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Aaron Wrote:
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> Looks like the site is down for a major reconstruc
> tion.
> Hope they don’t lose my 14yr old profile in the fr
> ay...lol
I have my doubts. Looks like the owner is setting up a completely new forum, with a completely different software. One forum database doesn't usually transfer over to another.
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silverfiend
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okara gold Wrote:
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> That's for sure Dew!... How often do we get angry
> at Alexa or Siri for not having the information we
> want right now? lol
Never. I dont use any of those eves-dropping "assistants"
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lytle78 Wrote:
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> Here’s an old video showing a Deepstar, a GPX5000,
> a TDI and an early prototype of the Manta. Much ti
> me has passed and the Manta’s transformation into
> the AQ has included lots of improvements in sensit
> ivity. Large men’s gold ring - 8 grams. The deepst
> ar is the same circuit as the Aquasta
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I find it slightly disturbing that this unknown company that is supposedly creating this revolutionary detector seems to be sucking in its "testers" as "distributors" and taking their money for the privilege. Now maybe I'm reading things wrong thats the impression I am getting from the more vocal proponents aka "soon to be testers"
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lead time? LOL in the old days before internet you didnt know about a detector until its ads hit the magazines or you saw it on the wall in your local detector shop.
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lytle78 Wrote:
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> Good point SF, but even commercial saturation dive
> rs might want a suitable metal detector. And it wo
> uld seem to me that a 100 foot or even 100 meter d
> epth rating would not be a bad thing - sort of giv
> es some margin.
Making a detector waterproof to those depths isnt that difficult, just e
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silverfiend
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what? 100 meters? Almost nobody dives that deep. It requires lots of money and equipment to get that deep, and your time at depth is extremely limited and requiring long deco hangs. thats the realm of commercial SSA saturation divers.
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silverfiend
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Good question. My thought is that the F2 analyzes the iron component completely differently, so they left the old original version as well.
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IDXMonster Wrote:
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> With this statement you are saying that with a CTX
> you can adjust your FE line up or down(normal bein
> g around 25-27...). Correct? And then with an Equi
> nox 800, adjusting the IB up or down is like adjus
> ting the FE line up or down, such as when running
> Combined, the lower bin c
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Tom, even though we haven't seen the technology leaps forward like in the old days, that doesnt mean there has been no advancement. Even without leaps, we have still taken steps. Using time domain instead of freq shift, simultaneous multi freqs, improved ground mineral analysis and ground/target resolution.
Small steps that a best noticed in some locations and not in others. So yes, a
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> tabman's concern is not so much about..... If the
> new software is good/not-good; but/rather...……. wh
> at folks are calling it. I would have to agree...…
> ………. as some folks are just simply stating: "my se
> tting of F0 produces such-and-such results". We (t
> he reader) are uncert
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IDXMonster Wrote:
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> Jason, you appear to be incredulous at the fact my
> IB is at zero with the EQX. That’s where it’s at,
> works great! Is it going to work “great” for every
> one everywhere? I dunno, I’m not there. But it sur
> e does here!
Incredulous? I'm not sure that means what you think it does, at lea
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IDXMonster Wrote:
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> I didn’t update mine, I don’t use the FE for anyth
> ing now, it’s at 0. All it does for me if it’s set
> at anything other than 0 is cause confusion as to
> if something is falsing or not. If you’re hunting
> odd shaped non-ferrous objects then maybe it’s use
> ful, but it just confuses things fo
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silverfiend
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Unless they have developed their own new secret technology for metal detection, I doubt its going to be any different than every other VLF detector on the market.
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silverfiend
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I would suggest using the largest coil you can reasonably swing for the duration of a hunt. The goal is to find targets by covering ground as fast as possible.
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Tom_in_CA Wrote:
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> There is almost no way on earth that someone is go
> ing to make a detector coil, home-built, that is g
> oing to exceed a manufacturer's coil . Today's
> detectors and coils are super-highly designed, to
> super high standards. And even a 1/10000" inch d
> ifference in length
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Sure, if you know exactly what you are doing, BUT just because its a minelab coil shell doesnt mean that thing is going to work on a minelab!
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Detectorist Wrote:
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> Is the Equinox so complicated that one needs multi
> ple books to understand it?
No, no it isnt
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silverfiend
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Mike Hillis Wrote:
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> It's been a larger learning curve than I expected.
>
> HH
> Mike
Learning to detect or run any detector model is fairly easy. Learning to master it can take years. Everything is a tradeoff and you have to do a ton of testing, swinging and digging to learn! At least its a fun learning proc
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u2robert Wrote:
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> What really laughable is someone who thinks their
> detector
> will miraculously go deeper in the soil than it wi
> ll airtest?
> So will mineralization, target orientation, soil c
> onditions etc..
> give you better depth. I think not.
> If a detector can not detect a target in an airtes
&
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OBN Wrote:
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> Badger in NH Wrote:
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> March 15th In 44 BC, it became notorious as the da
> te of the assassination of Julius Caesar which mad
> e the Ides of March "a turning poin
> t in Roman history."
>
> "AQ" will be "A turning p
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Arkansas Wrote:
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> Could someone explain Ground Balance on a multi fr
> equency minelab....Nox. Noise Cancel ?? Thanks
You really need to google that and spend a few hours reading. The topics have been explained over and over and over ad nauseum.
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