Steve Herschbach

Incredible two part find - congratulations! And good on you to be looking for the owner.

I guess I should have waited to get mine, but great for everyone going forward. The old cap should be eliminated on all versions.

I don’t understand Polish and no captioning.... anyone know anything about the battery door in this video? One thing I’d like to see on the MDT is a more robust battery door, which currently has a short run of fine threads, barely enough to get a few turns. This alternative seen in the video is more like it - coarse metal threads and more of them, and a double o ring seal. Is this an aftermarket mod, or a recent change of design?

I did not choose anything. I simply apply updates when they become available, and in this case the default was probably for BBCode to go away, but I am fine with that. Staying with obsolete stuff like BBCode may be easier for a few, but it will lead to increasing problems as time goes by. A forum owner has two choices. Lock in the software and fall back in time, ending up like some forums now that have serious issues. Or move forward with the times. "BBCode is a legacy markup language that was originally designed to allow users to submit rich content prior to the advancement of WYSIWYG editors. BBCode support is deprecated and may be removed in a future release, and we recommend leaving this option disabled for greater performance and reliability if your community does not rely on BBCode parsing to format posts." It is true now that I looked into it that the editor button options changed from where I had them, and it appears some people have access to the old version, and some the newer version. I just jiggered the toolbars. There are three sizes I can set. The toolbar options are limited by space, and so there are small, medium, and large versions. Here are the current versions just set. I try to use the most common buttons, and things like superscripts are not used often enough for dedicated buttons on the smaller versions. The catch all is the source code buttons. The <> button opens a dialog that lets you add code snippets. The <>Source button puts the editor in full html mode. Modify the code, then press the button again to toggle back to view mode. The <>Source button was custom, and got lost on the last update. I added it back to a couple versions. Hopefully this helps. People still may have different versions until in caches until they clear.

Not only an amazing find, but filmed during a pretty serious earthquake by the looks of it!

The nice thing about belief is it is impervious to facts. No matter how many times it is explained that there is no transmitter sending magic signals to Minelab, people still think its true. Something that would be so easy to verify with a scope has somehow remained deeply hidden. Even the FCC testing missed it. But you know Minelab, they are so advanced they probably figured out a way to transmit a signal that lies completely outside the known electromagnetic spectrum. Probably something they stole from LRL. The fun part is that if Minelab were this evil, then the system would be transmitting secrets even when you think you have deactivated it. That's even better. People think they are safe when they have turned the system off, but it stays on at all times. The coil can also read credit card chip info if you have any nearby, so they transmit that also. There, some new conspiracy stuff to chew on! Be afraid, be very afraid!!

Welcome to the forum! I have long been intrigued by ground penetrating radar for prospecting. They are generally useless for finding individual gold nuggets unfortunately, as these items are too small to stand out on a GPR screen. My interest was in Alaska where stream channels are buried and hidden deep below tundra and organic materials. GPR is good at picking up dramatic changes, and in this case the goal would be to simply trace and map buried channels. Depth to bedrock and in particular looking for drop offs or bends in the channel that might be a good drilling or pit excavation sample sites. A few links.... http://www.groundradar.com/wp-content/uploads/J.Francke_FirstBreak_July09.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27667687_Application_of_ground_penetrating_radar_in_placer_mineral_exploration_for_mapping_subsurface_sand_layers_A_case_study https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020E3SWC.19204005F/abstract

Metal detecting has a lot of jargon that makes little sense to beginners. I’ve thought about starting a list on this website, but the fact is it’s been done in quite a few places already. While I still might put one together myself, for now here is a link that can give you all the definitions anyone might need. Metal Detector Terms & Definitions via Google Tesoro put out a great catalog in 2010 that included a lot of extra information, including a glossary starting on page 58. You can download it for free here.

Sorry I missed your post earlier. This forum always runs the latest version of Invision. That means we are currently on 4.5.4. You can see the latest version changes at https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/ BBCode is obsolete and being phased out. It seems like you are fighting the system, which has been moving away from BBCode in favor of direct editing. If you want bold, highlight the item and use the controls on your device keyboard (the bold key, etc.) that make things bold. This requires your device to have to appropriate keyboard options. The editor box also has built in controls, but they vary by device. The bigger the screen, the more controls that will appear. As you discovered, just paste the link... it’s live. Or format elsewhere, like in Word, and just paste it in. Best bet is to just use plain text. Here is what I see on my small iPad. There are editing functions up top. My secret weapon in the Source Code button in upper left on most menus. This flips the editor to direct html mode where you can edit the source code directly. Use html, not BBCode. CKEditor is a WYSIWYG html editor, very similar to basic rich text format editing Again, different devices will have different menus, and in general, the larger screen sizes offer the most editing functions directly in the menu. I’ve been planning an expanded help section with editing tips. Looks like time to get to work on that. One last note. Some people try to get fancy with real large text, crazy colors, and lots of added space. Please consider what the threads look like on a small cell phone screen. What looks good on a PC screen can be horrible on the small screen. Very often I will edit posts of that sort back to plain text. Just saying, simple is best.

True story. I was a Equinox tester, and on seeing the Equinox make finds my CTX was missing, I sold the CTX and have never looked back. I tried to get the word out, but was kind of shocked when I came under attack from CTX owners and others. I ended up leaving other forums over it all. Anyway, I have to say over the last few years it has been gratifying to see all but a few holdouts come to recognize what I saw four years ago.

Just a FYI..... people love seeing finds posted, and almost nobody would ever think of it as bragging. You are doing your fellow detectorists a favor. We all get in a slump sometimes, and seeing others are making finds often provides inspiration. "If they can do it, I can do it." And a little friendly competition never hurts. Long story short - thank you to one and all who take the time and effort to post finds and the stories that go with them!

Why is it that people who are not posting finds ask why people are not posting finds?

There are several threads on these forums on the subject - here is the latest The main thing I'd like to see is the machine being well and truly waterproof while still keeping the total weight under 4 lbs

Besides the Fisher Impulse Gold, the other detectors on my radar have been the Nokta/Makro PI, and what we now know is going to be called the Minelab GPX 6000. I set this up as an under 4 lb, under 2K challenge, but anything under 5 lbs and under $3000 will suit. I refuse to get any detector that weighs over 5 lbs and while I'd protest, I have to admit to being more flexible when it comes to price. I'm guessing the Impulse Gold is going to come in at under 5 lbs and under $3000 and so it is the machine to beat for me right now. The Nokta/Makro PI is nothing more than a longstanding rumor, and we have no idea if it is a beach detector or a gold prospecting machine or anything at all really. I suspect a multifrequency model has priority right now, so I'm pretty doubtful of anything PI from Nokta/Makro anytime soon. That leaves the GPX 6000. I can only hope the weight comes in under 5 lbs (the GPX 5000 weighs 5.3 lbs without the battery) but it looks like a poor bet that the machine will come in at under $3000 since it is being positioned above the SDC 2300 in the lineup. With the SDC 2300 currently sitting at $3299 and GPX 5000 at $3999 it's not looking too good for the GPX 6000 bringing the price down in a significant way. I'm guessing it comes in around $4999. Though a good Fisher Impulse Gold might put pressure on Minelab as far as the price if the Fisher comes in low enough. We will see, but for me personally it is turning into a horse race between the Fisher Impulse Gold and Minelab GPX 6000 in 2021. Which will come closest to meeting the challenge..... and how will they compare for features and performance? If an Impulse Gold at $2900 has 90% of the performance of a GPX 6000 at $4900 and the ergonomics were identical, would I pay the extra $2000 to get that 10%? Knowing me and a lot of others, that is probably going to be the case. We may not be happy about it, but high up front cost is not as important if a person is producing gold regularly. The performance edge makes up the price difference in the long run. There will be more to it than performance however. Things like the coil selection will be a huge factor. This challenge started in May 2017. Maybe after four years we will see this segment heat up in 2021. I hope so, as the gap left in my detector lineup that was left when the GPZ 7000 went away needs to be filled.

Looks like two detectors to me now, the MF5, and the GPX 6000. And with the MF5 already pulling a sneak release, it's really just the GPX 6000 we are waiting on. I sure was hoping for an Equinox 1000 or whatever replaces the CTX 3030, but looks like my Equinox 800 will have to hold out for a while longer.