The Temecula Valley Prospectors will be hosting their Annual Christmas party on December 10th, 2011. This is also the normal date for the monthly club meeting. We will start at 9:00 am and will end around 12:00 noon.

The party will be held at our normal meeting location at the Temecula Community Center located at 28816 Pujol St., Temecula CA.

This year we will be having a pot luck party and invite you to bring your favorite holiday dish to share with the club. It could be a main dish, a side dish, or a dessert and should be enough for 6 to 10 people. The club will be providing all of the paper goods (i.e. plates,utensils, napkins, etc.) and the drinks.

We won’t be having any general raffles this month (i.e. gold, 50/50, or table), but tickets will be available for the Grand Prize and the Alaska Trip.

It looks like we will be able to award the Grand Prize at the meeting, so make sure you get some extra tickets!!

We will also be having a special Christmas raffle which will work as follows:

• Everyone attending the meeting will receive one Christmas raffle ticket for coming to the meeting.
• If you bring a non-perishable food item, you will receive one Christmas raffle ticket.
• If you bring a new unwrapped child’s toy, you will receive one Christmas raffle ticket.
• The food items collected will be donated to the Senior Citizens Service Center of Temecula Valley.
• The toys will be donated to a local charity (still to be determined).

Here are some things you should be aware of:

Item 1:

We will be selling special raffle tickets for a one week trip to Alaska to participate in the GPAA 2012 Alaska Gold Expedition.

• Tickets are $10 each
• Only 500 tickets have been printed. Once they have been sold, the trip will be awarded.
• This trip is for the first week out at the camp (June 23 to 30, 2012).
• If there is room available on a different week, the GPAA may allow you to trade. But no guarantees can be made.
• What is included:
• Alaska Gold Expedition 2012 for one person on the week of 6/23/2012 to 6/30/2012.
• ATV Rental for 1 week
• Round trip airfare
• Total value of the package: $2,500

We are limiting the sale of the tickets at this point to club members, so be sure to get your tickets now! However, based on how the ticket sales are going, we may open up the sales to the general public (i.e. Gold & Treasure Shows, Internet sales, etc.).

For those of you who can’t make it to the club meeting, but want to get some of the tickets for this special raffle, please send an email to Alaska2012@gpaatvp.com with your Name, Address, Phone #, & how many tickets you would like. We will then generate a PayPal invoice to you for payment and mail your tickets to you. Please note: A small convenience fee will be added to cover the PayPal Fees & postage.

Item 2:

The Grand Prize Raffle item should be awarded this month, so be sure to get your tickets.

Tesoro Vaquero

Description:

During the design phase of the Vaquero (pronounced va-care-oh), we knew
that it was going to be a very hard working detector. It is designed as
an all-around detector, able to do just about everything that any
detectorist could want to do. Vaquero is the Spanish word for cowboy.
When we think of hard work and the ability to take on any kind of tough
job, we think of the cowboys of the old west.

The main part of the Vaquero’s versatility is its three and three-quarters
manually adjusted ground balance. This will give the detectorist the power
to set up his machine to best suit the mineralization conditions that he
is working in and his personal treasure hunting style. The Vaquero adds an
ED180 discrimination feature to filter the trash from the treasure and a
Push Button Pinpoint that makes digging up the goodies that much easier.
The discriminate knob is also used to switch into a threshold-based All
Metal Mode.

Tesoro Vaquero

Features:

• MicroMAX Design
• VLF 14 kHz Frequency
• One Drop-in 9V Battery
• Variable Threshold
• 3 3/4 Turn External Ground Balance
• Ultra-lightweight Design
• 9×8 Monolithic Coil
• 3-Piece Knockdown Pole
• Lifetime Warranty

Specifications:

• Operating Frequency  14.3 kHz, 14.5 kHz, 14.7 kHz
• Searchcoil Type  Monolithic (Carbon Fiber)
• Searchcoil Size  9 x 8
• Cable Length  Approx. 3′
• Audio Frequency  Approx. 293 Hz or VCO
• Audio Output  1 1/2″ speaker and headphone jack
• Headphone Compatibility  ¼” stereo plug
• Weight (may vary slightly)  2.2 lbs
• Battery Requirement  One 9 Volt DC (alkaline)
• Battery Life (typical)  10 to 20 hours
• Optimum Temp. Range  30° to 100° F
• Optimum Humidity  0 to 75% R.H.
• Operating Modes  Threshold-based All Metal
• Silent Search Discriminate
• Pinpoint Mode  All Metal Fast Auto-Tune

Item 3:

Do to the rental agreement we have with the City of Temecula, we can no longer have club vendors setting up tables to sell their goods at the monthly meetings. We previously had a special arrangement with a particular person at the City who allowed this activity, but unfortunately they are no longer responsible for our location. So rather than jeopardize our meeting location, we have opted to comply with the agreement.

We know that having the vendors there is important to you, so we will be working with the City of Temecula to see what can be done to remedy this issue (permits, licenses, etc.) and we will let you know their response.

Just because the vendors aren’t selling at the meeting, doesn’t mean you can’t make arrangements with one of them to bring you the gear you need to the meeting. We encourage you to talk with them when you are in the market for new items.

Here is a list of our club vendors:

American Prospector Treasure Seeker - General prospecting supplies & metal detectors

Executive Detectors – Metal detectors

Legends Prospecting Supplies - General prospecting supplies & metal detectors

Nugget Hunters of America / Gold Prospecting USA - General prospecting supplies

Father’s Day is right around the corner… do you know what you’re getting for Pop this year? Well how about some prospecting gear? Maybe a new pan, a display case to show off his finds, a digital scale to weigh all that gold, or maybe a beach scoop… feeling really generous? How about an automatic gold panning machine or a new metal detector? Our hobby has a lot of cool things that I know Dad would enjoy, you just need to find the one that fits him the best.

We have three members of our club that would be happy to help you find the right thing for Dad.

John Bucholzer – Legends Prospecting Supplies

• www.legendsprospectingsupplies.com – Online Store
• info@legendsprospectingsupplies.com – Email Address
• (951) 929-1826 - Phone
  

Lorrie Young – Executive Detectors

• executivedetectors@msn.com – Email Address

Tracy Snethen – Nugget Hunters of America

• www.NuggetHuntersUSA.com – Main Site
• www.GoldProspectingUSA.com – Online Store
• info@NuggetHuntersUSA.com – Email Address
• (951) 530-9521 – Phone

If you are looking for something for Dad, be sure to get with them at the meeting tomorrow (Saturday) or get in touch with them this week.

Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow at the meeting.

Ken