home made antenna, so the deus can detect underwater

Made this from shielded usb printer cable, stripped 1.5 inches off the shielding both ends. Good chance this will work I think. If this doesnt work well enough, I will try TV coax.

Interesting. Hope it works.

Good luck, hope it works Rocket. Alternatively, if you ask nicely you can have my official XP underwater aerial kit, doubt if I will ever have a use for it.

Love that mod mate!

Might need a wetsuit down your way this time of year I would think. Have fun look forward to seeing how it goes.

Happy Hunting

Goldpick said:

Good luck, hope it works Rocket. Alternatively, if you ask nicely you can have my official XP underwater aerial kit, doubt if I will ever have a use for it.

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Thankyou very much GP, I would love the official kit, and will even put in a good word, to the goblin for ya

clegy said:

Love that mod mate!

Might need a wetsuit down your way this time of year I would think. Have fun look forward to seeing how it goes.

Happy Hunting

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Make sure you drink about 2 litres of water before putting the wetsuit on. :8

The water is still ok, cool but not cold. The antenna worked, coil and stem submerged, in 1.5ft of water at the beach, I got signal to remote, and backphones. The deus is really buoyant, so swinging it is a combination of side to side, plus pushing down. I really want the antenna for lakes, where I can detect waist deep, and not have to deal with wave action. All I found was 5c, canslaw, pulltabs, ringpulls, and a stainless screw. I ran it in wetbeach mode, whilst in the water, wet sand, and dry sand. It works great at our saltwater beaches

Glad it worked ok. I use Beachgold. A variation of the Gold field programme.

I think the antenna kit is really directed at fresh water detecting vs saltwater anyway, so I'll send it your way once I have healed from my hospital visit. PM me your address Rocket.

Hey GP, aren't the nurses different to 40/50 yrs ago?? Yumm, probably me just getting older and less choosy.
Jaros :8

used it in the lake today, only found bottlecaps, and large chunks of aluminium cans. The signal got a bit broken at times, but it didnt stop me finding the cans. Be good to compare the proper XP aerial kit

rocketaroo said:

used it in the lake today, only found bottlecaps, and large chunks of aluminium cans. The signal got a bit broken at times, but it didnt stop me finding the cans. Be good to compare the proper XP aerial kit

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Boat ramps are the honey holes, especially around rowing clubs with wealthy people, and those man made inland beaches if you can track one down.

I enjoyed the water detecting today, pretty easy going, and relaxing.

Why do you need an antennae ?

JeffP said:

Why do you need an antennae ?

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The whole system is wireless including the coil and it can't transmit through water.

Be good if you could make a multicolored flash/variable glow waterproof attachment for either on the coil, or up on the stem, that puts on different colors for different target IDs, one color showing proximity by brightness variability and other colors showing for either idividual target IDs or being able to be programed for ID number zones eg gold silver foil etc. (Intellectual copyright pending to me ).

Heatho said:

JeffP said:

Why do you need an antennae ?

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The whole system is wireless including the coil and it can't transmit through water.

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Thanks

Goldpick said:

Good luck, hope it works Rocket. Alternatively, if you ask nicely you can have my official XP underwater aerial kit, doubt if I will ever have a use for it.

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Thankyou very much GP, the kit arrived today Looking forward to see how it performs

No problem.