blindleader

Hmm, my first post disappeared before it even got here. Here goes again. You’d better put me down as a maybe. It’s been four years since I’ve touched my competition pistols and I’ve been telling myself I should at least go out and dispose of most of the left over ammo I (very many rounds of both .40 and .45). I also have pin gun and more than a few bowling pins to bring for those of us who don’t mind the slight increased hazard. Hopefully someone will bring a sacrificial table or piece of plywood and saw horses.

Did you check a day of the week for the PQ to run? edit: Gee I sure am slow on the keyboard today.

Here's a rule to live by. Don't try to enforce unenforceable rules. The simplest, and therefore the only reasonable rule for a find on a physical cache is the cacher's name in the log book. For a multi, you have no way of knowing if a cacher found all the wapoints. Was it a group search? Did each cacher find each waypoint independently? You have no way of knowing. Likewise for a puzzle cache, you can't know if the cacher solved the puzzle independently or not. For that matter, on a traditional cache, only one of a group might have discovered the cache, but the entire group signs the log and losg a find. Keep it simple, and if you find that too hard, see a therapist or start a twelve step group called CFA (Control Freaks Anonymous)

It's weird that they would call it a "burn-in" test instead of a diagnostic, which is what it obviously was. A burn-in consists of applying power to an electronic device for several hours, usually at elevated temperature, before it leaves the factory. This weeds out bad components, which succumb to infant mortality in just a few hours of operation. The term "burn-in" is also popularly and erroneously applied to the effect of an image being burned permanently into the phosphors of a CRT display.

Nice of them to compliment the power and versatility of the hand held unit (tongue in cheek I'm sure), but the flight would really have to be in the deep end of the sheep dip pool to fall back on a hand-held unit. With lost Nav, an airliner is still in radar coverage pretty much all the time over North America, so they would just have ATC give them vectors for an emergency landing. If they lost Com as well, then it gets really deep. Now they're trying to find and enter coordinates (by hand at 450 mph) for the nearest safe visual landing. The flight would probably never be in any serious danger, but it would probably be the most exciting event any of the crew will ever experience.

I log my coordinates when I'm reasonably certain, they're more accurate than the published ones. Were you coordinates more accurate than the published ones? I hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but if you don't know the answer, don't know how to find out the answer, or don't understand the question, then you shouldn't log your coordinates.

I would ask for an explanation. That way you're not guessing. The hard part, for me at least, is getting the job done without being confrontational. If he doesn't respond at all, delete it. If he does respond, but not satisfactorily, at least you're starting to get a handle on it.

It seems they were pioneering camouflaged cache containers back in the fifties.

Nothing but sticks and leaves to the right of my geocaches (except the micros). Nothing blank on my cache pages, either. Oh, you must mean the check boxes on the right side of the cache search results page. Those are check boxes. See the buttons at the bottom of the page to figure what they are for.

My favorite tool for this purpose is this one, because it's simple, obvious, and can be run either on line or from your local disk. The big bruiser of geodetic calculations is compsys21, a somewhat cumbersome FAA written program for doing all kinds of geodetic calculations. This thread will grow long with web references and self written applications by other geocachers.

President Zero has always been my favorite.

When I log a find on line, I download the individual gpx file to an empty directory. It only takes a couple of clicks per cache. After all the logging is done, I drag that entire directory into the GSAK database. Everything gets updated that way. Alternatively, as was mentioned above, once a week you can run the My Finds PQ and update from that.

It seems unlikely that such a public database will exist in the forseeable future. Section monuments are not part of any geodetic scheme, so the only people who are collecting geodetic data on them are local land surveyors. Surveyors are notoriously jealous of all data they collect in the field. Still, some county or state governments might be trying to create these databases

I prefer to keep the baby and just drain the bath water. Easily done. You can figure out how. Seven minutes? You obviously are not looking for challenging enough caches. I've read of a number of people recently who have had problems searching for archived caches. Sorry, but I find it bizarre that it’s a real problem for anyone.

I've always used GpxSonar. Rather than reading html, it renders gpx files into html and uses IE to display them. It also includes a link on each page to the SpoilerSync photos. Cachemate recently was ported to PPC, but I haven't read any reviews by people who have used both programs. gpxsonar is great.

I've carried Silva Ranger 15Ts for thirty years. I don't know how the current models rate for quality, 530 Ultra, and 515 CL, but historically I have found them to be the cheapest, most compact quality sighting compass around. If I were replacing it I might be tempted by the military lensatics, but that's just the former survey insturment operator in me talking.

If you are in the city at all I have a few suggestions. First be prepared for a town laid out before the automobile became popular and whatever street you are on probably doesn't get to where you think it does. Autorouting is a must have, if you are not a resident. I don't normally do Virtuals, but there are one or two must do ones." Kerry Viewpoint Park offers the best free view of the city without access to a million dollar condo. Bring your camera and save fifty cents at the post card shop. Hamilton Viewpoint is a traditional from the other direction. The most fun caches in the city are the Totally Tubular series, which all rate half a star for difficulty of finding the container, but getting ithem open is another problem entirely . They all lack toys, but still might entertain the kids. I highly recommend them: Totally Tubular Totally Tubular II Totally Tubular III Totally Tubular IV (2) Totally Tubular VI Totally Tubular VII Read the descriptions carefully, and you might want to have a phone to call a local geocaching hotline.

I would start by doing a search by Latitude and Longitude centered on Bangor (N53°14' W4°08'). Enter the coordinates in the box near the bottom of the Seek Page. It will turn up more than 400 caches within fifty miles. edit: As soon as I posted, the numbers didn't look right. Fixed now.

I think you must mean something entirely different from what you're saying. PQs do not include archived caches, so they couldn't get into your gpsr in the first place. My long shot in the dark: Are you talking about caches you've already found? If so, make sure you download caches to the gpsr with the geocache icon, a closed treasure chest, then when you find a cache, mark it as found. This turns the symbol to an open treasure chest. On the 60 series, you can delete all waypoints having a particular symbol.

There are tons of sites that implement the Caesar Shift Cipher. Here are a few: http://rot13.com/ http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/caesar.html http://jobybednar.com/decode.asp?cipher=shift

Ask the reviewer. If he or she can't change it then just archive the cache page and submit a new one with the updated coordinates.

Go to your account and click the [update home coordinates] link on the right side of the account details page.

You would win that bet. You must have tried it on a cache with not very many logs. Try it on one that has, say sixty logs and see how many download. It doesn't limit the logs to five, but maybe it limits file size, I don't know - good question for the geocaching.com forum. edit: I just checked the geocaching.com forum and suprisingly, found the answer to the number of logs downloaded right away in this thread. It's twenty. To get back to the OP question. The way to get all the logs for a cache is to run a periodic PQ (once a week is normally enough) for the area you are interested in and keep updating the GSAK database with the PQs. All logs that come down in the PQ will be added to the database if they aren't already there. Obviously this will not get you all the logs for caches already in existence, but in a year, you'll have a year's worth of logs for everything in your area of interest, plus all the logs for every cache placed since you started keeping the database. I have logs for all six thousand or so caches within a hundred miles of me going back two years. One peculiarity of this process is that you always have the original log. If someone edits a log that shows up in a PQ, but it is already in your database, it won't be updated. It only adds logs that arean't already in the database.

Over simplified and on two different subject, too. What you are describing is the diffent earth models, and in the same sentence, different map datums, which are related but seperate. The OP is asking about coordinate systems (but probably means to be asking about datums, too) gpsinformation.net is a good starting place for all stuff GPS. Google can also be useful. At the risk of oversimplifying, a coordinate system is simply a way of expressing a location. Some coordinate systems are associated with a particular Earth Model, like UTM. Latitude and longitude can apply to any round world datum, so you need top know which datum a coordinate is given in for it to be any use. Better to read some of the articles on the web and them come back with questions.

You can host it on geocaching.com by uploading it to your profile.