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<<aldi are doing a pocketpc with gps and tomtom (probably version2) and 512mb card for £260ish this week. Looks like a bargain. >> How can I get info please Dom... can't see it on their web site and haven't seen it advertised.. Thanks

I have the most horrendous problems using this Forum and the webmasters cannot, apparently, provide a solution so I wonder if someone else can. I usually go to ceocaching.com to start with... log in.. and then come to the forum. If I try to reply to a message or start a new topic 9 times out of ten it tells me I do not have permission to use the page and must log in.. so I do... then I try to reply to someone and the who issue starts again. The few messages I have been able to post have been the result of many, many retries. This effort resulted from me leaving GC... the attempting 3 times to log in here before it worked. I've checked all my IE settings and everything else I can think of. I am an experienced user of forums and actually run one myself for another hobby but I have never experienced the kind of problems I'm having on here. Can anyone suggest a solution?? I intended to post this on the main area but tried many times and eventually gained access in the UK pages..

Looks like 6 of one, half a dozen of the rest.. I tried several items with different suppliers and they came out to within a pound or so on a bill of £25. Of course, as with everything else, prices across the pond are lower. For example: Coloured patch USA $2.99 (£1.66) - over here £2.97 TBs. USA 8 for $34 (£18.96) over here 5 for £17.89 Large cache sticker USA $1.99 (£1.11) over here £1.89

It's a very great shame but the cache has gone missing, with at least 5 GB-Oz TB Race contestants and another long-distance TB. We were about to place two long-distance TBs in it too so we were lucky not to have been there a little earlier or they would have been lost also. One can only hope that it's not the work of anyone involved in this sport of ours. We're sure that Spottyspaniels would be glad of any information..

We checked out a place in Reading - £5 for small ones and £7 for large ones. They looked in very good nick but we came away thinking they were too pricey. However, having tried one or two places on the net, which added p&p almost doubling the cost, we're going back to the Reading shop. At least we can choose what we're getting..

Or get Waypoint Workbench, which converts anything to anything.. I've lost the URL but email chris@fabalou.com for a copy. It's freeware.

Congrats V-Man. You seem to have been to just about all those we've visited - and a lot more! Best wishes..

A day or two ago we found a Travel Bug which was participating in the GB-Oz TB Race. The one in question - Aussie Eagle - had come all the way from Oz and was now racing to get home. We dropped it at Cranborne cache in Windsor Great Park. If anyone is flying out of Heathrow soon maybe they'd pick it up and help it on it's way..

I'd certainly be very interested to hear from anyone who believes their GPS is now more accurate (if it uses EGNOS). I've been using GPS for land navigation for many years but only started geocaching a couple of days ago. We went out with some experienced geo-caching friends who had a very much more up to date GPS than ours and approaching a local cache we rapidly determined that my old clockwork GPS was miles out and switched it off. Despite much searching we never located the cache... sooo next day my wife and I went there again; this time our GPS was indicating a location well over 50 yards from where we had been the previous day... and we soon located the cache! What this proves I don't know. Our friends' GPS has been perfectly reliable for them, achieving an over 90% return rate on caches. Could it have been a jamming exercise? Most unlikely in Berkshire but plainly soemthing was causing both GPS' to be wildly inaccurate (although they would have sufficed for normal road navigation). I don't know how EGNOS works but based upon recent experience one would hope that it would improve things. We shall see!