Skate

printed mine today. I then spent 3 hours on the beach with my excal wishing I had a detector with discrimination so I could reliably hunt the dry sand since all I got in the wet sand was aluminum balls and 2 zinc pennies. Truly depressing.

I'm sure it will. They said the end of January and at the end of January they said they're here and ready to be shipped. They also mentioned the issue of allocation per dealer in their memo so by this time tomorrow I suspect we will all know "when" and not "if."

I have a long history of trying to be smarter than the directions. As a former detector of the week user I tweaked and tweaked settings on every hunt, during the hunt and while I got good with my etrac, CTX, V3i, I never committed to it. Finally with my Deus I went to Andy's bootcamp, put in his settings and I haven't looked back. I just turn it on and go and my finds have never been better. The Equinox will be the same. Listen, learn and leave alone.

outstanding!

That's a picture suitable for framing. No site is ever hunted out.

It'll be great when the NDA's that Steve and other testers had to sign expire so they can begin to share more specific things related to the detector. Great times ahead.

Minelab is going to publish a product notice on Friday according to the memo. After reading it again it simply states they are ready to ship so that means to me they're off the boat. The emailer (from Minelab) states that as soon as the allocation numbers are confirmed, and tracking info(meaning shipped to dealer #'s) she will be directly contacting each dealer with their allocation number(how many they're getting). It also says as new shipments arrive they will be contacting the dealers about how many they're getting. So, the wait is really over and we now know that within a reasonable time if you're high enough on your dealers list you're going to have an equinox. Now that we know this, the next thing to complain about is how many your dealer got in the first allocation and if he/she got 3 and you're number 4 then there will be that to deal with. Even though I want mine ASAP i'm excited now because the learning of the Equinox is going to start, even if it doesn't start with me.

My dealer just sent me the notice from Minelab. I’m at school so I can’t post the letter but the wait is just about over.

Tomorrow is payday! Sorry but I need that first and then I can worry about the Equinox. That being said I sure hope someone gets an equinox tomorrow because that will mean mine is coming soon. I hope it's one of you all.

Geez I'm away for 8 hours at school (our school server blocks this site smh) and I read Steve is taking a step back! I completely get it and I've got to say you are one of the most patient and smart detecting/detector expert I've had the pleasure to come across. You're always polite, quick to provide help or where to go get it and on top of that you're the king of the Equinox! It's on us to make sure this place doesn't become the trash heap that so many other MD forums are or becoming. It's so easy with forums for people to misconstrue what you say or is said because unlike normal conversation people can't hear you speak as you type so sometimes meaning gets misplaced. Steve you've really got a great thing going here and I really appreciate being able to come here everyday and learn something new. Thanks again for all you do. Skate

That's a nice haul and 3 rings out of 7 trips puts you on a nice pace for the year.

It's about poking fun really at ourselves or myself. Over on FM they have people threatening to leave Minelab (as if you could) and buy other machines. My wife is always making fun of me because when we walk together my eyes are on the ground and she's looking up enjoying the scenery. My daughter says my garrett pouch is just my desire to bring back my fanny pack from the 80's. I was detecting at a nursery last Friday and one of the workers called his boss and said a stranger is out in the fields checking for radiation. Another thought I was looking for oil. I guess I should be upset because I'm a detectorist right? I showed a friend of mine who doesn't detect the video to get his response and he said he looked like a guy in hazmat suit. You, we, I don't have to take offense to everything we see or hear. By the way I'm super excited it's getting to be the end of January but not because of the Equinox. I'm excited because we public school teachers get paid only once a month for 10 months out of the year and january is a freaking long month and I'm addicted to groceries as is my lovely wife.

My main hope for the Equinox is for more gold rings in parks and at the beach. I won't turn down a silver signal (or a clad quarter) but 2018 is the year of the gold ring for me.

It’s great your son is interested in detecting. My son is 20 and he just doesn’t quite see yet the thrill of detecting that his dad does. I used to love watching Oak Island as I’m still that little kid who wishes I could find buried treasure but we switched to PlayStation Vue and they don’t carry History channel so I’ve yet to see an episode this season. If I was Marty and his brother I’d just close the island down and spend every day Detecting. I bet when Gary Dayton gets the Equinox out there he will solve the mystery. ?

My post wasn't meant in a derogatory way but rather just an observation. I'm not the serious type I guess. I teach middle school kids and have for 27 straight years so I look at life and people a little differently than most. As for the video, what does it really show? It's not a test. There's no data to compare it to anything else. Compare it to what Steve provides when he discusses detectors/detecting. It's just a guy in a wetsuit on the beach with a detector.

He looks like the Michelin man dressed in black. I do like kangaroo pouch in the front for finds.

A ships spike? In the Dominican? Could it connected to the money pit? Sorry I just couldn't help myself as i remembered the episode on oak Island where Gary Drayton found the spike in the swamp. That must have rang off the charts given it's size. I would say that it is of more recent vintage given how sharp the lines are on it's edges. I hope he brings in some great stuff gold in color. Too bad you're not there to help him! Skate

Yep, I wake up each day with the hope that the UPS driver has me on his list. I've bypassed Santa and his list and I'll just settle for a guy named Larry. End January now!

well played my friend

Ha Ha I agree it'll be hard to know exactly but I thought it might help pass the time away while we wait. I think its amazing how involved and in depth folks are going on when it'll arrive. I've learned more about shipping containers and cost, the size of UPS and FEDEX airplanes than i ever thought possible. No matter what it seems it's still on a slow boat from China.

The story of when the Equinox is coming to a home near you (or mine) is likely only rivaled by the ongoing saga of where's the 5 months of texts the FBI lost, DACA or OCRAPPA(what happened when I lost my glasses). I've read now that the issue is going to be the length of time it takes for the container ships to go from Malaysia, the software, drop shipping, and the port of entry (will they be shipped to the US directly or indirectly like Malaysia to Australia to the US.) So I thought why not have a little contest to see who can correctly predict when the first folks will be getting their Nox's in the US. My prediction is Friday February 16th at 3pm EST. The first YT video will be out at 3:30 that day showing someone unboxing the Equinox(why does anyone think that people want to watch them open their mail is beyond me). I will be taking the day off from school so I can stalk the postman.

I just don't get the anger. You would think an outsider would look at some of the responses on these forums and think we were talking about life and death issues. How dare minelab say that the EQ will obsolete all other VLF detectors! We must go to war with Minelab now to show them that in this day and age all detectors are equal regardless of where the detector came from and it's background. We must realize that whether the detector came on a container ship or in the back of someones trunk they are all the same. Everything has to be an argument nowadays.

That's awesome you get to hunt in your own yard. I live in a subdivision that is built on fill dirt on my spacious 6000 square foot lot. There is nothing of value in my dirt unless I lost it there. I've been cleaning out an old park near me once a week for the past month or so and will continue to do so (using my Deus) as I'm curious to see how the Nox will do. I'm digging every signal except for iron so I can see what I've missed when the Nox hits it. I can't wait, I feel like a kid at Christmas time just waiting.

I would be ecstatic if every 18 months a newer, better, more capable machine was introduced by Minelab or any other company. If it could get me more treasure, more rings, more old silver coins, neater relics then I'm all over it even if I have to spend $800-$1000 every 18 months to do it. I am the farthest thing from being brand loyal. I just don't get the angst and worry associated with an item costing $800. Some people are unhinged that ML would intro the EQ while still calling the CTX their top model. Why should they care? If the Nox allows you to swing 8 hours a day it's better than the 4-5 hours the CTX gets most folks due to the weight. I'm excited the nox is coming and I hope that really soon something even better comes out because it will benefit me doing what I love to do, which is detecting. If I could only detect a few times a year I think I'd find another hobby or just own an ACE 250 and call it a day.

I misread it but still, 4 rings in a week is still killing it and something to be proud of. I've found 3 rings total so far this year including my titanium yesterday and one 14k earring. I'm just trying to keep up with you Mitchel.