Sep
21
2007
Here are a few links that you might enjoy over the weekend. If you have seen an interesting story, or something interesting happens to you over the weekend, we’d love to hear about it!
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Sep
21
2007
Live in La Crosse, WI and looking for something to do tomorrow? The La Crosse Area Sports Commission is holding a geocaching event and seminar to excite people about this new hobby. If you’re unfamiliar with geocaching, it involves GPS users exploring wilderness and urban areas in search of hidden caches, with location coordinates listed on a Web site or provided by the person who placed the cache. In other words, people place a cache, which is usually a water-safe box, in a hidden location with a logbook, a pen, and usually some item left behind. Once you find the item, you write your name and date in the logbook, take the item, and put an item of your own in the cache for the next person to find. It might seem easy, but many times, the caches are located underwater, or buried - which is where metal detectors come in.
Here’s a map showing La Crosse, WI:
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For more information on geocaching, visit the geocaching website.
Here are the details of this weekend’s event:
- WHAT: Get Caching With the La Crosse Area Sports Commission, a seminar on geocaching
- WHEN: 9-11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22
- WHERE: La Crosse Area Convention and Visitors Bureau in Riverside Park
- COST: $5
- RSVP: Call Brian Meeter at 782-2250 or sports@explorelacrosse.com or register the day of the event.
- NOTE: Attendees are encouraged to bring a GPS if they have one, but a limited number of units will be available for use or for purchase.
If you make it to the event, let us know.
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Sep
21
2007
A recent review of the Fisher F-75 metal detector on metaldetectorreviews.net says it’s one of the best, and the sites’ readers give it a rating of 3.5 stars (out of 5).
Specs:
- Mechanical: S-rod with electronics housing mounted on handgrip, 3-piece breakdown, batteries under elbow, 2-way armrest adjustment forward/backward & around forearm.
- Searchcoil:11†(28 cm) open-frame elliptical double-D, waterproof.
- Batteries: 4 AA, alkaline (included).
- Weight:3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) with alkaline batteries installed.
- Static Balance:Force in vertical plane normal to elbow 0.47 pounds (0.22 kg).Varies with adjustment and user’s stance and arm/hand physiology.
- Dynamic Balance:Axial moment, 0.29 foot-pounds (0.39 newton-meters). Varies with adjustment and user’s stance and arm/hand physiology.
- Sweep Effort:Lateral moment 5.2 foot-pounds (7.1 newton-meters).
- Operating Principle:VLF induction balance
- Operating Frequency:Nominal 13 kHz, quartz crystal timing reference
- Basic Sensitivity:6 x 109 root Hertz (detectivity)
- Lag Coefficient:78 milliseconds
- Reactive Overload:Approximately 10,000 micro-cgs units (volume susceptibility) 40,000 micro-cgs units with sensitivity
- Resistive Overload:Approximately 1,200 micro-cgs units (volume susceptibility) 4,800 micro-cgs units with sensitivity
- Ground Balancing Range::From ferrite to salt, inclusive
- Discrimination Ground Suppression:Combination of second and third order methods allowing the F75 to opperate smoothly on different types of soil.
- ID Ground Suppression:Third order
- Battery Life:Typically 30 hours with high quality alkalines, somewhat less with rechargeables.
- Operating Temp Range:4 to +122 degrees F (-20 to +50 degrees C)
- Operating Humidity Range:0-90% non-condensing
We haven’t had a chance to play with this detector yet, so we can’t give an opinion, but with reviewers saying things like, “This machine has it all,” “F75, not your father’s detector,” and, “Deepest Detector out There,” we’re guessing it’s pretty good.
You can buy the Fisher F-75 at Kellyco Metal Detector Super Store for $934.15. If you do buy one, or already have one, let us know how you like it in the comments section.
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