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I'll offer a suggestion, that works for me. Once my GPS begins to zero out on the location I'm after, I look around and eyeball some kind of "landmark" at the cardinal points of the compass. If I'm not sure where they are, I glance at a compass I carry. Microsoft's Streets and Trips gets me within a tenth of a mile, or so. Then I turn on my GPSr and get after it. The display I rely on is the page that shows me my current Latitude and Longitude. I compare the actual coordinates of the cache, to the coordinates displayed on my GPS. The difference between the two Longitudes tells me how far East or West I have to go, the difference between the two Latitudes tells me how far North or South I have to go. Then I try to relate that to my "landmarks", draw a mental Compass Rose around me, and visualize where I need to go to get there. I just use the Roadmap and Arrow pages to back me up and confirm my thinking.

GPS signals propagate at around 186,300 miles per second. Commercial airplane speeds generally do not exceed 600 miles per hour. Your GPS is roughly a million times faster than your airplane, and will have no trouble keeping up.

Digital photography drove me to ask the same question a long time ago, and the answer I came up with is a Maha charger and NiMH batteries. I get them at http://www.thomas-distributing.com/index.htm

Carrollton, actually, about 80 yards south of E. Keller Springs Road, and 200 yards east of N. Marsh Ln., a mile west of Addison Airport.

This MTM dry box has a rubber seal all the way around.

I'll put it in a WalMart sack and stash it beside a fence along the highway near a WalMart. Mobody will ever pay attention to it, and the sack will keep the rain off :-)

Wow! Lotsa good feedback, thanks. This ones already paid for, so it's going to get placed. It will be in the elements, and will get a good test. I'll keep a close eye on it for a year, keep a monthly performance record, take another picture of it, and post it all here. If it fails, I'll switch to .50 cal boxes, and change it out. I'll play Consumer's Report.

I use Microsoft Streets and Trips. It's a great geocaching tool for a number of reasons. You can locate places by searching on the street address, or by latitude and longitude. You can turn on the "location sensor", and it will continuously display the latitude and longitude of the cursor as you move it around the map. It includes all of the US and Canada streets. If you have a notebook PC, Pocket PC or Smartphone, you can download your maps using Pocket Streets and take them with you. More info at http://www.microsoft.com/streets/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=002

This is an alternative to ammo cans, only slightly larger than .50 cal. cans. It's made by MTM, and I found it at Academy near the shotgun ammunition for only $5.99.

There are 60 seconds of angle in a minute. Using N47 56.113 as an example, the seconds are 60 X .113 = 6.78 and would be represented as N47° 56' 6.78" Your error, 113-6.78=106.22 would put you about 600 feet from your target.

Just to elaborate a little, that's said 32 degrees 58 point 086 minutes. A minute of angle in latitude or in longitude at the equator is a nautical mile, 2000 yards. 6,076 feet to be more exact. Thus a tenth is 600 feet, a hundredth is 60 feet, and the thousands position represents 6 feet from a cache you might be seeking.

0176 on the num pad while holding the ALT key will do it if for many fonts, but not all. An alternative is: On the XP START menu - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Character Map. If that shortcut is not on your menu, the program you are looking for is \Windows\System32\charmap.exe. In the FONT box, select a font that contains the degree symbol. Arial and Verdana are two examples. The degree symbol will be 11 over and 6 down in the grid. Left click on it, then press the SELECT button. The degree symbol will appear in the "Characters to copy" box. You may SELECT multiple symbols. Press the COPY button to place the symbol(s) on the Clipboard. You may now paste it into documents as many times as you wish, until you put something else on the clipboard. This will work for any special character of any font, that does not appear on your keyboard, such as °àп

We logged 3 DNF's on a cache, but kept going back. Perseverance was finally rewarded with a FIND, and in retrospect, this was one of our "funnest" successes. Don't give up!

Many of the Nikon Coolpix cameras now record sound, such as the Coolpix 4200 4-megapixel, for about $350.

I urge you examine Nikon's Coolpix cameras before making a buying decision. There are four in my family, and four delighted owners.

Those that aren't old, are striving to get there. Here's hoping they all make it

After reading these posts, I became a premium member about 45 minutes ago. Seems like a good investment

Thanks Folks, I feel my tail shrinking and my legs sprouting, as we speak :-)

Thanks. After my post count exceeds 10, will I be givin the opportunity to change it to anything I want?

Under my avatar, the word "Tadpole" appears. Where does the term "tadpole" come from, what does it mean, and can it be changed?

VMG = velocity made good. CTS = course to steer ETE = estimated time enroute XTE - cross track error EPE = estimated position error VMG, CTS, ETE, and XTE are of greatest value to pilots, on water or in the air. Both get set off their intended course by crosswinds and currents. Cross Track Error is the distance right or left of intended course. Course To Steer is the heading that must be maintained to compensate for set and drift. Velocity Made Good is the actual speed toward the waypoint. It will be high with a tailwind and low with a headwind.

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Re: Microsoft Streets and Trips. To see the zip code, right click on or near any highway and select "zoom to" on the pop-out menu. Then left click on the highway, and a box will appear identifying the highway, the nearest city or town, and the zip code. The key, is to have your cursor on (not near to) a highway, street, or road. Zoming in insures you can do this. If you are zoomed way out and there are two or more roads near your cursor, the software can't tell which road you are trying to select.

You might want to get Microsoft's Streets and Trips. Just cursor to where you want to go on the map, and Streets and Trips will show you the zip code. It will also continuously show you the latitude and longitude of the cursor, as you move it around the map. Using a search function you may enter a latitude and longitude, and the software will put a pushpin on the map at that location, then move your map so that location is centered on your screen. It has detailed maps of virtually every street in the U.S. and Canada, and you can measure distances in a variety of ways. DNK in CC