elfranko

Is there anyway of buying the TB tags outside the US or anywhere that sells them in the UK? Want to avoid using CC plus want to get hold of one quickly rather than wait for long distance postage. thanks Frank

Hi there, we have been on a few caches now with the children, two girls ages 7 and 4 and a baby in a pushchair, and we have found them to be in a variety of locations. Unfortunately we just tried to do a multi-cache one now but couldn;t complete it because we found the links between clues too dangerous to complete - one involved walking on a major road without a path which we decided was too risky and had to walk all the way back to the car in order to drive to the next clue to find the cache in a location again that required a risky/dangerous walk in our view to reach. So perhaps I may suggest that a cache could have a 3rd rating of risk factor or something along these lines for cachers with children. For professional walkers or adults only may find such risks okay to deal with, but at least it will provide those with children an indication that a particular cache requires walking on path-less roads, near cliffs etc What do you think? frank Don't forget to take a GPS of where you parked the car!

If it were not for your just-slightly bizarre "Inside-Out" program, my family and I would never have discovered the joys of Geocaching! "GPS? Isn't that for people who like to walk their dog a lot?" Hurray for Chris Packham. Or his researcher for finding the Geocaching.com site. Ho hum. elfranko - of the Bradshaw Tribe Don't forget to take a GPS of where you parked the car!

Hi all! It was great! The eTrek lead us right to the cache, I mean we were standing around saying Where is it, when we found it buried partly under foot! Absolutely loved it. Can't wait for the next one. All warnings to the kids to not go screaming 'We've found it!' went out of the window when we did... lolol The Bradshaw Tribe

Hi all - just to announce the Bradshaw Family's first caching outing today - with our trusty eTrek in hand and a nice looking cache to discover, the kids are chomping at the bit to get going. So here goes and wish us luck! Tribe Bradshaw

Excellent news thanks - the top two did seem to be the eTrek and the 201. I just needed to know which was better of the two and was I going to be paying for uneccessary stuff if all I was going to be using it for was 'caching. Secondly - is that £85 inc vat? If so - please tell me where!! My email is frank@write-imageNOSPAM.co.uk if you want to tell me privately or something! cheers frank

http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/compare.php?compared_products=252%2C248%2C1%2C249&page=1&category_id=57 Hi everyone! Thanks for your replies. If you can get through on this link, you will see that the Gecko 201 is much more expensive than the Fortuna, but is it much better? I have done a comparison but not having much experience in this doesn't help. I won't be using the device for anything but caching if that helps - I don't know if all the other functions I'd be paying for are just for other things other than caching. If I got the 201, would that do me fine, or would the 101 or Fortuna just be as good? cheers frank

Hi all - after igniting a pretty fiery debate on this subject in the Beginners forum in June, only to realise the people on it were 99% American, I thought I'd drop in a similar line here. I'm after a reasonably basic gps device for geocaching-only. My budget is pretty low, maximum of £120. From the sounds of it, a cabled one is not absolutely necessary but is a distinct advantage for quickly loading in coordinates. What else does a family of 5 need for a GPS device?? I've been looking at www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk and have seen some good prices (Can these be beaten??). The four that have caught my eye are: The Garmin eTrex; Garmin 101; Garmin 201 and the Fortuna GPSmart (With the British Grid format) How are these rated? The Fortuna looks good - a wreck diver at work says he uses the eTrex which is good, but not always great. He liked the look of the Fortuna over the eTrex. The Fortuna is also the cheapest at £90 inc VAT. Any help would be great! thanks frank

I was thinking about this very same thing this weekend - when we get our GPS dev we was thinking of creating a cache or three. And one of the first finder prizes I'd put in there would be a small, therefore not massively expensive, digital camera memory card. An 8 or 16mb card or not very expensive and are very small and lightweight. Using the same idea as the Travel Bug, someone could take the card, take a couple of snaps and then leave the card in another cache or where it is for someone else to use. Soon a single card could have travelled the world with lots of pictures on it. Such caches should be specifically marked, on the box and on the site - so that the finder should replace the exisiting card with another (Not everyone is going to have a laptop and a USB card reader in the woods!). The found card should then be emptied, the pictures dumped to an online picture board and then the card then be used as a new replacement for the next cache. What do you think? Thoughts??? frank

quote:Originally posted by AJ+Lins:If you want prices in £££s read up to our post. I did say it was relevent UK information and if you want to weigh up the pros and cons of the devices for yourself then the site mentioned therein should help you! Yes, sorry d'oh again - I did see your reply and followed it up, just forgot it when I made my last post... ahgahga

Awww nuts, I didn't see the UK board.... d'oh!! I wondered why EVERYONE was quoting dollars lolollol. It seems I've created a pretty firey debate here. From what I've read, it seems that the major arguement hinges around the fact should I get a computer link one unit or not. And it seems the ability to link up means the computer can easily transfer coordinates to the device whilst the other version means you have to eneter them manually with a couple of buttons. Can I assume the margin of error is pretty low if you print out the page on the 'caching site of the cache you are after and compare it to the device's readout after you have entered the coordinates? I also have one daft question - I assume with the cheaper models, you enter the coordinates from the website and drive to the location and then the device will guide you to those coordinates, yes? So why would I want a device with waypoints? These are not given on the website are they? Otherwise you would be following the path of the person who created the cache instead of making your own personal way to the cache? cheers frank

Hi all! Wow! Did I kick up the pigeons or what?? lol The power of the internet huh? Well okay, to help you out a bit more, I am in the UK, so I am looking for stuff in £ because buying stuff in the US and getting it shipped will be very expensive. With regards to my budget, I am looking around £100/$130 US, may be +£20 more. I won't be using the device for anything else other than caching - we don't sail or rock climb or navigate by the stars or anything. And as I have three daughters, one a new born, the caching will only be a weekend thing - it looks a great thing to do - nice drive, nice walk in the country, find a cache and then find a nice pub for a afternoon meal. Lovely. Frank

Hi all - new to the game but raring to go. But I've hit a snag - I've no idea wich GPS to get. I just need one for Geocaching, that's it, so it doesn't need anything fancy like air pressure or how high I am above sea level, just need it for caching that's it. Also I'm on a bit of a budget. New baby etc. Finally I'm in the UK if that helps. thanks for any info or help! frank