Robfire

OK, I have tried this. Kind of in the same situation steel city is in. I have downloaded the PQ, unzipped, plug in the PN40 set it to data transfer, find the sd card, drag drop etc etc etc. Do everything as stated and still cant find the caches. This is frustrating to say the least, cache register was my best friend for geocaching.

They are my coins. I have been out of caching...well not activly caching in over a year. I occasionally go find a cache, but as far as the coins go they sit in a drawer collecting dust. My best guess is these coins are worth about $500, 1 of the coins is a silver geocache america 1 troy oz .999 silver coin, that in and of itself going on silver spot is $30. I am not interest in you bickering over what or why, I have a child that has medical needs so I am selling what I can to cover what insurance wont pay if you really needed to know.

I have 35, yes 35 geocoins that I would like to sell. All have been activated but all can be adopted over. I would like to sell them as a whole set for $300, some are rare and limited edition coins, that sell for quite a bit. If I part out the coins on an individual basis I will research the price on these, but I would say they all average at least $10. If you are interested please email me at cacher820 *at* Yahoo dot com. Rob

I downloaded the Where You Go app for my Droid Thunderbolt and it is useless, cartriges do not work and the program locks up. So my word is....Come on Groundspeak get with the Android program and get an official app out there, I do not know why you cater to the Iphone crowd over the Android users. I am sure the android market has more phones out there than the Iphones!

Eagle Scout (1989) here. I used my map and compass skils finding geocaches in my area before getting a GPS. I found several but never logged them and most have been archived at this time. As a scout leader now I stress the use of map and compass knowledge. Most boys will ask why not just use a gps and I ask what do you do when your only set of batteries is dead? Rob

There are various places that you can find you state with counties I am not quite sure where I picked mine up but one place you can use is: http://itsnotaboutthenumbers.com/ it will show you what counties you have in your state and across the US. Rob

I have tried several times now to get my Advanced search to work right. What it is doing is when I go in and click on traditional cache, search by zip code, enter my zip code and the click hide all owned/found caches from search, it still shows all of my found/owned as I have quite a few found caches and quite a few placed very close it takes me about 10 pages before I can find caches that I have not found. Is there a glitch in the system by chance? Thanks Rob

Hello, I am looking at getting a new Oregon 200 for caching, Gander Mountain has them in their Black Friday add for just a mere $199.99 a $250 savings! I currently use a GPS60 but would like to do a couple of where i go caches if it will do so, if it doesnt I will just stick to the GPS 60. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks Rob

My view of caching and cemetarys is go for it. There can be a lot of history learned by caching there. I recently visited a cache in Northern Oklahoma at a cemetary and the cache was placed near a grave stone of a gentleman who was born into slavery in the 1850's and served breakfast to the famous Dalton gang before thier ill famed robbery in Coffeyville, KS. I also perfer them because rural one can be very secluded and quiet. Rob

For Urban areas and I know Wichita is not anywhere near the size of Denver, go for Early Sunday Mornings, when I was in Denver last summer I hit most of my finds before 730am, found the traffic was not to bad except near major roadways. Rob

Well mine is pretty simple. Rob is my name, I am a volunteer firefighter, thats where fire comes in and 820 is my county radio ID, so you have robfire820.

I am starting to get miffed at a couple of local cachers who feel they must place so called challenge caches, whereas in order to claim your find you must first place a cache, and in one instance requires that you maintain a minimum of 50+ non micro caches to claim his cache! Is this legal in the bounds of geocaching? I know this is aimed at only a couple of cachers who have very high find ratios and very few hides. I know I am above the curve having over a 5% find hide ratio and one of the top 5 hiders in my area but this just does not seem fair to all the other cachers. When you get to a certain number of caches maintenace can become a royal nightmare. I guess for me I am just trying to see if there is a way to shut down these so called challenge caches, since the owners threaten to delete the logs of those who dont comply to thier own new set of rules! Rob

I often hold coins that I pick up locally, in larger metro areas coins have a sense of disappearing, or like what happened to my TB hotel not long ago, I placed 15 bugs/coins afer a trip and someone came by only for the bugs and coins, took them all and never once logged any of them. I would have said the cache was muggled but since the container, log and the several mctoys that were in there were still there it had to be an inside job or a bad cacher! Another thought at least with me I might find 1 reg sized cache per 10-15 small or micro caches so its harder to place coins and bugs when all you have is micros! Most coins I try to move within a month though I have 2 coins out that someone has had in possesion for over a year now. Rob

I have just purcha$ed a POW/MIA geocoin off of ebay and would really like to keep it but would also like to see it get going, but yet stay out of the hands of collectors. Since I paid dearly for a single coin, almost $20 with shipping, I dont want to lose this thing in the first cache it goes into! Here is what I had planned to do, I have a similar POW/MIA coin keychain and am planning on making a dogtag with the all the tracking information on it, such as the tracking number my geo ID and where it started from. Has anyone else done this? I would like to see it travel but not into the hands of a collector at my expense. Thanks for the input Rob

It seams here in my area there are 3 of us that literally compete for the new caches, so it is nice to have that posted who got FTF. Of all the ones that I have placed(16), the FTF on 15 of the is split between 2 cachers. I have seen one cache that was placed about 15 miles out, I was sitting at my computer when it was published, and just barely got there, it was maybe 20 min time elapsed between published and my finding it. I think it is worth writing down who got FTF, it makes this game a little more competitive! Rob

Is there a way for me to find all of the archived caches in my area, while searching for caches? I am looking at placing more and maybe using archived ones as a starting reference. Rob

I am using the MapSource program that came with the unit, if there is a better program that will directly upload, I would be interested. Right now I go and search the caches that I want to find and type the coord into MapSource along with the waypoint ID so I can come back and log them after the find. After I have all of what I want entered I the transfer it over to the unit. Rob

I have a Garmin GPS60, the plain one, that I have had for about 2 months now, and I cannot figure out how to get more than 50 caches at a time programmed into it. Is there something I am not doing right? I am about to take a trip and I would like to program more if possible, as I dont have a pda or laptop all my programming has to take place before I go any place. I can program en route but that is a big hassle. Thanks in advance for your suggestions, Rob