BigCarbonFootprint
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There are two versions of the Blackberry Curve. The 8300 (sold by T-Mobile) has WiFi but NO GPS. The Curve 8310 sold by AT&T has NO WiFi but HAS built-in GPS. I've been using the AT&T GPS Curve for about a month and it's really good. The GPS chip is SiRFStar III (same as new Garmin units) and the GPS performance is outstanding. Those of you with an AT&T Curve (or BB 8800, or BB 8820) that want to check out Geocache Navigator for a free trail can get it here: Geocache Navigator . Let us know what you think!
Rich at Trimble
Super, how is the resolution on your BB. Is it near what your GPS would get, i.e. 3 meters within coordiantes?
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The resolution is great on my BB. I get to GZ every time. The only issue I have is when I am in a remote area the geocache navigator does not respond. It works with cell towers and not satellite like a Garmin or Magellan. I am rethinking the use of the geocache navigator since I am usually in remote areas.
I have the red AT&T curve BB. 8310.
Mmmmmm, I see. So the Blackberry is not actually a GPSr but a GPCTr(Global Positioning Cell Tower recvr). I don't know if I am interested in this functionality. I should probably stick with my Vista and get a cheaper phone with internet access for viewing GC.com.
Thanks for the feedback
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There are two versions of the Blackberry Curve. The 8300 (sold by T-Mobile) has WiFi but NO GPS. The Curve 8310 sold by AT&T has NO WiFi but HAS built-in GPS. I've been using the AT&T GPS Curve for about a month and it's really good. The GPS chip is SiRFStar III (same as new Garmin units) and the GPS performance is outstanding. Those of you with an AT&T Curve (or BB 8800, or BB 8820) that want to check out Geocache Navigator for a free trail can get it here: Geocache Navigator . Let us know what you think!
Rich at Trimble
Super, how is the resolution on your BB. Is it near what your GPS would get, i.e. 3 meters within coordiantes?
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how many WPs are you all able to load on your Nuvi's. i have a friend tell me he was able to get over 3000 POI, but that does not seem right considering the spec states 500.
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I've been experimenting with saving GPX files to my Garmin Nuvi 200 as POIs (using GSAK and Garmin's POI Loader). In general, its working great. But the one problem that I've been unable to solve is how to sort the waypoints.
I'm exporting from GSAK to .GPX format using Waypoint Name = %name (%code), but when I list them on the Nuvi, they seem to appear in random, not alphabetical, order. Any ideas?
know, how many POIs have you been able to store on your Nuvi. A friend of mine said he has over 3000 caches in his Nuvi. I dont know if I buy that since the spec'd is 500.
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Thanks for the name change link. I did read and found I would probably qualify due to status change with my cache partner, we are no longer married. I do have a question not answered in the links. Are all cached logged under the old name automatically relogged under the new name or is this a painful and tedious manual operation?
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Thought this may have been asked before but i tried doing a search and couldn't come up with anything. It's probably not even GC.com related but i figured i'd start by asking here just in case.
A friend of mine, premium member, tells me that another premium member is able to watch her through logs she submits on GC.com. In otherwords, if she posts a log on a (any) cache, the other person somehow receives notification that she posted the log. I'm guessing through email but i really have no idea. The first person doesn't like this and wants it to stop so i'm asking here if anyone knows if this is a GC.com service or if it's some aftermarket program that we can somehow put a stop to?
Would appreciate any help or ideas that you may have!
Sounds like Cyber Stalking to me. I am sure GS would be interested if there is criminal activity taking place via their website.
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I just tried running the PQ that would give me my stats. I got an e-mail message that says there's an attachment, but I can either not open the message at all, or the text parts of the message show up and no attachment. Yesterday I was having the same problem- running a PQ for 100 local caches, and I did it three times and each time the same thing- the message wouldn't open up or no attachment was there. What's really frustrating is that the one with my stats now can't be run for another 7 days and I can't get to the info. Is anyone else having this problem?
Doc, I just ran a PQ for my finds and one for new caches in my area, both around 11 PM CST. No problems.
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Can we see some adds with Signal on the beach in St Johns, or filing a lost baggage claim for the Airlines, or perhaps Signal and William Shatner in a Priceline.com add, Haaaaaaaa.
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Yep, Cache along a Route is the way to go. One of the best features the GC. com clowns have come up with. I use it frequently in my travels.
Hey guys,
I'm going home for Thanksgiving, a 7 hour drive along the thruway. I'd like to find caches hidden right off the road, in the rest stops, etc. Is there an easy way to root them out on the website?
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Something else funny. Others were unhappy that RJTB were not available outside the contiguous USA. I see on the first page alone, 13 of the first 20 RJTBs listed, are named for locations in Alaska.
How’s that for a backhand from JEEP and/or GC.com
And only 17 of the next twenty are AK locations.
Boy, JEEP and/or GC.com are beating up Alaska like a Redheaded Stepchild.
Haaaaaaa, my curiosity got the best of me and I looked at the third page of listings. Wuz up JEEP and/or GC.com? Only 11 of the third page has Alaska locations.
If I were Gov. Sarah Palin, I think I would petition congress to secede from the Union.
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Something else funny. Others were unhappy that RJTB were not available outside the contiguous USA. I see on the first page alone, 13 of the first 20 RJTBs listed, are named for locations in Alaska.
How’s that for a backhand from JEEP and/or GC.com
And only 17 of the next twenty are AK locations.
Boy, JEEP and/or GC.com are beating up Alaska like a Redheaded Stepchild.
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Something else funny. Others were unhappy that RJTB were not available outside the contiguous USA. I see on the first page alone, 13 of the first 20 RJTBs listed, are named for locations in Alaska.
How’s that for a backhand from JEEP and/or GC.com
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RE: RJTB Distribution
Were there distribution guidelines regarding Red Jeep TB’s, i.e., a limit to each users or were users permitted to receive more than one RJTB?
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Everything is now either broken, looks bad or doesn't exist anymore. (Everything is not an exageration). Just look at all the new forum posts in the last week or two.Thereby forcing you to have to re-discover how to do things or press dozens of keystrokes and links to do everything you used to be able to do.
I just canceled my premium membership subscription (monthly) and WILL NOT pay again until the hampsters at geocaching.com stop messing around with THE LOOK of everything. 
Perhaps they should not have ever fixed the servers, then they wouldn't have all this free time to screw around with all of us.
Dude!! Relax!! It's not that big of a deal. Change happens... flow with it.
It's just a new look that will settle down to a normal state soon enough. Change is a good thing... just let it wash over you and soak it all in!!
What would you expect from a less than 0.5 % hide to find ratio.
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My wife and I are "dedicated cachers." We try to get out at least once a weekend to find caches with a borrowed GPS. It's kind of insulting that the website that we all use to locate hides defines "dedicated cachers" as those who buy into premium membership.
So, enjoy the benefits of being a premium member, by all means. Enjoy the route-caching, the instant notification, the pocket queries, and the paperless caching, and more, which are a great value for the money! For the love of Mike though, please don't look down on "public" users because they don't have a membership (for whatever reason) by creating exclusive, cliquish caches.
Let's keep this sport fun and accessible to everyone!
Exactly! I mean, after all, even though you're not a premium member, at least you're contributing to the sport by putting out caches of your own for others to find. Oh, wait.... Nevermind.
NEVERMIND, Oh Prime, you so funny. You cracking me up.
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Those 171 caches (a number of which have been marked unavailable plus the few members-only) are located within a fifty mile radius. Due to limited resources and topography, it is not economically feasible to travel beyond a 8-10 mile radius (as the crow flies, via roads it is often longer) from our home coordinates. There are only approximately 60-70 caches available to us within these limitations.
Gas prices here are much higher than the national average, so we tend to reserve driving for getting to-and-from school and work.
The point I wish to return to, however, is that by making certain caches available to those only part of the privileged "club," certain people are left out, and that makes it less fun. So like I said, enjoy all the other benefits of membership, but keep the caches available to everyone.
Free suggestions:
-Considering there are 60-70 that meet your limited resource criteria and you have only 45 traditionals logged, I think your B’ing and M’ing is premature.
-Try attending some monthly events in your area and hook up with some other cachers and work out some group caching expeditions.
-If you have not sought and found more than 45 traditional caches since becoming a member in 10/05, then it would appear you are really not to involved in this activity and probably ought to find something else to do with your free time.
-Just trying to state the facts. I suggest QYFB&MaC.
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From the Premium Membership Recruitment page:
Member Only Caches
Some caches are only available to Premium Members. This has been a request of many geocachers who want to put more energy into designing a cache for dedicated geocachers. As the cache owner, you can make any of your caches "subscriber only" so folks will need a subscription to seek it out. (Note: Member Only caches may not be any better than public geocaches. Each cache is managed by its cache owner.)
We are concerned about all the members-only caches popping up here and there. Not everyone (including myself) can afford or justify the $30 expense to sign on. In heavily-populated areas where this may not be such a problem, there tend to be many more caches available to general caching, with an occasional members-only cache. However, in areas such as the one I live in, with few people, and much fewer caches available, every members-only cache just serves to make geocaching cliquish and exclusive. With the price of gas these days, if we can't afford a $30 membership, we certainly can't afford to drive to other areas for newer caches!
My wife and I are "dedicated cachers." We try to get out at least once a weekend to find caches with a borrowed GPS. It's kind of insulting that the website that we all use to locate hides defines "dedicated cachers" as those who buy into premium membership.
So, enjoy the benefits of being a premium member, by all means. Enjoy the route-caching, the instant notification, the pocket queries, and the paperless caching, and more, which are a great value for the money! For the love of Mike though, please don't look down on "public" users because they don't have a membership (for whatever reason) by creating exclusive, cliquish caches.
Let's keep this sport fun and accessible to everyone!
What a jip. I am so angry that even though I am a PM, I still have to go cache seeking in my beat up old Honda because a new Mercedes is not $11,000. I still have to use my low end Garmin GPSr because the nice new one I want is over $300. I have to replace the batteries a couple of times a month at about $2.00 a pair. And what I am really PO'ed about is I can not afford to hire some "Girl Friday" to go out and do all my Geocaching for me. What a CRUEL WORLD!!!
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I know . . . but, why else would someone want the same PQ delivered to their InBox everyday, all week long, if they aren't going caching until the weekend?
Wouldn't a PQ, or PQs, for the area they are interested in going to, delivered the day before a "Geocaching Adventure, be preferable to getting that data every day, all week long . . . ?
I'm just trying to help lighten the load on the PQ servers by asking these questions, that's all . . .
I'm sure some people use all 5 every day whether they need it or not, but I hardly think that represents how most people do it. Just because 5 are available doesn't mean you're going to use all 5 daily. The ability to do so is there so you can spend a week downloading all the caches you might need for a 4000 mile trip. I took such a trip last summer. Fortunately, caches along a route came out just before I left and it took a lot fewer PQs than I was expecting!
I am cool with only 500 WPs per PQ, but I’d like to be able to dl more than 5 PQs per day. I do a lot of travel around the US with only my GPSr and handheld. I generally have to start dl PQs several days in advance of my departure to get 20 or so PQs created for my areas of travel. I do use the caches along a route technique, which is a big help, but in a two week trip out I can have as many as 12-15 different areas that I may want to have a PQ for. Even as a route. Any chance of upping the daily PQ limit?
I also really dig the changes to the cache pages that have been implemented over the last week.
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Oh and not to mention you only get 5 queries a day. If you screw up on one and no rows are returned. Your now down to 4. So usually I don't play around. Just pull a blanet query and go from there.
I am cool with only 500 WPs per PQ, but I’d like to be able to dl more than 5 PQs per day. I do a lot of travel around the US with only my GPSr and handheld. I generally have to start dl PQs several days in advance of my departure to get 20 or so PQs created for my areas of travel. I do use the caches along a route technique, which is a big help, but in a two week trip out I can have as many as 12-15 different areas that I may want to have a PQ for. Even as a route. Any chance of upping the daily PQ limit?
I also really dig the changes to the cache pages that have been implemented over the last week.
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I got a used Palm M125 off e-bay for 20 buck, with dock and software. It works just fine. I prefer the palm OS for GC’ing. With PPC additional steps are required to dl PQ’s, and Palms are cheaper so if I crash it while caching I can cheaply replace it.
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Drill a hole through it, put a bowl with a fine mesh screen on one end and I'll take a couple.
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or give this PQ a try. just put together this morning.
http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.a...d4-e19e81029edd
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take a look at my bookmark here: http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.a...5b-6ef5366d6880
if you PQ this bookmark and then sort in Cachemate you can line them up in any fashion you desire. open the cachemate gpx file on GE and you will get the picture.
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I have recently been playing with Google Earth, Cachemate and GC.com to create a bookmark list and PQs for a route. Here is a link to my successes for caches located along IH 40 from LA, California to Raleigh, NC. This can be dl’ed to Cachemate and sorted for travel from east to west or west to east. Probably useful for trucking geocachers or trans-continental family summer vacations. Ohhhhh, I remember those days.
I will continue to try and bookmark additional PQs along major Interstate routes. Let me know if this is useful.
Find the list here: http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.a...5b-6ef5366d6880
Everything is now either broken, looks bad or doesn't exist anymore. (Everything is not an exageration). Just look at all the new forum posts in the last week or two.
I just canceled my premium membership subscription (monthly) and WILL NOT pay again until the hampsters at geocaching.com stop messing around with THE LOOK of everything. 
Blackberry Curve vs. iPhone
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I spoke to Rebecca at Trimble and they do support the Blackberry 8310 and 8820 through AT&T. I am still not sure the Blackberry uses real GPS technology or Cell Tower signals. I am researching the Blackberry manuals now.