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Hi, folks; newbie here. found your site earlier today and was impressed by it so decided to join.
A bit about me: I live in North Wales (UK), about 20 miles from Chester which is a Roman city founded nearly 2000 years ago. I lived on the outskirts of the city for nearly thirty years, then moved to my present location when I got wed twenty-odd years ago.
I spent twenty odd years in engineering, got too old and too expensive to find work when I found myself unemployed 16 years ago, so took to driving trucks for a living 12 years ago (check out the username
) Work for a massive (30,000 payroll) company and hate every minute of it.
So I bought myself a metal detector to keep Mrs trukker and me amused during our caravan holidays - coincidentally the same as this one
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,140666.0.html
She Who Must Be Obeyed said, "what about me; what am I going to do while you're metal detecting??"
And so I re-kindled my interest in electronics and am now busily building one for her from a 1979 circuit (pulse induction machine.) I successfully built a BFO machine a long time ago, found a few bits and pieces then started building a VLF machine but the circuit as published proved to be unstable. At about the same time I started building this same PI circuit, but for various reasons never finished it. I etched my own circuit board, gathered together all the components and ran out of time to finish it. I know a guy who did build it and he reckoned it had no equal for beach coinshooting, so I've dug all the bits out and started again. Wish me luck this time out?
I haven't tried the bought machine yet beyond a basic trial inside the house; I realise it isn't up to the standard of the machines a lot of you are using but it should be fun. I can't even try it in my garden since it's very small and several feet deep in rubble from a kitchen extension I've undertaken, and I'm still trying to find permission to search any land locally. Since I bought the detector I've spent a lot of
time finding out what you can and can't do and it appears that you can't do a lot . . . .
As I said, I live 20 miles from a Roman site but it's forbidden to detect there because it's of special archaelogical interest. Quite how far this area extends is proving difficult to establish; must find out. The whole of the area around where I live was positively infested with Romans; they mined lead not 5 miles from my house, but I can't get permission to search anywhere locally. Still, I've got lots of other options - drovers' roads and packhorse routes going back hundreds of years which are now footpaths. Trouble is, they all run over somebody's land and I still need permission. Catch 22, anyone?
Wish me luck for my first find?
trukker
A bit about me: I live in North Wales (UK), about 20 miles from Chester which is a Roman city founded nearly 2000 years ago. I lived on the outskirts of the city for nearly thirty years, then moved to my present location when I got wed twenty-odd years ago.
I spent twenty odd years in engineering, got too old and too expensive to find work when I found myself unemployed 16 years ago, so took to driving trucks for a living 12 years ago (check out the username
) Work for a massive (30,000 payroll) company and hate every minute of it.So I bought myself a metal detector to keep Mrs trukker and me amused during our caravan holidays - coincidentally the same as this one
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,140666.0.html
She Who Must Be Obeyed said, "what about me; what am I going to do while you're metal detecting??"
And so I re-kindled my interest in electronics and am now busily building one for her from a 1979 circuit (pulse induction machine.) I successfully built a BFO machine a long time ago, found a few bits and pieces then started building a VLF machine but the circuit as published proved to be unstable. At about the same time I started building this same PI circuit, but for various reasons never finished it. I etched my own circuit board, gathered together all the components and ran out of time to finish it. I know a guy who did build it and he reckoned it had no equal for beach coinshooting, so I've dug all the bits out and started again. Wish me luck this time out?
I haven't tried the bought machine yet beyond a basic trial inside the house; I realise it isn't up to the standard of the machines a lot of you are using but it should be fun. I can't even try it in my garden since it's very small and several feet deep in rubble from a kitchen extension I've undertaken, and I'm still trying to find permission to search any land locally. Since I bought the detector I've spent a lot of
time finding out what you can and can't do and it appears that you can't do a lot . . . .
As I said, I live 20 miles from a Roman site but it's forbidden to detect there because it's of special archaelogical interest. Quite how far this area extends is proving difficult to establish; must find out. The whole of the area around where I live was positively infested with Romans; they mined lead not 5 miles from my house, but I can't get permission to search anywhere locally. Still, I've got lots of other options - drovers' roads and packhorse routes going back hundreds of years which are now footpaths. Trouble is, they all run over somebody's land and I still need permission. Catch 22, anyone?
Wish me luck for my first find?
trukker
I'm impressed that you are building one for your wife. Way cool.
