Steve Herschbach

I don't know. At this point I think all that will make a splash is a genuine performance boost to the point where we can go back to places pounded with the 6000 and 7000 and have some reasonable gold start showing up. If the patch is dead to a 6000 and 7000 with X coils a lighter 7000 is not going to cut it. I bitch about the weight all the time but fact is I can still swing a 7000 all day long. If a GPZ 8000 does not give me a genuine better shot at gold coming out of currently dead ground then I don't need it, no matter what it weighs.

Previous threads about drones.... https://www.detectorprospector.com/tags/drones/

"Minelab Partner Conference Adelaide Australia, May 13th to the 19th 2025" Sounds like a GPZ 8000 introduction to me.

Check with a gem and mineral dealer or see if there are any rock collecting clubs nearby. Some school or university geology teachers can be helpful.

I agree the armrest cuff is on the smaller side compared to others. However the cup is highly flexible - just push your arm into it and force the wings apart. There are no other ones made at this time though I have an idea for how to make the existing one larger that I might try and get back to the forum on later. Strap length though is another issue and if too short you'll have to use something else than the one provided.

Just read the warranty Chuck - it's the exact opposite of what you say and has been since day one. Just like the last poster is telling you. https://tarsacci.com/warranty-policy/ The limited warranty will be considered void/invalid if the product was not properly registered to Tarsacci. This warranty is extended to the purchaser identified in the Product Registration Form (“Purchaser”) and is transferable.

Many Fisher and Nokta models employ 0-99 target id scales. Almost all White's top end detectors from the very first had a 100 point target id range, expanded not long after into 190 points. -95 to 0 ferrous and 0 to 95 non-ferrous. This is an almost exact match for the phase shift reality that underlies most VLF discrimination systems. I liked it then and like it now and fail to see why more numbers rather than fewer is an issue. If the numbers are jumpy it's from too much sensitivity or EMI. You can set audio tone overrides on most machines now to make it a two tone or three tone detector and just ignore the target id if too many numbers is a bother. The CTX 3030 has 1750 possible dual target id combinations and 100 is too many? White's XL Pro target id range White's target id scale XLT MXT DFX V3i etc etc

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I’m just the guy who posted the more complete graphic. Expanded target id range seems self explanatory to me. Whether it’s useful depends on the person and what they are doing. Seems like lots of people complained the Nox 800 range was too limited. Now the question seems to be why did it need to be expanded. Damned if they do and damned if they don’t. I’m not one who has an issue with the original range so maybe somebody who thinks it was too limited will chime in with the specific examples you want. The chart includes a generic example.

OK, good to know. A member tried to PM them and the email notification to steelphase bounced back to me. I guess people want to contact Nenad instead if they have questions on the product. https://phasetechnical.com.au/ https://www.detectorprospector.com/profile/896-phasetech/

Not abandoned but no response..... http://www.steelphase.com.au/ Emails to that domain are also getting bounced.

So were all the new detector rumors really about a bag?

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I'm not arguing otherwise. I just don't think that was the original intent, but something they realized they could do later. There is no doubt in my mind the chips are now being used also as a way to control the aftermarket.

With Minelab it stated as Carl notes with the old X-Terra series and V-FLEX. The whole thing about using chips to keep others from building coils is more a side effect than the original intent, which was to improve performance. The signal is boosted at the source before it can weaken or before extraneous noise can enter via travel up the cable. From the Minelab website (emphasis added): VFLEX uses state of the art digital electronics to enhance standard single frequency detection technology. This has the advantage of providing dependable performance and improved immunity to outside interference. VFLEX technology also has an added advantage that changing the detector’s coil also automatically changes the detector’s operating frequency. This means that an X-TERRA detector can operate at different frequencies allowing the detector to be easily modified to suit different detecting conditions. VFLEX provides increased detecting performance with perfect sine wave transmission, an in-coil signal booster and coil selectable transmit frequencies. VFLEX transforms conventional single frequency metal detection technology by including two microcontrollers (miniature computers), one inside the control box and one inside the coil. Every time the detector starts up, the microcontrollers establish communication via a digital data link. The coil microcontroller communicates the coil’s configuration, size and exact frequency, so the control box can generate a perfectly matched transmit signal. This significantly reduces distortion and increases Target ID accuracy. VFLEX technology generates and transmits a perfect high quality sine wave, using the same technology that is found in high quality digital audio players, and is produced without distortion. The removal of distortion maximizes power transmitted from the coil, therefore increasing detection depth and sensitivity. This also results in enhanced Target ID accuracy and greater immunity to both ground and environmental noise. VLEX employs an In-Coil Signal Booster. Weak target signals are amplified inside the coil, before the receive signal is sent up the coil cable where interference and signal loss can occur. This technique improves immunity to electrical noise by reducing false signals and increasing target signal strength, therefore improving detection depth and sensitivity.

I’ve already said the forum is going nowhere until 2025 at earliest. I’d say that’s pretty generous given close to zero activity for quite some time now. In the event I pull the plug on the forum no threads will be lost, they will simply be moved to another location, most likely the Tesoro, Compass etc forum. It’s not anyone's job other than Dimitar's to try and single handedly keep things going. Ultimately it’s up to him to keep not just this forum but Tarsacci itself alive. If the manufacturer can’t be bothered to promote their own product then there is little reason anyone else should care.

My understanding is like in everything else Garrett has faced intense competition in the security area, their bread and butter. This is therefore good news as keeping strong in the security division can only benefit us also. The only way to do that is with innovative competitive product. Hopefully we see similar action on the coin relic and jewelry side of things!

Per designer Dave Johnson: Posted by: Dave J. Date: September 24, 2015 08:59AM "Cache mode" on most F75 and T2 versions is very similar to "Slow mode" on the F70. The response is slow, with improved sensitivity to large deep targets. However this means that the signals from shallow targets will smear, with a cost in both sensitivity and in ability to discriminate and ID targets. Shallow targets will do better in cache/slow mode if you slow down to a crawl, but the default and boost modes work better for the shallower stuff. And, if you really do want best response on deep stuff, all metals mode goes deeper than disc mode. For finding the deep stuff, an alternative to Cache/Slow mode is to search in Boost mode all metals, then switch to disc when you suspect you're fighting trash. ........Another way to deal with shallower stuff is to search in Cache/Slow mode with the searchcoil lofted several inches above the ground. This will result in a big cut in response to shallow trash, but perhaps more importantly it will achieve a large reduction in ground mineral interference (since ground itself is the shallowest target) and in mineralized ground will usually enable deeper detection than if you were scrubbing the surface in a misguided attempt to "get as close as possible to the deep targets". SUMMARIZING: Cache/Slow mode is basically for locating large deep stuff in areas where there's not so much trash as to defeat the enterprise.”

98% of the time my pick is hanging in my hand at my side or over my shoulder. My pick handles are generally too long for hanging from a belt and in fact often double as a walking stick in rough terrain. I do have a nylon belt loop where a short handle pick might end up on occasion but out of habit I usually forget it is there. Detector in one hand, pick in the other, that’s the way I roll. The only time I normally stow a pick would be for a long hike, and then it’s probably going on my back. https://highplainsprospectors.com/products/high-plains-nylon-belt-tool-pick-holder-or-holster

This I would enjoy. I can live without color, but I’m tired of this deal where every detector now is a cell phone on a stick. I’d ditch them all for something more like the Apex.

Well at $99,999.00 I’ll have to pass. https://metaldetectingstuff.com/products/garrett-storm-metal-detector

The F70 has nearly all the bang of the F75/T2 and was considered an overlooked value by Dave Johnson. He frequented some forums under the name of woof! and here is what he has to say in a post on TreasureNet: "The F70 was the product of a mission-- to come up with a less expensive adaptation of the F75, while incorporating things we had learned meanwhile. Without "dumbing it down". Because the F70 was advertised for a lot less money than the F75, marketing dept. didn't quite dare to say how good the damn thing really was. Some of the secret sauce we put into the F70 eventually made its way into later revisions of the F75 group of machines, as well as into the Teknetics "Fratbros" series and most other new beeps introduced after the F70. As the top of the Fisher lineup, the F75 including its revisions got all the attention. That's how the F70 became a "sleeper". Guys like Mudpuppy will never have to wonder if they should have gotten an F75 instead. This is the same sort of explanation I just posted in "another forum" about the approx. $200 category. If you get a Eurotek Pro, you never have to wonder if you should have gotten something else. Get anything else, and you'll wonder if you should have gotten a Eurotek Pro instead. F70 owners never have to wonder if they should "upgrade" to an F75. (emphasis added)" The model has one of the best true all metal modes ever made, something that has been lost in the new digital models, that are always doing some sort of filtering. Yet has a full time visual target id layered on top of that all metal audio, a killer combination. I look really hard though at that $199 and ask myself the same question - would I really use it? And the answer is no. I do 95% of my detecting with a PI, and if not, it will be a multifrequency of some sort. That's just the reality and so at even at that price it's no deal at all if it just sits in a corner. And that is the long way of saying they have to practically give these things away now to sell them.

Jim Straight always used to say "Silence is Golden". I've blabbed pretty freely over the years but always with an eye to sometimes obscuring locations or in many cases waiting a year or more. I will say though that telling those stories and documenting them like I have is one of the best things I have ever done. Memory fades with time, mine especially, and if I waited too long to tell the tales a lot would have been lost forever.