Cal_Cobra

I had and liked the CZ70 quite a bit, it was their answer to the Explorer when it came on the scene and it was my first deep coin detector. I had some conversations with Dave J., and followed his posts, and the CZ seemed to have piqued it's technological limit as an analog technology, even when they tried to design DD coils to work on the CZ platform, they failed to achieve a production ready design (although a few prototypes went out, I remember seeing them on ebay and know a person who has one, and said it actually runs pretty well). I suspect a digital design of the CZ would've been a complete redesign, starting from scratch. I do agree that, IMHO, had Dave been given a CZ 2.0 as a priority project and had the resources required at his disposal, I'm sure it would have come to fruition. With Carl and Dave working there, I'm sure that we'll eventually see something interesting come out of FTP aside from their French PI acquisition that appears to be in the final stages of testing. There were rumors for years of a CZ SMF replacement, even some purported leaked slides of one on the drawing board, but their so tight lipped I could shove coal in their mouth and they'd spit out diamonds. Kind of a pitty to be honest, as I know Dave has hinted to me that their working on cool stuff, but they won't even drop a hint as to what it is. That I don't really understand, I mean, this isn't really top secret stuff, it's metal detecting and if you want to stay relevant in your user base, you should at a minimum give them some clues that your actually doing something innovative, else at some point people move on to someone that's actually making new and innovative detectors. That was my case, had many FTP machines, starting with the Coin$trike, F4, F5, Omega 8000, ID Edge (great little light weight machine BTW), F70 (found my first seated half dime with it), CZ70 Pro (my first deep silver detector), F75 LTD/LTD2 (found lots of great finds with it), and a Euro Tek Pro for the wife,. I could be missing one or two ? Eventually I simply moved on as I found more capable detectors that far outproduced any of the FTP machines in my stable, in my dirt.

Welcome! As others have mentioned, the Equinox 800 is what you should be looking at, it will obsolete those Fishers and has a true threshold based gold prospecting mode. If you check the Detector Prospector forum here, you'll see that the EQ800 has been doing quite well holding it's own, even against many gold machines that are priced higher than the EQ800.

Actually even if this were a discussion about the MX Sport $749 vs the Equinox 600 $649, I'd take the Equinox 600 all day long, there's simply nothing the MX Sport can do the EQ600 cannot, and lots that the EQ600 can do that the MXS cannot.

Perhaps, but it's not uncommon for detectors with 4-AA's to run 30-40 hours on them, their inexpensive batteries, available everywhere, super light so easy to have a spare set in your finds pouch for the field, and there's tons of rechargeable AA battery options.

No interest whatsoever in wireless coils, more points of failures, more potential for EMI injection, and more stuff to charge.

I'd bet a Multi Kruzer with the 5" coil on it could do it.

The irony is that around here half the people I know that are detecting are darn well off, one sold off a storage company to HP years ago (pretty sure he's not hurting), another owns a street sweeper business and lives in Monterey, yep pretty sure he's doing ok, I know several that work in hi-tech, actually pretty much everyone I know that detects either has a good job or is retired. Shows how ignorant the world is I suppose, but that's one reason I don't enjoy hunting around lots of people, it's just not relaxing to me, and god save you if a group of kids starts following you around. Don't get me wrong, I like kids and all that, but geesh it's like having a traveling puppet show - lol

Yeah I have to agree with that. He was on The Travel Channel on Josh Gate's Expedition Unknown looking for Spanish treasure and Gary pulled out an emerald and gold Spanish ring that he said was valued at a half a million dollars. I know for a fact that Gary didn't find that ring, because it's been on other TV programs from years ago on the same subject. So no idea what was going on there. That said, I'd love to have a crack at some of that treasure coast Spanish treasure !!

To be honest, even if given a MX Sport for free, the likely hood that I'd ever use it is about zero. Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's a fine detector in its own right, but already having the EQ800 and Makro Multi Kruzer, it simply brings nothing to the table that these two fine detectors don't already have covered. Sadly I think that's the reality for many, if not all single frequency VLF machines out there at the moment. Come on White's, you can do better, give us an updated V3i in a MX Sport like waterproof lightweight housing and you'll have a BIG hit on your hands.

Ordered my 15" Equinox coil from Gerry, it was $250 shipped to California. Great guy to do business with, and he said he has a few more of these if anyone else is looking for one.

You got it Gerry, please hold one for me and I'll give you a call tomorrow after I get to the office to give you my payment/shipping info. Thanks!

I would think 40kHz would be good in carpet of nails. Come to think of it I should've tried it last weekend, I hunted in multi and it was struggling in heavy iron.

Must be a one man show. He called me this AM when I was in the shower, and then I've called him back twice and always goes to VM. Hopefully we can connect as he should be able to get it here quickly from AZ to CA, if he ever answers his phone - lol

Called them yesterday, no answer. I'll give them a ring later today again, their close to CA so would be quick to ship. Thanks!

Yeah I gotta get one. So it's deeper then the big old 17" CTX coil? If so, that's saying something. Thanks, Cal

Ugh, due to work sucking up most of my time and family holidays I dropped the ball on chasing down one of these coils. I see the ones that were on ebay too, and their all sold out. I'll keep an eye out, who knows, maybe a used one will show up. I'm not sure it's going to be my cup of tea as most of my sites benefit from smaller not larger coils, but I'd still like to have one for the beach and the few sites that might benefit from more coverage.

I prefer Forums to Facebook, their just better organized and easier to find what you're looking for in general. That said, you can actually do a decent search in a FB group, and further refine it with filters, but I agree that it's generally much easier to find stuff on a well run and organized forum, such as this one!

FindMall...or shall we say FeeMall is strictly operated as a for profit venue, highly sensored, to the point that you cannot even mention a vendor that doesn't pay the toll to the Guvnor, or post your youtube video if it has ads. Nothing wrong with controlling everything I suppose, if it's your rodeo you can run it how you see fit, but at some point, the time for the clowns and the acrobats and the dancing bears will pass.

Yawn....someone wake me up when they actually have something new

Hi Marty, I wish I could answer your question, but I have no experience with the Anfibio. Had Nokta sent me one to test, I'd happily put it through it's paces and been able to answer your question. That said, the MMK is by far the best detector I've used for relic hunting in heavy iron, or sea of nail environments (amazing what it can do with the stock coil). What I can tell you is that since using the Red Racer, Racer 2, Impact, and now the MMK, with each progression of detector, they've all been improvements of their predecessors. I'd expect that the Anfibio has some improvements over the MMK, but again without testing one, I couldn't say what. It could simply be that they took the user feedback from the MMK and incorporated that into the Anfibio. Things like the lighted keys, but I see they did not incorporate tactile reverse divots on the keys so one can use the PP and GB buttons without looking at the buttons. This may seem trivial, but it slows you down, and at the end of the day, wasted time hunting for buttons means less finds in your pouch. From preliminary reading the main two improvements that stand out are the lighted keys and the new coils (which also work on the MMK). Wish I had more to share. Cal

Could it be?

Could it be? I've been watching the series, always was interested in it since likely reading the same Readers Digest article they read as kids when I was a kid. I think there was something there, at one time, but now, who knows. I told my wife last night as I was watching it, that it's funny they've spent millions and millions of dollars searching that island since their TV series started, and I've found more valuable stuff in one year, and for barely no investment then they've found their entire career there - LOL

Tried my usual dealers and nothing. If anyone has a lead on one they want to share, or tried one and it's not your cup of tea and want to sell it, please PM me

Got an Amazon link to these, I get nothing when putting in Audio 66 APTX LL BT Pro back headphones ?

I ordered the set shown below. It uses the K1 connector that Kenwood, Baofeng and others use. It's a common connector, but Moto radios use the M1 connector which is slightly different, so check your FRS/GMRS HT radio specs to be sure (I believe they also make them for M1 connectors). BTW the Baofengs are great, because the set I have is a SDR, Software Defined Radio. I have a USB cable from the radio to my PC, and software that can essentially program these radios to use any licensed or non-licensed public band I want. Pretty cool feature IMO. The Plantronics knock-off earpiece will stay put in the box, but the K1 Bt transceiver attaches to compatible 2-way radios of your choice ( Kenwood / Baofeng / TYT / Wouxan, any HT with K1 type Mic/PTT 3.5/2.5mm jacks) . After a bit of trial and error, I was able to pair the K1 compatible Bt transceiver with the Minelab ML80 headphones and my Baofeng. They also include the little PTT button shown at the top right in the photo below, it has a Velcro strap to attach to whatever you want. This is cool, because I can strap it to my EQ800 pistol grip handle right where Minelab should've located the PP button, and simply push the button while detecting to talk. It requires zero additional intervention, no stopping to fiddle with buttons, no wires, and no stopping to get your cell phone out to text, call, etc. At the end of the day, this means I can dig more targets, and more targets dug = more keepers to go into my finds pouch! And for those areas without cell reception, presto you have instant communications. Although I have everything paired up, I've yet to try it in the field. I was using the Baofeng wired ear piece/mic that came with the radios, but they use wires about the diameter of human hair, and a modest snag on a bush, or catch on your shovel handle and it breaks. Even the backups I ordered had the same fate, so I wrote them off. This was the same issue(s) I was encountering with my wired headphones in the past. Although much beefier then the Chinese 2-way radio headsets, I cannot tell you how many times my Sunray Golds, Killer B's, etc., have failed in the field due to the wiring failures, a faulty plug, or whatever. And yes they had lifetime warranty's that the repair guy was great to fix, but I cannot tell you how much it sucks to have your headphones break in the field or at that great demo hunt where everyone's digging seateds and your left trying to dig listening to your detector speaker and lots of ambient noise. Perhaps I'm harder on my headphones than others (although I don't think so), but I think hunting in brush with constant snags simply takes its toll on wires. I love being wireless now, and don't ever see myself going back to wired headphones, ever. My Multi Kruzer and EQ800 are both wireless, and I love it. It just works, no more tangles, no more field failures, they just work when I need them to. Funny side story - I had my Racer 2 at a really good park scrape a few years ago. I had my Sunray Golds, and a backup set of Killer B's with me. The Sunray Golds weren't working so I switched to the Killer B's and wasn't having much better luck. When I got home, I drug out two more sets of wired headphones and tried them, and darned if they weren't working either, so I (incorrectly) concluded that it was the detector that was broken, after all what are the odds that FOUR sets of wired headphones were broken. I then tried all four sets of headphones on my F75, yep, you guessed it, same results, so I guess I won the lottery on headphone failures. It was then and there that I ordered my first set of wireless headphones for my Racer 2, and I've never looked back since ? https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Earpiece-Listed-Walkie-Talkie/dp/B07939RPVK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1541516700&sr=8-3&keywords=walkie+talkie+bluetooth+earpiece+with+mic&dpID=41kDZcKd1oL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch