Considering the CTX

[relic lover]

I am currently used to using the Explorer SE Pro. I do mostly Woods hunting around old Cellar holes. My main question and the most important thing to me is does the CTX have ferrous sounds. I am extremely used to this feature and it's the only way I ever run my machine. Any of you CTX users used Ferris sounds?

 

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[cudamark]

It can make just about any sound you want it to make.

 

[Geobound]

Also go with the Coiltek 10 x 5 if you are doing a lot of brush hunting.

There are no holes for branches and crap to get caught up in, and the smaller size allows you to get closer to big rocks or walls and such.

 

[sgoss66]

relic lover --

I see you are from western PA -- I'm a western PA native myself! Where abouts are you from?

Anyway, I saw your question about ferrous sounds on the CTX. While you CAN run that way, it's a whole different beast from the SE Pro, because of the way the ID numbers are set up on the CTXZ (and E-Trac). As you probably know, most all good targets' FE numbers are "normalized" to "12" -- totally different than the Explorers. While you CAN run a "two-tone ferrous" setup, for instance, which some folks like to do (as you really are trying to key on targets with a ferrous number around "12"), I think you my find that the better way to run is using "combined" tones. It's hard to describe until you have the machine "in hand," but basically you set your iron targets into one "audio bin," and assign a low tone to those targets, and then you set up four audio bins of various conductive IDs -- say 0-11 at tone 1, 12-15 at tone 2, 16-30 at tone 3, and then 30 and above at tone 4. That's just one example, you can set those bins however you like, based on the types of items you are targeting. Bottom line is that this is a very effective way to set up the audio on a CTX.

Just my two cents.

Steve

 

[slick356]

Hi relic hunter

I sent you a Pm

 

[Bart@Big Boys Hobbies]

relic lover --

I see you are from western PA -- I'm a western PA native myself! Where abouts are you from?

Anyway, I saw your question about ferrous sounds on the CTX. While you CAN run that way, it's a whole different beast from the SE Pro, because of the way the ID numbers are set up on the CTXZ (and E-Trac). As you probably know, most all good targets' FE numbers are "normalized" to "12" -- totally different than the Explorers. While you CAN run a "two-tone ferrous" setup, for instance, which some folks like to do (as you really are trying to key on targets with a ferrous number around "12"), I think you my find that the better way to run is using "combined" tones. It's hard to describe until you have the machine "in hand," but basically you set your iron targets into one "audio bin," and assign a low tone to those targets, and then you set up four audio bins of various conductive IDs -- say 0-11 at tone 1, 12-15 at tone 2, 16-30 at tone 3, and then 30 and above at tone 4. That's just one example, you can set those bins however you like, based on the types of items you are targeting. Bottom line is that this is a very effective way to set up the audio on a CTX.

Just my two cents.

Steve

Great post here with good info!