
markandsandy
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No shame in a DNF. 147 finds - 27 DNF's. Some caches more than one DNF - all posted.
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I believe some countries have allowed the cell phone jammers, but the last I heard was that here in the US they are not legal. And that's a good thing; would you want your doctors cell phone to be jammed while you were waiting for him in the emergency room? But the original topic has me thinking. In the lab at work, I use equipment that simulates the GPS satellite network. If I put that in a cache, hooked up to an antenna (got those, too), I could make the caches coordinates appear to be anywhere I want. Let's see, I need a large cache, plus AC power....
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You know you're a Geocacher when...
markandsandy replied to Team O-Zone's topic in General geocaching topics
...you've read this entire thread plus the virtually identical 'You might be a geocacher if...' thread that has been running since January of 2002 in the Geocaching Topics forum. -
Both. I'm sitting in front of a system right now that simulates the entire GPS satellite constellation, while testing a commercial aircraft navigation system that uses GPS, I'm around the technology all day, and it stilll fascinates me. For my wife, it's more of a tool we use when caching and hiking. Some things you DO need to know! A GPS is properly a GPSr and the r stands for receiver... it does not transmit your location! You can find where you are but no one else can. Certain Cell phones and other GPS-enabled devices add a transmitter, and those can be located. I want to emphasize what TheAlabamaRambler said here. Your GPSr DOES NOT transmit your position to the satellites. They have no idea that we and our puny GPSr's even exist.
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So is the horse dead yet? That horse has been glue for a long time.
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How many people don't read the descriptions ?
markandsandy replied to Nick_Scots's topic in General geocaching topics
I usually read them while planning an outing, and always have them in the wifes PDA while we are out. Usually stop and re-read them when we are getting close to GZ. If we're on an extended trip, they are also in GSAK in the laptop. -
Yes, that and how often you will cache together. My wife and I cache together and I do all the online logging - one account works well for us.
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Yea, I regretted my dumbness the minute I posted that confusion. I somehow thought of telephone forwarding while I was writing it, and not email forwarding. Actually, you weren't as far off as you think. My email has an option of whether or not a copy is kept in my mailbox when a message is forwarded.
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While this may be a good general guideline, always check the TBs goal. My Interdimensional Galaxy Hopper TB has a goal of visiting all known dimensions. It left this one recently. Unfortunately there is a bug in the GC website so that once it leaves this dimension, all traces of it vanish, so I can't actually track its movements in other dimensions.
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I almost always carry my camera. I've got lots of pictures of those "nice leaves".
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The cache page cannot promote an agenda. The swag in a cache can. I'd put some yellow ribbons IN those caches. Edited because I did not mean to quote your entire post.
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A good writting untensil and dry log book!!! (Pretty simple I guess...I really don't want too much) What? You expect a writing utensil? I'd settle for just the dry log book!
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You can ignore the elevation, it has no effect on your navigation to the cache. The GPS is only trying to get you to the correct lattitude and longitude.
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My understanding is that new queries go to the front of the queue, thereby delaying all the non-new ones. What I'd like to know is what exactly determines where a non-new query falls in the queue? When it was last run? How often it is scheduled to run? How old it is? Or some combination of the above? From the bottom of the My Pocket Queries page:
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ATTENTION VINNY........ Your first post was deleted in an attempt to keep you from revealing secrets that the creatures of this planet are not advanced enough to know... Please tread these waters carefully.... If you insist on continuing we will be forced to remove this knowledge from your memory.... This is NOT a pleasant experience! We will now return control of this account to its rightful owner.... Huh? What just happened here?
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Nice job TotemLake! I've been wanting the ability to view these in StreetAtlas and print the streets, trails & caches together. The trails wouldn't load on my laptop with a half gig of ram, so I was forced to upgrade to 2 gig.
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Vista HCX new firmware 2.8 update
markandsandy replied to dualcore's topic in GPS technology and devices
I think the timeout that created your original double post ate the content of this one and left just the heading. Happens every once in a while around here. MtnHermit must have seen the title and ran with it. -
Gotta agree here. The current hodgepodge of 'attributes' is less-than-effective. Revising THAT system would allow cachers to both search for and describe caches with much greater utility. And that's a great point about "puzzle". Yep.
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If memory serves me right, and others will probably confirm, there is an issue when you use both Within and From Origin options. Change the Within option to None Selected and just use the option for within the 100km from your home coordinates.
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Lying about the size of a cache?
markandsandy replied to Silfron Mandotheneset's topic in General geocaching topics
I hope the bomb squad never gets ahold of a cache like that. I agree. Imagine the mess if they blew up all that bubble stuff! -
Abandon my car, paint it camo, and hope no one noticed?fill with swag, and post the coordinates.
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Yes. OK, on a more serious note. Since the numbers are only really meaningful to you, it's totally up to you. Personally, if the two finds on the moving cache were totally unique finds, I would count them both.
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Thanks. This is the type of reply we need. We just need to know that something, anything is happening. Hey, what happened here? This appeared twice. The first one froze at my end with some sort of timeout error and when I submitted it again without even editing it then it appeared twice. Hmmmmm. Ahh, the dreaded Double Post What usually happens with that timeout is the post was actually submitted, but then timed out. Submitting again creates another posting. Don't submit it the second time.