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reactor_rat

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  1. Thanks for posting the photos! I LOVE this! That is cool, really. Thanks 4 the pics! Very creative... give our best to the CO.. thanks for sharing.
  2. If I found a military relic near a famous battlefield, it'd be sitting on my shelf at home with the rest of them. As for the skull idea, it's already been done so another one wouldn't hurt. There is one in our area, I think it was a racoon. It gets good feedback.
  3. I also just made a discovery. I created 3 very distinct PQ's each with 1000 caches and copied them to the dakota.(ya, I know what your are thinking.... I read after that there is a maximum of 2000 on the dakota 20 and now I have 3000.. thhhppppk.. That's a new discovery too. Anyhow, back to the story). When you boot the dakota, it's not shy and tells you right away if you exceeded the caches. So, here I go.. I delete 4 of the PQ's (GC's and WP's), clear (delete) the list that is showing in basecamp, empty the trash, I go back to basecamp and ask it to "receive from GPS".... Holy donuts, all 3000 of the GC's are still showing! What the heck?!?!?!? At the end of all this, I rebooted BaseCamp and "receive from GPS" again.. TADA.. only the one remaining set is showing. I guess basecamp has some internal buffer that was holding all the old data or something. I'm >| |< that much smarter than I was this morning. Thanks for your advice. I'm tired and heading off to bed.
  4. I gutted out an old cordless phone and put a log book in it. A belt clip is on the phone and mounts low to the ground on a fence wire. It's received mostly positive feedback.
  5. Well, I gave it some thought and I'm thinking it was my own ignorance and understanding on how gpx files work. Here I was thinking that each GC would have it's own filename... ie: GCXXXX.gpx . Then I was thinking that as the "myfilename.gpx" Pocket queries were imported, each of thos GCxxxx.gpx would somehow "decompress". Obviously I am completely wrong. I believe what was happening is the garmin was using the individual GCXXXX.gpx files as the more dominant file, overwriting any PQ results. As I was toggling between the garmin and Basecamp imported files I kept getting varying results. Does that make sense?....... anyhow, I think I pegged it now. Worse thing was I wiped some random caches off the garmin from up north, no biggie. I think I can fix that with the "my finds" pocket query....
  6. Have you ever considered skipping Basecamp? You could do it like this: Wipe all GPXs in the \GPX\ directory, as above. Unzip the PQ, as above. Put the unzipped .gpx files into the \GPX\ directory from step 1. Done. That's what I tried the first time, for some reason... the Dakota wouldn't display all the caches, just some. It was really weird and incredibly frustrating.. like I said, losing my mind. Everytime you want to verify the gps, shut down all the programs, eject the garmin and SDcard, reboot the garmin, check GC's to validate.
  7. After hours of losing my mind......(sometimes they show in BaseCamp, sometimes they don't, not updating or showing on Garmin but showing on BaseCamp.)... This is what I THINK I know to do to update all my PQ's with fresh logs, etc. I need to wipe All GPX's that are GC's in ../GPX folder on the Garmin. Unpack (unzip) the PQ's. It doesn't really matter where, at least in my case. Import the 2 unzipped .gpx files (one for GC's, the others for Waypoints) into basecamp. Highlight all the updated files that are listed (click on first, scroll down to last, hold the shift key and right click on last). Right click and select "send to GPS" or use "send to GPS button" on the console. Again.. this may be unique to a Mac, it could operate differently on a PC.
  8. OK.. I'm not sure which button I picked (or didn't) but the first download was "my finds" which was loading up. I think I was confused between that file and the PQ. I just tried again and tried unpacking (unzipping) the zip file right in the garmin itself... Using Basecamp, I tried viewing all the data on the Garmin but it was just showing me all the old familiar caches that had always been on there.... so... I went back to the Garmin folder, right clicked the file and asked it to open in BaseCamp. TADA... they are showing up in BaseCamp!... and listed in a "Recently imported from........" folder. I clicked and dragged that folder to the Garmin icon in BaseCamp and TADA.. all the cache info now showing up on the Garmin according to BaseCamp with all the updated log entries, etc... one last test...eject the Garmin from the Mac..did I mention I was using a Mac?... and look for some of the caches on the garmin... This is what I found... If there was a pre-existing cache on my Garmin, it's the same as the first time I downloaded it. If was new to the Garmin.. all the information was new and update. So............ do I wipe the old GPX files on the Garmin before adding the new gpx from the PQ I just created?
  9. I'm confused too.... it's not working for me. I created a PQ and downloaded (on a mac). Unzipped and get a single .gpx file. I open that with BaseCamp but it's only the one's I found... so.. I say to myself, I must have setup the PQ wrong so I go to GC.com and use the "preview with google maps" or "preview pocket query" it gives me the list that I wanted generated... I tried dropping into the gpx folder on my garmin and that didn't help either. Very frustrating.
  10. Great idea with the clothes pin.... I think I might use that in the future. The eyes were a nice touch.
  11. There isn't, and I am trying to piece one together... however there are some (not me) who are convinced that a club has to be "official" and somehow "sanctioned" by the Geocaching community. I cannot located any solid information on this. Any assistance would be appreciated.
  12. I started with a Gamin Dakota 20 and have recently purchased the HTC Desire. Each has advantages and disadvantages. Garmin: Longer battery life. Weather proof. Shock proof. More accurate (although not that far off). No live download. No live uploads. Easier to use. Faster response time. Need birdseye downloads. Better Waypoint and tracks management (I haven't looked at all the droid apps, but Maps is limited). Bundled applications specific to navigation. Droid: Instant live updates, logs, descriptions, Trackables, etc... very handy! optional styles of maps. Log finds on the fly. (haven't figured out how to log trackables unless it's logged through the browser not the Geocache app) Tendacy to crash. Not weatherproof. Slow response time while moving. Really short battery life (invested in a car charger today) I found today that if a new cache comes in while I'm out and about to just pound in the coordinates on the Garmin and go for it. The phone holds all the fluffy stuff and the Garmin snipers in for the kill. Of course this is just my point of view.. bottom line is, if I want the best portable music buy a Ipod, Better pictures buy a Nikon DSLR camera, better bike ride buy a Giant, better .................. you get the idea.
  13. Very cute, I just set up a couple like these today but a little more gruesome for a Halloween theme. I'll wait til the weekend gets closer so the non-retirees can have a crack at getting the FTF.
  14. Wholly..... I just got a good laugh. I just found the exact same rat at a dollar store and have already started converting him.... I thought I'd check the forums to see if there was etiquette for Halloween caches and my original idea isn't that original anymore. ~Reactor_Rat
  15. Wholly..... I just got a good laugh. I just found the exact same rat at a dollar store and have already started converting him.... I thought I'd check the forums to see if there was etiquette for Halloween caches and my original idea isn't that original anymore. ~Reactor_Rat
  16. Seems to be the way they do it now.. I had the same concern until I read the description at Groundspeak. "This decal is approximately 3.25” x 1.25" and also includes a copy tag that you can write down the code on and keep for your records." Can be found here http://shop.Groundspeak.com/productDetail....p;ProductID=280
  17. I recently purchased the vehicle vinyl cut travel bug and did not receive both dog tags. (I only received the blank copy, not the one with the number). I wrote the vendor and am anticipating a response. Technically, I hope to get the original serialized tag back. But I wouldn't go ballistic if I didn't. Because I have absolutely no patience, I registered the # on the vinyl with the pass-code and it was fine up to this point. IF someday this lost trackable dog tag winds up roaming what choice of action would I have? Thanks, RR
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