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Lincoln was cursed with generals who didn't understand what the war had become.
The loose confederation of colonies had become a Federal Union of States. The real nature of that had never been defined in hard terms.
When the issue of the expansion of slavery into new Territories - to become states - could not be resolved, the dissolution of the Union was a real possibility - soon to
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Designing a metal detector with new features is probably difficult. Bringing it to market in the form of a solid reliable product which reliably delivers on it's advertised capabilities is damned hard.
All major manufacturers have hit "bumps in the road" doing this. FT is no exception, the new Gold Bug platform roll out was a mess.
Hopefully they have learned and the F-19
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I should have been clearer - apologies to Possum.
My tinfoil hat comment came about because I read the article in the link. The authority cited in the article is Paul Craig Roberts. When I googled a bit to find out who he was and what other opinions he held, I found that he has a lot of opinions that are - to say the least - fringe. Hence the tinfoil hat comment.
Possum's post was
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
No hate for nobody. It may be a fine machine, but the owner is posting stuff that seems to some of us to be verging on spam. How many times does he have to tell is how wonderful it is?
Just my opinion - of course.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Looks like Alan,s detector got some software that we haven't seen. I PM'd him and he told me that the iron tone had been made persistent at a lower volume with raised discrimination.
Visions of things to come?
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Here I thought I was the only one tired of all the "BlissS***".
Seriously guys. If you want to sell your hardware to us - lighten up.
We don't much like being bombarded with propaganda.
In the early 1960’s my grandmother had this huge walnut cabinet Zenith radio which got shortwave broadcasts. I rigged a makeshift kids version of an antenna and started listening to the wo
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Actually, I spite of my trash mouthing something in the above post --
I am reflecting on my time with the V3i. Mot that Whites is up to anything. It's just that if you add enough knobs (or in the case of the V3i, menus items, it opens the possibility of being able to"dial in" settings which can make a cherry kicked target sound better than a less configurable detector over the
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
What? Somebody who plasters the forum with self promoting bombast would do something like make a self-serving demo vid?
I am shocked - shocked to hear that gambling is going on here - oops wrong movie.
Get a grip. Reputable businessmen don't carry on like this.
Only my opinion.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I agree, USPS Money Order. Take a pic of it before you send it, send it certified mail with return receipt. If you eant a bargain, you have to pony up. You want safety, buy from a dealer.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
If you dig far enough back in the technology forum on Find mall you will find discussions about two box PI detectors generally speaking as I recall they were not worth the trouble.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The bolt I used was a "found object". Stuff doesn't rust very fast here. A hundred year old railroad spike (heavily rusted) showed the same general behavior.
The key finding here is that increasing the reactivity reduced the ability to correctly identify the bolt.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Well, I had some help, lizards had some holes in the area and it was a bit less crusty than the usual. I don't think it affected the results however.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The best manual GB system I have ever used is on the Gold Bug 2. There is a two knob stack, with the coarse control surrounding the fine one. The coarse control is click stopped, so if you are more than a bit out of balance, you add or subtract a click or two and then touch it up if necessary with the fine balance.
Nice
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I just tried the test you asked for. I used a three eights by two and half inch bolt somewhat rusty and buried it 8 inches down in my very dry medium mineralized Arizona dirt.
With my 11 inch coil in Deus fast mode I got ID numbers of 97 to 98 - or nothing, with occasional darkening of the horseshoe the upper right-hand or nonferrous corner and a high tone with occasional iron grunts. I did no
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Please - immediately send these guys a couple of thousand dollars - what could go wrong?
Are you kidding?
This is not how serious enterprises behave - just saying.
One of the problems with metal detecting has always been that it's always been about a step and a half away from magic. The fact that a box full of a single circuit board, a rod and an antenna in a plastic disk costs abo
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
This is an old thread I stumbled across about the Deus not signaling when presented with 4 quarters clamped together - went past 99 and went silent.
Looks like that got fixed along the way. My Deus v3.2 reads 97 for the stack of quarters at 18kHz - with both 9" and 11" coils.
Here's the old thread.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
What kind of computer and operating system are you using?
Here's a link to a page full of suggestions. The coolest one was just to copy and paste it in - so here it is £. Try copying it and pasting it in the box on the page at gary's. If that doesn't work, check out the info,on the link.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
My finds are from my own property 3.3 acres of pretty much undisturbed desert except for the minimum disturbance necessary to put up our house. As far as targets, well, Gold Canyon has no more gold than the nearby "superstition Springs" has springs!! except from nails, etc associated with building the house, All I find are endless bits of lead, bullet jacket fragments, shotgun shell b
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
The F-75 is overdue a "step". My bet is that improvements in EMI immunity and something with an iron tone with volume control are the minimum adds.
But who knows.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I was just out playing with my Deus. Just the 9" coil, the WS5 headset. In Deus Fast mode - as it just so happened. All of a sudden - I really got it - all the Blendy, bleedy wonderfulness of it!!!
I have posted several times comparing you to a crack sonar operator, hunting stealthy Nazi U-Boats. I'm not sure my silly humor came across the way it really was meant to.
You have,
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
It will be fascinating to see how it goes once the 3 year warranty periods start expiring. Most of the repairs I read about seem to be board-level replacements, and data from ML's gold detectors seems to indicate that these typically cost many hundreds of dollars when an out of warranty machine is involved.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I really like what I've read about the capabilities of the CTX. But when I track the user forum over on Find mall I find a lot of stuff about problems with this extremely expensive detector. As of the time of this posting I counted on the first page from the forum they were 30 threads not including stickies - of those 30 threads six where about different malfunctions experienced by users. T
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Nice, but I'd need a Quad to carry all that. When it all gets down to the size of an iPad Mini and includes the video and audio feed, GPS and data capture, I'd be interested.
Rick Kempf
Gold Canyon AZ- where there is no gold
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
I'm 67 – as a young guy I flew airplanes in the Air Force – and at various times did a lot of shooting, often – stupidly - without ear protection. My tinnitus and hearing loss are probably no worse than average, which is to say quite noticeable. I need to get myself down to Costco and get a hearing test and probably see about getting fitted with some assists so my wife can stop complainin
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Darn it Keith!
Here I was just getting used to my image of you as the super sonar operator of the metal detecting world and you want to go off and become a radar operator - a "scope dope"!
Wait till XP add an accelerometer to the search head electronics and integrate coil movement data with the electronic signature - "voila!" Pictures of targets.
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Here's a really interesting paper on Gresham's law and monetary theory in general.
The basic idea is that if two coins have the same face value but different metal values, the one with the higher metal value will disappear through hoarding, smelting or export. Some interesting examples are:
In the US, silver coins have all but vanished. The presence of Federal law prohibitin
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
One of the interesting and in fact impressive things about metal detector engineering in United States has been that for very long time now nobody in the business has spent much time badmouthing anybody else in business.
There are incredibly few serious metal detector engineers in the world. If you then limit it to the United States the list gets even smaller and the average age goes much high
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lytle78
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum