I’m all for these electromagnetic crossover activities! Amateur radio, metal detecting, making synthesizers and electronic music… We can highlight the common overlaps in theory and electronics design.
I'm on the east coast and bought a detector a few years back. THEN I looked into the local laws, and it's discouraging. I ended up only ever using it on my own property and once to help a friend find a dropped key. Maybe this summer I'll get it back out and play the "I'm looking for a ring I dropped" card if I get questioned. If you haven't seen "Detectorists", it's a great show out of the UK (I think). Very dry humor.
That’s really cool thanks for sharing I got family that lives in California in Santa Clarita close to magic mountain hope you all have a blessed day and weekend
I found a one cent piece from 1839 when I was in Rhode Island. You never know what you'll come across. It was the size of a milk top, and people walked by it all the time, thinking it was trash. 🤷🏽♂️
The AT Pro is a great machine, I swung one for years. That said, the Minelabe Exterra Pro, for half the price, puts it to shame. Especially on the beaches. Great video, keep 'em coming.
Surely, if you keep metal detecting, you will come across maybe a rusty FT817 where someone did a pota and ended up not making contacts and gave up, left his gear, and went onto fishing 😂 keep hunting Josh
In theory, a pair of elevated radials at the appropriate length for the frequency, at least 3 feet off of the ground, should yield better results than ground radials or Faraday cloth, but I've never seen it tested other than with antenna modeling. Even better if you get the antenna up off the ground far enough to slope them down at 30 degrees. I have it on my own backyard test plan, but I think testing it would make a good video for Josh. I would like to know if the juice is worth the squeeze because elevated radials are clearly more work and they are a trip hazard.
A roll of aluminum screen material is probably cheaper than the cloth and easy enough to handle. Duct tape the edges so it doesn't unravel. Can roll it on a piece of PVC tube that can be used to also hold collapsed whip antennas...
Sounds disgusting(wear gloves!!!) but on old farm sites if you can find the outhouse locations they often have coins and artifacts/jewelry that get dropped down the holes or fell thru cracks in the floor... helped do an archeological dig on one at Fort Ridgely, a Civil War/Sioux Uprising era fort in MN. We found old bottles, coins, buttons, watches, necklaces... all kinds of stuff! After 150 years the smell is gone and it is basically dirt...
There is a RUclips guy in South Dakota who researches old forts, public houses and farm sites. He uses maps and county records to narrow down the building site. Sometimes the old house or its foundation is still partially present. He then carefully looks over the area and locates the old outhouse site. Usually it’s a spot a little lower and greener than the surroundings. He will dig down usually 2 or 3 feet before he starts finding artifacts. Usually medicine bottles, perfume bottles, ink and liquor bottles. Typically the stuff is Civil War era up to the early 1900s. Wish I could remember his channel.
GigaParts made a website that links much of these metal detecting and prospecting gear, check it out: www.gigaparts.com/nsearch/?lp=HRCCMD
I have a metal detector, maybe I should brush her off….good luck hunting! (Caution, metal detecting can be addicting)
I’m all for these electromagnetic crossover activities! Amateur radio, metal detecting, making synthesizers and electronic music… We can highlight the common overlaps in theory and electronics design.
Your explanation on our old age mixed with our hobbies was the head on the nail sir well said!
You've combined two of my favorite hobbies! Well done sir. W8SVW
Metal detecting, fishing, ham radio, and don't forget pokemon! Gotta catch 'em all - contacts, pull tabs, or rare pokemon.
I'm on the east coast and bought a detector a few years back. THEN I looked into the local laws, and it's discouraging. I ended up only ever using it on my own property and once to help a friend find a dropped key. Maybe this summer I'll get it back out and play the "I'm looking for a ring I dropped" card if I get questioned.
If you haven't seen "Detectorists", it's a great show out of the UK (I think). Very dry humor.
That’s really cool thanks for sharing I got family that lives in California in Santa Clarita close to magic mountain hope you all have a blessed day and weekend
I was a Lifeguard at that Beach for 10 years. Nice to see pics of it again.
I found a one cent piece from 1839 when I was in Rhode Island. You never know what you'll come across. It was the size of a milk top, and people walked by it all the time, thinking it was trash. 🤷🏽♂️
The AT Pro is a great machine, I swung one for years. That said, the Minelabe Exterra Pro, for half the price, puts it to shame. Especially on the beaches. Great video, keep 'em coming.
Man... You're about to spend my money!
That park is a unicorn for me hunting. Tried to bag it on multiple bands/modes for years from MA with no joy.
Surely, if you keep metal detecting, you will come across maybe a rusty FT817 where someone did a pota and ended up not making contacts and gave up, left his gear, and went onto fishing 😂 keep hunting Josh
It’s possible!
Test radial wires vs Faraday cloth?
In theory, a pair of elevated radials at the appropriate length for the frequency, at least 3 feet off of the ground, should yield better results than ground radials or Faraday cloth, but I've never seen it tested other than with antenna modeling. Even better if you get the antenna up off the ground far enough to slope them down at 30 degrees. I have it on my own backyard test plan, but I think testing it would make a good video for Josh. I would like to know if the juice is worth the squeeze because elevated radials are clearly more work and they are a trip hazard.
A roll of aluminum screen material is probably cheaper than the cloth and easy enough to handle. Duct tape the edges so it doesn't unravel. Can roll it on a piece of PVC tube that can be used to also hold collapsed whip antennas...
Great video! 73 from Argentina LW4DAF
I do both also. My two favorite hobbies. 73 KA4CEM
Try out the Fara J single band
cloth roll up antennas, from
Canada. 😊
13:07 East Coast? I thought Bolsa Chica was in OC? :)
"It can get really expensive though."
Great! We all need one more money sink of a hobby! 😂
BUT! it can make money! It’s the hobby the more you do, the more you make. 💸
To fund your next rig
Metal detector makes sounds like on an ATM.
I guess foiled again. 😅
Put the mode into Pro mode and lower the sensitivity down a couple of notches. Learn to numbers and tones
Sounds disgusting(wear gloves!!!) but on old farm sites if you can find the outhouse locations they often have coins and artifacts/jewelry that get dropped down the holes or fell thru cracks in the floor... helped do an archeological dig on one at Fort Ridgely, a Civil War/Sioux Uprising era fort in MN. We found old bottles, coins, buttons, watches, necklaces... all kinds of stuff! After 150 years the smell is gone and it is basically dirt...
There is a RUclips guy in South Dakota who researches old forts, public houses and farm sites. He uses maps and county records to narrow down the building site. Sometimes the old house or its foundation is still partially present.
He then carefully looks over the area and locates the old outhouse site. Usually it’s a spot a little lower and greener than the surroundings. He will dig down usually 2 or 3 feet before he starts finding artifacts. Usually medicine bottles, perfume bottles, ink and liquor bottles. Typically the stuff is Civil War era up to the early 1900s.
Wish I could remember his channel.
XP Deus 2 or minelab manticore was serve your best option has way better discriminate
It beeps, I dig. 🕳️
Go out to Newport Beach, you may find a Bitcoin.
lol.
So much canslaw when detecting public areas.....
Obligatory pull tab
Always
I think you swing too fast.
Ham radio and metal detecting? Xers gonna X. 😊 73 KK7YIS
I enjoy both these activities myself, have done for years, great video! 73 de ZL1MY