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I carry a hand held Amateur radio as well as an FRS radio with me on most of my travels, Set for 146.520 MHz and for Channel 1

I think if I was out of line a moderator would have told me so. Since that did not happen I'll take such with a grain of salt.

True but I've posted this also on the local Geocaching FB page and in their forum. along with pictures of both. I just figure the more eyes the better. This cache is maybe too easy to find so I may turn it into a multy with only the coordinates at the original site if this happens one more time. I've already picked out a possible site. I went back to my cache to read the physical log. bounced it against geocaching.com and got a match s I'll message them to see if it was there when they visited.

That's possible. I'm going back to my cache today with my reading glasses s I can copy down the name on the log book and see if I can tack down that person. They got two trackables with one swipe, but the second was intended as a gift to who ever found it so no foul there. I should have written down that tracking number as well, big mistake on my part that won't happen again

I recently placed TB7F0JD Baby Polar Bear See link in my cache and when I went to place another coin in my cache it was gone. There is an entry on the physical log book that I had to replace, but thus far nothing has hit the log on Geocaching.com. I added some words to my cache begging that if a trackable is taken it must be logged. I thought this was common knowledge, but this is strike two. I hope I don't get a strike three or I'll either move the cache or disable it. I prefer not to do that. Anyway, the more eyes I have out for this and another lost trackable the better. Thanks in advance.

I'm in need of help from the Geocaching community. My linkI moved TB539ZW DDRAMS' Art Nouveau Winter Geocoin from a site in Okinawa Japan to my cache GC5ZH0C Blanche D. Price Memorial Park Cache Revisited and it disappeared a long time ago. Please keep an eye out for this coin as I believe that since I was the last person to log it that makes me responsible for it. I don't know if it was muggled or not but at about the same time another coin was taken but it was finally logged. If you see this coin please get the person in possession of it to log it on Geocaching.com Thank you

I'll be compiling a list of caches to send to the reviewer that replied to my inquiry this weekend.

What I posted about the trackables was copied and pasted directly from a local cache in Okinawa, and this was not the only one. I'm not the one misinformed. As far as the trackables I have in my possession, I have all of the ones from the USA with the owners permission. I was cleared to drop one of them and I did. I also dropped another but if it doesn't move before I leave the Island I will retrieve it from the cache I placed it in and replace it with one of the bugs that wants to stay in Japan. Once I leave the island I will be releasing all of the bugs and coins in my possession unless the owner says I can hold onto it for a while longer. I'm not doing anything without the all of the owner's consent. I will speak to any indiv idulal owner of a trackable that I found on Okinawa to see it they want me to take the trackable back to the states or release it before I go. I am adding photos of places that I visit to each and every trackable in my possession, which at times takes conciderable time, and many owners have expressed gratitude on my progress I can post the GC number of one of the sites that says trackables one for one so you won't be thinking that I am the one that is confussed if so desired.

If these are your trackables, you may do as you wish. If they are not yours, see what each trackable's page says, and try to follow that. Some trackables are designed to remain in limited areas for various reasons. Otherwise, you may take and log trackables without trading them, as many as you can handle properly and place quickly into another cache (a less strict cache would be good ). Trackables are not trade items. The wording is on the CO sites, the trackables I encounter are mostly stating that they want to travel, but from what I've seen they just sit in these caches rarely moving at all. I don't know where they came up with the idea for one for one with trackable items. Anyway from what you are saying I am right to free the trackables that I find as long as I do move them from place to place. I may have to mention this at the next local gathering in the 25th of this month.

I have the opportunity to do some caching in Okinawa, Japan, and I've had a lot of fun here, but I keep running into the following rule that I don't agree with. "If you take something, leave something of equal or greater value. If you take a trackable, leave a trackable and please remember to go to the trackables page and log that you took it." I agree completely with the first part, but the second only seems to impede the travels of many of the trackables that I've seen here. I only have two trackables of my own. One is in the USA and as soon as I'm able I'll visit the site where it was last placed. With this rule in place I would only be able to have one trackable at a time and only after leaving my own trackable at the site where I retrieved one. While it may be true that I have had several trackables in my possession before and since I've been here, I am at least logging miles on these and as far as the ones I brought from the states I received permission to take them here and with the exception of one I will return all of them back to the states. My point is If you take a trackable, leave a trackable is counter productive to the individual trackables because not every geocacher has in their possession a number of trackables that they can leave just so they can move someone elses. Does anyone have any thoughts on this. Should I follow the rule of the land or can I retrieve trackables if I intend to move them without leaving one of the ones in my possession?

That's right. If you intend to gift a coin to someone, say the FTF, then you should leave it to that person to activate it. If you activate first, then it is "yours". It's in your inventory and you would need to go through the adoption process to give it to someone else. B. Understood I intended it as a gift for the FTF. I left it in the original packaging along with the activation card so that person could activate it. Thank you. I'll be on the look out for a FTF of my own.

Ok, I've been reading this and other threads. Activate Travel Bugs and Geo coins that you own, unless you intend to collect/trade geocoins, but leave a FTF coin unactivted for the FTF person to activate. Did I read it right or am I still confused?