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Be careful with these type of caches regarding TB's ie. don't leave them in them. I did. Had to retrieve them later the same day. But then I didn't read the instructions...

I thought I'd lost a micro a few weeks ago. After a couple of DNF's, I visited the cache to check it out and couldn't find it. Rather angrily, (another GC micro-container gone...) I returned home, prepared another and planned to re-plant it the next day. Hmmm... back on site and located the original about 9 inches from where I first left it. Goes to show one can do 'too' good a job in hiding the things!

Well done Alibags! Ain't never gonna try and find a cache after you again, you making it too hard gal... Good luck, Jon and Lesley

Well done from the Dewdrops!

Hi, I just purchased a non-mapping Garmin GPS 60 (it's fairly new here in the UK). Does anyone else use this unit, any shortcomings to watch out for... battery life, preferred nav settings etc? What use is the geocache mode? As far as I can see it just enables one to log a find on the GPSr, or am I missing something? Thanks, Jon

Well it's good to know where London and Coventry are when caching I guess... lol Seriously though, downloading routes from Manager is OK if you are travelling down motorways/A roads etc. and simply want to plan a long distance route, but for any other use it's no use. A case of 'you get what you pay for' I guess. I'll stick with the GSAK/memory-map combo! Jon

Does anyone make use of the Trig & Waypoint Manager with this GPSr? Being a non-mapping unit, GSAK/Memory-map seem to be a more useful combination, or am I missing something? I do not use a laptop/portable PC. Jon

I offer the following as a bargain, found on another thread. 2-way walkie talkies = £3.73 a unit. Jon

May be of interest? Just seen a quad pack of walkies detailed on another thread - just reserved them for P/U tomorrow from my local Argos store: Argos link for walkies Believed to be de-badged Motorola/BT units, and for £14.95 for the 4, from all accounts a snip! Jon

Save it anyway. You will get another prompt the same, then say yes and close. I think it's just a security prompt. Jon

I'm looking... but not hopeful... Jon

I also just tried to print a 5 x 5 out in landscape. Got 4 pages, a 5 x 1 , a 5 x 3 and another 5 x 1. Going back to 3 x 3! Jon

Works a treat! Thanks again. I just tried it as a 4 x 4 version (as 5 x 5 brings up scroll bars on my PC), but it reverts to 3 x 3 ? Not fussed, just an observation. Jon

Wishlist... A partner who can/will do more than 5 caches in a day! Shhh...

Thanks for the guidance chaps, I already got the canister/log made up and the pencil sharpened for replacement tomorrow. Jon

Today I went to check on one of my micro caches (Woodley Town Micro) and it has gone. I intend to replace the cache, however I want to re-locate it maybe up to 30 yards from the original site and co-ords to a safer spot (I have not decided on a new location yet). Is it good practice to simply 'amend' the cache co-ordinates to reflect the new location, or should one archive the original cache and post a completely new one, maybe as 'Mark II' or similar? Jon

I used Firefox for a while. Can you not use the same method? If you can't actually 'create from new', try amending an existing favourite link in it's properties (ie. delete the favourite's URL and insert the java? Jon

If truth be know, that's how I did it too! Jon

I did it by creating a new shortcut and naming it 'Streetmap'. Then, instead of inputting an HTTP reference, paste in the javascript exactly as shown. Now all you have to do is highlight a co-ordinate on a cache page (like parking co-ords etc), and click the 'Streetmap' shortcut you just created. It'll take you straight to the relevant page on Streetmap in a new window. It's a great snippet and it takes the chore out of typing out the co-ords into Streetmap. Jon

Wow, this is cool! It even drops the surplus bits and pieces in the co-ords (eg. the degree sign) Thanks guys. Jon

Thanks CuplaKiwis, but this is not the script I was looking for. When looking at a cache page, sometimes parking co-ords are given in the description for example. Rather than open another browser window, go to streetmap.co.uk and enter the co-ords, the script enabled me to copy the co-ords with the mouse, then open the script on the favourites toolbar. A pop-up window would appear into which I pasted the co-ords, and the appropiate streetmap map page would appear in a new window. A small but handy little application. I hope I have described this well enough for someone to recognize what I am talking about?.... Jon

Looks like a possible one for GC40FD ?

Some time ago I downloaded a small script that gave me a 'streetmap' tag on the toolbar. I could click this, paste co-ords in and hey presto, goto page required in streetmap. Following a PC crash I lost the script. Can anyone oblige? Thanks, Jon

I remember seeing a post some time ago regarding a way of configuring PQ's to catch all UK caches. I recall it was based on around 9 x 'by date' queries. Does anyone know of this method and if it still works (considering the 500 cache limit per query). I'd like to run the query just once (to populate Memory-map) As an option maybe run a weekly, 7 day update (again, is there more than 500 caches updated weekly?) Jon

A $1,000,000 bill (real one).