PLMerry

Just a note of demonstration that something needs to be done. I stopped by a TB Hotel cache in MN yesterday that listed 9 trackable. I found none. I had a trackable that I was going to drop, but I refuse drop someone's TB and have it become #10. I just checked out the cache and some of them have been logged as missing for up to 5 YEARS! I had always personally thought that marking missing trackables as such was part of maintaining a cache.

Would it be possible to slightly modify the PQ form for notifications? Drop days to run. Like kind of cache. Like type of container. Change 'That' to be something like new, archived, reactivated, suspended, ...... Like terrain or difficulty. (I am more likely to take off from lunch for caches 2.5 or lower.) Don't care about within country or state one way or the other, but some might. Love from Origin especially the home coordinates. When I change my home coords, love that PQ follow me. I occasionally change my "caching home" based on where I am activly caching. Like Radius. Drop placed during. Don't care about attributes, but some might find this useful Output to; I would love to have option for text message. Similar message to what I posted in thread on this topic. After reading through all the comments about desired changes to notifications, and making comments of my own, I starting doing some work on my PQs. I just thought I would float this as a possible 'new' way to look at, or think, about notifications.

I agree that this would be a great change to the notification system.

I used to use email to text, but each mail came in three text or more. A radio button to select "Also send a text to cell phone." The message would not have to be the complete email, but something link "a [new/archived/enabled...] [multi/trad/mystery...] cache is #.## miles/km [N,S,E,W,...] from your listed coordinates." A cacher can make a quick decision to look up the information or not. This would be a quick way to alert those who thrive on FTF that a cache is available. This being said though, there are other changes I would like to see first like a radio button for "use home coordinates or alternate coordinates." or, an options "for all newly placed caches." As for a lot of people have unlimited data, a lot of people do not have unlimited data too. It is about more options for people that people that play the game in different ways. I can't see this as a bad thing anyway you look at it.

Of course I would never dream of my suggestion going into affect until after VA gets a souvenir.

I for one think the souvenirs are great. THANKS. Of course I have 7 of the 9 states released so far. The one thing that might have been (or might be) done different is maybe GS should have started with souvenirs for each country instead of each state. Is it to late to put the states on hold and do countries? This way everyone would get a badge or two or three that have meaning to them. Maybe even do the countries in order of the number of members. (would not want the US to wait to long.) Just a thought.

I am north of Columbus, but I travel quite a bit throughout the state. This week or next I will be in the Cleveland area finishing off a DeLorme Challenge.

There are many, my favorite are: Old Old State Rd, GC15Q59 On the shores of Bokes Creek GC1J94B Along Bokes Creek Also GC1JKV2 Oh yeah, I might like them so much because they are mine. There are many others around Delaware Lake, Alum Creek Lake, & Hoover Lake and the rivers/creeks Scioto, Olentangy, and Alum.

The easiest way to solve this mystery is to right click on the icons in the puzzle then click view image. The tab at the top of the screen will give you the answer that you need. (453.gif, 3.gif, 9.gif,.....)

Toyota Matriz XRS is my primary geocar. Small zippy little manual 5 speed with front wheel drive that can get into small places and is good at maneuvering within traffic. It comes complete with a removable security system as visible in the picture below. When the situation dictates though I do also have a Ford Expedition with full tow package to pull the matrix out of the mud, snow, .....

For the most part the chips are not much more than hard coded programs that analyze the radio frequency looking for either WiFi or bluetooth patterns within the signal. In theory a chip is not needed for either of these two functions. Of course a hard coded chip works faster than a soft coded (software) programs. Not having access to ANT, I cannot be one hundred percent sure, but considering the amount of information being handled as apposed to WiFi and bluetooth the programming application should be much less complicated. In theory for the most part it would be a matter of recognizing the ANT signal, analyzing the signal, which should not be much more than a geocode, and processing or passing on that geocode in whatever form is required. I don't see any security, or pairing issues, just raw data transmitted in a known format (to someone) on a known frequency. Since I have not done any programing in 10 years this is a little above my head. I do believe that someone more up to date than I should be able to figure this out without to much difficulty.

you're assuming all android phones have the necessary hardware. You're quite right. I don't know what the frequencies are. I will guess that neither bluetooth or WiFi frequencies are being used.

Cozmo, pictured above is also from the Humane Society October 2008. We adopted him here in Delaware OH, but he had a Nevada rabbis tag. Other than that we also do not know anything. A lot of people say they see some Great Dane in him, but I call him our pure bred mutt.

I think I have figured out how to upload pictures now. Here is Cozmo. Any puddle, river, pond, lake or drainage ditch is quickly found, but not a single cache. Now I know where my GPS batteries went. He love chasing squirrels and rabbits. Squirrels are no problem they just go up the nearest tree. He has gone full bore after a rabbit into a brier patch and came out one sore puppy. He is a little more careful now.

Is there a Droid application for this yet? I'm sure it won't be to long.

Cozmo is my caching buddy. I would like to upload a couple of pictures, but how do you do it?

I could be mistaken (it's been a while since I found either cache), but I don't think that's the one PLMerry is referring to. If PLMerry posted about the one I'm thinking of, it's a mediocre cache (at best), in a terrific location, a local cemetery with some wonderful history. I remember thinking when I found it that the location deserved a classier cache; even a micro would have been preferable to the throw-down water bottle. --Larry Larry you are correct. I found three other caches on my way home. One of them did happen to be another cemetery cache. It appears that the bottle has been there for a while, since the log was filled up and a second one was placed in the bottle. I think I will send the owner a note and offer to replace the container. Don't know what kind of response I will get. (Please note that I did not call the bottle a cache)

Greetings from the USA, You might also think that not all people are not completely accurate with their logging. There has been a number of times that I got home from vacation and logged all my caches. At first I forgot to change the date for each day. Because I cared about accurate statistics/reporting I went back and edited about 40 caches. I also did not realize the importance of logging caches in the correct order and/or how to fix this in GSAK. Some people might not care about certain statistics so are not to concerned if these statistics are incorrect or not. It took me quite a while to get me 840 found caches into the correct order in GSAK only to download my found caches PQ and find it messed up again. I have since fixed this, because I care about accurate statistics. At one point my longest day was from OH to MA to NY to MA to OH to PA to NY and back to MA. Obviously this is not how I traveled, but I logged caches with tradeables first and then others as I thought of them. If I had found GSAK statistics generator after 1000 or 1500 caches I might never have cared that my max distance in a day, or trips to the moon and back where messed up. Don't jump right out and come to the conclusion that he is a liar. If someone asked me about my stats while I was trying to get them figured out, I probably would have given some flippant reply to. Anyways besides the flippant remark is there any other evidence that he is couch-caching that I missed. Quite frankly I am more worried about individuals that have been caching for 2 years and have 20,000+ finds myself. How can someone find 27.5+ caches a day (on average) for/in two years.

I will use the burger wrapper to wipe off my dog's pee from the cache, since he did not know there was a cache in that hollow tree he just marked. I will leave a bumper sticker for the candidate that lost last weeks election.

This afternoon I had about 15 minutes to kill before a meeting with my wife and our insurance adviser. I decided to grab a cache in a cemetery that is right next to a historic (100+ years) church building. After about 15 minutes I needed to be moving on to the appointment. I decided to CITO an empty water bottle in a bush at the corner of the church and cemetery. To my dismay the trash had the log in it and was the cache. The hider took a 12oz water bottle, tour the label off, placed a log in it, and threw it into/under the bush. Now this is a bush that looses its leaves each year so the cache is visible this time of year as trash. There was no attempt at camouflaging the container at all. My question? Is this really a cache? I personally did not sign the log and have not recorded the find on line.

Delaware county. Placed caches in Delaware and Union county Wow, I could have done my Ohio 88 counties right here and saved a lot of gas! Interesting, on page 5 and only 2 other Delaware county cachers have checked in. The assumption is right, I rarely come down this far in the forums.

I have tried searching for what "Lost & found" caches or logs are? I tried searching the forums, but you cannot search on words shorter than five letters. Also GSAK badge Macro has a "Lost & found" badge catagory. I have looked a number of times without any luck.

I have tried searching for what "Lost & found" caches or logs are? I tried searching the forums, but you cannot search on words shorter than five letters. Also GSAK badge Macro has a "Lost & found" badge catagory. I have looked a number of times without any luck.

In Ohio it is just the opposite. In state parks or management areas explicit written permission is required and a cache will not be approved by Keystone, our reviewer, without a note on the cache page to that extent. I have held back placing two caches because I cannot get permission of even find out who to get permission from.

The cache on your property, did you get explicit or adequate permission? This is definitely not true in Ohio. Ohio law says that it is illegal to go onto private property without the permission of the owner or interested party. This was/is to protect property owners from being sued for injuries that occurred on their property to people who had no right to be there. There are other states where the law is just the opposite as t4e states. Do not make assumption talk to local cache hiders. I talked to a local officer. His impression was that having the cache information is implicit permission to go onto the property. I have had a couple property owners, managers, or employees stop me and ask me why I was there. When I told them and they said that there was no permission for the cache I promptly informed the cache owner. As in everything in geocaching though use common sense. When in doubt send an email. Off course this all just my opinion.