JohnE5

Here are the pictures of my previously mentioned recycling bin geocache. This is a rough prototype that still needs the kinks worked out. Any suggestions?

Do other cachers in this area feel that there have been a a lot of caches popping up just for the sake of placing a cache? In my opinon a cache should be placed to point out a landmark or something interesting. If placing a cache in a un-remarkable area at least the cache container should be well thought out and interesting. To have a bad location and a bad container really ruins it for me and I find that I have become bored. Don't get me wrong I have found a few GREAT caches here. Just seems like more bad than good.

Do other cachers in this area feel that there have been a a lot of caches popping up just for the sake of placing a cache? In my opinon a cache should be placed to point out a landmark or something interesting. If placing a cache in a un-remarkable area at least the cache container should be well thought out and interesting. To have a bad location and a bad container really ruins it for me and I find that I have become bored. Don't get me wrong I have found a few GREAT caches here. Just seems like more bad than good.

Pros: I like the idea. Really promotes the CITO concept. Cons: This will be a high maintenance cache. You will have to keep the bin emptied and clean. If the container is not kept up (and there is no way you can monitor WHAT gets dumped in your bin - some people will use it as a regular trash can) the "cache" will become disgusting and people will not want to search. I think overall, the quality of this cache will be dependant on what kind of cache owner you are. I was considering using a bucket or bowl to mount under the larger lid and place non-valuable recyclables in it. I thought of what people could dump in there and to counter it I could have a drain at the bottom the bucket or bowl with a hose bypassing the major cache area draining liquids out the back. As for the larger pieces of trash that may end up in it, the area I would be placing it would not have that much foot traffic and I have never seen any "urban campers" in the area to plunder it.

Please give me PROS/CONS and commits on this idea. I was thinking of doing a standing recycling bin( Aprox 4' tall 2' round) in a very public place. When you lift the small lid to drop a can or bottle everything would seem normal. But if you were lift the larger lid to remove the "liner" you would discover the cache. I would use a bike lock or cable lock to secure it to the buildings pipes.

I gave up on that one, the image on the web page is just too blurry which probably explainis why others can't do it using a barcode scanner too. But the paper method is basically: You see a thin bar so you write a 1, you see a thin space so you write a 0, you see a thinker bar so you write 11, you see a thicker space so you write 00. When all is said and done you then have a long list of 1's and 0's. Split this up into the format for the particular barcode, code 39 in the case of the image, code 128 or code 93 for the one I gave up on, and decode using the rules for that format. With code 93 or code128 the bars and the spaces can be of length 1 to length 4, and that's where the blurryness makes it hard to do manually. I.E. post #7 shows an image, I represent that image as 100101101101010101101001101101100 ... 1101010100101101101. I then split that into groups of 9 things with a trailing space, of the 9 things, there will be 3 that are long and 6 that are short. 100101101101 0 101011010011 0 1101100... ...1101010 100101101101 And that's *N...* This is the code I got just now: 10010110110101101100101010110100010011101101100001010111100010111101101100010010101100010110101011001010110111011110010101101100010100101000110101101101110010101101000110110101011000010111011010110010101101110010101011110010110101101110010101010000110110101111110010101010100110101101110000110101010100101101101010011101101010100110111001000101101101

I tired to do the paper method on GC15FFB but I think I goofed it up. Can someone explain the paper method?

I've searched the html of page and found nothing; also there doesn't appear to be any coding in the "Letter" in the description. I'd like to figure it out on my own but I need some direction. Also, I'm still learning and I don't know how to post an image to the thread. But here is the Geocache code: GC15FFB.

I have a barcode that I can't get the numbers out of. I've taken it to the library and the store and scanned it several times. The cache owner refuses to help anyone and its coming up on a year since it's been placed. No one has found it yet. Can someone help?

What caches would the people of Lemooree like to see more of in thhis area?

Cool John is going to Lemoore in Sept for a Change of Command. But how the heck are you gonna get those approved? How can you tell on base from off base? There are only two areas of the base gated off that require a military ID to enter. And there are farms all in between those two areas, even the San Joaquin (SP?) Valley Rod and Gun Club is "on" NAS Lemoore. I've already drafted up a special request to submit to my supervisors hitting on the positive points of why it would be good for everyone. I would never place a cache that would get someone in trouble or be a threat to the base.

I do like some of redwood canoe's caches but he has so many that maintenance becomes an issue. Right now I'm trying to get some approved on NAS Lemoore. Some parts are public accessible 24/7. Would you folk like to see some on the base?

Hello! How is everyone? Can we get some more activity on this board. I'm stationed at NAS Lemoore right now and I'd like to get to know people from this area.

I'm stationed here as an intructor. You've probably graduated by now but I have found a few caches in this area. Let me know if you want to go sometime.

I live here at NAS Lemoore. I wonder if that little bug made it here. Just a note, that is an F/A-18 not a 16.