Chirping

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:53 am

We did our first chirp cache yesterday. Could someone give us a chirping for dummies run down on what it takes to set one up?
TE

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:18 pm

If you have a GPS that can receive the information, just turn on the feature get it near your new chirp and follow the directions on the GPS...it's all fairly straight forward. You can add coords and other text information for the chirp to broadcast.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:05 pm

You do have to buy the chirp thingie and place it somewhere so it can broadcast your info, too. We have yet to do one of them ourselves.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:03 pm

Trekkin and Birdin wrote:

You do have to buy the chirp thingie and place it somewhere so it can broadcast your info, too. We have yet to do one of them ourselves.

I bought two when they came out and still haven't gotten around to getting the second one out in the wild.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 5:38 pm

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=74811&ra=true

Buy one of the above, and have a compatable Garmin Unit.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:27 pm

Chirps are also being used in conjunction with Travel Bugs. At geowoodstock 9 earlier this month, I got a chirp alert from a geocacher attending the event (TB19280). The screen came up with the logging information when I came near the chirp. That was my first experience with the chirp. I never did meet the other cacher.

WGA Member Joined: 2008-03-13 Posts: 76

ok the uses rf radio freg i like to try some direction finding to find it but need to know the freq that it uses any ideas. guidetoo

Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:25 pm

guidetoo wrote:

ok the uses rf radio freg i like to try some direction finding to find it but need to know the freq that it uses any ideas. guidetoo

Garmin uses ANT+....not sure what it exactly is but I do know you will need a special receiver to detect the signal.