The Minelab CTX 3030 is a true work of art, I love it to bits ! I know some of my observations may appear to be a little hard but without people like me making observations these little niggles would quite possibly never get sorted. On each mode you can view and adjust the settings for Pattern 1, Pattern 2, Tone ID profile, Response, Recovery Fast, Recovery Deep, Seawater, Target Separation and pinpoint. Features And Performance Of TheMinelab CTX 3030

For new users here is a link to my favourite program for easy searching, it is called the "Coin Harvest Program" and will find you everything you need when searching average soil.It is very easy to over-complicate things with the Minelab CTX 3030 and it’s believed you are better to let the machine do its thing until you are confident you have mastered the sensitivity settings. It excels in separating trash and good targets. FBS (Full Band Spectrum) technology is slightly different in that it pulses a kind of digital rectangular wave form into the ground ranging from 1.5KHz to 100KHz. If it is simply a case of selling some finds or a couple of machines I would say what are you waiting for get down to Joan Allen and grab one, this machine is without doubt a metal detecting move in the right direction.

The ‘turn’ mechanism that could become loose after repeated use has been replaced with a ‘push’ mechanism for increased reliability and ease of adjusting. So far I have found the key to optimum performance is having the correct sensitivity setting, the CTX can not take the sensitivity abuse like the Explorer II, they are totally different machines. The target information gathered and processed from all of these frequencies gives the CTX a real edge to determining a targets identity making it super accurate.

The Minelab CTX 3030 is not the lightest of machines and is, in fact, heavier than I would have expected however it is by no means cumbersome or chunky.