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  1. I found a geocoin today that had a standard travel bug tag as well. The instructions on the TB page also asked for it to be logged on a Canadian travel coin page. I see that some people have geocoins in their stats page. There is no such entry in my stats, not that I'm trying to claim a double find as I did get the credit for the TB but I can't see a separate way of logging coins on the geocache.com site. Are they only logged on a separate site? How come some people get them in their stats?
  2. 30 feet is OK. I have been trying to set up a cache for a few weeks. It's very near home so I can pop over most evenings to check co-ords. There are no trees within 300 feet, really good view of the sky, often getting 8 sats. Usually tells me I have about 20 feet accuracy Each day the spot varies by about 50 feet, sometimes up to 100. So I have been averaging it and using that and it usually comes in at about 20 feet out. If I wait there for a while with the GPS in compass mode and motionless on the bench beside me I can watch the waypoint 'move' around me with it pointing say 70 feet north and then driving towards me to up to 50 feet south, then over to the east and back towards me. Just kind of wanders around. It usually settles and stays within 30 feet after about 10 mins but is never stationary. A GPS will not be happy if you move it over 600 miles and then switch it on. It will take up to 15 mins to work out where the sats are but after that it will have updated itself and re-starts will be much quicker e.g. 45 secs to a couple of minutes. One thing I have never found out though. What's it like if you haven't used a unit for a few months. Does it have the same trouble locking in as it has not had a recent fix?
  3. I found my first travel bug, its mission was to stay near water. I dropped it in a cache very near home near a pond. This cache has not been visited since, been there for months. I feel kind of responsible if I have dropped it in a fairly dead cache. Do you think I should retrieve it and move it to one that gets a visit more often?
  4. I would guess that getting a copy of Loot would be a good start looking for a motorcycle. Website www.loot.com Also search for motorbike/ motor bike as well as motorcycle when in the UK oh and drive on the left
  5. The first couple of times, yes. I was sure other people were looking at us as if we were strange, but then what were they doing in the same bit of forest it they weren't caching? At least we had a reason to be crashing through the stingy stuff! The truth is they really don't care... and anyway, my GPS look like a mobile phone. So I can always hold it to my ear and pretend I am some busy tycoon striking the deal of a lifetime, or at least telling soemone what time to put my dinner on.
  6. Thanks, one day I will learn to read, honest.
  7. On mine I choose settings, then memory then storage card and get a bar graph. 3 month old Ipaq 5500. Don't know anything about other models so it might not work on older versions.
  8. I have an Hp 5500 (overkill really but work was paying and it helps me with wireless network surveys). This does not have CF socket which is how many gps units connect, but I have bluetooth navman gps unit and Navman software. There is a cheap piece of shareware called GPSdash which works on the PDA and will get you to the cache, but battery power on the PDA is a bit limited if you are going to do a whole day caching. Also I think the PDA is a bit fragile for outdoors. However, I use GPXsonar. Superb for paperless caching. I gave up with the ebook format, just didn't work for me in the wild. Battery power on PDA is not a problem for switching on every now and then to read details. So my kit now is, Etrex summit. I feed this with easyGPS on the home PC as it uploads using the GC waypoint codes. I use GSAK as an offline database on the PC but when this uploads to GPS it uses cache names, but as these are limited to 8 characters makes it a bit hard to work out which cache you are looking at. (Unless someone can tell me how to change this!) Ipaq 5500 with navman 3d view to get me there on the road. (Major problem is that you can't enter lat and lon as a destination, have to work out postcode using on line map e.g. multimap or mapquest and then fine tune it on the PDA map and save it as destination. Also does not allow you to enter your own Points of Interest. But as guidance software I really like it) Also on the Ipaq is GPXsonar, and gpsdash that could be used if etrex gets lost or damaged.
  9. Am I just looking at things differently now I've got into geocaching or are there more fallen and dead trees now? I've been caching in Epping forest mainly. I've lived nearby all my life and often visit but seem to come across so many fallen giants and whole areas of dead mature trees. Is it just that I am considering their potential as cache sites?
  10. kelkoo.co.uk will do a trawl through on-line price lists automatically for you. Best price will probably be globalpositioningsystems.co.uk worst price I have seen is Maplin on line or Millets high street. The case at http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/...&category_id=57 does have a belt clip but it doesn't show in the picture. Ebay - I can't believe I have seen people paying more on there for second hand than it would cost them for new from above company.
  11. Complete scam. The example they give looks like only 10 people have to sign up before you get one. Then look at how many have to sign up for any real phone and it's usually in the 50-60 range. Last one I looked at hadn't sent a phone in 6 months, had a waiting list of about 40, 10 more to go before the next phone was due out. So the top guy on the list had spent 6 months getting to 40. If you joined the list next you would have to wait for 40x50 people to join up. Even at the current rate of 40 in sixth months I think you can safely say that the phone would be out of date when you got it.
  12. Cool - I didnt realise we were so close to a bit of caching history...I wonder if an adoption/resurection is possible ?? It has been 'replaced' and is called England's First GCJJGJ Good cache and only 3 finders to date
  13. I'm planning my first cache, a bit of a multi with a final real cache. I have been over the route 3 days running but find that each day I am getting readings that are 70 to 100 ft out from the previous days. There is clear view of the sky, and the Garmin is telling me that is accurate to 20 - 30 ft each time. I intend to keep visiting the site and averaging each time till I think it looks ok, but is this sort of variation normal? How accurate do I have to get things before I can post them with confidence? Also, is there a description anywhere of the terrain and difficulty ratings that should be used?
  14. My apologies, just quoting the alert we recieved from the local police/council crime alert thingy. Also, still trying to find a reasonable explanation for my daughter's £200 phone bill last month. So the theory that she was conned goes out the window...
  15. There is a fairly common scam in the UK. Guy sets up premium rate phone line. Knocks on victims door (or stops them in street and uses victims mobile), and spins a sob story about car breaking down etc and just needs to phone wife/friend etc. You let them dial and they talk on phone for 5 mins at £50 per min and then thanks you and leaves. This is actually 'legal' in the respect that anyone can set up a premium rate phone line. The victim owner of the phone has given permission for the stranger to use the phone. Moral, offer to dial the number yourself, anything other than a standard phone number dial 999 instead. In my area they use a sobbing young child that has 'had his bike stolen'.
  16. Looking for a GPS for my iPAQ for navigating across Europe. Found www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk They had a whole section on Geocaching with useful links. Bought A GPS for the iPAQ and tried to use it on a local cache hunt but wasn't really suitable. More geared to directing you on roads. I did try some shareware with it but it would give direction but not distance to waypoint. SO three weeks later I was back at the above site buying an eTREX summit (after trying on e-bay and watching people pay more than the retail price on aforementioned site- aren't people odd??) So 2 GPS receivers bought in 3 weeks. Still out there hunting for my first cache. Nearest one is a 10 waypoint puzzle, also under a lot of foliage so I have made a few return trips and I think I only have 2 more to go
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