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Tom_in_CA Wrote:
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> NEBeachcomber Wrote:
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> > Sounds like a good deal... Now, all one has to d
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> > is find a VHS player to watch it on.
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> NE-beachcomber: Don't confuse Cal Cobra. He is t
> oo young to know what a VHS pl
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FS: For that special person looking for a NOS Fisher Research Laboratory CZ-7a Pro VHS Tape as new still shrink-wrapped, well I'm you man!
$20 shipped to the 48 states region
PM if ya want it, and I know you do
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Elbert Wrote:
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> You don't have the updated unit with the iron bias fix?
They haven't released the iron bias firmware update yet, but once they do, I'll retest these iron scenarios.
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On my next spin at the beach I'll try the 6-tone option and customize the tone breaks as well as audio (low iron audio volume and I like setting the silver range with a high pitch so it jumps out of the iron. The tone setting offers 6 sub settings as follows: Number of Tones , Tone Volume, Tone Frequency, Tone Break, Threshold Level, and Threshold Frequency. About any audio characteristic t
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Here's a Legend beach video from Sunday. This beach is interesting in that during a minus tide (there's only a couple a year typically) it exposes the bedrock at the beach, and there have been many old gold and silver rings and whatnot found then.
It's more like crevicing in salt water trying to find the jewelry and coins that have been stuck in the bedrock cracks, nooks and
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Hey Del, I have both coils and I like both of them but favor the 5x10 due to it's slightly larger size. It's not bad for brush hunting around sage brush and other scrub brush, but being an open loop design it still gets tangled up
Still nice for getting into places the stock 11" coil cannot.
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Tom_in_CA Wrote:
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> There are plenty of machines where you can effortlessly knock out nails (even bent ones, even in minerals, etc....). Like with my Explorer II, I *never* dig nails. Even larger caste iron is quite tell-tale.
I don't think I would say *never* I'm pretty sure I see at least a few nails from each hunt,
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Tom_in_CA Wrote:
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> Now as to whether or not I felt it to be superior for depth and cherry-picking in junky turf, is another topic.
Repeat after me "the Nox is far superior to the Dino2K" haha
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Dan(NM) Wrote:
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> I have close to 500 silver coins I'm thinking abou
> t selling. I am trying to get an idea of what is a
> reasonable asking price for dimes, quarters, half
> dollars and a few Morgan's. Thank you for any inpu
> t you're able to offer.
Depends on if their scrap or not. I used to buy s
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ozzie Wrote:
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> Very disappointing results, hastings. Total opposi
> te results from calabash's. Calabash did say his t
> argets were 14k gold. I don't know what to say. Di
> d you test the unit on coins in the salt sand? Coi
> l is ok? Unit is ok? . . . ... . Dang!
Yeah this video does not make a positive i
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> Lots of high-conductor copper & silver!
I certainly appreciate Calabash putting in all the time and effort into showing us what the D2 can do, thank you.
I've watched the beach videos, and correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that at the end of the day all the finds were high-conductor copper
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I attempted to capitalize on my success from our New Years Day hunt where my first coin of 2022 was a beautiful 1825 reale (). On that trip I removed a large section of brush that low and behold gave up several good targets once cleared. This general area produced several Phoenix buttons, a reale, green copper, flat buttons, relics, etc. This trip I tried removing more brush right in what was pre
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That was one heck of a deal, that's a LOT of detector (not to mention all the extra coils) for the buck. The Impact found my first gold coin
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sanjuro Wrote:
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> If Dimitar did get his patents which were pending
> sorted does the XP D2 infringe on any of these ? i
> t seems that the performance increases of the D2 o
> ver existing units is because of the separate salt
> balance that it has like the Tarsacci MDT8000 unit
> uses.
> Maybe Dimitar only got th
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JCR Wrote:
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> I spoke with Dimitar yesterday but did not ask abo
> ut the Forum being down even though I knew it seem
> ed to be. It had been pretty quiet lately. I am no
> t sure if the Forum belonged to him or not. But, I
> do think one more reasoned request for a smaller r
> elic coil will put him over the edge to
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Pedlar mills Wrote:
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> In my opinion the depth meter is useless I never e
> ven look at them but I know a lot of people use th
> em. Maybe make it where it's a toggle function eit
> her depth or ground mineral depending on what you
> want
Nice idea Actually being able to toggle between the two makes perfect sens
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Cal_cobra
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Most of these are questions for Dilek, but I had some insights into a few of your thoughts I noted below:
JCR Wrote:
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> Knowing that the field testers will soon end their evaluations & feed back to NM on this new machine for a released production version, would it be helpful for the members here to express their expectations? I t
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ozzie Wrote:
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> Cal, nice real, but that birdcage button you calle
> d it. That looks like a cuff-link. . is it really
> a button that is removable? Could'nt find anything
> on it from the net.
Thanks! I guess it could be a cuff-link. I've found a few "buttons" over the years with the same T-bar att
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Cal_cobra
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One is a controlled environment that can reveal limitations, strengths and weaknesses while in the wild all bets are off and anything goes!
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Tom_in_CA Wrote:
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> > Rumor has it TomCA was going to flag some uber deep old silver from a local park to test how the Legend would ID it...we'll see if he accepts the challenge
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> Wha
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> As of right now....... not much. We are still inca
> rcerated within the mindset of inductive-coupling.
> .......(via a coil)........for detection of metal.
> OLD TECHNOLOGY!!!
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> In 1908.....Henry Ford said: "What the hell are we
> doing....still using old, antiquated internal-comb
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> I know that I have alluded to this before.....abou
> t the EQX; yet, it has become "primary"......and t
> o a huge extent.
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> First: We know that (say) Park Mode-1 is designed
> for deep high conductors.......like silver coins.
> We also know that (say) Field Mode-2 is designed f
&g
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