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Evshro & son

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  1. So this thread started in 2008. Is there any progress on Wherigo Apps? Even for platforms like Droid??
  2. If by any chance you are already using GSAK for your primary hunting GPS, be aware that you can "Export" TomTom *.OV2 files with GSAK, and copy them directly over into your map folder on your TomTom. Be sure that you include both the gpx files you get from geocaching.com since the smaller file has the waypoints for parking, etc. These then show up as a custom POI on your TomTom. I put all of my PQ caches on my GO720 that way. I am using a TomTom XL and have managed to export the .0V2 files to the map folder. However, I don't seem to see them on the map while following a route. Is this normal, or could I be doing something wrong? I'd like to be able to follow a route and see the caches while out so that I can cache on the fly. Thanks!
  3. I have been caching for a while and am very familiar with the Garmin Colorado and Oregons. I have found that this does not help me much with our new TomTom. What I would like to know is how to get geocaches on it?? I did search posts in this forum and thought I had it figured out, but I did not. What I have done is drag my GPX file to GSAK and export it to the Map and POI file. When I turned the unit today the caches were gone? Thanks to anyone that can help!
  4. I had a nut out there for about one and a half year until I archived it because too many cachers rehid the cache in the wrong place. Two neodymium magnets inside the nut kept the nut closed and held the nano in its place. One neodymium magnet in the tree held the nut (which I camo-painted ivygreen) fixed on its exact right spot. Exact right spot? Yes, within the cachelisting I made an loop animated gif, showing the hiding place of the nut for 5 hundreds of a second and then showing the view from the hill where I hid it for a minute, .05 secs hiding place, one minute view and so on. It was a traditional rated three stars difficulty cause even when standing within a few feet of the cache you wouldn't recognise it in plain sight. Greetz Bloodwoosj. PS, though you will probably not be able to read the logs (Dutch), the cachelisting is in English and the animated gif is still visible too. GC18MNG The (un)natural was located in a natural environment upon a small hill with view on an unnatural chemical-factory. Love the GIF. What a great way to hide a clue!
  5. In a nutshell , that is just plain EVIL!! hopefully the squirrels don't muggle it and yes that is very evil Cor! I just set aside several walnut halves a couple weeks ago for this very thing. Well, looks there's the proof of concept right there. I'd use a hanger, I have several for Christmas ornaments which are the very thing, to hang in a bush. This has me thinking, too, as there's a village near home with not a single cache in it and a nut themed cache series would be perfect. At the moment I'm finishing the camo paint on an ammo can, done in leaf patterns. Will try to post a photo this evening. Cutting out leaf patterns in heavy paper for stencils and overlaying them is simples, but takes a few days to get it all done. It's looking very good so far. What was used to hold the two parts of the nano in place? Two part epoxy. I made this the hard way though. I cracked the nut open very very carefully (ate the contents), cleaned out the remaining stuff that you can't eat, rubber banded the shell back together, drilled a hole in the large end, mixed epoxy and poured it in using one of my wife cake decorating tips (she gave me permission to use it), after epoxy had set I used my band saw to cut it back open along the seem (should have used it the crack the nut open), used my Dremel moto-tool to hollow out were the nano container would go (made the holes larger than log container so I could realign the halves) , took more epoxy and added it in the holes I just created, put some Vaseline to the threads of the nano and replaced cap (so cap would not be clued on), stuck the nano in one side, applied a heavy coat of Vaseline to the other side of the shell so the halves wouldn't clue back to together, put the pieces back together, rubber banded to keep them in place until epoxy cured, unscrewed the nano and WhoaLa! I have a devious micro to hide. Might do the same thing to a golf ball. As far as durability, I think it will hold up pretty well. I know that natural materials decay after time but if I coat the outside with a varnish or polyurethane it will last longer. It's solid as a rock so it's not as fragile as one might think, and quite heavy too. If I can keep the squirrels away from it it should last a few years. I haven't looked for a place to hide it yet so there is a chance I might be adding a hanger using a eye screw with a tree ornament hook. I didn't want to go that far until I figure out where it will be placed. EDITED to add: I had to thin the epoxy with denatured alcohol so it would pour easily into the shell. If you look closely you can see the layers of the 4 batches of epoxy I poured in the shell. The 5 minute stuff curse too fast to make it in one shot. . Thanks! Did you consider or try using magnets to hold the cache together? This is an awesome idea and would love to "borrow" it.
  6. In a nutshell , that is just plain EVIL!! hopefully the squirrels don't muggle it and yes that is very evil Cor! I just set aside several walnut halves a couple weeks ago for this very thing. Well, looks there's the proof of concept right there. I'd use a hanger, I have several for Christmas ornaments which are the very thing, to hang in a bush. This has me thinking, too, as there's a village near home with not a single cache in it and a nut themed cache series would be perfect. At the moment I'm finishing the camo paint on an ammo can, done in leaf patterns. Will try to post a photo this evening. Cutting out leaf patterns in heavy paper for stencils and overlaying them is simples, but takes a few days to get it all done. It's looking very good so far. What was used to hold the two parts of the nano in place?
  7. WOW! I too would like to know exactly how this was done. Stellar job!
  8. I second the 180 view. I always thought that when dealing with geocaches that the Colorado had a more user friendly interface. I have changed my thoughts on that! The Oregon's dashboard is great!
  9. Thanks for your input...after looking at CN it's what I thought about it as well. We will be using it just for caching so will skip that. Can't figure out why the other cacher recommended it and said it was for out of the way places and back roading. Oh well, thanks again. It can be helpful for out of the way places. In Wyoming we ended up on a road that was on the CN, but wasn't quite what I thought a road would be. We couldn't believe it showed up on the CN. Now, without the CN we wouldn't have seen the road, as the maps that come with the Oregon will only have major streets and highways. Have a great trip! I hope the crazines settles down for all of you.
  10. I have CN loaded on my Colorado and Oregon 550 and found it really helpful for turn by turn directions. However, using CN to find a cache could be another story. For example, if a cache is in a park that backs to someones home CN will try to take you down their street instead of to the park. You could, of course, just set your destination to the park. I can't compare it using the Oregon to a Nuvi which has voice commands, but I can say that the Oregon with CN works for me. The bottom line is that if you want turn by turn directions then get the appropriate CN. If you are traveling in North America then get CN North America and load it through Map Source. However, if you are jstrictly caching with the Oregon then I don't see why you would need CN.
  11. This post on Orgon wiki reports "Another bug which was fixed: Waypoints, Routes and Caches (GPX Files) can be stored on the SD Card now as well." Excellent!! I can comfirm this!!
  12. After making a couple of these, I tossed them into my geobag. Yesterday I put one in a cache that I had just claimed the FTF on. The next finder included this in their post. "We took the micro geocache container and thought it was so neat we felt compelled to leave several things in its place in order to trade up." Looks like I found a new trade item. I placed another of the containers in a new cache that got listed today I haven't gotten any feedback because none of the first 5 seekers were able to locate it. Its not the size of the cache that makes it tough its the location. Some special equipment is needed. I made one of these using 2 liter soda bottle caps and a top. Before gluing the end cap on I slipped a magnet I had from Office Max in there. It was smaller than the cap and fit perfectly. After the epoxy dried it seemed to work ok. It is not as strong as some magnets out there, but even covered with some camo tape it sticks to metal. Thanks for the idea! Now I just have to find the perfect spot for it.
  13. I was hoping for my GPX files to be on the SD card.....DRAT!
  14. Just cut below the lip at the top of the bottle. Put another cap on this end with a generous amount of appropriate adhesive. (This was my own test version. I did not post those other pics. I cut off the yellow band where the other picture left the black band between the two caps.) Glue a neodymium magnet into the end for more fun! Ok, I just ran out to our recycle bin and pulled out a bottle and a couple of caps. Cut the neck off the bottle and put the caps on. Very easy. I understand that the adhesive will be gooped into the bottom of the cap that will be installed on the cut end. One question. What is the "appropriate adhesive"? I would prefer to avoid the trial and error stage of this project. There are several adhesives in my shop, but most are for woodworking and won't be likely candidates. i have tried a glue ment for plastic and the one i am making right now im going to try some epoxy So, would it make sense to place the magnet in the bottom cap while placing the adhesive? Thanks also for the reply to my question. I was wondering how the bottom was capped.
  15. It seems to work just fine for me. I started off by making a simple ring out of a small bit of stiff wire. About half the thickness of a coat hanger maybe a little less. The pvc rings are nice because there is more surface area to prevent the scroll log from sliding out of the ring and opening up inside the container. The only other thing I'm considering doing is to rough up the pvc and paint it flourecent orange so that if a cacher drops it well signing the log its easily found and you just wrap the log around the pencil and put the log and pencil through the pvc ring and slide it right back in the bottle. The 1/2" conduit slides right in to one of those power shot bottles. It feels like it was made to fit it. An 8 foot piece of conduit is less then a $1 and you should be able to get almost 100 rings out of it. At first I was making a tube out of the conduit the same length as the power shot bottle itself but then its a pain to get the log out of the tube. In my opinion these are a heck of a lot better then pill bottles, and film cans and you still have just a little room for small trade items. By small I mean you have to be able to fit it inside the mouth of a soda bottle. So go out and buy yourself a dozen power shots and start drinking them now. Just drink enough to keep you awake long enough to finish turning the whole dozen into large micro caches. I take off the sticker and rough them up to get rid of the shiney but I suppose you could wrap them with camo duct tape as well. On two of them I removed the plastic ring on the neck below the cap and with some stiff wire you have a nice place to wrap the wire around the neck and make a hook to hang it in a tree. Swizzle I am probably missing something here, but once the neck is cut off the bottle how is the bottom sealed?
  16. I rarely use this method to get caches on my Oregon. Have you tried doing a pocket queary? so much faster than selecting certain caches.
  17. I have had mine a few weeks and so far it has been reliable. The pictures it takes are much better than I thought they would be and the menu is easy. The only think I don't like is that to view a cache description you have to go back through the menu in a way that seems wrong. I have gotten used to it and have also found it to be very accurate. Good luck. If you have specific questions feel free to ask....I'll do my best to answer.
  18. Thanks everyone. I got it figured out. I checked out IrfanView and have had success with that.
  19. Thanks, I knew I should have checked the Wiki first--it is always helpful. However, I am wondering how I can view the information stored in the Exif region.
  20. I got my Oregon 550 and really like it so far. It takes great pictures and the 3 axis compass is a nice feature. Anyway, my question is: What exactly is geotagging? I would guess that it would simply be a picture taken with the location imprinted on the picture. Is this right? If so, what programs would I use to do this? Is there freeware out there? Thanks!
  21. You could run webupdater and reinstall the firmware. Sometimes that fixes bugs.
  22. I gotta know how the cattail is done. I know the perfect spot for something like that.
  23. I use an Oregon and Colorado, and on both I just drag my GPX file in to the appropriate folder. There is no need to use other software like you do with Magellan (Can't remember the name of it now). Anyway, whenever and wherever I am out I can see cache icons on the map and can pick a cache or two up spontaneously. Now, if I know I am going outside my immediate are, like to a state park or conservation area, I will Build a queary with the parks zip code and drag it into the file system of the colorado or Oregon. The same thing could be done with a route. The bottom line is that I always have the caches in my area on my GPS and see them on the map. The Colorado and Oregon also allow for you to view the cache descriptions on the gps. I had an Explorist or two myself and am happy I upgraded.
  24. Thanks. I am not sure how you figured that out (maybe I sould have read the...uh...manual), but that makes sense to me now.
  25. Thanks! I knew you'd have some valuable input here. So, just to be sure I got this, when I vew the track on the map the distance given is not the total. To get the total, click the bubble I am viewing that is above the map. (Does that make sense?) Thanks!
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