Lost Chirp

[+RobertoCache]

My chirp has been accidentally removed or fell from it's hiding spot. I know it's still in the area because I am still able to download the cache details when I am near it. Problem is I would like to actually find it so I can properly place it again (so I can continue to maintain it). Since there is about a 30 foot area (in the woods) to search, does anyone know of an app that would allow me to actually "seek" it, telling me how far I am from it? Thanks

[+Revent]

My chirp has been accidentally removed or fell from it's hiding spot. I know it's still in the area because I am still able to download the cache details when I am near it. Problem is I would like to actually find it so I can properly place it again (so I can continue to maintain it). Since there is about a 30 foot area (in the woods) to search, does anyone know of an app that would allow me to actually "seek" it, telling me how far I am from it? Thanks

 

Use something like surveyor's tape to mark out the edges of the area where it's 'visible' electronically, and it should be in the middle.

[+kunarion]

My chirp has been accidentally removed or fell from it's hiding spot. I know it's still in the area because I am still able to download the cache details when I am near it. Problem is I would like to actually find it so I can properly place it again (so I can continue to maintain it). Since there is about a 30 foot area (in the woods) to search, does anyone know of an app that would allow me to actually "seek" it, telling me how far I am from it? Thanks

If you have access to a metal detector, you may find it pretty quickly, if it's on the ground.

[GrandPotentate]

Unless you had a hurricane come through the area, I would think that it would be within 10 feet of where it was originally hidden.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

My chirp has been accidentally removed or fell from it's hiding spot. I know it's still in the area because I am still able to download the cache details when I am near it. Problem is I would like to actually find it so I can properly place it again (so I can continue to maintain it). Since there is about a 30 foot area (in the woods) to search, does anyone know of an app that would allow me to actually "seek" it, telling me how far I am from it? Thanks

 

That doesn't sound like it should be more difficult than searching for a nano with a GPS under normal conditions.

 

 

[+kunarion]

Unless you had a hurricane come through the area, I would think that it would be within 10 feet of where it was originally hidden.

My prototype (testing a Chirp in my back yard) was stolen by squirrels. I had wrapped it in cloth camo and Velcro, and I guess it was inviting as nest material, or at least the squirrels enjoyed taking it. I eventually found it on the ground, but only because it was still secured to the cloth/Velcro. It was more than 10 feet from its original spot.

[+jellis]

Had that happen to me twice. Once I dropped one by accident in some Ivy and never could find it though it continues to send off a signal. The other I placed in a small 1.5 by 2 ft bush and when I went back a year later to replace the battery, the bush was a bigger but also more dense, I couldn't find it but the signal is still going.