Earl B. Fisk
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Haven't had any problems the last few days -- IE7 on XP.
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I created a mystery cache that took people around to various oak trees on my university campus. They have to identify four different oak trees to get the coordinates for the final find. It uses a kind of dichotomous key.
It was a bunch of fun to set up.
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I had no trouble before sending to my Garmin 60CSX, then looks like either GS or Garmin made changes. Now instead of the sending the cache to the GPS as a geocache it is coming in as a Flagged waypoint. What is up with that? I have to manually go and change the icons.
Also, though it does show the GC number, it doesn't send the cache name -- it only says "Geocache". Not good.
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When I download caches from pq files sent to my email address they load with the chest icon, but when I download directly from the cache site to my gpsr, I get the blue flags.
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Well, it's now Monday morning -- the unit stopped working Saturday morning. After a few suggestions from this and the referred thread, I pulled the batteries and the card, tried again, but nothing. Sunday, I plugged it into the car and let it sit and try to acquire satellites for an hour or so, and then rechecked, nothing. This morning on my way in to work, turned it on and it works fine. Go figure. CSAS (Corrupted Satellite Almanac Syndrome). That's what I'm calling it.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
Anybody else go through geocaching withdrawls when their GPSr goes down? I found that on Sunday when I was out driving around, thinking, well there is that cache nearby that I haven't found yet, and then realizing I can't get it because I don't have a functional GPSr. Got a bit depressing.
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Bought my Garmin 60CSx a couple of months ago. Absolutely no problem until today. I had planned on a full morning of caching.
I went to the first cache (one that I had tried to find before) and had no problem finding it this time as the coordinates were dead on. I try to save battery power by turning the gpsr off once I find the cache, and did so this time as well.
Several minutes later when I got back in the car, I plugged the adapter (cigerette lighter) into the back of the unit and then turned it on. Initially, it said something about low satellite signal or something to that effect. Since then it will show locations of the satellites, but none have any signal reception.
I've looked in the manual, but it doesn't seem to address it. Any ideas?
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The whole idea looks great. My only suggestion, and it's only my personal preference as a graphic artist wannabe, would be to have the letters in the word "AWARD" up instead of down. And again, it's only my preference.
Great work.
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But do be careful.
Not long ago I was looking for a cache in a local park. I was standing next to my car looking at my gpsr when a guy pulled up beside my car, and rolled down the window. He asked what I was looking for. I was thinking that he was probably a fellow cacher, so I said something like "Oh, you know, the usual suspects". Anyway, he asked if I wanted to get in his car and see if we could find it together. Well, I said that I didn't think we were looking for the same thing, got in my car and left as fast as I could.
I have since met a real cacher at a FTF search, and it was much more pleasant.
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I'm fairly new to geocaching, so LPC may not have had the time to really affect me the way it has others, though I've done a fair amount of them. My opinion is that they are kind of a necessary evil. Like it baseball. The reason that fast balls are effective is because of the possiblitiy of a curve ball or off-speed pitch.
The cache that had me laughing the longest (so far) was a LPC. I lifted the skirt, saw the tube wrapped in black tape, grabbed it, pulled it out, and screamed! I didn't see it initially, but the tube was attached to a rubber rat. This is a cache, lamp post or otherwise, that I will always remember.
I still do LPC, but mainly with the hope of getting a curve ball.
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What kind of class can require you to volunteer?
My thought too. Requiring you to volunteer kind of takes the volunteer out of volunteering.
repeat visits?
in How do I...?
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My way of thinking is 1 smiley = 1 find. If you can't get another smiley, it's not a find. Anyway, how can you "find" something if you already know where it is?