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  1. There's no need to add false mileage to TBs anymore, and if they come back from the great beyond it's just a matter of logging it to get it going again, without all that false mileage from a graveyard far away.

     

    Thanks for the reply,

     

    However, the fact that the owner can do this doesn't help me with the entries by people who do not respond to emails or messages asking them to amend their entries.

     

    I don't force people to put trackables in my graveyard, and it was running before the changes to the trackable systems, but I would like to remove the dud entries, if possible, please.

     

    As with all systems, there will always be people who don't realise all the controls available to them, and I still see the occasional new trackable being put into the graveyard. Especially from the USA, sometimes with comments about there being no graveyard in their country...

  2. Hi,

     

    I'm the 'owner' of the UK Travelbug graveyard cache and I'm trying to do some tidying up.

     

    I have a few trackable items in the graveyard which don't have a valid link to their details and I'd like to clear them out, if the owners don't update the links.

     

    I've emailed the owners asking them to either add the links or delete the items, but if they don't respond, as some have not logged ito Geocaching for a while in some cases, I would like to be able to remove the invalid links.

     

    However, as I don't have the tracking number, I can't 'collect' the item and/or delete it.

     

    Anyone know if there is a way to get rid of invalid items from a cache list please?

     

    Thanks

  3. I got a message from someone saying one of my missing TBs was being sold on eBay. However, on checking, it wasn't my TB at all.

     

    What had happened was that a seller was advertising brand new, unregistered, TB tags and had used a copy of the picture of the TB dog tags from the Groundspeak Geocaching.com site. Someone had looked at the picture, mistaken a "1" for a "2" and decoded this as one of my tags.

     

    It's a good job I looked carefully before complaining to eBay, wasn't it? :rolleyes:

  4. I have been looking into TCP/IP over 2m, for short range(100 miles or less) to transfer waypoints and email purposes, anybody tried it?

    You would be better off using Packet (AX.25) or, if you are feeling brave, have a go with the KA9Q NOS program.

     

    NOS (Network Operating System) is a way of using TCP/IP over the radio.

     

    There's a very good book on it by Ian Wade (G3NRW) called "NOSintro - TCP/IP over Packet Radio".

     

    There were some nodes set up in the UK, and I even managed to get something running myself, once upon a time. However, there wasn't much interest because it was the equivalent of Linux on the radio. Difficult to set up, and few people on when you did!

     

    Google for NOSview and KA9Q and you will probably find more info.

     

    HTH

  5. "If as I assume the satellites transmit in the microwave band then there would be a greater absorption of the radiation; due to the higher amount of water in the atmosphere. "

     

    No they don't and so consequently, no there isn't!

    Actually, they are just in the microwave bands - 1.2 to 1.5GHz

     

    Many people, wrongly, think that 'microwaves' are classed as being where the microwace ovens operate, which is 2.4GHz. However, the official starting point for microwave bands is 1GHz.

     

    The water absorbtion is unlikely to make much of a difference as experience tells me that GPS receivers still work in the pouring rain!

     

    As has been said, tree cover and buildings can make far more of a difference to reception, so your leg is being pulled.

  6. A terrorist strike on a pylon would at worst knock down the pylon and sever the cables. I would guess that National Grid can repair this sort of damage to a single pylon within hours. Even after major storms have knocked over power lines, they seem to get the supplies back up quite quickly.

     

    Major substations on the other hand would probabaly take longer to fix, and presumably have higher security.

    Yes, and because the grid is a 'grid' it's likely that another path to get supplies through could be found within a very short space of time. The pylon could then be repaired and the circuits re-switched back to normal.

     

    Even major substations can be bypassed by feeding supplies via a different route.

  7. I wonder who invents these place names?

     

    Hairy ford shire?

    Leo minster or should that be lem minster?

    What is that all about?

     

    From Ancestry.com

     

    Hereford

    English: habitational name from Hereford in Herefordshire, or Harford in Devon and Goucestershire, all named from Old English here ‘army’ + ford ‘ford’.

     

    From information britain

     

    Leominster is another market town on the Black and White Village Trail. Dating from the 7th century, its first recorded name is 'Llanllieni', the Welsh name meaning 'the church on the streams'.

     

    HTH

  8. are you playing 'georugby' by any chance?

     

    BTW, if you are playing for the South, ignore all of the above. <_<

    Yes, I'm playing GeoRugby, and used the link from the webpage, so sort of assumed it would put me in the right forum. :anicute:

     

    I'm playing for the Northern team, so I presume you are on 'my side' as well?

     

    The other thing that is confusing me is that, on the geolympics/rugby site it says that there should be an indication of the max. distance from the cache you retrieve it from, but they don't appear when I look at the page.

     

    I'll place the ball and wait for the tag, I've moved Travel Bugs before, so I hope that I know how to do that. :anibad:

  9. When we reached the remains of the 13th century chapel, our young daughter unknowingly ran over the top of the graves of two people buried there only seconds before the photo was taken.

    When I read this post first time, it read as if the people had been buried seconds before the picture was taken and I thought 'how did the daughter not know this?' LOL

     

    The discolouration is probably a reflection in the lens.

  10. UK Advanced.

     

    I'm G0DJA but I used to be G6VMQ back in the early 1980s

     

    If anyone is interested...

    The UK has three licence types for Amateur Radio.

     

    Foundation

    Intermediate

    Advanced

     

    New licences are now issued with the following basic prefixes.

     

    Foundation = M3***

    Intermediate = 2*0***

    Advanced = M0***

     

    The astericks are letters. The three after the prefix are the unique identifiers, the one between the 2 and the 0 in the intermediate licence tells you the area where the person is. I.e., 2E0AAA is in England, if they go to Wales they become 2W0AAA and if they go to Scotland they become 2M0AAA. There are more for the Channel Islands, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, but it is a long list. :laughing:

     

    The identifier is also used in the other two licence classes. So, M3AAA is in England, if they went to Wales they would become MW3AAA and in Scotland MM3AAA. Same long list of other identifiers apply.

     

    There's a list of the UK licences, showing the older systems, and approximately when they were issued, at RSGB Webpage then click on the 'Amateur Radio' drop down and select 'UK Callsign Prefixes'.

  11. Being a Brit I don't know about APRS, but if you use UI-View, there's the facility to get it to output data through a "virtual com port", which an add-on bit of software can feed into something else. So UI takes in the GPS Data on COM 1 (which is a real physical serial port).

    Ui-View is a program that uses the APRS protocol.

     

    The programs DosAPRS, WinAPRS and MacAPRS were the ones originally developed in the USA.

     

    I used WinAPRS for a while, but converted to UI-View just after Roger (G4IDE) developed it.

     

    You would need to contact the programers for the other programs that implement the APRS protocol to see if they are able to interface with other programs. From what I know of programs like Ham Radio Deluxe (a program that interfaces the PC to a CAT enabled rig) it usually needs an appropriate DDE to be written to interface between programs.

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