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I haven't been treasure hunting at all in 2022 so I have nothing to post about. And the detectors I like to use are not the latest greatest newest so no wants to hear about them anyway.
Also I'm another person that doesn't use social engineering sites so the bulletin board style forums are about the only way I will engage.
I'm basically on the site now and again keepin
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
For Density display....off the audio....using delta pitch audio....could you have a single line display that would show 'thin' vs 'thick', using the line size for a density check? "Thin" line corresponds to a tight signal, vs 'Thick' corresponding to a more spattered signal.....maybe rolling like the old QXT signal display or the V3 rolling pinpoint displa
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Steveg,
With a concentric coil,....A higher karat gold band is such a smooth sound, as compared to the harsher, larger sound of a large tab, that yes....you can hear the difference in the older large tabs with the GSII. The new rounded square tabs with the two holes....those are more problematic...they are still a larger signal but the audio sounds good. Problem is when you add a crown setti
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think you need to put down your high dollar multi-freq units and spend a little time with some of the older models that do allow you to hear the pre-post amble density sounds.....
Go find yourself a Golden Sabre II and hunt it for about 4 hours in high alum trash sites to train your ear. There is a reason I still own one of of these, and it for the exact reason you are describing. You ca
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Daniel,
Did you ever spend much time with the Nokta Impact ? I still like that one. It took me awhile to warm up to it and while I'm still enamored with my F75 LTD w/DST, the Impact grows on me the more I use it.
... of the oldies....Tesoro Lobo Supertrac.....did you ever spend much time with one of those? You have to mod it and add a ground balance control to the Disc side...
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Yes...Co-located iron will down average high conductors......but iron minerals will up-average high conductors.
I first saw this back in 2005 with my DFX. I was hunting dry river sand in 15kHz and was getting lots of of -95, -94 iron target responses. After a while I recovered one for grins and it was a 3" deep quarter. I switched back to Best Data and retraced my steps and most of t
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Steve,
I live in a different part of the USA so my ground is different than the coral sands of Florida and detecting in medium to high mineralization is the normal state of affairs, not the exception. Iron minerals lift high conductor TDI numbers. The stronger the iron mineralization the faster this lift happens.
Metal detectors TID ranges have a low end (ferrous starting point on your
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
glasartisan,
It sounds to me like normal behavior for a very deep high conductor in iron minerals.
A couple of things.
1) Iron minerals will push high conductor VDI over into the iron range on the detector. I think we all refer to the his as high conductor wrap around.
2) The higher the operating frequency, the faster and further into the iron range iron wrap will go as the st
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It would be nice to have a separate classifieds page.
Wouldn't mind a separate links only page for those guys that feel the need to post links everywhere.
I like the long term, on-going, single thread post format that is being used for the MDT-8000.
I read, just don't post much anymore.
HH
Mike
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I think COVID delayed this coil release about a year and a half. I'm glad to see it transitioned over to the F75.
Now all you need to do is find someone to buy it from.
They also recently made a much lighter weight 15" cache coil but I don't see it advertised either.
Looking forward to buying this one.
HH
Mike
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I had an acquaintance that bought and sold commodities. His secret? Disasters. He simply kept up with followed disasters, the commodities they affected and how long recoveries were expected to be. Modern term would be supply chain interruptions.
Here is a list from Wiki....
Probably be fun to do as a hobby if you had some money to play with as you have to stay informed about the
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
On the V3/V3i, you can select the Corollate feature which will allow you to discriminate a signal based upon how well the signal VDI correlates between two different frequencies. On the three frequency V3/V3i, the two strongest frequencies responses are the frequencies it correlates between. And you can select the VDI correlation window width. You can make it very narrow or very wide or anythi
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My take....
Is there anything you can share?
What direction are the manufactures going? Industry trends are moving toward "more bang for the buck" feature sets. MSSF (multiple selectable single frequency) and SMF (simultaneous multi-frequency) are now the expected norm, with onboard wireless headphone. Minelab is proving that people will purchase throw away electronics so th
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Mike_Hillis
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum