Atilla the Pun

After I posted the link I checked back and noticed that it was an old report. Still, the treatment of the subject matter was interesting. AtP

USDA Compares GPSR's Under Forest Canopy Check it out! AtP

You know you can send your MeriGold back to Thales and for a small fee they'll put the Marine basemap into to it? I know it's not the straight up trade you're asking for, but since no one has responded I thought it might cut your losses. AtP

quote:Originally posted by st_richardson:According to the person I spoke with at the FCC, anyone I hand one of my units to is covered under the license. Your contact from the FCC was misinformed. The rules from Part 95A Section 95.1 read: quote:(a) The GMRS is a land mobile radio service available to persons for short-distance two-way communications to facilitate the activities of licensees and their immediate family members. Anyone you had your radio to is covered under your license in emergency conditions. Since minimum penalties are confiscation of all equipment involved in the illegal activity and loss of all radio licenses I would advise a little more research (plus a little common sense) prior to acting on vague information. If anyone you hand your radio to can use it, why license at all? Respectfully, AtP [This message was edited by Atilla the Pun on March 14, 2002 at 11:24 PM.]

I would attempt to discourage you from this. Home made bombs are sometimes made from PVC pipe and I would hate to see your cache detonated by the Bomb Squad. AtP

I would rather see Jeremy buy a boatload of Rinos and sell them at a slight markup to help support Geocaching.com. Members of Geocaching.com would of course get a discount. AtP

I would rather see Jeremy buy a boatload of Rinos and sell them at a slight markup to help support Geocaching.com. Members of Geocaching.com would of course get a discount. AtP

quote:Originally posted by st_richardson: Don't forget the $75 for the FCC license if you go for the 5 mile unit. The 5 year license covers up to 5 (maybe 6 units). This license covers your entire immediate family living in the same house. That would include your mother, father, in-laws, your brothers and sisters, and all 12 (or 25!) of your children. It does not cover your cousins (brother's and sister's children), even if they live in the same house. So if you get a Rino please get your license! It's a bargin! AtP

quote:Originally posted by st_richardson: Don't forget the $75 for the FCC license if you go for the 5 mile unit. The 5 year license covers up to 5 (maybe 6 units). This license covers your entire immediate family living in the same house. That would include your mother, father, in-laws, your brothers and sisters, and all 12 (or 25!) of your children. It does not cover your cousins (brother's and sister's children), even if they live in the same house. So if you get a Rino please get your license! It's a bargin! AtP

quote:Originally posted by Paul Morrison WaylandersMA: This month in "Journal of Trauma" published a study from the Harvard School of Public Health. If you have a firearm in the house your chidlren 5 to 14 years old are twice as likely to commit suicide and three times more likely to die from firearm homocide. Reverse causation was factored in, "unsafe areas thus more guns thus more fatalities". They looked at poverty, education urbinaization. It all still added up to guns in the house increase accidental death, homicide and suicide of children 5 to 14. There was a tight correlation with states that have high gun ownership with high levels of dead children. Non-firearm suicides and homocides had no correlation. According to Miller (author), "the danger of guns is not that they somehow cause people to act more violently- it is simply that people will be far more succesful at killing themselves or someone else with a gun. Yeah, and the AMA has become more well known for their anti-gun stance than for good medicine lately. This is probably a response to the article that was published a few years back stating that you were in more danger of getting harmed by a quack doctor than by a fire arm. The way it was written up was pretty humorous, I'll try to find it and post it here. AtP

quote:Originally posted by Paul Morrison WaylandersMA: This month in "Journal of Trauma" published a study from the Harvard School of Public Health. If you have a firearm in the house your chidlren 5 to 14 years old are twice as likely to commit suicide and three times more likely to die from firearm homocide. Reverse causation was factored in, "unsafe areas thus more guns thus more fatalities". They looked at poverty, education urbinaization. It all still added up to guns in the house increase accidental death, homicide and suicide of children 5 to 14. There was a tight correlation with states that have high gun ownership with high levels of dead children. Non-firearm suicides and homocides had no correlation. According to Miller (author), "the danger of guns is not that they somehow cause people to act more violently- it is simply that people will be far more succesful at killing themselves or someone else with a gun. Yeah, and the AMA has become more well known for their anti-gun stance than for good medicine lately. This is probably a response to the article that was published a few years back stating that you were in more danger of getting harmed by a quack doctor than by a fire arm. The way it was written up was pretty humorous, I'll try to find it and post it here. AtP

quote:Originally posted by Ranz: Any way you go, if you want built in maps you are looking at the high end of you spending range. Unless you can find a good sale on a Magellan Map330. They have been as low as $110.00 lately due to the release of the Meridian line. I have been looking for one of these and I always see them at $250, which is rediculous. At that price I'll buy a Meridian instead. Where can I find a Map 330, or 330M for $110? Thanks, AtP

When you are shopping for more batteries you might check out the Monster Power batteries. You can get AA's at GameStop for $9 US a pair. These batteries are 1800 maH. I like them. AtP

When you are shopping for more batteries you might check out the Monster Power batteries. You can get AA's at GameStop for $9 US a pair. These batteries are 1800 maH. I like them. AtP

I posted a question about what GPS's people used in alt.rec.hovercraft and one of the replies pointed me to joe.mehaffey.com. And Joe had a link to http://www.geocaching.com . And here I am. AtP

I posted a question about what GPS's people used in alt.rec.hovercraft and one of the replies pointed me to joe.mehaffey.com. And Joe had a link to http://www.geocaching.com . And here I am. AtP

I'd like to see a frequency or channel listed on each band for each cache. Since many people are not familliar with ham frequencies, or with FRS/GMRS channels the best way I can think of to impliment this is to have dropdown boxes for each radio type and a default freq/channel that is not the national hailing or emergency frequency. This would be some extra work for Jeremy, if he's willing. If the placer of a new cache wanted to they could look up the caches closest to their cach and match their frequency/channel, just to encourage meeting new members of the community. AtP

I'd like to see a frequency or channel listed on each band for each cache. Since many people are not familliar with ham frequencies, or with FRS/GMRS channels the best way I can think of to impliment this is to have dropdown boxes for each radio type and a default freq/channel that is not the national hailing or emergency frequency. This would be some extra work for Jeremy, if he's willing. If the placer of a new cache wanted to they could look up the caches closest to their cach and match their frequency/channel, just to encourage meeting new members of the community. AtP

quote:Originally posted by xsintrik: Check http://www.garmin.com/products/rino/ for details on the Rino. It is FRS/GMRS and Garmin even recieved special permission from the FCC to transmit data on the FRS channel for the Peer to Peer position stuff (I read that on the FCC web-site). Check this discussion thread for more links http://forums.Groundspeak.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001995.html xsintrik The Rino Web page hasn't changed since the last 5 times I've been there. No FCC ID has been posted for the radio, therefore I am unable to look it up and see if there are two radios, one FRS and one GMRS. The FCC regs have not changed in any way relavent to my previous comments. No marketing weenie has ever put inconvient facts into a sales blurb when said fact may reduce sales. For the past year (or longer) makers of GMRS radios have been marketing them as FRS/GMRS and neglecting to mention that a license is required to operate them legaly. While there are two radios listed on the Rino page I the only differences I see between them are: the color vibration for call on the 120 Basemap on the 120, not the 110 download maps from Garmin map CD's Currently I am aware of at least one (with more pending) complaints headed to the FTC regarding the deceptive marketing practice of failing to point out the need for a license on the marketing materials (e.g. package, flyers, etc.) If one of these units is truely an FRS unit Garmin has failed to mention that anywhere. But, if you get one of these units please get the appropriate license to use it. Respectfully, AtP

quote:Originally posted by infosponge: A point is a vector with no magnitude. Ok, I'll grant you that, but then there's no "data compression" in that sort of a vector. AtP

quote:Originally posted by gpsmapnut: Because of it, POIs and waypoints are vector map data. How can a single point be a vector? Respectfully, AtP

quote:Originally posted by gpsmapnut: Because of it, POIs and waypoints are vector map data. How can a single point be a vector? Respectfully, AtP

quote:Originally posted by ClayJar: The detail map (i.e., the uploaded map) is shown instead of the base map when you're zoomed in. How far you have to zoom in to get the detail map depends on what you have the detail level set to in the Map Setup screen (accessible from the map screen's menu). You can tell you're on the detail map by when city streets show up. Zoom in, and at a certain point (depending on your detail setting), all the local streets pop up. Zoom out a level and you're back on basemap. So when zoomed in the basemap POI's will or will not be visible? IOW, if I have a MeriPlat with the Marine basemap in it and I zoom in will I still see no wake zones and/or buoys? AtP