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Colorado Bear

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  1. Got my coin tody in the mail. Thank you. It is a great looking coin and will make a good addition to my collection. Colorado Bear
  2. Great job in finding and stopping this! I am curious how you knew these were not the property of the seller? Obviously the listing for “new coins” and the pictures are wrong. What other clues can you share for the rest of us to be on the look out for? Was this someone how is naive about the game? Do you think this was malicious? The reasons I am pondering these questions; I buy a lot of my coin off the auction site, and I do not want to promote any thief. In the past I have bought 2 coins that was not the property of the seller, and when I tried to activate them, it lead me to the real owners. I sent the coins back to the owners and filed complaints with PayPal, and got my money back. Both times I was told by the sellers that they had found the coins, and thought they were theirs to do with what they wanted. Again it is the fine line between outright theft, naïve players and muggles. But the fact of how they listed these on the auction site makes me wonder. Colorado Bear
  3. Funky Toad; I have use Debbie Does Decal in the past with good results Debbie Does Decals Colorado Bear
  4. You can also try the Travel Bug rescue site tb-rescue Jay
  5. Hope you are joking here....... This one time at band camp....
  6. This looks great, Put me down for a set of each one. Jay
  7. Rakeck; Reading your posts you seem overly concerned with the accuracy of the elevation. In your example you drove over Loveland pass and think the GPS unit you are using is the gold standard for being correct. Did you stop and find the benchmark on top of the pass, set your GPS on it and let it average the point over several minutes? If not the elevation you were at just may be closer than you think, The antenna was on top of your vehicle, how far away for the benchmark were you? Although WAAS was turned on, were you receiving it? You are concerned over a difference of 29 feet, This is well within the accuracy of the Garmin 62s. There are GPSr that you can rent, buy that accurate enough to use for land survey, however I suspect you do not want to pay the price. So after reading your posts here and the one on your need to change the elevation profile on trout creek, Looking at your profile you have not found any geocaches. I am curious what is it you are trying to accomplish? Colorado Bear
  8. I do not get it either! The cache is this one GC42GD6 From reading the cache description my first take is you have a bad attitude, and why are you playing? Is this your 15 minutes to rant in public? Colorado Bear
  9. Look at the owners manual page 20, Settings menu, Navigation, select the coordiante type set to DD MM.mm. While you are at it make sure your datum is set to WGS84 as well. Colorado Bear
  10. Open the file with Excel, set up a function for the elevation - 20 then copy and paste special or past values. I did a seach on the Web and found several reference many of which are right here in the forums. Colorado Bear
  11. Just put in new Lat and Long coorinates. Colorado Bear
  12. According to the instruction I just download from the net, you don't, you replace the batteries with 2 AAA. A quick search for geomate jr instruction should yield you a similar PDF oppurtunity. Colorado Bear
  13. I managed to get to the site and place one in the shopping cart at the price of $263.99, however during checkout the cart kept the orginial price of $479.99. I hope the website was hacked. If it wasn't this was a poor joke by Garmin, and if they were not hack they very well may have lost me as a customer. Jay
  14. Yes you can, but you will want to learn about pocket queries. On the home page under play go to the help center to find more information, it is worth the reading. Colorado Bear Jay
  15. Team CCR; The topo maps on the xxxT models are the 100K series. While these are good, I like the 24K series cost is a bit more but you can get it for the specific are you are in. Personally I would get one of the T models. And, and as you stated you are not hikers, do you need topo maps to begin with. Not sure what you mean when you ask if it is accurate even when standing still. This is a relative question. Most find that even when the GPSr is stationary it sometimes shows that you are moving. If you think about we are all constantly moving, the earth is rotating, the GPS satellites are moving the GPS signal is being interfered with by factors such as the atmosphere, weather, electronic interference, tree cover, buildings, so on and so forth. So yes your GPSr is accurate to a point and I feel that garmin has one of the better software programs in their products that help make them the most accurate for the money you spend. I have an Iphone but I prefer my Garmin GPSr to the phone, it is more rugged, batteries can be change when they are drained, better software. I feel that it is the better tool for the job at hand. To muddy your waters a bit look at the Garmin Oregon 650, it is new, right now and hard to find, but I suspect in the next several month Garmin will have the supply issue taken care of. Go to the Garmin website and compare the two models. Check out the forums here for more information. Whatever manufacture and model you go with remember that as with any tool you have to learn how to use it. The GPSr can be a bit complicated. Do not expect to be able to take it out of the box power it up and go right out and find a geocache with it. You will need to learn how to find and interpret the information that you get from the GPRr. So many people I talk to, and from the posts I read get frustrated that they cannot use this toy they spent lots of money for. So please which ever one you buy take the time to read the manual, go to the wikis http://garminmontanagpsr.wikispaces.com/ or http://garminoregon6xx.wikispaces.com/home and practice with your toy/tool. Colorado Bear Jay
  16. mo pirate; When do you think these will be available and how would I order them? Colorado Bear
  17. Try the wiki locate here http://garmingpsmap.wikispaces.com/Home. 73 Colorado Bear Jay W0GBS
  18. Sound like a great coin idea, I would buy two. Colorado Bear
  19. EyeD10T; Sent email on friday and today waiting to hear back from you on your offer of coins. Jay
  20. Not that I have seen so far with my Garmin Oregon, it only read one of the files. Colorado Bear Jay
  21. Scottmcb; Travel bug and a geocoin serve the same basic purpose; they have a unique number on them that allow the finder to log them on the Geocaching.com website. The owner sets the mission and releases the "traveler" into the wild. the bug or coin gets pickup up and moved on by the other players. the owner then get to watch their "bug" as it travels. A most travel bugs I have seen look like a dog tag with a bug on it and a number, they are usually attached to an item (figurine of a seven dwarf, teddy bear, racing car, excreta), these you find in a cache take it log it (write a small note, say hello to the owner), and drop it in another cache. Now to make things complicated, players have decals on their car or pictures on their shirts of travel bugs. these are meant to be discovered. They have a unique number on them. Write the number down and go to the website under play -> find trackable->enter the number go to the website for the trackable on the options table select add a log entry->under type of log select discover it. Many time at geocaching event you will find many of these it is a great way to introduce yourself. Many collectors will also allow you to discover their coins. Dipping a trackable; some players keep a trackable (one of their own or another player's with permission) and dip it; taking it from cache to cache and dipping it for the mileage. Geocoins come in a variety of shape, sizes, colors, and costs. When you find them in the wild treat them the same way; take it, log it, and pass it on. If you find that a coin has not been activated it generally means it was placed in cache as SWAG and is yours to keep, but if the coin or bug has been activated it belongs to the player that activated it, keeping one of these is consider stealing. Many bugs and coins go missing for various reasons, taken on purpose and kept for their own (stealing), accidentally lost,muggled, or picked up and forgotten. Personally I have lost track of about 60% of my trackables . Trackable also have a public number associated with them that you can give out to ID it but the person who looks it up cannot log it since they do not have the tracking number, here is one of mine TB2WHVJ. All of this said, I started off by buying coins and releasing them into the wild. As I bought the coins I came to enjoy their beauty as a art form and I started collecting them. I now release very few of them since so many go missing. Every now and then I come across someone who I work or play with that mentions this new game they found called geocaching. I will give them one of my activate coins for them to adopt as their own and play with. The question of activating a trackable that you plan to keep is a matter of opinion, many feel that an activate coin loses some of it value. Personally I activate all of mine, and I do not mind buying activate coins as long as they get adopted over to me (I keep the logs intact). I reason behind my decision to activate is a simple one: At my first geocacheing event I talked with a collector who was showing off his coins, he told me that a the last event several of his coins went missing, presume stolen, and they were not activated. Now if they had been activate the person that stole the coins would have a harder time selling them or putting them into play. I buy many of my coins off Ebay, I have bought three that were activated and once I got them found out the person that sold them to me was not the owner, I filed a grievance with PayPal got my money back and returned the coin to the rightful owner, in each case the person was asked by EBay to leave their site for selling stolen items. This is the reason I activate my coins. I hope this give you a better understanding, now go out and find some to enjoy and log, buy a few of your own. Come join the obsession or addiction of geocoins. Jay Colorado Bear
  22. I would add the following to what Atlas Cached has posted. When you buy your GPSr do not expect to be able to go caching or hiking in the next few hours take the time to read, and learn about the instrument play with it in your back yard or local park. But , like most things in life if you put the time in learning how to use it, and understand it you will have more fun in the end. Search for fellow cachers that live in your area and ask for help. Go to local event caches like Milkshake event #023 on 01/02/2013 in Belfast. I would recommend becoming a premium member so you can do pocket queries, that is how I found the event cache, I used the coordniates of your first found cache. Welcome to the sport good hunting Jay Colorado Bear
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