Seay me
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Heck, my wife is the one that told me about the website and said that she thought it would be fun. We went out that night, got a GPS then found our first cache the next day!
Chip
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Heck, my wife is the one that told me about the website and said that she thought it would be fun. We went out that night, got a GPS then found our first cache the next day!
Chip
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Originally posted by Zzzoey:
and kits for making beer...
HEY! I resemble that remark!! (I make my own beer) Helluvalot better than the budmillcoors you get at the store.
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Originally posted by DD214:The best way to have people leave you alone is to search for the cache in the buff, as in butt naked. Nothing but hiking boots and a cowboy hat.
Don't forget the bug spray!!!
Chip
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Originally posted by DD214:The best way to have people leave you alone is to search for the cache in the buff, as in butt naked. Nothing but hiking boots and a cowboy hat.
Don't forget the bug spray!!!
Chip
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If I read your discription correctly the type of cymbal you saw was a "china" series. It's a type of special effects cymbal that has kind of an agressive initial crash sound that fades off rather quickly.
The cymbal you say may or may not be a zildjian (brand name), but it looks like a pricy cache item.
http://www.zildjian.com/specialeffects-frames.htm
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Sorry to barge in, but I'm betting he's not from N.D. or S.D. I bet he ownd a dodge dakota 4*4.
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Well said mrplug.
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I pay month to month through paypal direct from my checking account. I haven't had any problems.
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I pay and don't care one way or the other about the perks of the paying membership. $30 a year isn't anything. It's the least I can do to help support a website that is such an important part of an activity that my wife and I love to participate in so much.
Chip
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Nogami is right...Just plug and go. Except the basic yellow etrex shouldn't take 20 minutes. My yellow one took about 45 seconds.
Be sure to check out the easyGPS for geocaching now that you have the data cable. It's a heck of a lot easier than manually inputting the cache information.
Chip
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I use a garmin but the basics are about the same....Yes you need to enter the coordinates of the cache into your GPSr. Once the cooridinates are entered you select whichever option that allows you to track those coordinates (My garmin uses the GOTO option).
It's not a bad idea to create a waypoint of the location of your car before hunting a cache.
Chip
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I think you should get prepared to be out $300. I wouldn't be so skeptical if you hadn't mentioned the sudden rise in negative/neutral feedback and the sudden halt in email replies.
You never know though, for all we know he could have been in a car accident and be in the hospital or something.
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I think you should get prepared to be out $300. I wouldn't be so skeptical if you hadn't mentioned the sudden rise in negative/neutral feedback and the sudden halt in email replies.
You never know though, for all we know he could have been in a car accident and be in the hospital or something.
Chip
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I'm paying the 30 bucks a year to help pay for the servers, bandwith, and time because I like to use the website to get the info on the caches.
$3 or so a month is nothing to support an activity that you like doing.
Chip
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I started GeoCaching about a month ago and use the basic yellow garmin etrex. It was $99 dollars and has worked great for me so far. There is no need to download maps and such unless it's just something you want to do. I do, however, use easyGPS to download my cache locations to the garmin from the geocaching website, but it's not at all required. I think I'll be getting a powercord for the car in the near future as well.
I have had an instance or two of reception getting flakey under heavy cover, but it was nothing that would stop the hunt. The unit is about the size of a mobile phone, it's submersable(sp) for the accidental drop in a puddle, the batteries last me about 10 to 12 hours continuous on.
Hopefully you'll get more good info on other units and be able to make a good decision.
Unfortunately I have no expierence with other makes.
Chip
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I started GeoCaching about a month ago and use the basic yellow garmin etrex. It was $99 dollars and has worked great for me so far. There is no need to download maps and such unless it's just something you want to do. I do, however, use easyGPS to download my cache locations to the garmin from the geocaching website, but it's not at all required. I think I'll be getting a powercord for the car in the near future as well.
I have had an instance or two of reception getting flakey under heavy cover, but it was nothing that would stop the hunt. The unit is about the size of a mobile phone, it's submersable(sp) for the accidental drop in a puddle, the batteries last me about 10 to 12 hours continuous on.
Hopefully you'll get more good info on other units and be able to make a good decision.
Unfortunately I have no expierence with other makes.
Chip
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We've found 7 caches total so far. On the "My Cache page" I have 7 happy faces, but when I search for caches to look for by area code the bottom of the screen only show that I have found 4. Does the second page limit to the last 4 or did I mess up logging them?
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That's what I thought....I was hoping to bypass your step 2 "- Delete all waypoints from GPSr".
I guess to do it like I would like the GPSr would need to actually be read like a small Hard drive through the cable...similar to my flash media card and cable for my digital camera.
Thanks for the info. It's still easire than trying to manipulate those buttons when adding several new waypoints.
Chip
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I'm not passing anything, I'm a member too. The GPS manufacturers were around long before geocaching was and now due in part to this site they are doing better financially. I'm just saying that it would be nice for them to give something back to a non profit website that is making their pockets fatter.
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I know exposing the GeoCaching is a good thing, but it is a free activity. Other than the people that have paid for the $30/yr membership I'm not sure where Jeremy finds the money to keep this site running.
All I'm saying is that the GPS manufactures are profiting from this site and it would be nice if they would recognize that and give a little back.
Webservers, bandwidth, time......it not cheap.
Chip
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Using EasyGPS is there a way to delete waypoints from your GPS (Etrex basic for me). I see ways to upload to the unit, download from the unit, but don't see a way to delete unneeded waypoints.
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I know this has been discussed before but....
I was browsing the Garmin website when I found a page talking up all of the activities you can do with a GPS.
Garmin finds it completely fine not to sponser a website that no doubt is helping sales, but have absolutely no problem using the name "GeoCaching" to sell their stuff. Pretty S**tty.
http://www.garmin.com/outdoor/geocaching/index.html
Chip
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At the bottom of this post is the minimum requirements for the software. I'd say it should work fine. It makes no mention of RAM, but if the minimum processor is 100Mhz then ram would probably be 16Meg.
If you are using a bare minimum system be sure to run only one program at a time, otherwise you'll take a severe performance hit.
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
Pentium-class processor, 100MHz or higher (suggested)
Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
One free serial (COM) port or a USB to Serial converter.
Chip
Friendly advice for new cachers...
in How do I...?
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I agree completely. One persons preception of 'easy' or 'difficult' can vary widely from one person to the next. If everyone used a standard way to calculate difficulty you'd know exactly what you were getting into when searching at a designated difficulty level.
I haven't logged too many finds yet bit I'd almost disagree with some of the difficulty ratings I've came across. Of course a difficulty rating of a cache placed in late fall could easily be rated lower than the exact location rated in summer. Some don't calculate in the vegitation growth that happens in the spring/summer that is non-existent in the fall/winter. I'd venture to say that some caches should note a possible level change for different seasons.
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