GermanSailor
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I have a set of coordinates I was given:
+39° 46' 35.76", -121° 44' 29.93"
How do I translate that into something my GPS understands:
(xx.xx.xxx, xxx.xx.xxx)
N 39° 46.596'
W 121° 44.498833'
you can round the longitude to:
W 121° 44.499'
Shouldn't make a difference anyways.
Calculations were done with this online tool.
What is there anyway?
GermanSailor
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I blame the Germans for everything wrong in geocaching. And curling.
I blame a single German for all my DNFs.
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Also, anyone think the other cacher was a muggle, and/or vice versa?
Yes, this happened quite often so far. Geocachers are easily identified. Especially those ones who try to be stealth.
If a muggle runs around with a GPS, the question "Are you geocaching?" is a good conversation starter. Normally they have at least heard about it.
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Drying a geocache and adding a logbook, maybe even replacing it is something I do if required.
Of course you have owners who don't care at all for their geocaches. In this case you help curing the symptom and not the cause.
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I cannot find any instructions on how to manually put map coordinates for a geocach into my eTrex H.
Tried to read the manual?
Manual pages 8, 15. It's described on page 11 in the printed manual. You find this function in the main menu - mark.
Quick reference guide: on the left.
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but I can't see the notes/hints on my system. I see the notes section, but all I see is the title of the cache. Does anyone have this GPS that may be able to help? Does it only store the title or is there something I am missing?
Thanks!
The Garmin 60 series GPSrs don't support paperless caching. However you can use a GSAK-Makro to generate POIs with parts of the description.
Use GSAK to transfer the caches and you can use the special tag %hint to have the hint (or parts of it) in the description field.
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ha ha ha
no seriously ... i wouldn´t have opened that thread if this warning wouldn´t annoy me.
it´s on every printout, and it´s not nice. and i´m already a member.
so if anyone has got something needful to say ...
Yes, you can avoid the disclaimer and other useless stuff by installing GC1NOAD. I'm sure there are more Greasemonkey AddOns around doing the same job.
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I wonder if the German listing site is still publishing couch potato virts?
There is no "German listing site". Everybody, worldwide logs in to Geocaching.com, there are German reviewers but the site is the same you use.
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However, you're welcome to think as you like. Quite honestly, I don't care. Too many rules, regulations, and big headed opinions will make geocaching not fun for a lot of people, and I have no intention of being a part of that problem.
Be setting trade-rules for your own geocache you are a big part of the problem.
What right do you have to make rules concerning somebody else's property?
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I noted the TB in the wrong cache, can't change it, I only have ref #, I contacted the owner, anything else I can do other than being more attentive.
By contacting the owner you did the right and only thing you can do.
At least the tb is still "in the game". Don't worry to much about it - It's just a hobby!
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Can a gps be held in the pocket or under a jacket and still have reception of the satelit. If yes witch one.
thanks
Yes, speaking of:
60CSx
Etrex H
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So what's the reason behind Germans phantom logging virtuals? Are they 'lost in translation'? Do they realize they are phantom logging them? Can someone shed some more light on this for me? I'm curious.
It was not always clear, that "phantom logging" (a phrase I never heard before) is frowned upon.
Several "couch potato" bookmark lists also gave the impression that virtual visiting of virtual caches is okay. I don't see what the big deal about it is. But you are not supposed to log them. In the German part of the forum there is a topic about it.
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(This may very well be a dead horse, but...)
Who here has ever seen a cache that stated in the description, "TB's must be exchanged 1 for 1"
How is this allowed? I propose a guideline be written to prohibit such an act.
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=1038967
Ignore such stupid rules. Trackables are meant to travel, only their owners have a right to decide what the mission is.
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I could understand one or two in my area, but why can't people be more creative?
Avoid hunting for micros, and this disappointment will be history. Additionally it was said that you might consider geocaching outside towns or parking lots.
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Am I the only one that thinks that all of these caches are awesome?
No, not at all.
I think someone here is a Wichtigtuer.
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I have two gps's, and my etrex reads off from my 60csx almost all the time. Believe it or not, the older etrex gets better readings and the gpsmap 60csx is often as much as 40 feet off. Is there something I need to do to make my "NEWER AND BETTER" gps more accurate?
Are you sure both receivers show the same numbers.
Are both set to degrees, decimal minutes. WGS84. A different datum can cause different readings.
No, you can't calibrate a GPSr. If you let it switched on with good sky-view it will download the new almanac, which will speed up the time it needs to get a fix and even tracks new satellites.
40 feet off (off what anyways?) is an acceptable accuracy for a consumer handheld GPSr.
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Doubt it or not - Tried Firefox several times on several days with no avail.
Sounds to me like a security setting within FireFox. By the way, there is a newer version available.
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Should the travel bugs be inside the CO home when the cache is outside? Do you feel comfortable with having to go to the home owners door to retreive travel bugs? It just don't seem right for the travel bug owners to have them left in a cache inside of the house when the log is outside in another cache.
I have never heard of or seen such a case. A trackable should be logged at the location where it actually is.
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Is it OK to prompt the cacher that has your TB to place the TB if it has been a while? And what is your opinion of "a while"?
A friendly question, if everything is all right with the trackable should be okay. Maybe the person just forgot to log the trackable online. This can easily happen.
"a while" for me is more than 2 weeks if said person is active, maybe more than 4 weeks otherwise.
You are supposed to move a trackable within a fortnight.
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If someone sends you some info on a cache in an effort to help you, take the 7.5 seconds it takes to type thanks and hit return. It is only polite.
Of course! Feedback is very important, I always answer to friendly emails.
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All of those geocaches where in a location where you NEEDED a car, since you couldn't get there by foot, bicycle or horse?99% of the geocaches I've found have required me to purchase gasoline for my car and drive somewhere. What's the difference?
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Ok i've been wondering this for a while, what is everyone's favorite TRADITIONAL cache to find size-wise and container wise.
Larger Caches usually are more expensive than film canister micros. They are more difficult to hide either. For this reasons the larger the better. Cos tend to put more thought and effort into larger geocaches than into the micros.
How much time, effort is it to hide a film canister at a walmart lamp post? - Compared to buying, painting and stuffing an ammo can?
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And why are PM only caches wrong? If they are, why are they even an option?
It ist your right to list your geocache as PM-only. Just ignore such emails.
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Coordinates with an offset? is it a common practice?
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No
Yes, but not common, but it happens. To put it in a nutshell: Don't do it!GermanSailor