spannerman

I use a GPS12 MAP and it works perfectly well. I use the GOTO for the cache then stick it in my pocket and it rarely loses the signal. Every now and then I take it out to check direction and it's only when I'm near the cache or going under tree cover that I hold it in my hand. I've done caches where previous finders have reported loss of signal under trees but I have found that my "museum piece" has worked fine. I don't think it has ever let me down so I will not be getting anything newer for, hopefully, a very long time. The best bit about it is that it only cost £50 inc. postage from the auction site!

I hope I'm not being naive here but I think any cacher has enough evidence with them to validate their reason to be in a particular place at a particular time. The only time you will arouse suspicion is when searching for the cache, but you will have a GPSr, printouts or PDA showing the coordinates of where you are and why you are there. I can't see even the most thorough Police/Security person detaining you for very long and unless the cache has been sited in a no go area then there will be no reason for "subsequent police action". Just carry on caching as normal, don't let the current situation make you change the way you do things....or they win!!!

http://www.letterboxingondartmoor.co.uk/index.html Not the prettiest site, but you can send for a current catalogue of Dartmoor Letterboxes. Officially you need to have found 100 boxes to get a catalogue but they are quite lenient with the rule. If you plan to visit Dartmoor to visit some then you must visit Cranmere Pool the site of the very first Letterbox, sited in 1854. If you want a copy and have a problem getting one from the site, email me and I will get one and send it on to you.

Very well done and many thanks from me and Bonkerz Krazee for all the caches you have put out.

I have been reading this with post with interest because as someone else who regularly walks on Dartmoor, I have removed countless ticks from myself and the dogs over the years. I have never received any more than a red scar where I have removed them but I am aware of Lyme disease so always keep an eye on it for a few days. This morning there was an article on the front page of one of the dog papers I get which reports the death of a dog which had been bitten by a "foreign" tick. The dog had never left the UK and as it lived in Ashford, Kent it is feared the tick may have arrived on a lorry from abroad. It was regularly walked on a footpath near the Channel Tunnel Terminal! The tick is called rhipicephalus tick, or brown dog tick, which had until now been confined to the Mediterranean areas of Europe. The disease it transmits, Babesia, can also be be transmitted to humans. It affects the red blood cells leaving humans with malaria type symptoms including nausea, fatigue, diarrhoea and anorexia. Dogs immune system responds by destroying the red blood cells containing the disease to the extent they die from anaemia. Hopefully this was an isolated incident but if this tick does get established it is another set of symptoms to look out for.

Looks like fun! I would like to bag a pitch please for 2 adults 1 junior and 1 dog. We would like the Friday and Saturday night booked but probably wont arrive till after 6 on the Friday.

While I have agreed with most points in this discussion I do not agree with this quote. Our Bull Terrier is always on a lead when out and in open areas she has a 30ft lead rein. This gives her room for a run around but she can reeled in when necessary. (Any pictures I have posted in my logs have the lead airbrushed out.) We keep her on a lead not because she is known to be aggressive (far from it) but because we know any dog has the potential to be aggressive and if she did decide to "have a go" the damage she could do would be terrible. Irrespective of whose fault it was she could have an order to be destroyed so we don't take the risk of this happening. While the vast majority of untethered dogs we meet just come up and say hello to her we have had a couple who start snarling at her and I usually give them a whack with my stick if the owners cannot call them away. I agree that the dog and owner should be reported to the Police but I wonder how many owners would give you their details after their dog has just bitten you. You would need to either follow them to their car or to their house to get that information. I would suggest turning the tables and giving the offending dog a good kick in the throat and then give your details to the owner and let them do the reporting. I know it sounds harsh and I do consider myself to be a dog lover but I have no time for irresponsible owners or their animals.

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. We are very proud of Roxy and all the work Ali has put into her training. People often comment on Roxy's coat and how do we keep it in such a good condition. I am convinced it is down to mud packs she delights in applying to herself every time we go caching. After every show we go after a couple of local caches, the walk being her reward, and have been introduced to some lovely walks which we would never have found without caching. The two hobbies go very well with each other, even better if I could train her to sniff them out for me!

I have the templates and fonts for the UK notes if you want them. Let me know and I will email them to you.

Not sure what's happening there. I regularly export large maps having Fugawi set to 10% and haven't come across that. I've just checked the size of some of my older uploads and the largest is just over 4mb. Edit. Just realised I only ever export the small map and the other two boxes unchecked.

I have Fugawi installed on my Palm 505. I haven't found a way to load directly to the card so I upload the map to the palm first and then move it across to the card. When you open the map list in Fugawi there is a button at the bottom marked "Move". That moves it across to external memory card. Fugawi only takes up 121k on my palm so it doesn't take up much memory. There maybe an easier way, but that is how I do it.

I made a display rack for my coins when I started collecting and they are are on a shelf in my living room. I am now up to 15 (and growing) so will have to make another rack soon. I only buy coins I like so don't mind looking at them on a shelf. It seems a shame to hide them away in a drawer or box. Of course the time may come when it just isn't feasible to display a large quantity so only my favourites will have a place on the display.

My daughter has her own caching name and she had logged most of the caches I have set up. She hasn't been with me when I sited them so it is no different for her to find one of mine or someone elses. She has the GPSr and away she goes to find it. I follow on behind and she usually finds it without any help from me so I don't see a problem with her logging it. She has now set her first cache and although I did help her out with that, I will still log it on our next maintenance visit. We obviously wouldn't log a FTF on each others caches either but as long as it is logged on a "proper" visit I consider it acceptable. I have a few unreleased Geocoins as well and she grabs them from me for the icon. I don't think there is any difference in that to finding my caches. This is just my opinion, for what it's worth, but that how we play the game.

My trusty GPSr is not WASS enabled and I have no immediate plans to upgrade it. Reading this thread has put a question in my head as to whether it would be a hindrance or help to find a cache which was set using a non WASS enabled receiver. If I set a cache, my accuracy would be 15 meters according to Garmin, so if a searcher was using a WASS enabled receiver with a 3 meter accuracy, they could in theory be nearly 40ft from my cache. Am I right in thinking this. If I am right it maybe it's an idea to add a note in the cache description whether WASS was enabled or not in setting the cache. I would be interested to know if anyone using a WASS enabled GPSr has found caching easier with it enabled. So far I have not had any problems with my old GPS12MAP and the accuracy has always been a lot less than than the figures quoted by Garmin. I guess this is because most caches I have done were set without WASS enabled GPSr's but is this likely to change as more cachers have WASS enabled.

You could always make the cache a multi ensuring visitors followed the route you want them to take. A problem with email verification is that the owners do not always respond. I visited a virtual cache about 4 months ago and never recieved an answer to my emails so I have never logged the cache. It is now on my ignored list. I have a cache on the edge of Dartmoor with the final site being yards from the parking area. In order to get the coordinates you have to walk up a hill to a micro where there is a wonderful view. If anyone gets given the final coords by a caching friend then I don't have a problem with that. They sign the log, they claim the cache. I may have set it to share the view but if anyone wants a cache and dash who is the loser?

From further up this thread.

Ordered mine as well, one of each. Thank you.

It's done, go get it!

"Esmond" will be continuing its travels tomorrow when it is going into a Dartmoor Cache. Anyone picking it up will have a minimum 5-6 mile round walk so I hope the weather is kind. Good Luck!

Sorry Davey Boy, picked one up tonight, "Esmond" TB.

Not to worry! I am off to Gloucestershire today and will be bringing a White Jeep back with me to place in a Devon Cache early next week