Shawn&Holly

I have 2 antennas now, one permanently mounted on the truck and the other is on the car. I want to permanently route the coax on that one also as it sometimes gets pulled and scratches the paint with the magnet, does not matter much on the old car at this time. Was thinking of picking up a third that would be able to go to rental cars when work sent me out. We use the antennas with a Garmin GPS 12CX and a Garmin eMap. Usually the 12CX is ok inside a vehicle, but the eMap seems to lose satellite lock quickly in the vehicle. I was able to get both from eBay for $15.95US each plus shipping (combined shipping), I think I paid $35 - $40US total for both, cannot remember what the shipping cost me. Noticed it was an old plate, did not look at the date. I am a ham myself VA3-STE. Trying to get my better half to get her license also.

I seem to be a day late for most things lately Happy B-day to all this past weekend!

We do spend money on our cache containers, but most of ours are small and not regular,. Beside being way out of your caching area, hope this makes you feel a bit better, I just went through my hides and made the appropriate reclassification to small where required.

Further then I thought, from your Avatar, I thought you might be in the Montreal Area.

With a number of Parks in my caching area moving to ban Geocaching, I log it if I find anything that might be a concern, if it is minor I do try take it up with the hider. I have removed one cache at the request of the property owner who confronted me with cache in hand, the cache was returned to the cache owner at a later date. If it is something that might reflect poorly on Geocaching, steps should be taken to prevent cache removals and bans by property owners. I have 4 parks in my immediate locale who do not allow caching or has actively removed all caches from their parks.

I would be interested in a couple of them, where about are you?

I would like to see this also.

Yes, I agree it would be useful, altho being in Canada, map detail is higher on my list of wants right now. The PQ does suffice, but if I want to do a quick check, can be outdated as I have my PQ scheduled to arrive on Thursday for the weekend. Hopefully filter finds/hides will be an option for the near future, right now the Geocaching.com Maps in my area are next to useless as I have found most of the caches and I have no street detail to make heads or tails of the data.

This has be requested before (by myself once), I have since started using my PQ filtering my finds and Garmin MapSource for the desired results.

MapQuest, but you need to know the URL now as they do not link to the page anymore. MapQuest Only allows Deg Min Sec or Deg.DecimalDeg

PM will not work with the & in your user name.

Maybe we shouldn't set false expectations here. I have never heard of a cache covered with a young starlet, much less Hillary! I was thinking beer

I've been carring a Leatherman Supertool for a number of years now, I would be lost without it. A couple of years ago I stopped by the Leatherman plant in Portland. Great customer service, they traded my damaged unit for a new one, I bought a nylon sheath that will also hold a mini mag light and they also gave me a plant tour to boot The highlight of my 2 month trip when work sent me for what was to be a 2 to 3 week trip (my last trip was to be for 1 to 2 weeks, spent a month in Ottawa, had a great time caching with a rental car and work laptop)

You should expect no digging at all, in fact the Hiding Guidelines state that caches should never be buried.

We use a Toshiba Pocket PC with GPXSonar, I would never go back to a paper system. I had to large folders for the areas we go caching, it was keeping them up to date that was the hard part, caches get archived or updated.

We did not find our first cache on the first attempt, started with a multi and made a math error. Took a lot of searching the second trip the next day with the corrected coords, didn't help we were using a borrowed Magellan GPS 2000 with 2 digits after the decimal in the minutes and a 0.1 to 0.0 Km display that would get you to within 100 meters sort of. We did find our first dozen caches with it and it got us started. Also did not find some caches due to it, which reminds me, I have to go through my DNFs for a cache list to go and try to find again.

We were doomed on 2 fronts, I found the site from confluence.org and wanted to go out right away, but no GPS. My wife ran into a highschool friend where she worked at the time, he was buying tupperware and told her about it the same day I had found the site, we told each other about it that night. While visiting family in our hometown, borrowed my fathers GPS and we were off to find our first cache on a cold winter day. Took 2 tries, we started with a multi cache and made a math error ending up out way out in the woods. We persisted and found it New Years Eve, 2001, we were hooked. Found a few others during the holidays and over the next couple of months and finally bought my own after returning from a business trip (do I ever regret not having a GPS with me, the business trip was in Portland Oregon for 2 months, not many caches at the time, but could have found some of the early caches). Since then we have met a number of good people and made many friends, been quite busy this year for us.

If I remember correctly, you picked a user name and password when you ordered the coins. Go to the following link Manage your coins You can activate the coins there. It has been awhile since I ordered my set, the numbers were in the later 700s, kept 777 for my collection.

Here is the english link. NCC to restrict use of Gatineau Park

If TB Hotels are set up, please insure they are well hidden, I find it bad enough when a cache goes missing, worse when they go missing with Travel Bugs. I went to one and exchanged 3 or 4 TBs, cache went missing with 4 or 5 TBs, 3 of which I placed in the cache and I feel bad about it still. This cache was well hidden. Also, don't include the take one, must leave one rule that has gone about, this ends up stranding TBs in the caches. To me a TB hotel should be along a well travelled route, easy to access but difficult to find by accident. There is more at stake then just the cache when it is placed with a half dozen TBs at all times. I do enjoy rest stop caches, breaks up a long trip.

Log the DNFs, some of my best stories are on the caches that I could not find. If I am there, I looked and could not find it, I log a DNF. I have caches that took multiple trips, I would get home log my DNF and then see a find log the same day, the next day, look on my next trip, not find it, then see a found it again before finding it myself. There is one that I cannot find that is there still, I just cannot find it, not many places to hide it and I will log another DNF on my next trip (hopefully a found it, both caches are 2 hours away), these are part of my caching history.

It was a dead cache when it went missing and the cache owner did not maintain it properly. Now the area is open for a new cache to be placed by an active cacher. To me cache maintenance is the responsibility of the original cache placer, I have enough of a job maintaining the caches I have. Replacing a full log book or adding ziplock bags is helpful, replacing the whole cache, if I knew the cache owners maybe, if not, I would not in case it was not missing. In this case there was evidence that the cache was missing by the magnet, absent cache owner = an unmaintained cache, remove the remains and have the cache archived. Just my 2 cents.

Found the TB, I would have to think long and hard about that one myself, thats a tough one, personally I would be really happy that the TB was rescued to continue on its journey.

That it would be if one can accept that to be a find for oneself. We all have a definition of what would be called a find, I would not do it but other would. It is the same as taking a picture of your GPS at the location of an archived cache and logging a find, its done, but not by me. Here the opinion of if this would be a find or not, depends on who's book you take the definition from. It is up to the cacher claiming the find and the cache owner in the end. As I said, I have not run into the situation before, I do not know if I would claim finding the lid or remains of the cache as a find, you did find it, just not all of it. I am on the fence about trashing out the remains, claiming a find, but a SBA note should be logged.

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