adrianjohn

I have twice failed to find a cache. The first time I put it down to not having enough time and darkness falling. I returned today in the rain with time to make a good search in day light with no result. Reading the logs it has been recorded that the cache has been moved from it's original position, and also the area where it was hidden has recently been cleared. Looking at the owners profile led me to his website where I find he is in Australia, the cache is placed in the UK over 16,000 kms away! I voted for Archive.

If you ask for Durex in Austrailia you get scotch tape, or so I am informed. I haven't tried it though it does get cat and dog hairs of clothes

For those of you that may have missed it you can now put a postcode in the ZIPCODE search box when looking for caches on the Hide or Seek a cache page. Do no enter your full postcode: for example my full postcode is DN37 9RZ so I would just enter DN37 9. Note the use of uppercase letters I tried lower case and it did not work. I believe we have Chris and Maria to thank for supplying the info to Jeremy. Thanks to all concerned.

yes it is worth getting your mag315 updated, you can download the file from the Magellan website.I went to www.magellangps.com. The latest version of software is V3.15. If you are not a technical person, purchase a cable as it has the correct connector to mate with the four recessed studs on the rear of your mag315. If you search this forum you will find lots of advice on updating your Maggie, including a diy cable connector. I will have to learn how to Markell a link to point you at the places you should go. Anybody else care to do this? I am not that clever myself but did manage to follow the instructions and upgrade my Maggie.

I agree that the contents of a cache should be chosen with care and not offensive, perhaps rather than say what you found in the log it might have been better to say "took business card left ....". I know that may sound a bit PC but sometimes it is better to say less than more and the result is the same, bad removed and better put in its place. Think about it as trading up.

Apart from them being called cashpoints by the banks, many people refer to them as "the hole in the wall"

quote:Originally posted by welch: quote:Originally posted by adrianjohn:Took the batteries out and tried it today after doing the coords I had to correct the date as it had defaulted to 09:00 12 Aug 01 you might check this as before that the gps showed no pos and no bars in the graphical display, as soon as the time and date was correct aquisition of sats and location were complete in a minute. Hope this helps. so the batteries were in wrong? or just about dead? http://www.scubaboard.com/images/smilies/whack.gif http://www.gpgeocaching.com/ I dont know if the originator of this thread has read any of the reply posts or tried out my suggestions, my second post I admit was possibly not as clear as I could have made it. I was trying to say that by leaving out the batteries of my mag315 I could make it report "no pos" and get no indication of sat signals, by going through the whole initialise procedure, correct operation was restored quickly. In order to set up a mag315 ( or any other GPSr I would assume) you must provide it with an approximate location and it should also know the time and date to be able to predict the sat positions it will recieve its data from. Over to you now Silver fox, have you solved your problem? If you have please let us know the answers.

Took the batteries out and tried it today after doing the coords I had to correct the date as it had defaulted to 09:00 12 Aug 01 you might check this as before that the gps showed no pos and no bars in the graphical display, as soon as the time and date was correct aquisition of sats and location were complete in a minute. Hope this helps.

Just a thought, I have a Mag315 and had to reinitialise after I left the batteries out too long. Have you selected the the correct gegraphical area ? i.e. Europe then United Kingdom. Then a rough longitude and latitude if the default is too far out it will not find the correct sats from its built in almanac. I know if you move more than about 300 miles from its last position without it being switched on it has to be initialised again.

Qoute from June... Remember all you men who want to reply, a woman has the last word in any argument, anything a man says after that is the beginning of a whole new argument. Men always get the last word in any argument....."SORRY"

Yes I carry a log book with me and make a few notes about the find (or not found) as I have a small brain and cannot remember everything about the cache.

Just entered a few logs to the trigpoints site, my results seem to compare fairly well with the data on the site. How about others do yours fit well?

Hi Jeremy jusy had a poke around on your site, at first I thought logging trigpoints might be a bit boring but on second thoughts I will give some of them a go. I already know of a few in TA and TF squares so I will go check them out and give things a test.

My experience in the UK: I have just done the hike thing for no result but that is the great thing about this game. I drove to the general area of the cache and parked in the car park as close to the cache as I thought possible ( distance to the cache 1.3 miles). I walked about three miles getting within half a mile of the location but could not find a route to the cache without trespassing on a coalmine property and a railroad, so I made a retreat. Took my car and drove to a new location in a national park forest just a couple of miles further down the road, I dont know the area so thats why I didnt go there first, time was running out as the light was fading got to the location after a one mile jog, I didnt find the cache as it got too dark, on returning to the car found a note on my windshield from the rangers telling me the park had closed at 6;00pm and I was locked in! Happily the ranger was waiting at the entrance barrier to let me out so did not need to use the phone number on the note. In my opinion part of a good afternoon caching, I think I learned quite a bit.

I have had my M315 for about couple of years now and recently upgraded to v3.15. I was nervous about doing the upgrade as I didnt want to finish up with an expensive paperweight if it all went wrong. After saving my waypoints I went ahead and did the deed, It all went well and restoring my waypoints was just as easy. The next day I went out to test my "new" gps. It worked well, the distance to the waypoint changing to read feet somewhere about 450 feet from my target and as I got to the cache coords it said I was six feet from the cache. You know what, I was! Go ahead and do the upgrade its well worth it.

If it is not raining I will go out to play, and if it rains while I am out I carry on. If it is raining when I look out I stay at home, as you you know it always rains in good ole England!

Is that what they mean by "real men cache in shorts" ?

Have you noticed that the time taken to find a cache is direcly proportional to the time available to look for it? Today in my lunch hour I returned to have a go at a "not found" close to my place of work (Dune GC45F3). I gave myself 30 mins or I would abandon the attempt and found it in ten minutes, yet when I had plenty of time on my first visit I couldn't find it. Who can explain this?