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Anyone got any tips for mapping software (palm/Fugawi), and caches for the washington state area, as Ive got a three week thrip over there from the 21st dec
Thanks
Phoenix
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GPSr are commonly used as speedometers on kite buggys and land boards, ther are quite a few geocachers who started after getting a GPS for this reason.
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Been taking a time out, Work has been very busy and things got to a point where I had to drive 40 miles to find a cache, not to mention all the issues with summer holidays and looking after kids, and actually going on holiday to Cuba to find just one cache, which makes going 40 miles to find one a little insignifigant, well actually to not find it since it had been muggled.... less than a dozen caches in the entire country, and the one I went to find was the one thats no longer there!!!!
Ill probably get back in the saddle soon, there looks to have been a nice new crop of caches in the area, I just need to get a few more things sorted out first....
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the GPSr that can handle unlimited waypoints is a PDA with a stack of mem cards... considerably less than £infinity
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no.
But Ive solved one in the eye though
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hm, £1.00 per cache is hardly likely to pay for anything but the cost of posting the letters!
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any progress, whats the story?
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worst of both worlds!
lacks the speed and manoverability of a real bike
lacks the protection of a cage.. sorry car
Don't think a car would get up there.. doubt my lad would take his Honda 600 cbr up that track either..
As for the rural side.. caution is the word.. familiarity breeds contempt.. spent to long test driving to be a total wasock
But have found it to be more acceptable than yer average 4 x 4 or scrambler
Roads are meant for riding, mountains are meant for walking, if you want to ride up a mountain then get a horse.
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worst of both worlds!
lacks the speed and manoverability of a real bike
lacks the protection of a cage.. sorry car
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And who is the lad in the front with the white shorts
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The Senior Ranger (Tom) was totally "Gob-Smacked" at the amount of rubbish that was collected, and stated that he'd never seen so much collected at a clean up event at the park. So once again well done everyone!
Which just goes to prove, if you want something finding, ask a Geocacher!
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The BBC have been sent a bunch o photos from the 'finding a cache' photoshoot and a short explaiantion of what was going on, not heard anything back, watch this space
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bump, I beleive this is the answer to Skippy and Pingus problem (or at leat one of them
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FAC is all about knowing where you are, and knowing where something else it. FAC as a discipline was invented long before GPS and I have no doubt that competent FACs would use GPS as only one tool of the job. If GPS ever were to replace FAC you would not need FACs as any Geocacher could calculate the necessary projection.
Again it boils down to removing the usefullness of the tools you can, GPS makes the difference between a local resistance/espionage cell/fanatics, of untrained individuals doing the job, or a highly trained guy who can do it with a map and compas.
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Thats the point, being able to scramble GPS removes it from being a viable tool, if it wasnt possible to scramble it, then it would be a viable tool.
We have all had times when it goes on the fritz, but, being experienced users we learn to recognise the problems and accomodate for them
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Your confusing in flight control with targetting, if you cant aquire a position of a target, then you cant remotely attack it.
The thing is, there are always alternatives, and defence normally about limiting them with a package of measures, rearely is there a single measure that is a solveall solution.
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You must also remember that GPS is a military owned system that we are allowed to use. The fact that it belongs to the military means that they need to do tests, our military would want to use it in a war but not allow the enemy to use it.
A very good reason for a civil system such as Galileo to be established.
I think we should all be gratefull that we are allowed to use it at all, and accept that the military can switch it on and off when they please.Unfortunately the military will disrupt the civil Galileo system as easily as they disrupt civil reception of the military versions of GPS which we call Glonass and NavStar.
We would need jamming/disrupting technology even for a civil system, it would be a joke if a hostile force could use a nations civil or even military system against themselves, besides I doubt that a civil system would get put up if there wasnt an option to scramble the signal for wither military or comercial reasons.
It would be interesting to have an idea just how long satalite based technology would last in the event of an international conflict, I doubt it would be long at all.
This system they are developing looks to be more of an area exclusion system, I would envisage it being set up as part of a high security perimeter to disrupt GPS guided attacks... think the kinda security we saw in scotland at the G8 summit
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Folks
I'm heading to Scotland in a couple of days, staying for a week in the Ballater area.
If anyone in the area would like a caching trip, I'd be only to happy to join in ...
Perth looks likely to be savaged by this mad man, if I can work out how to get there by bus, is it possible ?
Malcolm - The Powerbook Fanatic
sorry, wrong Deeside
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just go up there and shout Dave, see who answers
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Great stuff Davester, I get very tired of the nice walk, great view type logs, sometimes I think there should be an automatic "yeah Ive bin here" button that enters simplistic tripe, leaving us more time to write decent logs for the caches that proved of greater interest.
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And nameless potatoes (As in Potato....nomine....geddit??!!!) with old man hands!!!!
And let us not forget Dave and his impossible task!!!
I think the real star of the show really was Dave, I know it has been said that he is a prickly character, but he certainly knows how to keep a secret
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farm tracks that are marked as public roads in Via Mitchlin/Tom-Tom
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Not knowing much about this - once again I am not MN
do the points describe a triangle and is the cache in the cenre? found the answer in the works of Pythagoras
That would make it
"you may journey to another country, to a desolate place. Stand there and look out across the land and sea,"
A theory already considered most triangles have two geometric centres and a c.o.g. (im not certain if this always coincides with one of the two centres), three caches must form a triangle, however there are specific instructions inside one of the caches that places the final cache on a vector that doesnt even intersect the triangle described by the first three caches.
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And which cache might that be
... and you are still denying ownership or insider knowledge about it
Gorse bushes, I never want to see another one of those again. As for MN, I think the sheep up in the Welsh countryside are telling us as much as MN.
are you suggesting that Bob is being sheepish
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Mukilteo Area Caches
in Northwest
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sorry 21st Nov not Dec