smerrall

It's a perennial problem. 3.5 years ago people were lobbying for an increase from 500. At that time a 500 cache PQ covered everything within a 60km (37 mi) radius from home, now it's 22.5 km (14 mi) and I need 3 PQ's to cover the same area as it took 3.5 years ago. Groundspeak don't want people to keep offline databases, but increasing cache density make it harder and harder to manage without one. As cache density increases further and further 2500/day won't go anywhere far enough. In theory 2500 caches would fit in a 3 mile radius circle! At some point a new PQ model will have to be established or we'll need to plan what block we'll cache on a week in advance.

After this release I was unable to connect to the site for over 2 days. Due to time zone differences I put this down to the maintenance window in the US. I finally decided that there must be some other problem that had yet to be mentioned. After long investigation I found the initial access to the site in a session was being blocked by my firewall with a file sharing request being blocked causing the page load to hang. Why would I be getting such a request?

We have the Exitrak here in Australia - a locally made device exactly meeting your description. http://www.ezitrak.com.au/index.html It has all sorts of fun features as well. I pick up me new bike on Wednesday, and will put one of these in as son as I can.

As it stands, most cachers hide something when they feel the time is right. Put the element of force into play, and you'll create resentment which will lead to some truly carpy hides. I have been caching about a year for 400 finds, but haven't placed any as yet. During the last year I have spent most of it travelling on business, caching in odd cities and countries as I went. Were I to have placed a cache while at home it would have spent months abandonned while I was away - not the right thing at all. I'm sure nobody would suggest I stop caching at an arbitrary limit of 10 or 100 finds and wait until my residence was stable again until I could place a cache that could even be approved with in the guidelines. Now that I am at home for 4 of the next 5 months, I have a series in mind that I will start placing over the next few weeks.

I did that one on Sunday, and there is a narrow park running between the houses and the freeway. The cache is probably 20' inside the park. It is a surprisingly nice park given its proximity to the freeway - I guess the large noise reduction fence does its job!

We had "Short Circuit" here in Australia that was quite similar (GCH0J8)

My understanding is that waypoints begin with "GC" for geocache. Early caches had 1 digit after this, then 2, 3 and now 4. I have found caches from 2001 with only 3 digits after the GC. If that is the case, then with 4 digits there are a total of 1,727,604 caches that can be added. This would include caches that were submitted, but rejected and archived caches. My guess is that we will move to "GC" plus a 5 digit suffix soon, allowing 62,193,780 total caches. Then extended again to 6 digits allowing 2,238,976,116 caches. This will then be the limit that some GPSr's can handle for waypoint names - but this is some way off. When the length is increased to 7 digits, every possible spot on earth (subject to .1 mile restriction) will have a cache, plus 3 old, archived ones.

No Need to create you own, use the ones from http://www.venganza.org/ such as "Why you should convert to Flying Spaghetti Monsterism". I'd love to see the look on peoples' faces talking to a FSM proselyte!

Mine came up with a bar graph showing how the charging was progressing. Then it stopped when I tried to charge it the second time. Somehow my battery died after one charge and produced exactly the same effect you are describing. Perhaps you have a bad battery too?