TexasGringo
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Nuclear powered...never needs batteries or recharging...just don't drop it.
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Be my luck that the next day a Bull-Dozer crew moves in to build a new sub-division.
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All my caches are within a few miles of where I live...on the way to work or the mall...so it is easy for me to check up on them.
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I have a 60Csx and I can load the whole USA (City Navigator) on a 2 gig SD....it actually uses 1.6 gigs.
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It is widely known that the 3 Wise men used a Garmin Sextant to plot their course to Jerusalem.
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Don't leave containers of "BUBBLE GOO" in the caches...they leak, break, freeze...etc. They are a mess to clean out.
Bubble Goo = The Goo that people use to blow bubbles with.
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I'll Pay $150 a Year...If I can get a dedicated line to Geocaching.com servers. No Waiting, No Server Busy Errors.
When I log in...it blows everyone else off the system so I can get 100% of the CPU to Search and Log my finds.
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***Went out for some Geocaching the other day and mostly struck out. The 12 - 15" of snow we have received in the past 2 weeks is making it difficut. The only cache I did find was a good old solid metal ammo can.***
Are you blaming the Snow for falling on a Cache?
Hey, there's an IDEA....a Cache Umbrella...stick it in the ground next to the cache to protect it from the elements.....LOL.
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***Also, do these numbers include caches that have been logged multiple times?***
Do you log multiple finds for 1 cache?
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Wait to buy a new GPS unit until next year (2008)...Garmin might be coming out with a new line.
http://gpstracklog.typepad.com/gps_tracklo...rmin/index.html
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I'm sure you already know this but.....just in case.....
In Google Earth, you use the directions tab then enter "Lancaster, PA" and "Mount Joy, PA".
Then click the Go buttom. At the bottom of all the route data is the "Route" which is a .KMZ file. Save that to your disk.
In Geocaching.com go to "Caches along a route" up load that .KMZ, save it then select it for your pocke query. Just using the default pocket query stuff, there is 1 page of caches that show up.
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Google Earth shows the distance between "Lancaster, PA" and "Mount Joy, PA" to be 14.04 miles.
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I've had new caches rejected:
Too close to a government building.
Too close to another cache.
Too close to rail road tracks.
Created a Crazy mystery cache that even I could not solve.
I had a 9 stage multi that a couple stages had to be moved...what a pain because I had to remake the tags for the next stages and the online maps, then rewalk everything again to make sure it still worked (about 5 miles)...it is archived now.
The reviewer preferred the wording in the hints to be different than what I had...said I was not required to change it...but I changed it anyway to their suggestion, just to make more sense.
Sure, when my caches were rejected, I was in varying stages of pissed...but fixed them and they were eventually published.
I'm sure that when I go to publish a Cache...the review thinks "Oh No!!! Here's One From That Crazy Nut Again"...So I guess it goes both ways. They have to suffer through reviewing my warped idea of a cache and I have to suffer through making it comply.
None of my rejections were in spite...just errors on my part.
If you want to play...you have to obey.
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Make the stamp a normal stamp size...I hate those large envelope stamps that people use on micro logs, that take up the whole paper, and never think once that there will be others that will try to sign the log.
There is a Time and Place for those stamps...
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***OK OK I will not pursue putting music on a GC.COM cache page***
Thank Goodness you listened to Reason...And Won't Play Music.
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Tried with Windows 2000 / Firefox 2.0.0.5 = No Problems
Tried with Windows 2000 / IE 6.0.2800.1106 = No Problems
Tried with TRS-80 ... The Error Message was "Tilt Tilt Tilt"
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What Happened?
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Yes...you need to include the "http://".
How STUPID of me to not see that right off the bat...but after you get pissed, throw the computer on the ground and kick the dog....you overlook the small details.
Thanks
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Hi:
When I edit my profile, I put the password at the top and then go enter my web page URL in the "Personal Home Page:" text box.
example: www.xxxxxx.com
when I click "Update Account", the message "Your Profile Has Been Updated" displays but the Personal Home Page URL is gone.
What Am I Doing Wrong?
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Had a small account problem...emailed contact@Groundspeak.com at night...got an email in the morning from Annie...and everything was fixed.
Tell Annie "Great Work".
Thanks
Craig Merser
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I have a 60Csx and the new maps installed over the all. I have the whole USA on a 2 gig SD (it takes 1.6 gig).
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***Yep 3 dollar Discount model..... My new 60CSx has a digital one Who needs that?***
Unlike my 60Csx, my compass works without batteries and does not go dead. What happens if you drop your 60Csx and that compass...no workie no more?
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I thought WOW !
Something else my wife can Bitch about.
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I Had thought about that but...up here it would be hard in the winter...frozen batteries, snow on the solar panels...etc.
There were some plug in FM Transmitters being sold and it could have been placed in the home. You could give a waypoint a few blocks away for someone to get the code.
So, I made the morse code as a Wave file...But according to the new rules (02/2007) the Puzzle has to be solvable on the cache page...and no downloads...so to get around that, you have to make a transcript of the wav file.
This is a Non-FM Transmitter one I did:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...39-ce3e2ac0d764
As far as Ham Radio Fox Hunts...that is usually up on 2 meters (144 mhz) where you could make a small hand-held loop antenna and go triangulate with some others.
Have Fun