DMflyer

Hehehe, glad you think Johnson City needs their OWN ! <grin> I like Tri-Cities GeoCachers Association, with the Tenn Stars over Johnson City Having a Statewide Organization and each area having enough to warrant an association would be a great idea. If / when there is an announcement, I'll try to make the Event, if there is to be one. One side note to this. If we are going to get government agency approvals for caches, we might want to come up with a cache hiding guidelines. Was thinking something in the same line of thought as the Nashville Area does. They submit the cache to a group from their own organization, then the City / County / State will have blanket approval. Idea was to regulate themselves before being banned in all government owned lands. This might be one of the items on the agenda, if there is to be one.

I heard an article on NPR about the use of GPR and Cell phone to track delivery trucks. I also looked at the new Rino, it has GMRS / FRS so that two units or even base units, can track each other. This is great in the Ski areas where the Ski Patrol each have them. They know where each other are and in the case of an avalanche they can locate the downed skier. I've got a truck the company lets me use (phone company) it has the ABILITY to receive / transmit GPS information. This COULD allow them to locate the closed tech in the event of a fiber optic cable cut. Those paranoid type thought, think they can track which donut shop you stop at and which route you take on your "lunch" break, then supposedly take disciplinary action should the "location" not be in your designated area....sheesh.... To me its just a new way of following or tailing you. If your doing your job, or close to it, you got nothing to worry about.