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Good evening, I am doing a fair amount of searching with my son, somewhat competing. I noticed many of you list "ham" radio in your hobbies. What do you think of the gps radios. If not those, then a very good quality radio to keep me in communication with my son. As we all know, the terrain can be quite severe in some cases. I'm looking for something that is way overkill before I go with too little. Does anyone else use radios to be in touch with their group ? If so, what do you recommend ?

Interesting line of thought, but not unique, at least on the surface. I see polarity in the ranks, new vs. seasoned geo-cacher. As an exceptionally new arrival myself I am drawing from past experience in other endeavors. The new person feels they will see a certain amount of ridicule from a "stupid question" and the more mature geo-cacher has a certain "arrogance" associated with having earned their wings so to speak. Is it wrong ? Not for me too say. Is it real ? Oh hell yeah. Now, let’s keep it all in perspective folks, it is about fun. YOUR fun. Dig it, do what you enjoy, but hey, let the other guy enjoy it too. Rules are good, as long as we don't lose sight of our goal, FUN. I bought a gps to avoid the long locating time associated with finding leaks in rural pipelines when I'm called out to NE Cr~phole in the middle of the night to enjoy some late night welding. I found the fun side by looking at the Garmin sight trying to figure out how to run the gps I just bought. Please bear this in mind when you hear my response, I'm NEW.............yep. I'm not doing any of this to be a pain, heck, my ignorance of this entire spectrum will more than cover that. I have had some pretty cool responses from some very nice people, so I give a heartfelt thank you for that. Have fun people, it's what it should be about. Golly, if you’re going to flame somebody, save it for your boss at the Christmas party.

Thats cool, I appreciate your response. We are premium members now, dos that mean we are okay to sign in on thes cache's ? I have one out now and am looking forward to reading the logs people post for it. as you say. I'll learn as I go

We found that water is a MUST, some really good wipes work great also. Not like diaper wipes, but the industrial kind from grainger or somebody, maybe even the auto parts store. Pitch is our culprit, but the underside of bridges can get pretty skunky too. I'm new at this, so don't take my advice too serious.

Wow, I'm new and sort of stumbled into this. I bought a gps for work and then found geocaching. My son and I have really been diggin' this geocache thing, even put one out on our own. Now I read some of the forum topics and it looks like I'm not taking this near serious enough. It's so cool to be out with my son that I'm not logging in on everything, signing, photo, blood oath or whatever. I have already logged some places that we found in our "found" log. I looked at this like cheating at solitare, does anyone really care other than you, and if you cheat, why bother ? Now it seems that they do. I'll respect the responses I get, but am I missing something about this all about fun ??