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I picked a package of those up, too...hadn't seen 1850 before that. However, FWIW and those who care, i see that Thomas Distributing is now carrying GP2000 ($15 for 4) and GP1800 ($10 for 4). Of course, you have shipping on top of that.
Seems like these batts keep getting beefier. Glad to see that VoldeMart is making these prominently available.
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Originally posted by restlessw:Also, contact the local AT maintaining club in your area. They are always in need of corridor monitors, a great experience for geocachers.
What do corridor monitors do? (sounds like this might blend two interests nicely)
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Originally posted by BrianSnat:My suggestion; if you think someone might be a Geocacher, challenge him/her with: _"kooko-burra-ya-ya-fee-fee-la-la"_ and if the other person _is_ a Geocacher they will respond with
_"The dead clam dances after midnight"_.
If they are not a Geocacher, they will give you an odd look and walk quickly away.
Given that presentation, I vote for odd looks and walking quickly, too!
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I was thinking for a moment that 300 monuments was an extraordinary concentration. But then I thought I recollected that the colider was a circular contraption with something like a 20 mile diameter? Or is that the wrong memory fragment?
Still quite a collection. And they do sound tres chic.
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I got my plat at Harmony Computers a few weeks ago for $239. It looks like that price is still good. You can probably do better elsewhere for the card.
I like my plat beaucoup.
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I suspect there would be two levels of benchmarkers--"clue me in" and "you do it your way while I'll do it mine"--as sometimes has seemed apparant from some of the postings in this forum. I want the feedback; I would presume others do unless they say otherwise. I'm seeing a learning curve in my finds and some of those in my local area. That's one of the things that attracts me to benchmarking...there is a whole system/culture of which the BMs themselves are just the surface.
Since the issue of reference marks came up, let me ask for validation (or correction) of my understanding: the station mark is the find criterion for a triangulation station BM; however, a reference mark itself would constitute a find for a BM consisting solely of the reference mark itself, no? (e.g., this one)
Max
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Lest the silence be misinterpreted, I was happy to see you post again, Gurubob. We've learned a lot from survey tech, and I expect we can learn a lot from you, too (also you might take some of the load off survey tech that we put upon him and the other pros!).
So my silence wasn't a cold shoulder (I can't speak for everyone, but I think most of us can relate to your concern for the integrety of the BM system, and I hope our misunderstanding of where each other was coming from is behind us). But your post did go pretty well over my head. I was waiting to see if anyone else responded to clarify.
Sooo...would you care to translate that into layman's terms? Enquiring minds want to know!
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Originally posted by jshort:I am in the process of entering in a Found BM repot to the NGS. On a hunch/guess/wonder, I checked the http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/get_contrib2.prl to see if Geocaching was listed.
And lo and behold - we are ! Designation code - GEOCAC
Jeff
That brought a glow to my heart...one that wasn't diminished too much when I saw how freakin' long the list was.
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Originally posted by inaholedotnet:Has anyone use the Aiptek Mini PenCam? If so is it worth the buy for geocaching?
Cachew nut has one (loves it), and posted a few sample pics in this post. I'm still thinking of getting one.
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To me, the joy of hiding and seeking caches is tangible. The threat of litigation seems remote (though possible). The cases of those being fined that were cited above sound like they were based on situations where well-known rules (or at least, rules that should have been well-known) were violated.
I figure I'll keep on keepin' on with my eyes open until the time that the going gets weird (e.g., frivolous lawsuits start popping up). My experience has been that if you live your live responsibly and ethically, litigation risks are low.
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Originally posted by Reamerstraff:We shall have to wait and see what revisions to the various current proposed and tentative regulations come out of their October 23rd meeting.
I know it's an unnecessary question (as the answer would be offered without prompting) but I am too darn impatient: any word of that meeting?
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We had seen the paper bag when we first got there and joked "there it is" and then continuted with the search. Finally, we picked up the bag and found all the contents, including the log book, in the bag.Brown Paper bag, urban cammo.
In this instance: trash out, cache in.
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I think you can find the info you want here. Let us know how it works for you. I haven't heard an actual confirmation of the Meri personalization (haven't heard of any problems, either).
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I was happy to find that the link above led me to a hack for the Meridian, too. I had seen such for the 3.08 firmware, but this was the first I came across for the 3.12. Thanks for the pointer.
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Thanks, Dogdoins. You got me off my butt enough to at least check out the readme file. It clearly specified to be sure there is a c:temp directory, which my laptop did not have. Funny how adding that fixed things!
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I'd endorse what Eeyore said. While there is a good chance you'll outgrow a base model, you don't really know--until you use one for a while--what it is you really want. I bought a used etrex Venture at the beginning of summer, and I just hopped up to a Meridian Platinum for the feature/cost combo that worked best for me. I should be able to sell the Venture for close to what I paid for it, the Plat came *way* down in price over the last few months, and I learned enough to know that was the GPSr for me.
(Wanna buy a used Venture?)
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My name is Michael Bramel, but I picked up the nickname of Max when I started dating the woman whom I eventually married. (She had two previous husbands by the name of Michael, and something had to give.)
Anyway, embra is my ambiguous abbreviation for M. BRAmel. (BTW, we've been married for 12 years now, if you fear for our prospects)
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I don't know the answer, but I'm having the same problem when I run geoclipping on my laptop. I'm running on my desktop no problem...both XP pro.
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The place you see "by check" is a drop-down box where you can pick Visa, MC, or Discover.
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Originally posted by Black Dog Trackers:As per the title of this topic, here are some strawman definitions of 'destroyed'...
After mulling it over for a day, I would endorse these as "destroyed". I think we can be a little looser than NGS and potentially provide something of value in that "flexibility." Of course, the risk is always that of beginning the slippery slope.
I would suppose the logs would give the best particulars of each situation (assuming veracity). But some uniformity in the status categorization would surely be important if they are to have any meaning.
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Originally posted by survey tech:They were placed where they were with a view toward the greatest permanence. If you had to pick a spot within a certain area where settlement and development were anticipated, and you wanted it to last 100 years or more, you would have to try to visualize what was going to happen there in the future. This is what early geodetic surveyors were confronted with.
One of the reasons I enjoy benchmark hunting so much is we're not just hunting in three dimensions, but we often have to try to see through time. I like the notion that those who placed the markers were trying to see forward to our time, too. I feel some sort of connection though these hunks of metal.
Thanks for your comments, Survey Tech. I appreciate the education you (and other contributors on this forum) are making available to us.
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No metal, that is something like a pebble that someone either stuck or glued in there. If I get ambitious someday I'll ask some people in the building if they know anything of what happened to it. I know the battlefield is always getting "souvenirs" ripped off.
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OK, let me see if I'm in synch here. This depicts a missing disk beside the courthouse steps. Smooth granite with an disk-shaped marking where the disk clearly *was*. No metal remains. (The picture would probably be more useful if I hadn't zoomed in *quite* so close.)
Because of the near-certainty of the location, it still constitutes a find? And would a more ambiguous location have warranted a "Destroyed" log? My sense from what Survey Tech is saying is that we're looking for a location in 3-dimensional space that is usually designated by a disk marker, but sometimes might be where we can determine--with high degree of confidence--a disk marker used to be. (I am, of course, just talking here about bench mark disks and not other types).
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I rarely see any mention of ExpertGPS without someone singing the praises of this gemstone of software and support. I wish every software company I dealt with showed their attitude. Heck, I wish one or two more than TopoGrafix did.
ExpertGPS has definetly enhanced my enjoyment of geocaching.
SporTrak Pro or Meridian Platinum
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That is about the only thing I really miss. I moved from a Venture to a plat for the same reasons you're considering. I haven't yet had a chance to test it under the trees, but it has tended to hold a lock better in some other areas that my Venture used to let go.
As far as the pointer, the built in compass does give a graphically visible bearing to the waypoint. It's a little subtler than the garmin approach, but it works.
There are some other bells and whistles I like with the plat. It's much better for road navigation than the Venture, including some audible arrival alarms. The maps don't knock your socks off, but I am finding them useful. It's only been a few weeks so it's early to be definitive, but so far I like it a lot. (But I *am* reading the manual...it's easy enough to get going, but there are a lot of features that take some studying to gain full advantage.)