NickPick
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And congratulations to Miss Duracell Bunny for getting the coveted bottom place.
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From the feedback, seller seems to have a habit of high p&p charges £10 for a torch reflector!
I always hate to see the way that some people seem to try and scrape an extra bit of profit from the p&p
still, you don't have to buy from them I suppose.
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Looks like it'll do the job.
But in my opinion, any GPSr will do, from the basic etrex / geko right up to the 60cs.
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It seems that the BBC (and caching god SimplyPaul) has a lot to answer for.
I think that for basic geocaching, any GPS will do. If you also want routing capabilities to help you drive to the cache location, then that'd be a nice additional extra. Me - I use a yellow etrex.
I'd say a data cable is very useful, as entering waypoints manually is painful, and could introduce errors.
For those of you in the UK, the UK forum has an "adopt a newbie" thread, which might help put you in touch with an existing cacher, so you can see what it's all about without having the initial expense of buying your own kit.
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Is it against guidelines to place the cache inside an armed mantrap? What do you reckon?
Hmm, is there an icon on the cache attributes for "Armed and dangerous"?
I can see the cache listing now...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to bypass the laser sensors, disable the fragmentation grenades and evade the large rolling boulder. Once past this, the cache is a tupperware container under the pile of logs
Or you could set up a webcam burglar alarm to inform you of visitors.
Some of the dog walkers you mention on the cache page must have bloodhounds
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How not to look suspicious...
Wear a flourescent jacket, then the general public will just think that you're supposed to be doing whatever you're doing. Part of my job is to rummage in undergrowth looking for water valves and fire hydrants, and if I'm wearing the jacket, people ignore me.
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That is a spooky co-incidence, but you've now got a work mate to geocache with.
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I've just had a look at that EBay seller. I could just go and puchase one of the HUGE magnets they are selling and take a walk round Watford and loads of 35mm caches with small magnets on would come flying towards me then!
Just don't take your credit cards / palmpilot / gps or anything else electromagnetic!
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I've always enjoyed being out at night. There's something exciting about being out when everyone else is tucked up. I did some night caching on november 5th last year, which was great, walking across the fields to The Cache That Time Forgot reminded me of the night time treks I used to do in the scouts (many years ago).
It's particularly good when there's some moonlight to be able to see where you're going without having a torch on the whole time, and there's quite a lot to see, although having a deer run past about 100 feet away in the dark was a bit worrying, but I expect he could see me better than I could see him.
As for feeling guilty, I don't, but I do tend to shy away from advertising my presence when other people pass by. I do wonder what they're doing there, so I guess they'd be suspicious about me aswell. I'm also cautious to make sure that I don't worry anyone unneccesarily (particularly near remote houses etc.).
On one trip, I was about 100m away from my car when I noticed flashing red/blue lights near it, "Hmm, do I tell them about geocaching, or do I make something up?, or do I just hide until they've gone?" I was going to tell them the geocaching story, but the police had finished inspecting it when I got back, so I didn't have to explain what I was doing in the middle of Frithsden beeches at 1 am.
I see what you mean about the mega candles - especially with the increased news coverage of 'lamping' which I'd never heard of until a couple of months ago whan a teenager got shot whilst doing it. I was thinking of getting one, but perhaps I'll stick with my maglite.
As far as the suspicious nature, it's not illegal to be out at night (yet if this government are anything to go by), so it certainly shouldn't be discouraged.
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Just remember - "It's a jumper, not an anorak"
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from the home page, when I click 'check out the recent photos', the gallery limits to 1000.
I like to be able to flick through and see what others are photographing, would it be possible to increase the number of photos viewable through this facility? 1000 images is only 1.5 days at the moment, and I haven't looked at it for 3 days, so I've missed a lot.
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hello, there should be a signature down there somewhere?
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My understanding is that the GPSr needs to be receiving data from 4 sattelites to achieve a good 3d fix. If it's receiving data from more, then it chooses the 4 to use, and I'm not sure how it chooses them. I don't think that it calculates solutions using all possible combinations of sattelites, and then averages the answers to give the best solution, although that might be a nice way of doing it. I'm sure I'll be corrected here if I'm wrong.
You are wrong.
The statement about "choosing the four to use" may have been true of the older type, multiplexing units. Current 12-channel handhelds (more channels coming, soon) have more sophisticated functionality.
Funny, I almost wrote "I'm sure that WLW will correct me.."
Thanks for the info, I'll have to spend some time reading up on the latest units and methods. -
I happen to know that there's a Magellan Meridian Platinum, complete with cable, SD card etc. for sale on ebay!!
Uh Oh! From his 'past purchases' page, it looks like The Hornet has just bought 50 magnets. Are we in for a bonanza of micros?
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can someone video it, convert it and post it on the web like the last one? Do the CSC get BBC points west?
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What are the co-ords you're trying to plot?
If you're placing a cache, then you should ideally visit the location a few times and get an average of a few readings.
If the co-ords take me to within 10m of the actual cache box, I'd be happy with it.
The usual acuracy you'll get with a GPSr is around 5-10 metres, so it's quite probable that two held side by side will have slightly different answers within that 5m circle.
My understanding is that the GPSr needs to be receiving data from 4 sattelites to achieve a good 3d fix. If it's receiving data from more, then it chooses the 4 to use, and I'm not sure how it chooses them. I don't think that it calculates solutions using all possible combinations of sattelites, and then averages the answers to give the best solution, although that might be a nice way of doing it. I'm sure I'll be corrected here if I'm wrong.
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You probably need to check:
is the software accepting degrees and decimal minutes (it might be expecting dd mm ss, or decimal degrees)
have you got the correct hemisphere? ie is the longitude degrees west or east?
Geocaching.com co-ords are WGS84 (if the cache setter has posted them correctly
Some software uses positive or negative numbers for longitude (and I can never remember which is which)
streetmap is a handy way of finding cache locations online, and if you follow the thread in "UK geocaching resources" (pinned at the top of the UK forum), there's a method of adding a button to the links bar to show the location on the OS 50,000 mapping in a new browser window.
Hope this helps,
Nick
edited to delete the answer already given by the OP.
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Almost sounds like one of Simply Paul's peurile photo caches
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well, all that seemed to work as I expected it to. Those buttons at the top are very handy.
I'll try not to annoy everyone by using them all in every post!
Now to sort out an avatar I guess...later.
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so, let's see. I want to be able to do formatting, colour, add a link to a url, and split quote boxes. I'll start now:
using the formatting buttons
this bit should be bold. I hope
this bit should be italic and underlined
and I guess that I can colour other words in...That should look nice and yucky
I suppose I can combine the effets too
so for quoting, I guess that I paste the text, and then click the 'quote' box
so this bit should be in a quoted boxand I can write a bit more
and this bit should be boxed tooso the following should be a link to GC.com's website
I think that's about it, except for a photo:
that should be a linked photo.
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geocaching.com's 'about' page says
As of today, there are 142068 active caches in 213 countries.
In the last 7 days, there have been 83835 new logs written by 16409 account holders.
You didn't get a kiss on that email then?
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That postcode file only uses the first part of the postcode, which will generally put you in the right part of town, but if you're looking for a road, you need the second half of the code aswell.
It's a nice site though. I particularly like his 'kitecam', and sympathise with him, having recently broken a digital camera myself (but that'll teach me not to let a 4 year old get hold of it)
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It's an easy mistake to make with a travel bug. All you've got to do is ask HH for the tracking number, then grab it from wherever it is on the tracking site, and drop it in whichever cache you've left it.
Congrats To Alibags On Her Tripple Century
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Congratulations from me too.
Wow, 300, I'm only 1/12th of the way there