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    Top World Geocachers

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by j_czerwin

    My father JMCz found and personally signed all of his caches.   His top rank was #3 in the world and holds #12 at the time of this posting.   He helped start a company in the late 80's (Xircom) which sold to Intel eventually for $750M.   Dad retired early and made geocaching his main hobby for quite a while.  He would travel to a city and hit the first cache at sunrise and continue until it was too dark and he was too tired to continue. Then the next day he would repeat until the saturated caches were found.  Then he would continue to the next city. 

    I went caching with him once for my record of 300 in a day on one of those desert roads.    But, in the city where I would be happy if I could get 15-20 in a day, he managed to do 50-100 with ease.   He bought his vehicle just for caching and carried spare tires, a bicycle, and multiple computers and equipment with food and water.   

     

    He backed off over time, maybe from fatigue from people that criticize or rudely attacked his efforts, hides, and many geocoins and travel bugs he contributed to the game.   I can honestly say it got old for me to have people complain about hides or the way I shared geocoins.   Red Handed geocoin was a classic with crazy lady I will never forget, but I digress...

     

    His numbers won't rise anymore as he passed away of pancreatic cancer this last Sunday, January 16, 2022.    I'm in the process now of going through the trackables and collectables he has accumulated over the years.   It's a treasure trove, but my treasure was having him in my life and discovering so many things in the world -  even geocaches and the cool geocachers.  

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    AVATAR TESTING and INSTRUCTIONS

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Avatar creation instructions

     

    Save the desired image to your PC, then:

     

    1. Click on My Account tab on left side of home page.

    2. Under Account Options on the right side click on Edit My Profile

    3. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

    4. On the choose my avatar page, click on the Upload a New Image line

    5. Use browse button to find the image you saved to your PC, give it a File Caption and hit Upload

    6. Once it is uploaded click on My Details

    7. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

    8. Click on desired avatar, then click on Select Photo

    9. Click on the Edit Account Details line, key in your password, then page down and click on the Update Account button.

    10. Go to the forums and log out and log back in. Your avatar should now appear next to your name.

     

     

    To test please use this thread.

    Please do not start another testing thread.

    It doesn't work for me -- I have an older avatar with two flags that does not show up in any of my cache logs. I changed it to a pumpkin face JPG file 75x75 as a test and still no change in my cache logs. And, the old flag Avatar is showing up here. Araggggghhh!

    Just changed it to a monkey.... Ha! Still no change here and I feel like a monkey.

    AVATAR TESTING and INSTRUCTIONS

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Avatar creation instructions

     

    Save the desired image to your PC, then:

     

    1. Click on My Account tab on left side of home page.

    2. Under Account Options on the right side click on Edit My Profile

    3. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

    4. On the choose my avatar page, click on the Upload a New Image line

    5. Use browse button to find the image you saved to your PC, give it a File Caption and hit Upload

    6. Once it is uploaded click on My Details

    7. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

    8. Click on desired avatar, then click on Select Photo

    9. Click on the Edit Account Details line, key in your password, then page down and click on the Update Account button.

    10. Go to the forums and log out and log back in. Your avatar should now appear next to your name.

     

     

    To test please use this thread.

    Please do not start another testing thread.

    It doesn't work for me -- I have an older avatar with two flags that does not show up in any of my cache logs. I changed it to a pumpkin face JPG file 75x75 as a test and still no change in my cache logs. And, the old flag Avatar is showing up here. Araggggghhh!

    AVATAR TESTING and INSTRUCTIONS

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Avatar creation instructions

     

    Save the desired image to your PC, then:

     

    1. Click on My Account tab on left side of home page.

    2. Under Account Options on the right side click on Edit My Profile

    3. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

    4. On the choose my avatar page, click on the Upload a New Image line

    5. Use browse button to find the image you saved to your PC, give it a File Caption and hit Upload

    6. Once it is uploaded click on My Details

    7. On the Edit Account Details page look for the Virtual You section. Under Avatar click on change/edit

    8. Click on desired avatar, then click on Select Photo

    9. Click on the Edit Account Details line, key in your password, then page down and click on the Update Account button.

    10. Go to the forums and log out and log back in. Your avatar should now appear next to your name.

     

     

    To test please use this thread.

    Please do not start another testing thread.

    User put my coin in Geocaching.com.au

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I am moving this thread from the Geocaching.com Web Site forum to the Geocoin Discussions forum.

     

    Seems that my question was more about geocaching sites than about coins, but i guess I put too much emphasis on the coin in my example.

     

    Hopefully coin experts know about different website operations???

    User put my coin in Geocaching.com.au

    in Trackables

    Posted

    A person who geocaches in Australia took one of my coins TB1E7F3 out of a geocache GC10415 Little Flaggy Creek Cache and then put it in a cache GA0810 which appears to be another type of game.

     

    How did he do that or how did that happen? Do I specualate he is playing two games and messed up my coin?

     

    I'd enjoy suggestions on what to do at this point. So Far I just grabbed the coin back from him...

     

    Thank you in advance for any advice you can provide,

     

    Jay

    Trouble with PQ's

    in Website

    Posted

    I am fixed....

     

    noreply@geocaching.com [mailto:noreply@geocaching.com] was on my blocked senders list (not sure how it got there...obviously something I did) not sure why the one didn't go to my alternate address it was a yahoo account I will have to check my restrictions overthere....

     

    Tried my 5th one in 24 hours came up today so I can cache tomorrow.... :rolleyes:

     

    thanks keystone.....goodluck with j_c getting it up and going...

     

    Well son of a gun. I looked in there and there was a blocked list that had noreply@geocaching.com

     

    I never had this set up before. I just fixed it there, but now wonder if there is a way for me to do at least one more PQ today....

    Trouble with PQ's

    in Website

    Posted

    I am sorry; I don't have the power to reset anything on Groundspeak's servers. And I'm sorry for the trouble you're having. :rolleyes:

     

    Can anyone in support do a "reset" for me? i really wanted to geocache today...

    Trouble with PQ's

    in Website

    Posted

    I received pocket queries today at both Yahoo and Gmail addresses.

     

    The most common causes for missed pocket queries:

     

    Throttling by the user's ISP

    Changes in spam filter and/or security settings by the user or by the user's security software or ISP

    User error in creating the queries (forgetting to check a day, trying to run the same query twice, etc.)

     

    In addition, if it's an existing query that isn't being delivered, try making a copy of the query and running the copy.

     

    Is there a way for you to get my "5 a day" reset or do I need to wait until tomorrow to try to fix this....

    How to use GarminCsvPoiExport.txt on GSAK

    in GPS technology and devices

    Posted

    I have just started using this macro on GSAK.

     

    I love it, but it challenges me in Geocaching mode on my 60CSX.

     

    I can click on a POI and get the info. If I want to find that cache then I click SAVE so it is in geocaching mode, then I click goto. And when I click FOUND it is nicely put in to my calendar for logging later that night.

     

    The problem is that when I click SAVE, the name is truncated without GC numbers and it it hard to log them at night -- I have to go by abbreviated names instead.

     

    Is there a solution to this?

     

    Do you use another method?

     

    Thanks for the help == I am really new at this GSAK high tech stuff!

     

    Thanks again. Jay

    Stolen Coin?

    in Trackables

    Posted

    I think this is one of the coins that may have had a mispelling on it, not positive though, check out the work 'Independence' and see if it's spelled wrong. If it's spelled wrong than those coins may have been offered for cheap prices along with scratched off tracking numbers, don't think it's stolen.

     

    ~tsun

     

    The original coins had it spelled Independance, looks like the hole is where the "a" was.

     

    I KNEW I COULD COUNT ON YOU GUYS FOR GREAT HELP! THANK YOU ALL!!!

     

    Yes, Independence is spelled wrong and the hole is through the A in INDEPENDANCE. I see! It was a bad production, but it now can still be in circulation because it still is beautiful...

     

    Also BRAIN FART on my behalf!!! I was so upset thinking that someone was reselling stolen coins that I didn't think NOT to post the tracking number in actuality. I will notify the owner ASAP!!!

     

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

     

    YOU GUYS ROCK!!

    Stolen Coin?

    in Trackables

    Posted · Edited by j_czerwin

    I just picked up a TB in a cache and it had a geocoin attached to it. The geocoin's tracking number is scratched off of it. The TB page even had something in it that bothered me a little.

     

    Check it out TB1CERQ

     

    What would you do? Thank you in advance for your opinions and for someone to bounce ideas off of.

    Ever had your cache blown up by bomb sqaud !?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    How many stages to that multi!?!??!?! It should have been blown up!! :D JUST KIDDING!!

     

    You'd think that the police would know about geocaching and look these things up first....

     

    I have many in a city environment too and I wonder. Especially that they just installed new police cameras in the area, and one of my caches is build exactly like a pipe bomb -- it's about 2.5 feet long on a corner of a busy intersection.... But is is a favorite cache of the geocachers in the area -- see "Combination of Beers"

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