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  2. Welcome and glad to have you here! I think we could also learn a lot from you with what you have done and I know if you ever have a question that someone here could help you out. Hope to read some of your stories of hunts that you have and maybe see some pictures of your finds. Good luck and good hunting.
  3. Stop it, your going to make Gerry jealous because your gold has a diamond in it.
  4. Down load a picture of it from the internet and when you see a very large growth o a tree look at the picture. They are either on a tree that is dying or at a dead trees base most of the time. They take on the taste of almost anything that you cook them with. Great on steak, chicken, pork, and even if you put them on burgers. I have made soups out of them and use them all the time. Good luck on finding some and learn how to keep them going.
  5. Prymek... reminds in the video, that you can dig up iron from the field with a detector and thus clean the field of iron,,,,, for better detection of targets .. so ceramics that are still left in the ground because they are not detectable ... can still mask well the targets placed under it... It is an indicator of the possibility of 1 frequency in X terra, and multi-frequency in Equinox 900...
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  7. NO im lucky im married to a nice philipino girl from the region ,and we live in australia and i have wonderd by myself at all the hot spots you are talking about and never had any problems with the locals ,the place your talking about is way in the south thats the no go zone but the rest of mindanao is fine i have been there 4 times and cant wait to get back,i have watched all those gold shows on tv and i reckon some of the places i have seen put them to shame,was escorted by the locals to remote areas ,seams of quartz thru the hills,im no gold expert but have an interest,next time im there i will buy a detector and start to work out how to use it,i have also learnt a bit of there local language,i actually have some pics and videos of my last trip i might post a few of the caves where yamashita markers have been found ,yeah you had to risk your life to get in there.
  8. That's exactly what I talked about when struggling with the D2. I mean, broken stuff, thin open chains and light gold rings must be low on the IDs. Going up with thickness and grams, and I talk about old monsters over 15 g. ,maybe around the 60 should be however acceptable. What's the point to have 99 numbers if almost 30 of them are for iron, ground and some foil, to fall really soon on the coin zone mixed with lead and who knows what more between 70 and 99. Can't wait to set the Manti for some cherry vacuum sessions🏴‍☠️
  9. Some things to take note title. "How not to release a new detector"
  10. If the video is even half correct it sounds like a great detector to me. People doubted Nokta could make a detector to even come close to the Equinox, well they made an Equinox. Garrett have just as much potential to bring something good to market and they didn't buy out Whites for nothing. Really excited to see what they've done.
  11. I have a few CTX batteries that fail to work with new cells, so I’m thinking the protection board is bad. I have two varieties of protection boards purchased from China but how do they interface to the charger/flex circuit. Their diagram just shows a P+ and -. Perhaps you have found a better replacement board for sale? edit: found good info from SUBE on find forum
  12. I wasn't able to get a photo of the fleck but here is the meteorite.
  13. A forum friend and I went out to an area that John B said had meteorites and I found a couple. One is 83.4 grams and the other is 4.6 grams. I've found meteorites for years on John B's property, but these were not on it. Thank you, John. As this meteor was coming in it gained a fushion crust from the heat. It broke up into many pieces and you can see cracks in this one. It was down in the redish soil about 4 inches. I was told other larger meteorites were found in the same area. I've washed this one off and you can see the partial fusion crust illuminated by the flashlight. When this one was cleaned I observed some tiny flecks of gold color which I don't remember on other meteorites. I started that thread first but I'm not able to get a fleck on camera. This was found with my 7000/15CC X-Coil. Other magnetic rocks were found in the area but this is a classic meteorite for the area.
  14. I skimmed through the video, and it looks like I might have gotten it close to right, when I predicted it would have user adjustable SMF weighting from 1 to 100 KHz. Although I kind of question if such a feature would have much tangible benefit, considering current SMF detectors have different weighted SMF modes that seem to suffice. It also looks like it might show a target response graph for particular frequencies. Is that not what the V3i did? If so, could that be helpful in discerning aluminum from gold? I'm guessing not though, because if such a feature could help accomplish that, then it would still be in use today.
  15. Watched the video again to catch some more details. Carbon fiber mid and lower shafts. The coil cable is inside the shafts. IP69 waterproof. 2.65 pounds. More flexible multi frequency choices as in the user has more autonomy over which frequencies are being used simultaneously......I think he was saying that. The wildest part for me is I think he said ground penetrating radar twice with some kind of multi colored graph like a Whites V3i with a different color for each metal. He specifically mentioned iron, gold, copper and silver would each have a different colored graph line........and then he said he didn't see how that would work in Russia since all of the jewelry there is heavily alloyed!!!......GPS satellite capable with SIM card. $1200 version has a coil, wired headphones, wireless headphones (I think he said Koss) and a pinpointer (probably pairs wirelessly). The $870 version is just the detector and coil with no extras. April 5th launch and April 17th goes on sale. Don't shoot me, this is what the video maker said with some room for mistakes by the auto translator and my bad Russian language skills. Basically I can grunt and moan in Russian!
  16. Since it was raining yesterday, last night, and today I was in the house playing around with my Legend and some trash targets along with good ones. Set my tone breaks where I wanted them, the audio volume/pitch/tones that sounded good to my tinnitus ears it really started to break through in my head.. LOL. Had some nasty square nails from past hunts and placed them close to good targets. Messed around with Recovery, Iron Filter, and Stability until I found a nice little place that unmasks just enough to hopefully make me go "hmm" when I can take it out for a hunt. I don't get these days much where work isn't totally consuming me so it was a nice bonding moment for myself and the Legend. The clear loud audio makes up for the rather weak ID numbers. I can see this detector is going to require listening to that audio a lot more than paying attention to that ID #. It's a good strong detector though, that much I can tell. It's set up now where it will absolutely scream on dimes and quarters. I like it's audio a lot better than my Equinox actually because it does not have the flute-like melody to it. The Legend audio is just really clear and strong. Good stuff.
  17. Mint condition ORX with no more than 15 hrs on it. It has spent most of its life sitting in the house instead of out in the field where it belongs. I used it a week ago for less than an hour and that was the first time it's been out in over a year. I had been thinking about selling it but wanted to use it one more time before possibly saying goodbye. It includes the XP ORX Remote Unit, X35 11" Coil, ORX telescoping shaft assembly, WSAudio headphones with new ear muff covers(never used), XP Wired Headphones(never used), Charging cable/clip, Velcro arm strap (never used), new spare coil attachment kit (never used-still in factory bag), Owner's Manual, and original box. Bought new in 2020 but only took it out a few short times due to work schedule. It has been turned on from time to time and a target ran under coil in the house. Holds charge on all items (coil, remote, wireless headphones). Never used in water, only ran with a coil cover the few times it was in the field. Asking $325 shipped for it to US addresses only. Paypal payments. If you're interested you can send me an email to robnc@rwtotaltech.com I've attached pictures taken tonight. I've also left links to them in case the pics don't attach properly. You can see all the pictures by visiting the link below if the embedded pictures do not work properly. https://www.rwtotaltech.com/detecting/2024/ORX/ I'm not looking for trades, but if you have something reasonable feel free to email me. You can also email me "best offers" if desired- I will consider reasonable ones seriously. If you'd like to talk on phone send me an email with contact info, I will be happy to speak with you if that is what it takes to seal the deal. Thanks for your time either way.
  18. I hope you come home with more gold and I really hope I do too. I'll be on the left coast working an oncoming tide around 7am my time. Here's to you finding what was once lost!
  19. You're using the mono too, everyone seems to favour the DD for small gold performance. Well done, always good to see people having success and enjoying their detector.
  20. I took it out for the second time today to do a little day trip. I'm liking the Bogenes program. I can't believe how small some of the bits of rusty iron are. Head of a pin size. I have no doubt the Axiom will find tiny tiny gold running Bogenes. As for today I managed two pickers.
  21. This is from the CTX 3030 manual. Volume Gain Range: 1–30 Factory Preset: 24 Volume Gain controls the amplification of a target’s audio response, relative to the target signal strength. This audio setting is most similar to volume adjustments in other devices (e.g. radio or television volume controls). With a setting of 1 the target signal will not be amplified. Weak target signals will sound quiet, medium target signals will sound mid-range and strong target signals will sound loud. There will be greater differentiation between target signal strengths; however, weak signals will be harder to hear. With a setting of 30, all target signals will be amplified to a loud audio response. At this setting there will be less differentiation between medium and strong signals, but weak target signals will be easier to hear I've put into bold what I think the GPX 6000 has incorporated into its audio, as targets can go from scream to nothing with the smallest amount of depth, especially small targets like pellets and small gold. I believe this is part of what makes people think the 6000 is a magical detector on small gold, by having the faint target signals boosted it appears to be much more powerful on smaller gold than it in fact is which is evident by how quickly the signal falls off. Yes, it's a very good detector on small gold, but some of it is trickery done with software. You just need to use a coil like the 8" on the GPZ and then use the 6000 with the 10x5" coil and experience a number of smaller targets like pellets and gold and you would start to see what I'm saying is very likely correct with the differences in audio responses vs target depth between the two. There is a reason the 6000 goes from a screamer to barely a target at all on a small pellet with only a cm or two of depth difference, in fact a lot of people were confused and talking about disappearing targets with the 6000 recovering these tiny bits, I wonder why that could be? they don't need to move far to go out of range so flattening out the pile is the way to go. Confusing a loud screamer like that can just disappear.... yet when you understand how the audio works it makes more sense. I use the CTX a lot on this "30" setting, so the behaviour was very familiar to me when I started using the GPX.
  22. Your comment about the six going from no signal to a screamer in a short distance is so true. My mate and I were out detecting yesterday and I had this situation arise twice. I went to a shallow rock bar that had produced a few small pieces on previous trips. I decided to move some rocks so that I could get the coil a bit closer to the bedrock. Initially I checked a small area for any evidence of a signal and then a thin piece of shale type material was removed. When the shallow water cleared, I could see the bedrock below and ran the coil through that area. The six screamed. After a bit of fluffing about, a small nugget was retrieved. In another situation, I ran the 10x5 coil over some damp bedrock that had a thin layer of clay sitting on it. It was potentially a good area to trap a piece of gold. When I ran the coil over the clay, the machine didn’t have a break in the threshold but gave that sort of low pitched moan type sound that tells you there is something there that it needed to react to. It was very much like the sound you get when you run over some mildly mineralised ground. As it was in one confined area, a scrape with the pick was in order. About half an inch of clay was removed and the area was detected again. The machine reacted in protest. Again, a small piece of gold ended up in the rattle jar. When working mullock heaps that contain gold, removing material an inch at a time before detecting often pays dividends. This issue is more evident with the smaller coils (which is to be expected). There was a comment earlier about running in normal. It is fantastic if you can and does produce outstanding results. In the area that we are currently working you could run both machines in normal if you wanted to. The only issue would be that running in normal would reduce the life of the detectors…………. Within ten minutes they would be wrapped around a tree and have huge rocks dropped on them from a huge height.
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