The Kamikaze Clan

Hi all of you. I´m the 95% male part of The Kamikaze Clan. I´m 45 year of age, and lives on the swedish west coast. I´m "gifted" with dyslexia and severe ADHD of the combined type. I´m the kamikaze part of the caching name. I got into geocaching when I got a Nautiz X7 PDA (it´s a grey Getac PS236) to use as disability aid in my work. The PDA have a really good internal GPS, and I got hooked on geocaching in an instant. The daughter got bored of it quite fast, but my wife enjoys a few cachefinds now and when. I´m not too interested in the technical part of geocaching, but I do enjoy to learn about the tech behind the GPS system and hov to use it in the best way. I don´t have too many gadgets, but I have a powerpack for my smartphone because I forgets to charge it. I´m in fact have charging equipment hi and low because I forget to charge like everything I own. There are chargers and cord all over the car, and I even have a 12 volt outlet on my small Honda Innova. The ADHD makes everyday planning difficult, and getting a cheap 500MB a month internet connection on my phone made a huge difference. Now I can do geocaching more and easier. The downside of the field logging capability is that it make it more dificult for me to write longer logging texts, something that makes a lot of swedish cache owner angry.. At the moment I´m building a collection of handicap caches here in Lysekil, Sweden. The goal is to make at least 20 caches (three now) rated H11111 at handicaching . I´m not physically disabled myself, but I got irritated of the huge amount of geocachers here that complains about caches that are to easy to get. They don´t care about others at all, and making accessible caches is a way to make easy to reach caches that also are good not only to wheel borne people. Not even the most egoistic geocacher have the guts to complain about caches that are specially made to suit whose who need them. I must admit that I also like to make hard to find geocaches. I have two caches that´s a little difficult to get and another is in the works. The new one will be in a deep crevice that´s narrow and long. It´s so narrow that getting to the correct coordinates can be done from above. Climbing and crawling will be neccesary and it´s quite dirty on the bottom. The cache container will not be plastic and it will blend in good with the enviroment. The crevice is very stable with no risk of falling rocks, and the site is too good to leave without a cache. /Calle

1: A 2009 Yolt Yellow Toyota Yaris with a Signal the Frog on the antenna 2: A much to tuned piaggio Ciao 3. A "mini bicycle" that can be separated into two pieces. Like this one: http://pic01.auction2000.se/aukpic/va/20100402_1628/1885_1.jpg. Practical to have with me in the car.

My Nautiz X7 GIS PDA can measure angles. I have used it a few times to estimate height.

There are few adult businesses in Sweden, but where is one I know of: McDragans. Those kind of places are not my thing, but it´s very near a road I sometimes travel. This is his logo, not suitable for the most sensitive:http://www.privatbloggen.se/2009/04/05/mcd...-nar-utomlands/. McDonalds is not pleased. Mr Dragan also have the Absolute Pleasure Café, upsetting the owner of Absolute Vodka... McDragans would be a nice place for a "weird" cache if not being very close to GC181D7.

Is that like "a tech product looking for tech suckers?" Tech suckers = problem? Maybe the Chirp is like the laser technology. No real use for it until it suddenly is very needed. I like the ordinary cache with little or no frills, but if anyone like more tech stuff Chirp is good for them.

They get to see archived caches on the google map integration. Ahh, every swedish cacher is a platinum member!!! We can see the archived caches on our national caching map: http://www.geocaching.se/?page=map/map

My first is what I have now: my Nautiz X7 (Getac PS236). I have a background in the sport of orienteering and prior to the geocaching I had no need for a GPS:r. I got the Nautiz early 2010 as a helper in my job, and I got into geocaching almost immediately.

I use a Nautiz X7 (Getac ps236). It´s a quite souped up, but it is a ordinary PDA to use. PDA:s suits me well. I have used them for 15 years, and if i didn´t have free access to the Nautiz I would use an old PDA and a cheap GPS:r. The only big PDA problem in my opinion: battery life. Ones in time I had a Palm M100 that used AAA-batteries, but I don´t think that there are any more modern PDA:s that use ordinary batteries. Or is it?

My GPSr meets the MIL-STD 810G certification for temperature and should work OK in 60 °C. If we gets like 30 °C in Sweden it´s quite extreme. I guess my GPSr is a little over engineered, but only then it comes to high temperatures. But even a professional unit with MIL-STD certification gets a little "flakey" some times. I can´t even guess why and I don´t care about it. It´s incredible that the GPS system works at all IMHO.

As soon as possible. Especially using micro boats: http://a.slickdeals.net/attachment.php?att...mp;d=1276278914 And micro boat trolling and icecream eating at the same time should be banned right away!!!

How about a guy doing som fishing and peeing att the same time, and drenching his fishing rod, backpack and other stuff in urine. He didn´t seem to notice it at all, despite looking sober and not clearly on drugs. I didn´t ask him why...

Every time I read something like this is get the urge for the Kenaz submeter unit for my Nautiz X7. It´s about 1200 USD, 2/3 of the cost for the Nautiz PDA...

The easiest way to do it is with diamond covered cutting equipment. Quite expensive off course. My wife found a man on a arts and crafts fair near our home that makes big holes in stones. A 20 cm diameter rock with a 55mm diameter/90 mm deep hole was like 10 USD. That´s really cheap imho. I don´t think it´s a coincident that the man that makes the holes lives not to long from a company specialized in diamond cutting tools: http://www.lodteknik.se/ But if you want to do the hole your self: take a drill bit made for concrete and a machine made to use it. 5-8 mm drill bit will do OK. Larger diameters is waste of money. Drill the outer perimeter of your intended hole and make a few holes tight in the middle of the hole to be. Don´t forget to cool with water while drilling. Then take a narrow chisel and a hammer, and go like wiking berserk on the material you want to get rid of. If there are 30-40 mm material left on the outside it´s quite hard to break the stone if it´s clear of cracks. It will not be a nice smooth hole, but it will classify as a ordinary hole. My home town is built on granite: http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/st...nal/9704215.jpg ( the bench in the picture is not the town centre... ;D ) Since I moved here I´ve heard those stories about the difficulty doing stone work. A work that often is inherited through generations is not impossible to learn by most people, so I got a nice round granite stone and my simple tools. Two hours later (including tool sharpening) I had made some 5 mm deep and 25 cm long flames (like those on hot rods) on the stone. Not to difficult, and fun to do. Now I have a Rock n´ Roll stone! (hahaha...)

I have one of those at home. Descent battery time and both SD- and CompactFlash- slots are nice. The X3 is also OK. I have a bunch of those.

I have one of those at home. Descent battery time and both SD- and CompactFlash- slots are nice. The X3 is also OK. I have a bunch of those.

My caching area is the southern part of Sweden. My pictures at panoramio.com shows a large part of that area. We have very few dangerous things here. Up north there are bears, but they only attack hunters for "some" reason. We have one poisonous snake, a viper ( Vipera berus ) that are not that dangerous. About one person every eight year are killed by that snake, usually due to an allergic anaphylactic shock. Bees kills about one person a year, also due to due to allergic anaphylactic shock. I´m not allergic to either bees or vipers. I have been bitten/stung by both, with no major problems after. We have almost no floodings or other dangerous wether, very minor earthquakes, no volcanos, few hunting accidents, the traffic is very safe, the crime rate is low and no terrorists. Almost booooring... We have the lawfull right to access privat nature areas. It called "all mans right", and give all swedes the right to roam free in the nature if we don´t destroy plants or disturbe people in their homes. We are allowed to raise our tents for one night at suitable place in the nature. Camping in most of the nature reserves are not allowed, but there are so much other places to go to that it´s no problem to find places to be totally alone at. The winter temperature in my town can go down to about -20 degrees celcius and everything near +30 degrees celsius in the summer is considered extreme. We had 82 centimetres of snow here in february, the most in fifthteen years. At the moment it´s +18 degrees celsius outside and the wind is 9-11 m/s. I guess Sweden is quite a good country to live in.

But there are more odd thing to see: Here in sweden we have good support for people with illness and retardments of the mental kind. They are treated good, but then people speak to them selves a few a the "not yet diagnosed" can get a little annoyed. In the latest year some of the "diagnosed" have been doing a new thing. They get a unconnected bluetooth headset and can then speak with them selves with out most "ordinary" people noticing. I think it´s really cool that it works so good and that they can solve the problem that easy.

I dumpster dive frequently. I have a workshop full of other peoples junk, and I have to keep it full to have the inventory needed to make things. If ten pieces of junk is needed to make something good you must have at least 150 items to choose from. But you also need a lot of steel pipes and good assortment of wheels. Latest build: A bicycle trailer custom made for a bouldering crash pad. Made from parts of an ironing board and wheels from a rollator that looked like it had seen use in a high speed chase. In the works: A cargo bicycle with the cargo racks made from thin wall steel pipes found in a dumpster. It´s illegal in sweden to take things from most dumpsters. Sweden is one of the best countries in the world when it comes to recycling, and everything has a value. The local recycling center has cameras and guards to watch the precious gods.

We have one specie of dangerous snake in sweden, and it´s not to bad. Like a bad wasp sting to most people. Here in the southern part we have no bears or other large predators. The largest cat there is are the Lynx. There are a few wolfes, but they are not present at the more populated areas. But we have... ...Mosquitos!!!!! I live on the edge of the atlantic ocean. There are very few mosquitos here, and if I see just one I goes almost viking berserk. "Ahhhhh, I´ll move to an island out in the ocean!!! I need nerve poison to kill it! Ahhhhhhh..." Winter caching brings no mosquitos, or ticks, or those small biting thingies that can kill a cow then many enough, or vipers. I do like to watch the vipers, but I don´t like them to perforate me. My region in the summer is a "holiday paradise" with mugglers everythere. Much calmer in the winter.

It looks like a small walkie talkie. Something like this, without the antenna: http://img.alibaba.com/photo/108414224/Cob...lkie_talkie.jpg

It was my spouse who proposed that we would start with geocaching. We met in the mountainbike racing community in Stockholm, and have quite similar opinions in large. She works in the computer user support business, and have a positive view on technology in general. We try to learn that positive tech view to our 14 year old daughter, and then not being a grumpy teen monster she loves to go caching to.

Hi all of you. My name is Calle (short for "Carl" in swedish) and I´m a quite overage and not too cute ADHD kid. Well, I´m 44 years old, but my neuropsychiatrical diagnoses some times makes me not too "grown up"... I live in Lysekil at the west coast of Sweden ( my picures of Lysekil on Panoramio: http://www.panoramio.com/map/?user=698858#...p;a=1&tab=4 ). We is a family of three: Me, my spouse and a daughter of 14 years old. I´m a pacifist (but not hater militaries...), ateist (but not hater of religious people) and a firm believer of "what goes around, comes around". My disabilities makes it hard for me to lie in an "effective" way and I may as well be honest in my believes and opinions. I work at our local museum with everyting that needs to be done, from serving the museum visitors to digging ditches. The museum shows the coastal culture of this part of Sweden, and are spanning from Mesolitikum (10 000 f.Kr. - 4000 f.Kr.) to present time. Due to my disabilities I got at Nautiz X7 PDA (Getac PS236 with other shell colour) to use in my work. Because of the quite heavy manual labor involved in the maintenance of the old houses and surrounding land a fully rugged unit is necessary. As a bonus the Nautiz comes with a very good integrated GPS, and then geocaching just became a must to us. I know that the Nautiz is overkill for geocaching. I could never buy one myself on my low wage, but now it´s available and very useful also for geocaching. Geocaching is a perfect hobby for someone that is as restless as me and my daughter. I even think that the ADHD "problem" is a strength then doing something that is a lot like hunting and gathering of ancient times. Planning the process, waiting out mugglers and new places all the time, somehow feels totally natural for me. Other hobbies: Mountainbiking on our smooth cliffs (http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/13140355.jpg ), bouldering (the cliffs again), photography, flying radio control airplanes (mostly 3d aerobatic and combat slope soaring), airbrushing on things and building/modifying bicycle frames.

We have a very compact Canon Ixus 100 IS (don´t know the north american namn), that is used often then caching. Very small physical size and decent pictures, but not very fun to take pictures with. The results can be OK: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/29462719 I do prefer my Canon 30D (i know it´s old, but I don´t need more), especially when used with my Canon 17-55/2.8 IS. The problem is the weight: about 1.5 kilos. I often want the 50-150 lens and the flash, and what´s a heavy burden. Get a camera that isn´t to cumbersome. A camera not used takes no good pictures at all. But it is in reality as Ryuchan wrote above: a good photographer can make good use of almost everything that takes a picture. But I´m a little negative to the "surveyor camera" in my Nautiz X7 PDA. I have good photographic education, does photo jobs now and then, but the Nautiz camera need good use of every bit of knowledge I have: http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/d0758d...23939c9c763.jpg

Are there still not any tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in north america? We now have some areas with TBE risk in Sweden, and I´m thinking of getting vaccination for it. Brain inflammation doesn´t sound to good to me.

Geocachers look like something created by The Monty Pyton Flying Circus. Bluetooth users looks insane. Don´t know which is worse...