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    Missing Cache Wasn't

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Me thinks the last laugh is STILL on the OP. Lets see:

    September 22, 2004 by Max Cacher (0 found)

    Hello

    We are temporarily disabling this cache until it can be checked on by the owner on for the status, and to do some much needed cache maintenance. After checking the cache you can click on the click to enable button on the top of the page. Send me a note, and post one to the cache page.

     

    Sincerely, TG

    That's disabled, not archived. Disabling it gives you a chance to check that the cache is actually still there. The reviewers do that when it looks like there may be a chance the cache is missing. Like when a usually easy cache doesnt get found for months and months and/or very experienced cachers can't find it. Once you go check on it and make sure it really is still there, you just click a button and your cache is active again. Instead, you chose to over-react:

    September 22, 2004 by w5waf (6 found)

    I went out tonight and removed the cache. The cache GURU said it needed maintenence, but it looked to be in good shape to me, but the Lord of the Cache's knows best...since there was no further explaination on what needed to be done to the cache to make it viable, I decided it best to do away with it.

    Bill/W5WAF

    Since you posted that you had removed the cache and decided it was "best to just do away with it" the reviewer did the proper thing by THEN archiving the cache. He only archived it AFTER you said you had removed the cache and were not replacing it.

    Now 3.5yrs later you come back, insulting the reviewer, and claiming that people are still finding a cache you SAID wasn't there.

    And somehow this vindicates you?

    [edit] John is not only taller then me, he obviously types faster too!

    Missing Cache Wasn't

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Let's see...how do I say:

     

    I TOLD YOU SO!!!!

     

    Three Years ago, The local coordinator archived cache because three people said they couldn't find it. I wrote the coordinator back after I went and found the cache. He refused to un archive it saying basically didn't know from hwhat I was talking about, because three people couldn't find it. In any case, I suppose it was because of his and their incompetence.

     

    Anyway a couple of weeks ago, I gave another cacher the specific location, well, I got an email today:

     

    his is an automated message from Geocaching

     

    You are receiving this email because you are the owner

    of this listing.

     

    Location: Mississippi, United States

    jeep-ocache found Buena Vista (Archived) (Traditional

    Cache) at 2/8/2008

     

    Log Date: 2/8/2008

    You sure were right. I found the cache while I was

    here for the new cache that is placed here. The cache is

    in very good condition. I found it with only a little

    searching and the coordinated showed to only be 3 feet

    off.

     

    It's awesome to find the cache that has not been found

    in 3 years.

     

    Jerry

     

    Visit this log entry at the below address:

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...0c-2fef9fb11f7c

     

    So...

     

    How do you spell:

     

    I TOLD YOU SO!!!!

     

    Regards

    Bill

    GPS in Space?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    The shuttle and the space station both have GPS on them. The ISS also an APRS beacon on it, but I'm not sure what its schedule is. I have a friend who is the editor of the AMSAT Journal, I'll forward your question to him and see if he can put it out for consideration there.

     

    Bill-W5WAF

    Travel Bug Activation

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    When I try to activate a new travel bug, I get the following error message:

     

    Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

     

    [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.

     

    /support/appGetATID.asp, line 80

     

    Is this me or the system.

     

    Bill-W5WAF

    One of my caches was removed by the police....

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    The thing with the camera kind of reminds me of the "lineup" request in the movie "PORKY'S".

     

     

    Most folks think of the police as some kind of boogey man. Well, most of them are guys and gals like the rest of us. The biggest problem I think I'd have around here if I were confronted by an officer is that within a few minutes, half the force would be around offering their advice. (Yeah, police and firemen have advice about everything)

     

    Bill-W5WAF

     

    [This message was edited by Bill-W5WAF on September 30, 2003 at 03:02 PM.]

    Geocaching ID card

    in Benchmarking

    Posted

    Perhaps geocaching can adopt the model of Amateur Radio. Ham Radio is a hobby, to be sure, but in times of need provides emergency communications.

     

    In this day of Homeland Security, what niche could geocaching fill? Geocachers should have a much better understanding of mapping, orienteering, etc. than the general population. Where can we fit in?

    I saw somethin' weird, Does anyone know anything about bugs?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    By the way...did you know if you're going to be driving through an area with love bugs, you can spray PAM (yes the non-stick stuff for skillets) over the front exposed surfaces of the car and the smashed bugs will be easy to clean up. Now who said geocaching wasn't educational. As Martha Stewart said, as she was making a decopage sewing basket with a fake bottom for hiding stock certificates..."Learn Something New Every Day"

     

    Bill-W5WAF

    Bomb Scare???

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I recently had someone find one of my caches and left the note something to the effect that "This cache receives my vote as one most likely to cause a bomb scare". Made me think:

     

    1. Has any cache ever been mistaken for a bomb?

    2. What does an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) look like?

     

    How can we make sure that our caches don't look like an IED?

     

    Remember:

     

    The bomb that brought down the Pan AM flight over Lockerbie, Scotland was in a transistor radio. The unibomber sent his devices in finely crafted wooden cases.

     

    Couldn't you put a device in a Tupperware Container?

    How to see if your GPS is acurrate

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Repeatability may be more of an issue. Go to a spot in the clear and take a mark. Then go out at intervals...days...and see how much the error is from the first reading. In the early days of GPS (1990-91) it wan not uncommon to get an error saying that the geometry of the satellites prevented an accurate reading. I'm sure the geometry even today plays a part in the accuracy of the readout.

     

    Benchmarks may not be a good choice, because the lat/long on many is taken from a quad map and not from an accurate survey. Many of the benchmarks are precise for elevation, but less precise as location.

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