Hi traveln, l have found invaluable info on this site that has helped immensely in firstly getting started then honing skills. In all cases comments have been helpful regardless of my knowledge base.
Prospecting Australia is a wealth of information.
I must pay compliments to the team at Gold Search Australia. They originally quoted a new board as a minimum, however they found the new board was no different so they ran checks on the old board to find the problem and reset the old board. Their honesty on cost and speedy turnaround will have...
Keen to get into detecting after lots of panning, l finally bid for a
GMT on eBay. The unit l found was a genuine Whites but not originally purchased through the Aussie dealer GoldSearch Australia.
After months of detecting and only finding lead and other scraps l thought l was missing...
If it fires up it will be a good tool to learn with as most of the finds will be junk anyway. Low and slow and tune it to understand the difference between lead and metal.
Only recently moving to detecting, l have started with a couple of VLF detectors. When using the headphones, the emitted noise is completely different to that given by the external speakers. Is this normal and l have to learn to read the different noises between external and headphones...