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wvhillbilly59

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  1. I'd be interested in getting some of those. If it were reasonable, I may get several. I don't usually get coins but this is unusual enough that I may give it a try. May even list them on my website. Would you have a website you'd have them on or should I ask that on here?
  2. There are some along the old Route 66 between Chicago and St. Louis which are .1 to .25 miles off of the descriptions.
  3. I'm thinking midrange. I'd expect maybe $350-$450. I do have a laptop and I'm average with it. I'd probably be using the gps more often caching and benchmark hunting than for navigation but want to have one when I need it.
  4. I want to upgrade from my GPS V Garmin and since I can't really afford one for use in the car and another for caching like a lot of people seem to do, I'd like to know which medium price GPS is good for both.
  5. I may get to go for it in thewinter or early spring. probably take most of a day to get there from my mom's and get to where it is, find and document it, etc.
  6. 2 old farts. I grew up in Kanawha County, WV. the PID there that mentions "battery" means, I think, a civil war battery. It is the Fort Hill area where there was a fort there at that time. I keep missing a chance to go there and log that mark every time I govisit family there. It's all the way across the county and kind of difficult to get to. It's supposed to be a really neat place there, though. I've entered several marks in the last couple contests from Kanawha County.
  7. The keeping it simple thing was why I'd thought of simply the years. Be pretty simple scoring, too. but, then some compensation should be made for tough ones as opposed to those you can see a half block away from the car.
  8. Jen, I'd like to hear about those benchmarks and caches you get to on your bike and what things seem to work best for you like GPS mounts, etc. I'm interested in doing both by bike.
  9. maybe put in about 10 factors to add the score; i.e. say 1 point for 80s mark, 2 for 70s, etc back to 10 or more for pre 1900, etc. along with points for years since being reported, for DNF, plus some levels of difficulty such as terrain, etc. Each mark could be judged against 10 or so criteria with extra maybe for having the entire group, station, Rms, Az, etc. Just some things to kick around that wouldn't depend on some random thing. A longer time would also have to go with all the extra criteria.
  10. The one for each year or a similar idea wouldn't require random number generating and all the keeping track necessary either. All the infor is right there.
  11. Here's a different idea for a contest premise and I don't know how reasonable it is but has anyone thought of having the contest based on the year stamped on the disk? Maybe 10 years is a "hand" and see how many hands can be accrued? Maybe bonus for a hand of a year older than 19XX and of course DNFs? Just a rough idea from a slightly different angle. Is it worth pursuing?
  12. yes, thank you very much for holding the contest.
  13. If the object that you are trying to find is 90° from your reference point, then when you set your goto for that reference point you will need to add 180° to the bearing the GPSr says you need to take to get to the reference point. When you set the waypoint and start walking 90° according to your compass, your GPSr will read that you need to take a bearing of 270° to get to your waypoint. But since you want to go away from your waypoint you need to add 180° to what the GPSr says your bearing should be. If you know the angle from the benchmark 'to' your reference point then you can use that bearing on your GPSr. For example, your reference point is 125° from the station disk, you just set the goto and follow the bearing of 125° to the reference point, when you reach the correct distance, you start looking for the disk or any sign of it. If you know the angle from the station disk to the reference point then use that as the bearing. If you know the angle from the reference point to the station disk, then add 180° to it, so you go in the correct direction. John Oh, Duh! Ok, I guess I just subconsciously allowed for that without thinking about it when going off the center of a road or from a RM. Seems since I turned the big 60 I do a lot of things subconsciously, or even unconsciously. Thanks for explaining it so I didn't think I was missing something.
  14. just add 180 degrees to what the GPSr is showing to tell if you're going in the right direction 2oldfarts, I don't quite understand what you mean by that. I've been using the GPS lately just as you suggest and sometimes it gets right on the mark and sometimes not even close. Thanks.
  15. I bet if you look up the name under War veterans in your county you'll find it. There was probably a program at one time to have a disk for each fallen veteran. Might be fun to try to find those and list their cords somewhere and make them available to the historical library. Relatives may want to find them.
  16. I'm thinking it may be interesting to write a book, or at least a short story based on an experience like yours that doesn't turn out quite as well as yours evidentally did, since you're still "at large" and able to get on here when you want.
  17. It turned out that I couldn't make it but I thought it looked like something some of us would enjoy. I'm glad Bill93 did.
  18. Thanks for the additional information. All I had seen was the free part but if someone is so inclined they may be interested in the more detailed and expensive Friday session. Think I'll stick to the Sat. demos.
  19. I hope this is an appropriate place to put this note about a re-creation of an 1830s surveying party using period instruments which is taking place from 9 a.m. to 5p.m. on Oct. 6-7 at New Salem State Park near Petersburg, Illinois. This is in central Illinois and near Springfield, Illinois. I just found out about it today or would have put in this notice sooner. According to the newspaper article I saw it is free and more information can be had by calling 309-632-4000. I don't have any connection with this and absolutely nothing to gain by people attending. All I know about it is the paragraph I read in the events section of the local newspaper. I'm hoping to go observe while taking in a local festival. I just happened to think that, if this is the proper place for this kind of note, maybe this post could be changed to a list of similar events across the country? Anyone for that idea if it's appropriate?
  20. One pair for 1 point + an OLD for a 5 point bonus and a total of 6 points. Q201, LC0046 Q 65, GF0234 (1934)
  21. I just tromped about a half mile down a railroad bed a couple days ago and then couldn't even find the culvert that was supposed to have the mark for all the weeds and growth. Will have to wait till it dies back to tackle that one again. That was intentional. Now find this one. I'd been BM'ing for about a month when I looked for NF0908 - I should probably go back and check all my previous DNF's! I think I was following you that day, do you by chance log to the NGS as JAW (I think that was the initials I kept running into that day). I'd used archived data sheets to plan my route, and then updated sheets for when I was actually doing the looking, and in between there were a bunch of logs by this JAW guy on a lot of these marks. Could be worse though. I found this one while driving by at speed (I hadn't originally had it on my list to look for), and the power squadron hadn't found it last. I know the power squadron sometimes has a bad rap on finds, but like I said, this one I could see from the car as I drove by it. NF0839 Now I know I've been following a tapeworm. Several of the marks I found yesterday he's visited very recently, and one I didn't look for but really wanted for that straight flush he actually visited the day before. (He must be a little more brave than I am about heading along railroad tracks too, since that pesky B 95 I really wanted didn't look like I could get anywhere near it via road, and was quite a ways down the tracks.
  22. Congratulations. There are no dangerous ones, that I know of, in my county but there are so many gone due to development or farmers expanding their fields.
  23. Two Pair for 2 whopping points. BUCKLEY 2, LC0071 BUCKLEY 2, NO 4, LC0074 VERMILION, LC0294 VERMILION RM 1, LC0293
  24. 5 points for a FLUSH, which includes one DNF (LC0284), for a total of 10 points G201, LC0284 (DNF, 5 pt. bonus) K 201, LC0291 X 201, LC0067 V 201, LC0062 U 201, LC0061
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