best time to cache

[Dan]

Has anyone thought about making prediction tables for optimal satellite constelation times? Seems like they'd have something like that along with the best time to hunt & fish accessories.

 

K.I.S.S.

[+Kite and Hawkeye]

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Originally posted by Tower247:

Has anyone thought about making prediction tables for optimal satellite constelation times? Seems like they'd have something like that along with the best time to hunt & fish accessories.

 

K.I.S.S.

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The satellites seem to move rather rapidly. If we start out with lousy geometry, by the time we reach the cache things have usually changed.

[vagabond]

???? The best time to cache, well lets see.

Oh yea anytime you can

 

All who look are not lost

[+Renegade Knight]

Don't they have a bumper sticker yet. "The worst day of caching is better than the best day of working!" ?

[+tozainamboku]

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Originally posted by Tower247:

Has anyone thought about making prediction tables for optimal satellite constelation times? Seems like they'd have something like that along with the best time to hunt & fish accessories.

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This?

 

東西南北

Why do I always find it in the last place I look?

[+Stunod]

Read THIS THREAD for some planning applications.

 

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

Eamus Catuli AC145895

[+Doc-Dean]

Thanks Stunod for the Markwell. So it looks like there are several applications that can be tried...

 

Trimble

 

Leica

 

Thales

 

Any have opinions on which is the best or maybe what the strengths and weakness of each is?

 

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Free your mind and the rest will follow

[Dan]

Thanks for re-railing my thread!

Those are just what I was asking about. Has anyone used them?

I doubt that it would dramatically improve the successful hunt rate. I thought this might make another fun hi-tech toy to play with in my arsenal.

 

K.I.S.S.

[Aksor+Raskol]

I agree with Kite and Hawkeye to a point, but aren't the sats geostationary? Then what would cause one to get better reception in some areas than others? Usually I tend to get degraded reception due to tree cover more than how many birds I've locked on.

[Dan]

Our GPS birds are not geostationary. They are on different orbits,cris-crossing overhead all the time. I'm still researching but a guess would be that there could be ,say, 8 to 15 visible on my side of the horizon, always coming and going. If planning a trip into tree cover, knowing a time when all 15 are there might make a difference in even getting a signal. Does anyone know if these planning tools go by just the number of sats that should be visible, or do they also figure optimal spread or health of the satellites?

 

K.I.S.S.

[+Criminal]

I'd like to mention that there are two locations for every cache. The one the hider recorded and the one you are looking for. The numbers are the same but the actual location can vary greatly.

 

Even if you use a surveyors GPSr with 2cm accuracy, unless the hider used one as well, the cache container could be almost anywhere. So it goes with satellite geometry.

 

http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/

[+jollybgood]

I love getting up before the break of day to avoid traffic. (I live in the Chicago area). I like to plan my day of hunting and then drive to the one FURTHERST away first. That way it's daylight when I arrive.

 

Then I work my way home by hitting the next cache and then the next. By the time I'm dragging butt, mosquito bit and hungry I'm only a few miles from home.

 

Jolly R. Blackburn

http://kenzerco.com

"Never declare war on a man who buys his ink by the gallon."