First a few general notes - this guide is for inspiration only and everyone will find room for their own modifications or simplifications. During the production of the prototype, emphasis was placed on maintaining the original quality of the Minelab guide rod design as the CTX 3030 certainly deserves J. That is, no metallic structural elements were used, and an effort was made to maintain minimum manufacturing tolerances so that the rod, when unfolded, would be rigid and free of play (uncomfortable wobble in use)...
When I bought the CTX3030 detector, it changed my search life forever. My confidence grew, the number of finds multiplied manifold...and the depth at which we searched...well, let's just say Australia wasn't that far from the bottom of my dug holes.
This whole somewhat frantic trip started the Sunday before last at the shopping mall, when I got tired of constantly looking at last-minute tours. We went around to about 3 travel agencies in the mall asking for Greece or Spain and taking one of the first reasonable offers. The destination or similar attributes don't matter and about 7 hours later we are standing in Prague airport waiting for our flight to Larnaca.
If you are one of the meticulous ones, using xChange2 to record your findings. You may find it useful to use a simple application to sort collections in xChange2, export to KML and KMZ including FindPoints and photos. KML and KMZ files can be opened directly in Google Earth, but many other applications can be used.
Although this article will cover CTX 3030, this is actually the start of a long series of articles in which both myself and all the guys at the branches will be posting the best settings for each detector. The link to such pages will always lead from the detector discussion thread, and the articles will also be gradually expanded to include settings posted by experienced searchers. The special feature of the CTX 3030 article is that you will be able to download the programs as well.
I traded my Ctx for an Etrac about two years ago, at first I was of course hesitant to keep the Etrac, but eventually I sold my lovely Etrac and paid extra for the CTX. The main reason was mainly curiosity, which overcame my doubts about whether I should invest the money in another detector again.
Did you know that with the Minelab CTX 3030 detector, you can easily download the screen to a png graphic format? Although you won't read about this feature in the manual, it is possible and you can make educational screenshots directly in your detector.
The advanced features of Minelabers can be clearly included in the menu item called Volume Gain. This option can be found in the Audio menu of E-Track. Of course, it is also used by the CTX 3030 and is also part of the GPX series pulse detectors.