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Please note that Dankowski Detectors now has Terms of Use provisions. Nothing has really changed, its just now everything is written down for the sake of those who in the past liked to argue. To view, CLICK HERE. If anybody sees anything unreasonable or disagreeable in the Terms of Use, please let me know.
Re: Detecting site phenomena - 7 days ago
I could run 21 sensitivity in Park1 and Park2. Anything above that I started losing stability. Nothing audible changed throughout the hunt. Could have been silent EMI though. It sure makes no sense I found the most silver I ever found there at one time using the same detector and settings I always use. I was sending photos of each silver to my buddy I normally hunt with. He's in Florida on vby Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Detecting site phenomena - 8 days ago
I forgot to mention there were huge thunderstorms that built up within 10 miles to the east of me. It was really pooping in that direction.by Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Detecting site phenomena - 8 days ago
So I've notice sites that go from hot to cold during a hunt. I've had it happen numerous times including just last weekend. I'd hunted the place several times before. Finding at least one silver every time. It's not been gridded out or anything, but covering it pretty good or so I thought anyway. I get there and it starts off slow kinda like I figured it would since it'sby Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: I am big time student of NASA Tom........video showing silent emi using Deus 2 - 7 weeks ago
As EMI both audible and silent becomes more prevalent I'm wondering if it's possible for a detector to have built in sensor to detect EMI along with a visible graph to show EMI to warn the user. If it could detect and warn you why couldn't the detector also automatically shift frequencies when needed on it's own to find a less affected frequency?by Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Couple more Calabash vids comparing Deus 2 and EQX 800 - 5 months ago
On the nail test he used Field2. Why? He didn't say I went thru all the programs and Field2 hits it best so I'm using Field2. His own preferred program for relic hunting is Park2 with some setting changes which by the way is my go to program for any place there is iron. Anyway you would have thought if was a fair test he would have used multiple programs.by Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: XP DEUS II VS MINELAB EQUINOX 800 DEPTH TEST - 5 months ago
Until I see some head to heads going against the Equinox 800 in Park1 and Park2 I will remain a skeptic. Until I see what the Deus II can do in sites heavily polluted with non-ferrous trash I will be skeptical. I know there is a lot of beach hunters out there, but I still would think they would be in the minority of metal detectorist as a whole. Why start head to heads in Beach mode?by Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Person's DEEEEEP coin recovery.using Equinox - 5 months ago
The Equinox is a magical detector. It has some flaws, but what it can do completely over shadows them.by Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Tom, what does our future hold? - 11 months ago
Bought my first detector in 98 a White's XLT. Didn't find but one Merc and a Rosie silver wise. Quite a bit of clad but the silver was tough. I had no clue and gave up. Fast forward to 2017, and I still had the XLT and decided to give it another go. The woods at end of my street had a very old looking site with a cistern. I took the XLT in there and found flat buttons, lead, stirrupby Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Re: Looking for opinions (iron "falsing") - 11 months ago
I don't get to hunt pure old iron sites a lot so I'm no expert on them in particular, but these are my settings and methodology when I do. Also I don't use the 6" coil much. I find it most useful in going back over spots as a last resort slow when I have a lot of time. Just yesterday I hunted a site in the oldest part of town that has both very old iron as well as more recentby Longbow62 - Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
