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The Minelab Equinox has already benefited from a couple of upgrades, these have been to fix bugs and add extra functionality. The latest upgrade is v3 and is a big improvement over previous versions. Not only does it add an...

My good friends at Joan Allen metal detectors were kind enough to send me an F44 unit to finish off my field testing of the latest Fisher F series. As ever it seems with many of my reports, I have...

The next installment of father son bonding with the new Fisher series was a rather wet and windy affair. I had chosen a small field near a large manor house that we had only spent a few minutes on before...

Finally I have managed to get out and scratch up enough land to properly test this machine out, over here in the UK, as I am sure you will be aware we have a season for detecting and while the...

I've been testing Minelab's Pro-Find 35 pinpointer for a while now. During testing I started to better understand Minelab's patented DIF (Detector Interference Free) technology. I first experienced strong pinpointer interference while using the GPX 5000 and a large mono...

Many years ago while researching for the TV show Hoard Hunters (History Channel), we looked at a site near Whaddon Buckinghamshire where a hoard had been found in the 19th-century. This  hoard of Roman coins were unearthed while the field...

In part 1 we built the mode (program) and now I would like to take a closer look at the settings and the thought behind them.The first mode with the tadpole patterns is the main program, and the clear screen...

The CTX 3030 is a great metal detector that can be used many different ways, and in this blog post I'm going to show you how I use it.First I need to explain where and what I’m searching for. In...