That's like going from kindergarten sports to the major leagues, you'll love the EQ800. 

Put the time in to learn it, and start off simple (presets) and you'll do great with it. 

Every time I use my EQ800 it amazes me with some new feat it accomplishes that makes me go wow, it's really a solid detector IMO. 

Welcome and HH,
Cal

Great digging!!

What kind of TID numbers are you digging?

Does the gold lock on as a solid TID?

Dug a solid TID 8 at an old site last weekend and it was a small grommet.

That’s an awesome find, congrats!!

There’s a HUGE sports park near my house, I’ve always thought about detecting it strictly looking for jewelry, no idea if it’s uber trashy or not.  I need to test it out one night (it’s so busy I don’t think you could detect it during the daytime). 

It could be a gold mine, or it could be a great place to collect pull tabs lol

57 minutes ago, steveg said:

ABSOLUTELY!

Allow folks to find the proper "wrist" angle, for them specifically, and that would solve a lot of issues IMO.  

Steve

This was an issue I saw from the proto testers for the Makro/Nokta machines, the field testers made suggestions to the company on how they wanted the fixed position handle or S-rod configured,  but it’s simply not a one size fits all solution.

 I’ll give FTP one thing, although they seriously lack in current detector innovation, they do having world class ergonomics.

The main improvement I would like to see on ANY straight shaft detector is that the handle have a bit of adjustment, perhaps 15 degrees forward/back.

Nice job, I like them both! 

That gold ring is a beauty, love the enameled flower design.

Nice job!  It's an easy detector to like IMO. 

Good deal, would pick one up if there was an Aldi's around here.  

Looks good, but I too wonder why people are changing out the rods?

BTW That Makro Racer stand on an Equinox...it may burst into flames at any moment...

On 4/16/2018 at 1:02 PM, scoopjohnb said:

Another first for the Nox 800. A baby's gold bracelet from the wet beach. Still on Beach-1 mode.

Can't read the hallmarks, but the engraved date 01/08/96 is a clue to the gold content and purity :-)

22 years on the wet beach in the older coins strata.

1,8 gram and the nox had me chasing a few smaller targets that fell through the scoop.

I'm really starting to like this machine an awfull lot!

Nice going on the baby gold!! 

Do you recall what the TID# was in Beach1 on the bracelet?
 

Good write-up Steve!  That 1904 might get you some additional permissions.

What search mode were you using?

HH,
Brian

Don't have my EQ800 in front of me, but the first 4-6 digits may be a date code (or born date for the millennials).

Congrats, always exciting to see the yellow stuff pop out of the ground!

A buddy of mine was at the Riverside hunt last weekend, and killed it with his EQ800 at the hunt (his CTX is going up for sale).

There happened to be, for the first time, a Minelab booth at the hunt.  He was talking to the ML rep and asked them when the heck was the 6" coil going to be available.  The rep said I'm not sure, but give me your info (phone#) and I'll find out.  15 minutes later, she tracked him down at the hunt, and said that she could have him the coil in 3 weeks, and it would be $179!

Don't take this as gospel, but it was straight from a ML rep over the weekend.

$179 will be the most I've ever paid for a coil that size, but it's better then some of the numbers I've seen being thrown around comparing prices to the CTX coils. 

That paid for a chunk of the EQ800, congrats!

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Cal - absolutely hit that site hard, especially with the Equinox.  With that many buttons and other evidence of a prolonged CW era military presence, there are bound to be plates and other goodies lurking, you are just going to have to continue to be persistent.  They are there, believe me.  Over here, CW period coins at encampment sites are really hard to come by.  I have found a grand total of...2, an IHP 1864 fatty and the Seated.  In the big digs back here, Seateds are found but rare, more often it is IHPs, Flying Eagle cents and trimes.  Though the occasional cache of gold coins is found that someone forgot about or was unable to return to claim because they became a casualty of war.  I'm reminded of the quote by Col. Bat Guano when being asked for 55 cents by Group Captain Mandrake so that he can call the President about General Jack Ripper's nuclear strike on the Soviets (in the movie "Dr. Strangelove...") - "Well you don't think I would go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?" 

That's funny (but likely true).  I need to watch that movie one of these days.

It's a fun place to detect.  I really enjoy digging buttons.  When my hunt buddy and I go there, that's kind of how we gauge who was the most successful that hunt, by who has the most eagle buttons - lol     The seated half I dug was an 1859-S, and Tom got a 1864-S (might be off on his date).  Oh we do seem to find clad on each hunt

I've amassed a nice assortment of buttons (no southern ones of course), a complete Hardy hat pin, dozens of colt pistol drops, scores of three ringers (almost get tired of digging those, almost), and other related relics.  There has to be a belt plate or breast plate there I would think (heck even a bit boss).   There's a guy that digs a union army camp up in Oregon, he's published a few articles in the W&E, and he finds and digs out their old trash pits (sifts them), and that's how he's found a few plates, as well as some bottles and other great civil war era relics.  I keep telling my buddy we need to get a bottle probe and see if we couldn't also do that, I'd imagine some of the 1860's bottles, would likely be from San Francisco, and could be good ones, but I'm not that knowledgeable about bottles.

A civil war era belt plate (a breast plate would work too!) has been on my bucket list for a while, but their not easy to find on the west coast.  A buddy and I have a civil war era union army camp that we've discovered, we've likely pulled a couple of hundred eagle buttons, and many other related relics, and a couple of coins (seated half, seated half dime, it's been ultra stingy on coins!).  Always figured it would be a good candidate for a gold coin, but given how stingy it's been on silver coins, I don't know.   I've been dying to take the EQ800 there, because it has very funky mineralized soil (alkali) that severely handicaps my VLF machines, I suspect the EQ800 is going to lit the place up like Christmas!

Congrats again, that's a bucket lister for most of us I'm sure

Incredible find, BIG CONGRATS !!! 

22 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Well it is wireless in the sense that you are untethered from the detector and that is convenient because it lets you move around and use both hands on the shovel if need be (because you can set the detector down) and saves on wear and tear on both the detector jack and the headphone cable/plug stress points if you have to move away from the detector without constantly having to take your headphones on and off.  Not a necessity, but I have found the both the BT and WM08 wireless solutions to be very convenient in this regard and allows for a variety of headphone types (stock BT and weather resistant wired) phones to be used untetheted depending on the circumstances.  I have even extended the APTX LL tech to my GPX by plugging in a tiny $20 APTX LL transmitter into the headphone jack and now I can use the supplied ML BT headphones with either detector.   I am "all in" on the wireless.

Sure wireless, now your tethered to the headphones and WM08 module 

Nice job, makes me want to detect the beaches up in NorCal!

14 hours ago, phrunt said:

I bought some of these for my wife, they seem better than the Minelab ones, but I suspect they're the same manufacturer as they have the exact same storage pouch, these link is direct from the Chinese manufacturer.

https://goo.gl/RjBhhh

Amazon Link

So I suspect MPOW is the manufacturer for Minelab's headphones.  They also go for about 30 hours without a charge and take 2 hours to charge.

 

These may actually be better then the ML80's.  The button layout is much better (can easily feel the power button due to it being the first button instead in the center of the low profile buttons that all feel the same) and it is APTX LL. 

For $50 I'm tempted to buy a set, and put the ML80's away as backups.

IMO White's dropped the ball by not modernizing the V3i and instead focusing on yet another VLF detector.  In the right hands it's a fantastic detector, and in many ways, way ahead of it's time - wireless headphones built-in, color analytics screen, selectable single or simultaneous multi-frequency.  

Maybe I should try my WM08 module while I still have wired headphones to see if I can tell any difference.  I personally love the wireless ability and convenience, but IF the sound is better in such a way that it would aid you in getting more keepers, deeper targets, or digging less trash, then maybe there's something to it.  To be honest though, I'd just assume plug the wired headphones into the detector then mess with a wireless box, that really doesn't give you a wireless solution.

Nice going on the gold and silver!

You noted the settings used, but what search mode?   How deep? Were you detecting a tot-lot?

HH,
Cal

Nice digs there TNSS!!

I was in Park2, stock settings otherwise when I got my deep old coins, but I wish I'd at least checked some of the signals in Park1 or heck even Field1/2 just to see how the search modes differed.  

Next time....

Hoping to get out this weekend to a (potentially) really good relic site.