Fenrir101

If you have a premium membership and don't want to buy the official app get GeoHunter instead it's an improved version of GeoBeagle. It's a great app as long as you have the pocket queries from premium membership and its free with no adverts. I load my pocket queries before leaving home and then put my Dell Streak into airplane mode to get the best power use out of it. With the streak it frequently gets down to about a 16ft error radius in the open and I have had it point straight at caches that are tagged as DNF's by people with "real" GPSr's who couldn't get a lock. Personaly though I am glad to hear that the official app is coming out for real and can't wait to take a look at it.

Oh I saw people using humour in the thread, but there are plenty of people in that thread and others who are deadly serious. There are a number of newbie related quesitons that don't seem to be answered in any official easy to find FAQ's that seem to polarise some of the posters here who then feel the need to leap into any thread about them and expound their point of view without giving any reasoning. As a newbie this is rather offputting. Although there are many people on this forum who wouldnt blink at losing a few of their finds, for a newbie like me this would be a big dissapointment. My seven logs include one where I had to walk through fettid waste water and retreive the log from inside a sewer, the "water" had eaten the seal and so the log was damp. Previous finders had noted that the log was full so the combination of not wanting to destroy the log by trying to unroll it to try and find any blank space, and the stench coming off the sewer made me leave without signing it. Many forum goers here would aparently consider that not finding the cache and would have no problem just moving on, but for me physicaly finding the cache under those circumstance and extracting the log roll is a significant acheivment, so if the cache owner where to decide that they where going to delete the log as I physicaly could not sign the roll, this would be a much bigger dissapointment to me than to someone with thousands of finds under their belt. But unfortunately I think some posters here have forgotten what it is like to be new at cacheing. --Edited bit Thanks to the people who replied whilst I was slowly typing the reply. I fully agree that most people here seem to be perfectly friendly, and I look forwards to my first confirmed real life meet, I have had a couple of people I suspected where also looking for the same chaches but never quite confirmed it

As a complete newbie I am glad that I paid for my premium membership before looking at the forums. Threads like that one make me think that this is not the hobby for me. Yes I have seen dozens of friendly threads, but those rabid threads realy kill off the family friendly feel. When I signed up for my account I found that most variations of my usual internet handle where taken, and chose Fenrir101, When I signed my first few cache log's I actualy used my normal handle out of habit, and frankly the thought that the cache owners could decide to disallow my finds because of that is not a happy one. I know that once any forum will start picking up more extreme members as they grow, but the fact that within 7 hours of that thread starting someone honestly equated not signing the log with commiting murder and appears to be fully serious is just scary. And its not just that thread, I have been doing a lot of searching to find answers to some fairly common new guy questions and every single one that I have found has degenerated into similar levels of commentary. Most of you folks seem fairly nice, but the weirdo's sure are loud around here