of us in the group and detectors ranged from 2200’s, 3000’s, 3500’s and 4000’s. I called across a member of the group with 30 years detecting experience and he could not hear a faint target I had found – he had a 3500. Another member found no gold in the first three days and asked me to tune his detector to my settings. He found 6 nuggets the next day and found gold every day thereafter. Let me repeat – the sound coming from the earphones was so sweet and stable that it was a pleasure to listen to. I was detecting minute targets right down on the caprock at between 5 and 8 inches and every target was a definite sound – not just a waver of the threshold. Theory tells us you can’t detect without threshold - so was the sound I was hearing a very faint unheard threshold being enhanced ???? Theory (Minelab) told us when the GP Extreme was launched that you could not detect in Deep and Sensitive at the same time but practice showed otherwise.( So much for theory) Hopefully some of you out there may be able to answer the question on the sound I’m hearing? Also if I’m detecting smaller targets much deeper could I be missing larger deeper targets.? And, by the way, eventually all the 4000’s were tuned to the above setting. I mentioned before I had a ball until things went wrong. In our group 4 members had GPX4000’s. Three of the 4000 owners came home early due to various problems. One member from Nth Qld left early due to his not being satisfied with his 4000 (intermittent problems with the on/off button). Another member came home when the On/Off switch on his detector failed completely. (Evidently a common fault as Ian Aitkin admitted this to me on the telephone and I have seen detectors in the field that have had their switches replaced by a different switch when returned to Minelab because of this problem.) My detector failed and I came home 15 days early due to not having my problems sorted out to my satisfaction on the phone. So there you have it -- 3 out of 4 GPX 4000’s failed for various reasons and, believe it or not, the one that did not fail us was a detector brought back from overseas by a member when he went to America on holiday. It would be very interesting to hear if any of you out there have tried the above setting -- If not then try it and let us all have the benefit of PRACTICAL tests.

hi guys im new to this forum so i hope im replying in the right way im from OZ and i belive the recall on the 4500 is serial numbers for 0 to 1000