Ok, so Im an idiot when it comes to PQ's

[dirkdaddy]

I am reading up and I keep reading about an email people get for the PQ. I have been to the page that has a how to guide but I am still lost.

 

I am a premium member with a Garming 60cs and going to use a IPOD as paperless.

[+Cardinal Red]

I am reading up and I keep reading about an email people get for the PQ. I have been to the page that has a how to guide but I am still lost.

 

I am a premium member with a Garming 60cs and going to use a IPOD as paperless.

 

Better check your Membership status. You are NOT showing currently as being a Premium Member.

[+Dorks Gone Wild]

Sorry, I was logged in under an old name. My girlfriend and I are doing caching now and using this name.

 

Sorry about that.

[+Miragee]

First, you probably want to check out Markwell's great tutorial on Pocket Queries.

 

This is how I fill out one section of the PQ form:

 

 

I create several PQs by "Date Placed." In the Lakewood area, you probably want to do that to get a wider search area from Arvada to Golden to Littleton. I started with caches placed between 01/01/00 and 12/31/04 and worked my way up to the present, getting approximately 490 caches in each PQ.

 

Once the PQs are emailed to me, I load them into GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife). From that database I do all the filtering, slicing, and dicing of the data before sending the caches to my GPSr and Exporting data for my Palm m515.

[+TrailGators]

Don't forget to check "Are not on my ignore list to return more caches that you enjoy!

[+JohnTee]

Here's an outline to building a basic PQ that I wrote for the class I recently did on Paperless Caching . . .

 

Building a Simple PQ

1.Login to your geocaching.com account

2.Go to http://www.geocaching.com/my/ or click on your UID (name) in the top, right corner

3.Premium Features

a. Build Pocket Queries

4.Create a new query

5.Steps

a. Query Name

b. Days to Generate

c. Show me xxx caches

d. Of Any type / Any container

e. That I haven't found

f. And Terrain/Difficulty greater than or equal to x (1)

g. Within None Selected

h. From Origin My Home Coordinates OR Postal Code / Within radius of xxx miles

i. Placed during None Selected

j. Attributes to Include

k. Attributes to Exclude

l. Output to this account's email address

m. In the format GPS Exchange Format (*.gpx)

n. Compress files into *.zip format (recommended)

o. Submit Information

 

Check Your E-mail

1.Save the *.gpx file to someplace you will find it. A folder called “Downloads” on your Desktop is a handy place.

 

Cache On!

 

JohnTee

[+Dorks Gone Wild]

OMG Thank you, that is what I was missing, I didnt know where to look to find the feature!!!!