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Mark Gillespie

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    Detecting, bird watching, playing guitar
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    Early (1980's) Bounty hunters, Tesoro Vaquero, Tejon, Garrett Ace 250, AT Pro, Minelab Explorer, Etrac, Fisher Gold Bug, F75 LTD, F19, TDI SL, V3i, XP Deus, Eurotek Pro, Equinox 800, Tarsacci

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  1. They will fix the discrimination algorithms if they feel it needs to be adjusted. I found a bug on the Eurotek Pro during the pre-release stage that was almost identical to the Deus. I kind of liked how it worked but 1st Texas made adjustments prior to production.
  2. I will bet that XP makes adjustments to this feature in the next update.
  3. I use it to analyze how bad the ground is at a location. By what I've seen the F75 and the D2 mineral analysis are the same. Fantastic tool
  4. I recently had a guy that was involved with the detector since it was first released tell me the coil was most likely at fault on the unit that was loaned to me. Mine was basically shut down anywhere close to power lines. This left the detector unusable at the sites I had high hopes for. Had to return the detector to the owner.
  5. All the signal frequencies chosen could detect the target on the Manticore. Some better than others but all detected the target. Switching to Multi-frequency and silence. All possible settings were tried to change the outcome. We're still in the process to gain both understanding and solution to the issues.
  6. Yes, boost was enabled. I really love the boost mode.
  7. Recently had a very puzzling yet intriguing ground target while just fulling around, listening to the ground. Before I go on I must state I traded my Equinox 800 in for a new Deus 2 detector, several weeks ago. I had used the Equinox for over 6 years and it was kind of time to trade up. Well anyway, I came across a very nice text book audio, repeatable, sweet sounding high tone, very faint, I knew it had to be something good perhaps a dime or penny and deep sounding. Decided to play around with the different programs on the Deus to see which would give the best audio and most stable ID. All the programs would get the target with varying audio responses and fairly consistent ID. Now I must admit I hunt with the coil just lightly scrubbing the ground. Experimented with the typical settings, sensitivity, reactivity, sweep speed etc. During all this I inadvertently must have slight raised to coil off the ground and the detector automatically went from a nice high tone to a low iron tone. Continued to sweep over the target, lowering to scrub the ground and the high tone with the ID returned, raised the coil and the iron tone and ID returned. Experimented for over 15 minuted and never found a setting or program that didn't exhibit the same behavior when raising the coil only slightly. To end this story the target was an 8" dime and by what I could tell laying perfectly flat. Now turn the clock back a couple months, the same type of occurrence happened to both Fred (the only living hunting buddy I presently have) and I. We were hunting an old plantation comparing signals before digging having a fantastic day and Fred called me over to check a target before he dug. That day he was using the Manticore and I the Equinox, if he raised the coil only slightly the Manticore would go silent with only an occasional high/low tone but no ID. I tried the Equinox and basically got the same results. Puzzling, intriguing. Well anyway he dug and recovered a horse bridle relic. Now this leads me back to yet another story where I was hunting with the F75 and the 5" coil. Located a nice repeatable tone and called Fred over with the Manticore and he got nothing, only silence, no audio or ID. He tried every possible setting with no positive results. Finally he switched to single frequency mode and the target came alive. Still not satisfied, he experimented for quite some time yet never found a setting or combination of setting while in the Multi-Frequency mode that would indicate a target that the F75 had found. Adding to this the Equinox exhibited the same type behavior. Just thought I'd share some of our experiences.
  8. Went to the same site yesterday and I have an updated on some of the targets mention in the original post. Fred brought his Manticore and tried the single frequency options on the targets mentioned (I no longer have the Equinox so I couldn't try single frequency options). The Manticore could acquire a very good audio on any of the single frequency options (better on the lower than high frequencies). But switching to the multi frequency option and the target was gone. Spent quite a bit of time experimenting with the different frequencies, and I came to a conclusion there must be different algorithms used between the single and multi frequency options for the target to vanish. We both hunted with new, recently acquired Deus II and the results were not only surprising but absolutely amazing. We found 2 V nickels, numerous pennies which included a 1919 and may relics not detected with either the Equinox or Manticore. One of the V nickels was a 1897, just amazing from only a 10x10' area. Fred bought is Deus with the 11 DD coil and my came with the 9" DD coil. At this site the Deus will be the ticket along with the F75 and the 5" coil for the super trash.
  9. Is it possible to get wireless headphones, other than the Deus ones, to link to the Deus 2?
  10. I truly believe the 6" coil and equinox would have give the same results as the 5" DD coil on the F75. I had a guy send me his 6" coil for my Equinox a couple years ago to try but opted to get the 10x5 instead. The 10x5 just sees too much ground at a given moment at this site.
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