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I agree but I would amend that:
MULTIFREQUENCY = Simultaneous reception and processing of two or more frequencies.
SELECTABLE FREQUENCIES = Single frequency operation; with the ability to select other individual frequencies.
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Internet updating is an efficient way to deliver bug fixes. It provides insurance that a person or persons getting that latest new detector will not have to mail it in for a bug fix. Surely you can all think of recent examples.
The problem comes in thinking a manufacturer should continue to spend money and resources to deliver extra functionality for free. You either have to pay more for the d
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
possum mo Wrote:
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> Does anyone know what other detectors or technolog
> y Mark Lawrey from Minelab designed?
Well, Mark Lawrie was involved heavily in the GPZ 7000 at least and is featured in a couple Minelab videos that explain the GPZ 7000. Here is a screenshot from one....
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
x2000 Wrote:
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> Judging by a different (Russian) video, the respon
> se without multi-frequency looks (a least for me)
> "all over the place". It probably won't set the wo
> rld on fire as a single freqency unit. It looks "c
> rippled", unable to extract the full potential (li
> ke some
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Gold prospecting is a different matter as I have indeed paid for my GPZ 7000 at full retail and then some. Even there however I think Minelab set a high water mark at $9999 when the GPZ was introduced. Lowered to $7999 now. About all they can do there is add ferrous disc but even then they would do well to just hold the price where it is. Sadly the only real competition Minelab has faced for year
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
“maybe the days of general purpose detectors costing more than $1000 are over.“
Personally I think that is now the case. It is for me anyway. When I look at what the Equinox offers at $899 there is nothing out there that would entice me to pay more. The real irony is that it is the last company anyone ever thought would do it that is throwing down the gauntlet in that regard.
The U.S. detec
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I guess it just depends on what you want to read into things. For instance I could read the massive price reductions on First Texas models as signs of abject failure of those models. But we both know that would not be accurate. You have no idea why Gary Shafer left Minelab, but you chose to believe what you want about it. "Sounds like" is just "I don't know but here is what I
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
lytle78 Wrote:
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> Bado,
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> Their attempt at a mass-mark
> et series - the GoFind was a huge and costly failu
> re.
I see this sort of comment a lot. Just curious Rick - what is your evidence to support it?
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I understand you have a burr in your saddle over Minelab Des but I don't think that justifies making up your own facts. Hot off the press...
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Both Forest Service and BLM administer vast amounts of land that are open to mineral entry i.e. you can locate and file a mining claim. On federal land that is open to mineral entry metal detecting for minerals is specifically a protected activity under both BLM and Forest Service CFRs:
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT -
43 C.F.R. Subpart 3809—Surface Management
Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My Pro Golds work fine with the Impact, but they are the version wired to work with the CTX 3030 (and anything else). Regular Pro Gold models do not work properly with the CTX so maybe something similar is going on here?
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
shoveler Wrote:
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> Guess you missed the operative word "if".
No, I did not. It is not about "if" I believe this or "if" I believe that. That's a straw man argument.
For my part I think Jefferson's thoughts are relevant and have not become obsolete. Other than that I agree with Elbert so will
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Our founders thought differently.
"A press that is free to investigate and criticize the government is absolutely essential in a nation that practices self-government and is therefore dependent on an educated and enlightened citizenry. On the other hand, newspapers too often take advantage of their freedom and publish lies and scurrilous gossip that could only deceive and mislead the peop
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I charge my GPZ 7000 every night. My cell phone also for that matter. Once you get used to using something by day and charging by night it becomes a non-issue.
This thread may provide a clue as to why the power consumption on the Impact increases at 5 kHz:
Nokta may be boosting the power at 5 kHz for reasons noted in that thread.
I do believe this quote also is true in the concept if
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Great reporting Daniel. I already decided the Impact was a keeper for me but it is nice to see confirmation coming in from other parts of the country on different targets in different soils. The kicker on all this is I don't think we have seen the last update to the machine so whatever feedback you and others offer is being paid attention to I am sure.
My battery door I just put my thumb
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
canslawhero Wrote:
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> hey Steve H. thanks for the write-up! best MD writ
> ing I've ever seen hands down and you zeroed right
> in and put to rest the whole 'depth' issue....(for
> VLF's)
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> too bad that post can't be made into a 'sticky' of
> some sort....would cut down on the
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Des D Wrote:
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> "Steve,
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> May the 6th, Garrett are promising 'More Depth!',
> from what appears to be the existing platform AT,
> VLF tech?"
You know the score Des. Any of us that have been around do. I have not seen "more depth" on a coin since my Compass Gold Scanner Pro with 12&quo
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I will offer a different perspective. I was a big F75 fan and I now have an Impact. But that is sort of beside my point here.
In October 2014 I posted a review of a detector by a company almost nobody here had ever heard of
If you look at that review of the Nokta FORS Gold you will see I added a note just a few months later. I had made several comments about things I think needed improv
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Marks ground is similar to mine. Dime readings turn to ferrous readings at 5-6 inches. People talk about 10 inch dimes back east and the only way that is happening for me is if I use a PI detector. I hunt in all metal modes almost exclusively. The F75 is a superb all metal hunter but I lean to gold hunting so the Gold Bug Pro/G2 19 kHz variants serve as well or better for most of my use. I have t
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
You are talking about fringe targets in disc mode. That is not the same as deep targets in all metal mode. No F75 I have ever used will signal at all with any tone on targets as deep in bad ground employing any disc mode with any settings as they will in the boost all metal mode. Those targets that can be detected at depth in all metal mode that cannot be signaled on at all in a disc mode are the
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Having the deepest all metal targets default to iron tone completely defeats the entire reason for using mixed mode audio. The idea is to get a disc reading on targets strong enough to resolve via the disc channel, but have the all metal channel alert you to deeper unknown targets. To assume they are ferrous or non-ferrous defeats the purpose. You just don't know - all you know is they are d
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It's worse than that. I had a Cleansweep 4-pin for a 14 kHz Vaquero once; never should have sold that coil! I went so far as to mail it to coil guru Dan Geyer at White's to see if he could convert it to run on a 14 kHz MXT. Yeah, I know they make the Bigfoot for MXT, I have one. But this lack of coils has been bugging me for a long time and I figured since I could not get Whites to make
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Steve Herschbach
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum