Thanks Rob....
OP - If your not going to believe Kevin Hoagland, the PR guy for minelab, then what do you really want? Kevin goes on to give info on the Etrac, but clearly states the facts about the Explorer. If you keep researching, you'll find this topic has been circulating since 2001, an amazing 13 years without any proof.
-David
I fear you are correct DnD but the reward you are volunteering is AWESOME!! Thanks for putting some skin in the game. As a fellow Explorer XS user I'm sure you are curious about it as well. That's why I'm not sure why you are saying I don't believe Hoagland.
In the image I originally posted they say, "This screen still exists in the Explorer, although it is hidden behind a special key sequence".
In the email you posted Hoagland says:
"There is a pattern that is embedded in the detector that is for technical diagnostic work..."
I believe him. It's embedded.
I can't be the only one who hears him. He never denies it exists. He just denies that it is worth using.
I see it like this.
I have desk in my office that I have owned for 14 years. I use it all the time. I sit behind it for hours. I open and close all the drawers while I use it and I know every scratch in it.
Now imagine one day I discover a small hidden drawer within a drawer hidden within my favorite desk. My special desk that I have spent thousands of hours with. As a treasure hunter I would be quite interested in the contents of that drawer. I would not rest until I figured out how to open it. Of course I want to open it without destroying my desk too.
Hoagland just told me there was a drawer in my desk.
Maybe it's full of Gold coins. Maybe it's full of dead flies and spiders. Either way I want to see the inside of it.