+Geckolovers Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I don't know where I am going awry. I have set the mileage perimeters of my PQ for a 100 miles from my home coords but I receive caches beyond there. I am not getting caches that are placed within the radius that I know exist. I ask for: 1) I name the query 2) I ask it to generate one day a week, and every week on that checked day 3) To show me 200 caches 4) Of selected type: traditional; multi-cache; virtual; letterbox; and unknown 5) Any container 6) That I either don't click any boxes or I click: I haven't found, I don't own; members only; is active 7) Terrain equal to 5; Difficulty equal to 5 8) State of Ohio 9) From Origin: By coordinates and I enter the degrees, minutes and seconds of my home coords 10) Within a radius of a 100 miles 11) Placed during: none selected 12) No attributes selected 13) Output: to my e-mail address 14) GPX file in zip compressef file 15) Submit information So I get caches outside the mileage perimeters or I get caches at the very edges, while I don't get caches that are within a few miles of my house. Or, depending on the boxes I click, it says there are no results. Or I tried within a 50 mile radius, and I got a PQ with 3 caches! Looking over the above, can you see where I am going wrong? Thank you! Quote Link to comment
+Aquacache Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 I just set up that exact query (centered on Springboro, OH zip) and got the exact results I expected ... no caches found. There are no D5/T5, Premium Members Only caches within 100 miles of Springboro. However, I can't imagine why you're getting caches that are outside the 100 mile radius; I've never seen that before. Are these caches D5/T5, Premium Members Only caches? Quote Link to comment
+ThePropers Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 (edited) I set this up and got the same results (nothing found). I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but I think the problem is you're selecting "Members Only caches." That means "ONLY members only caches" not "ALSO members only" Is that the problem? EDIT: Ok, I just set it up exactly like you have it, but without the "members only" checked, and I get 3 caches (all 5/5 caches that are non-member). There are no 5/5 caches that are members only within that radius. Seems to work fine, but your parameters are screwed up. I'm not sure if you were expecting 200 5/5 members-only caches within 100 miles, but that's how you had the pocket query set up. Edited September 13, 2006 by ThePropers Quote Link to comment
+Geckolovers Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 (edited) Ohhhhh... I think I am seeing where I am going wrong. So by marking "members only" and T/D as 5/5, that's all the PQ is looking for? I thought I was making that part of the criteria, i.e.: all caches, INCLUDING MEMBERS ONLY, all caches UP TO AND INCLUDING 5/5. I'll go try a PQ without any criteria but distance from home and see what happens. But then how do I tell the PQ that I don't want caches I have found or own? Edited September 13, 2006 by Geckolovers Quote Link to comment
+ThePropers Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Ohhhhh... I think I am seeing where I am going wrong. So by marking "members only" and T/D as 5/5, that's all the PQ is looking for? I thought I was making that part of the criteria, i.e.: all caches, INCLUDING MEMBERS ONLY, all caches UP TO AND INCLUDING 5/5. I'll go try a PQ without any criteria but distance from home and see what happens. But then how do I tell the PQ that I don't want caches I have found or own? You got it now. The checkboxes are to LIMIT which results you get. So by choosing "Members Only" you immediately eliminated everything BUT members only caches. Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 But then how do I tell the PQ that I don't want caches I have found or own? Click I haven't found I don't own Is Active (If you don't want to get disabled caches) Quote Link to comment
+Geckolovers Posted September 14, 2006 Author Share Posted September 14, 2006 Thanks for all the helpful advice. Prime Suspect, I used the "clicks" as you advised and the preview of the PQ generated is EXACTLY what I have been trying to get. Whew! At last! Now if it will just arrive in my e-mail so I can get it downloaded to GSAK and my PDA. Thanks, y'all! Happy Hunting! Quote Link to comment
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