ke6n
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At least yours says it has run. Mine only reports it as never run. I even tried the trick about copying the query and setting it to run once and then delete it to no avail.
Oh, and since yours has run and you're not receiving the email, I've read that you should have it sent zipped and be sure your ISP isn't blocking the email for some reason.
Ken
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Yep, selected a day. In fact, until I can actually get one, I've selected each day.
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OK, thanks for the link, Keystone. I'm glad that ongoing work seems to be in the cards.
My geocaching sometimes goes in spurts. This last spurt saw me finally becoming a subscriber, primarily because I wanted to take advantage of the PQs. I'm still waiting for my first one to come through. (This is another issue but I'm going to wait a few more days of receiving nothing [not even having my PQ be attempted to be run] before I start trying to find out what may be wrong there.)
Anyway, I understand the weekend thing. It's been that way for quite some time and I understand that. Like I say, I'm glad some time and investment is being sent in the direction of the website. Any improvements will be greatly appreciated!
Happy Caching,
Ken
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Wow, is it just me or is the network and/or server(s) EXTREMELY slow? I remember a few years back when it was painfully slow but what I've seen lately of lag times waiting for a page to come up brings that pain to new levels.
Could geocaching.com be suffering the effects of a DOS attack or should there just be some more investment in servers or bandwidth?
Ken
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??? I REALLY MUST HAVE MIST THAT AREA!!
I've always been fond of proper spelling and grammer use.
Haha... I just LOVE it when someone complains about someone else's spelling and manages a spelling error of their own in the process.
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I found a pretty cheap (for me) way to get on 6m. I have access to a steerable remote base.
Two linked repeaters share access to the remote base, one 2m, one 70 cm, and the Kenwood TS-2000 that is up there covers from almost DC to daylight. When looking around on 2m or 70 cm, the corresponding repeater on that band is shut off so one can play around without interference. Can play all the way up to 1.2 GHz.OK, OK... I can hear it now. That solution costs SOMEONE a whole bunch of $$.
I bought a 6m SSB/CW radio about 3 years ago for $35 and I haven't even used it yet! It's a Yaesu FT-620B and is supposed to put out about 15 Watts. I'll get around to building something cheap that resonates on 6m and play with it one of these days... The price was certainly right for the radio, anyway. It was almost a gift.73,
Ken N6MHG
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Some of the examples I've read where someone gets to a spot but sees there is maintenance going on or they aren't able to begin the hunt because someone pulls up next to them and stares them down (so they leave) could come under the heading: DNL - Did Not Look.
If I don't even bother to look, I don't post a DNF because well, I didn't look. I aborted before I began the hunt. Since there isn't a DNL smilie or frown, I'll occasionally post a "Note". I had that opportunity the last time I was out. I pulled up to a parking lot cache (not really impressed with this kind, but it was right near where I was going) and found that it was only me and this other guy sitting in his truck paying too much attention to me. I decided that it wasn't a good time to look and left a "note" on the cache page. The cache hider probably likes to get the feedback on his/her cache and if you're goin to leave feedback without having actually gone looking for it and coming up empty handed, a "note" is nice to leave.
-Ken
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Wow, this is all very inspiring!
I've had two relatives who have had gastric bypass and lost a bunch of weight, but they both had complications. That's not to say it isn't a good thing for some people, of course!
I was recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic and made the decision to do a lifestyle change. I was pushing the scale at about 480 when I went in to see the doc. She asked me if I wanted to consider gastric bypass but I told her of my relatives experience with it and indicated that I wanted to lose the weight without the surgery.
In the past two months I've lost about 30 lbs by eating for 1 instead of 4 people.
I am now listening to my body tell me when it is full and stop eating then rather than stopping when there is no food left to be eaten. I've also obviously cut out the sugar sodas due to the diabetes. I'm on oral medication and am tending toward not enough blood sugar as opposed to too much so I'm juggling around with less meds while still making sure I'm getting sufficient nutrition and the blood sugar is on target.Exercise is also a great help. I've been going out walking in the evenings but I'm now getting to the point where I want to do a little bit more than just walk. I've gotten back into geocaching about a week or so back and I'm itchin' to get to some of those caches I never really felt like walking or hiking to in the past. Sometimes my feet have been hurting me (go figure with 450 lbs crunching down on each foot, every step I take) so I'm going to check out getting my mountain bike back in operating condition so I can ease off the foot strain getting to some of the caches.
Anyway, I saw your post and could really identify. I'm just starting out on the lifestyle change so it really is great to review stories from people who have made successful journeys and are well on their way to livin' the good life! Keep up the great work-- you're a great inspiration.
(Oh, I also see that you've recently relocated from Northern California to back east and your husband is a ham. I live in Santa Rosa, CA and I am also a ham. My callsign is my geocaching handle.)
OK, it's time to check the ol' blood sugar and maybe have a bedtime snack if it is running a little too low... again.
Take care,
Ken
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well, so far Im pretty new to this, and I go to about every cache twice. 1st time I go to scout the area. I look around, try to figure out where Im going to, exactly where Im going to. Typically I will glance around a bit to see if I can score a quick find, but if I cant thats ok. I then usually go back either later in the day, or a day or two later, to actually give a good going over the area.
In trying not to draw to much attention (especially in high muggle areas), I find this makes it easier to get in and out with out hanging around for a long time. I dont personally consider this a DNF, maybe it is to some. When I look high and low, to a point where Im completely stuck and still cant find it, THEN I will post a DNF.
clay
Dude... You're putting way too much into it.
Just because YOU know why you're there doesn't mean anybody else does. Most people could really care less why you might be there. Just go do it! Don't make multiple trips. Save yourself the gas $$ !Oh, and by the way, to stay on topic. I noted a few caches where I was at today where people post the "finally found it this time" and "fourth time is the charm" and they don't have any previous DNFs posted on the cache. I guess dealing with one's own ego must be terrible for these kinds. I posted a few DNFs today -- proudly!
Ken
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I passed on looking for a cache today that was placed in front of a geocacher's business. I just didn't want to be watched looking for the cache and providing real-time entertainment for the hider. I also don't want to search the premises of the business after hours so I'll just cross it off my list. -Ken
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It's pretty funny to see all the different recommendations for HTs.
Everybody seems to have their own niche/reason for the particular radio they have. Well, here's mine! I have a Kenwood TH-F6 tribander: 2m, 220, 440 ALL 5 Watts max. Why do I like this setup? Because it has the most popular bands (well, some might argue about the 220 part, but it depends on your area. I have a 220 repeater.) It is also quite small and I have the regular size rechargable battery, a monster at 3600 mAh and a nicad pack. What I don't really get are the 6m HTs and their very inefficient rubber dummy load antennas. Granted, all rubber ducks are compromises but 6m rubber ducks are really pushing the boundaries in my opinion.Oh, I've also owned Icom and Yaesu HTs, both of which were very satisfactory. They just didn't offer full power on all of my favorite VHF/UHF bands. -Ken
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I do both, but not at the same time. I have a White's DFX. Got started back in the mid-70s with a White's Coinmaster IV that I bought with money I earned working at the fair during the summer. I haven't been out detecting as much as I'd have liked to have been recently, though. -Ken
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IRLP is radio based on both sides of the VOIP connection. EchoLink can be computer based on one or both sides of the VOIP connection. Some hams wish to make a point of being "radio based" but when reality sets in, sometimes one needs to use whatever they can to make the communication happen.
IRLP runs on linux boxes. No Windows version. Echolink usually runs on Windows boxes but there is a setup (EchoIRLP) that runs both IRLP and EchoLink on a linux box.
When it gets down to it, if you want to run some kind of net, just make the plans and do it -- wherever. As they say, if you build it, they will come.
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Ken
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Hello Annett!
Excellent! I had no idea that someone else had done a Foxhunting / Geocaching event before. Darn. It looks like we have to relinquish our claim on helping to birth a new game/sport. You Germans got the jump on us!
I wish I could read German so I could enjoy your archived Geofoxing event page. AltaVista Babel fish translator won't read the web page because of an error and the cut and paste of your event description is miserable through their translator.
Well I'm glad you enjoyed your Geofoxing event as much as we enjoyed ours. I'd have liked to take part in that. (If someone else would have covered my airfare to German and back. haha.)
73 de N6MHG in Santa Rosa, California, 50 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in "Wine Country"
-Ken
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Many a ham radio op got their start dinkin' around with CB. Some won't admit it, though.
I messed around with CB back in the '70s when I was in high school and for a short while after I graduated. I enjoyed "shooting skip" on SSB when the conditions were conducive to that kind of thing. Yes, I used to "run power" and usually had a 150 Watt linear amp running in my car. I was one of the guys with "a golden screwdriver" who opened up the 40 channel radios to many more channels, both above and below, for my friends.But one day, I wanted to do more. I wanted to have reliable communications for more than just a couple of miles. I also wanted to "shoot the skip" without fear of being caught by the FCC, like a couple of people I knew had happen. I wanted to run power without the same fears. I also decided I wanted to get my ham radio license before getting caught doing some of those illegal things I was doing on CB would have a detrimental affect on my ever getting a ham radio license. So, I broke down and studied the code and spent a little time with the theory. My father-in-law and I got our licenses at the same time so I had someone I knew who I could talk to right away. That was back in '85.
I've done things by the book ever since. Radio has become a large part of my life; a source of many friends and a public service outlet for me. I feel more secure when I go out camping or hunting in the back country because I know that I'll be able to contact someone should something bad happen and I need assistance.
Wow, I've really drifted off topic on this one.
To wrap it up, yes I've done the CB thing. I had a blast with it when I was younger. If you enjoy CB, consider adding one more hobby to your apparently large list. See about getting your amateur radio license. There is most likely a ham radio operator near where you live or even a ham radio club. Most hams and clubs like nothing else much more than bringing new people into the hobby and helping them get their start.73,
Ken
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It has been a couple of years since I've been hunting, but for the record, I don't wear blaze orange when hunting. Why? My choice. I'd rather not be seen.
If I had caches available to search in areas that are also hunting areas, I'd cut (my fellow) hunters some slack and consider it is the hunters' time in the woods during hunting season. I (as a geocacher) would have the rest of the year to do my thing in those same woods.
Be a good neighbor / partner in the use of our natural resources. Be considerate of each other's hobbies and sports.
Ken
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Were most hams make the mistake is that it is illegal to open a ham radio to operate out of band
Almost. The enabling of the radio to transmit out of band is not illegal in the least. It is the USING of that radio to then transmit out of band which is illegal. As you said, though, in a true life or death situation I wouldn't think about it twice.
On another note, however, I do have commercial equipment that will go wherever it is that I might need to go, so I'd have one less charge against me were I to use that equipment to make the life/death call. I'd still be in serious jeopardy of losing my amateur radio license if I wasn't able to justify my actions 100%. -Ken
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I think 5 words a minute keeps the CBer types out, and the ones that are serious in.
This is not true, there was a time when CW was required for two meters, when that requirement went away people were saying it would turn two meters in a CB type of jungle, it di not happen. I have plenty of Lids and jerks on 40 meters that had to pass the CW element, it did not keep those jerks off the bands.
I have to agree with Johnny on this one. Of the operations on bands that are available to the different license classes, the ones that embarrass me the most are the operatoins on HF bands in the segments that require General or above. This means that those operators have passed their Morse Code test.
I won't go so far as to say that "5 words a minute CREATES CBer types", but I'm not sure what else to conclude after listening to some of the garbage on the bands where operation would require passing of a Morse Code test. Thankfully, not all ops on the HF bands are jerks. I think it is more along the lines of the simple fact that there will be jerks in all walks of life. It would be nice if passing a Morse Code test would act as a filter to keep the riffraff out, but that simply is not the case. As such, claims to it doing so are false and can not be used as an excuse for keeping the test. -Ken
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If you can build a transmitter out of a rock, spit, and an old shoe, then I'm impressed.
You must be awfully impressed with The Professor on some of those old Gilligan's Island reruns where he would build batteries and receivers with coconuts and other odds and ends.
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Today our ham radio club, NoBARC, the North Bay Amateur Radio Club (SF Bay Area) had a picnic at a local park and a few of us set up some temporary geocaches and a couple of hidden transmitters before everybody got there. We started off by having the GeoFoxers (ha!) locate the first cache from the coordinates we gave them. At the cache, they were required to sign in and they found on the log, the frequency for the first hidden transmitter to find. From the cache, they went hunting the hidden transmitter. When they found that, they were given the coordinates of the next cache. They went to that cache and found the frequency of the second hidden transmitter to go find. All together, there were 3 temporary geocaches (for the day) and 2 hidden transmitters.
This was a rather fun game that combined the two hobbies quite nicely. They had to use the GPSr to find the caches and then the RDF equipment to find the hidden transmitters. We've got a description of what we did with a number of photos to view. You'll definitely want to go through to see the last 4 or 5 shots of the GeoFoxer who found the final cache. The cache was disguised but something about it caught his attention. Please visit NoBARC GeoFoxing. -Ken N6MHG
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Then a few years back, weapons in schools became a pressing issue and they were strictly banned, including the heretofore innocuous pocket knife. Suddenly, no longer did boys routinely carry pocket knives with them, lest they be summarily expelled for taking a WEAPON to school.
Slightly off topic reply from me, but I remember back in junior high and high school almost always wearing my Buck folding hunter on my belt. Nobody ever gave me grief over having it. Ha, times have changed. (This was back in the early to mid '70s.) -Ken
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Now if I were stealing your things out of your house, car, or other private property, you have a case... but an anonymous box in the woods? I think not.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ok. Done reading your attitude. I, for one, won't combine passtimes so I won't skew your "scientific results". Yep, the two incidents you mentioned were obvious violations of any rules. The attitude you present to 'all' has caused me to decide not to go back to the WG website to check on any money I've released into the wild and I will not be bothering playing the game with any WG$s I run across. No need to associate with that.
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Yeah, the heck with the cache idea of it. Come to my area and hide some of those coins. That'd give me a reason to dust off the old DFX...
-Ken
Open mouth, insert foot firmly, etc.
Two linked repeaters share access to the remote base, one 2m, one 70 cm, and the Kenwood TS-2000 that is up there covers from almost DC to daylight. When looking around on 2m or 70 cm, the corresponding repeater on that band is shut off so one can play around without interference. Can play all the way up to 1.2 GHz.
I bought a 6m SSB/CW radio about 3 years ago for $35 and I haven't even used it yet! It's a Yaesu FT-620B and is supposed to put out about 15 Watts. I'll get around to building something cheap that resonates on 6m and play with it one of these days... The price was certainly right for the radio, anyway. It was almost a gift.
I am now listening to my body tell me when it is full and stop eating then rather than stopping when there is no food left to be eaten. I've also obviously cut out the sugar sodas due to the diabetes. I'm on oral medication and am tending toward not enough blood sugar as opposed to too much so I'm juggling around with less meds while still making sure I'm getting sufficient nutrition and the blood sugar is on target.
Everybody seems to have their own niche/reason for the particular radio they have. Well, here's mine! I have a Kenwood TH-F6 tribander: 2m, 220, 440 ALL 5 Watts max. Why do I like this setup? Because it has the most popular bands (well, some might argue about the 220 part, but it depends on your area. I have a 220 repeater.) It is also quite small and I have the regular size rechargable battery, a monster at 3600 mAh and a nicad pack. What I don't really get are the 6m HTs and their very inefficient rubber dummy load antennas. Granted, all rubber ducks are compromises but 6m rubber ducks are really pushing the boundaries in my opinion.
I messed around with CB back in the '70s when I was in high school and for a short while after I graduated. I enjoyed "shooting skip" on SSB when the conditions were conducive to that kind of thing. Yes, I used to "run power" and usually had a 150 Watt linear amp running in my car. I was one of the guys with "a golden screwdriver" who opened up the 40 channel radios to many more channels, both above and below, for my friends.
To wrap it up, yes I've done the CB thing. I had a blast with it when I was younger. If you enjoy CB, consider adding one more hobby to your apparently large list. See about getting your amateur radio license. There is most likely a ham radio operator near where you live or even a ham radio club. Most hams and clubs like nothing else much more than bringing new people into the hobby and helping them get their start.
-Ken
Pocket Query Won't Run
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OK, so I've got a pocket query all set up and I can view the preview and all looks well, but it always shows as never run. I even have it set to run every day, but it never runs. I tried the trick of copying the query and setting it to run once and then delete, but it never runs. A couple of friends have confirmed that their queries run within minutes when they set one up. System bug or user bug?