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Good job Compass. You took advantage of the energy. Nice little T&Co. I went out today and got one little silver ring. I was out two days ago and tried the 3 beaches thing and didn't get any jewelry. Today I was the only one on this beach working a little cut. Then two guys showed up at low tide and saw one down in the wet. We waved and he walked less than half a lifeguard station away and got in front of me on my cut! That makes me mad as a hornet. Give me more room that that! Well, he forced me to change direction and that is when I found the silver. I wish I would have had your big cut beach for a few more targets.

Jasong, This is the stuff I thought might be on the chips in the Equinox and it could be on the 6000 if they wanted it but then what would they do for the next generation detectors? Maybe Geo Sense is a marketing name for an algorithm!

Data points can be in any form. They can be sound, light, magnetic, etc. If you already have a sensitive collector of data this algorithm will make it see better. Now you have to bring these ideas into market perspective. When would Minelab obsolete all of its detectors in favor of a technology this powerful? Not any time soon and by that time many of our nugget patches will be nearly barren but that makes it easier to find a few targets rather than a few targets in a lot of trash. Everyone can imagine ... Steve is right. It takes innovation a while to be incorporated. Many of us here grew up watching the 'Space Race' and were told that we would benefit from all the money spent. We have. Chet has probably seen much more than the rest of us and he can't tell ... even after he has been retired.

Is this the future of detecting? I think so. Take a set of data points and process them (just as we do with our brains) and voila! It doesn't have to be magic when you have good science to make it repeatable. Watch out missed nuggets! Currently, a type of software based on a machine-learning algorithm called deep learning has been shown to be effective at removing the blurriness or noise in images. These algorithms can be visualized as consisting of many interconnected layers or processing steps that take in a low-resolution input image and generate a high-resolution output image. https://scienceblog.com/520757/smart-algorithm-cleans-up-images-by-searching-for-clues-buried-in-noise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+(ScienceBlog.com)

They weren't holes but you could tell they had been dug and the wind and sand were covering them. I use the dig marks/holes to let me know there could be a patch around if I grid it. Clues come in many ways!

That will warm the toes. This time of year you should be warming your toes in a Mexican resort! WTG!

I have one of those stabilizers on my 5000 now. There were several different types offered.

You guys didn't leave me anything except dig marks! haha The wind was filling the holes. I could have done better with my eyes on the dry sand. 🙃

I would say Jasong would have some ideas for you. He understands audio and amplification very well.

Minelab and Debbie have been down this road before. R&D does their thing and marketing does another. Things are ready when they are ready and pre-release info doesn't really help either department in the long run. Naturally they want to have a ready and willing buyer base by the time of release but marketing needs a distribution force in place otherwise they will just start selling direct via the internet and we'll see how well that works in the nugget world.

Maybe you asked too direct of a question! Do not tell until released is in effect. JP just confirmed that also. It is a well kept secret and marketing strategy to even get this far.

When you know Debbie she lets you know in subtle ways what she can about the new products coming up. They do not keep her out of the loop. She confirmed rumors for me months ago (last spring) that I heard here.

Was the 'rep' Debbie?

You have lots of 'raw material' in Wyoming. The Native Americans from your area became great traders as a result and if they traded finished work they could be known for their quality. Now you are known for your quality also. Thanks for showing it. How long did it take?

I agree. I could hear the style while it was still in the ground.

I took my son down to a beach between rain showers today. When we got there I saw the beach was favorable for a hunt so when I took him home I turned around and went back. Well, not exactly. I went back and I forgot my scoop and rain coat so I had to go back again! There weren't a lot of targets but I did get a couple of quarters and some indicators but I couldn't really find a pattern/line. I knew I didn't have much time and I was a bit impatient with my 800/15 so I stepped up the pace and said I only want 'good' targets on my way to a beach area that has given me good success in the past. Before I could get there I heard this scratchy 8-9 but it was not solid like a good ring. After a couple of scoops I could see color in the side of the hole. That is not a normal thing for me. I wish I had taken a picture but I just scooped it and looked in the bottom. It was a great color, not as heavy as I would have liked and it reminded me of a cheap ring style. But that color had me hopeful for something real. The rain was coming so I had to turn back. I had gotten in 1.5 hours. When I got to the car I could see 18 C. When I got home I looked up 18 C and it said it could be the same as 18K or 18 ct if the ring was made in a country where English was not the spoken language. It cleaned up pretty nice with my ultra sonic cleaner. It weighs 4.6 grams and is only missing 1 of the stone inclusions. They are faceted but many are very cracked and chipped up so I don't know what they are made of but the ring itself catches light well and sparkles. This was the rainbow on the way home! This was the way it looked before I cleaned it up.

This is quite a video ...

I've been out since then on a couple of different beaches and found 1 penny on one beach and less than that on another beach so yes the big wave sets are too far apart and the trough that is there because of the mixed tides are not kicking anything up for me.

Last year I went to a meeting where Chris was speaking. I wanted to buy a book for Adam. Chris told me the shipping would be much more than the book. He didn't want to sell me one on that basis. I do think that he was doing some sort of update but we'll have to wait and see if he responds here. Mitchel

It is not often you hear a target on a wave breaking beach and you look down and you see a ring but that is what happened today. I was working one of my normal beaches but today the wind was blowing offshore and the tide was ebbing with a relatively high low tide. This ring was in a steep section and probably would not have been there after the next wave. A trough is there and maybe worth a try when the tides become more defined. This is what it looked liked after it cleaned up. After I scooped it I wished I had taken a picture but the little waves would have moved it and I may have lost it. I didn't want to 'stage it' to show what it looked like when I fist saw it. These were the 'dirty' pictures. These are the total finds for the 3 hour session.

That is quite a nice piece. Well done. Mitchel

What a great find. It reminded me of The Hobbit. I'd name it Travis's Precious.

If something needs repair on your Zed do you tell them you have been using an NF coil?

I remember reading about it at the time and if I recall it was in the $3000 range to fix the unit. I took this into consideration when I modded my adapter for my out of warranty Zed. I knew that if there was going to be a problem the detector would need to be repaired and not the coil. A lot was learned through their experience and I don't know if any other units have been toasted since then. Such is the risk of better performance. Mine is working just fine when done by a professional electronics expert.

Have you modded a detector or a coil over the years to make it perform better than the manufacturer intended? Did you get good results? I just did a search on this forum and found 168 hits for modded. What is your favorite mod?