DisQuoi

It is always acceptable to say "hello" or "hi", introduce yourself and ask them if they mind you hanging around. They may be very nice people. They may be about to give up and they may be welcome to a joint effort. Don't afraid to resort to civility.

quote:Originally posted by james f weisbeck kd7mxi terra utah:the milatary has a Rgulation against public maping of gov bases MY DAD WORKS AT ONE That's funny ... the map I use for Metropolitan Washington DC has every government agency and military base marked on it. And what about things like this, this, and this?

Please specify who said this "blip" when they said it, was it television (which network), web site (what web address?), radio (what station)? Was it on NPR? Please be more specific.

quote:Originally posted by Kodak's4:... I think they're staggeringly stupid ... it's just a BAD PLAN ... How about serial rapists? ... an absolute %&@hole ... kicks dogs ... drowns cats ... career as a child molester ... Geez, Louise ... for crying out loud? Take it easy, man. It's just a discussion here.

Be honest ... there had to be at leat one butt shot that you excluded, right?

I suppose you might already be here. If you're not, I could recommend some nice areas accessible by Metro (and ones to avoid). Email me if you still need that information.

Hitler used to make lists.

quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: Membership is optional and gives you a few extra features. A lot of people become members, because they feel the site provides a valuable service and realize that there is considerable cost invloved in running it. And many others contribute to the geocaching community in other ways like lots of time and effort (and money) creating high-quality caches (which is the foundation of this activity), cleaning up and maintaining caches that are "owned" by others, collecting trash from cache sites that are littered, etc. I'm sure BrianSnat wasn't implying that those who haven't become members feel the site doesn't provide a valuable service or realize that there is considerable cost invloved in running it ... but to clarify ... each contributes what he can. Post Note: I say "contributes" but ... the membership fee is actually a fee, not a donation (and there's nothing wrong with that) to Groundspeak. Whereas, the contributions of which I speak are made toward the activity of geocaching regardless of what database you query to obtain coordinates and cache descriptions.

quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat: Membership is optional and gives you a few extra features. A lot of people become members, because they feel the site provides a valuable service and realize that there is considerable cost invloved in running it. And many others contribute to the geocaching community in other ways like lots of time and effort (and money) creating high-quality caches (which is the foundation of this activity), cleaning up and maintaining caches that are "owned" by others, collecting trash from cache sites that are littered, etc. I'm sure BrianSnat wasn't implying that those who haven't become members feel the site doesn't provide a valuable service or realize that there is considerable cost invloved in running it ... but to clarify ... each contributes what he can. Post Note: I say "contributes" but ... the membership fee is actually a fee, not a donation (and there's nothing wrong with that) to Groundspeak. Whereas, the contributions of which I speak are made toward the activity of geocaching regardless of what database you query to obtain coordinates and cache descriptions.

I agree. There has been a similar thread in which many people have stated that they had a good experience with TVNAV. I've recommended it to friends.

I agree. There has been a similar thread in which many people have stated that they had a good experience with TVNAV. I've recommended it to friends.

quote:He even pulled over several times to yell at other park visitors who were looking at the animals Click Here

quote:but I don't know if it shows the GPS sats No ... J-Pass does not show the GPS satellites (Note that J-Pass and J-Track are two different things). In J-Track, click "Config" and set "Categories" to "Navigation". Then click on "<-Update". Among others, twenty satellites that start with "GPS" will appear. I'm going out on a limb here but I think that those are the GPS satellites. In 2-D Track, you can hold down the Ctrl Key and select all of them. The tracking view will then show all twenty in the current positions. In 3-D Track, you can select only one at a time. It will show you it's orbital path and it's ground trace.

There is no money involved in number of "found"s or "not founds". If a particular cache presents some challenges that result in an average person not being able to find it, it's nice to see a few purple frowny faces. On the other hand, if you're anal about keeping a "perfect" record (like I'm sure some people are ... use a note. But certainly, people enjoy reading about things like that happening. Personally, I respect those people who use the "not found" ... it tells me that they're in this for the fun ... not the fame.

I've never tried this one until now but the 2D version might work better for that. You can set a track list of all of the GPS satellies and it'll show the to you in real time on a 2D map of the world. Advantage: It'll show you where they all are now Disadvantage: It only shows you where they are now The 3-D version (see my last post) will allow you to jump forward in time but will show only one at a time.

J-Track 3-D I've never used this for any real purpose (like planning optimal satellite configuration) but it's pretty cool just to play with. Try this ... zoom out a little and rotate the point of view (by dragging you mouse in the window) and you can see the ring around the earth that defines the belt of geosynchronous orbit. If you SELECT a specific satellite and set to CENTER, it'll rotate the viewpoint such that the satellite is always in the center of the view and the earth is always directly centered behind it.

I'd suggest that you guy a cable for up-and-downloading waypoints to your computer. It's much easier to create waypoints that way, too.

Thanks for the link.

Another interesting article on the topic of the use of GPS by US forces in Afghanistan. It is called An Unlikely Super-Warrior Emerges in Afghan War .

quote:Originally posted by WaldenRun: Hmmmm, Regarding the Pilot's comment about locating MO caches via triangulation; Wouldn't that only require BIangulation? "Why worry when you can obsess?" Finding members only caches by triangualtion was discussed in this thread. You could biangulate but then you'd have two locations to search. The two locations would be the intesection of the two circles defined by the non-MO caches and the distances reported to the MO cache.

Am I able to download these? Or do I have to manually enter the coordinates into my GPS?

quote:And finally, don't people who create such caches feel like horrendeous hippocrits (sp) when they visit caches that aren't members only? I know i would. I mean, after creating an exclusive site, what kind of person could feel good going to a site someone else had, asking nothing in return for money and time spent, placed for ALL, not some, to enjoy? I sure couldn't bring myself to do it.Come back after you've created one. One reason the concept was introduced was that people were tired of spending alot of time and money to create a nice cache and they wanted to see who was viewing and hunting the cache. It protects them from plundering and vandalism. But having never done this, you might me ignorant of the level of effort required to create a good cache.

quote:Originally posted by Web-ling:Theme cache? "Great cache! Took nothing, left ..."

It must have been sailors that did it ... Seamen will do anything for a laugh.

quote:Question: Am I right in assuming that when doing the math, you're best off working in UTM?If the reference points and final cache are all within one UTM zone, yes. Under these conditions, the curvature of the earth is negligble and you can solve the math using planar geometry. There are many ways to solve it but Warm Fuzzies/Fuzzy provides a great shortcut in this thread.