A Czech / Canadian Living in California and Detecting the West Coast
I realized I have not introduced myself on the Forum. I am Joanna and metal detect along the West Coast from Southern California to Northern Canada, beach, relic, park and nugget hunt. As well I am one of the AllMetalMode.com Team, an Admin on the Forum, Social Media and the Website.
Lets connect. I love hearing from our readers, and listeners, please keep posting your finds and metal detecting adventures in the All Metal Mode Forum and FB Group. Also defiantly reach out if you have some ideas how we can make AllMetalMode.com better.
Keep swinging and looking for those bucket list finds.
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EVERYONE behave!! Joanna is here! my wife calls joanna from time to time to get her secrets on how to keep me in line 😂
Although behind the scenes for the most part she is instrumental in keeping everything going. So much of what we are is because of her including this forum that she built. Thank you Joanna!
Hello Joanna,
Good to see you step out from behind the scenes & participate in the forum.
Southern California to Northern Canada is a lot of territory to detect. You should not run out of places anytime soon!
I love the forum, website, & podcast. I am a new detectorist & get a lot of great information and tips from everything All Metal Mode. Thank you for all of your hard work.
(and thanks for keeping Mike in line!)
Patrick (aka Swamp Fox)
Swamp Fox / Patrick
Thanks for sharing on the forum and the kind words.
I would love to pick your brain and here areas you want to learn more about so we can get one of the experts to write about it or discuss it on the forum or podcast. We are always looking for topics that we hope can help new and seasoned detectorists.
Joanna,
Here are some things I would like to learn more about:
I often hear experienced detectorists talk about "working through the iron" & am not really sure what that means. How does one go about doing that?
I would like to see some in-depth discussion on the different detector modes (Park 1, Park 2, Field, All-Metal, etc.). I know this will vary depending on what detector you use, but some general info about when you would use each one would be helpful. When you arrive at a site to detect, how do you decide which mode to start with? Should you stick with the same mode for the duration of the hunt, or should you try changing modes if you are not having much success?
How do you determine where to set the sensitivity?  Do you leave the sensitivity at the same setting, or is it better to adjust it during the hunt depending on conditions? Do you need to ground balance any time you make a change in sensitivity?
Is a smaller coil useful for a beginner, or should you concentrate on learning your machine well with the stock coil before switching to a smaller coil?
I know there are many differing opinions on some of this stuff.  It would be nice to hear what folks have to say.
That is probably enough for now!
Swamp Fox these are all great topics. We have a document where we list what we will be writing about and have added each one of them. Thanks for your input and keep posting them.
