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Possibly a pointless feature, but are your home coordinates set? It uses this to work out where you are. On the other hand, my home coords seem correct, but that map just gets centred at the meeting point of the equator and international date line. And, it doesn't update as you pan around If it worked, you could pan, it would be good. Otherwise, just use the cache searches, there's a whole column for icons! Like a few others, I was fooled by the fact that it was using my post code to give me a list of caches centred on my house. Sorting out the setting of co-ordinates as pointed out in other posts here have cleared it up and I can now see a few nearby coins that might get snaffled (err... moved on)

Am I just thick? I don't get it. A page that gives me a list of recent bug logs and the opportunuty to enter the tracking number, or takes me to a page that lists recent bug logs and lets me enter a tracking number. Oh, click on the graphic at the top of the Geocoins box takes me to a map of geocoins near my house. Would be quite neat if I lived in Florida. Just tried it again, seems i've moved to Stockholm, now Michigan. Then again, I don't get bookmarks either. Must be the beginning of Grumpy Old Man.... can't cope with innovations.

OK, that's worth a congratulations thread... That's an average of 14.285714285714285714285714285714 caches each year of life. I just loved the number. My cache per year of life is an extremely ugly and embarrassingly small 3.3478260869565217391304347826087

If it was the Thursday it would have been a doddle as I'm in central London all day. Friday might well be possible. I've not been able to get to the last few London events, but this one doesn't clash at the moment.

Then you've perhaps not come across: flashearth.com You're right, but using that I get this link to the same image in google earth. Thanks for the link.

Local Live seems to have better res picture, but google earth allows greater zoom in for my area. Images can only have been a few weeks different at max. I'm judging that by the progress of the building works at Southbury Leisure centre I'll leave it for you to see the same image in Google Earth as I can't find a way of exporting the location. This was opened in 2002 and the local parks are set out for cricket so it could either be summer 2001 or 2002.

Thanks for the update. Busy times have kept me away from caching as much as I would like, and only dip into the forum about once a week. When I saw that this thread had worked it's way to the top I opened it with some trepidation. But the news does seem more positive than negative - thank goodness. All I can do is offer my best wishes and keep this thread alive to ensure that the people that count know we are still thinking of him. Hopefully another piece of positive news will bring the thread to the top again.

But my body clock isn't. I'm hungry and there are hours to go.

Now that'll be funny. All the out of date Sat Nav systems directing drivers into the water.

Stunned. As with many, never met BT, but certainly know the name. Here's hoping for the best.

Who - Some dodgy geezer finds his 6th cache? Where - a fair(l)y nice place on an island Why- now that's a question. Seriously, 600 done, very impressive.

I've been away for a few weeks, and it looks like the forum is stirring up all the old topics, so I thought I would add another old favourite: Anybody been on a foreign holiday and found time for a cache trip? I went to Crete, found 2, and deliberately didn't find another 2. The two that I did find were just what caching is about, took us to an abandoned monastery and a gorge that we wouldn't have know about otherwise. Long walks in the hot sunshine, finding caves, scrambling up barren rocky hills. So, thumbs up to Crete - Akrotiri - "3 Monasteries Cache" and Imbros. Also reassuring to note that the contents of their caches pretty much match the tat that is found in most UK caches.... globalisation. Thumbs down to some extent go to Karen's Chania Cache and Owl of Chania. The plus side of these caches is that they get you into the complicated little streets of a beautiful old harbour town (GPS reception very dodgy). The down side is that you have to go into the shop and ask for the cache. Not sure how that fits with the rules but it felt a little uncomforatable to me. Although not obliged to buy anything I felt there would be moral pressure to buy a drink at least in the taverna. So we were happy enough to find the place but to leave the cache unfound. I was surprised at how many caches have been allowed as 'holiday caches' e.g. the owner set them while on holday and will archive them if a problem turns up later. One or two are going to be looked after by locals but this was sorted out retrospectively. I guess with only 20 caches on the island the local reviewers have to stretch the spectrum of interpretation to some extent or there wouldn't be any caches at all there.

Well, you just read my mind. I'm sitting here in an old Victorian school with no air con and 34 deg inside, can't work out why as it's only 24 outside and we have all the wndows open. For some reason my mind drifted to 'pub' and 'caching'. July and August can be tricky to organise with many people off on hols. Any thoughts on a date?

I'm no authority but I would have been quite happy taking them both. Unless the TB was on a specific mission that I couldn't help with. However, when I move them on I try and put them in different caches.

Not managed this with a 5550, (now dead since I dropped it when caching), but I use a bit of free software called Netstumbler on a laptop.

Can't give you an answer at the moment, I have a spreadsheet on another computer, but how do you define an 'active cacher'? I usually set the limit that they must have found a cache in the last 6 months to be counted. How's that for you?

Well I'm enjoying the answers so far. It looks remarkably like a Secchi disk, but is screwed to the platform that you stand on to do pond dipping, so would never be underwater. The position is wrong for the photo rectifying thing, unless it was a helicopter shot. The decking goes up against a high bank, so isn't really visible from anywhere other than directly above or standing on the decking, and any picture that had the disk in would just have a close up of the bank. I'm pretty convinced that it is a marker to stand a pole on to do surveying. The area is being eaten away at around 1 metre a year so I'm sure they must be doing all sorts of stability checks. But radio active duck racing.... I can feel a whole new sport coming. Might just save Grandstand.

No, it's in the middle of an RSPB/National Trust wildlife reserve, quite close to Sizewell Nuclear thingy. Clearly not 'aligned' e.g. not north/south etc, as it is too neatly aligned with the decking. But you get the feeling it is for placing something like a surveying post. But we can't see any other point anywhere in the area. I would expect to have other similar points around, or some recognised place for placing a theodolite. The people that work at the site are sure it's the only one there.

Any body know what this is? It's about 6", a plate screwed to the decking around a pond used for pond dipping. The site manager has no idea, various 'officers' have looked at it and not seen anything like it. (Found on the way to a cache - so sort of cache related)

Yes. Gather the required proof, e-mail owner, wait for approval, log it. (In an ideal world).

As with the other posts, going back to a cache is fine. Picking up an interesting TB or coin is fine, and in my opinion, better if you can move it along rather than just picking it up and putting it back in the same cache. But I say that as a TB owner that likes to see it move along. As a cache owner I like to see TBs visit but also a little relieved when they move on. I would feel terrible if they were lost in a cache of mine that got muggled.

You can talk PC to PC for free, or PC to Skype phone for free (Skype phone plugs into computer network and replaces PC). You can also get a Skype number so people with normal phone can ring you. And also ring from Skype to real phone, but this costs. Skype calls are fairly cheap as they buy their airtime in bulk. I don't want to make this post too long, but I doubt that Skype is a long term solution and there will have to be some major changes in the voice over IP world fairly soon. Skype, along with some other VOIP solutions, rely on there being spare bandwidth. If a network is very busy the voice traffic does not have any higher status and gets delayed as do other data packets. But live audio and video is very 'sensitive' to breaks in the data flow. You can survive if your e-mail has the odd half second break in flow but not in a phone call. The problem is Skype becomes a self fulfilling failure. It uses the Skype software installed on each persons machine to create a pathway. It looks for connections that are not busy at the moment and the routes that way and there fore that previously empty route starts to fill. People suddenly realise that there is a lot of traffic going through their connection, particularly those that have a 'cap' on the amount of data they can transfer, and put firewalls in place so Skype finds it harder to find a route. A better solution would be to 'come clean' and mark VOIP traffic and then route it using 'Quality of Service' so that it gets a higher priority through more guaranteed pathways. But then the companies would be able to charge for the voice traffic and we're back to square one.

SICR? Showing I care really? See, I can rite Send in Christopher Robin?

Some form of official recognition then. A few thousand people across the whole of the UK have created that much of an impact that we are to be investigated. I'm not sure what they are pointing at but only one clause says 'ban' and I have no idea how they are going to ban alcohol consumption in such a wide area. I would guess that they would produce a set of rules regulating the placing of caches to create the least damage, not unlike the guidelines we already have.

"Doesn't cost any money?" How much was that GPS and Topo again? You wait till the petrol bills kick in. Welcome to the obsession. I must agree though, it is cheap and it is quality.