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Google Maps lets you login on multiple devices. I put in points and pins on my phone and I could see them in real time here on my laptop computer because I was signed in to the same account. (Your points would be 'saved in the cloud' so to speak.) I'm not 100% certain that GE works the same way because I have had one hard drive crash and when I got on GE with the other computer many of my finds were not saved. I'll have to look at a backup and do as Swegin and Steve have suggested. Many people have done it Fred and as long as your old computer is working you won't lose the data. Mitchel

Theft is not good and of a personal item is worse. I just met a guy this afternoon who I was showing my 3030. He said can I hold it and I let him. He told me he had an ATX but I should have GPS. I said I have it and he said NO ... a tag so if it was taken I could track it. He was telling me where to hide it. He has one on his bike, his detector and lots of other things he owns. Maybe I should get tags on all the detectors and ... after I find my cell phone I left at a club meeting on Friday! Mitchel

Wow! Such a sensitive subject. We can't seem to get enough of it for fear we missed something. None of us will get it all but with a good grid pattern and a couple of passes it may be time to go to another patch. The last pass after most of the trash has been removed I'll push the sensitivity up if I'm still getting some pieces. If you wander search a patch it could last for a longer time on all settings. (The search for the missed grid gold!) Mitchel

David, If you go to the top of this forum you will see a search engine. I used it with the following key words: 7000 sensitivity I got 42 results which included some of the very important threads on this forum which deal with your question. A couple of the results will not apply but I think you will find lengthy discussions on sensitivity and volume limits, JP's conservative settings and Steve's super hot settings to name a few. These results will answer questions most of us didn't think of asking. I hope this helps. Mitchel

Well done. We appreciate the update. Mitchel

Chris (the video producer) said: Our two week detecting trip is over, we find two last nuggets and five nuggets in Pahrump NV and one in Lost Basin AZ. It was a lot of swinging going, eight hours a day for two weeks. It was awesome fun and great exercise. And as the way things go, found three the first day and a half and two the last, frustrating days in between. That's prospecting! Mitchel

You caused me to find a quote: Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy A metal detector attempts to find gold by ignoring all that is not gold. That ... like finding truth is very hard to do.

Look at the muddy water in the North Bay and all of the delta!

Fun video.

Fred, I wanted everyone to see the gold. He said he got skunked ... far, far from it! Good job on the edit Squizz. Mitchel

After all of this and more yet to come ... where is the gold going to stop on the Yuba? Where did it stop after 97?

First, try to edit the post. Some will let you edit the title and others won't. Good Luck. Edit: I just looked at one of my posts and sure enough you can edit the title of the post. I'd say: Over Half Ounce of Gold and a Specimen for 2017

Well done. You fooled me with the title. I didn't think I would see any gold let alone a nice slug and pretty specimen. Please edit the title. I don't like to be 'faked out' like that. Mitchel

I have one of these that I don't really use but the concept is solid. http://treasureproducts.com/vibraphone.html It works but it has been made for mounting on a tube when it should be some other type of mount. I used it briefly with my 5000 by using a splitter for the phone jack. (You can also use it instead of headphones but this was going to take a learning curve ... especially on the faint targets!) One had headphones and the other this vibraphone. It does work. It says on the advertising it doesn't work on Minelabs but I had no problem. It sits in my box for further testing one day. Why? Well ... it does convert the target energy into vibrations that can be felt rather than heard. What I discovered was that my sense of vibration was not as sensitive as my sense of sound (even with some frequency gaps). That is my personal choice to abandon use of it but for someone with very limited or no hearing (or if I lost my hearing) I would use this in a minute. When I bought mine I chatted with the manufacturer and I don't really know why it is not a more widely used product. Mitchel PS Check out the other products. I've considered one of the pointers in the past but haven't gotten one.

WTG Dave.

Steve, That is post of the year or maybe decade. It should have a separate thread. Scientific proof like this is rare among 'believers and promoters' of one product vs another. Mitchel

Inspiring!

And that doesn't include ... Very nice to see some of what you have found. Mitchel

I am using some Able Planet headphones that I originally bought for traveling on a plane. I tried them on a couple of my detectors with an adapter and it gave me the volume I needed and they don't hurt my ears. They don't make the model I use any more and they can slip from time to time but I'm hooked. That being said they still don't seem to be as loud as I would like when using them with the 2300. They are very good on my GPX, 3030 and 7000. Mitchel

My Windows 10/Chrome/EeePC can't handle it. It is just black and frozen after the mine and placer names show up. Mitchel

How many New targets are we really finding? To answer this question it is a bit more 'complicated' than just a new coil vs an old coil or a new detector vs an old detector although those are part of the variables. This question now comes to mind when I am using the GPZ 19 on previously worked patches. When I go to the beach and grid a box that is 100x100 with my 3030 I will find targets. If I assume there are 50 targets within that area and I get 20 I might be doing pretty good without knowing for sure the total potential targets and how long I take to hunt it out. I will not find them all ... I will miss some ... and then I'll move on to another pocket ... sometimes. The number I miss depends on my grid pattern, the type of target, if I overlap my swing, soil/salt conditions, discrimination level, shape of target and of course, depth. If I am finding really good targets and I go back over this area I might find 5 more that I missed the first time ... and I still haven't gotten them all. If a friend of mine comes over that same square with his White's Surfmaster Dual Field PI he might find 15 targets. Some of these targets would be new (12) and some missed (3). (Those are just guesses but you get my point.) The point is that the PI will find New targets because it can go deeper and see invisible targets but it is also possible to find missed targets that my 3030 could still see if I went over it. When I use the GPZ 19 looking for meteorites I am primarily looking for missed targets because the targets are so shallow. This includes going to a new area previously undetected because part of the 'miss' is not going to an area because of luck or inadequate research. Now when I am out on a gold patch with the GPZ 19 I am looking for missed targets and New targets. An advantage of the GPZ 19 on the missed targets is that it is a much larger coil. It is also a more advanced, quieter technology. (Missed targets need to be a bit larger because the GPZ 14 will see smaller targets than the GPZ 19.) New targets (those not detectable with the GPZ 14) would be those that are deeper and those 'invisible' to the GPZ 14. My mentors have been going over old patches with new technology for years. Some of what they find is New and some of what they find is missed even to this day. So this is an 'old game' with just a new player (me) hoping to be productive while swinging. I want to find something every trip. Am I going to find more missed targets than New targets? It depends on where I search so I need a mix of new ground and hunted out patches. There is still deep gold! Slow, deliberate and methodical gridding will have to win the New targets (if the patch has depth) and the missed targets will follow. This will mean many skunk days. The old patches aren't being replenished unless it is a wash. Mitchel (added after Chuck's response))

This was the first time I saw the video. We were in Gold Basin at the time. I need a better computer so that I can hear the audio on the video. I heard it at the end. WTG my friend. Mitchel

Now that I have been out with my detector on the beach again I would have to make a different type of support for my coils. I will have to make a U and then glue the U to the coil. There would not be separate ears. Now I need to find some non-metallic material for making the U. Minelab could have done something similar then the ears would not be fixed to the coil. Attach the U in a replaceable way if it ever breaks. Mitchel

I would try to see your volume on the Pro-Sonic before buying the booster. I've seen some here who say they use the booster with a 7000 but I don't know why. But ... I use headphones that have a volume control and noise cancel separate from my detecting electronics. Mitchel

Norvic, Unfortunately we will not be 'rid' of the virus that is heading your way. I think we will still see signs of the infection there and here where most of us are exposed on a regular basis. There is no known vaccine. Mitchel