New Hobby, New Forum haha, Hello all!!

A bit about me.  I'm a middle aged disabled veteran who is working to live my life in a constant and resounding to the chronic pain I have lived with for 20 years.  I do what I want, and pay later, and try not to whine haha.  In my quest for something to do to get me out of the house (haven't been able to work for a while) and start living a life again, I remembered how much fun my dad and I had with an ancient Bell and Howell homemade detector.  All over Arizona ghost towns and such.

I now live in the Central Puget Sound region of Washington State, a friend of mine gifted me with a White's Silver Eagle. Now being a tinkerer who has had many hobbies over the years, so my solutions sometimes seem odd. Boating problems can lead to solutions in the RC Aircraft world.  I am fascinated by the hunt as well as the technical.  Please excuse my over enthusiasm, I tend to obsess.

Anyone with ideas for places to hunt, mods to do, or just want to meet up and hunt, my schedule is pretty free haha PM me if you want.

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  Welcome to the Forum.  Do you have a detector at this time ?  Brows in our Beginners thread for Ideas.   Looking forward to your post.

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	Welcome to the Forum.  Do you have a detector at this time ?  Brows in our Beginners thread for Ideas.   Looking forward to your post.

I have a White's Silver Eagle. Just got it, waiting on a couple of parts. Can't wait to test it in a nearby school yard.

Any specific tips from the pros on where to search in a school yard that has been in operation for over 50 years?

Do coins migrate in the soil? We have freeze and thaw cycles one would think would churn the soil. If they migrate, higher or deeper?

Sorry... I'm realizing there is tons I don't know, and the more I learn, the more I realize I have a lot to learn haha

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Oh, I should mention, as I have already been infecting the technical boards, I have a lot of interest in electronics, though little practical experience beyond current RC Modeling.  I am capable of stuff like modifying transmitters, and building the circuits required for modern electric aircraft. I also should mention that I was an IT consultant for years, so computer stuff to light programming is in my comfort zone, though programming seems to fad fast with disuse..

That being said, I really want to build my own detector.  I am perfectly capable of the assembly, just technically ignorant if anything goes wrong.

I'd really like a machine that could work around black sand for gold, I plan on poking around the desert in Arizona and wouldn't mind finding something with equipment I made.  I need suggestions on a thread or a kit that might be suitable.  I'm currently looking hard at the Russian Chance machine, I know it isn't perfected yet, but if it can discriminate decently, it may, in my very ignorant opinion, be both fun to build, as well as rewarding to use...suggestions??

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	Welcome to the Forum.  Do you have a detector at this time ?  Brows in our Beginners thread for Ideas.   Looking forward to your post.

Homefire, I came across an old thread you mentioned a Seahunter Mod for nugget hunting, it was in a ferrite probe thread. Did that pan out? The Seahunter mod that is...

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edited for being slow...

Posted on: July 14, 2016, 10:47:33 am

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	Have a look at this one.  Kit is available via Silverdog's store.   TGSL 101 - Hobbielektronika.hu You are not allowed to view links. Please Register or Login www.hobbielektronika.hu/forum/getfile.php?id=220348 TGSL with only a DVM, troubleshooting can be extremely difficult without an ... metal detector to reject ground mineralization, it must accept anything that is “more positive” on the phase scale. .... measure the running frequency. The Tx should ...

Thanks for the link, it's exactly what I have been looking for from an educational standpoint at the very least. 

Have you built this MD?

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Would this be worth trying to acquire?

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	No I have Not build this detector but many others have. A O-Scope is pretty much a must if your serious about electronics.

Do you think it will discriminate out black sand?  My target is little gold in Arizona washes...

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