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GerIRL

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  1. You can use GSAK to project a waypoint by a bearing and distance. It will create a child waypoint with the new coordinates. Right click on the waypoint in the listing and one of your options is to "project". I get N30° 52.502 W83° 17.267 for the final.
  2. I've had a PN-40 for a week, and have never gotten a blue bar to indicate a WAAS signal. I think the 60CSx is a much more sensitive receiver. I can place both on my couch on our 1st floor, and the 60 will grab 5 satellites instantly, and give the appropriate coordinates with 20ft accuracy within 2 minutes, while the 40 never finds a single bird and gives up. I think the 60's SIRF chip coupled w/ the helicoil antenna is an unbeatable combo. I do like the 40, and love DeLorme software. But this week has basically reaffirmed for me how strong and solid a GPSr the 60CSx is.
  3. I don't have any specific suggestions about where to CITO, but will be happy to show up and actually do some CITO'ing. They say that a cachers "Karma" rating is the ratio of caches placed to caches found (in my case = 31/1,060 = 0.029). Is there a similarily termed ratio for number of CITO participations to the number of caches found (in my case 0/1,060 = 0.000) ? ? ?
  4. [quote name= Spotting #2 (Geocacher? Unknown) Today saw a grey SUV stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on Route 24 near Madison, NJ with two GEO stickers on the back and what appeared to be a DunkinDonuts sticker. There was no travel bug sticker visible from the back. Curious to know who this was! Anyone know? Guilty as charged. I really must swap over my GER-IRL license plates from my wife's car! However, It's not a SUV (implied: gas guzzler, planet hater etc etc), but a family friendly minivan (read: involved dad, room for the in laws etc etc). Actually, the DD magnet and one of the GEO magnets are compliments of EagleTrax - Thanks Karen!
  5. Looks like a good hike, will have to file this one for a Saturday or Sunday trip during winter. Dont suppose you have any trail map sections you could post for this section of park? If you and ThirstyMick want some company - I'd be happy to join y'all, some winter Sat or Sun.
  6. I was very upset to see yesterday's sudden archiving of 5 of Slukster's series of 7 "Climbin' & Findin'" caches for requiring "illegal rock climbing in County Parks". The series was extremely well prepared and laid out. The verbage on each cache page is very clear that these caches are dangerous and not for the timid. Thanks to the excellent coordinates, at each GZ the cacher can plainly see the container and then make an informed decision whether to continue to attempt the find, OR NOT. None of the logged comments regarding the risk involved state anything that the CO hadn't already included in the description. As to the legality of the caches from a climbing point of view, of the 5 that were archived (#'s 2, 3, 4, 5 & 7) 2, 3 and 5 were retrievable from the top of the ledge and did not entail any significant descent. 4 & 7 only required climbing about 6' up from the bottom of the slope, about 3 "steps" or manouveres, to allow retrieval of the 11' or 12' high cache. I did all of the caches in a slow, deliberate manner without any ropes. I felt the same euphoria after each find that I feel after solving and finding a well crafted puzzle cache. I have no idea who contacted Pofe triggering the archive action. I am sure that it wasn't anyone who found any of the caches because nobody would be hypocritical enough to log a find with "TFTC" or "Thanks for the cache" and then request that it be archived. So I assume it was somebody who didn't find any of them, but checked them (all) out. My two cents worth would be that if one comes across a cache that is not to their liking, it might be more appropriate to add it to their "Ignore List" rather than summarily request it be archived, at the expense of those of us who appreciate an occasional challenge beyond the typical 1.5/1.5. Okay then - that thump you just heard was me jumping down off of my soap box!
  7. I use GPX Sonar v1.4- you can find it for free online, and it works great.
  8. Ok then - here (hopefully) are the photos. Thanks to BrianSnat for helping me figure out how to insert them right into the forum posting. I was about 200ft away.
  9. Saw another bear today while doing Harry Dolphin's "Arneb" cache. See my log at http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...32-aaace02d7760 .
  10. My guess would be time of day and actual satellite configuration at the exact time you're checking in. We use Leica survey grade GPS equipment at work. Usually, our RTK receivers (Real Time Kinetic) are good to 1.5cm in both position and elevation when processed using 1 second data collected at a known base station (NJIT in Newark, NJ). Sometimes, we simply can't run RTK because there are a couple of satellites down, or the configuration is simply not suitable. For the most part, mornings seem to be better than afternoons. I imagine the accuracy of your consumer handheld is even more susceptible to these variations.
  11. I was hiking with trowel32 up onto the ridge overlooking the Charlotteburg Reservoir to find my "PMC - Hibernia" cache, and we saw 1st) a single bear right by the cache "on the road to Charlotteburg", and then shortly thereafter, a mom and 3 cubs on the white trail loooking down at us. They took off, and I just got one crappy photo of the mom, who stalled to look back at us. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/301125...705681f65_b.jpg
  12. How do you determine your firmware version on the GPSr itself, without plugging it into your PC? (OK - I'm lazy!). I've just spent 15 minutes scrolling through all of the setup pages.
  13. The secret is in the word liberally. You want the thing dripping, messy, all the solution you can squeeze out of the tube wet. It doesn't hurt to get the gps damp in the sink before hand either. I applied the solution LIBERALLY to the back of the invisible shield before applying it onto my PDA (HP iPAQ Pocket PC) and when I squeegied from the center outwards, the solution went into and behind the display and ruined it. Cost me $80 to get a replacement on eBay. So the term LIBERALLY is really only applicable to products that are reasonably water proof!
  14. Ok then - #4,600 - that was a mere 12 days ago. Congrats are now due from all and sundry for IMSpider's #4,700 at Sue&Barry's "Lenape Aney" (GC1GEC4). And to think it took me 375 days to make my first 100 finds!
  15. I can't think of a way of "automating" the copying/pasting of coordinates from various web pages, but once you assemble your coordinates in a .csv or .xls file you can use Corpscon (http://crunch.tec.army.mil/software/corpscon/corpscon.html) to batch convert from any coordinate system into WGS84 (or any other system). I love this program, which is distributed freely by the Army Corps of Engineers.
  16. Spider has averaged 7 smiley faces a day (every day - 7 days a week) since he started in Nov '06. Impressive!
  17. Nice going Andy - looks like you and EagleTrax have something going there with all of the the Donut Colored text!
  18. Here's a mom and one of her two cubs I saw by Camp Hoover this past Sunday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerirl/2730348116/sizes/l/
  19. Nice job Karen - now it's time for "Tickle me Elmo", or something like that!
  20. Congrats Doug - that's some pace. At some point you might just have to move house - you know - to save on the gasoline bill!
  21. Nice going Karen. Hmmm - 84 smiley faces in January - The kids must be cooking for themselves
  22. Maybe you should relax just a little and keep in mind that the reviewers VOLUNTEER their time to review caches. I'm sure that they also have lives outside of geocaching. They will get to your cache.
  23. Congratulations Bob - nice going!!!
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