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quote:Originally posted by Jamie Z:GH, What I do now is walk until I feel I'm in the general area of the cache and turn off my Gold, and then immediately turn it back on. "Interesting" story about this past weekend. I was in very heavy tree cover, just as I found the cache my batteries gave out. I changed batteries and went through the cache and signed the log, spent maybe three or four minutes. The Gold never did acquire a second satellite, it was a short way out so I just turned it off. Anyway, I will try your trick when I have a better view of the sky. Bob GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by phantom4099:What GPSr are you using? I'm using a Magellan Meridian Gold with v3.12. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by phantom4099:What GPSr are you using? I'm using a Magellan Meridian Gold with v3.12. GoodHunting

I have read through several threads on averaging and most seemed to deal with placing a new cache, so my apologies if I’m reopening an old topic. I’m curious if my experience is typical and if anyone has any comments. I have come to the conclusion that when my GPS says I’m 100 feet from the cache I need to stop. Hopefully there is a place to sit and read a book or something to occupy my eyes so I’m not tempted to look at the GPS for 5 minutes or so. After that time it usually says I’m 40 to 60 feet away and I start again. If I don’t stop I’ll end up way past the spot. I tried this past weekend walking real slow starting at about 120 feet which was maybe a little better but not much. I’m not sure it was a valid test though because I was under lots of tree cover with very overcast skies plus the underbrush made it hard to walk in a straight line (kinda like most caches, huh.) So is this normal? Does anyone have any “tricks of the trade”? GoodHunting

I have read through several threads on averaging and most seemed to deal with placing a new cache, so my apologies if I’m reopening an old topic. I’m curious if my experience is typical and if anyone has any comments. I have come to the conclusion that when my GPS says I’m 100 feet from the cache I need to stop. Hopefully there is a place to sit and read a book or something to occupy my eyes so I’m not tempted to look at the GPS for 5 minutes or so. After that time it usually says I’m 40 to 60 feet away and I start again. If I don’t stop I’ll end up way past the spot. I tried this past weekend walking real slow starting at about 120 feet which was maybe a little better but not much. I’m not sure it was a valid test though because I was under lots of tree cover with very overcast skies plus the underbrush made it hard to walk in a straight line (kinda like most caches, huh.) So is this normal? Does anyone have any “tricks of the trade”? GoodHunting

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. I'm sure we can do at least one these and hopefully more. GoodHunting

Thanks a lot for the suggestions. I'm sure we can do at least one these and hopefully more. GoodHunting

We will be in Las Vegas the end of July and we are looking for some advice. Here is some “background.” 1. We’ve never been to the desert. 2. We’re old (well at least older) and overweight. 3. Snakes and big bugs are OK in the Zoo, but we wouldn’t want to meet one in person. 4. We’re flatlanders who think 2 star terrains are enough. Ok, so we want to drop off a couple of Travel Bugs while we are there (in the same cache). We will certainly visit Hoover Dam and might make a side trip to the Grand Canyon. Looking at the cache pages it seems that the near by caches are either virtual caches or higher terrain ratings. Would anyone mind recommending a cache that we can find fairly easily (we’re still new at this) and wouldn’t wipe us out in the July heat? Thanks GoodHunting

After reading the various threads about MIA travel bugs and laminated info cards, I have used cards (which I patterned after Markwell’s) for the couple of TB that I have started. Today I picked up a TB that doesn’t have a card just the dog tag. My question is – would it be bad form to add an info card to someone else’s travel bug? GoodHunting

After reading the various threads about MIA travel bugs and laminated info cards, I have used cards (which I patterned after Markwell’s) for the couple of TB that I have started. Today I picked up a TB that doesn’t have a card just the dog tag. My question is – would it be bad form to add an info card to someone else’s travel bug? GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by infosponge: My version of mapsend doesn't even know what a Meridian is. :-) It will prompt you if you try to create a region that is too big for a 330, and you can just say "go ahead, I know what I'm doing". Ok this is what is happening for me. If the region is between 8000 and 8192 KB I get the message you mentioned. Anything bigger and I get the following error – “The maximum allowed region size is 8192 K bites. The region cannot be processed.” I have 192 Meg ram and a fair amount of disk space so I wouldn’t think resources are a problem. The MapSend version is 3.00a. I don’t see any updates on the Magellan site. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by infosponge: I just generated a ~23Mb region (all of Florida) and it took a shade over 6 minutes. Excuse me if this a dumb question, my MapSend Topo won't let me process a regon that is over 8 meg. Do I have a wrong setting or old version or what??? My Meridian gold is on the way so I have just been trying out the SD card reader. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by infosponge: I just generated a ~23Mb region (all of Florida) and it took a shade over 6 minutes. Excuse me if this a dumb question, my MapSend Topo won't let me process a regon that is over 8 meg. Do I have a wrong setting or old version or what??? My Meridian gold is on the way so I have just been trying out the SD card reader. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by MajBach: what's with all the increased traffic lately? It does sound like the Klez virus which first appeared last November but then was pretty quiet and was considered low risk. For some reason it has resurfaced and it’s risk level has gone up significantly. Norton at work is detecting 6 to 8 hits a day and we have a small office. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by MajBach: what's with all the increased traffic lately? It does sound like the Klez virus which first appeared last November but then was pretty quiet and was considered low risk. For some reason it has resurfaced and it’s risk level has gone up significantly. Norton at work is detecting 6 to 8 hits a day and we have a small office. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by Markwell: ... but http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=2070913614. Decided I wanted to learn how to do the link thingy that you use. So... I did some studing and I hope everyone will bear with me while I test what I think I learned. This is our first Travel Bug that we hope to release this weekend. Later, GoodHunting GoodHunting

Duhh!!! Thanks a lot.

Earlier this week I stumbled on a thread where experienced folks were offering "Do's and Don'ts" advice. Darned if I can find it again. can anyone point the way? GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup: You automatically get notifications on your own travel bugs or caches. Thanks much. GoodHunting

quote:Originally posted by Zuckerruebensirup: You automatically get notifications on your own travel bugs or caches. Thanks much. GoodHunting

Another newbee question. (don't ya hate that) If I'm the owner of a Travel Bug, do I automagically receive notifications of it's movements or do I have to add it to my watch list. GoodHunting

quote:The 16 meg only holds the basemap. If you want to load any detail maps you need to get an SD card. This touches on a question I've been wondering about on a Meridian GPS vs Meridian Gold. I assume the extra 14 meg allows for a better basemap. But if I'm going to use Mapsend Topo should I care about the basemap difference? or should I get the basic unit and use the extra money for a bigger (or second) SD card? GoodHunting

Forgive the newbee opps. I found Markwell's Aquaman card a few hours after I posted this message. I don't use Powerpoint, so with some plagiarizing I'll try to set up something similar in Word. Thanks, GoodHunting

Forgive the newbee opps. I found Markwell's Aquaman card a few hours after I posted this message. I don't use Powerpoint, so with some plagiarizing I'll try to set up something similar in Word. Thanks, GoodHunting

I have seen on the website a Word document that can be printed and placed in a new cache explaining the whole idea in case the cache in found by accident or whatever. Is there a similar document for new travel bugs? GoodHunting