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  1. Arvoisat tilastowizardit, onko tietoa?

     

    Tarvitsisin joitakin päivitettyjä faktoja kätköilyesittelypowerpointtiani varten.

    Olisiko jollakin tietoa kätköilijöiden lukumäärärstä ja kätköjèn määrästä

    Suomessa, Ruotsissa ja globaalisti? Mahdollisimman tuoreet luvut

    olisivat aivan erityisen hieno juttu.

     

    Vuoden 2012 luvut eivät enää ole kovin luottamusta herättäviä.

     

    Aki

  2. A geocacher with handle "tyrohiker" from Dallas TX has picked up one of my travellers and the trail gets cold

    right there. I've tried to contact him via Groundspeak, but he chooses not to answer any emails from me.

     

    I do not want anything else from him but placing my geocoin (TB1J8B6) back into circulation. He has had it

    since February 16 2008 and I think that is quite enough for one cacher.

     

    Any hints are very much appreaciated.

     

    Member A from Team Pitkis

    Pirkkala Village, Finland

  3. Last year I (Member A of Team Pitkis) visited Germany for couple of days and during those days there were a kind of a "free activities" -gap baked into our itinerary. Just for fun I contacted our German colleagues in their forum to find out if anybody were available to join me on a cache hunt on that specific day. To my comfort, cacher "rangercaptain1" took me to hunt with him for day. Instead of visiting just one or two caches in the vicinity of my place of accommodation, I got wheels under me in the form of rangercaptain1:s car and a tons of very good advice for cacheing practises and specialities of local nature.

     

    I'm very grateful of his time and effort and I'm more than willing to return the favour in his best convenience.

     

    In this context, I'm opening this topic for people to announce their readiness to host our foreign cacheing colleagues to get the best experience possible for their time in Finland.

     

    So... If you're ready to concider such hosting, please, leave your cacheing handle and your location or location of possible cacheing districts into this chain of messages. From such list, people planning trips to Finland, can find contacts to discuss the possibilities.

     

    Member A of Team Pitkis

  4. Tervehdys.

     

    Tilapäisen (joskin pitkähkön) häiriön takia Marttaristin pimeäkätkö oli poikkeuksellisen hankala haettava tässä vielä jokin aikaa sitten, mutta huoltokäynti on palauttanut palikat jälleen ojennukseen.

     

    Näin syksyn hiljalleen pimentyessä kätkön anti alkaa olla parhaimmillaan ja yökätköilyn kokemus on halukkaiden otettavana reilusti vajaan tunnin ajomatkan päässä Tampereelta Helsingin suuntaan.

     

    Siitä vaan siis taskulampuille paristojen testaus ja kunnon maastojalkineet jalkaan ja pöpelikköön valoheijasteiden ohjattavaksi...

     

    Team Pitkis :P

  5. A geocaching handle "_Naksu" was created on Saturday, September 22 this year

    and the last visit is recorded on Wednesday, September 26.

     

    Cacher has logged two caches,

    GCXAJJ X-treme II – Viikintie Bridge and

    GCX406 Vettä ja betonia, both loggings on Sep-22.

     

    Apparently cacher has been in company of "iipee" and "vileevi" in Helsinki area.

     

    He grabbed my Earth Geocoin with note explaining that the coin is going to

    appear next in Lappeenranta. After that nothing.... as he doesn't visit geocaching.com -site

    and I do not have any other means of getting into touch with him than sites send-mail,

    I do need some help to get into touch with this cacher.

     

    So, if you can give me even the slightest hint about this fellows whereabouts

    and/or identity it will be immensely appreciated.

     

    Aki from Team Pitkis :)

  6. Olemme käyttäneet tiimin sisäisessä kommunikoinnissa PMR radioita

    jo jonkin aikaa ja pienimuotoisen "vaeltelun" jälkeen olemme

    havainneet kanavan 4 alikanava 2:n olevan varsin vapaa

    ja häiriötön.

     

    Lisäksi kojeemme näytöllä kanava näyttää aivan luvulta 42,

    joka kaikkien Douglas Adamsin ystäville on päivänselvästi

    ainoa oikea vastaus elämään, maailmankaikkeuteen ja

    muuhun sen sellaiseen.

  7. Tasalukuja ja tilastoja

     

    Team Pitkiksen kätköilyhistoriikki alkoi varsin kaukana Suomesta

    eli lomamatkalla Kanarialla.

     

    1. kätkö The Old Scholar GCBAFA 7.3.2003

     

    Ensimmäiseen sataseen meni 590 päivää ja

    tasaraha osui kätköön GCKT0F Vihiojan pelipuisto

     

    Toinen satanen vaati 226 päivää. Kätkö oli GCNK5D

    Siuron sivukirjasto

     

    Kolmannen satasen kohdalla tuli vähäinen löpsähdys

    vauhdissa eli kesto oli 311 päivää. Kätkö oli GCT29R

    Kadonneita rautatieseisakkeita: Leukaluut

     

    Neljäs satanen olikin sitten jo sprintti eli 156 päivää

    GCWQFY Nokian vesitorni

     

    Puolituhatta täyttyi edellisestä tasaluvusta 181 päivässä

    GCGENE Mouhijärvi - Sacred Treasures

     

    Kuudes satanen oli jälleen uusi ennätys 106 päivällä

    GCXX07 Kadonnut harju

     

    Seitsemäs satanen oli sitten meidän all-time record

    81 päivää, GC15GXA Kummelikätkö: Sporttivartti

     

    500-kätkön kunniaksi laskimme liikkeelle vaeltajan

    eli dedikoidun geokolikon "500 Caches Found"

    500 Caches Found

     

    750-kätkön eli Kolmen Vartin kunniaksi olemme

    varanneet hopeisen Finland geocoinin ja

    1000 kätköä varten kultaisen Finland geocoinin.

     

    Tämän jälkeen seuraava erikseen juhlittava onkin

    sitten 2000 eli varautumiseen pitäisi olla enemmän

    kuin kylliksi aikaa.

     

    Kattavat kätköilytilastot Team Pitkiksen profiilissa osoitteessa

     

    Statistics

  8. Vai lähimpiä kätköjä tutkiskellaan.... no täältä pesee.

     

    Ilmoittettujen koordinaattien mukaan molemmat

    lähimmät kätköt (mystery) ovat omia

     

    Visio 0,04 km

    Birkaensis 1,2 km

     

    Lähin ei oma kätkö samalla kriteerillä on

     

    Border 1,4 km (mystery, jonka Harjus tälläsi "lähes kotiportaille")

     

    Lähin kätkö (todellinen sijainti) on

    oma kätkö nimeltä

     

    Pirkkalan piilosana (~ 500m)

     

    Lähin muiden sijoittama kätkö on

     

    Viikinsaari Micro (regular, Divine adopted by liisu)

     

    Tällä hetkellä (25.9) lähin löytymätön kätkö on

    ForeverMe:n Cliffhanger #1, Peltolammi (4,1 km)

  9. Bug fixed?

     

    Today the numbers in StatBar and User Profile cache details got synch again.

    I would very much like to know if some fix was introduced or must this

    situation remain in the "grey zone". At least it would be polite to let

    people know if something was actually done. :P

     

    Member A from Team Pitkis

  10. I've been as puzzled as the rest of the users of this forum about

    this bug diverting our statistics from accurate readings.

     

    I think it's a coincidence that the amout of missing finds equals

    the number of our web-cam caches found.

     

    On the other hand... I just wonder if this can have roots in

    old cache log-listings. The number of 2003 caches found

    for us is 15+1 (+1 is common little error in looping control).

     

    Anyway. I made this clip-n-paste to point out that in some

    parts of the system the total is ok and the problem seems

    to be in this "My account" -profile briefing.

     

    c8d7ac20-019b-47a9-94f4-5ddceeebe275.jpg

     

    Member A from Team Pitkis

  11. Tässä jokusia vuosia sitten olimme vaimon kanssa etsiskelemässä "The honey pot of Winnie the Pooh" -kätköä Niihaman seutuvilla kun homma ei ihan mennyt ns. "putkeen".

     

    Ensiksikin alkoi olla varsin myöhä ja vaikka kevät valoisine iltoineen jo vähän auttoikin alkoi metsässä olemaan jo hämärää. Gepsin taustavalo oli tässä vaiheessa jo ihan must ja hiljakseen alkoi muodostua kevyttä usvaa alueen lukuisilta soilta.

     

    Niinhän siinä sitten kävi, että tiukasti kojeeseen tuijottamalla jäi nämä maamerkkien lueskelut vähemmälle...mitäpä noista kun backtrack kertoo kuitenkin reitin takaisin. Sattuipa vielä eräässä notkelmassa työnnältämään tuuheimmasta pusikosta hirvilehmä parin vasansa kanssa, jolloin keskinäisen tuijottelukilpailun jälkeen molemmat osapuolet peräytyivät vaivihkaa tahoilleen.

     

    Ja sitten... paristo sanoi työsopimuksensa irti ja tyhjä ruutu ilkkui kourassa ikävästi.

     

    Sumukin oli pahentunut niin, että maanpinnan tasolla näkyvyys väheni muutamaan kymmeneen metriin... ja varsinainen pimeäkin ehti leikkiin mukaan. Siinähän sitä sitten oltiin. Olimme kuljeskelleet pitkän ja merkillisen kiemuran metsässä ja hirviä väistäessämme vielä toisen mokoman.

     

    Meillä ei ollut minkäänlaista suuntaa tai maamerkkiä, jonka mukaan olisimme voineet johonkin päin suunnistaa. Aikamme tilanteen ratkaisumahdollisuuksista keskusteltuamme tuli tarkemman tuumauksen paikka ja hetkisen hiljaisuus. Tuona hetkenä saatoimme juuri ja juuri kuulla ysitien liikenteen aiheuttaman äänen, joka antoi myös kyseisen tien kulkusuunnan.

     

    Pääsimme metsästä takaisin käyttämällemme tielle pysähtelemällä vähän väliä ja kuuntelemalla liikenteen ääntä ja suuntaamalla siitä mahdollisimman tarkkaan pois päin. Silkalla onnella satuimme puskemaan takaisin ajotielle vain parinkymmenen metrin päähän autostamme.

  12. :unsure: I just browsed through this chain of messages and found it rather complimentary to Magellan and very little criticism emerged. I don't want to be a killjoy, but there are some pros and cons according to my experience.

     

    First of all this eXplorist 500 of mine is bought from a store in Finland on January and it has been used mainly for geocaching in Finnish environment. With the unit I bought also a topo-map SD to cover my immediate vicinity of my house on the map.

     

    First some pros. This screen is very clear and I happen to like the icons used (someone liked Garmin icons better). The size of the unit is also very nice indeed and it fits into jacket pocket nicely. The operating time with single charging of battery is conciderably better than in my previous unit (SporTrak Map with chargeable AA-batteries) even in cold conditions.

     

    Some cons. I got used to the goto-line that gives a direction to the target from the place you currently are and that feature is sabotaged totally by replacing former visible line with almost impossible to see sized dotted line. On the other hand the route line from the place goto was set to the target is bright red clearly visible... and totally useless line. So far I haven't found any means of getting that goto-line useable. If the user interface with SporTrak Map was cryptical this eXplorist UI is even more so. I just wonder if there has ever been a straight thinking UI-designer in company payroll. Even first year students of ITC-studies must be able to create a LOGICAL user interface to such a simple gadget.

     

    Unfortunately there is also a MAJOR DISASTER built in the unit too. It cannot endure cold weather. The unit was placed in the glove compartment of my car for several hours in -15 degrees centigrade and when the unit was powered on it discarded its flash memory completely and showed only NAND error on the screen. For that NAND problem I found a cure from internet which included upgrading the firmware to the most recent one (SD card detached, of course) but since that the operations with SD memory has been catastrophic. The handset corrupted my Topo-Map SD completely (I've not yet seen if manufacturer is willing to replace that) and all other SD cards placed in the slot are available only couple of hours before getting corrupted also.

    I bought a 1GB SD card to see if Map Send maps can be used with the unit but it's getting tiresome to format a SD-card and copy its contents before each and every sortie of geocaching.

     

    Has anyone experienced any similar problems and if so... managed to find a cure for the "disease".

     

    Member A from Team Pitkis

  13. <_< Contact needed to UK-geocacher nivekpenrith :laughing:

     

    One of my wandering TBs has gone stray for rather long time ago now and according to my inquiries upon

    this subject it looks like UK-geocacher nivekpenrith may be the last person who may have taken it.

     

    I've tried to contact nivekpenrith via geocaching.com e-mail service, but this cacher seems to failed noticing

    my messages.

     

    So. I need some help from the community. If you happen to meet nivekpenrith during your cache hunts,

    please, remind him that his response is gravely needed to locate "TB Red Mercedes".

     

    According to geocaching.com profile this handle is a premium member since Sept-2005 and he has found

    410 caches found, 24 hidden and he's been accessing the net Jan-09, 2007. He's a health worker and he lives in Telford.

     

    Any assistance in finding my TB is very much appreciated. This TB is sent to its way by my son who has observed it's

    passage throughout its journey. He would be delighted if this TB can be found yet again.

     

    Member Aki from Team Pitkis, Finland

  14. <_< Contact needed to UK-geocacher nivekpenrith :laughing:

     

    One of my wandering TBs has gone stray for rather long time ago now and according to my inquiries upon

    this subject it looks like UK-geocacher nivekpenrith may be the last person who may have taken it.

     

    I've tried to contact nivekpenrith via geocaching.com e-mail service, but this cacher seems to failed noticing

    my messages.

     

    So. I need some help from the community. If you happen to meet nivekpenrith during your cache hunts,

    please, remind him that his response is gravely needed to locate "TB Red Mercedes".

     

    According to geocaching.com profile this handle is a premium member since Sept-2005 and he has found

    410 caches found, 24 hidden and he's been accessing the net Jan-09, 2007. He's a health worker and he lives in Telford.

     

    Any assistance in finding my TB is very much appreciated. This TB is sent to its way by my son who has observed it's

    passage throughout its journey. He would be delighted if this TB can be found yet again.

     

    Member Aki from Team Pitkis, Finland

  15. Olisimme shiftaamassa geocaching varustusta paremmin laajemmalla

    alueella (mm. naapurimaat) tapahtuvaa kässäilyä varten ja siksipä

    tarjoan myyntiin

     

    N. puolentoista vuoden ikäisen Magellan Sportrak Map käsigepsin ja

    MapSend Streets&Destinations-tietokoneohjelman, koko paketti hintaan 450€.

     

    GPS harmaasävynäytöllä,sisältäen Suomen maantiekartaston (AT). MapSend

    ohjelmalla voi kojeeseen ladata tarkempia karttoja Point-of-Interest tietoineen.

    Ohjelman mukana liityntäkaapeli GPS:n kytkemiseksi tietokoneeseen. Toimii

    myös esim. GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) ohjelman kanssa.

     

    Laite täysin kunnossa, jopa helpohkosti vikaantuva paristokotelo on juuri

    uusittu aidolla tehtaan varaosalla. Kaikki kätköt ovat tämän gepsin kanssa

    löytyneet... :ph34r:

     

    Team Pitkis Pirkkalasta

    aki.pitkajarvi@kolumbus.fi

  16. We, in Team Pitkis, have composed a guideline concerning DNF:s for ourselves and It's quite simple to follow. We do log DNFs in cases we have made a proper attempt to find the cache. That means that if attempt was postponed by pending dusk or something like that, that does not count as a proper attempt.

     

    Instead of logging evey single visit or every single idea of the possible riddle solution are not that interesting material for other cachers. But when the DNF logging is limited to those proper attempts, some hints may be given away about the wrong approaches. Of course the cache owner has his/her say in possible hints, but in general I have personnally found many DNFs to be very illuminating when solving the riddle.

     

    As it was mentioned earlier, those DNFs give the cache owner some feedback concerning the difficulty/terrain appreciation and suggestions on when to time ones maintenance visits and so on.

     

    So summa summarum... I'm very much pro-DNFs and at least we in this team find them very welcome in our own caches.

     

    <_< Aki from Team Pitkis

  17. :rolleyes: International programs for exchanging students from one country to another is an old invention, but have anyone concidered the possibilities of extending this idea into geocaching?

     

    This kind of arrangement can be quite easily get implemented between Estonia and Finland. The costs of transport are reasonable and it's possible to schedule a busy weekend geocaching in your neighbouring country.

     

    The idea is that I'm prepared to put up a suggestion of bunch of caches in my home turf for my exchange partner to receive a similar courtesy myself later on. I could help arranging a economical trip to Tampere and host a searching trip according to the plan finalized in co-operation. I can offer my own knowledge of the caches to provide appropriate hints if absolutely necessary, transportation with my car and maybe some other services. That depends on what can be negotiated mutually.

     

    On the other hand I'm willing to take my "team" to Estonia some day for similarly arranged caching trip.

     

    Is this only wishful thinking or how do you feel about this kind of international co-operation?

     

    Aki (in behalf of Team Pitkis)

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