Lyra
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Click on the MyPop link at the top of the discussion area screen, then click on the contacts flag. You can search on a user's name, then add them to your list once it's found.
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Unfortunately, the last to log it left a travel bug in the cache. You might want to retrieve it and send it back out on its way.
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In Latin, the letter J did not exist, as it was one form of the letter I. For example, the name of the god "Jupiter" was "Iupiter". Only later did many romance languages adopt an independent letter for the consonant use of the letter I. There are several vestiges of that today. In written outlines with "lettered" headers, the lettering will skip from H to J.
My guess is that since there were 25 time zones and 26 letters in the English alphabet, the choice for which letter to drop landed on J for that reason.
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I missed this thread when it originated and just saw it this morning when it bubbled up to the top of the list again. I'm sure that I'm going to get a strange look when I explain to my wife that I just spent the past four hours launching satellites into orbit, shooting a guy through space with a rubber band and seeing how fast I can spank the monkey.
I need a life.
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What's the link to the cache?
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As pointed out before, flare guns, though using the same basic charge as a light shotgun load, carry little muzzle velocity. The reason for this is that the flare weighs a great deal more than the standard birdshot load. With that little muzzle velocity and depending upon the distance to your target, the flare may not penetrate, but merely ricochet. In that event, you're more likely to start a fire than harm your attacker, but more importantly, the fire you start may be your own, as a ricochet back in your direction could be the unintended result.
Flare guns simply were not made for defense. If you're really that concerned about an attack, a standard handgun is a much better bet.
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To simplify my logic in reaching the conclusion that I did, I "scaled it down" to assuming that there were only three satellites forming a triangle. If I'm on one side of the plane of that triangle, the GPSr would, through triangulation of the directional signals, be able to tell me where I am and how far I am from the plane of the triangle (which I assume is how a GPSr figures out altitude above sea level.
As I slowly approach the plane of the triangle, the GPSr would perceive this as an increase in elevation. Once I reach the plane of the triangle, the GPSr would continue to translate this into a continued gain in altitude above sea level, and would continue to do so until once I'm on the other side of the triangle's plane.
Based upon that assumption, I reached the conclusion that the GPSr would continue to interpret it as a gain in altitude, even at the point I move outside of the sphere of the satellites.
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Not being much of a techie, I've wondered about this hypothetical situation. Assume I'm an astronaut and I decide to take my eTrex Legend with me on my next space shuttle mission. Once we're launched and establish an orbit, I get near a large window and turn on the GPSr. Assuming that the diffence in orbital distance above earth's surface (can't recall the exact altitude of geostationary orbit and the shuttle's orbit right off hand) isn't so extreme to result in my being out of range of the sattelites, what would the GPSr show?
My guess is that it would read normally (e.g., coordinates would reflect the point directly beneath me on earth's surface, with a huge speed reading and an altitude reading that would accurately show my distance above sea level.
Any competing theories?
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I had already downloaded and installed the latest firmware, but didn't realize that new function had been added.
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The Map 330's minimum operating temp is 14F. Dunno if it'll be in danger below that.
Here is the link to the specs page.
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MapSource Roads & Rec tells me that our house at Smith Mountain Lake is roughly 8-10 feet offshore. I thought this was just crappy reception when I marked a waypoint, so I deleted it and let the GPSr settle in for about an hour. With an accuracy reading of a mere 8 feet, I marked a new waypoint. House is still afloat!
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This will probably get me Markwelled, but I was in too much of a rush to do a thread search.
I have a Legend and wanted to use MeMap v. 1.03 to modify my GPSr's opening screen so I can substitute my name, etc., for the Warning screen. According to the info site above, this software was written for the eMap and there's a disclaimer for use of the software for eTrex units.
Anybody have any trouble using this program with a Legend?
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There's this guy. I'm about to release a travel bug whose purpose is to make it to him for his autograph.
Any others?
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Is it a hobby
an obsession or a sport?
It gets me outside.
Cookies enabled
to get to Groundspeak's website.
They make me hungry.
Explaining to the
Geomuggles that I am
Tupperware hunting.
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Mouse with crash helmet
Attempting to get the cheese
I like my sig pic.
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It's in here somewhere
Maybe it's behind the snake
Hospital nearby?
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Hiding a new cache.
I'll throw it out the window
Then mark a waypoint.
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Hey, Jeremy...just in case your name should need to become verbed, do you prefer "Jeremied" or Jeremyed" or possibly some other spelling?
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I can roll in a field of poison ivy and not suffer even the first little itch. All my wife has to do is roll down the window as we pass a wooded area and it's time to buy stock in the Calamine companies.
We went on a cache hunt together, along with our then-thirteen-month-old daughter, that involved 1.6 mile hike along a wide fire trail. I thought my wife would be safe, given the wide berth allowed for actual physical contact with any greenery (I was the one diving into the foliage for the cache once we reached the destination). Me? Not a splotch. Wife? Covered! Baby? None. Guess she got my anti-PI genes!
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Not much into the cheese and crackers, but those little red "knives" are sure tasty!
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You can use MyPop's Contacts to search for a user, regardless of whether they have finds or not. Just click on MyPop at the top of the forums page, then click on the Contacts tab at the top. Enter the user's name and hit search. Clicking on the results will open their profile page.
This might be a Members Only feature, though. It's been a while since I became a Charter Member and I can't recall whether it worked prior to my membership or not.
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ignore this
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Originally posted by Blue Man:It's always interesting to find someone else's trinkets, but I seem to find caches where it looks as if someone reached under their car seat and extracted whatever was lurking there, only to deposit in the cache in trade for some item of excellence. Some people never change, I guess.
I didn't think about all that crap under my car seat! Make that thirty-five years.
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I thought Groundspeak owned them
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The first guy is walking on water! That could come in handy for those caches that somehow place you on the wrong side of a river!
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