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From: george@electro.UUCP (George Reimer)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.misc
Subject: Re: Metal detecting revisited - hobby that pays for itself
Message-ID: <1019@electro.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 89 15:37:43 GMT
References: <2575@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: george@electro.UUCP (George Reimer)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <2575@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> parnass@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Bob Parnass, AJ9S) writes:
>
>   I'm interested in hearing from detectorists  about  their
>   activities during the past year.
>
	I have a toy detector, Radio Shack , 8^) , bought it thinking that we
	could explore the hobby and decide about it before investing to much
	money. We can detect a 3" spike at about 6" of earth. 

	Our biggest adventure was to go to the snow dump site in early spring.
	This is a place where, during the winter months, all the snow that has
	been scraped up from the city streets is dumped. This particular one
	was about the size of two football fields, the melting snow being about
	4 to six feet deep. Well, my 9 year old son, my wife and I hunted for
	about several hours. You wouldn't believe ( or would you ? ) how many
	thousands of beer caps and pop can tabs there were!  Our biggest 
	find was one ten cent piece which my wife spotted visually. It was quite 
	educational. I realize now that a snowdump site, along with all 
	metal scrapyards are not the places to go looking. 

	I too would be interested in hearing of other's experiences as well as
	comments regarding the best performance per dollar. Has anyone built
	there own detector? What sort of readouts are available? Can you perform
	some sort of visual scanning ( akin to ultrasound scanning? )


	George
	Reimer