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Fncnca

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  1. I am using IE7 with an Etrex Legend, the send to GPS does not work for me. It says no device can be found. If I use Mapsource or Easygps I can send to the legend.
  2. Bought my Legend H back in early December '09. I am getting right around 20 hours of service from each set of batteries. Sometimes a bit more, at times a bit less. I use the cheap Duracells. I have to change them about every 7 weeks. I rarely use the backlight. I have a theory about battery life. When I turn on the GPS or any other battery powered device, I leave it on until I am done with it. I think turning it on and off drains the charge more rapidly. Batteries are cheap enough that I am not going to try and prove this theory right or wrong. Maybe I should send this idea to Mythbusters, get them to test it for me. LOL
  3. My most recent, (last week) was two days. Of the 8 I have, most of them were 5 days or more. There are 4 hides less than 9 miles from my house that have been sitting about a month unfound. I will not go look for them, I am not going to BETA test the co's coords anymore. I tested his other hides for the FTF. The unfound hides have a few DNF logs, not going to add to them. Going to let someone else root them out and give the co the correct coords. FTF means little to me, I have 8 now, the ones I will get from now on, will be accidents.
  4. Northern NC BBQ or Southern NC BBQ? Any Carolina style would be great. Currently living in Texas, I am soooooooooo good BBQ deprived. A big BBQ event would be fun.
  5. Aint that the truth. I have 7 FTFs right now. Six of the seven were placed by the same cacher. On four of the six, the coords were so far off, I almost walked away from them, just had to keep looking. Right now, he has four more hides that have yet to be found, they have been published for at least 3 weeks. I will go after them when someone else finds them or I am in the area with nothing else to do. I really like the fact he is placing them, the area is way, way short on hides, just wish he would learn to average. Having new caches close to home is really cool. The newest FTF I have is 7 days old, so I think that means I don't chase FTFs, don't think I going to start anytime soon.
  6. I've never paid much attention to a chicken's schnitzel, but I think I'll stick with bacon! MMMMMMMM! Bacon-wrapped chicken-schnitzel! Noooooo, better would be Bacon wrapped Bacon
  7. Here in south Texas, I see exactly the opposite. New Cachers/COs are under rating their hides. It may be "easy" for the hider, but a lot of people will not be able to get there. I don't really concern myself with the "D" rating, but the "T" rating is very important I beleive.
  8. Recently I did a very new series hidden around a jogging/walking trail. I signed the log of every hide directly beneath the same cacher who found the hides the day before I did. The last cache of the day was not where it was supposed to be. I found it's tie hanging on a limb at the correct spot, the cache was missing. I looked on the ground beneath the tie and found the container under some bushes. I signed the log and placed it back where I found it, unfortunately I had nothing to tie it back up with. I noted this in my online log. The person who found the hides before I did, had logged this one as a find, but did not sign the paper log because he had forgotten to bring a pen. Amazing he had a pen for all the others but not for this one. It was not difficult to find at all, it was right there on the ground, it took no effort. I guess to him the cable tie was enough.
  9. Going to a local park that has hides that will fill in 3 D/T grid squares, that I need for the Fizzy, that I am working on.
  10. The GSAK macro uses POILoader to load caches into the Nuvi. Does the POILoader understand Groundspeak extensions? I remember people reporting that using POILoader directly on the GPX files from a PQ, they don't see the description, hints and all the other good stuff. This is true, you do not see all the extras. I take a GPX, open it with excel and strip out everything except the name, ID and cords. Save it as a CSV then use POIloader to put it into my auto gps. When I drive by one and want to look for it, I just reach into cache bag and pull out the handheld, which has the original GPX loaded into it. Only takes a few minutes to do this and to me it is well worth the effort.
  11. Do you have a digital camera / movie cam? If a cable came with either of those, good chance it will work. At least all mine do.
  12. If you don't want GSAK, you can get from the Garmin website POILoader
  13. Fncnca is a combination of our two primary, (all other forum and email ) handles. Mine is a gun, FNC Fabrique Nationale Carabine by the Belgian arms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale (FN) of Herstal. I have always been FNCxxx. Hers is NCa which is northern California. She has always been xxxxxxNCa Several years ago when I set up our first ISP connection, I needed a username in a hurry, Fncnca just popped into my head and it stuck. I use Fncnca for almost everything now. I am a huge gun person and she is very proud of her northern California heritage.
  14. I carry two Sharpie Ultra fine point pens. Signed a log yesterday that was dripping. With the tiny point, it is fairly easy to find a small speck of space on full logs, to sign.
  15. The first one was a huge rush, we were giddy when we found it. But other than being the first, it has no more of a special meaning than any of the others. We celebrate all of them, because we got out and found them. Got our first FTF last weekend, it has no special meaning to us other than we found it. The milestone that means the most to us, is the day we started doing this. That one can only happen once.
  16. I am not going to tell you that I saw your trackable, I am going to tell you that I moved your trackable. I like to watch them move, discovering them does nothing for me and I won't do it. I still have to type all the numbers, moving it to the next cache, adds nothing extra, except the joy of having moved the trackable. A few 0.1 mile moves adds up to a whole lot more than a whole string of discoveries. No matter how many trackables I find in a cache, I am going to move them all, even if only .1 miles away.
  17. I am still seeing that same issue tonight.
  18. Too bad my parents don't cache, they will be there working the event. If you see a local group with a petite little woman playing a big ole stand up bass, chances are good, that it is my parents. They keep asking me about caching, but they have not started it yet.
  19. I agree, keep it moving. I consider myself the "extra" owner of all trackables I move. I "watch" all trackables I move, seeing where they go after I have touched them gives me great pleasure. Send the one you are refering to my way. I will add a few miles to it.
  20. My vote is for shingles, go get it checked out. Don't wait, uncontrolled it gets very ugly.
  21. Been doing this for a short time and have come to love moving travellers. I consider myself the "extra" owner of all the bugs I move. I get a great deal of enjoyment from being a part of them. One day I will release my own. I "watch" all of the travellers that I move. I really hate to see a traveller sit in a cache that I placed it in. Worse yet I hate to see a log like ...... discovered bugXXXXXXX today, left it because I did not have any to trade. Don't trade for them, just move them. Went on a short trip this morning, but none of the hides were large enough to drop any of the travellers I have, in my inventory. Got to start doing more than just loading the coords. LOL Got to start checking container sizes. Because of this, I am going to do my darndest to make a trip tomorrow morning. Got to keep them travellers moving. The biggest woe I have, is seeing all those travellers that have been missing for months and or years, still being shown in the inventory, of the caches that they were dropped in. Why don't CO's just mark them missing!!!!!!!!
  22. We are still new at this so we have not stumbled onto any FTFs. Since we signed up, quite a fair number of new hides have been published around here. Just have not felt compelled to go after them. To us it is not about the race to be first, it is about being out having a nice walk in the sun and sometimes the rain. We mostly go after groups of hides that are in parks and other similar areas where we can spend a few hours enjoying the outdoors. If a new hide gets published in a location where we are going, then we will look for it, otherwise, everyone else can be first.
  23. There is a new TB Hospital in my area. I assume that the owner is contacting the bug owners before he operates on them, don't know for sure. I do know that a lot of bugs are moving through that hide.
  24. I know this is getting far away from the original post but, out of the 970 some odd thousand active caches, how many are on private land? How many lawsuits current and past have there been, as a result of something that happened to a cacher on private land? I have not heard of any, does not mean that they do not exist. I have no problem caching on private property as long as it is made clear that it is, in the cache listing. I have turned away from hides that, upon aproaching, I thought were on private land even though, the cache page said nothing about private land. Yeah I am still new to this, but it has happened twice so far. I would not hesitate to place a hide on my land, if I had more of it. We need more hides. My guideline would be: Would I let MY kids run wild in the area? If the answer is no, then I would not place a hide there.
  25. A Non-Premium forum participant with less than 10 posts is a "Tadpole". After 10 posts those participants automatically become a "Geocacher". And yes, Premium Members are able to customize their Forum Title. Darn, I was so hoping to move up to Frog. lol I guess Geocacher is better.
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