+greengecko Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) Cloud cover was bad so we headed home. For the record, while clouds may affect creature comfort GPS signals are not affected by clouds, rain, fog, snow, etc. The combination of their passing through water vapour and the signal wavelength mean they "pass through" rain. On the other hand, collected water or wet surfaces will attenuate GPS signals. You can't receive GPS signals underwater and signal reception is degraded in wet forest canopy conditions compared to when the forest canopy is dry. If there is water or a film of water on the case (or cloth) that covers a GPS receiver's antenna it can block the GPS signals. Drying-off of the GPS case over the antenna will bring the reception back. Edited January 11, 2007 by greengecko Quote Link to comment
+Team Shydog Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Cloud cover was bad so we headed home. For the record, while clouds may affect creature comfort GPS signals are not affected by clouds, rain, fog, snow, etc. The combination of their passing through water vapour and the signal wavelength mean they "pass through" rain. On the other hand, collected water or wet surfaces will attenuate GPS signals. You can't receive GPS signals underwater and signal reception is degraded in wet forest canopy conditions compared to when the forest canopy is dry. If there is water or a film of water on the case (or cloth) that covers a GPS receiver's antenna it can block the GPS signals. Drying-off of the GPS case over the antenna will bring the reception back. SHHHHHHHHHHHH............. This is the excuse I use when I can't find a cache. If it gets out that clouds don't have any affect then I will just have to try harder!! Quote Link to comment
+Team GCHound Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Now that there is funny! Quote Link to comment
+ClayC Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 On the other hand, collected water or wet surfaces will attenuate GPS signals. so what about water (ie rain) in clouds? Quote Link to comment
+greengecko Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) On the other hand, collected water or wet surfaces will attenuate GPS signals. so what about water (ie rain) in clouds? Water vapor in clouds is not static as is the water collected on a GPSr or surface of wet leaves in a forest canopy. It begins condensing to form tiny drops of water when the air cools enough to reach a relative humidity of 100% or more. The drops begin falling as rain (or ice crystals as snow) when they grow to a size that makes their terminal velocity faster than the rising air beneath the cloud. The GPS signal wavelength (1.5 GHz) is able to "pass through" the dispersed moving drops of water or ice crystals. Edited January 11, 2007 by greengecko Quote Link to comment
+solarwib Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 This isn't going to be on the final exam is it? Quote Link to comment
+SixDogTeam Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I wish MY GPSr knew all that stuff about clouds! Quote Link to comment
+Buddaman Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I wish MY GPSr knew all that stuff about clouds! Well the ones that are not 10 years old do. How old is your gps again?? Quote Link to comment
+greengecko Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I wish MY GPSr knew all that stuff about clouds! Watch for my new cache series - Indiana Cloud Quest! Quote Link to comment
+SixDogTeam Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I wish MY GPSr knew all that stuff about clouds! Well the ones that are not 10 years old do. How old is your gps again?? About the same age as your sox... Quote Link to comment
+Team GCHound Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I wish MY GPSr knew all that stuff about clouds! Watch for my new cache series - Indiana Cloud Quest! If anyone can mange to put a cache in a cloud, it would be you greengecko! Quote Link to comment
+greengecko Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I wish MY GPSr knew all that stuff about clouds! Watch for my new cache series - Indiana Cloud Quest! If anyone can mange to put a cache in a cloud, it would be you greengecko! Putting one there is easy enough - maintaining one there is a.... uh... problem! Quote Link to comment
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Breaking news from GEO-ISQ HQ in beautiful downtown Bippus: GEO-ISQ welcomes with pride jcurtis55 and Cowboy1629 to our ranks! ISQ #550 has been published. CLICK HERE TO VIEW NEW ISQ Quote Link to comment
+Cpt.Blackbeard Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 My boss had a Far side desktop calender with that on in it a few years back, he pinned it to the bullitin board for several weeks. It's funny because I've never met Gary Larson and yet he knows exactly what I look like and what I do. Uncanny!. Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Yup....that's what you were doing the day I met you. You must not have had the beard back then though, huh? Bret Quote Link to comment
+Che K Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Congratulations Che K on helping LeadDog find 900 caches. He coulda never done it without you (or Patrick). Brother Wulf It has been a formidable job, Wulf, but somebody had to do it! Buddaman should get some credit here too, as he has also spent a lot of time caching with Lead Dog. Doing the earthcaches has been a more pleasant experience because the motion of the car on the long drives puts the old dog to sleep. That way I don't have to listen constantly to how wonderful the Gators are. It was a long football season for sure, and I still don't understand who the BCS is/are...and what in the heck are style points anyway? Do they award points based on how chic the uniforms are? What does that have to do with how well they play or whether they deserve to be #1? Beats me! Should we give style points for caching? If so, I will certainly have to upgrade my wardrobe! Quote Link to comment
Earthdog Patrick Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Congratulations Che K on helping LeadDog find 900 caches. He coulda never done it without you (or Patrick). Brother Wulf It has been a formidable job, Wulf, but somebody had to do it! Buddaman should get some credit here too, as he has also spent a lot of time caching with Lead Dog. Doing the earthcaches has been a more pleasant experience because the motion of the car on the long drives puts the old dog to sleep. That way I don't have to listen constantly to how wonderful the Gators are. It was a long football season for sure, and I still don't understand who the BCS is/are...and what in the heck are style points anyway? Do they award points based on how chic the uniforms are? What does that have to do with how well they play or whether they deserve to be #1? Beats me! Should we give style points for caching? If so, I will certainly have to upgrade my wardrobe! I award Che K ONE MILLION STYLE POINTS for Geocaching in Indiana!! Quote Link to comment
+Torry Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 All cachers we need your 2 cents and specially those involved with the ISQ series. Come and visit indianageocaching.com forums. There is a dicussion on cemetery caches. ohhhhh now who's stiring the pot!!! OK now I know why I received the personal emails. Thanks dougsmiley for standing up for me. No stiring of the pot!!! When I stire the pot you will know. Being a firefighter and working in government for 10 years I have learned a good pot stiring skill. I try to spend more of my forum time in indianageocaching.com. Any issue with my posts find me there. Thanks Okay. I signed up and put in my 2 cents worth. Sorry for the hurt feelings and slow response. I've had some issues here that have kept me away from the computer. I have NO pproblem with cemetery caches... just with caches fully on posted limited access private property without permission granted by the property owners. I'm no big fan of lamppost micros but grant that the locations are accessible 24/7 this is NOT the case with the two cemeteries involved. We return you now to your regularly scheduled discussions about Doug. Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Oh god, don't remind me. Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 That television show. Quote Link to comment
+501_Gang Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 (edited) Doug, I think I see the resemblance, you look like that when you find a cache! Edited January 14, 2007 by 501_Gang Quote Link to comment
butterflyangel Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Just got my 500th cache today....... Quote Link to comment
+Prairiepartners Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Just got my 500th cache today....... Great!!! WTG!!! Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Just got my 500th cache today....... Congrats. It took me over 1.5 years to get there... Quote Link to comment
+B.J.S. Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Doug, I think I see the resemblance, you look like that when you find a cache! Would this be the "Happy Dougie Dance"? Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 (edited) Would this be the "Happy Dougie Dance"? HEY! That's a trademark infringement......maybe. Hey BlackJeep....you got your Island Wear ready for Wednesday night yet? Boat Drinks: Something To Keep Us All Warm Looking forward to seeing you there....should be fun! Bret Oh and by the way....thanks for the great logs on my caches over the weekend...you're too kind! Edited January 15, 2007 by CYBret Quote Link to comment
+B.J.S. Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Would this be the "Happy Dougie Dance"? HEY! That's a trademark infringement......maybe. Hey BlackJeep....you got your Island Wear ready for Wednesday night yet? Boat Drinks: Something To Keep Us All Warm Looking forward to seeing you there....should be fun! Bret Oh and by the way....thanks for the great logs on my caches over the weekend...you're too kind! Sure I’ve got my island wear ready…Kodiak Island! You won’t see me, and won’t want to see me in shorts and sandals. Great caches deserve great cache logs. Really liked "How Far Can You Walk Into the Wooods", I'll rank it in the top 5 I've done. (O|||||||O) Quote Link to comment
+ClayC Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Speaking of 'how far can you walk in the woods', CONGRATS to BJS on his 800th find!!!! (which just happens to be the fore mentioned cache!) Quote Link to comment
+ClayC Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) duplicate Edited January 16, 2007 by ClayC Quote Link to comment
+B.J.S. Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Speaking of 'how far can you walk in the woods', CONGRATS to BJS on his 800th find!!!! (which just happens to be the fore mentioned cache!) Thanks Clay, and CONGRATS to you on the EXCELENT new cache. Keep'em Coming! (O||||||| Quote Link to comment
+B.J.S. Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (O||||||| OPPS!!! Fender Bender!! (O|||||||O) Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 wouldn't that be: (O|||||||O} Quote Link to comment
butterflyangel Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) wouldn't that be: (O|||||||O} (O|||||||0{ Edited January 16, 2007 by butterflyangel Quote Link to comment
+greengecko Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Hum, very interesting topic... Couch Potato Caching, Googling Virtuals Quote Link to comment
+GerbilMafia Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Hum, very interesting topic... Couch Potato Caching, Googling Virtuals It's all about the numbers..... Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I did log an armchair webcam at one time (although it was designed to be that way to begin with). I wound up deleting the find because it screwed up all of my stats. Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I did log an armchair webcam at one time (although it was designed to be that way to begin with). I wound up deleting the find because it screwed up all of my stats. it'snotaboutthenumbers! Quote Link to comment
+dougsmiley Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Exactly. Since it was in europe it nearly doubled my cache to cache distance. Quote Link to comment
+The Herd Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Anyone see this story on WANETV news tonight? "Fort Wayne - WANE) A bomb scare outside the Apple Glen Wal-Mart turned out to be nothing more than a false alarm. At about 11:15 a.m., police got a call from Pastor Jaime Flores. He told police that as he was leaving Wal-Mart and heading to his truck, another shopper told him someone had stuck something under Flores' back bumper. When Flores looked underneath, he found a strange package, "I bend on to my knees and I grabbed it. I see a plastic bag with a device, something with wires. He (the shopper) say ya know what, leave it there and call police." Police arrived and secured the parking lot and took the suspicious package. They also brought out their bomb robot just in case. However the package turned out to be a GPS tracking device. The man who put it there said he was a private detective and had place the GPS on the wrong truck. He was questioned and released." Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Anyone see this story on WANETV news tonight? "Fort Wayne - WANE) A bomb scare outside the Apple Glen Wal-Mart turned out to be nothing more than a false alarm. At about 11:15 a.m., police got a call from Pastor Jaime Flores. He told police that as he was leaving Wal-Mart and heading to his truck, another shopper told him someone had stuck something under Flores' back bumper. Just a word of caution...you do NOT want to attach a GPS to a pastor's truck and see where he goes! It's just not worth the hassle! On the other hand if it happened to me (or any one of us) I'd be, "Dude! Free GPS!!" Bret Quote Link to comment
+Cpt.Blackbeard Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Free GPS? WooHooo!! But if the "intended" see the story and suspects who they were after he'll be the one getting the free GPS unit. Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 back from Boat Drinks....everyone had fun...good to see so many Indiana Geocachers there. Soooooo tired.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Quote Link to comment
+ClayC Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 It was a GREAT time Bret! thanks for putting it together and arranging everything. It was first class all the way! Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 It was a GREAT time Bret! thanks for putting it together and arranging everything. It was first class all the way! Thanks Clay! It was great to finally get a chance to meet you! The thanks really goes to Ginger (Gigger). She puts the heart into these events. I couldn't do it without her help. Hope you guys have fun at Ambrosini's next month. Unfortunately I've got a meeting that night and won't be able to be there. Bret Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Hmmmm...the Ambrosini's event starts at 6:00 which is 5:00 IlliNOISE time...so if I leave by 7:00 your time I can be back for my meeting at 7:00 my time. I dunno....maybe I will be there. Quote Link to comment
+ClayC Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 ahhh, come on Bret! Dont wuss out on us now!!!!! Hmmmm...the Ambrosini's event starts at 6:00 which is 5:00 IlliNOISE time...so if I leave by 7:00 your time I can be back for my meeting at 7:00 my time. I dunno....maybe I will be there. Quote Link to comment
+Team Tigger International Posted January 19, 2007 Author Share Posted January 19, 2007 One more day till the next NEI-GEO MEET AND EAT !!! Should be a very interesting mix of people this time as it is being held in Michigan ! Who woulda thunk it ! Star Quote Link to comment
+Wolverine Warriors Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 One more day till the next NEI-GEO MEET AND EAT !!! Should be a very interesting mix of people this time as it is being held in Michigan ! Who woulda thunk it ! Star Can't wait to see everyone again...it seems like years since we've seen you all!! And I know it's going to be a CRAZY mix....we're expecting cachers from all over Michigan, Indiana, some from Ohio and at least one from IlliNOISE!! It'll be a GREAT MIDWEST FIESTA!!! Heather of Wolverine Warriors Quote Link to comment
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